Self-Love Is A Mouthful
The R Spot with Iyanla
Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this empowering first episode of The R Spot Iyanla talks to Ms. E., a breast cancer survivor struggling with body image post mastectomy. Worried about how a new suitor may react to her altered body, Ms. E.’s love life has been non-existent since her life saving surgery. Iyanla gives Ms. E. her voice back and invites her to get under the story she’s telling herself about her experience. Ms. E.’s courage inspires Iyanla to share her own personal journey and how she fell in love with herself.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The R Spot is a production of Shandler, your host for what I intend to be an exciting, formative, and transformative |
| 0:27.4 | journey through the world of relationships. |
| 0:30.9 | This is the place where we will examine, explore, dissect, and investigate issues related to relationships, all types of relationships. |
| 0:42.0 | I want to begin by voicing my gratitude to Shandaland |
| 0:45.5 | and I-Heart Media for providing me, providing us with this platform to explore and discuss what I believe is one of the most pressing issues |
| 0:56.7 | in the world today. The issues that arise from and surround relationships. Now my vision for offering the our spot is to |
| 1:06.7 | support and facilitate discussions and conversations in which we all learn and develop the skills and tools required to make |
| 1:16.5 | our relationships work and you are going to be able to call me and talk to me live. |
| 1:22.0 | I'll be taking live listener calls and sharing the real raw |
| 1:26.8 | experiences with you each week. And I want you to understand a few things about me. |
| 1:32.4 | I was a hopeless love a holic. I loved being in love, but just could not get my love to work or pay off in my relationships. |
| 1:44.6 | Then after a series of heartbreaks and deep heartache, |
| 1:49.2 | I finally got clear about what love is and what it is not. That's when I learned how to love me |
| 1:57.0 | more than I was willing to chase after other people's loves and that's when my |
| 2:02.2 | relationships became healthy for feeling fun and |
| 2:05.9 | loving. I want to share some of that. Some of what I've learned about loveahalism. |
| 2:15.2 | Just in case there are any loverholics out there who may need some recovery skills and tools |
| 2:21.2 | because relationships are an essential part of our lives. |
| 2:26.0 | Relationships are the places we grow, the places we experience love, yet for some reason, surely it escapes me. Making relationships work |
| 2:38.3 | productively, making them fulfilling, and making relationships meaningful is something that many of us struggle with. |
| 2:46.7 | We simply don't have the tools and I believe many of us have the wrong idea about what a relationship is, what they do, and why they even exist. |
| 2:58.5 | We don't always realize that relationships are relationships are and the purposes they serve, we look for the wrong things in the wrong ways and make an absolute mess of our relationships. |
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