Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice

Buckle up, this is a value packed episode that will have all kinds of light bulbs going off for you! We discuss relationship development in this episode, from both healthy development, and what it looks like in a relationship with a narcissist. In this episode, you will learn the following: 1. What is the experience of being in a relationship with a narcissist like? 2. What is the cycle of a relationship with a narcissist? 3. What are the stages of healthy relationship development? Now that you know about Healthy Relationship Development vs. Stages of a Relationship with a Narcissist I hope this gives you more awareness of what to expect, and what to look out for when building relationships. If you realize that you keep getting stuck in the stages of relationship development, and need to learn to become the securely attached version of you, I want to invite you to do the work to heal your attachment style. Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here: Click Here to Apply Pssssst Podcast listeners get a special program offer: 10% off the program price! EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM DISCOUNT CODE FOR PODCAST LISTENERS ONLY: LGV10

Today, we have a very special guest, a graduate of the ESL program; Emma Wellings.    Emma Wellings is an international wardrobe stylist, founder of her own clothing line, Style on the Go, and graduate of the Empowered, Secure Love program. She is passionate about fashion, horse riding, working out, travel, and the arts.   In this episode, you will learn the following:  1. How can you rewire your brain to trust yourself?  2. What strategies can you use to navigate relationships and overcome abandonment issues?  3. How can you release the past, and create the life you want?    Emma felt she was never enough and had a pattern of unhealthy relationships in her life. Through the Empowered.Secure.Loved.program, she realized the importance of self-care, self-trust, and allowing herself the time to work on her inner-child. With newfound structure and self-love, Emma has started to heal from her abandonment issues and is now ready to date in a healthy way!    If Emma’s journey really spoke to you, and you’re ready to do the work to heal, I want to personally invite you to apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved. Relationship Program.    Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here:    Click Here to Apply Be sure and connect with Emma: Instagram @emmajanestylistwears @mystyleonthego   Website www.mystyleonthego.com

Pssssst- I have never opened up about this topic before on the podcast!  I am choosing sobriety in 2023 and inside of this episode I walk you through WHY  In this episode, we will discuss the following:          1. How can alcohol impact our ability to make intentional decisions?  2. What are the potential risks of developing alcohol dependence?  3. How can personal growth and inner healing work help us better manage our relationship with alcohol?   I understand that not everyone has the same experience, but through my own journey, I learned that I do not need alcohol to be confident or to enjoy socializing. I encourage others to become aware of their own relationship with alcohol and make the decision that is right for them. For me, sobriety allows me to make conscious, intentional decisions and enjoy relationships without relying on alcohol. If this episode spoke to you, and you’re ready to do the work to heal, I want to personally invite you to apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved. Relationship Program.  Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here:    Click Here to Apply   Pssssst Podcast listeners get a special program offer: 10% off the program price!   EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM DISCOUNT CODE FOR PODCAST LISTENERS ONLY:  LGV10

Today’s guest episode is a powerful one!  Lauren Zoeller doesn’t hold anything back in this interview.  Sneak peak: "When you start to get into somatic work and really understanding the nervous system and understanding the four survival responses, you can really see where your body is in a moment to moment basis and then say, oh, wait a second, I'm in a lot of activation right now. I can resource safety, that's the goal." - Lauren Zoeller Lauren Zoeller shares her personal story of hitting rock bottom in her life, and then discovering Somatic Processing.  Inside this episode she explains that Somatic processing is a way to renegotiate trauma in the body.  In this episode, you will learn the following:  1. How can trauma be renegotiated in the body?  2. How can understanding the language of the nervous system help us recognize and source safety?  3. What is the fawn survival response, and how does it manifest in our relationships? If this episode spoke to you, and you’re ready to do the work to heal, I want to personally invite you to apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved. Relationship Program.  Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here:    Click Here to Apply   Pssssst Podcast listeners get a special program offer: 10% off the program price!   EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM DISCOUNT CODE FOR PODCAST LISTENERS ONLY:  LGV10  Today, Lauren Zoeller leads men and women through healing work, helping them understand their nervous system and how to find safety within themselves.  Lauren Zoeller is a seven figure entrepreneur, host of the Aligned Love Podcast, speaker, author, and founder of the Aligned Love Experience. She is an expert practitioner in reparenting, generational healing, and somatic experiencing, and has been featured on The Drew Barrymore Show, The New York Post, Business Insider, and many other media outlets. Connect with Lauren More:  laurenzoeller.com Instagram TikTok Facebook

In this episode of the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast, I will help you discover the courage to set boundaries, confront your inner beliefs, and ultimately break free from the unconscious distancing strategies that impede your journey to securely attached love.   In this episode, you will learn the following:  1. How to identify four signs of an avoidant attachment style  2. How to easily navigate setting boundaries in relationships 3. The truth about having a successful career and a great relationship at the same time. You won’t want to miss a deep dive on these Four signs of Avoidant attachment style:  Struggling with boundary setting Believing that you are not a good partner Believing that relationships get in the way of reaching goals Engaging in unconscious distancing strategies  Whether you experience avoidant attachment, or are with an avoidantly attached partner, you will learn a lot inside of this episode!  If you’re ready to become securely attached, and get off the dating rollercoaster, now is the time to do the work. I want to personally invite you to apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved. Program-  Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here:    Click Here to Apply   Pssssst Podcast listeners get a special program offer: 10% off the program price!   EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM DISCOUNT CODE FOR PODCAST LISTENERS ONLY:  LGV10

