Have you ever been the Cool Girl in dating, saying you’re fine when you’re not, not speaking up when you’re hurt? Watch this video!

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Are you a Cool Girl? Do you pretend you don’t care when you really do? Do you act like you’re okay with the way you’re spoken to, when you’re hurting inside? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re not alone. In this video, we’ll explore the dangers of being the Cool Girl, and what you can do instead.

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How do you let go of your need to control when you’re dating or in a relationship? Here are my top 5 tips!

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Why do we often feel a need to control in dating and relationships? There are a few key reasons: 1. We’re afraid of what will happen if we let go (we’ll lose ourselves, get hurt, be disrespected). 2. We’re attached to an outcome we think is best for us (which closes us off to what’s actually better for us). In this video, you’ll discover why it’s important to let go of needing control and several ways to do it!

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My podcast guest, Tal Yardeni, shares her best tips on how to recover from a breakup. If you’ve ever had a breakup, listen in!

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Tal Yardeni is known as the breakup recovery coach. She’s the creator of The Breakup To Badass Formula, which helps women let go of their ex, learn to love themselves more, and get ready for their best relationship. Having gone through and healed from her own difficult breakup, she’s passionate about helping women recover from heartbreak.

In this episode of Last First Date Radio:

• Why self love as we know it is BS, and why true self love is crucial to healing from heartbreak
• What Rom Coms have taught us about our self worth, and how to break the cycle of placing your worth in relationships
• The #1 thing that keeps you from moving on, and what you can do about it
• Why no contact is absolutely necessary to moving on
• Why you should put dating on hold while you heal from a breakup and when is it okay to get back out there again.

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Dating despair is common, especially if you’ve been dating for a while without success. In this video, I share 5 helpful tips.

If you’ve ever experienced dating despair, you know how devastating it can feel. Will you ever meet your match? Why do the people you don’t like want to date you, and the people you do like don’t? Dating can be exhausting, and it can adversely affect your self-worth. In this video, you’ll learn what to do about dating despair so you can restore hope.

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Mara Glatzel’s book, “Needy”, addresses the importance of advocating for and expressing our needs in relationships.

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Mara Glatzel, MSW is an author, intuitive coach, and podcast host who helps humans stop abandoning themselves and start reclaiming their humanity through embracing their needs and honoring their natural energy rhythms. Her superpower is saying what you need to hear when you need to hear it and she is here to help you believe in yourself as much as she believes in you. 

In this episode of Last First Date Radio:

• Why we’re so uncomfortable with our neediness
• The difference between the self-care we are sold and the self-care we actually need
• The first steps to take to advocate for your needs when you’re in a relationship that has deeply ingrained expectations
• What we can do with our “ugly” needs – the ones that we worry will be too overwhelming and burdensome for others
• How to create a blueprint for what you need in your relationships

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Body shame can hold us back from the life and love we want. In this episode, Juliette Karaman helps us overcome it and heal.

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Juliette Karaman-van Schaardenburg is a UK-based mind and body coach and teacher on relationships, sex, intimacy, healing, and trauma. She specializes in the reinvention of the most intimate relationship in life – the one we have with ourselves. Juliette helps highly successful women rediscover who they are outside of being an entrepreneur, a wife, and a mother and experience all the pleasures and possibilities of life again.

In this episode of Last First Date Radio:

• What is body shame, and why is it so prevalent today?
• Who struggles most with body shame?
• How does body shame impact our daily life? 
• How is body shame connected with trauma?
• What are some ways to begin to break free of body shame?

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