John Kim (aka The Angry Therapist) has made his mark on Instagram, sharing authentic, raw and unfiltered views on life, love and everything in-between. This week I was honored to discuss his approach and in particular we go deep on the difference between young love and healthy love. If you are wondering how to step into healthy love and beyond the highs and lows of superficial dating, then John Kim is your man!Episode Highlights:1 min - Intro to episode.2 mins - Being authentic online.5 mins - Being a therapist vs being a coach.12 mins - Starting over and having nothing to lose.16 mins - Healthy love vs unhealthy love or young love.24 mins - Relationships are built, not found.29 mins - The bad boy and the codependent.35 mins - False beliefs and limiting beliefs.41 mins - Why don’t we study relationships?45 mins - Accepting that not all relationships are meant to last.Episode Links:The Angry Therapist WebsiteThe Angry Therapist InstagramSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamie Elizabeth Thompson is a holistic intimacy and sex specialist and we had the most amazing conversation about awakening our sexual selves. Sex and sexuality is such a difficult topic for so many people. Whether it be via our culture, familial upbringing, or religious conditioning, there is still so much shame wrapped up in our sexual selves. Jamie and I discuss how we can move through our conditioning and use our vulnerability to empower and explore our sexual selves. Jamie brings so much understanding and knowledge on the power of the erotic to this episode and I’m so excited to bring you this important conversation, whatever your sexuality, relationship type or gender this episode is for you.Podcast Highlights:1 min - Introduction to the episode on sex and sexuality.6 mins - Please leave a review where ever you listen!6.30 mins - The ‘Create The Love’ course discount, ends soon!8 mins - Intro to Jamie Thomson’s work with sex and sexuality.12 mins - Sexual energy and using it in your life as well as the bedroom.16 mins - Puritanism vs hyper-sexualisation.20 mins - Narratives around female sexual repression and male sexual shame.27 mins - The shadow side of sex.30 mins - Erotic intelligence and the erotic actualization pyramid.32 mins - How we can have great sex and how we can break our conditioning.40 mins - Breaking down our sexual shame and repression.47 mins - The feminine sexuality and giving women permission to ask for what they need.49 mins - Erotic love languages.60 mins - Asking for what you want and the ways to ask.1hr 03 mins - Integrating our hearts, minds and genitals.Podcast Links:Create The Love course starting soon!Jamie Elizabeth Thompson FacebookJamie's InstagramJamie's WebsiteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I’m so excited to introduce you to Leah Brathwaite. She is a dear friend of mine and I have had the honour of watching her life transform as well as now seeing her write about her personal transformation in her new book. This week we breakdown what life transformation can feel like, from undoing old, traditional or religious scripts for life, to writing new ones based on our deepest truths. Leah’s story will resonate with so many of you, so I can’t wait for you to hear this.1 min - Mark’s trip to Calgary and it’s serendipity of life.3 mins - The life we “should” have had.7 mins - The new ‘Create The Love’ course.11 mins - Intro to Leah Brathwaite and her book.15 mins - The “I’ll be happy when” life and how to reclaim your own true life.20 mins - Peeling back the layers of your conditioning, Leah’s story, ‘performing’ for love.25 mins - When you look around and don’t recognize your own life.30 mins - Moments of awakening.35 mins - When we wake up but just dig deeper.50 mins - Are you a victim or living through choice?64 mins - Getting confident with allowing life to move through you.Episode Links:Leah Brathwaite InstagramLeah’s book: A New Way of Life: A Guide for Transformation from Living a Lie to Freeing Your SoulMy new Create The Love course! bit.ly/createtheloveLeah BrathwaiteLeah is a Soul Advisor, author of 'A New Way of Life: A Guide for Transformation from Living a Lie to Freeing Your Soul', speaker, and a woman who is deeply committed to helping others reach their full potential, live a meaningful life and make their dreams a reality. In short, Leah helps women connect to their soul so they can live the lives they dream of. Through her writing, workshops and group mentorship program, she offers guidance to better understand and live in alignment with who you really are, what you really want and what you're meant to do.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am so excited to introduce an author whose work has impacted my work so significantly. Dr. Christopher Ryan wrote the epic book ‘Sex at Dawn’ in 2010, and he has gone on to continue researching and writing on human evolution. We discuss it all - human evolution, sex and connection, modernity, the agricultural revolution and how it shifted our sexual behaviour, the internet revolution today, and what all of it means for our lives and our happiness. His work is truly fascinating and I am so honoured that he has shared this work with us today.Episode Highlights:7 mins - Introducing the book ‘Sex at Dawn’.13 mins - Sex. What is it all about? How much are we doing it and WHY?15 mins - The science and research behind ‘Sex at Dawn’.19 mins - The intention and the truths behind the book.22 mins - Monogamy and it’s challenges.24 mins - Sex education around the