68. Neil Strauss: When Love Is A Drug
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2017
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Sex, love, and intimacy - The great mysteries of life. Our guest Neil Strauss is a seven-time New York Times best-selling author and has spent the better part of ten years devoting his life (and writing) to learning the ins and outs of romantic relationships, and how to make them work. From his days as a pickup artist in his book The Game to his recent awakening to the merits of true love, kids, and marriage in The Truth, Neil has committed himself to the study and practice of relationships with a tenacity few others have.
In this episode, you'll learn the secrets to identifying dysfunctional relationships, codependency, sex addiction, and every other form of romantic pathology, and how to avoid them.
Whether you're happily married, single, or on the hunt for romance, this episode will no doubt prove to be a powerful catalyst of truth and self-realization, as Neil and I take a very real and raw analysis of ourselves for the benefit of the audience, and anyone they might love.
May you find peace, companionship, and fulfillment in your current, or future affairs of the heart. Share this episode with a friend or partner, in hopes that we might all get a little better at this thing called love.
Luke
Topics Discussed:
- How Neil's book The Truth changed my life forever
- Becoming emotionally healthy enough to have a fulfilling relationship
- What are the different stages of a romantic relationship?
- Identifying co-dependency, and how to break the cycle
- The curse of emotional enmeshment, and how to trade that for true intimacy
- How to stop pleasing and pathological accommodation
- Taking responsibility over blaming: to overcome your wiring first you gotta understand it
- Behavior vs. belief: understanding what creates lasting change
- Is sex addiction a real thing, and how to tell if you're got it
- The dangers of trauma bonding with a romantic partner
- How our childhood shaped our brain, and as a result the way we behave in relationships
- How to define commitment? Is monogamy possible?
- Lifestyle recommendations
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| 0:00.0 | The Lifestylist, Episode 68, featuring Neil Strauss. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Luke Story, a former celebrity fashion stylist and founder of School of Style. |
| 0:17.5 | For the past 20 years, I've been relentlessly dedicated to my deepest passion, designing the |
| 0:23.0 | ultimate lifestyle based on the most powerful principles of health and spirituality. |
| 0:28.8 | The Lifestyleist Podcast is a show dedicated to sharing my discoveries and the experts behind them |
| 0:34.9 | with you. |
| 0:38.4 | What's up, |
| 0:39.6 | homies? You know what today is? Today is June 6, 2017. You know what that means? |
| 0:44.6 | That means this is the one-year anniversary of the first release of the Lifestyle's podcast, |
| 0:50.5 | and what better way to ring in the one-year anniversary than with my friend and our guest |
| 0:56.0 | author Neil Strauss. I just want to take a moment to thank you for listening. If this is your |
| 1:00.9 | first time here, welcome. This is a real party. I think you'll definitely enjoy this particular |
| 1:06.4 | episode with Neil. If you're a longtime listener, I want to thank you so much for tuning in |
| 1:11.3 | and for sharing this episode with friends. I just check my stats and they are as follows. I'm up to |
| 1:16.5 | 530,000 downloads in the first year. As of today, I'm recording this on June 1st, by the way. |
| 1:23.2 | I'm about to take a trip that I'll tell you about in a minute. We're up to 175 five star ratings |
| 1:29.0 | in iTunes and 130 five star reviews in iTunes. And that's huge. I don't have anything to compare |
| 1:36.1 | the show to, but it's gone way above and beyond my expectations. And I've got to say that this |
| 1:42.2 | particular accomplishment of having the idea for a show, |
| 1:46.6 | curating a show, getting the guest, doing the artwork, putting on the website, |
| 1:50.1 | all the stuff that's gone into this. |
| 1:51.8 | It's been honestly like excruciating and way more expensive and way more work than I ever thought it would be. |
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