Words With Myself
Words With Myself is a solo podcast of quiet confrontation and honest exploration. Each episode is a spoken journal — unscripted, unfiltered, and unafraid to sit in the silence between thoughts. Host Luke Rixson doesn’t offer advice. He reflects aloud. Through themes like identity, ego, fear, stillness, and purpose, he invites listeners to eavesdrop on the kind of conversations most people only have with themselves. This is not self-help. It’s self-inquiry. A space to slow down, question deeply, and feel fully — not to fix yourself, but to meet yourself.
Episodes
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
The Experience Experiment
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
In Spanish, the verb "experimentar" can mean both to experience and to experiment. I like to think this is a somewhat deliberate decision to symbolize that to experience ( that is, to live ) is to experiment, to try things out. As we get older, our freedom and willingness to experiment often drastically changes and we no longer feel safe or able to experiment. We believe that we should get things right and know better, robbing ourselves of the ability to learn. As soon as you stop experimenting, as soon as you stop willing to be wrong, you prevent yourself from being able to learn.
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Memento Mori
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Remember you will die. I have recently been sitting with my own impermanence, truly contemplating what it means to me to die one day. With that I realized a fundamental truth of existence, it has no meaning. Not in a nihilistic sense, but in that it has no intrinsic value only the value you assign it. You create the parameters of your own existence. Despite what society, family, or anyone else may tell you, this experience is yours to live under whatever meaning you wish to assign it. Life is not serious, it is but a temporary game you are choosing to play.
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Honour the Child
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
First of all, sorry for the wind on this one. I tried to remove the background noise but ended up doing more harm than good so I left it in, it only covers a small portion of the audio and it adds some ambiance anyway haha. Do you remember that vulnerable child you once were? Do you remember when it first learned it wasn't safe to be itself? That child still exists within you and without appropriate care and attention, the child will manifest itself in many ways you wish it wouldn't if you don't take care of it.
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Stay True to You
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sunday Jun 05, 2022
Sometimes it can be hard to stay true to what we believe, desire and feel. Sometimes we may find ourselves always trying to please other people and it is a form of deception born out of a necessity to be liked paired with the belief that our true self is not good enough. When you create an identity based off of lies in order to receive love/validation, you will always carry the weight of feeling like nobody loves the true you and feel like you have to hide it from everyone. The more authentic you can be, the more honest you can be with yourself, the more loved you will truly feel.
Sunday May 29, 2022
Find Nothing To Do
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
In the modern world, the internet, social media, entertainment is more prominent in our lives than ever. It can seem like from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep we are occupied with something, even meditation is something we schedule to do. Many of us hate to be bored, but boredom can fuel and inspire your next best project, mission or purpose .
Sunday May 22, 2022
Put Theory into Practice
Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
There is only so much studying/questioning/thinking/meditating you can do before you eventually have to work on integrating the lessons learned and put them into practice. This is the stage I find myself in currently. As Spring is in it's height, a time for new life, new patterns and new modes of being presents itself, I am finding myself very much in tune with the seasons at this moment and am spending a lot of my time and energy integrating and apply the lessons learned from my long winter solitude.
Sunday May 08, 2022
Anything but Everything
Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 2022
You can have anything you want, but not everything. Many things we desire come at the cost of a great sacrifice. Some of those sacrifices conflict meaning you must choose the path which you most want to walk. That is not to say that you can't be blessed in many ways, but rather, you must be blessed within the rules that govern our game.
Sunday May 01, 2022
Parental Guidance
Sunday May 01, 2022
Sunday May 01, 2022
We have probably all heard the expression "Treat others as you want to be treated" but what about the opposite? Do you treat yourself as good as you treat others? For me, I always have a tenancy to put others first, to prioritize others needs over my own and say things to myself that I wouldn't dream of saying to others. We have to change this narrative and be our own advocate, giving ourselves what we so frequently give others and treating ourselves with love and respect instead.
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Integration Backlog
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sunday Apr 24, 2022
Sometimes we are looking for answers but we have the answer in front of us, we just don't want to hear it. Maybe it's a change we don't want to make, something we don't want to sacrifice or a trauma that we think is too painful to face. Whatever it is, searching for things to work on as a distraction from the real issue is not going to work in your favor, if anything, it will only mean that you have more problems to deal with and less energy. No matter how terrifying it may be, the ramifications of not working on the thing you know you should be working on will be much worse in the long run.
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Listen on Mute
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Recently, I have come in to contact with people that are really good listeners and they made me realise that I have a lot of improvement to make on how I listen to people. My tendency to try and solve problems as soon as they arrive can mean I am more focused on looking for a solution than listening when someone is telling me their problems. Silence is golden and sometimes it is only in the absence of a response will people really tell you what they need to say.