world today.28 mins - The modern world and our lack of connection, how does this compare to our evolution?36 mins - The evolution of civilization from hunter-gathers to today's modern age. What went wrong?39 mins - The age of the internet, what has social media done to us?43 mins - The economic system - what has the modernity meant for humankind, what has the agricultural evolution done for us?53 mins - The history of polygamy in earlier societies.55 mins - Micro-biomes - what are they, how are they exchanged and how do they affect us.Episode Notes:Sex at Dawn - The BookDr. Christopher Ryan’s PodcastWhat Makes This Thing GreatInstagramSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you throw yourself into your career, or fitness, or diet - so that you can pretend that your relationships aren’t a problem? Do you feel like your always needing to resolve some problem? Today’s episode with Sheri Salata is for you. Sheri leads us in understanding that we are not problems waiting to be solved. We make the mistake of thinking we are broken and everyone else is living an ‘instagram life’. The fact is that we are all our own experts, none of us have it all ‘figured out’ but we all know the recipe to love ourselves home.Episode Highlights5 min - Connection to self, consciousness of self, and Sheri’s new book.8 min - Sheri’s role with Oprah Winfrey.10 min - Finding alignment and when we get ‘distracted’ from true alignment.14 mins - Loving yourself. Love yourself first. Love yourself most. And how does this relate to any relationship?21 mins - Do you really want to live the life of your dreams, or do you want to continue to skip out? Do you seek from your wounds or from your light?28 mins - love as both the path and the destination31 mins - Its never too late to live the life of your dreams.35 mins - Having your own back everyday.41 mins - What is the ‘beautiful no?’44 mins - Not wasting time, how to not waste another day out of alignment. We are not too old and it is not too late.Episode NotesThe Beautiful NO: And Other Tales of Trial, Transcendence, and Transformation by Sheri SalataSheri Salata on InstagramSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Standing up for yourself with love. Terry Real is leading the revolution of breaking down the patriarchy one relationship at a time. He is an internationally recognized Family Therapist, Speaker and Author of four acclaimed books on relationships. Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI) offering workshops for couples, individuals and parents around the country. Terry's approach is about 'Straight Talk to Difficult People', he has no time for the traditional heirarchical patraichal approach in relationships. He argues that through standing up for yourself with love, not only can relationships be saved, but society can also be transformed from patriarchy to loving equality.Episode Highlights3 min - The gaps in traditional couple therapy approaches.5 mins - The grandiosity and superior complex in relationship.6 mins - Moving beyond patriarchy and traditional gender roles.8 mins - The ‘Grey Divorce’ revolution - the end of women caretaking men.11 mins - Men aren’t unhappy in marriage, women are.12 mins - Connection, hierarchies and winning in relationship.17 mins - The negating of women’s voices in couples therapy.21 mins - The traditional and newer masculinities.24 mins - The difference between personal empowerment and relational empowerment - breaking the back of patriarchy. Standing up for yourself with love.27 mins - Terry's personal experience in confronting the power broker.29 mins - The use of sex in place of connection.42 mins - Your partners CNI - what is it and how to use it.47 mins - We all marry our unfinished business. We are attracted to what needs to be healed.Episode LinksTerry Real's WebsiteThe 20 Practices text: 202 517 2151Terry's BooksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Traver Boehm is the leader of the UNcivilized Men’s Movement. He coaches, leads, writes, speaks and trains men in the art of connection to self. This week I was honoured to hear Traver’s personal story, how his life completely transformed when he lost his marriage, his business partnership and in the process almost his mind. But far from it, he has come to champion the revolution for men to connect to their most authentic self and redefine their inner masculinity.Episode Highlights9 mins - The two ends of the masculinity continuum - The Marlboro Man versus the Nice Guy.10 mins - Why do we stick it out with emotional robots? Everyone says they want a ‘conscious’ man, but are they actually ready?14 mins - Integrating the masculine and feminine, boundaries, trust, sexuality and safety.19 mins - When a woman can’t connect to her partner, when “she can’t feel you”.30 mins - Therapy vs coaching, Traver’s first experience with couples therapy.33 mins - Traver’s divorce and rockbottom breakthrough.43 mins - Traver’s journey through the spiritual - The Year To Live Project.55 mins - Breaking through to authenticity.1hr 10mins - Traver's experience in hospices.Episode NotesTraver Boehm InstagramThe UNcivilized MovementMake Pain Your Guru TED talkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode I speak with physician, chef, and integrative medicine expert, Dr. Robert Graham. Nowadays, there is more interest and awareness of the link between what we eat and our overall mental and physical wellness. But what does it really mean? What does our gut health mean for our mental health? What are the most