Is long-term love still a worthwhile goal? How can you tell if a relationship is heading towards separation and not just in a slump? What role does power play in relationship satisfaction?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the psychotherapist and author, Dr Bonnie Comfort on The Ebb and Flow of Long-term Love

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Bonnie Comfort has been a practicing psychologist for 30 years. She has an MSW from the University of Manitoba and a PhD in psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology Los Angeles. Her novel, “Denial,” a psychological thriller from Simon & Schuster, was published in eight countries and translated into five languages. As an expert on marital therapy, she has been a guest multiple times on podcasts about marriage and has taken extensive workshops with marital and sex experts like Terrence Real, David Schnarch, John Gottman, and Marty Klein. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with her long-time partner, Douglas Covey, MD.

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What’s the difference between simple and complex shame? How does shame show up in partnership? Is it possible to “shame-proof” our relationships?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the licensed psychotherapist, author, speaker, podcast host, and relationships coach Dr. Zoe Shaw on Shame-Proof Relationships.

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Dr. Zoe Shaw is a licensed psychotherapist, author, speaker, podcast host, relationships coach and fitness fanatic. She is passionate about helping women who struggle in difficult relationships, especially that sometimes difficult relationship with themselves, overcome complex shame and co-dependency.

After 15 years in traditional psychotherapy practice, Dr. Zoe jumped off the couch and now helps women using a different modality with a mix of virtual therapy, coaching services and programs, through a lens of psychology, faith, and a dash of feminism.

Dr. Zoe is the author of the Ask Dr. Zoe Column in the Grit and Grace Project women’s magazine and the book A Year Of Self Care. Her upcoming book, Stronger In The Difficult Places will be released by Penguin Randomhouse Waterbrook division in 2025. She has been published in Oprahmag.com, Recovery Today magazine, Forbes and Today.com. She writes about helping women overcome shame and co-dependency. You can find her in the media on Instagram: @Drzoeshaw and in most social places at the handle DrZoeShaw

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How can our ground support the flowering of the heart? What can we do to help stabilize our spiritual awakenings? Does everyone truly want love?

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John J. Prendergast, PhD, is a spiritual teacher, author, retired psychotherapist, and retired adjunct professor of psychology who has taught at Esalen and Kripalu and online. He studied for many years with the sage Dr. Jean Klein as well as with the spiritual teacher Adyashanti. He is the author of the books In Touch and The Deep Heart. For more, please visit listeningfromsilence.com

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What are the four depleters of love? How can we receive criticism without getting defensive? Why do conflicts turn into arguments?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Warren Farrell.

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WARREN FARRELL, PhD, a New York Times and internationally bestselling author, has coached couples and psychologists nationwide in couples’ communication for the past 30 years. Recognized by the Financial Times of London as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders, he has been a pioneer in both the women’s movement (elected three times to the Board of the National Organization for Women) and the men’s movement (called the “Martin Luther King of the men’s movement” by GQ).

He advocates for a “Gender Liberation Movement, freeing both sexes from rigid roles of the past.” His books have been published in 19 languages and include Why Men Are the Way They Are (1986), The Myth of Male Power (1993), and The Boy Crisis (2018). His most recent book, Role Mate to Soul Mate (2024), grew out of his popular course on the art and discipline of sustaining loving, intimate relationships. He and his wife Liz have been together for more than 30 years.

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What does attachment theory say about how parents should raise their children? What are our adult attachment needs? How can couples break out of negative communication cycles?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the therapist and author Julie Menanno on Secure Love and Attachment Theory.

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Julie Menanno MA, LMFT, LCPC, is a therapist, author, and creator of The Secure Relationship, a community dedicated to helping people build secure, loving relationships.

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How do we balance caring for ourselves and caring for others? How can we prevent burn-out? What does it really mean to show up?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the mindfulness teacher and self-care activist Shelly Tygielski on Radical Self-Care.

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Shelly Tygielski is the author of Sit Down to Rise Up and founder of the global grassroots mutual aid organization Pandemic of Love. She is also the co-founder of Partners in Kind, a purpose in production equity funds that invests in social impact in entertainment projects.

