When we give ourselves the responsibility of predicting peoples’ needs, we also give ourselves the power of predicting peoples’ needs. It begins as a way of maintaining homeostasis and safety, but becomes a way to coerce people into feeling how you need them to feel. Not with ill intent, with the same quest for safety, just with assumed authority. Suddenly we're deciding what others need, "saving" them when they don't need any help and plowing right through their boundaries because we've deemed them unnecessary.

Proving to yourself that you can overcome challenges is really important, but part of the human experience is also to be humbled by our own human limitations. We are not infinite in this version of life for a reason. Accepting that helps put an end to the daily reinforcement of those dirty old core beliefs cast in failure and allows in some new narratives, narratives YOU get to write. There are myriad ways to measure greatness; sport does not have a monopoly on that.

Codependency influences us to be responsible for making other people feel better. Success in that area is what can determine a sense of personal value, but this creates suffering. A more objective truth is that we can support each other but the work to quell our upset and evolve is ours alone. And boundaries – a trait of the masculine light – is where that healthy separation begins.

Discussing behavior traits of the feminine shadow and their impact on relationships. When we’re stuck in the feminine shadow, our self-image is usually not great. Because it’s a darker manifestation of feminine light which is about relationship and community, when that healthy manifestation turns dark, it’s still about relationship and community but about us being on the outside of it, feeling disconnected from it, not allowed into it.

Let's talk about empathy: highly sensitive empathic attunement, those who have no empathy at all, empathy's impact on co-dependency, empathy through the feminine/masculine framework, and how it can feel impossible to manage empathy in times of global suffering.Credits:Live Lift Love Podcast, Episode 7: https://www.galtsconditioning.com/podcast/live-lift-love-podcast

A masculine-dominated culture is asked to stop hustling and stay home instead? As the world asks for feminine traits to take the lead in uncertain, community-focused times, those obedient to the masculine face fear and anxiety about a new way of being.Let's talk about it.

This episode I'm paying tribute to legendary sports broadcaster and WRHU mentor Ed Ingles who passed away this week. I discuss how his mentorship helped me overcome my own self-imposed silence and get me on the path to self-discovery, self-expression, and self-healing, as well as the patient, nurturing ways this broadcasting legend empowered college students to follow their dreams.Credits:Live Lift Love Podcast, Episode 7: https://www.galtsconditioning.com/podcast/live-lift-love-podcast88.7FM WRHU's Ed Ingles Interview with Chris Buckley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFYmDyy3wuA

Why it can be helpful to understand food through the lens of addiction, how relational wounding and sexual repression may influence our food relationships, and why consciousness and shadow integration may help satisfy our hunger.

On this episode I share an essay I wrote about the spiraling maze out of depression and into self-compassion.Originally published 10/14/2019

Different therapists take different approaches to therapy. I explore how some approaches are inherently rooted in masculine qualities while others in feminine. Why does this matter? Is there a right time for these certain interventions? How can these different approaches be used in service to balance?Originally published 9/30/2019