How to Make Dating Feel Like Self-Care & Manifest a Partner IRL

Want to know how to build more joy into your life while increasing your chances of meeting a partner IRL? Today’s guest, podcast host of @datebrazen & dating coach Lily Womble, has your answers. Lily “helps women transform their dating lives from a soul-suck, to an act of self-care, attracting extraordinary relationships along the way.” Sounds like the ideal way to date, no? We chat with her about the internal work we need to do before we start dating, adding more joy, self-love and compassion into our lives, how dating apps can be harmful to the nervous system, where to put your energy when it comes to dating, and what it looks like to date with intention. If you’re in a committed relationship and want to know how to support your single girl friends in their dating journey, she has some great advice for you too. Lily shares so many tangible dating tips that we know will transform your dating experience in the best way!

“Give yourself permission to want the expansiveness of what you want.” - Lily Womble

What we talk about:

  • Raeann’s friends’ wedding recap

  • Kristina’s trip in Santa Fe, New Mexico

  • Balancing craving routine & having a desire to travel

  • What women should ask themselves to determine what they actually want in a partner

  • How to identify how you want to feel in a relationship

  • Cultivating an abundance mindset in qualities you want in a partner

  • Getting to the root of why you want what you want

  • Processing your own emotions and doing the internal work

  • Embracing what you love in want in all types of relationships

  • Reframing rejection

  • What’s a “confirmation text” and when should you use it?

  • The trap of dating apps

  • How to create opportunities to meet a partner in person

  • Ask Away: how to be in alignment with your own desires without feeling influenced by different friends with different interests

“Do what makes you happy and brings you the most joy because that's what you’re going to be doing with the person who comes along.” - Raeann

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