Love Anarchy
Are you the person who knows there is more to dating, relationships and love than what is shared in the mainstream? This podcast is for people who want to delve deeper into love and relationships outside of the day to day cultural norms. Love Anarchy is for the person who is curious about the spiritual, sexual, and controversial topics that influence our perspective of how relationships and love unfold themselves in our lives. Andrea Atherton is a relationship coach, therapist and intuitive who is passionate about human connection and the authentic love experience. This weekly podcast will have guests who are experts or have personal experience in topics that will help you explore, challenge and deepen your understanding of love. Join the relationship rebellion.
Love Anarchy
Ep 236: The Cost of Control: Whole-Person Healing in an Overdriven World
Episode 236 welcomes listeners into a rich, integrative dialogue with host Andrea Atherton and Chinese medicine practitioner Keith Coley, as they explore the Eastern whole-person view of healing in contrast to the Western fixation on control and symptom management. Together, they examine how the urge to “make things happen” often bypasses the deeper intelligence of the body, leading to temporary relief rather than lasting transformation. This conversation invites a return to balance—one that honors timing, receptivity, and the body’s innate capacity to restore itself when truly listened to.
Andrea and Keith expand the discussion into the often-overlooked realm of yin energy, emotional stuckness, and somatic awareness. They explore how removing physical or emotional pain without addressing its source allows the pattern to re-emerge, often louder and more disruptive than before. Through the lens of Chinese medicine and somatic understanding, emotional stagnation is reframed as stored energy seeking movement and expression. Listeners are guided to consider how pain, tension, and recurring emotional patterns act as messages, pathways into deeper self-awareness rather than problems to be eliminated.
The episode concludes with a powerful exploration of sensitivity and strength. Rather than hardening or numbing in response to overwhelm, Keith and Andrea discuss how to remain open and sensitive while cultivating protective energetic power. This includes learning to work with body energy, recognizing somatic signals, and developing boundaries that are embodied rather than defensive. The result is a grounded, resilient presence, one that allows compassion, intuition, and vitality to coexist with discernment and self-protection.
Keith Coley
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