09/30/2026
Have you ever opened your refrigerator, stared at the mustard and a half-dead lemon, closed it, and then walked back to open it again ten minutes later?
Your conscious mind knows the fridge’s contents didn’t magically change. But you keep checking anyway, hoping your standards have dropped low enough that a spoonful of leftover condiments will finally satisfy your hunger.
Constantly refreshing your phone for a text from that one specific person is the exact same thing.
There is a name for this agonizing, exhausting, dopamine-chasing loop. It’s called limerence.
Right now you’re posting stories that you hope will charm them into engaging with you, monitoring their social media for new followers so you can see your competition, and diving headlong into YouTube astrology to figure out how to seduce them based on their placements.
You mute their stories. You unfollow them. You try to develop a crush on someone else.
And that’s when they randomly reach out!
Their attention turns your lifeforce up to eleven before they ghost you again, and now you have to start detaching all over. Except this time you feel even more foolish and ashamed, more unworthy of love, and a little bit older and more jaded.
Meanwhile, the fantasy of being with them takes the edge off the discomfort of being alone without actually meeting your connection needs.
The hidden drivers of these cycles of obsession are rooted in unresolved grief. That’s right. The anxiety you’re feeling is grief.
This stuff is so deeply subconscious that it can’t be resolved through willpower or positive affirmations.
But it also doesn’t require you to hire a hypnotist… or an exorcist.
You can learn how to uncover the patterns in your subconscious mind, stop magnifying another person into the solution to your problems, and pour your energy back into the neglected areas of your own life.
This is exactly what I teach in my $47 mini course, No One Is Above You: How to Stop Putting Others on a Pedestal and Own Your Greatness (lynx in bayou)