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Words With Myself

Words With Myself is a solo podcast of quiet confrontation and honest exploration. Each episode is a spoken journal, unscripted, unfiltered, and unafraid to sit in the silence between thoughts. Host Luke Rixson doesn’t offer advice. He reflects aloud. Through themes like identity, ego, fear, stillness, and purpose, he invites listeners to eavesdrop on the kind of conversations most people only have with themselves.This is not self-help. It’s self-inquiry. A space to slow down, question deeply, and

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18:32

What It Means To Be Fearless

Words With Myself ·

2026/04/12

To some degree, everything is in relationship.But when it comes to personal relationships, what we are really talking about is closeness. Proximity. How much space exists between you and somebody else, and how much of that space is being created by what you are unwilling to reveal. In this episode I talk about the distance we create in relationships, how that distance is built through fear, shame, self-judgment, and the need to control how other people see us. I get into openness, honesty,

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13:06

You Are Not Who You Think You Are

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2026/04/05

There’s a good chance that who you think you are isn’t actually who you are. Most of us build this identity from selective experiences and then just stick to it. We pick a version of ourselves that makes sense and say “this is me” and then we try to be consistent with that. But it’s not real. You’re not just one thing. You’re not just a good person or a bad person or a confident person or an introvert or whatever label you’ve given yourself. You’re a mix. You’re constantly changing. In this episode

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19:06

Let Meaning Find You

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2026/03/29

We all want purpose. We all want something that feels meaningful.But not everyone has that thing. And when you don’t, it can feel like something is wrong with you. Like you’re missing something that everyone else seems to have. I’ve spent a lot of time in that space. Not really knowing what I wanted to do, trying different things, not connecting with anything deeply, and feeling like I needed to figure it out. In this episode I talk about that feeling of being directionless, what actually happens

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15:11

Who’s Keeping Score?

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2026/03/22

Who’s actually keeping score in your life?In this episode, we talk about success, failure, and how easily we label ourselves based on a few moments. The truth is, nothing is that fixed. You can feel lost one minute and everything can change the next. This is about zooming out, understanding the difference between what you're feeling right now and how your life is really unfolding over time. Most of what we call “failure” is just part of the process. If you’ve been feeling stuck, behind, or unsure

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18:01

Freedom Terrifies Us More Than Failure

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2026/03/15

Most people say they want freedom.The freedom to live differently. To travel. To start something new. To walk away from the life that doesn’t quite feel like their own. But when the moment comes, when there’s no clear plan, no guarantees, no structure, that same freedom becomes terrifying. In this episode, we explore the strange tension between freedom, responsibility, and meaning. Why people often fear the very life they say they want. Why uncertainty feels so dangerous. And why the safest path

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18:46

Will it ever be enough?

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2026/03/01

Is it ever enough? The episode opens with that single, aching question—an ember that grows into a wildfire. You are pushed into a room with a mirror that only shows effort: long nights, missed dinners, the quiet calculus of what must be sacrificed to climb one rung higher. The narrator becomes your companion and your judge, tracing the familiar contours of perfectionism as if reading a ledger of losses.We follow a scene of relentless motion—hands on a wheel, a stone in the palms, the grating

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18:48

The Other Side of Suffering

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2026/02/22

Imagine a life built like a fortress, quiet, safe, and carefully arranged to keep every threat at bay. In this episode we follow a listener who realises their fortress is also a prison: every avoided conversation, every unspoken boundary, every friendship never pursued has been a brick in a wall that keeps them from real growth. The narrator pulls back the curtain on mainstream spirituality that feels like escape, revealing how comfort can be a sophisticated form of avoidance.The story pivots into

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14:46

When Convenience and Comfort Steal Meaning

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2026/02/16

Imagine a warm blanket and a crackling fire — safe, predictable, pleasant. Now imagine that same warmth wrapped around a life you accepted because the alternative felt unknown or lonely. This episode begins there, in the quiet deception of comfort: not always a blessing, but often a soft surrender to what is familiar. We walk with the narrator through the history of daily life, from hunting and preparing food to tending fires and mending tools, and feel what those tasks gave: purpose, skill,

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15:49

Stop existing, Start living

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2026/02/08

This episode opens with a dedication to Brenda Bude — a woman who taught the host what it means to live a spiritual life through living itself. Rather than a lecture on doctrines or a list of practices, the episode unfolds like a remembered conversation, full of small, human details that reveal a soul who loved loudly, failed bravely, and never mistook holiness for perfection.We begin by confronting the image many of us carry of spiritual people: distant, immaculate, somehow above the messy

