What is love addiction? What is toxic love? What can we do on our own to ensure the happiness and health of our relationships? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews educator, speaker, and author, Dr. Erin Watson Learn more about your guest below: Dr. Erin Watson is Canada's top Love Addiction coach. She is an expert in sex, tech, and relationships, and is passionate about helping people find great love (and sex) in a digital age. She has over 15 years of experience in the field as an educator, speaker, author, and workshop facilitator. With a PhD in Sexuality and Relationships, Erin currently teaches at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She was clinically trained as a therapist and brings this insight into the coaching world to help her clients overcome what is holding them back from incredible love. Learn more at * www.drerinwatson.com * https://twitter.com/DrErinWatson * https://www.instagram.com/drerinwatson/ * https://www.facebook.com/drerinwatson 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 keys to effective communication? What is empathic listening? How can couples who find themselves arguing a lot move toward more effective communication? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews author and educator Bento Leal on The Power of Empathic Listening. Learn more about your guest below: Bento Leal is a Relationships Skills Trainer and Author who has taught marriage and relationship skills classes and parenting skills classes to more than 2500 couples and singles at family resource centers, community organizations, churches, schools, substance abuse recovery programs, county jails, and federal prison in California. In 2017, he published his first book “4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work—Anywhere!” It continues to be an Amazon Best Seller in several categories and has sold more than 75,000 copies to date. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bento has been happily married for 41 years with three adult children. Learn more at * www.bentoleal.com * https://www.facebook.com/groups/1644832475545286 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 does the divine love of God look like? When someone has been indoctrinated so tightly to feel shame about their sexuality, what's the first step to breaking out of it? How can we encourage more people to see their faith as loving and accepting of all peoples? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews coach, author, and founder of Break Free Together, Linda Kay Klein on Breaking Free From Silence and Shame Learn more about your guest below: Linda Kay Klein is founder and president of the nonprofit, Break Free Together, and a personal coach dedicated to helping people release shame and claim their whole selves. This work was born out of her 15 years of research on religious trauma around sex and gender, documented in her award-winning book, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. Linda’s work has been featured by hundreds of outlets and venues, including CBS, NBC, NPR, TEDx stage, and The Apollo’s Women of the World Festival. She holds an interdisciplinary Masters degree in gender studies, religious studies, oral history, nonfiction writing, and art as social change from NYU. Learn more at * https://lindakayklein.com/ * https://www.instagram.com/lindakayklein/ * https://twitter.com/LindaKayKlein * https://www.facebook.com/lindakayklein * https://lindakayklein.com/break-free-together/ 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 is polyamory? What's a sign that someone might be suited for polyamory? What are some common mistakes people make when exploring polyamory for the first time? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the polyamorous writer and educator Franklin Veaux on Beyond Monogamy Learn more about your guest below: Franklin has been ideologically polyamorous his entire life, functionally polyamorous since 1984, and writing about polyamory since 1998. Monogamy has never made much sense to him. (When he heard a fairy tale about a princess forced to choose between two handsome princes, he thought “everyone knows princesses live in castles. And castles are big enough for both princes. So why does she have to choose?”) He started practicing non-monogamy from the moment he started becoming aware that boys and girls are different. Along the way, he's made just about every mistake it’s possible to make in polyamorous relationships. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. Today, he is married, has several partners, and lives in Portland, Oregon. He is a professional writer who writes fiction and nonfiction on everything from ethics to transhumanism to computer security. He is the author of The Game Changer: A Memoir of Disruptive Love, the coauthor of the nonfiction book More Than Two and the steampunk alternate history novel Black Iron, and has a new novel coming out in 2021 coauthored with Eunice Hung. Learn more at * www.franklinveaux.com * https://www.facebook.com/franklinveaux * https://twitter.com/franklinveaux * https://www.quora.com/profile/Franklin-Veaux 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 four main qualities of love? What can we do to cultivate an open heart and aware mind? What is heartbreak and how can we cope with it? Learn the answer to these questions and more in this in this week's episode of the Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews meditation teacher and author, Lodro Rinzler. Learn more about your guest below: Lodro Rinzler is the author of six meditation books including The Buddha Walks into a Bar and Love Hurts: Buddhist Advice for the Heartbroken and the co-founder of MNDFL meditation studios in New York City. His books Walk Like a Buddha and The Buddha Walks into the Office both have received Independent Publisher Book Awards. He has taught meditation for nineteen years in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and travels frequently for his books, having spoken across the world at conferences, universities, and businesses as diverse as Google, Harvard University and the White House. Named one of 50 Innovators Shaping the Future of Wellness by SONIMA, Rinzler's work has been featured in The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Good Morning America, CBS, and NBC. Learn more at * https://www.facebook.com/LodroRinzlerSpeaks/ * https://twitter.com/lodrorinzler * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIdz0PCZw2BN9soP_mZIDYA * https://www.instagram.com/lodrorinzler/ 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 pillars for a world class marriage? What are the three conditions that promote growth in a relationship? What is the key to effective confrontation? Learn the answer to these questions and more in