Relate-Able

Do you ever feel like your metaphorical plate—all the things that are filling up your time—is pretty full? Maybe even overflowing and starting to spill onto the ground? Work, kids, family, friends, chores, sleep, hobbies… there’s a lot to do and a lot to try to fit in.

A lot of us feel like our plate is a little too full… but we don’t know what we can possibly take off when everything feels important! How am I supposed to know what to drop when it feels like nothing can give? Most of the time, it’s not what’s on our plates that’s complicating our lives. It’s how we’re doing it.

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/episode-17-why-prioritizing-your-own-health-matters-in-relationships/

Additional Resources to Help You Lighten Your Load:

• Start A Lighter Load, a short audio toolkit to help you figure out what you can finally put down
• Get simple, actionable steps with the free Overwhelmed email series
• Take the free quiz to find out where your load might be heavier than it needs to be

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice

An important aspect of our relationship to ourselves that we haven’t talked about yet on Relate-Able is our health. It’s just a simple fact that when we feel physically well, we’re more capable of enjoying the time we spend with other people and when we’re depleted, our relationships may feel like more of a burden.

But it’s easy to deprioritize your own health when you’re busy taking care of other people or when the health professionals don’t offer the help you need.

In this episode, Dr. Dana Culp talks about how much the way you care for your body can impact the connection you feel with others, especially as you age (and all of us are aging, no matter what stage of that we’re in right now).

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/episode-17-why-prioritizing-your-own-health-matters-in-relationships/

Additional Resources to Help You Prioritize Your Own Health:

• Take Dr. Culp’s free perimenopause assessment to learn if your symptoms might be related to hormone changes
• Explore resources or schedule an appointment with Dr. Culp at Thrive Midlife Medicine
• Learn more about how Self-Silencing might be impacting your health and relationships
• Other resources Dr. Culp mentioned:
• Dr. Mary Claire Haver
• Dr. Kelly Casperson
• Dr. Heather Hirsh
• Dr. Vonda Wright

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice

We know that comparison happens. We know that it doesn’t always feel that great. We know that “comparison is the thief of joy” or that the “grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” We don’t need to be told that.

What we want to understand is how we can free ourselves from the spiral of comparison that can overwhelm us with feelings of inadequacy. How we can worry less about what others are doing and feel more comfortable living our own lives. How we can actually spend less mental space comparing and more time feeling good about ourselves.

In this episode we talk about what’s at the root of comparison—why we do it, what is signals, and how understanding that can help us find practical ways to ease that feeling in your life.

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/episode-16-getting-out-of-the-comparison-spiral

Additional Resources to Help You Compare Less:

• Working on strengthening your sense of self is one of the best ways to reduce comparison in your life
• How might self-silencing relate to comparison? Read about 7 common signs of self-silencing.
• Related Episode: Quieting the Inner Critic

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice

For many women, the sexual relationship can be a complicated one. When you’re busy taking care of kids or other people a lot of the time, sex can start to feel like a chore or like one more person who wants something from you. Or it might be that you felt desire in the past but you can’t seem to find it now and wonder if it’s buried under a big pile of laundry or where it got lost.

You might feel like something is wrong with you that things aren’t as good in the bedroom as you feel like they should be. Or you might feel a lot of pressure around your sexual relationship that’s leaving you disconnected and unsure of what to do next.

In this episode of Relate-Able, we are talking with Ariel Finlinson, a sex educator, about how to move from pressure to passion in our sexual relationship with mindset shifts, small changes, and finding ways to build connection that feels right to you.

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/episode-15-from-pressure-to-passion-in-your-sexual-relationship/

Additional Resources to Help You Move From Pressure to Passion in Your Sexual Relationship:

• Get Ariel’s free masterclass: Touched Out to Turned On
• Read about How to Stop Having “Good Enough” Sex
• Find Ariel on IG and her website

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice

There is a lot of messaging coming at us from many different sources that tells us as women to shrink ourselves. This can be about the size of our bodies with constant pressure on women to be smaller or to lose weight or it can be about our presence with pressure to be accommodating, agreeable, to avoid conflict, or just in general to take up less space.

In this episode with Dr. Lauren Barnes, we talk about how this messaging to take up less space, both physically and emotionally, affects us and how we can use practical strategies to get more comfortable in our own bodies and in our own space and then how that in turn helps us deepen our relationships with other people.

