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
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Just Do It
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
We place so much pressure on ourselves to be good at things. At some point in our lives we forget how to play and get lost in the serious. I have previously fallen into the trap of treating everything I do like it's work, like I have to do it instead of doing it because I enjoy it. Life is too short to not do the things we love or do them in such a way that means we no longer love them.
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Accept The Unaccepted
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Self-Acceptance is something that most of us make a conscious effort to improve, but how far can you take it. What limits have you imposed on your acceptance physically, mentally and spiritually. We often restrict ourselves and filter who we are to be more palatable to other people but what would your life look like if you could be truly 100 percent authentically you with total confidence. Why does that seem like something outside the realm of possibility? It's not! It may be a long road, but a prerequisite to peace is acceptance.
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Validation Stagnation
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Too many of us are ruled by the opinions of others, we do, say and act in whatever way we feel will be most well received by others. Treating life as a popularity contest rather than carving our own lanes and doing what we love. There has been far too many times in my life that I have let others dictate the way I live my life and it has taken years of work to build the strength of character enough to say no, I will live the way I want to live and do the things I want to do because that is what is best for me. I know my intentions and I know who I am, do you?
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Destroy the bike
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
With each repetition of a pattern we ingrain it into the fibers of our being deeper and deeper, this can be a powerful tool for good but also a huge block too. Habits can serve to aid our development, learning and recovery but they can also trap us in ignorance and malpractice. Just because you have been doing it or not doing it all your life, it doesn't inherently make it the right thing to do, but unfortunately it can be incredibly challenging to get over these things and break the cycle. Just because it causes pain or discomfort though, doesn't mean it is the wrong thing to do and if you are going to hold on to a particular belief so tightly, you should at least understand your reasoning for doing so.
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Do Nothing
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Go with the flow! It is a cliche I know, but one that is far too commonly dismissed. Life has ups and downs but often we find ourselves chasing the ups instead of embracing our downs. Instead of running from what you are feeling, feel it. Allow yourself to feel, without judgment, ridicule or shame. Sometimes something you think is the worst moment of your life can give life to the best moment of it too.
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Blinded by Vision
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sometimes we can be so focused on our goals, dreams and aspirations, look far ahead into the future, that we miss what is right in front of us. Opportunities present themselves all the time if you are open to them, but unfortunately we miss so much of what is intended for us because we are ignoring what is in front for what we think we want.
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Lost In Control
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
We all want to believe that we are in control of our own lives, but often we delude ourselves into believing we are far more in control that we probably are. We are constantly at the whim of unknown variables and random circumstances that give life its beautiful unpredictability, variability and colour. The more we convince ourselves we are in control and the less we are able to surrender to happenstance, the greater levels of anxiety we are likely to experience. Control and an obsession with outcome are the very heart of anxiety.
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Know the Unknown
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
The unknown is something many of us fear, but it is also something we love to use in order to protect ourselves from pain. We leverage it as a coping mechanism in order to avoid confronting the trauma that we have accumulated over our lifetimes, but is it really better not to know? In what ways are the things you are choosing not to confront and interrogate harming you?
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Challenge Accepted
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Before every event that has led to a major shift or progression in my life, I always feel the same thing before hand. Resistance. Doubt, fear and anxiety all creep in and test my mettle, they challenge me to rise up to the occasion and present the opportunity to overcome them. This resistance has become my key indicator for something which I know I need to do, because I only feel that level of resistance towards things I really know that I want or need to do.
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Surrender
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
What will be will be. As someone who is typically goal oriented and hyper-focused on finding solutions and fixing things, the idea of surrender terrifies me. I like to trick myself into believing I have far more control than in reality I really do. Sometimes it is only when we stop fighting, stop resisting and accept what is, that the answers we seek will come to us.