Trusting Yourself: The Key to Navigating Relationships and Personal Growth with Mark Groves

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Oct 3, 2025

Mark Groves, a relationship educator and speaker, shares his journey of self-trust, sobriety, and personal growth. He emphasizes the importance of living with integrity and making choices that align with one's true self instead of succumbing to people-pleasing. Mark delves into the differences between healthy and toxic shame, and how these concepts play into our relationships. He also discusses the need for small commitments to build self-trust and the complexities of attachment styles in navigating love and commitment.

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INSIGHT

Choices Shape Your Future

Choices either expand us or contract us and create a future by small present acts.
The parable of two wolves clarifies that what we focus on shapes who we become.

ADVICE

Contextualize Short-Term Pain

Put actions in the larger context of your values to make mundane choices meaningful.
Honour temporary discomfort when it serves long-term expansion and learning.

INSIGHT

Reclaiming Shame's Signal

Shame evolved to keep people in groups, but it can be weaponized to silence authenticity.
Healthy shame signals "a better behavior is available" rather than "I am broken."

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In this episode, Mark Groves discusses the importance of trusting yourself and the key to navigating relationships and personal growth. Mark shares insights from his own journey, including leaving a secure career, embracing sobriety, and navigating relationship endings with integrity. He also delves into the importance of choosing self-alignment over people-pleasing, distinguishing intuition from trauma, and building self-trust through small commitments.

Key Takeaways:

Personal growth and transformation through self-awareness
The distinction between healthy shame and toxic shame
The impact of sobriety on personal relationships and self-identity
The importance of living with integrity and aligning with one’s authentic self
The complexities of love, commitment, and personal responsibility in relationships
The role of attachment styles in relationship dynamics
The significance of grief in the process of change and healing
Building self-trust through small, achievable commitments
The transformative power of embracing vulnerability and truth in relationships

If you enjoyed this conversation with Mark Groves, check out these other episodes:

How to Make Great Relationships with Dr. Rick Hanson

How to Have Healthier Relationships with Yourself and Others with Jillian Turecki

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