The Deep Dive with Adam Roa

The Feeling I Called Love Was Wrong


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The somatic experience of love in my body was unhealthy. What I felt and called love was not actually love, and it took me years to see it. In this episode I lay out the two things we're all doing without noticing. We're running from something, and we're running toward something, and the thing we navigate by is what we feel. What I was running from was a home where I never saw passion. What I was running toward was the passion I only ever felt in the movies. That set the feeling in my body to point at intensity instead of love.

What finally changed is that I stopped chasing passion and started choosing peace. I found a partner who helps regulate my nervous system instead of spiking it, and I had to learn to trust how quiet that feels. We get into why the feeling you trust most is often the least reliable, why secure love can feel like something's missing at first, and what it's taken to finally trust it.

Crazy Love is fifteen years of my journals, the poems and the heartbreak that taught me all of this.

Get Your Copy: https://www.adamroa.com/crazylove

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The Deep Dive with Adam RoaBy Adam Roa

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