Welcome to Let's Talk Love! In today's episode, we're so excited to be joined by Dr. Jody Carrington. Jody is a brilliant psychologist, bestselling author, and public speaker with a great sense of humor that will make you laugh out loud!

We talk about Jody's new book, Feeling Seen, where she shares valuable insights about empathy and emotional regulation. She walks us through the importance of truly seeing and understanding others, and how we can use the skill of empathy to strengthen our relationships with those around us.

Welcome to this week’s episode of Let’s Talk Love, where Robin is joined by Dr. Viviana Coles, a renowned relationship expert and sex therapist. You may recognize her from the popular reality TV show, Married at First Sight, where she works with couples to help them build lasting and fulfilling relationships.

Today we dive into Dr. Viviana's book, The 4 Intimacy Styles. We discuss how important it is to maintain sexual and emotional intimacy in long term relationships and how to overcome common intimacy ruts and challenges.

Welcome to a very special episode of Let's Talk Love! In this episode, Robin is in conversation with two relationship experts, John Kim and Vanessa Bennett. John and Vanessa are not only therapists but also partners and co-authors of a fantastic book titled, It's Not Me, It's You: Break The Blame Cycle. Relationship Better.

This week we are joined by Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh. Dr. Sara is a renowned social psychologist who has a deep understanding of human sexuality and relationships. She has worked with individuals and couples across the globe to help them build strong, meaningful relationships.

Today on Let’s Talk Love, our host Robin Ducharme had the honor of speaking with Vienna Pharaon, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert @mindfulmft.

Vienna is the author of The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love, which is a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your family of origin.

Todd is a certified sex therapist, licensed individual and couples psychotherapist, podcast host, and writer who specializes in sex and relationships. He's not interested in formalities or tradition. Instead, he works to humanize and empower us all by helping us understand ourselves better so that we can have more fulfilling relationships with others.

In this episode, Todd answers your sex and relationship questions. We talk about infidelity, sexual compatibility, having hard conversations about STI’s and forming healthy relationship agreements. Todd's approach is real, authentic, inclusive, and very relatable. We hope you enjoy!

Paul is a relationship counselor, matchmaker, television host, serial entrepreneur, and author who specializes in relationship science. He has been featured in hundreds of media outlets including: The New York Times, The Guardian, and Good Morning America. He was chosen as the World’s Most Influential Matchmaker by The Matchmaking Institute.

We talk about Paul's book, It's Complicated (But It Doesn't Have To Be): A Modern Guide to Finding and Keeping Love. What we really wanted to learn from Paul today is how with his decades of experience as a matchmaker he helps his single clients find lasting love. He shares the biggest challenge facing singles today, and four key principles to follow to determine whether someone is a good match for you. If you're someone looking for a partnership or want your current relationship to be better than ever before I am sure this conversation will help you along your journey.

Kate Anthony empowers women to find their strength, passion, and confidence, even in the most disempowering of circumstances and helps them move forward with concrete plans set on a foundation, putting their children at the center, not in the middle of all their decisions. Kate helps women not only survive, but thrive through divorce. She offers tools for planning for and navigating through the divorce process in a loving, conscious, and caring way.

Katherine is the author of the national bestseller, Calling In The One, and New York Times bestseller, Conscious Uncoupling: Five Steps to Living Happily Even After. She is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and teacher to 1000s from all corners of the world. 

Today, Katherine walks us through her five-step process for consciously uncoupling. She says, “The goal of conscious uncoupling is not necessarily the restoration of justice, the attainment of restitution, or the vindication of being right. The goal of conscious uncoupling is to be free, and to move forward from here empowered to create a happy and healthy life for yourself and those you love.”

Let's Talk Love is back with another amazing episode! This week, we spoke with Dr. Jaime Zuckerman about how to distinguish a narcissist from someone who has narcissistic traits. Dr. Z is a licensed clinical psychologist and national expert in narcissistic abuse. She is a highly sought-after relationship coach for both men and women nationwide who are experiencing or have experienced narcissistic abuse in relationships of all types. Dr. Z shares behaviors to look out for when dating so you can prevent falling into the trap of these abusive relationships, as well as what to do if you've already found yourself in one. She teaches strict boundaries to set and ways to heal yourself with a whole lot of love, kindness and compassion while navigating a breakup from a narcissist.

This week's episode of Let's Talk Love is all about relationship communication with special guest, Nashville-based Psychotherapist, Matthias Barker.  We talk about his online couples workshop that teaches couples how to communicate about what matters without ending up in an argument or withdrawing from one another.