important factors driving our health? Is food the ultimate medicine, or is there more to it? This week I jam with my favourite physician and good friend, Dr. Robert Graham to break it all down!Episode Highlights:8 mins - The relationship between nutrition and health.12 mins - Evidence based medicine, what does it mean?15 mins - The biggest medical crisis of our time? Holistic and integrative medicine? The role of the gut in overall health and wellbeing?18 mins - The link between gut health and emotional health. How to high conflict relationships impact your overall health?23 mins - Love and overall health.28 mins - The most important factor in your health - who you surround yourself with.32 mins - Fatigue - the most common illness seen today.35 mins - The link between IBS and our mental wellness.43 mins - Is food a kind of medicine?5 mins - Vegetarian vs vegan.Episode Notes:Dr. Robert Graham is a Harvard trained physician, Board Certified in both Internal and Integrative Medicine and has over 15 years of clinical experience. Dr. Graham received his medical degree from the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where he received the Community Service Award and subsequently the prestigious “Attending of the Year” award.  Dr. Graham received a Master’s of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health while completing three additional fellowships in General Internal Medicine and Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies at Harvard Medical School as well as Medical Education at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also completed course-work in Mind/Body Medicine, Positive Psychology, Lifestyle Medicine, Culinary Medicine, Botanical and Traditional Chinese Medicine.  In 2018, Dr. Graham became one of less than twenty doctor/chef’s worldwide, as he obtained his culinary degree from the Natural Gourmet Institute.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raphael Cano is a love activist and warrior. He and I met very serendipitously in a coffee shop in NYC, and from that day onward our friendship has continued to evolve and expand. Raphael’s mission is to elevate humanity through universal truths and his own divine shine. Raphael’s friendship has been life-changing for me in so many ways, and in this episode I wanted to highlight how Raphael has supported me in having the space to understand how heteronormativity affects people in the LGBTQ+ community. Raphael walks us through his pathway to coming out, then later, to becoming a love warrior. His courage and energy is inspiring and I am so honoured that he shared his story with us for my podcast.Episode Highlights:4 mins - How Raphael and Mark first connected - Raphael’s first breakup.9 mins - Intuition, gut feelings and following your joy. Is it all just love and light?16 mins - Raphael’s life story - his first kiss, his story of coming out and his upbringing.26 mins - The HighSchool Bully - and the projection and rejection of being gay.33 mins - Raphael’s years of denial of his sexuality and the stress of living out of alignment.39 mins - Raphael’s stepping into alignment, his first boyfriend.42 mins - Raphael’s family’s response and finding his voice and confidence - how ‘Prayers for Bobby’ impacted him.50 mins - The Stages of Coming Out - trauma, acceptance and authenticity.55 mins - Elevating and changing, how dating changes and the dating pool changes.64 mins - The equality that occurs in a mind, body and soul connected relationship.70 mins - Come out as your highest self - whatever that might mean for you.Episode links:Raphael Cano PodcastRaphael Cano InstagramFind LGBTQ+ resource centres here!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Sheleana Aiyana and I talk about Rising Woman. What does it mean to be a rising woman? How did Sheleana’s life lead her to this work? How does one begin to transform pain and trauma into self-compassion and healing? How can we start stepping into our power? If you have ever been impacted by childhood wounds (all of us) then this episode is for you.Episode Highlights:1min - Sheleana’s story - how did she come to do this work.2.30mins - Denial as a coping mechanism and the wakeup call in betrayal and breakup.4mins - Acceptance as the path toward healing.6mins - Shea’s life path - the childhood wounds and traumas.9mins - Transforming pain into healing.11mins - What is shadow work? How does our shadow impact us and our relationships?13mins - What are the most common coaching issues and patterns Sheleana sees?17mins - How did trauma show up in Sheleana’s life?23mins - When you are willing and ready to change, when are you sick of your own shit?25mins - Victim mentality and letting go of it.33mins - How do we start taking responsibility and stepping into our power?37mins - Inner child work and self-soothing.41mins - The difference between compassion and tolerance - the curse of the empath.46mins - The process of healing, how does it work?Podcast links:Rising Woman InstagramSheleana AiyanaMore about Sheleana:Rising Woman is led by Sheleana and her co-founder Heather, who are trained facilitators and guides of shadow-work, conscious relationship, breathwork, and tantric practices. Their current offering is the Heal Your Relationships Program. An 8-Week Journey into the Heart of Your Relationship Patterns. Sheleana is also a trained Doula, having gone through multiple certification programs, including a full-spectrum training with midwife Molly Dutton-Kenney.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices