The Liberated Life - When Did You Last Feel Free?

You know the version of you that has an opinion but doesn't say it. That has a desire but talks herself out of it. That works incredibly hard, gives generously, and quietly makes herself smaller so no one feels uncomfortable. You probably don't call it the good girl. You just call it being professional. Being considerate. Being realistic. In this episode, you'll find out why that pattern runs so deep, where it actually comes from, and why no amount of mindset work shifts it if you haven't looked at what's underneath. You'll understand why shrinking isn't a personality flaw, it's a protection strategy, and a very intelligent one at that. You'll hear what it actually looks and feels like to start moving out of it, not by becoming louder or more controversial, but by building enough inner trust that your desires finally get more airtime than your fears. And you'll leave knowing the difference between the audacity that's performed for attention and the kind that quietly changes everything. This conversation with erotic empowerment leader Amy Lavinia is the kind that makes you want to go and do the thing you've been sitting on. 

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The Audacity - Group Programme

There is a word you say so automatically you don't even notice you're saying it anymore. Someone asks how you are and before you've even checked, before you've taken a single breath, it's already out of your mouth. Fine. And here's the thing about fine. It's not neutral. It's not just a social nicety. Every time you say it, you are training yourself that your actual experience doesn't matter enough to mention. That the complex, uncomfortable, beautiful, confusing truth of how you actually are is too much for the room. And somewhere in that habit is the reason so many high-achieving women feel deeply lonely inside lives that look completely together from the outside. In this episode, you'll understand why the word fine might be one of the most quietly destructive things you say on repeat, and what it costs you in connection, in intimacy, in the simple experience of being known. You'll learn what it actually takes to come back online after years of autopilot, and why one small shift in how you ask and answer that question can change the quality of every relationship you have. This is a short one. But it will stay with you. 

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You have read the books, listened to the podcasts, done the therapy, absorbed the frameworks. You know your attachment style, you understand your nervous system, you can articulate your patterns in impressive detail. And somehow, despite all of that, something still feels off. Stuck. Foggy. Like you're doing everything right and yet the thing you're actually looking for keeps not arriving. What if that isn't because you haven't found the right answer yet? What if it's because you've consumed so many answers that you can no longer hear your own? In this episode, you'll understand why the golden age of self-improvement might actually be making some of us more lost, not less. You'll hear why constantly reaching for the next framework, the next piece of content, the next explanation is the same outsourcing habit that got you here in the first place, just wearing different clothes. And you'll leave with something that no amount of information can give you: a little more space. Space to metabolize. Space to come back to yourself. Space to hear what was there all along underneath all the noise. This is the episode to listen to when you're exhausted from trying to figure it all out. 

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Online Breathwork

You have probably heard the word psychedelics and felt something. Curiosity, maybe. Fear, possibly. A quiet sense that there might be something there worth understanding, but you haven't quite known where to start or who to trust with the question. This episode is for you. In this conversation, you'll find out what psychedelics actually do in the body and brain, and why the experience is so radically different from what Nixon's war on drugs wanted you to believe. You'll understand why the most meaningful journeys happen not to people chasing a peak experience, but to people who have done enough self-awareness work to handle what comes up. You'll hear why integration is the piece the psychedelic industry consistently under-delivers on, and what it actually looks like to take an insight from a ceremony and turn it into lasting change in your nervous system, your relationships, and your life. And you'll leave knowing exactly where to start if any of this is calling you, without needing to dive into the deep end first. Lucy is joined by psychedelic integration coach Alexandra Artsaglu, who has studied alongside Gabor Maté and brings rigour, warmth and hard-earned wisdom to one of the most important conversations in modern healing.

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The incredible microdosing e-book

You have been told it will just happen when it happens. And for a while, you believed it. You went on the dates, you did the work, you read the books, you know your attachment style inside out. And yet here you are, still getting anxious with the ones who like you, still getting bored with the ones who are actually good for you, still watching everyone around you pair off while quietly wondering what is wrong with you. Nothing is wrong with you. But something is being missed in the advice you are being given, and this episode is about what that is. You will leave this episode understanding why waiting for it to just happen is not comforting, it is quietly disempowering, and why that narrative can cost you years. You will understand what is actually happening in your body when you sabotage something good, and why no amount of understanding it intellectually will change the pattern on its own. And you will hear, from someone who has been exactly where you are, what the real work looks like and why it is so much bigger and more life-changing than just finding a partner. This is the episode to listen to if you are tired of knowing better and still doing the same thing. 

