A woman almost left a relationship a year and a half ago because it felt too intense, too hard, too uncomfortable to be right. She is getting married this year. In this episode, Lucy unpicks one of the most damaging myths we carry about love. The idea that if someone is right for you, it will feel easy. You will find out why discomfort in a healthy relationship is not a signal to leave, and why almost everyone has been taught the opposite. You will understand the real difference between intuition and an old fear wearing intuition's clothes, and why the most intense reactions in your relationship are often coming from somewhere much older than the person standing in front of you. You will hear why two healthy people coming together will always bring up unprocessed stuff, by design, and why running from one relationship to avoid that discomfort just guarantees you will meet the exact same pattern somewhere else, wearing a different face. This episode could save a relationship that does not actually need saving, just understanding. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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You have the impressive job, you check off your workouts, you can name your attachment style and still you find yourself on a Sunday evening with absolutely no idea who you are when the title comes off. In this episode, Lucy talks to psychotherapist Tracey Kiernan, a former corporate lawyer who left law after years of high-functioning anxiety, about what is actually happening underneath the performance of having it together. You will understand the difference between genuine nervous system regulation and what Tracey calls performative wellness, the sound baths and bootcamps we collect like checkboxes without ever turning inward. You will hear what your window of tolerance actually is, why avoiding discomfort costs you far more than feeling it ever would, and why so many high achievers are quietly grey and uninspired by their own lives without realising why. The second half of this conversation goes somewhere most podcasts will not. An honest, non-judgmental look at why people cheat, what infidelity actually reveals about a relationship, and why both partners usually have something to take responsibility for, even the one who was betrayed. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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You have tried the holidays. The nice restaurant. The new bag. The weekend away. And somehow the low-level meh, the disconnection, the loneliness in the middle of a full life, is still there. In this episode, Lucy comes back from the retreat with something she cannot stop thinking about. The gap. The gap between the character you built to survive the world and the actual version of you underneath it. The one that never really gets any airtime. You will understand why so many intimate relationships feel lonely even when they look loving from the outside. Why burnout happens to people who seem to have everything together. Why you feel lost making decisions from a life that is technically yours but does not quite feel like it. And what it actually looked like, in real time, over five nights, to watch women put down the performance and let the true version of themselves back into the room. This episode is one of the most important Lucy has recorded. It is also one of the most direct. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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