Natasa Zoubouridis and Sarah Riegelhuth In My Truth Podcast Episode - Showing up in relationships and being our authentic selves in relationships.

“I know how to keep a relationship together when I’m playing a role, but when I’m just me… I don’t know anymore.”

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There's incredible personal freedom in truth, yet we spend so much of our lives showing up the way we think we ‘should’. The ways that will make our parents happy, our colleagues respect us, society at large accept us, and of course, the ways that will make us look good on Instagram and social media. 

In My Truth is the antidote to the ‘shoulds’. Be a fly on the wall as my guests and I dive into into the stories and untruths our guests and host Sarah Riegelhuth are living with and working through, in real time. 

Your host of the In My Truth podcast is Sarah Riegelhuth, and as she recently updated my Insta bio to read, she’s not one thing, but many. Professionally, Sarah runs Grow My Team and is one of the co-founders of The League of Extraordinary Women. But personally, she’s a lot more than that.

Last year, Sarah moved through a break down, a break up, and a career change. During this period, she had a strong calling to share what was really going on for her on her blog and social media. This resulted in a lot of people reaching out to have deep conversations, and Sarah started imagining what it could look like if other people could listen in on these conversations, and the healing that would come from that. 

And so, on a pilgrimage from Vancouver to Colorado, this podcast In My Truth was born.

It feels healing and growing for Sarah, healing and growing for our guests, and hopefully healing and growing for you listening.

So, let’s dive in.

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Disclaimer: What we talk about on In My Truth tends to be very raw and can be triggering. Resources for support and help are included at the end of show notes - scroll down for more information.

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Welcome to this episode of In My Truth, where your host (serial entrepreneur and truth seeker) Sarah Riegelhuth is joined by her good friend Natasa Zoubouridis. Sarah and Natasa met in 2019 in Chicago and frequently engage in deep conversations, now they're going public! Be a fly on the wall for this episode where Sarah and Natasa get real about their relationships, and who they are and how they show up in them.

Natasa Zoubouridis is a television producer and owner of a Belgian Malinois named Wendy, and she also wishes she had a Post-It Note with the answer to the question, ‘Who are you and what do you do?’.

Natasa is currently wrangling with her untruth around relationships and dating. It’s something she has been struggling with for a long time without diving deep into: how we show up in our romantic relationships.

“This whole journey that I’ve been on while being single and trying to discover myself and move into a higher way of being, went right out the window.”

In so far as we can control the messaging we put out to the world, we want the messaging to be really us. So, what makes you not show up fully as yourself? And how scary is it when you actually do? Listen in as Sarah and Natasa have a conversation around the untruths they’re wrangling with on the In My Truth podcast.

In this episode, Sarah Riegelhuth and Natasa Zoubouridis explore showing up as our true selves and the fear of rejection of the true self, particularly in relationships. They also dive into their untruths and stories around:

• Me time
• Second-guessing yourself in relationships
• Tempering the way you show up
• The journey of being single
• Discovering more about yourself
• Offensive comedy and sensitivity
• The rejection of your true self vs the rejection of an idea of you
• Actively staying out of committed relationships
• Playing the game of getting the guy
• Going ‘too much, too quick’ in relationships
• Learning to date
• Living up to the images we portray to our significant others
• Personal branding and who we really are
• Being ‘Less Than-ed’
• Where this shows up in other parts of our lives
  
  
• And of course, arse shots on Instagram

“I just want to be myself, because I don’t want to have to live up to some idea of me that they have.”

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Remember you’re not alone, and there is hope, even though it may not feel that way at times. Talk to someone, a friend or family member and let them support you. Reach out to a professional. Do whatever you need to do to start your journey back to feeling good.

Here are some resources I found on Google (because I am not a professional, these are not recommendations, just suggestions with love and empathy from me to you):

Lifeline (Australia): 13-11-14 is a confidential telephone crisis support service available 24/7 from a landline, payphone or mobile.
Beyond Blue (Australia): 1-300-22-4636 OR chat online between 3pm & 12am 7 days a week
No Shame On You (USA): 1-800-273-(TALK) 8255 OR text 741741 for a 24/7 crisis text line (a live, trained crisis counsellor receives the text and responds quickly) OR visit I’m Alive for 24/7 online crisis chat
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (USA): 1-800-273-8255 
Crisis Services (Canada): 1-833-456-4566 OR text 45645 between 4pm and 12am daily

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