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Trust in Love

You've done enough personal work to know your patterns. You've read about attachment styles, you know your triggers, you've probably even done the therapy. And still, something keeps happening. The ones who feel electric tend to disappear. The ones who are actually available somehow feel wrong. Off. Too easy. Maybe even boring. In this episode, you'll find out why that is, and it's not what the red flag content on Instagram is telling you. You'll understand why anxiety in a healthy relationship is not the same as a warning sign, and why treating it like one might be the most expensive mistake you keep making. You'll hear why your nervous system is not trying to protect you from the wrong person, it might actually be trying to protect you from the right one. And you'll leave with a completely different way of reading what's happening inside you when things get close and real and a little bit terrifying. This is not about lowering your standards. It's about understanding the difference between what feels familiar and what is actually good for you. Because until you can tell those two things apart, the pattern runs the show. 

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Free Workshop 8th February

You have probably dated an avoidant man. Maybe you are in a relationship with one right now. Maybe you have been told, or have quietly suspected, that you have some avoidance of your own. And yet almost everything out there about avoidant attachment is written from the outside looking in, which means you understand the pattern but you still have no real idea what is happening on the inside of it. This episode changes that. In this conversation, Lucy's first ever male guest opens up about what it actually feels like to wake up numb after the best date of your life, why men pull away from the very people they want most, and what the journey from avoidance to real intimacy has looked like from inside a male nervous system. You will leave with a completely different way of understanding the men in your life, not as people who don't care, but as people who are often terrified in ways they cannot name. You will also hear an honest conversation about what women carry towards men, the ancient anger that can poison the most loving relationships, and what it takes to build something that can hold both people without either one disappearing. This is one of the most raw and genuinely useful conversations about modern love and relating that the podcast has produced. 

Adam Slawson

In this episode of The Ache, I respond to a listener who has built a life she genuinely loves — meaningful work, strong routines, solid friendships — yet feels a deep contraction at the thought of dating. Not because she doesn’t want intimacy, but because she’s afraid of losing herself again. Together, we explore why this fear makes so much sense, how self-abandonment is a learned nervous system pattern (not a personal failing), and why hyper-independence often forms after we’ve disappeared in love before. I unpack the tension between authenticity and attachment, share why relationships tend to activate old survival strategies, and reframe dating as a space for gentle awareness rather than self-betrayal. This episode is an invitation to stay close to yourself in connection, to notice when you drift, and to practice telling the truth — slowly, imperfectly, and with compassion — so intimacy no longer requires you to leave your body to be loved. If you’ve ever thought “my life is good, so why does love feel so scary?” this one is for you.

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The Ache Submission

In this episode, I tell a very real story about a date that sent me spiralling: lonely, anxious, overthinking everything, and somehow ended with me chasing a man down the street holding a packet of ham. (Yes, really.) What starts as a funny moment opens into something much deeper: the ache beneath dating anxiety, the quiet panic of feeling unchosen, and the old relational wiring that gets activated when connection starts to matter. I share what was actually happening in my body, how childhood dynamics were playing out in real time, and why these moments aren’t evidence that you’re “too much” or doing dating wrong, they’re signals. This conversation is about relational anxiety, responsibility without self-blame, and the moment we stop trying to perform our way into love and start listening to what our bodies are protecting us from. If you’ve ever wondered why dating can make you feel a bit unhinged, why loneliness hits hardest when you’re trying not to need anyone, or why you keep repeating the same patterns even though you “know better”, this one’s for you. Not a how-to. Not a fix. Just an honest invitation to meet yourself with more truth, humour, and compassion, and maybe stop chasing men with processed meat along the way.→ Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve

January Event

In this episode of The Liberated Life, I sit down with psychologist and pleasure mentor Bel Litsek to unravel the quiet violence of self-control—and why the path to the love we crave isn’t found through effort or perfection, but through erotic aliveness and nervous system safety. We talk about why Instagram is distorting how we relate and making us perform instead of connect, how the love most of us were taught to want is actually about ownership, not intimacy, why “getting rid of rigidity” isn’t the point—and what it actually wants to teach us, and how pleasure disrupts trauma patterns, unlocks deep softness, and becomes the foundation for sovereign, satisfying love. This one’s a soft rebellion. A sacred remembering. And a call to let pleasure do the work.→ Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve

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