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17:40

Being present in an absent world

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2026/01/25

We begin with a simple sentence: "The term be present gets thrown around a lot." It sounds familiar until you try to do it. In this episode, a voice takes you on a morning: the rushed shower, the half-eaten breakfast, the train that’s late, the inbox that never sleeps. You feel the pulse of a system that measures value by output, and suddenly presence is not a practice but a luxury you can’t afford.Through concrete images—cheap new houses built from trees grown for speed, mass-produced shoes

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14:45

The Silent Killer

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2026/01/18

Stress gets a bad reputation. Like it’s only ever the villain in the story.In this episode, it’s reframed as something far more honest: stress is currency. Every demand you meet, every risk you take, every meaningful thing you build or love costs something. Your nervous system is the bank. Whether your life is quiet or chaotic, whether your baseline is high or low, you are always spending. On work, learning, relationships, ambition, survival. The problem is not stress itself. It is living like you

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14:44

The Meaning of Life

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2026/01/11

When it feels like the universe is out to get you, the question hangs in the air: Why me? This episode opens with that ache—the quiet, furious unfairness of bad things falling on good people—and follows it like a thread through a life that refuses tidy explanations.We step into scenes of frustration and longing: the well-intentioned efforts that go unrewarded, the moral ledger that seems balanced against you, the sting of watching those who cheat or lie move ahead. These moments are rendered in

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16:52

How to start feeling again

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2026/01/04

Imagine walking into a crowded restaurant, the clatter of plates like distant thunder, a laugh that should have been bright but felt dull in your chest. You describe the night in three tidy words—good atmosphere, cheap, friendly service—and tuck that snapshot into memory. This episode pulls that snapshot apart. It follows a listener who has spent a lifetime translating every tremor of the body into neat labels, and in doing so, has learned to live through sentences instead of raw sensation.Through

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14:47

Man vs Woman: The Battle Within

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2025/12/29

Picture a dinner table where voices rise and then retreat into separate rooms—one partner joins friends to complain, the other seeks kinship in a different circle—and the argument doesn't end, it multiplies. In this episode, we begin not with policy or pronouncements but with that private scene, the quiet echo of a dinner argument refracted back into the self. Rather than debate what masculinity or femininity should be in the world, the narrator walks us inward, inviting us to meet two roommates

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13:58

The Source Of True Strength

Words With Myself ·

2025/12/21

Step into a conversation that quietly pulls the rug out from under everything you think you know about strength. In this episode of Words With Myself, the host sits with a simple but radical idea: strength is not measured in muscle or menace, but in the steady courage of the gentle. Through vivid contrasts and intimate reflections, the episode opens with the image of the loud, imposing figure—someone who looks strong until you see the fear that fuels that posture.What follows is a story of

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13:31

When Momentum Makes or Breaks You

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2025/12/15

Imagine waking one morning and realizing you are not where you thought you’d be. That small misstep — a lost job, a harsh word, an unexpected grief — nudges a scale that keeps tipping. In this episode, we follow a life tilted by momentum: how one event becomes a cascade, how decisions made from pain deepen the fall, and how that same force can lift you back, stronger than before. Through vivid examples — the unemployed person who loses confidence, the relationship that frays as sorrow grows, the

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12:35

Rome wasn't built in a day, but it could be destroyed...

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2025/12/07

This episode explores how meaningful progress takes time but can be undone in an instant by impatience and self-sabotage.It examines habits and fears that secretly destroy our efforts and offers a clear call to recognize and address those patterns so you can move forward and protect what you've built.

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15:40

Stop Running From Pain: The Hidden Cost of Avoidance

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2025/11/23

This episode examines why people avoid suffering and how trying to eliminate pain by hardening ourselves can create new problems. It advocates for balance, being strong when needed and soft when appropriate.Instead of controlling outcomes, the host urges living in the present, accepting uncertainty, taking risks without attachment, and trusting that you can endure and thrive no matter what happens.

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16:32

The Empaths Paradox

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2025/11/16

This episode explores whether our feelings truly belong to us or are often inherited from others, especially for empaths. The host discusses mirroring, social anxiety, and how external emotions shape our identity.By recognizing how we pick up and return emotions, the episode shows how awareness and small changes can transform your life and help you reclaim who you are.

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16:42

How to Separate Identity from Emotion

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2025/11/09

This episode explores where feelings come from, how they differ from identity, and why emotions are not absolute truth but valid signals about our experience. It examines how perspectives, empathy, and past stories shape emotions, and why empaths may struggle to separate their own feelings from others'. Ultimately it offers a reminder that feelings are temporary and you can choose who you are by changing the narrative and how you respond.

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