120: Why You Keep Losing Yourself in Relationships (And How to Finally Stop)

The Sabrina Zohar Show

Mental Health, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Consistently feeling like you lose yourself in a relationship? In this powerful solo episode, Sabrina dives deep into one of the most common dating challenges: how to stay true to yourself while dating and in relationships. Through vulnerable personal stories, including her own journey from people-pleasing to authenticity, Sabrina explores why we often lose ourselves in relationships and provides practical tools to maintain our sense of self while building meaningful connections.

From understanding the science behind attachment patterns to distinguishing between chemistry and true compatibility, this episode is packed with actionable insights for anyone navigating the dating world. Sabrina shares her innovative "authenticity compass" framework, discusses the importance of maintaining independence while dating, and offers real-world examples of healthy compromise versus self-abandonment. Whether you're currently dating, in a relationship, or working on yourself, this episode provides the blueprint for showing up authentically in love without losing yourself in the process.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Sabrina Zohar Show. My name is Sabrina Zohar and I am your host.
0:08.7	Happy End of January, Babes. Well, whenever you're listening to this, it's wild to think that time is just going by so fast. I'm just excited to see what's going to happen.
0:16.8	And today, we are going to talk about how do you stay true to yourself in dating and not lose yourself when you're dating or even in a relationship.
0:23.3	It's something that I hear every day from you guys asking.
0:26.2	And it's such a valid question.
0:27.7	So today we're going to have, we got tools, we've got an entire packed episode of so many amazing things that we're going to go over.
0:34.0	And I'm just really grateful for you guys.
0:35.4	So as always, if you guys need anything, everything is the link in show notes. Please don't forget to rate and review the show. And please be kind
0:41.2	with your words. You have every right to have an opinion and a thought, but we just asked for
0:45.7	politeness when you're going to speak because there are other people that are involved that might
0:49.4	not have the same lived experience as you. But everybody is welcome, and I always just like to remind everybody,
0:57.9	you're all welcomed here, but it is not my job to keep everybody here comfortable and make sure that everybody is happy because it's physically impossible. And I hope that you guys can take
1:01.5	that into your dating and relationship life as well. You don't need to bend over backwards to
1:05.1	make someone's day. So without further ado, babies, let's get right on into it.
1:21.8	Welcome back, Babes.
1:24.3	I love solo time with you guys.
1:25.8	And I'm just excited, y'all.
1:28.4	I mean, as you guys know, I'm in the process of writing a book.
1:32.4	It's not going to be out for another year or so, so don't get too too excited yet about this coming tomorrow. But I'm just grateful. I'm feeling so overwhelmed with how many exciting things that are
1:38.5	coming. And I just wanted to take a second as well to thank you guys, right? You know, and also to share a couple
1:44.4	of housekeeping things. As you guys know, I'm not going to be taking one-on-ones as often.
1:47.5	So if you guys need anything, the courses, we're going to be creating new courses this year and one
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