
Pressing Pause
Sometimes the hard thing is the right thing, and pressing pause right now is both for me. I'm taking some of my own advice. Paying attention to what's true for me. Making the choice that fits the life I'm actually living

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Hard Truths is a podcast about the patterns people avoid looking at in love, relationships, work, identity, decision-making, and personal growth. Through direct, grounded reflections informed by rational emotive behavior coaching, ontological coaching, stoic principles, and lived experience, Aimee Royer explores the beliefs, stories, and choices that keep people stuck, and what becomes possible when we tell the truth more honestly.
Unknown Host hosts Hard Truths: Less fantasy. More truth. Better love., a society show with 20 episodes published.

Sometimes the hard thing is the right thing, and pressing pause right now is both for me. I'm taking some of my own advice. Paying attention to what's true for me. Making the choice that fits the life I'm actually living

Relationships can continue for years while the people inside them quietly operate from different assumptions about commitment, closeness, sex, money, responsibilities, boundaries, the future, or even how satisfied they a

What you repeatedly watch, scroll through, listen to, and discuss does more than fill your time. It can shape what feels normal, likely, threatening, and true. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores how algorithm

In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores how people can postpone joy, meaningful experiences, important decisions, and a deeper relationship with their own lives while waiting for romantic love to arrive. She disti

Sometimes you’re not holding on because the relationship is deeply fulfilling. You’re holding on because having someone feels safer than being alone. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores the difference between

What does it mean to treat yourself like someone worth protecting? In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores overgiving, misplaced empathy, self-abandonment, and the difference between caring for someone and becomin

What does it mean to treat yourself like someone worth protecting? In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores overgiving, misplaced empathy, self-abandonment, and the difference between caring for someone and becomin

Being open to love isn’t the problem. But sometimes what people call openness is actually overavailability, weak boundaries, and self-abandonment dressed up as flexibility. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores

Being open to love isn’t the problem. But sometimes what people call openness is actually overavailability, weak boundaries, and self-abandonment dressed up as flexibility. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores

If romantic love becomes too central, it can start carrying your identity, mood, self-worth, and sense of meaning. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores how to recognize when romance has become your center, why

If romantic love becomes too central, it can start carrying your identity, mood, self-worth, and sense of meaning. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores how to recognize when romance has become your center, why

Starting over after a relationship ends can feel painful, lonely, and terrifying, but it's not the end of you. In this final episode of the Love, Loneliness, and Self-Deception series, Aimee explores how people turn reje

In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores why trying to figure someone out can keep you stuck long after a relationship has ended. She breaks down the difference between reflection and rumination, closure and explan

You don’t need a courtroom case to choose differently. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee Royer explores why people often wait for a relationship to become “bad enough” before trusting what they already know. This epi

Hope can be beautiful, but it becomes dangerous when it keeps you loyal to potential, promises, and imagined future change while the actual pattern remains the same. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores how hop

In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores why staying is also a choice and why staying consciously is different from staying in denial. This episode looks at comfort, self-abandonment, repair versus repetition, and

In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores why standards you don't enforce often become preferences. She breaks down the difference between requests and boundaries, pacification and repair, and communication and foll

Relationship pressure can lead people to interpret settling, rushing, staying too long, or ignoring reality as reasonable. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores how fear of running out of time, comparison, old c

Sometimes your body is picking up on something your story is trying to explain away. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores why people misread anxiety, activation, and relief in relationships, and how to treat bo

Chemistry can feel powerful, exciting, and deeply meaningful, but it's not the same thing as character. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores why attraction and intensity are so often mistaken for evidence of ho
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