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LOVERS by shan

S2 Ep139: How Inner Child Work Can Save Your (love) Life featuring Lilly Singh

LOVERS by shan

LOVERS by shan

Sexuality, Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness

55.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

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This week, I interview Lilly Singh, actor and history-making content creator, with a new movie RIGHT up our alley: Doin’ It (yes it’s a movie about sex, specifically what happens when a South Asian virgin is assigned to teach sex ed). In this episode Lilly opens up about growing up in a world where emotional chaos felt familiar, why she kept gravitating toward toxic partners who gave her the bare minimum, and how she’s now doing the inner work (therapy, inner child healing, setting boundaries) to protect “little Lilly.”

In this conversation, we explore how past wounds shaped her romantic choices, and how she’s rewriting that story one day at a time.

🎬 About Doin’ It

You can catch “Doin’ It” in select theaters or pre-order the film on Apple, Amazon, and Fandango to watch it at home as of October 7.

For more information visit doinitmovie.com 


🔗 Follow Lilly Singh
 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilly
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Lilly
Grab her bestselling book Be a Trianglehttps://www.lillysinghbook.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We're in the laundry room that connects to the garage.

0:02.0

Seeing the younger version of myself be taught to not rely on people,

0:06.0

and she's taught that people will walk away, and I'm stuck in that room.

0:10.0

I'm just going to what's familiar.

0:12.0

Absolutely.

0:13.0

Even if it's poisonous.

0:14.0

So I'm on the dating apps, you know, messaging multiple girls,

0:17.0

and I was devastated to find that I was doing the same thing again.

0:21.6

And so I've had to really reconcile with the fact that my body and nervous system is wired for chaos.

0:27.6

And it's wired to believe that feeling unsafe means love and anything else is not real.

0:33.6

Love was very conditional growing up.

0:35.6

That's why it feels more real to earn someone's love that doesn't want to give it to me,

0:39.3

because I'm just so used to doing that.

0:41.3

So you have this movie that came out, has sex improved since you made this movie?

0:45.3

I don't think I ever...

0:49.3

Hi there, lovers.

0:50.3

This episode is really about the brave and bold decision to resist the pull of the familiar.

0:56.8

Even if the familiar is painful to us, even if the familiar has led us to trauma in the past,

1:03.4

it is still something that can be incredibly tempting. And think of it this way. Whenever you're

1:09.5

having a down day and you really just want a

1:12.0

little pick me up, you want to feel better, you want to feel safe, we go to our comfort foods.

1:16.8

And honestly, how many of us have kale on the top of our list of comfort foods?

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