The Dance Between Fantasy and Reality in Relationships

CONGRATULATIONS, YOUR IDENTITY IS DYING
(AND THAT'S THE SEXIEST THING ABOUT YOU)

Your carefully constructed self is having an existential striptease, and honey, it's time to stop pretending you're not turned on by the show.

Meet James, found writhing in creative ecstasy at an underground party where the music industry's ghosts were having an orgy with tomorrow's sound. He'll teach you how to die to yourself nightly and wake up wearing whatever identity feels dangerous enough to be true.

Get ready for:
- The art of letting your old self commit suicide while your new self watches and takes notes
- Why your relationship is actually three people: who you were, who you are, and who you're becoming (and they're all sleeping with different people)
- How depression isn't your enemy – it's just existence giving you a cosmic lap dance
- The raw truth about why your partner can't evolve with you (and why that's tragically beautiful)

WARNING: Side effects may include:
- Sudden urges to destroy your current identity
- Uncomfortable levels of authentic self-expression
- The ability to find beauty in your own destruction
- Spontaneous outbreaks of philosophical arousal
- The death of your social media persona

This isn't another episode about "finding yourself." This is about losing yourself so completely that existence has no choice but to give you something better.

From performance art to profound isolation, we're teaching you to dance between reality and fantasy until you can't tell which one's leading.

Stop trying to fix your life. Start treating it like the avant-garde theater piece it is.

Available now wherever you get your permission to exist differently.

Remember: Your identity isn't having a crisis – it's having an awakening. And like all good deaths, it's just foreplay for what comes next.

Trust me. I've died to myself so many times, I've got frequent flyer miles in the afterlife.

Welcome to the space between who you were and who you're becoming.

P.S. If this episode doesn't make you question everything, you're not listening hard enough.

Plus! Not one, but two pop-ins from Helena the Brit.

And all the lessons in love, leadership, lechery, and letting go you've come to expect from The Only Good Podcast™!

Emerson Dameron's Medicated Minutes is LA's number-one avant-garde personal development program. New episodes premiere on KCHUNG Los Angeles on the first Wednesday of the month.

The writer, producer, host, and witty and wounded romantic hero is Emerson Dameron, who is wholly responsible for its content.

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