E30 - Blu of Earth: Lessons Through Love & Conscious Uncoupling - A Chat With My Ex
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
After 2.5 years of being in relationship with each other, Blu and André share why they ended things and what they learned. They dive deep into how to create the foundations for a healthy partnership with love, respect, and play. They explain some of the challenges they faced together, and how they moved through conflict with grace.
They also share how they individually processed their breakup, and what the pain taught them. On the other side of grieving their relationship, they have remained close, despite new loves coming into their lives. Reminding us that true love lasts forever.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
4:54 Why We Stayed Friends
10:55 Conflict in our relationship
24:42 Processing Difficult Emotions in Partnership
33:52 Facing Jealousy
47:07 True Love Lasts Forever
51:26 What We Learned
55:04 Why We Broke Up
1:08:20 Grieving Our Break Up
1:23:14 Dating Other People
1:33:05 Our Key Takeaways
1:38:25 Answering Your Questions
1:44:47 Conclusion
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Blu:
Blu is a motivational speaker, artist, musician, podcast host and co-founder of Florescence – a modern mystery school for women. She has dedicated the past decade to her understanding of the medicinal nature of the plant kingdom as well as the archetypal nature of the collective unconscious. Blu’s genius is in her ability to connect with the world that lies beyond our 5 senses while keeping her feet firmly planted on the ground so that she can bring us golden truths of beauty, love and unity in a way that is playful and authentic.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluofearth/
Website: https://www.bluofearth.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Bluofearth
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Know Thyself
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| 0:00.0 | I wanted nothing more than to preserve the love that we had between us. |
| 0:04.5 | We were in a stalemate. |
| 0:05.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.0 | It was like stagnant. |
| 0:07.1 | Why was it stagnant? |
| 0:08.2 | Oh. |
| 0:11.4 | That was a really tough time for me. |
| 0:13.8 | I felt really alone. |
| 0:15.5 | And it would have been a miracle for me to, you know, got from the bedroom down to the fridge without breaking down. |
| 0:21.6 | Ultimately, I think one of the biggest points in accepting the separation of a relationship |
| 0:26.6 | is when you begin to see your past partner with somebody else. |
| 0:30.6 | We're still best friends. |
| 0:31.6 | On the other side of two and a half years of being in romantic partnership, |
| 0:35.6 | I celebrate your joy, even if it doesn't involve me. |
| 0:39.2 | These romantic relationships that we cultivate in our life, |
| 0:42.0 | they are some of the biggest catalyst for us to know ourselves. |
| 0:46.4 | And I believe that this relationship with you |
| 0:49.1 | has been one of the greatest teachers in my life up into this point of what true love is. |
| 1:00.9 | Hello, beautiful humans. Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast. Boy, do we have a podcast |
| 1:06.9 | for you today. This conversation is going to be raw, real, vulnerable, all the things. |
| 1:15.1 | I have the pleasure of sitting down with somebody who is a podcaster, a public speaker, |
| 1:21.0 | a medicine woman, somebody who's a profound light in the world, and somebody that I spent |
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