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Are you the person who knows there is more to dating, relationships and love than what is shared in the mainstream? This podcast is for people who want to delve deeper into love and relationships outside of the day to day cultural norms. Love Anarchy is for the person who is curious about the spiritual, sexual, and controversial topics that influence our perspective of how relationships and love unfold themselves in our lives. Andrea Atherton is a relationship coach, therapist and intuitive who is passionate about human connection and the authentic love experience. This weekly podcast will have guests who are experts or have personal experience in topics that will help you explore, challenge and deepen your understanding of love. Join the relationship rebellion.
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Send us a text In Episode 239, host Andrea Atherton and Mazona Shahar, a guide in spiritual work, ancestral wisdom, and human evolution, explore what it truly means to choose oneself in a culture that fears being alone. Together, they gently unpack the difference between loneliness and conscious solitude, inviting listeners to reconsider aloneness not as a deficit, but as a sacred initiation. This episode speaks directly to those who have felt pressure to constantly give, perform, or stay con...
Send us a text In Episode 238, Andrea Atherton explores the transformative power of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a practice that teaches us how to speak from the heart while staying deeply connected to ourselves and others. Many of us were never taught how to express our feelings and needs without blame, shame, or defensiveness—and as a result, our most important relationships can feel fractured, distant, or painful. In this episode, Andrea guides listeners through what NVC really is, why ...
Send us a text Love is one of the most powerful forces shaping our lives, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. In this episode (Part Two - Part One Ep. 220) of the Love Anarchy Podcast, host Andrea Atherton explores how the stories we’ve been told about love, through childhood fairy tales, Hollywood romances, and even family and cultural expectations, often leave us chasing illusions. These beliefs about what love “should” look like can feel comforting at first, but in reality, they ...
Send us a text Episode 236 welcomes listeners into a rich, integrative dialogue with host Andrea Atherton and Chinese medicine practitioner Keith Coley, as they explore the Eastern whole-person view of healing in contrast to the Western fixation on control and symptom management. Together, they examine how the urge to “make things happen” often bypasses the deeper intelligence of the body, leading to temporary relief rather than lasting transformation. This conversation invites a return to ba...
Send us a text In Episode 235, host Andrea Atherton is joined by fellow therapist Lisa Angelini for a thoughtful, clinically informed conversation about the relationship themes that are increasingly appearing in therapy rooms in 2025. Drawing on their combined decades of experience, they explore relationship recovery and repair through a deeper lens—one that centers not only on couples or partners, but also on the essential work of repairing the relationship with oneself. This episode reflect...
Send us a text As we stand at the threshold between 2025 and 2026, host Andrea Atherton offers this solo episode as an invitation to slow down and meet the New Year as a sacred cycle rather than a rushed reset. Instead of resolutions driven by pressure or self-improvement, Andrea explores the spiritual meaning of endings and beginnings—honoring what is complete, releasing what no longer serves, and recognizing this moment as a powerful pause for reflection and renewal. This episode centers cy...
Send us a text Step into the celestial flow of 2026 as Andrea Atherton is joined once again by renowned astrologer David Hauser for a timely and illuminating conversation on the astrological forces shaping the year ahead. Together, they reflect on how 2025 served as a pivotal threshold year, one that asked us to dismantle outdated identities, confront systemic fatigue, and prepare our nervous systems for profound collective change. This episode offers listeners a grounded yet visionary lens o...
Send us a text In this episode, host Andrea Atherton is joined by Elizabeth Makepeace for a reflective and expansive conversation on the Cycle of Nine, a universal rhythm of growth, integration, and completion. Together, they explore what it means to arrive at nine as a sacred threshold, where lived experience matures into wisdom. With 2025 carrying the energetic imprint of a nine-year cycle, this episode invites listeners to slow down, listen inward, and recognize that endings are not failur...
Send us a text In this powerful solo episode, Andrea Atherton invites listeners into the heart of conscious love through the transformative framework of 8 Dates by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. With her signature blend of warmth, depth, and clinical wisdom, Andrea unpacks the research behind the book and reveals why these eight core conversations are essential for creating a relationship anchored in trust, intimacy, and emotional truth. This episode is an invitation to step into intentional lo...
