Awaken into Love Podcast

Labels, labels, labels! Are you experiencing Relationship OCD or Relationship Anxiety? Is there a possibility to experience BOTH? In this podcast episode, Kiyomi interviews the amazing Sarah Yudkin (@youloveandlearn on Instagram and youloveandlearn.com). We decided to come together in today's episode to talk to you about RA and ROCD, the differences, the similarities, empowering yourself, what to do when you feel disempowered, labels and diagnoses!

May you have an Awakened 2022, loves! In this podcast episode, Kiyomi talks about collective grief and sadness, new years expectations, the trauma response, leads an inner smile meditation to help the nervous system, goes through different aspirations and reminders Kiyomi will be speaking about for the year of 2022. She also ends with some journaling questions to kick of this new year in awakening! 

Do you constantly wonder if there's something "better" out there? Do you notice yourself thinking of a better partner, better career, better location? Do you notice yourself especially dreaming during these challenging times collectively? Well, you're not alone. Join Kiyomi and the co-founder of Awaken into Love, Alexis, as we dive into our own personal challenges and how we've been experiencing the grass is greener syndrome. How we've been working with it, and how you can work with it in a way to help you awaken.

Do you easily fall into self-blame and shame? Do you feel guilty over things that cause you to become obsessive and make you feel unworthy? If so, you're not alone. In this podcast, Kiyomi interviews Dehlia, who speaks about her journey with shame, self-blame, and ROCD. We talk about how to unpack self-blame, how to recognize when you're in the loop, root causes, internal vs. external focus, religious traumas connection to shame and how to start working on it and break free!

Do you have questions and doubts like...

"What if I'm not connected to my partner?"
"Why do I feel so disconnected from them?"
"How long is too long to feel disconnected?"
"How do I feel connected to my partner?"

Understand the hidden meaning behind "connection" with ROCD/anxiety, our view of what connection is, why you feel the need to always be attached, and how to do exposure work with "connection", and how to continually build connection in a relationship.

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi dives into the ONE thing most of us do every day that can hurt ourselves and our relationship: Overuse of social media. She talks about her own challenging journey with social media, her dark night of the soul, why we get so hooked on social media, and how we can use it in a way to make it work for our relationship and for us.

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi interviews ROCD advocate, Jamie Lee (jamielee_rocd). They speak about Jamie's journey being a ROCD advocate, how to work with feelings and sensation that feel challenging, the problem with labeling and boxing our human experience as a compulsion, falling into the trap of judging feelings & sensations, the power of becoming awareness & the observer, moving toward values vs. feelings, how to find your own values and the importance of seeing relationships as art and creation.

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi interviews Piera from Chile, South America. This is probably one of the most empowering episodes on this podcast, and even though we speak about LDR (Long-Distance Relationships) this episode is going to apply to all of you! She offers you so much of her own wisdom, healing, and how she's using ROCDAnxiety as a way to be her highest version of herself and in partnership.

In this episode Kiyomi talks to you about things you need to hear but feel resistant to hearing about Relationship OCD/Anxiety. Think of this episode like the "tough love" you need to hear for you to truly find freedom from ROCD and anxiety. It's an episode you didn't realize you needed!

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi takes you through a transformational guided meditation through the power of compassion. In the beginning, she speaks about why compassion is so important for ROCD/anxiety and mental health, why she keeps seeing the healing benefits of compassion with her clients and why she believes it's crucial for deeper intimacy in relationships. *Skip to 7:30 for the meditation*

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi talks about how uncertainty, although uncomfortable and sometimes scary, can be a good thing. She speaks about how her current events in her life have been pushing her grow and how to make uncertainty work for you. Instead of seeing it as something scary, uncertainty can push you into your deepest growth, expansion and awakening.

Are you worried or fearful of what others think about you and your partner? Do you constantly obsess about what they've said or haven't said about your relationship?  Have you had an experience with a therapist who said something triggering? If you said yes to any of these, then this podcast is for you! Let's dive in!

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi interviewed Nicholas, founder of @thewaveandtheocean on Instagram. In this powerful episode, they speak about what it's like being a male and having Relationship OCD, the stigma attached, and common characteristics that come with being a male with ROCD. They also talked about marriage, commitment, feelings of boredom in security, attraction. They also spoke heavily about what Relationship OCD has taught him, how it helped him awaken and how you can make ROCD/anxiety work for YOU.

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi reflects on her recent, personal journey with impermanence. She speaks about how her recent experiences have allowed her to be more grateful, aware, and alive even though the experience have been painful. She shares how you can use the awareness of impermanence to have greater peace, fulfillment, and love in your life with yourself and your relationships.

Do you get triggered by spirituality in your relationship? Do you look at astrology, psychics, and angel numbers and believe it tells you to leave your relationship? Do you feel triggered constantly believing that your intuition is telling you to leave and feel disempowered?

In today's podcast episode, Kiyomi interviews Christianna, an Awaken into Love graduate on spirituality. They talk about their own journey with spirituality and ROCD, why spirituality can be so triggering for people with ROCD and anxiety, and how to start using spirituality to empower you and your relationship!

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi interviews an Awaken into Love graduate representing her healing from ROCD/Anxiety from the Middle East. 

She talks about what inner child work is, how she started, the resistance of inner child work (she felt crazy starting so if that's you, you're not alone!), how inner child work has helped heal her ROCD & OCD, and how you can start the inner child work process by incorporating self-love and self-care and what that really means.

Are you experiencing resistance in your healing with Relationship OCD/anxiety or your growth? If so, what does that mean? Maybe you don't know what resistance is and you're thinking they're "true" thoughts. In this podcast, Kiyomi interviews Manon on her journey on how to help you understand thoughts and feelings that were part of the resistance, how resistance is part of healing, what it's showing you, and how to work through it in a way to empower and awaken you and your partner!

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi and Alexis talk about healing with Relationship OCD. They talk about what they believe healing to be with ROD, what it looks like, misconceptions on healing, normal blockages, and resistances that happen when we're going into the journey of healing, what worked best for Kiyomi during her journey of ROCD, our views on ERP and why we are slightly different and toward the end... a BIG announcement about AIL that you don't want to miss!

In this podcast episode, I interviewed my husband and we got really vulnerable and personal (and at times, very emotional). We spoke about our journey together with ROCD, what helped him during my journey with ROCD, ways to build deeper intimacy through difficulty, things we wish we did back then, our sex life during ROCD, what ROCD can teach you, and how to make it work for you (yes, it can build deep connection!)

We also spoke about how to be in a long-term, fulfilling relationship by speaking about honest emotions and thoughts about our relationship, big advice and realizations, toxic and red flag issues, and a lot of honesty, love and vulnerability in this podcast.

In this podcast episode, Kiyomi interviews Halley and Bryce, a couple navigating and growing through the challenges that come with Relationship OCD.

The three of them discuss the challenges, "mistakes" that they've learned from when working with Relationship OCD, hidden compulsions, how to work through the importance of boundaries and taking care of oneself, and additional empowering tips on having a more fulfilling and loving relationship.