Life Question of the Week, 12.12.25
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Our first Life Question comes from Sabina. Sabina keeps forming meaningful, platonic friendships with men, only to discover they want romance or sex, leaving her feeling blindsided and grieving the friendship. How do you navigate friendships with men when you value connection—but they want more?
Our next Life Question comes from Les, who notices his mind defaults to negative stories—worry, conflict, and worst-case scenarios—and he's tired of living in that mental weather. How can he "take back" his thoughts, slow the spinning, and cultivate a more consistently positive mindset?
Finally, Michael leads a guided meditation with an intention on gratitude and releasing negative thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | Peace and Rich's blessings. I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Dynamic Blessings 2. Dynamic blessings to you and welcome back to take back your mind, life questions of the week. |
| 0:48.3 | Thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:51.1 | Today our first letter comes from Sabina. |
| 0:55.0 | She writes this. |
| 0:56.0 | It seems that most times whenever I form what I believe are genuine friendships with men, |
| 1:03.0 | friendships that I truly value and cherish, and ones in which I'm not looking for anything |
| 1:10.0 | romantic or sexual, |
| 1:11.6 | I end up realizing they've developed romantic feelings for me. |
| 1:15.6 | And even worse, they want to have something sexual with me. |
| 1:20.6 | It always catches me off guard and saddens me. |
| 1:23.6 | And it feels like a huge loss. |
| 1:26.6 | I've grown out of seeking relationships in the way that |
| 1:30.3 | they're usually approached in our society, and right now, genuine friendships are far more important to me. |
| 1:36.3 | It feels like many men in my life can't separate friendship from romance. |
| 1:41.3 | And I don't know how to navigate that. |
| 1:47.4 | Sometimes I even think I should avoid friendships with men altogether just to stop this from happening. |
| 1:50.3 | But I don't want to live that way |
| 1:51.8 | and change who I am or how I treat people, especially men. |
| 1:56.6 | What do you suggest I do? |
| 1:58.9 | Thank you. |
| 2:00.5 | Sabina, let's go right to this part of your question. |
| 2:10.3 | Sometimes I think I should avoid friendships with men altogether just to stop this from happening. |
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