The Learn to Love Podcast

What's so special about yoga? How do we delineate between needing to push through something in order to grow, and when to actually relax, tend, and befriend? How do we find greater balance in our lives? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews yoga and meditation teacher, Meghan Pherrill, on Finding Balance in our Busy Lives. Learn more about your guest below: Meghan Pherrill is the creator of Balance by Meghan; an online platform designed to inspire and empower others to begin and maintain their yoga, health and wellness journey. She is the host of the Balance Your Life Podcast, an YACEP, ERYT 200, RYT 500, Meditation teacher, Pre and Post Natal Yoga teacher. She offers her students international retreats and workshops, and an online membership with workouts, meditations, and yoga to transform your mind and body. She offers fun tutorial and videos to her 20K+ followers on TikTok and her Instagram community.   Learn more at  - www.balancebymeghan.com -https://www.instagram.com/balancebymeghan/ -https://www.facebook.com/balancebymeghan - https://twitter.com/balancebymeghan - https://www.tiktok.com/@balancebymeghan Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

How can we best remain connected in today's times? How can we best manage the uncertainty with infertility challenges? What tools can help us when the dreams we have for our lives disappear? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews meditation teacher, podcast host, and infertility expert Josephine Atluri on Loving Through Infertility. For more on this episode, click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-53-loving-through-infertility-with-josephine-atluri/ Learn more about your guest below: Josephine Atluri is an expert in meditation and in overcoming adversity to find joy. Through her unique journey on her path to become a mom of five, Josephine weathered many ups and downs with IVF, international adoption and surrogacy. Channeling her experience to find calm and courage and to focus on perseverance, she now helps others navigate life’s curveballs, through group and individual online meditation training and her “Responding to Life” podcast. Learn more at  - https://www.jatluri.com - https://www.instagram.com/josephineratluri/ - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSwu7XQNYOe2ARMzc9oBaDw/ - https://www.instagram.com/respondingtolifepodcast/ Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

Why do we betray the ones we love? How can we rebuild trust after betrayal? How can a fractured couple best repair their relationship? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews Marriage and Family Therapist, Jennifer Lehr on Rebuilding after Betrayal. Find out more about the episode here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-52-rebuilding-after-betrayal-with-jennifer-lehr-mft/ Learn more about your guest below: In her younger years, Jennifer did not have the skills needed to have a successful relationship. Like many others, Jennifer grew up in a family with difficult family dynamics. She changed that by spending years working on her own issues, educating herself as well as studying and training as a couples therapist and working with couples. Jennifer knew that if she could change her relationship ability from poor to excellent, anybody could.  In 2009, she began writing WeConcile a revolutionary do-it-yourself online educational application that helps couples improve trust, intimacy, safety and connection through established relationship science. She created WeConcile to help couples get free from pain and disconnection, and to again find happiness in marriage. Now, Jennifer Lehr is on a mission to create a world filled with connection instead of conflict.  She specializes in educating couples on the relationship skills they need to build a solid, connected and loving partnership. As a marriage and family therapist for nearly 20 years, she uses her knowledge and advanced training in many couples' modalities to help others succeed in their marriage. Jennifer is a regular contributor to many online publications as well as her blogs, sharing her experience and expertise to help people improve their lives and relationships. She also writes and talks about her journey from a difficult relational beginning to creating a beautiful relationship with her husband, Mike.  Learn more at  - https://www.jenniferlehrmft.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/JenniferlehrMFT - https://twitter.com/JenniferLehrMFT - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsd-X1BvZv4l4jKkWQmsZ7Q - https://www.instagram.com/weconcile/ - https://weconcile.com/ Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

When is a couple ready to have a baby? What are the three babies of pregnancy? What does falling in love with parenting together look like? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the parent-baby educator, Lara Elfstrand, on Falling in love with parenting together. For more on this episode click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-51-falling-in-love-with-parenting-together-with-lara-elfstrand/ Learn more about your guest below: I help couples to fall in love with parenting… together. I do that by helping babies to cry less, smile more, and develop well; helping parents to support growth from a calm, confident, unconditional place; and helping couples to reduce resentment and isolation and manage conflict while increasing friendship and intimacy. I help couples to focus on their relationship as something that needs to be protected and nurtured during the transition to parenthood, as their identities change and they develop their different parenting styles. I have taught Bringing Baby Home classes to young couples and families in a variety of life stages—considering parenthood, expecting a baby, or with an infant or toddler at home. Learn more about me at little-elf.org I am a postpartum doula. I have a master’s in early childhood special education and am endorsed as an advanced transdisciplinary infant parent mental health practitioner. I am certified in Happiest Baby on the Block, the Gottman Bringing Baby Home program, and infant massage. Learn more at  - http://www.little-elf.org/ - https://twitter.com/LittleElfFamily - https://www.yelp.com/biz/little-elf-family-services-san-jose - https://www.facebook.com/LittleElfFamilyServices/ - https://www.instagram.com/little_elf_family_services/ Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

