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How to Escape The Empath's Trap: Making Yourself Smaller in the Service of Love [EP206]

Release Date: 03/21/2025

7 Signs You’re Finally Ready for a Healthy Relationship [EP 219]

Deeper Dating Podcast

There are 7 indicators that prove you are speeding your path to the kind of love that can last and grow. In this episode of the Deeper Dating Podcast, you'll learn what those seven signs are, and what you can do to make them happen for you. Listen For: 3:03 Trusting Your Body’s Wisdom in Dating 8:25 Letting Go of Shame to Find Real Connection 10:31 When Toxic Stops Being Attractive 12:51 Discovering the Power of Inspired Attraction 16:06 How Friends Can Help You Break Love Patterns Leave a positive rating for this podcast with CONNECT WITH KEN: ...

The Most Powerful Hack to Uplevel Your Search For Love and Deeper Intimacy [EP 218]

Deeper Dating Podcast

Are you ready to learn what might be the most powerful hack for upleveling your entire search for love and deeper intimacy? In this episode, you'll learn what that is and how to do it! Listen For: 1:49 Why Upleveling Your Love Life Changes Everything 5:22 The 4 Fierce Questions That Will Change Your Dating Life 9:35 The Friend Who Called Him Out (And Changed Everything) 11:31 His 96-Year-Old Mother’s Life-Changing Metaphor 15:34 The Inner Mentor Practice That Bypasses Your Inner Critic Leave a positive rating for this podcast with CONNECT WITH KEN: | ...

What Happens When You Go Back To A Narcissist As a Partner and as a President [EP 217]

Deeper Dating Podcast

What happens when you leave a narcissist, and then go back? The level of danger escalates profoundly. We may have seen this in the lives of people we love, and all of us are seeing this in our country as we have re-elected Donald Trump. In this episode you'll learn what to look out for, how to protect yourself and how to create change on a personal level, in our communities, and our nation. Listen For: 4:23 Narcissistic Abuse Cycle Explained by a Psychotherapist 6:46 Why Returning to a Narcissist is More Dangerous Than Ever 9:26 How Narcissism Fuels Racism,...

REPLAY - Do You Know Your Sexual Core Gifts? [EP 216]

Deeper Dating Podcast

This is an episode first published in October 2024. It’s one of our most popular. Your sexual Core Gifts are the language of your true sexuality. When you can name, claim, and embrace them, your sexual experiences will become so much more amazing, connected, and filled with love and excitement. In this episode, you'll learn how to discover your own sexual Core Gifts. Listen For: 2:34 Sex as a Mirror of Your Life 7:00 The Hidden Power of Shame 12:56 What Makes You Feel Safe 18:58 Finding Themes in What Moves You 23:37 Naming Your Sexual Core Gifts Leave a...

How To Ask For What You Really Want [EP 215]

Deeper Dating Podcast

If you want to supercharge the intimacy in any relationship, think about the asks that you don't ask. In this episode, I will teach you how to name those asks, how to deshame them, and how to present them in a way that leads to greater closeness with your friends, with your family, in your love relationship, and with yourself. Listen For: 01:59 Asking as an act of self-love 09:25 How unspoken needs harm connection 16:15 Self-honoring exercises you can try 20:45 Why big asks reveal relationship truth 21:52 Awkwardness, risk, and intimacy growth Leave a positive...

What it's Like For Singles in America: Interview with Dr. Amanda Gesselman [EP 214]

Deeper Dating Podcast

The biggest study of the American single experience just came out. In this episode, I interview one of its key authors; Dr. Amanda Gesselman, Director of Sex & Relationship Science at Match and a Research Scientist at the Kinsey Institute. Get ready to hear some really fascinating things about what's happening for single people in America. Sex, love, dating, AI; it's all in this report! Listen For: 4:21 Turning the Tables: Singlehood as Empowerment 9:34 The Emotional Disconnect Between Men and Women 17:56 Intentional Dating The 30-Minute Rule 23:16 Attraction...

The Two Greatest Questions That Lead You To Real Love [EP 213]

Deeper Dating Podcast

Are you chasing love that leaves you feeling unworthy or uplifted? Ken Page reveals the two pivotal questions that can revolutionize your search for love and shield you from unnecessary heartache. Drawing from four decades of psychotherapy and personal growth, Ken explores the profound difference between "attractions of deprivation"—those intense, addictive relationships that mirror old wounds—and "attractions of inspiration"—connections rooted in mutual respect, safety, and emotional integrity. He also unpacks how asking one soulful question—“Do I feel safe and seen?”—can...

Sex, Spirit, Love, and Longing: My Personal Journey | Part 3 [EP 212]

Deeper Dating Podcast

Can a broken road really lead you home to love? Ken Page shares the raw and profound story of how he finally found real, lasting love—by embracing his deepest fears, honoring his longing, and listening to the gentle whispers of spirit. From navigating intimacy during the AIDS crisis to forming a heartfelt support group of “chronically single shrinks,” Ken weaves a touching narrative of heartbreak, healing, and joy. His journey leads to adopting a child from Cambodia, launching his Deeper Dating movement, and marrying the love of his life just before his father’s passing. This is a...

Sex, Spirit, Love, and Longing: My Personal Journey | Part 2 [EP 211]

Deeper Dating Podcast

What happens when the search for love pulls you away from your soul—and how do you find your way back? Ken Page shares the deeply personal next chapter of his emotional, spiritual, sexual, and romantic journey in the second part of this series. From navigating New York’s vibrant and chaotic gay underground of the 1980s to an unexpected spiritual reawakening in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, Ken opens up about his struggles with love, addiction, loss, and the journey toward self-acceptance. Through heartbreaking stories and soul-shifting insights, he reveals how he began to integrate...

Sex, Spirit, Love, and Longing: My Personal Journey | Part 1 [EP 210]

Deeper Dating Podcast

What happens when spiritual devotion and gay identity collide in the search for love? In this raw, never-before-shared episode of The Deeper Dating Podcast, Ken takes you on an intensely personal journey through his early spiritual awakening, sexual discovery, and search for authentic connection. From mystical meditations and cult-like spiritual circles to heartbreak, celibacy, sexual compulsion, and finally integration, Ken explores the winding path that led him from loneliness and longing to a deeper understanding of self, love, and the divine. Vulnerable,...

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Do you make yourself smaller, ask for less, reveal less, to protect your relationship? This is the Empath's Trap, making ourselves smaller in the service of love. In this episode, you'll learn about the Empath's Trap and how you can get out of it to be your full self in your intimate relationships.

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