this in this week's episode of the Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews relationship educator and author, Patty Howell. Learn more about your guest below: Patty Howell is the President of Healthy Relationships California, a non-profit organization that has taught Relationship Skills and Psychosocial Education programs to more than 200,000 participants throughout California and beyond. As a trainer, program and developer, she authored one the largest multi-year, multi-site research study on Relationship Education programs. She and her late husband, Ralph Jones, are the coauthors of World Class Marriage: How to Create the Relationship You Always Wanted with the Partner You Already Have, and the creators of the World Class family of relationship skills curricula taught to more than 100,00 people. Patty is a charismatic leader, and persuasive public speaker with UN Conference experience… She for years she has taught a broad range of Relationship and Psychosocial Education programs to diverse populations throughout the U.S. and in 14 countries around the world. Learn more at * www.RelationshipsCA.org * https://twitter.com/relationshipsca * https://www.facebook.com/relationshipsca * https://twitter.com/PattyCaMarriage * https://www.facebook.com/World-Class-Marriage-280833911023/ 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 four attachment styles? What are some things we can do to build secure attachment? How can we support our partners who didn't have the best childhoods? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews counselor, consultant and educator Carista Luminare on Building Secure Attachment. Learn more about your guest below: Carista Luminare, Ph.D., has more than 40 years experience as a counselor, consultant and educator to individuals, couples and families. In her counseling practice, she integrates her lifelong research on early bonding patterns and how they impact our identity and our adult relationship dynamics. Her powerful life-changing programs bring participants into direct experience and embodiment of their True Self. Carista has developed a comprehensive holistic parenting methodology, a leading-edge evolutionary leadership program, and a practical approach for couples to rewire their insecure bonding patterns into a secure functioning relationship. After graduating from Harvard University in Psychology and Social Relations in 1978, and completing her post-graduate degrees, Carista pioneered educational programs on early attachment that focused on preventing and repairing childhood developmental trauma. She is the author of the groundbreaking book, Parenting Begins Before Conception. She is certified in both the Gottman Method and Stan Tatkin’s PACT Institute. Carista has lectured throughout the United States at conferences, hospitals, and universities, and has been featured in a variety of international teleseminars and media about early attachment and human development. She is a featured blog writer at YourTango.com. She is the co-founder and President of Luminary Leadership Institute, and co-creator of the programs offered at ConfusedAboutLove.com. Carista is a mother, and step-mother, and she has used her approach with her own family and in her relationships with great success (including with her beloved partner, Lion Goodman!) Learn more at * https://confusedaboutlove.com/ * https://trueself.net/ * http://healingnarcissismandcodependency.com/ * https://www.luminaryleadership.net/ 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 subjects would be taught in a Love and Sex school? What does it mean to develop your erotic identity? How can long-term couples keep their desire alive? Learn the answer to these questions and more in this in this week's episode of the Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews psychotherapist, podcast host, and writer, Todd Baratz. Learn more about your guest below: Todd Baratz a licensed individual and couples psychotherapist, podcast host and writer who specializes in sex and relationships. He has a Bachelors degree in Cultural Psychology from New York University and a Masters degree in Mental Health Counseling from University of Miami. His podcast, your Diagnonsense, focuses on relationships, sex, and all the other nonsense that accompanies the human condition. Learn more at * https://www.toddsbaratz.com/ * https://www.instagram.com/yourdiagnonsense/ * https://twitter.com/toddbaratz 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's the difference between compassion and empathy? What are the three universal triggers of compassion? How can we start and stick to a meditation practice? Find out in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews mindfulness teacher and counselor Victoria Brattini on Mindful Self-Compassion Learn more about your guest below: Victoria is a teacher, mentor, and counselor with a passion for guiding people on a path to loving and holding themselves with tender compassion. A dedicated meditator for over 40 years, Victoria's teaching and counseling journey has included work with teenagers, university students and adults. A previous director of health programs, now Victoria regularly leads groups, courses, and classes on Mindful Self Compassion, an empirically-supported skill development program for cultivating self compassion in our daily life. Learn more at * https://www.lagunameditation.com/ * https://www.instagram.com/lagunameditation/ * https://centerformsc.org/user-profile/victoriabrattini/ 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 is there so much misinformation about sex and relationships? What are the cultural myths that hold people back in their relationships? What is the new modern love story? Learn the answer to these questions and more in this in this week's episode of the Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews sexual empowerment and relationship coach Janel Vitale on Sex and Relationship Myths. Learn more about your guest below: Janel Vitale is a coach for shame-free relationships and sexual empowerment. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, her message has a wide national reach through her TikTok channel. Her passion is empowering people to overcome shame and fear in their intimate relationships to create the deep connection and fulfilling sex they crave. An expert in emotional intelligence and vulnerable communication, holds a BA in Communication from the University of Southern California and a sex & relationship coaching certification from the Somatica Institute. Learn more at * lovewithjanel.com * https://www.instagram.com/lovewithjanel/ * https://www.facebook.com/lovewithjanel/ * https://www.tiktok.com/@lovewithjanel * https://www.youtube.com/c/lovewithjanel 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/