What are the secrets to a long and happy marriage? What does unconditional love for one's children look like? What can newlyweds do to ensure the success of their union? Find out in this week's very special episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, the 50th episode anniversary, where your host Zach Beach interviews his very own parents, Charles and Michele Beach, on Loving Marriage and Family. Charles and Michele will be celebrating their 40th anniversary this year. Learn more about the episode here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-50-loving-marriage-and-family-special-50th-episode-anniversary-with-michele-and-charles-beach/ Learn more about your guests below: Michele Beach is a lifelong educator.  On her path to becoming a teacher, she was the first person in her family to attend and graduate from college.  Over the span of her 40+ year career, she taught students ages 3-21 as well as university students and graduate students, students with visual impairments and multiple disabilities.  She served as a school principal and also a director of special programs in the same school district.  Over that same period of time, Michele focused on the most important aspect of her life - her family. Her family has always been a source of joy, strength, and inspiration.     Chuck Beach is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and pursued a career in computers, working in aerospace and defense, as well as engaging in a startup.  He also taught classes on Information Systems at Rockford University. He has been on the board of the local Red Cross chapter, and the board of a local homeless shelter.  As the biggest fan of his own children, he has shared the journey as a soccer coach, chess coach, robotics coach, and high school game announcer.  Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

Ep 49:  Secret Keys to Good Communication with Alicia Muñoz What does it mean to cultivate beginner's mind with our partner? How do we balance being true to ourselves with flexibility and being open to our partner's influence? What are some secret keys we can bring to our conversations? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews counselor, couples therapist and author Alicia Muñoz on Secret Keys to Good Communication . Learn more about your guest below: Alicia Muñoz is I’m a licensed professional counselor and a certified couples therapist with training in Imago Therapy, CBT, and Dyanmic Pyschotherapy. She has worked in a wide array of clinical settings over the past fourteen years, including private clinics, New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, and private practice. She is the author of “No More Fighting,” “A Year of Us,” and her most recent work is, The Couple's Quiz Book: 350 Fun Questions to Energize Your Relationship. Learn more at  - https://aliciamunoz.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/aliciamunozlpc - https://twitter.com/aliciamunozlpc - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliciamunozlpc/ - https://www.instagram.com/aliciamunozcouples/ Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

How can we become aware of belief systems that aren't serving us? How do we construct more positive ideologies? What would a new understanding of what the Bible and Christianity say about sex and relationships look like? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the relationship coach, podcast host, and author Kat Harris on  Deconstructing Negative Ideologies. Learn more about your guest below: Kat Harris is the host of The Refined Collective Podcast, and Co-Founder of the online publication The Refined Woman. Her first book Sexless in the City will hit bookstores April 2021. She has also been a full-time photographer for the last decade with her work featured in:  Vanity Fair, GQ, Forbes, People, Who What Wear, US Weekly, Glamour UK, and more. She coaches and equips women all over the world in dating, relationships, singleness, sexuality, faith and how to build a renewed and healthy biblical sexual ethic rooted in freedom, truth and grace as opposed to the oh-so-common shame and fear narratives so many experienced growing up in evangelical culture. Kat loves God, personal development, a good Beyoncé dance party, + is a Ranch dressing connoisseur. She believes in the power of story, that done is better than perfect, quality triumphs quantity, and that the journey truly is the destination. Ultimately, her vision is for women to know their beauty, identity, worth and value and to experience untapped freedom and joy in their lives regardless of their relationship status." Learn more at  - https://therefinedwoman.com/ - https://www.instagram.com/therefinedwoman/ - https://www.facebook.com/TheRefinedWoman/ Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Support The Show: If you like the show there are many ways you can support it, such as, - Register for Relationship Mastery, a 6-week self-guided course to take your relationship to the next level. https://www.the-heart-center.com/relationship-mastery-landing-page/ - Check out one of our sponsors, Listenable and use the discount code “zachbeach” for the first seven days on the platform for free. There you can find Zach’s How To Be a Better Partner Course. https://frstre.com/go/?a=76205-87a7d9&s=1256514-e13191&p_affiliate.referral_code=zachbeach - Purchase The Seven Lessons of Love: Heart Wisdom for Troubling Times on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Love-Heart-Wisdom-Troubling/dp/1983940704/ - Purchase a love shirt and show the world your love of love https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-heart-center/ - Review, Like, and Subscribe to the show on iTunes. - Like us on Facebook facebook.com/learntolovenow - Join the  Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

