the parasocial trap
This episode started as a conversation about parasocial relationships. It became something else.A parasocial relationship is one-sided by definition. You invest real emotional energy in someone who doesn't …
Lisa Cosham
Self Awareness Sucks is a podcast about realising things about yourself and being completely unable to un-realise them. Hosted by Lisa Cosham, this is for the overthinkers, the ones who've "done the work" and somehow ended up with more work to do. No experts, no life hacks, no pretending we've figured it out. Just honest, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about growth, identity, and why being self-aware is genuinely exhausting. Thinking out loud. Doing our best. Still very much in it.
This episode started as a conversation about parasocial relationships. It became something else.A parasocial relationship is one-sided by definition. You invest real emotional energy in someone who doesn't know you exist. And most of us are in several of them …
This episode started as a conversation about parasocial relationships. It became something else.A parasocial relationship is one-sided by definition. You invest real emotional energy in someone who doesn't …
In this episode, I pick up a thread I first noticed in episode three and finally understand it properly.For most of my academic life, the times I tried …
In this episode, I finally talk about the thing I said I wasn't ready to talk about in the last one. The fear that lives in romantic situations …
In this episode, I do something I probably should have done sooner. I name the thing that's been running underneath every single episode of this season.Fear.I get into …
In this episode, I pick up where the last one left off, because the same tool that lets you understand yourself can also be turned outward and used …
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