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A counterintuitive approach to navigating dating and building relationships in the digital age. This is for the woman who feels disenchanted by more common dating rhetoric and sometimes even questions if she wants a relationship at all. She already lives a rich, full life. She would like to share that with someone, but not at the expense of herself. What gives? That’s where we’re digging in.
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Register for my May 7th Event in NYC Recently, a beloved follower DM'ed me and said, without any mincing of words, "I need an episode on the friend zone." I was happy to oblige since, to be totally frank, I don't think the friend zone is an actual thing. I think it's more so a way to stay stuck, but safe. Stagnant but comfortable. In this episode, I'm covering: The root of why we end up in the friend zone, and why it tends to be a repeat patternHow the friend zone acts like a permission...
Private Coaching Spaces Open Register for my Dating Workshop in NYC A few weeks back, I was perusing Instagram as one does, and I was fed Nikki Heyder's profile, based on a reel she had recently posted that went viral. And let's just say, it went viral for all the right reasons. Nikki is a trauma-informed psychotherapist, business mentor, and author based in Bali. Her perspective is refreshingly wise and down to earth when it comes to all conversations that fall under the umbrella of, w...
Register for my March 29th Masterclass: For the High-Achiever Who Struggles in Dating Work with Me Privately Like many of you, I've been completely obsessed with Love Story, the dramatized JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette series. Along with making me want to revamp my entire wardrobe, rock a red lip, drill a land line into our wall, it's also completely lit up my intimacy with my husband ; ). I've had to ask: What is that about? In this episode, I'm unpacking that question — because I t...
Register for my March 29th Masterclass: For the High-Achiever Who Struggles in Dating Here's something I hear a lot from my clients: "I know this sounds terrible, but it's just really hard to be around my friends with kids right now" — no, it doesn't sound terrible. It's actually very, very normal. That's where we're digging in today. I'm sharing why the impulse to shut down these feelings is actually making things worse, and what it looks like to let them breathe so you can move throug...
Ever since I turned 35, my sense of self — who I know myself to be — has undergone a continuing, and in some ways quite rapid, evolution. Now, at 40, it only seems to be moving faster. Asking me bigger questions, pushing me to make bigger changes, and forcing me to stare more directly at all that no longer feels like a fit. From furniture to friendships — which can be scary AF, tbh. When I came across Anne Benveniste's Substack, and found her writing about things like burning down her entire ...
The most capable woman in the room is often the loneliest. Not because no one wants her — but because she's spent years making herself so easy, so low-maintenance, so needless, that there's nothing for anyone to actually attach to. But that's not a personality trait. That's a trauma response. In this episode, I'm digging into hyper-independence — where it comes from, why it masquerades as "just who we are" when it's really a trauma response, and how it shows up in dating, relationships, and m...
In the last few years I've started to notice something in my peers, colleagues and clients who are a few years deeper into their 40s — and a few years deeper into their marriage and life as parents: Things are starting to crack and fissure. Things that were a whisper of an issue before are now all encompassing. But are these big, life-altering cracks, or obstacles meant to drive a couple into its next evolution? Not the easiest of questions to contemplate. Not the easiest of questions to answ...
Nearly four years ago, my friend and colleague, Diana Davis, went through a life-altering breakup. She and her then-boyfriend of over six years decided to part ways, with her later learning he'd had an affair during the course of their relationship. You can listen to that episode here. For the last few years, she's hopped around the globe, living in different spots, dating different people (some good! some not so good!) and getting to know herself. Her work has also evolved, playing a paralle...
This week I've invited my dear friend and colleague, Megan Hellerer, back on the podcast. Megan was on the podcast in the fall of 2024 for the launch of her first book, Directional Living. Here's that first episode. I wanted to have her back on to discuss: What life is like as a 41 year old mom with a 2.5 year old, a year after writing her bookHave her discuss how the life she's living feels like her dream, but never one she would have imaginedThe unique let down she experienced (as many auth...
