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How Being Guarded Kills Aliveness, Meaning, and Purpose — Alyson and Tripp Lanier
Are you devoted to anything other than money, security, or status?
Does living with an open heart make you weak?
And how is staying guarded killing aliveness?
I grew up guarded and armored. For many years, I thought it was necessary and strong to cut myself off from emotional vulnerability. The truth is that I was fragile and incapable of being in emotionally challenging situations. That way of living almost destroyed me.
For the last 20 years I’ve watched my wife Alyson navigate life very differently. She’s one of those rare few that can effortlessly disarm people and help them access their own hearts. Her strength in emotional situations is inspiring. It’s her superpower.
So is this just something she was born with or is it a skill that she’s developed? I’ve always wanted to know but never asked. Until today.
In this conversation:
- Having a guarded heart
- Spiritual practices to access an open heart
- Needing to armor ourselves because life is tough
- Learning by doing vs reading or taking classes
- Nihilism and becoming jaded
Plus:
- Bottling up our emotions and negativity
- Ken Wilber’s 3 Faces of God
- The spiritual practice of listening
- Not trusting our hearts
- Learning to follow our hearts
About Tripp Lanier
Tripp Lanier is a professional coach, author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous, and host of The New Man Podcast: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp which — for over a decade — has been downloaded millions of times.
Since 2005, he has spent thousands of hours coaching people all around the world to get out of the rat race, become an authority in their field, and make a great living doing the work they were put on this earth to do. Over the years he’s designed several businesses to support a simple lifestyle focused on freedom, ease, meaning, and fun.
If you’d like to learn more about coaching with Tripp Lanier visit TrippLanier.com.
About Alyson Lanier
Alyson Lanier is a multifaceted expert at the intersection of psychological and spiritual healing. With a 30 year career in Psychotherapy that includes a BA, MA, and LPC in psychology, Alyson supplemented her education with extensive training and certifications in attachment work, Gestalt therapy, Transpersonal psychology, Shambhala Buddhism, internal family systems, and Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. Her professional journey encompasses over 50,000 hours of therapeutic experience working with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents across clinical and private settings.
If you’d like to learn more about working with Alyson Lanier visit AlysonLanier.com
