From Sad Pick Me Girl to Alchemist
Jul 23, 2026 · 23 min · 12 segments
If you had told me a few months ago that I'd choose celibacy, I never would've believed you. In this episode, we explore why casual sex can leave us feeling emptier than we expected, the hidden cost…
I was just very sexually driven.
I've always been sexually driven.
I've started, when I reflect back on my previous relationships, most have started with physical and then have turned into something else.
And I mean, not always, of course, right? Sometimes jumping to the physical part.
really just doesn't allow you to build a steady foundation and a partnership.
And I'll get into that later.
But ultimately, the reason that I bring this up, because it really is an energy exchange.
And I think that we have lost that in today's society.
We view it as a hobby.
We view it as a way that something that feels good, almost like a quick fix, like a drug.
And so many of us are operating that way.
We're just looking for that fun.
And sure, it can be fun.
It's exciting.
With someone new, great.
Especially someone you find attractive, there's an adrenaline rush.
There's all these things that happens that just really make it so that it's addictive.
It becomes addictive.
And if you see, we have so many people running around just hooking up, and that's where we created Hookup Culture.
And we think, oh, as long as there's no emotions involved, it's harmless, right? Wrong.
If you believe in energy exchange, that is the ultimate form of energy exchange.
And so if you are sleeping with someone who's depressed, who's anxious, who's carrying the weight of so many different emotions that you're not even aware of, guess who's going to absorb that when they're intimate with them? You.
So then you're carrying all this energy and you're sleeping around with all these people and your body is just holding all of it.
Not only just your energy, but now you have these other people's energies that are unprocessed and you're just like, why do I feel like shit? case in point, you're sleeping around.
And I didn't want to hear this.
I was just very sexually driven.
I've always been sexually driven.
I've started, when I reflect back on my previous relationships, most have started with physical and then have turned into something else.
And I mean, not always, of course, right? Sometimes jumping to the physical part.
really just doesn't allow you to build a steady foundation and a partnership.
And I'll get into that later.
But ultimately, the reason that I bring this up, because it really is an energy exchange.
And I think that we have lost that in today's society.
We view it as a hobby.
We view it as a way that something that feels good, almost like a quick fix, like a drug.
And so many of us are operating that way.
We're just looking for that fun.
And sure, it can be fun.
It's exciting.
With someone new, great.
Especially someone you find attractive, there's an adrenaline rush.
There's all these things that happens that just really make it so that it's addictive.
It becomes addictive.
And if you see, we have so many people running around just hooking up, and that's where we created Hookup Culture.
And we think, oh, as long as there's no emotions involved, it's harmless, right? Wrong.
If you believe in energy exchange, that is the ultimate form of energy exchange.
And so if you are sleeping with someone who's depressed, who's anxious, who's carrying the weight of so many different emotions that you're not even aware of, guess who's going to absorb that when they're intimate with them? You.
So then you're carrying all this energy and you're sleeping around with all these people and your body is just holding all of it.
Not only just your energy, but now you have these other people's energies that are unprocessed and you're just like, why do I feel like shit? case in point, you're sleeping around.
And I didn't want to hear this.
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