Trusting Yourself: The Key to Navigating Relationships and Personal Growth with Mark Groves
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Mark Groves discusses the importance of trusting yourself and the key to navigating relationships and personal growth. Mark shares insights from his own journey, including leaving a secure career, embracing sobriety, and navigating relationship endings with integrity. He also delves into the importance of choosing self-alignment over people-pleasing, distinguishing intuition from trauma, and building self-trust through small commitments.
Key Takeaways:
- Personal growth and transformation through self-awareness
- The distinction between healthy shame and toxic shame
- The impact of sobriety on personal relationships and self-identity
- The importance of living with integrity and aligning with one’s authentic self
- The complexities of love, commitment, and personal responsibility in relationships
- The role of attachment styles in relationship dynamics
- The significance of grief in the process of change and healing
- Building self-trust through small, achievable commitments
- The transformative power of embracing vulnerability and truth in relationships
If you enjoyed this conversation with Mark Groves, check out these other episodes:
How to Make Great Relationships with Dr. Rick Hanson
How to Have Healthier Relationships with Yourself and Others with Jillian Turecki
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| 0:00.0 | there's a better behavior available to you. |
| 0:02.0 | And I think a lot of us are sitting on the knowledge that there's a better behavior |
| 0:05.2 | available to us. |
| 0:06.1 | And I would argue that that is a key to a lot of our suffering. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:19.1 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 0:23.6 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us, |
| 0:30.6 | our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:38.1 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:41.0 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:44.4 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:46.4 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:47.9 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:52.7 | This podcast is about how other people keep |
| 0:55.0 | themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:01.5 | We often think love means holding on, but sometimes real love is letting go, choosing truth |
| 1:08.8 | over clinging, even when it hurts. My guest today, Mark Groves, |
| 1:14.2 | knows this from experience. When faced with a relationship he deeply valued, he chose not to |
| 1:20.6 | abandon himself for the sake of staying. That choice changed his life and his work. In our conversation, |
| 1:27.3 | we explore attachment, |
| 1:29.4 | self-betrayal, and the radical honesty it takes to build relationships that expand |
| 1:34.8 | rather than diminish us. I'm Eric Zimmer, and this is the one you feed. |
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