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Hard Truths: Less fantasy. More truth. Better love.

Hard Truths: Less fantasy. More truth. Better love.

By: Aimee Royer MA Life Relationship and Ontological Coach
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Hard Truths is a podcast about honest reflections on love, relationships, self-deception, emotional patterns, and personal growth. Through direct, grounded reflections informed by rational emotive behavior coaching, ontological coaching, stoic principles, and lived experience, Aimee Royer explores the truths people often avoid but would benefit from facing. Less fantasy. More truth. Better love.Aimee Royer, MA, Life, Relationship, and Ontological Coach Relationships Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Staying Is Also A Choice

    Staying Is Also A Choice
    May 19 2026

    In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores why staying is also a choice and why staying consciously is different from staying in denial. This episode looks at comfort, self-abandonment, repair versus repetition, and the question: If you stay, are you still included in your own life?
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    33 mins
  • Standards You Don’t Enforce Are Just Preferences

    Standards You Don’t Enforce Are Just Preferences
    May 12 2026

    In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores why standards you don't enforce often become preferences. She breaks down the difference between requests and boundaries, pacification and repair, and communication and follow-through. This episode is for anyone who has repeatedly explained their pain, hoped for change, and struggled to decide what to do when the pattern stays the same.
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    39 mins
  • When You Choose From Pressure Instead of Discernment

    When You Choose From Pressure Instead of Discernment
    May 5 2026

    Relationship pressure can lead people to interpret settling, rushing, staying too long, or ignoring reality as reasonable. In this episode of Hard Truths, Aimee explores how fear of running out of time, comparison, old conditioning, and the desire to be chosen can distort discernment. She also discusses how to care deeply about love, partnership, family, and time without letting pressure guide your choices.
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    36 mins
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