A New Way of Being

Self-Abandonment and Awakening: How to Stop Rejecting Yourself - with Alex & Simon

September 14, 2026·28 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Saying Yes When You Mean No: The Subtle Art of Self-Abandonment.In this conversation, Simon and his wife Alex unpack the subtle but pervasive pattern of self-abandonment—saying yes when you mean no, overriding your body’s signals, and outsourcing your sense of worth to other people’s approval.Simon shares how self-abandonment forms in childhood, how it shows up as people-pleasing, overthinking, and numbing behaviours, and why learning to stay with your feelings is the first step to real change. Alex brings her own lived examples of boundaries, guilt, and the “expansion” that follows when you finally honour what you actually want.They then connect this work directly to spiritual awakening: how stopping the internal battle and saying a loving “yes” to your inner experience opens the door to experiencing oneness, love, and the “frequency of reality” as it really is.👉 THE SHIFT HAPPENS RETREAT WITH SIMON & ALEX (October 3rd in London): https://shift-happens-retreat.subscribepage.io/👉 https://www.simonmundie.com/retreats👉 Client Endorsements: https://www.simonmundie.com/👉 Free Course: https://www.simonmundie.com/courses👉 My Book on Flow: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/champion-thinking-9781526626486/👉 My Substack: https://simonmundie.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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