#28: Anger in Relationships - How to Stay Connected When You're Upset
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
Release Date: 07/03/2025
#40: How Not to Get Divorced: A Divorce Coach's Keys to Stay in Love Longer
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
On today’s Practicing Love podcast, Shana James is joined by divorce coach and NLP practitioner Rachael Sloan for a powerful conversation about how relationships break down — and how they can be repaired before it’s too late. Rachael works primarily with men navigating separation and divorce and is the creator of the Better Beyond Divorce program. Together, Shana and Rachael explore emotional regulation, conflict, boundaries, survival responses, and the unconscious patterns that couples bring into relationships. This episode is for anyone who wants to communicate more effectively, stay...
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#39: Why Communication Breaks Down in Long-Term Relationships — And How to Rebuild Connection
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
Why does connection and communication break down in long-term relationships, even when love is still there? In this episode of Practicing Love, Shana James and Hannah Chapman explore the hidden dynamics that cause couples to talk past each other, shut down, or feel chronically misunderstood. Drawing from vulnerable relationship experiences and decades of coaching, this conversation illuminates how defensive communication forms, what matters more than “being right,” and how to rebuild connection over time. You’ll learn: Why long-term couples often repeat the same painful...
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#38: AI Matchmaking: AI Reshapes Dating for Lasting Love
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
Dating feels brutal for so many relationship-ready singles, especially over 40. In this episode, Shana James talks with Adam Cohen Aslatei, CEO of Three Day Rule, about how AI is reshaping modern matchmaking and how AI makes it easier for people to date and find real, emotionally available love. They explore dating burnout, why the apps are failing people, the power of intentional dating, and how AI can even support deeper human connection. A must-listen for those who want to stop unconsciously swiping and start consciously dating and creating meaningful relationships. Music...
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Why Passion Fades in Relationships: How to Ignite and Reignite the Spark
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
Passion doesn’t fade because “that’s just what happens.” Passion fades because couples are missing a few essential skills. When you learn them, you can create spark and reignite it in long term relationships. In today’s video, I break down some deeper reasons passion fades in long-term relationships and marriages, based on 20 years as a dating and relationship coach and the teachings from my book Honest Sex.
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#37: How to Heal Attachment Wounds and Feel Safe in Love
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
How do you have a relationship that feels peaceful and loving, rather than feeling like a rollercoaster? In all phases, from dating to long term relationships, this is something clients tell me they want most. Therapist and author Jessica Baum joins me to explore why safety is essential for real love, and what the foundations of a healthy relationship are. We dive deep into attachment theory, nervous system regulation, and the biology of trust, exploring how early attachment wounds shape your adult dynamics, and usually not for the better. You’ll learn what healing requires, and how to...
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#36: You Don’t Have to Be the Hero: The Shift from Overgiving to Real Love
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
We explore what happens when being “the one who saves” starts costing you connection with yourself and others. Brent Perkins joins me to unpack how overgiving and self-abandonment can masquerade as love, and what it really takes to move from trying to be the hero to letting yourself be human. You'll learn to give without depletion, create agreements instead of expectations, and practice the art of receiving love as fully as you give it. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/prigida/burbleLicense code: WGWRQANBJDWAVVM6
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#35: How to Rebuild Trust After Betrayal
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
Trust can break in small ways, or shatter completely. Craig and Michelle Pera, founders of The Mindful Habit, join us to talk about how they help couples navigate trust challenges — from minor breaches to sex and porn addiction. Drawing on their professional experience, and own healing journey, they give you practical tools to rebuild trust, deepen connection, and restore intimacy in your relationship. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/prigida/burbleLicense code: ELRUV6G8JHUP8JAW
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#34: You’re the Prize: Build Self-worth and Confidence in Relationships
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
If you want to feel more loved and respected in your relationships, this episode is for you. Shana talks with Karen McMahon, founder of Journey Beyond Divorce about how claiming your self-worth and setting healthy boundaries can transform your love life. The more you stand in your truth, protect your heart, and create deeper, more fulfilling connections Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/prigida/burbleLicense code: WGWRQANBJDWAVVM6
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#33: Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go: Emotional Potty Training for Lasting Love and Better Relationships
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
Most of us never got the “emotional potty training” we needed as kids. Instead, we learned to hide, suppress, or ignore our feelings, which often wreaks havoc in our adult love lives. In this Practicing Love episode, I talk with therapist Rachel Kaplan, author of Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go, about why learning to feel our emotions is the missing key to deeper intimacy, resilience, healing, and keeping a relationship alive. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/prigida/burbleLicense code: X6DOTPWFPO5ZGZDX
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#32: Why Shared Values Aren’t Enough for a Lasting Relationship
Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40
If you think shared values are the key to making a relationship last, think again. Shana James talks with Nick Brancato, author of Prioritize Us: Unlock Lasting Love with One Simple, Proven Test, about why relationships fall apart despite shared values. We discuss the real keys to lasting love and intimacy. Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/prigida/burbleLicense code: 3XO0LDATK42BXEXU
info_outlineWe talk about the moments when anger builds within us, moments when a partner pulls away in anger, the downward spiral that can ensue, and how to find your way back to connection — even in the heat of the moment!
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