Years ago, back when I first started this podcast, I shared an episode entitled "The comfort of being single." I will link to that podcast below. It's one of the most listened to episodes. My clients, always serving as the greatest mirror, reminded me this topic was worth revisiting. I find it to be an extremely comment sentiment, but it often gets buried with feelings of: There's something wrong with me. I should just date more. If I want a relationship, why am I not trying harder? This...
Quick videos with quippy captions, over-simplified sound bites and energy influencers claiming they understand your body better than you do your own, have seemingly made us all "somatic experts," completely on top of our individualized trauma and blocks...but has it? That, and well, the release of her new book (!), was the main reason I wanted Bea to return to the show. If you identify as a type A, high-achieving, people-pleasing, good girl — essentially everyone who listens to this sho...
Years ago, I fell hard for a boss. Initially, I might have used the word love. That I fell in love with him. Now much older, knowing what love actually means and entails, it wasn't love. It was infatuation. But my feelings of infatuation were quite significant when it came to understanding my bigger romantic hunger and obstacles. I have worked with many a client who has experienced the same thing — some merely admired male colleagues from afar, while some entered full**-blown relationships. T...
Psychological astrologer and general fountain of wisdom, Dani Beinstein returns! In this episode we talk about: How the struggles, obstacles and general ways we were all put through the proverbial wringer in 2025 was a "pregame" (Dani's words) of sorts. Dani breaks down the what and why of last year.What 2026 is asking of us and how we can apply this to our livesDani's and my own current philosophies of the state of romantic relationships (Hint: our expectations of what they'll fulfill ...
Tis the season, or so it seems, to reflect on all I wish I'd done differently. While these breakups and ruptures I speak of are from a few years back, the things I wish I'd done around them to better integrate the pain and learn from my own mistakes, still (very much) ring true in life. First and foremost, I wish I hadn't mainlined so much self help content, such that I drowned out my own lived experience from the loss. Second, I wish I'd had more intimate and difficult conversations with tho...
Many of the women I work with fall into their late 30s and early 40s, that spot when if one desires children, things can feel a bit precarious. Will I meet someone in time? Will the eggs I've frozen actually function? While I've had a few clients loosely entertain pursuing motherhood on their own, Megan was the first to actually do it. But it came much more from a place of pure desire, rather than something she felt forced into doing because time was running out. Her decision to do so brings ...
It always astounds me how often clients will say to me: "I know, I know. I just need to get OVER this." To which I reply, "It sounds like that really hurts. I don't think you do." Our ability to override and deny the truth of our inner worlds and emotional landscapes in this heavily systemized dating world is doing more harm than good. Frankly, it's not doing any good at all! If you're someone who hops from date to date (or relationship problem), loves to busy yourself with work, social engag...
Tis the season to REFLECT. That's the heart of today's episode. I love this time of year for getting cozy, sipping something delicious, and reflecting on the year. In today's episode I'm walking you through the exact exercise I use with clients to mine their current and past relationships, crushes, flings, etc, for patterns. Once we know our patterns, we can work to shift them to achieve, essentially, more of the life experience we actually want. Work with me Privately Connect on Instagram We...
The fear of running out of time or feeling behind (of peers, friends, societal perceptions) is valid, to be sure. But our focus on that feeling blinds us from what's actually there, i.e. what we actually need to address, feel, process, confront, work on, in order to change the direction and future of our romantic lives. Work with me Privately Connect on Instagram Website Podcast Production by James Jorge
Are you the planner, the doer, the one who takes on everything? Maybe it's really hard for you to delegate, or you fear if you aren't the one doing it everything will fall apart or go to shit? The tricky thing about that behavior — while it makes us feel like we're in control — is that it dramatically limits the love and care we can receive from others, and the general pleasure we experience in our life. That includes the satisfaction we get from our work or the types of relationships (...
Often women will come to me and say: Men are intimidated by my career/how much money I makeI don't know how to meet someone who doesn't feel this waySpoiler alert, it's not about "just meeting someone" who doesn't feel this way. Feeling this way has way more to do (per usual) with our past versus our present. I'm sharing my own experience, along with that of my clients who earn more money from their partners, and what we can do on our side of the fence to understand shift this dynamic, as wel...
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