How do you rewrite your love story to choose a healthy partner this time around? Spoiler alert: heal your trauma!

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How can you rewrite your love story so you end up in a healthy relationship? Owen Smithyman works with self-aware people who have done significant work on themselves – talk therapy, somatic work, plant medicine, coaching — and still feel something running in the background, making decisions for them or making life difficult. As a Peak States Therapy Practitioner, he helps clients resolve emotional wounds permanently, relate more authentically, and live a more vibrant life.

In this episode:

• How past trauma shapes our choices in dating and relationships
• The relationship between beliefs and trauma
• What are peak states, and how are they relevant in dating?

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Have you ever overlooked red flags in dating? In this episode, you’ll discover the subtle red flags you might have missed in the past.

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Which red flags in dating have you missed? Katharina is an Attachment-Based Specialist and an Emotionally Focused Individual therapist with over 25 years of experience helping couples and individuals build stronger, more resilient relationships. A graduate of Columbia University, she is the Founder and Clinical Director of Love Frontier Therapy Group and has dedicated her career to helping people understand the patterns behind conflict, repair emotional disconnection, and create lasting intimacy.

In this episode:

• The subtle red flags in dating many people miss
• Warning signs couples ignore early on
• Deal breakers that might be an opportunity for repair in disguise
• Instead of running away from conflict, get curious instead

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If you ever dated a people pleaser, you probably know it’s not all rainbows and roses. Here are the top five challenges to look out for.

We tend to think of people pleasers as the easiest ones to love. They say yes to almost everything. They go along with the plan. They never seem to want anything that gets in the way of what you want. That sounds like a dream, right? Wrong!

In real life, loving a people pleaser is one of the most frustrating and confusing dynamics you can find yourself in. I’ve coached so many people who describe the same thing: a partner who is kind, agreeable, generous with compliments, and somehow still leaves them feeling unseen. If that’s your story, I feel you. That’s why I’m sharing the top five challenges of dating a people pleaser, and what to do if you find yourself in a relationship with one.

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Would you like to be in an extraordinary relationship? In this episode, learn how to build them by design, not by chance.

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Learn how to build extraordinary relationships! Jena Jake is a Compatibility Strategist, speaker, and author who helps successful professionals stop choosing relationships by chance and start creating them by design. Through her signature Love Smarter™ methodology, she helps clients identify true compatibility, break unhealthy patterns, and build extraordinary relationships rooted in alignment—not luck.

In this episode:

• The difference between chemistry and compatibility
• Why we attach to certain types
• How do we become aligned with the right people
• How to set boundaries in relationships from the start
• How to become the person you want to meet

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Are you dating potential or paying attention to who they are right now? Dating someone’s potential can lead to heartache. Do this instead.

Have you ever fallen for someone’s potential instead of who they are right now? You really like them (except for a few small or not so small things), and you start building a fantasy relationship with that imagined future person. You  overlook a few of the very important deal breakers that are showing up today.

It feels like you’re just seeing the best in them. But it relies on someone changing instead of what is actually true about them right now, and over time that gap between the imagined future and the actual present is where a lot of relationships fall apart.

Here are five common ways that dating someone’s potential shows up so you can prevent heartache in the future.

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How do you increase erotic pleasure? Practice the five lust languages, says Susan Bratton. Learn more in this episode!

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How do you increase erotic pleasure? Practice the five lust languages, says Susan Bratton, “Intimacy Expert to Millions”. She is a champion and advocate for all those who desire intimacy and passion their whole life long. Susan has spent over two decades doing something that censorship and shame have long tried to silence: teaching people the pleasure-based sex education they never received. As CEO of Better Lover, Personal Life Media, and The20, she publishes the world’s most comprehensive library of orgasmic lovemaking education and formulates precision sexual vitality supplements built on the science of blood flow and desire.

In this episode:

• How to turn communication into foreplay
• The biggest mistakes couples make when giving feedback about intimacy
• What is the Sexual Soulmate pact?
• The myth about spontaneous desire
• The importance of curiosity in creating more erotic pleasure

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Stop dating men who waste your time! Learn how to recognize these 5 signs early on so you can finally go on your last first date.

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You’ve felt it before. The conversation that goes nowhere for three weeks. The plans that keep almost happening. The guy who seems interested, then vanishes, then reappears with a “hey beautiful” like no time has passed at all.

If you’re dating after 50, you don’t have time to waste, and you know it. You’ve built a life, you know your worth, and you’re looking for a real connection, the kind worth investing your time in.

Here’s what I’ve noticed after nearly 20 years of coaching women through this exact frustration: men who waste your time tend to show the same patterns. Once you can name them, you can spot them early on and save yourself the guesswork.

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