Matthias gives us tools for avoiding blame and criticism and instead communicating with love and honesty while being mindful of consent. We also discuss personality science, and why understanding yours and your partner's personality traits can help you deal with your differences. 

Today on Let’s Talk Love we are speaking with Dr. Terri Orbuch, The Love Doctor. Dr. Orbuch is an author, speaker, therapist, and distinguished professor at Oakland University and the University of Michigan. Today, we discuss her book, Five Simple Steps To Take Your Marriage From Good To Great, as well as her landmark study, where she has been following the same 373 couples for the past 35 years. She shares many valuable small, yet consistent ways we can change our behavior and attitude to affect positive change and create more happiness in our romantic relationships.

This week on Let’s Talk Love, we're chatting with relationship coach, Erica Turner.  Erica has a lot of insights to share about different relationship styles, how they're formed, and how we can unlearn unhealthy ways of relating.  We talk about why some of us settle for less than what we deserve in a relationship, the difference between being needy versus having our genuine needs go unmet, and how to date from a place of empowerment and self-assuredness.

In this episode of Let’s Talk Love, We are joined by Dr. Stan Tatkin. Stan is a prolific author and researcher. He is a professor at UCLA and maintains a private therapy practice in Southern California. We discuss Stan's book, Wired For Love, which is a guide to understanding your partner's brain and presents tools that can help improve any relationship—especially intimate partnerships.Stan teaches people to adopt what he calls “secure functioning” principles of behavior, based on a fusion of neuroscience, attachment theory, and his many years of clinical experience as a therapist.

Today we're talking with Jessica Baum, a couples therapist and founder of The Relationship Institute of Palm Beach. She helps thousands of clients with her unique approach to healing called The Self-Full Method.

We'll be discussing her new book Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure In Life and Love which creates a roadmap to help you go from anxiously attached to building strong secure relationships. We'll cover the importance of validating our feelings, using the intelligence of our hearts to guide our actions and behaviors, becoming the observer in our lives which helps us form deeper connections with others, and so much more!

In this episode we’re speaking with Rafaella Smith-Fiallo. Rafaella is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, sexual liberation activist, and therapist specializing in relationships, sex, and trauma therapy. Today we talk about the importance of sexual self care. We discuss setting boundaries, advocating for ourselves both in and out of the bedroom and also how to heal in all areas of our lives through the power of pleasure.

Today on Let's Talk Love we had the pleasure of talking to Amy Chan. Amy is the founder of Renew Breakup Bootcamp and someone who has been through heartbreak therapy stages herself and she wants to help others do the same. Her book, Breakup Bootcamp: The Science Of Rewiring Your Heart, is full of wisdom, tools, and guidance for breakup recovery. We talk about the heartbreak healing process, the different stages of separation, how to expand your emotional range, and how to stop repeating unhealthy relationship dynamics. Amy offers valuable insight for healing heartbreak and building thriving relationships on the other side.

In this episode, we are joined by Jillian Turecki, a certified relationship coach, writer and teacher. For 20 years, Jillian has taught others how to transform their relationships with themselves. Today we dive into what Jillian coaches: training ourselves to become more self aware, to become more conscious, and to become more emotionally fit. Jillian shares ways to raise, reclaim, and rebuild our self worth, because ultimately, by improving the relationships we have with ourselves we can transform our relationship with others. We hope this conversation inspires you to do just that!

Today on Let’s Talk Love we are joined by Dr. Guy Winch. Guy is a licensed psychologist and best-selling author of three books. He has given two TED Talks: Why We All Need To Practice Emotional First Aid and How To Fix A Broken Heart. Both have been viewed over 15 million times. Today we're going to be talking about Guy's latest book, How To Fix A Broken Heart. Heartbreak is a topic that is often misunderstood and trivialized. This conversation offers new tools and guidance for healing from heartbreak. We hope you get as much out of this conversation as we did!

In this episode of Let’s Talk Love, we had the utmost pleasure of speaking with Allison Raskin. Allison is an American writer, director, comedian and mental health advocate. We talk about Allison's book Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression. Allison is open about her struggles with mental health. She shares tips on how people can be supportive of their friends and partners who struggle with mental illness without being overly involved or overbearing in their relationships. We also discuss what it means to date when you have anxiety or depression—and how romantic relationships can either help or hurt your mental health depending on how you manage them together. Allison brings so much levity, and deep wisdom to a topic many of us are not truly educated on. We hope you enjoy this conversation!