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.
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
Dec 7, 2025
Dec 7, 2025
12 min
This episode explores how meaningful progress takes time but can be undone in an instant by impatience and self-sabotage.It examines habits and fears that secretly destroy our efforts and offers a clear call to recognize and address those patterns so you can move forward and protect what you've built.
Dec 7, 2025
12 min
Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025
15 min
This episode examines why people avoid suffering and how trying to eliminate pain by hardening ourselves can create new problems. It advocates for balance, being strong when needed and soft when appropriate.
Instead of controlling outcomes, the host urges living in the present, accepting uncertainty, taking risks without attachment, and trusting that you can endure and thrive no matter what happens.
Nov 23, 2025
15 min
Nov 16, 2025
The Empaths Paradox
Nov 16, 2025
Nov 16, 2025
16 min
This episode explores whether our feelings truly belong to us or are often inherited from others, especially for empaths. The host discusses mirroring, social anxiety, and how external emotions shape our identity.By recognizing how we pick up and return emotions, the episode shows how awareness and small changes can transform your life and help you reclaim who you are.
Nov 16, 2025
16 min
Nov 9, 2025
How to Separate Identity from Emotion
Nov 9, 2025
Nov 9, 2025
16 min
This episode explores where feelings come from, how they differ from identity, and why emotions are not absolute truth but valid signals about our experience.It examines how perspectives, empathy, and past stories shape emotions, and why empaths may struggle to separate their own feelings from others'.Ultimately it offers a reminder that feelings are temporary and you can choose who you are by changing the narrative and how you respond.
Nov 9, 2025
16 min
Nov 2, 2025
Acceptance: An Antidote To Anger
Nov 2, 2025
Nov 2, 2025
16 min
This episode explores what true acceptance really means, not merely acknowledging trauma but fully integrating it into who you are so it no longer controls you.
It examines how anger can consume life, the difficult work of forgiveness and processing, and offers encouragement to make space, grieve, and grow toward freedom.
Nov 2, 2025
16 min
Oct 26, 2025
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Of The Ego
Oct 26, 2025
Oct 26, 2025
16 min
This episode explores how the Dunning-Kruger effect and self-deception lead us to overestimate abilities and build fragile identities. It explains why projecting an idealized self creates anxiety, depression, and a fear of being exposed.The host argues that real confidence comes from honesty and alignment between who you are and how you act, not from maintaining flattering illusions. Authentic change requires deep introspection, time, and the willingness to lose what was built on inauthenticity.Ultimately, the episode calls listeners to take personal responsibility for their inner work: face your truth, become more authentic, and accept the difficult but necessary process of real growth.
Oct 26, 2025
16 min
Oct 19, 2025
Oct 19, 2025
19 min
This episode explores why change is hard and how treating symptoms never solves the real issue. It explains the need to bring buried fears, shame, and habits into awareness, confront your inner 'monster', and accept all parts of yourself.Through honest self-inquiry and difficult choices you can replace harmful patterns with supportive habits and relationships, building a foundation for lasting change and true healing.
Oct 19, 2025
19 min
Oct 14, 2025
Suicidal thoughts: The Desire for Rebirth
Oct 14, 2025
Oct 14, 2025
18 min
This episode explores how severe depression and suicidal thoughts often come from a longing for spiritual or ego death rather than a wish to end life. It explains how rigid identities, shame, and unprocessed trauma can trap people and make suffering feel permanent.The host argues that simply telling someone "don't kill yourself" is not enough and offers a path forward: face the darker parts of yourself, understand and forgive the past, let go of fixed identities, and allow change to create space for healing and renewal.
Oct 14, 2025
18 min
Oct 5, 2025
Risk Nothing, Risk Everything
Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025
14 min
This episode uses the coin-toss scene from No Country For Old Men to explore how every day we unconsciously stake everything on our choices and how fear of loss can lead to a lifeless comfort.It argues for intentional, present living: accept risk, be fully engaged in your actions, experiment to find what matters, and choose meaningful experiences over passive safety.
Oct 5, 2025
14 min
Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025
22 min
Do you believe that magic is real? Do you believe that God is real? Do you believe that numerology is real? Whether you believe all of those things or none of those things, what you decide your belief is, is what will dictate what you perceive.Target fixation is a term used to describe when you focus on a certain point and it draws you closer towards it. If you focus on the negative, you will perceive the negative; if you focus on the positive, you will perceive the positive. Your beliefs control and impact your perception, creating momentum that compounds over time.Changing your perception starts by eliminating negative input, practicing radical honesty, and stepping away from self-deception. By shifting your focus and being open to evidence, you can transform your life and start seeing the signs that lead you toward growth, meaning, and connection.
Sep 28, 2025
22 min