Her work as a self-care activist, community organizer, and mindfulness teacher has been featured by over 100 media outlets, including CNN Heroes, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS This Morning, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

A trauma-informed mindfulness teacher and a former Garrison Institute Fellow, she has been called one of the “12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful.org.

Shelly is currently working on her doctorate degree at the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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How can we fall madly in love with all of life? What can spiritual traditions teach us about activism? Why do mystics from very different religious traditions report the same ecstatic joyful loving divine experience?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the author, spiritual teacher, and religious scholar Andrew Harvey on Divine Ecstatic Mystical Love

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Andrew Harvey is Founder & Director of the Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.

Andrew has written and edited over 30 books, including Dialogues with a Modern Mystic, Hidden Journey, The Essential Mystics, Son of Man, The Return of the Mother and The Direct Path.

Other honors he has received include the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award (both for Mary’s Vineyard: Daily Readings, Meditations, and Revelations).

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How do we find equal footing in relationships without getting too transactional or resenting the unfairness of relationships? What’s the best way to approach the balance between childcare, chores, and money?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the relationship coach and fellow podcast host Sharon Costanzo on Reconciling the Desire and the Domestic.

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Sharon Costanzo has always been interested in relationships. She read her first relationship book "Men are from Mars" long before she had a love interest of her own. It seemed pretty clear that most people were struggling to make their relationships work and she was determined to break the odds.

Her early venture into the world of personal development and relationship growth led her to a lifelong passion for improving her own relationships and helping others discover what really works in sustaining long-term, loving & collaborative relationships.

She hosts a weekly podcast - Respected & Connected - and works privately with couples and individuals to create intimate, collaborative relationships.

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What are some different ways couples can Live Apart Together? What are some myths and advantages of such a style? What practices ensure the success of LAT relationships?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the award-winning journalist and author, Vicki Larson on Living Apart Together.

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Vicki Larson is an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area journalist and author of the just-released book LATitude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work as well as Not Too Old for That: How Women are Changing the Story of Aging, and co-author of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels.

The former longtime lifestyles editor, writer and columnist for the Marin Independent Journal, her writing can also be found in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, AARP’s The Ethel, The Huffington Post, Medium, The Greater Good Science Center and elsewhere. She specializes in writing about living and loving outside conventional models of coupling and the nuclear family as well as busting ageist and sexist narratives about aging as a woman and women’s sexuality and desire.

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Why is trauma so pernicious? What is the window of tolerance? How does a somatic approach to healing differ from talk therapy?

Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the Psychotherapist and Sexuality Coach Charna Cassell on Living a Vibrant Life after Sexual Trauma

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Charna Cassell, an LMFT, and a Trauma-Trained Psychotherapist and Sexuality Coach, helps clients heal from trauma and find bodily joy, emotional regulation, vitality, and hope. For over two decades, first, as a sex educator at Good Vibrations located in San Francisco. Then, as a Master Somatic Coach, a bodyworker, and now a licensed psychotherapist.

Outside of private practice, Charna teaches sexuality education classes, leads body wisdom workshops, and offers trauma and resilience training in various institutions, nonprofits, and therapeutic settings. Currently, she is building an online course, Pathways to Peace: Mindful Practices for Transformative and Vibrant Living, and writing a book.

As the host of The LaidOPEN Podcast, Charna shares her own story, answers listeners' questions, and offers practical exercises. She has conversations with post-trauma thrivers who share creative resources to support reaccessing our connection to aliveness. Together they explore how to live a pleasure-filled, peaceful life while reducing and gaining control over reactive behaviors. In every episode, Charna explores how to build our physical and emotional capacity to be with all that moves through us and around us to ultimately feel more liberated on the other side.

Charna’s work and expertise have been featured in Oprah magazine, TeenVogue.com, InStyle.com, Psychcentral.com, and Askmen.com. Charna is in private practice in Oakland, California. You can learn more about her at https://passionatelife.org/ and www.charnacassell.com

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