Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Brett Chamberlin from OPEN discusses progress in non-monogamous rights, dispelling misconceptions, and advocating for legal protections. They also explore sustaining environmental activism through community support, therapy benefits, and organization initiatives for non-monogamous relationship rights.

The podcast discusses embracing depression, high-functioning depression, and coping strategies in relationships. It compares major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder, highlighting the importance of professional help. The hosts share personal stories, emphasize the significance of support networks, and offer insights on therapy and self-care.

Rhaina Cohen, author of The Other Significant Others, discusses prioritizing friendships in relationships, challenges societal norms, explores non-monogamy, and delves into the importance of deep friendships. The hosts also discuss using the Paired app to nurture relationships and navigate possessiveness in friendships.

This podcast delves into navigating complex relationships post-breakup, including hidden feelings, new partners, and maintaining friendships with exes. It discusses the importance of communication, setting boundaries, and allowing time for healing. Topics also include motivations for dating, seeking validation, and transitioning from romantic to platonic relationships.

Dr. Marie Thouin discusses the concept of compersion and its importance in relationships. They explore navigating compersion alongside jealousy, the significance of healthy communication in non-monogamous relationships, and factors influencing the experience of compersion, such as self-relationship security and rapport with metamores.

In this episode, the podcast delves into the detrimental effects of fear on relationships, discussing fears like intimacy, commitment, and abandonment. They explore how attachment styles and conflict avoidance can prolong relationships, while emphasizing the importance of confronting fears for personal growth and healthier connections.

Renowned psychotherapist Todd Baratz discusses the misconceptions around self-love and healing, the importance of therapy and self-exploration, and the societal tendency to over-pathologize normal struggles. The podcast also explores attachment dynamics in relationships, settling for 'good enough relationships,' and societal expectations of cutting off exes post-breakup.

Exploring personal vs. relationship insecurities, insecurities' impact on behavior, therapy benefits for addressing insecurities. The complexities of addressing insecurities in relationships, intertwining personal and relationship insecurities. Strategies for addressing insecurities, promoting audience participation and community sharing of insecurities.

In this podcast, the hosts discuss powerful communication tools like switchtracking, bids, and microscripts to improve relationships. They provide examples and practical tips for better communication. The episode also features sponsor promotions and explores the importance of acknowledging and responding to bids for emotional connection.

The podcast delves into the stages of grief after a breakup, exploring the emotional complexities and different experiences of processing grief. It includes reflections on bargaining, anger, embracing emotions for healing, dealing with depression, and moving towards acceptance and growth post-breakup.