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Anna Runkle

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
644 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

There's much you can do despite this injury. And in a way, it's a healing. When you find your workaround, it's a healing, and it will work, and it's enough. It's enough for you to become fully expressed as a person and reach your potential. With limerence, it's the same thing. Something's not coming back.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

There's much you can do despite this injury. And in a way, it's a healing. When you find your workaround, it's a healing, and it will work, and it's enough. It's enough for you to become fully expressed as a person and reach your potential. With limerence, it's the same thing. Something's not coming back.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

There's much you can do despite this injury. And in a way, it's a healing. When you find your workaround, it's a healing, and it will work, and it's enough. It's enough for you to become fully expressed as a person and reach your potential. With limerence, it's the same thing. Something's not coming back.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Personally, when I used to go to therapy, some of the stuff they said, it just wasn't helpful. Validating my feelings about it wasn't helpful. Nowadays, I think if there's a lot of just talking about it, why, what happened, how did you end up feeling this way, that goes on too long, I think, at a certain point. It's just like, okay, now, you have to get honest with yourself.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Personally, when I used to go to therapy, some of the stuff they said, it just wasn't helpful. Validating my feelings about it wasn't helpful. Nowadays, I think if there's a lot of just talking about it, why, what happened, how did you end up feeling this way, that goes on too long, I think, at a certain point. It's just like, okay, now, you have to get honest with yourself.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Personally, when I used to go to therapy, some of the stuff they said, it just wasn't helpful. Validating my feelings about it wasn't helpful. Nowadays, I think if there's a lot of just talking about it, why, what happened, how did you end up feeling this way, that goes on too long, I think, at a certain point. It's just like, okay, now, you have to get honest with yourself.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

You must stop talking about this. You have to break contact with this person, even if you have to change jobs. You know, there's just no other way.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

You must stop talking about this. You have to break contact with this person, even if you have to change jobs. You know, there's just no other way.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

You must stop talking about this. You have to break contact with this person, even if you have to change jobs. You know, there's just no other way.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Yeah. Yeah. And maybe even in real life, maybe you dated somebody briefly and you really felt like your life came into technicolor with them. You could really just feel like, ah, this is what it's like to be in the presence of something divine. Or you feel yourself sort of coming up and shining a bright light into the world. It feels really good in a very important way.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Yeah. Yeah. And maybe even in real life, maybe you dated somebody briefly and you really felt like your life came into technicolor with them. You could really just feel like, ah, this is what it's like to be in the presence of something divine. Or you feel yourself sort of coming up and shining a bright light into the world. It feels really good in a very important way.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Yeah. Yeah. And maybe even in real life, maybe you dated somebody briefly and you really felt like your life came into technicolor with them. You could really just feel like, ah, this is what it's like to be in the presence of something divine. Or you feel yourself sort of coming up and shining a bright light into the world. It feels really good in a very important way.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And then they take it away from you and you feel like there's no other way to get it back. And on a certain level, whatever we have with somebody else, we can't You can get something like it with somebody else. But let's be honest, you know, people are not completely interchangeable.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And then they take it away from you and you feel like there's no other way to get it back. And on a certain level, whatever we have with somebody else, we can't You can get something like it with somebody else. But let's be honest, you know, people are not completely interchangeable.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And then they take it away from you and you feel like there's no other way to get it back. And on a certain level, whatever we have with somebody else, we can't You can get something like it with somebody else. But let's be honest, you know, people are not completely interchangeable.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Well, I guess. I think that would be handy if you could, but you just stay fixated on that person. I cannot fully exist. I can't really hop into my full dimension as a person unless I'm with this other person. The world feels bleak. A lot of people will say that. It feels like it went to black and white. It's like when Dorothy walks out of the house after the tornado.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Well, I guess. I think that would be handy if you could, but you just stay fixated on that person. I cannot fully exist. I can't really hop into my full dimension as a person unless I'm with this other person. The world feels bleak. A lot of people will say that. It feels like it went to black and white. It's like when Dorothy walks out of the house after the tornado.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Well, I guess. I think that would be handy if you could, but you just stay fixated on that person. I cannot fully exist. I can't really hop into my full dimension as a person unless I'm with this other person. The world feels bleak. A lot of people will say that. It feels like it went to black and white. It's like when Dorothy walks out of the house after the tornado.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

It's just like, oh, yeah, it's like this. This is what life is meant to be like. It's kind of like what drugs are like, really pleasant drugs, right? It just feels like the meaning becomes clear. So there's this lack of meaning that makes that feel like the only solution, like it's everything. There's a lack of meaning, there's a lack of connection and it's no fun.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

It's just like, oh, yeah, it's like this. This is what life is meant to be like. It's kind of like what drugs are like, really pleasant drugs, right? It just feels like the meaning becomes clear. So there's this lack of meaning that makes that feel like the only solution, like it's everything. There's a lack of meaning, there's a lack of connection and it's no fun.