#80 The Second Worst Thing
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
Release Date: 01/01/2025
#80 The Second Worst Thing
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
In this episode Karin explains the reason why she took a break from publishing podcasts during this past month. She describes the personal health crisis that struck her family but focuses mostly on what she's discovered to be helpful during this time. She also offers some advice on what to do if you have someone in your life who is going through a personal tragedy or is struggling with a life-threatening disease (see episode #15). She closes with a story about replacing judgment with curiosity in the face of life events, even when it seems obvious that that they are good or bad. Karin doesn't...
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#79: Friendships in Midlife, with Brooke Ledbetter
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
Listen to Karin and Brooke discuss the importance of friendships and how to bring more of them into your life. Friendships - including intimate relationships - fortify our mental health and, consequently, our physical health. When we don’t have these relationships, it can have a negative effect on our brain and can become harder to deal with stress and adversity. Hear Brooke talk about how to attract new friendships into your life and why having one deep relationship, such as with a romantic partner, isn’t enough. She and Karin also discuss how women in midlife can manage the discomfort...
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#78: Why Love Isn't Enough, with Matt Marquez
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
This heartfelt conversation starts with how Karin and Matt are coping with the results of the election, which occurred two days prior, including how they are managing the difficult emotions and taking care of themselves during challenging times like these. Then, because when we take care of ourselves we are also taking care of our relationships, the heart of the conversation focuses on how to build strong, loving relationships. Hear Matt and Karin talk about how being in love isn’t enough, the importance of understanding ourselves and what we need, the Nonviolent Communication (NVC)...
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#77: Confident Communication, with Tara Alexander. 10/15/2024
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
Tara and Karin have a lively conversation about how people, especially women and people-pleasers, can learn assertiveness, deal with conflict, set boundaries, and confidently communicate their thoughts and needs so they can live the life they want. Tara talks though the tools she uses to help her clients assert themselves effectively in real time when under stress, including how to identify and regulate their emotions, and practice conflict in a safe, low-risk environment. Hear Tara talk through how she helped a client struggling with burnout learn to say “no” and reclaim their life, and...
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#76: Trauma, Somatic Healing, and Your Relationships, with Robyn Smith
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
Unaddressed trauma can impact all areas of a person’s life, but the impact is felt perhaps most acutely in one’s relationships. Today we talk about different kinds of trauma, how it gets stuck in the body, and how it shows up in our relationships. My guest, Robyn Smith, explains how somatic coaching can help and what somatic work is like. Learn more about Karin: Website: Instagram: Learn more about Robyn: Website: https://consciousthrivingrelationships.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCprnkDKhwO6Nr1YR5rasnBA/videos Instagram:...
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#75: How the Energy in Your Home Impacts Your Relationships, with Suzanne Roynon
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
Do you want more opportunities, love, and wealth in your life? An interiors therapist can help! My guest today uses feng shui to change the energy in your home so that you can make a shift and invite a different energy into your life. Suzanne Roynon is an Interiors Therapy expert and member of the International Feng Shui Guild, based in the UK and working internationally. She will help you look differently at the possessions and clutter you keep around you to understand how they can actively harm your relationship, health, wealth, success, happiness and home life. She shares hints and tips to...
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#74: Women, Microdosing, Addiction, and Healing, with Leslie Draffin
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
Today I talk with Leslie Draffin, a former TV news anchor who stopped her cycle of addiction to wine with the help of microdosing mushrooms (psilocybin). She now combines her knowledge of microdosing, women’s cycles, and somatic practices to help women reconnect with themselves and heal. Leslie Draffin is a somatic psychedelic guide, sensual embodiment coach & menstrual cycle educator focused on helping women embrace their bodies, sex, and psychedelics. She supports conscious women & menstruators who want to heal themselves & connect more deeply with the divine through...
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#73: Heal with the Creative Arts and IFS, with Karen Corona
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
There are different ways to approach trauma. Today I talk with Karen Corona about how transformative it can be to use the creative sides of our brains to access our own power to heal. She combines creativity with IFS (Internal Family Systems) to help women reconnect with themselves. She’ll explain how this works, offer techniques you can try, and talk about her new book, HeArt Healing for Radiant Living. Karen Corona, MA, MSW, is a Holistic Wellness & Transformation Coach. She uses the expressive arts to guide and empower women to heal their hearts and connect to their Authentic...
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#72: Dating After 50, with Deb Dutcher
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
Dating at age 60 is not like dating at 25! Today I talk with Dating Coach Deb Dutcher about how to start the dating process, what dating apps to try, how to find the right partner for you, and how to make it fun. While she focuses on the boomer generation, what she has to say applies to anyone who is over 45, maybe has been divorced or widowed, and for anyone who has been out of the dating pool for a while. Deb Dutcher is a former VP of high-tech and a Certified Health Coach, with a best-selling book to her name. Twice divorced and 70+, She found online dating works if you take it...
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#71: Loneliness in the Empty Nest
Love Is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect
Are you an empty nester? Are you feeling lonely? Empty nesters often feel lonely, so you certainly aren't alone! But how can you feel more connected in your relationships? How can you feel more connected to yourself? In today's episode I talk about the different factors that contribute to feeling lonely in the empty nest. I also offer a few suggestions for how to feel better, including joining my free, new Women Empty Nesters group. For more information, go to Meetup: Book on developing friendships during adulthood: , by Marisa G. Franco Learn more about Karin: Instagram:...
info_outlineIn this episode Karin explains the reason why she took a break from publishing podcasts during this past month. She describes the personal health crisis that struck her family but focuses mostly on what she's discovered to be helpful during this time. She also offers some advice on what to do if you have someone in your life who is going through a personal tragedy or is struggling with a life-threatening disease (see episode #15). She closes with a story about replacing judgment with curiosity in the face of life events, even when it seems obvious that that they are good or bad.
Karin doesn't know when she'll be back to her regular podcasting schedule, but will publish episodes when she can over the next few months. Thank you for listening!
Learn more about Karin:
website: www.drcalde.com
Instagram: @theloveandconnectioncoach