As a birth and postpartum doulas, we understand that pregnancy and birth can be a challenging experience, especially for those who are doing it alone. Planning for pregnancy - It is important to talk about planning for pregnancy and how it can be a different experience when you are single. We discuss topics such as choosing a sperm donor or a co-parent, discussing pregnancy plans with your family and friends, and how to navigate societal stigmas around single parenthood.Finding the right support system - Pregnancy and birth can be a vulnerable and emotional time, and it is essential to have a strong support system in place.We talk about how to find support through friends, family, or support groups, and how to choose a doula or midwife to support you throughout your pregnancy and birth.Navigating healthcare providers - It is crucial to have a healthcare provider that supports your pregnancy and birth goals. We talk about how to find the right obstetrician or midwife, how to communicate your needs, and how to advocate for yourself during medical appointments.Creating a birth plan - Creating a birth plan is an important part of preparing for birth, and it can be even more critical when you are doing it alone. We discuss what a birth plan is, how to create one, and what to include in it. Additionally, we can cover how to communicate your birth plan to your healthcare provider and your birth support team.Navigating postpartum - After birth, there are unique challenges that single parents may face. We discuss topics such as managing breastfeeding or formula feeding, and how to create a support system for the postpartum period.Connect with JillInstagramWebsiteLinkedInFacebookConnect with LaurenInstagramThe Doula LifeFacebookJump into the Single on Purpose private community below for forums, chats, live groups, and courses.Join the communitySingle on Purpose is created by The Angry Therapist, John Kim, who will also be in the rotation of experts. We are starting the podcast with 20 experts across the wellness space.Check out John's website and sign up for his daily life insights in text. It's daily mental health programming in your pocket. For more content, you can follow John on Instagram YouTube, and TikTok, for more self-help-related content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Imani and Amy talk about the state of relationships today; specifically that: The Dating Pool Has Piss In It! They explore why the dating pool has piss in it and what people can do about it.Connect with ImaniInstagramWebsiteEmailConnect with AmyWebsiteInstagramLinkedInJump into the Single on Purpose private community below for forums, chats, live groups, and courses.Join the communitySingle on Purpose is created by The Angry Therapist, John Kim, who will also be in the rotation of experts. We are starting the podcast with 20 experts across the wellness space.Check out John's website and sign up for his daily life insights in text. It's daily mental health programming in your pocket. For more content, you can follow John on Instagram YouTube, and TikTok, for more self-help-related content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Amy and Sean introduce the 12 Step framework for treating addictions, demystify the process, and share on the model’s universality.Amy Brown is a Meditation Teacher and Certified Mindfulness and Life Coach specializing in relationships. She works globally with individuals who want to navigate their breakup or divorce in a respectful, mindful and conscious way, so they can heal, move forward to new healthy relationships, and ultimately thrive.Her background is in psychology, communications, meditation, mindfulness and Pilates.She has taught and coached in physical and mental wellness for over 20 years.Sean Cardinalli is a coach, writer, and activist who returned to coaching on sex & love addiction at the outset of the pandemic after a 4-year hiatus. His coaching style tends toward a 12 Step recovery perspective which saved his life and livelihood 14 years ago. Sean earned his local certificate through Linda Bark’s holistic coaching methodology and is pursuing his ICF certification and a degree in social work. Beyond sex & love addiction, Sean’s practice focuses on intimacy, relationships, divorce, dating, and the creative process.Connect with AmyWebsiteInstagramLinkedInConnect with SeanInstagramTwitterLinkedInFacebookJump into the Single on Purpose private community below for forums, chats, live groups, and courses.Join the communitySingle on Purpose is created by The Angry Therapist, John Kim, who will also be in the rotation of experts. We are starting the podcast with 20 experts across the wellness space.Check out John's website and sign up for his daily life insights in text. It's daily mental health programming in your pocket. For more content, you can follow John on Instagram YouTube, and TikTok, for more self-help-related content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Milly and Ashley talk about how the relationship with our bodies affects how we experience pleasure. We touch on levels of intimacy, dissociation during sex, and whether having multiple sex partners affects our spiritual energy. Connect with MillyWebsiteInstagramConnect with AshleyWebsiteInstagramJump into Single on Purpose private community below for forums, chats, live groups, and courses.Join the communitySingle on Purpose is created by The Angry Therapist, John Kim, who will also be in the rotation of experts. We are starting the podcast with 20 experts across the wellness space.Check out John's website and sign up for his daily life insights in text. It's daily mental health programming in your pocket. For more content, you can follow John on Instagram YouTube, and TikTok, for more self-help-related content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lindsay interviews the incredible Mauri Konell, Founder of The Girls Empowerment Experience, who vulnerably shares her own journey of overcoming an eating disorder, substance abuse, codependency, and perfectionism to building her own business, meeting the love of her life, and becoming a mother. Turning her pain into purpose, she now empowers young girls and women to take hold of their mental health by teaching them self-compassion and love, confidence, and how to listen to themselves. In this episode, she dives into her journey out of rock bottom to finding herself, discovering self-love, her passions, and her worth, and setting up for a new, stronger healthier version of herself when love did come knocking at her door. Connect with MauriInstagramGirls EmpowermentConnect with LindsayInstagramWebsiteLinkedInJump into Single on Purpose private community below for forums, chats, live groups, and courses.Join the communitySingle on Purpose is created by The Angry Therapist, John Kim, who will also be in the rotation