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/episode-14-body-image-isnt-just-about-bodies/

Additional Resources to Help You Get Comfortable Taking Up Space:

• Read more about How to Get More Comfortable in Your Body
• Free Download: 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating
• Free Download: Getting More Comfortable In Your Body
• Find Dr. Barnes on her website and on IG

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice

This episode is a little different than the ones I usually share. I’m not teaching a new idea or giving you something new to think about. I’m not sharing any research directly in this one. Instead, I’m telling you a story—my story—and why it matters so much to the work we’ve been doing on this podcast.

I’m sharing this because for a long time I had a life that looked good on the outside, but inside I felt overwhelmed, disconnected, and unsure why everything felt harder than it should. If that sounds familiar to you, I hope this episode helps you feel a little less alone—and maybe helps you see what’s possible, too.

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/episode-13-how-reclaiming-myself-changed-my-relationships/

Join the Reclaim Program: https://amberaprice.com/reclaim/

• Why It’s So Hard to Be Yourself Around Other People
• What’s Really at the Root of Roommate Syndrome?
• Read about how important autonomy is to your relationships

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice

Most women crave deep, meaningful connection, so we pour ourselves into the people we love—caring, serving, sacrificing, and trying to meet everyone’s needs. And yet, so many of us end up feeling exhausted, disconnected, lonely, or unsure why all that effort doesn’t always seem to create the closeness we want. When that happens, we usually assume we need to give more, communicate better, or finally get everything figured out.

But there’s one crucial piece we’re missing: you have to belong to yourself in order to truly connect with others. This isn’t about self-care—it’s about autonomy. Knowing who you are, trusting yourself, and allowing yourself to be a whole person who loves others and owns herself.

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/episode-12-the-relationship-skill-no-one-taught-you/

Join the Reclaim Program: https://amberaprice.com/reclaim/

Additional Resources:

• Read more about how autonomy functions in relationships
• Take a free quiz to help you know where autonomy might be leaking out of your life

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice

When you’re neck deep in taking care of kids, demands at work, or getting everything done (and it never seems to all be done), it’s easy for the pieces of yourself that used to make you you to fade a little.

Or maybe something in your life has changed—the kids are growing up and need you less often, your job changed, a relationship dissolved, something happened that’s left you a little unsure of who you are now that your roles and responsibilities are different.

If you’re like so many other women, your self-concept may have become a little blurry and you’re not all that sure who you are anymore outside of the roles you play or the things you get done. Hobbies have slipped, preferences are vague or undefined, it’s easier to not make decisions and to just go with the flow…

But having a clear self-concept, knowing who you are really matters for your own well-being and for your relationships.

Luckily, gaining clarity can happen one small step at a time and those small steps can have powerful impacts (and be really fun).

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/episode-11-finding-clarity-about-who-you-are

More poetry from Carol Lynn Pearson: https://carollynnpearson.com

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice

December is a wild ride of emotions — so much to do, so much pressure, so draining and exhausting at times… and also so fun and exciting. We want to be enjoying the magic. And it all gets mixed together into one messy, beautiful, overwhelming month.

In this short episode, I'm sharing one small thing that I dropped from my list this week...and the relief it brought me.

And one super simple tradition that my family loves, that takes very little energy on my part.

If you’re craving even the smallest pocket of relief or ease this week, this episode might feel like a little exhale.

A reminder that you’re allowed to choose the simpler version… and you’re allowed to put something down.

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/holiday-mini-episode/

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice

When you’re the magic maker, it can be easy to end the season feeling more frantic and frazzled than calm and connected. You want to create magic for your people but you are exhausted. And it would be nice to feel the magic too.

This episode is a followup to episode 9 about a simple mindset shift that helps you feel more connected to your people, but this time we’re talking about how you treat yourself. And we’re putting it in a holiday context so that you can feel the magic this year too.

Episode Page: https://amberaprice.com/episode-10-feeling-the-holiday-magic-yourself-this-season/

Additional Resources:

• Get The Magic Maker's Guide to Feeling Less Drained this Holiday Season
• Listen to Episode 9, the first part of this 2 part series

You can find more resources from me about reclaiming yourself and reconnecting in your relationships here:

• www.dramberprice.com
• IG: dramberaprice
• Substack: dramberprice