Words With Myself With Luke Rixson

Perspective has a strange way of becoming evidence of itself.

If you expect the world to disappoint you, you will notice every reason it has. If you believe you are not enough, you can change your job, your friends, your habits, your surroundings — and still somehow find yourself living inside the same story.

In this episode, I talk about the relationship between perspective, ego, language and identity, and why real change often asks for something deeper than simply doing different things.

I get into the idea that the words we use are not as innocent as we think, that our predictions can begin to feel like spells, and that belief sometimes has to come before evidence. Not in the sense of pretending everything is sunshine and roses, but in becoming aware of the lens through which we are already interpreting reality.

I also talk about self-worth, old identities, inner healing and integration — particularly the temptation to treat the old version of yourself as something that needs to be killed off, detached from or overcome. Maybe those parts of you do not need more rejection. Maybe they need to finally be understood.

Because changing your life externally is one thing. Changing the perspective you are living from is something else entirely.

This is an episode about changing your perspective, breaking old thought patterns, ego and identity, manifestation, the power of language, spiritual growth, self-worth and integrating the parts of yourself you thought you had to leave behind.

After a short break, we return. 

Learning is more than just obtaining information, as is healing.

What matters is what we do with the information we obtain.

I talk a lot about personal responsibility, accountability, doing the work, taking your power back. All of it.

But I also think it’s important to understand the world you’re doing that work inside of.

Because you don’t exist in isolation. You exist inside a society, inside a system, inside laws, expectations, habits, incentives, pressures, and all these things that are constantly shaping you. And while that can’t become an excuse, it does need to be understood.

This episode is about that.

It’s about the way modern life keeps us distracted, dependent, isolated, comfortable, and cut off from each other. It’s about alcohol, work, land, ownership, community, nature, freedom, and the fact that so much of what we think is normal has just been slowly taught to us.

And I don’t want this to just be another episode pointing at the problem.

Because I think we have to build something else. Something real. Something rooted in community, autonomy, self-sufficiency, connection, and actual life.

It has to start somewhere. And maybe it starts with us.

Why not here? Why not now? Why not us?

What if being a “master manipulator” isn’t about being cruel, but about trying to keep everyone okay so you can finally feel safe?

In this episode, I talk about people pleasing, control, codependency, childhood trauma, emotional exhaustion, boundaries, and the mask we wear when we’ve spent our lives managing other people’s emotions.

If you grew up around chaos, instability, or emotional outbursts, you may have learned to fix, appease, perform, and hold everything together. But what once protected you might now be poisoning your relationships.

You are not responsible for keeping everyone okay.

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You have made contracts in your life that you probably don’t even remember.

Not the kind you sign on paper, but the promises you made to yourself when you were younger. The things you swore you would become. The people you said you would always be there for. The dreams, ambitions, fears, and protections that once made sense, but might now be quietly ruling your life.

In this episode, I talk about the soul contracts we carry without realising it. The childhood vows, the old relationships, the pursuit of money, the need to never be hurt again, and the versions of ourselves we’re still trying to honour even though we’ve completely outgrown them.

Some contracts deserve renewing. Others need to be ended with intention.

This is about noticing what no longer serves you, letting it go, and making space for commitments that actually align with who you are now.