of experts. We are starting the podcast with 20 experts across the wellness space.Check out John's website and sign up for his daily life insights in text. It's daily mental health programming in your pocket. For more content, you can follow John on Instagram YouTube, and TikTok, for more self-help-related content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean interviews relationship coach Gabriela, who reflects on her coaching practice, being single on purpose, and embracing her feminine energy while encouraging her clients to do the same.Sean Cardinalli is a coach, writer, and activist who returned to coaching on sex & love addiction at the outset of the pandemic after a 4-year hiatus. His coaching style tends toward a 12 Step recovery perspective which saved his life and livelihood 14 years ago. Sean earned his local certificate through Linda Bark’s holistic coaching methodology and is pursuing his ICF certification and a degree in social work. Beyond sex & love addiction, Sean’s practice focuses on intimacy, relationships, divorce, dating, and the creative process. Gabriela Escalante is a certified life coach, specializing in helping women create healthy relationships. After losing herself in relationships and going through hard breakups, she realized the problem and the solution was inside her all along. She was living in survival mode protecting herself from being hurt and wearing a masculine shield, instead of allowing herself to be in her feminine. Through her work, she helps women re-build their confidence and live a life they've always dreamed of. Connect with SeanInstagramTwitterLinkedInFacebookJump into the Single on Purpose private community below for forums, chats, live groups, and courses.Join the communitySingle on Purpose is created by The Angry Therapist, John Kim, who will also be in the rotation of experts. We are starting the podcast with 20 experts across the wellness space.Check out John's website and sign up for his daily life insights in text. It's daily mental health programming in your pocket. For more content, you can follow John on Instagram YouTube, and TikTok, for more self-help-related content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Dené sits down with her friend and relationship coach Nico Barraza. They talk about the challenges that come up in modern dating, attempting to maintain a solid sense of Self while keeping your heart open to love, and some of the most common misconceptions that come up between men and women about finding fulfillment in life and love. Connect with DeneWebsiteInstagramCheaper Than Therapy PodcastFacebookConnect with NickWebsiteInstagramListen to his podcast: Starve The Ego, Feed The Soul Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Ashley Torrent talks with Intuitive Guide, Allison Wilner, about her intuitive journey. She shares how she experiences intuition, what it’s like to live an inttiuvely guided life, and how connecting with intuition and healing go hand in hand. Ashley Torrent is a psycho-spiritual therapist, intuitive medium, and spiritual teacher. She is the co-host of The Blue Butterfly Effect Podcast which aims to ground spirituality and explore personal transformation and The Practice of Love Podcast created by her and her partner of over 21 years based on the concepts of The Practice of Love book and experiences in their relationship. She believes based on her personal experience as a complex trauma survivor and practitioner that true healing occurs when we weave together psychological understanding and spiritual practice. She can be found on Instagram @ashleytorrent29. Allison Wilner (she/her) is an intuitive guide who facilitates connection with and shares messages from the soul realms. She specializes in supporting clients in connecting with their intuition and deepening their self-trust. She completed a three-year training in polarity therapy, a form of body and energy work, and she is an experienced practitioner of mindfulness and meditation. A former NYC public high school English teacher, Allison has fifteen years of experience in secondary education; social justice, English language arts, and social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum writing; instructional coaching; and nonprofit management. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Davidson College and holds a Master of Arts in the Teaching of English from Teachers College, Columbia University.Connect with AshleyWebsiteInstagramConnect with AllisonWebsiteInstagramJump into the Single on Purpose private community below for forums, chats, live groups, and courses.Join the communitySingle on Purpose is created by The Angry Therapist, John Kim, who will also be in the rotation of experts. We are starting the podcast with 20 experts across the wellness space.Check out John's website and sign up for his daily life insights in text. It's daily mental health programming in your pocket. For more content, you can follow John on Instagram YouTube, and TikTok, for more self-help-related content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Amy and Sean chat about the realities of divorce and how to manage the process mindfully. They address hateful break-ups, new family dynamics, the children of divorce, and navigating with new partners.Connect with AmyWebsiteInstagramLinkedInConnect with SeanInstagramTwitterLinkedInFacebookJump into the Single on Purpose private community below for forums, chats, live groups, and courses.Join the communitySingle on Purpose is created by The Angry Therapist, John Kim, who will also be in the rotation of experts. We are starting the podcast with 20 experts across the wellness space.Check out John's website and sign up for his daily life insights in text. It's daily mental health programming in your pocket. For more content, you can follow John on Instagram YouTube, and TikTok, for more self-help-related content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What exactly is an intuitive medium? In this episode, Ashley attempts to demystify her work as a medium. Her and Lair discuss intuition, soul to soul connections and why it’s important for each of us to find our intuitive voice.Connect with Ashley and LairAshley's InstagramLair's InstagramNot Your Mama's Therapy PodcastJump into the Single on Purpose private community below for forums, chats, live groups, and courses.Join the communitySingle on Purpose is created by The Angry Therapist, John Kim, who will also be in the rotation of experts. We are starting the podcast with 20 experts across the wellness space.Check out John's website and sign up for his daily life insights in text. It's daily mental health programming in your pocket. For more content, you can follow John on Instagram YouTube, and TikTok, for more self-help-related content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices