637. Humility, Surrender, and Self-Honesty: Practical Tools for Ego Management w/ Luke & Alyson Storey

The Life Stylist

Luke Storey

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

We’re back with a new listener AMA, and this one goes deep into the heart of what so many of you have been asking about lately: healing, forgiveness, energetic boundaries, and what it really means to stay aligned when life throws you lessons you never asked for. As always, it’s just me and my wife, Alyson Charles Storey, sitting down at home to explore your questions with honesty, humor, and a whole lot of spiritual perspective.

In this conversation, we unpack what forgiveness actually looks like—especially when the other person never takes accountability. We talk about how to work with resentment, rumination, and intrusive thoughts without spiritually bypassing or numbing ourselves. You’ll hear us dive into the difference between emotional processing and feeding old mental loops, the role of humility in resolving conflict, and why “letting go” is often more about moment-to-moment surrender than a single breakthrough.

We also get into questions around shamanic perspective, karmic lessons, and how to discern when an experience has alchemized into wisdom versus when it’s still asking for attention. Along the way, we touch on rituals, inner work, and the spiritual tools we each turn to—plus plenty of personal stories, laughter, and real-life marriage moments.

Thank you to every listener who submitted a question. Your curiosity and vulnerability shape these episodes, and we’re grateful to walk this path with you. Keep the questions coming for the next AMA.

Get Alyson’s Animal Power book and deck, plus free guided drumming shamanic journey to meet your power animal, at alysoncharles.com/animalpower.

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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:

(00:00:00) The Reality of Writing a Book: Discipline, Devotion, & Disconnection

(00:20:54) “Are You a Student of Life… or at the Mercy of It?”

(00:39:31) Abuse, Alchemy, & Forgiveness Without Accountability

(01:06:40) Latest Discoveries & the Art of Not Caring What People Think

(01:23:16) Anti-Inflammatories, Herbal Mocktails, & Winter Wellness Tools

(01:34:21) “In God We Trust”: A National Motto, a Spiritual Inquiry, & a Cultural Disconnect

(01:45:43) Closing the Year of the Snake & Preparing for the Fire Horse

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0:00.0	The ego oscillates between one of two sides, either superiority, and that's what we think of as someone who's really equitistical or arrogant and not humble.
0:09.6	But then the other side is inferior, and that's the side I have to work on more.
0:14.8	We're getting ready to close out this year and pivot from Wood Snake to fire horse, some traditions believe.
0:21.6	The fire is the original shaman of our planet.
0:27.6	Fire is probably the most ancient thing that brings people together.
0:31.6	Sitting around the fire and communing in that way is probably the most
0:35.6	or one of the most ancient human practices.
0:38.3	When those waves and those energetics and that energy medicine is arriving to you, you should not cut that off.
0:44.3	You should not disconnect or suppress from it.
0:46.3	I really absorbed it in and got it into more embodiment because it's been long in the works to land with it in that way.
0:53.3	It was like a very unique texture of that self-honoring.
1:01.6	Hello, Luke Carlson's story.
1:04.1	Welcome to your show, The Lifestyleist.
1:06.6	Episode 637.
1:09.9	And I wanted to begin by congratulating you quite the momentous occasion after years in total, if you can figure in the proposal and other aspects of your book journey.
1:25.5	After years of working on it, you have officially turned in.
1:30.5	I turned in the first draft of the manuscript. So essentially, you know... Which is like the
1:36.9	tenth draft of the book. Right. Right. For me. And for those new or unaware of the book world, you have essentially, you've gotten your book, quote, unquote, completed in one sense. Yes, it's going to your editor and your publisher and they're going to do edits and you're going to tweak and you have to design the cover and there's lots of steps to go.
2:01.1	However, you've written the book.
2:03.1	Yep, the bulk of it is done.
2:05.0	Oh, my good Lord.
2:06.6	I have never ever worked so hard on something, especially for that long in my entire life.
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