What Buddhist wisdom can we apply to our relationships? What are the three keys to passion? How do we restore the feelings of being in love? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews Psychologist, Sex Therapist, and author Dr. Cheryl Fraser on The Three Keys to Passion Learn more about your guest below: Sharp, frank, and fearless, that’s Buddhist sex therapist, Certified Gottman Therapist, author, and speaker Dr. Cheryl Fraser. With a rare combination of academic credibility, humor, straight-talk, and life-changing advice, she has helped thousands of couples jumpstart their love life and create passion that lasts a lifetime. She has taught for Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield, appears on countless podcasts, and writes about love and sex for magazines. Dr. Cheryl’s new online workshop for couples – Become Passion – Create Love that Lasts a Lifetime, brings her work to your own living room. Register for a free Passion Masterclass here. Her book, Buddha’s Bedroom: The Mindful Loving Path to Sexual Passion and Lifelong Intimacy, is available now. For more information and to sign up for weekly LoveBytes – tips and techniques for couples, visit her website and check out her videos here. Learn more at  - Website: www.drcherylfraser.com -Facebook: www.facebook.com/drcherylfraser - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/drcherylfraser - Buddha's Bedroom: https://drcherylfraser.com/buddhasbedroom/ - Take the Passion Quiz and Rate your Relationship: https://drcherylfraser.com/quiz/ Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

What tools should every relationship have in their toolbox? Why do couples keep getting into the same arguments again and again? What can couples do to break out of criticism? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews therapist, author, and psychiatric consultant, Dr. Phil Lee about Ending Argument Addiction. Learn more about your guest below: Dr. Phil Lee is the Co-head of Couples Therapy at Weill Cornell Medical Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. He teaches and supervises all psychiatry residents in the practice of marital and couples therapy. With numerous publications, seminars, podcasts, and media appearances to his credit, Dr Lee is an expert in marital therapy. The new book Argument Addiction, authored by Dr Lee and Dr Rudolph is now available. In his private practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and in Greenwich, CT, he specializes in helping patients with challenges in their personal and professional relationships; anxiety or depression, performance issues at work and in sports and the arts. With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Lee is focused on results: feeling happier, having stronger relationships, and performing your best at work and play. Dr. Lee is the psychiatric consultant for the best selling coffee table books The Mind and The Brain.His most recent book Argument Addiction -- why arguments are lethal, how to stop them and start winning happiness and marital satisfaction is available on Amazon. Learn more at  - https://philleemd.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/philleemd - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRuly3HlXHZo3lGQBkA3XpQ Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Support The Show: If you like the show there are many ways you can support it, such as, - Register for Relationship Mastery, a 6-week self-guided course to take your relationship to the next level. https://www.the-heart-center.com/relationship-mastery-landing-page/ - Check out one of our sponsors, Listenable and use the discount code “zachbeach” for the first seven days on the platform for free. There you can find Zach’s How To Be a Better Partner Course. https://frstre.com/go/?a=76205-87a7d9&s=1256514-e13191&p_affiliate.referral_code=zachbeach - Purchase The Seven Lessons of Love: Heart Wisdom for Troubling Times on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Love-Heart-Wisdom-Troubling/dp/1983940704/ - Purchase a love shirt and show the world your love of love https://www.bonfire.com/store/the-heart-center/ - Review, Like, and Subscribe to the show on iTunes. - Like us on Facebook facebook.com/learntolovenow - Join the  Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

How can we embrace our worthiness? What are the three pillars to true companionship? How can loneliness be a good thing? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews clinical psychologist, author, consultant, and speaker Kelly M. Flanagan, Ph.D. on The Three Pillars of True Companionship Learn more about your guest below: Dr. Kelly Flanagan is a clinical psychologist, author, consultant, and speaker who enjoys walking with people through the three essentials of a truly satisfying life. Kelly has a Ph.D. from Penn State University and is the founder of Artisan Clinical Associates in Naperville, IL. In 2012, he began his now popular blog, where he writes regularly about those three essentials: worthiness, belonging, and purpose. His writing has been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Huffington Post, The 5 Love Languages, and in 2014 a letter he wrote to his daughter led to their appearance on the TODAY Show. In 2017, Kelly published his first book—Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life—and it debuted as the #1 New Release in Interpersonal Relations on Amazon. His next book—True Companions: A Book for Everyone About the Relationships That See Us Through—will be published in February 2021. Kelly is married to another clinical psychologist named Kelly—because they decided to make life more complicated than it already is—and they have three children: Aidan, 17; Quinn, 13; and Caitlin, 11. They live in a small town outside of Chicago. Connect and learn more at drkellyflanagan.com. Learn more at  - WEBSITE: drkellyflanagan.com - BOOK: truecompanionsbook.com - PRACTICE: artisanclinical.com - FACEBOOK:  facebook.com/drkellyflanagan - TWITTER:       twitter.com/DrKellyFlanagan - INSTAGRAM: instagram.com/drkellyflanagan Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Community group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/