Send us a text In Episode 230, host Andrea Atherton opens a powerful exploration into internal resistance, that mysterious inner force that stops us even when our desire for change is bright, clear, and deeply motivating. We step into the truth that our wants and our resistance don’t come from the same place in the brain; they operate as two distinct systems, each with its own purpose. One urges us forward into new possibilities, while the other keeps us grounded in safety and familiarity. Ye...
Send us a text Host Andrea Atherton is joined by Danielle Young, founder of Inspired Action Wellness, whose lived experience and professional expertise illuminate the healing journey from trauma and domestic violence to emotional sovereignty and self-respect. Nicole’s transformation began with one brave decision: to finally trust the voice inside that whispered she deserved more. Her healing journey, marked by nervous system recovery, deep self-reflection, and rebuilding her sense of self, op...
Send us a text In Episode 228, host Andrea Atherton welcomes Martine Cohn for a conversation that speaks directly to the hearts of those who learned early in life to dim their brilliance to feel safe, loved, or accepted. Together, they explore the tender and often unspoken ways childhood messages shape our adult identities, messages that teach us to stay small, quiet our intuition, or silence our dreams so we don’t disrupt the very systems meant to care for us. This dialogue invites lis...
Send us a text In this powerful conclusion to the Shadow Into Light series, host Andrea Atherton takes you deep into the sacred process of healing your shadow through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Jungian psychology. Discover how the parts of yourself you once rejected, the jealous one, the controller, the avoider, are not your enemies but wounded protectors longing for compassion. Andrea explores how IFS provides a roadmap for integrating these parts into conscious wholeness,...
Send us a text In this illuminating episode, host Andrea Atherton welcomes Carolina Bakker, The Rat Race Release Coach, for a conversation about the powerful ways Spirit guides us — even when we resist. Carolina helps women reconnect with their intuition, higher power, and spirit guides so they can create lives and businesses that truly align with their soul’s calling. Together, Andrea and Carolina explore what it really means to trust your inner guidance, especially when logic, fear, or timi...
Send us a text In Ep. 225, host Andrea Atherton sits down with Dr. Ashley Hudson, a therapist, speaker, and educator whose work bridges the sacred connection between mental, spiritual, and sexual health. With grace and grounded wisdom, Ashley opens up about her PhD research on the impact of the Purity Culture Movement on postpartum women, a topic that reveals how deeply cultural conditioning around sexuality can shape our sense of identity, body image, and self-worth after childbirth. T...
Send us a text In this profound episode of Love Anarchy, host Andrea Atherton sits down with author David Hauser to explore his extraordinary trilogy, The Soul Kiss, called “an absolutely breathtaking blend of love, sensuality, and spirituality.” More than a love story, this series is a guide for men seeking to understand the sacred journey of awakening through relationship. Through his protagonist’s emotional and spiritual evolution, Hauser illuminates what it means for a man to meet a woman...
Send us a text In this profound solo episode, host and love expert Andrea Atherton explores the quiet epidemic of men’s loneliness — a pain that often hides behind success, humor, or silence. Drawing from her reflections as a therapist for over 30 years, working with hundreds of men, Andrea examines how our culture’s long-standing messages about masculinity have conditioned men to suppress emotion, disconnect from tenderness, and fear vulnerability. The result is a generation of men longing f...
Send us a text Join Andrea Atherton, your guide to conscious love and connection, as she sits down with relationship coach Andre Paradis, a master of NLP and relationships, as well as a former professional dancer who has performed alongside legends like Michael Jackson. In this enlightening episode, they explore the often-misunderstood concept of polarity—the dynamic dance between masculine and feminine energy that fuels attraction, intimacy, and magnetic connection. Through the lens of dance...
Send us a text In this powerful continuation of the Shadow Into Light series, host Andrea Atherton invites listeners into the heart of love’s most hidden terrain — the shadow parts we carry into relationships. Building on the foundation of Episode One, Andrea weaves together the wisdom of Carl Jung’s shadow and Dr. Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems model to illuminate how these disowned parts of ourselves show up in partnership. Far from being simply “bad behaviors,” these parts are ...
Send us a text Love is one of the most powerful forces shaping our lives, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. In this episode of the Love Anarchy Podcast, host Andrea Atherton welcomes special guest Egan Sanders to explore how the stories we’ve been told about love—through childhood fairy tales, Hollywood romances, and even family and cultural expectations—often leave us chasing illusions. These beliefs about what love “should” look like can feel comforting at first, but in reality,...
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