Teal Swan
Teal Swan
A podcast for everyone who wants to get inspired towards authenticity, freedom and joy. Featuring the "AskTeal" episodes, meditations and inspiration by author and public speaker Teal Swan.
A podcast for everyone who wants to get inspired towards authenticity, freedom and joy. Featuring the "AskTeal" episodes, meditations and inspiration by author and public speaker Teal Swan.
How To Express Love Through Physical Touch
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Physical touch is potentially the most obvious way that people express love to one another. Of course, cultural and individual attitudes about physical touch vary so much around the world, it is nothing short of shocking. And most people could still learn a thing or two about showing love through physical affection.
It’s time for another relationship pattern to be revealed. I’ve been seeing this one a lot more lately, especially in individuals that belong to the millennial and even more so the gen Z generations. I’ve nicknamed this one the URS pattern. The Unconditional Relationship Security Pattern. So, let’s dive in.
So many men do not see the difference between a boy mentality and a man mentality. So, in today’s video, we are going to focus on one chapter of this critical difference in mentality. A boy’s vs. a man’s overall approach to things.
One of the ways that people receive and express love the world over is through acts of service. And some people especially feel loved when the people in their lives put energy towards them in this way. For this reason, there are some important things to know about this way of expressing love.
Staying in your comfort zone might feel safe, but it could be the "Big Fish in a Small Pond" pattern - a form of self-sabotage driven by the fear of insecurity. When we can't tolerate feeling inadequate or challenged, we limit ourselves to smaller environments where we stay at the top without having to grow. In this video, discover how this pattern ruins your potential and relationships, and learn how leaning into your insecurities helps you break free and step into the open ocean.
In this video, Teal explores why real healing requires us to face suppressed pain, dismantle toxic survival mechanisms, and navigate the discomfort of deep transformation. Whether it’s an awakening nerve causing intense burning after an injury, or processing long-buried trauma that disrupts your current life, temporary pain is often proof that your system is finally coming back to life. Learn why feeling worse isn't a sign that you're failing, but a signal that real, lasting change is underway.
We’ve been taught that blame is toxic, but outlawing it entirely is actually a form of emotional bypassing. Real healing and relationship resolution require us to identify causation - the root cause of what went wrong - so we can build true accountability.In this video, Teal Swan breaks down why blame became a "dirty word," the dangerous trap of skipping this crucial step, and how to separate healthy accountability from shame and judgment.
Being “in the now” can pull a person out of trauma because it can pull a person out of painful past scenarios as well as fearful future scenarios, anchoring them into the reality that nothing bad is happening right now; which pulls the nervous system out of what people are calling fight or flight mode. But a little-known reality is that some people will struggle with being in the now because being in the now in and of itself triggers a trauma response.
Birthdays hold both meaning and power. They are a profound spiritual event. Today, I am going to share with you this little-known aspect of birthdays.
Let’s start this discussion with two truths.👉 The first truth is: Just because someone is functional, doesn’t mean that they are using healthy strategies to be functional. 👉 The second truth is: Many people remain functional despite being really bad off. Even potentially worse off than other people who become nonfunctional.
Words have power. One of the powers they have is the power to make someone feel loved. Words of Affirmation is one of the ways that human beings express and receive love. And certain individuals feel especially loved when they are given words of affirmation. So, let’s look at words of affirmation in depth and learn how to express love through words.
What if money is actually the scapegoat? And what if by scapegoating money, we are preventing our own financial wellbeing as well as our own awakening?
When the lack of money is causing you pain, starting to relate to money itself as the problem or the villain will pull you out of reality and it will cause you to resist the very thing you need more of.
For a whole host of reasons, you could make a general statement that it is far better for a parent to want a child than it is for a parent to feel saddled with a child that they do not want. But it is a mistake to think that if a parent desperately wants a child, they are going to be a good parent to the child they have. In fact, because of a little-known shadow, it can be a disaster when a parent really wants a child.
Allow me today to share with you an analogy that you should never forget. An analogy for how healing really works.
Since the 2006 release of the film and book The Secret, followed by the 2020 pandemic social media manifestation craze, manifestation has become a mainstream concept. There are so many people teaching about manifestation, so many people talking about it. So many people posting about their manifestation journeys online. But there is something really important that nobody is talking about when it comes to manifestation. A tiny little detail that isn’t tiny at all. This little detail is what we will be talking about today.
How can it be true that this is a consensus reality, where everyone has free will, at the same time as it is a mirror-based construct, where everything that you experience externally is just a reflection of something within you? In this video, Teal explores this seeming juxtaposition.
A personal creed is like a North Star or a compass that dictates how you show up in the world. And most people don’t know it, but it can be one of the most powerful and effective, yet simple life hacks that exist. This can be a profound spiritual practice and/or an impactful personal development exercise.
With ever increasing intensity, people who have been coming to me with relationship problems, have been apathetic to doing the very things that would improve the relationship. And a pattern is emerging. The pattern of effort itself being a trigger. And so, let’s take a look at this specific trigger as well as what to do about it.
