Carrie Jeroslow is an international best-selling author, relationship diversity advocate, intuitive and conscious relationship coach, speaker, host of the Relationship Diversity Podcast, and author of Why Do They Always Break Up With Me? Her podcast explores and celebrates relationship structure diversity, including soloamory, monogamy, and polyamory.

She has featured on PBS, NBC, TheListTV, The CW, and Go All In TV, and her work has featured in Forbes, Winston Salem Journal, Thrive Global, Newsweek, and Prevention.

Hey everyone! Welcome to today's episode of the Wright Conversations Podcast! For today's episode, I'm joined by Carrie Jeroslow to talk about navigating conscious uncoupling, how to cultivate compassion, and learning from long-term polyamorous relationships. We also talk about Carrie's coming out experience to her family and kids, why she chose to introduce the relationships to her kids, and making anything work through healing.

Let's delve in!

In this Episode You'll Learn:

• [07:10 ] A bit about Carrie.
• [09:40 ] Carrie's conscious uncoupling.
• [15:00 ] Should we break up?
• [16:54 ] How to approach the conversation.
• [22:42 ] Navigating the process of conscious uncoupling.
• [24:33 ] How to cultivate compassion.
• [27:33 ] Why is self-compassion so difficult?
• [29:48 ] Carrie's experience with long-term polyamorous relationships.
• [35:42 ] Challenges of long-term polyamorous relationships.
• [36:56 ] The coming out experience.
• [43:10 ] Why involve the kids?
• [45:42 ] Why tell kids about the nature of the relationship?
• [50:08 ] Carrie's words of wisdom.

Quotes:

• "Conscious uncoupling is not exclusive to nonmonogamy." [08:30 ]
• "Be compassionate with yourself and with your other person." [24:26 ]
• "Compassion is allowing yourself to be where you're at." [25:43 ]
• "You can't have gratitude until you have self-acceptance." [29:06 ]
• "There's a significance in that relationship that I want my kids to be a part of." [46:25 ]

Connect with Carrie Jeroslow

Website:            www.carriejeroslow.com.

Instagram:          @carrie_jeroslow_author_coach.

TikTok:              @carriejeroslow.

Twitter:              @CarrieJeroslow.

LinkedIn:            Carrie Jeroslow.

YouTube:           Carrie Jeroslow.

Podcast:            Relationship Diversity Podcast.

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