The author says she had to push herself too far in her relationship with a dom sub dynamic. She now values the symptoms of love more, including equanimity and security. The book is about how people can be stuck in relationships that are very dramatic or emotionally abusive.
Rachel Krantz is one of the three founding editors of Bustle, the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights International Radio Award, The Investigative Reporters and Editors Radio Award, and The Edward R. Murrow Award for her work as an investigative reporter for YR Media. Rachel is also the host of Help Existing, a new interview podcast offering help with different aspects of existence.
In this episode, Eric and Rachel discuss her book, Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogomy.
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Rachel Krantz and I Discuss Non-Monogomy, Spiritual Growth and …
- Her book, Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogomy
- The difference between Non-Monogomy from Polyamory
- What made her want to try a polyamorous relationship
- The key insights her teacher, a Buddhist monk, helped her realize about her attachment tendencies
- What it means to have compassion with boundaries
- Her surprising experience with jealousy and how it encapsulates so many of the things that humans struggle with
- When leaning into difficult emotions turns from being helpful to masochism
- The questions – What are the symptoms of the love you have in a relationship?
- How important rest is in the pace of life
- The difference between intuition and fear
- Asking will this decision cause more or less suffering?
- Defining gaslighting
- How she learned to love herself
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