Believe it or not, it is possible to feel negative about positive. If you or someone you know, is one of those people who has positivity trauma, it can feel like you or they are up against a wall regarding what to do about it. Which is why, I am going to explain how to heal positivity trauma.
What is the difference between pain and suffering? This is one of the most common questions Teal Swan has been asked since the very beginning of her career. Watch to find out.
At face value, positivity is a good thing. Not so fast. Some of you were traumatized specifically by positivity. And as a result, you subconsciously boycott positivity. Watch to find out more.
Quality time is a way that people express and receive love the world over. It is the love language that is perhaps the most unanimously spoken. So let’s look at quality time in depth and learn how to express love through quality time.
You may find yourself asking, what’s in a name? Names matter and they matter in so many ways. Watch this episode to find out why.
Why is it that so many spiritual teachers and therapists take you in the direction of hyper independence, hyper responsibility and hyper individualism? Watch to find out.
This is going to be a bit of a mind twister. But let’s look at a blind spot that most people have when it comes to prioritization.
There is not one single reason why so many people in the younger generations are not having children. Rather, there is a list of reasons. Watch to find out what they are.
It may surprise you to hear that consciously playing out the outcome that you fear (the worst-case scenario) is a very important tool to have in your tool box. It’s time to learn about fear visioning.
At some point in your life, you will run into a situation where you need someone to change and that someone won’t change. Here is What To Do When Someone Won’t Change.
This truth is: This universe does not operate according to deserving. Watch this video to find out why.
In this episode, Teal Swan is going to give you a hack for conflict. One that will help you to avoid conflict in the first place as well as help you to resolve conflict if it occurs.
We live in a society that is completely fixated on romantic partnership. But today, it’s time to recognize the impact of a friendship falling apart and ending. A “friendship breakup”.
What your financial issues don't have anything to do with finances or money? What if instead, it had to do with your relationship to the thing that you want?
This concept of 100% responsibility is very, very popular now. The thing is, it is a problematic philosophy. Let’s unpack why as well as what to do instead.
Family is one of these words that we assume means the same thing to all people, but that actually means different things to different people. Watch this episode to find out why.
Are you someone with a lot of empathy and compassion? If so, you might just have a blind spot, one that will leave you totally bewildered in relationships and in human society at large.
Humor can be a very powerful medicine. So today, Teal Swan is going to share an exercise with you that makes use of the medicine of humor.
Have you been feeling lately like your life is dragging you into situations that cause you shame? Are you grappling with difficult and painful experiences? If so, there is actually a reason for this. Watch to find out more.
There are time periods throughout history when humanity collectively loses its mind. We are currently in one such time period. And a big element of this specific epidemic is: Independence Sickness. Watch this episode to find out what this means.
Most people get that big moments matter in a relationship. But something most people don’t get is that a good or bad relationship is built and defined by all the micro moments. In this video, Teal Swan explains exactly why.
He doesn’t commit. He is not accountable, doesn’t hold himself to standards and blames others for what he does. He treats partners like parental figures. He holds onto dreams, often unrealistic ones while putting minimal effort into achieving them. He doesn’t manage money well.And a lot of people want to know why. This is an episode on why there are so many Peter Pan men in the world today.
We live in the dark ages when it comes to emotion. We have been taught to do things like suppress, deny, ignore, numb out to and bulldoze through our emotion. So, it isn’t a surprise that most people have no idea what is going on with themselves emotionally. Here is an exercise which will help with this.
What Teal Swan is going to offer you today is a revelation regarding thoughts, one that has the capacity to transform your life experience completely.
Today, let’s look at how your belief in your own unworthiness can serve as a self-preservation strategy, especially a strategy to preserve your relationships. And then, let’s look at how knowing this, can actually make you believe you are worthy.
Teal Swan shares her annual predictions. What does 2026 have in store for all of us?
If it is abundance that you want and if you care about financial success, the lottery is a terrible approach. Let’s look at the reasons why wanting to win the lottery is an idea that is better to let go of.
In this video, Teal Swan challenges the popular spiritual belief that every person contains both masculine and feminine energies and that true health lies in perfectly balancing them.
At face value, it’s really hard to believe that when you have something that you really, really need and really, really want, the very thing that may be getting in the way of you getting what you want, is you. It seems totally counter intuitive. But the reality is that we all have ways that we prevent ourselves from getting the very thing that we want. In this episode, Teal reveals The #1 Way That People Get In The Way Of What They Truly Want.
If you have beliefs that are oppositional to abundance, you will behave in ways that are oppositional to abundance. And so, it is really important to identify and change these beliefs. In today’s episode, Teal Swan going to teach you how to do exactly this.
Have you noticed that it feels like we are all in a giant pressure cooker? That the discomfort, maybe even pain and pressure is going up and up and up and up? And the relief never seems to come? You may have found yourself wondering what the hell is happening. Well, there is actually a reason this is happening. And knowing that reason, may just help you to find your way out of the pressure cooker.