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by fear of abandonment?   To cope with fear of abandonment, one should focus on self-soothing, slowing down emotional investment, and gathering data on people to determine whether or not a relationship is worth the investment.  Doing this can reduce fear of abandonment as it creates a relationship built on reality and data. In this episode, you will learn the following:  1. How can we overcome the fear of abandonment?  2. What is the link between abandonment and survival mode?  3. How can we become intentional investors of our emotional energy?   Loved this episode, and feeling ready to become securely attached?   I want to personally invite you to apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved. 8 Week Relationship Coaching program! Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here:    Click Here to Apply   Pssssst Podcast listeners get a special program offer: 10% off the program price!   EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM DISCOUNT CODE FOR PODCAST LISTENERS ONLY:  LGV10  P.S. Bonus Gift for you just in time for Valentines Day!  Get Access to the Embody the One: 3 Day Secure Attachment Challenge Here:  (P.S. it goes away 2/20 - so don’t miss your chance to grab it!)  Free 3 Day Challenge Dr. Morgan Quote from Today’s Episode:  "You can always, always change your life. You can always welcome in healthy, great relationships. This is not something that's only available to people who look a certain way, or have had a certain childhood or have certain things going for them. Healthy, great relationships are available to everyone and are attainable for everyone, so long as you do the healing work to let go of the barriers, to remove the things that have gotten in the way, to release the old ways of being that no longer serve you.”

In this episode of the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast, I dive deep into the science of Attachment Theory to help listeners understand WHY we sabotage relationships and how to move towards secure attachment. I explain how secure attachment helps not only in your dating life, but with your mental health as well.    Here's what I cover: 1. What is the relationship between emotional dysregulation and attachment system dysregulation? 2. What is the impact of secure attachment on depression and generalized anxiety disorder?  3. How can we move towards secure attachment to improve overall mental health?   Loved this episode, and feeling ready to become securely attached?   I want to personally invite you to apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved. 8 Week Relationship Coaching program! Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here:    Click Here to Apply   Pssssst Podcast listeners get a special program offer: 10% off the program price!   EXCLUSIVE PROGRAM DISCOUNT CODE FOR PODCAST LISTENERS ONLY: LGV10 P.S. Bonus Gift for you just in time for Valentines Day!  Get Access to the Embody the One: 3 Day Secure Attachment Challenge Here:  (P.S. it goes away 2/20 - so don’t miss your chance to grab it!)  Free 3 Day Challenge

You will not believe who today’s guest is!    The one and only, Dr. Jessica Griffin, previous co-host of Lifetime’s Married at First Sight, renowned relationship expert, and clinical psychologist.   After a lifetime of studying relationships and coaching couples, Dr. Jessica Griffin unexpectedly finds true love in an ironic twist of fate, and now recounts her story of finding lasting love and offers invaluable advice in her new book, 'Relationship RX: Prescriptions for Lasting Love and Deeper Connection'. "If you're not in your ideal relationship right now, or you're not feeling the way that you want to in your love life,  there is always hope for people and you can find love in really wild ways." - Dr. Jessica Griffin Dr. Jessicaica Griffin is a clinical and forensic psychologist with a specialty in trauma and relationships. She is an associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the CEO of Love Builder, a relationship company providing online courses to couples, singles, and parents. Dr. Jessica Griffin had always been drawn to relationships and wanted to be a psychologist since she was nine. Which led her to study trauma and relationships. After getting married to the father of her three children, they eventually grew apart. She got involved in television and worked on many shows, eventually meeting her now husband, Jon Francetic, through Married at First Sight.  Dr. Pepper and Dr. Jessica Griffin have co-authored a book,  Relationship RX, to help people strengthen their relationships, drawing on their own experiences and those of the couples they have worked with.  Through this work, Dr. Griffin has found that hope and love can be found in unexpected places and that it can feel good to be true to yourself. Inside of this episode we discuss:  1. The importance of healing and releasing our past on the path to love  2.  Dr. Jessica Griffin’s own personal journey to love (and her time on Reality TV)  3. Strategies for strengthening relationships (and the truth about healing and trauma)  If you’re ready to take ownership of your healing, and and attract the relationship you’ve always wanted, then you’d love the Empowered.Secure.Loved. Program!    Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here:    Click Here to Apply Connect with Dr. Jessica Griffin:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.jessicagriffin/  Website: http://www.drjessica.com/about  Grab Relationship RX here:  Buy it Here on Amazon Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here:  Click Here to Leave a Review

In this episode, I guide you through the process of breaking free from an addiction to chaos in relationships, empowering you to take control of your life and create a compelling future for the next generation.   What better legacy to leave than healing, and great relationship, am I  right?? Here's what I cover: What is the addiction to chaos in relationships and how can we move out of it? How can we identify if we grew up in a dysfunctional household? What are the powerful benefits of taking radical ownership over our lives and relationships?   Did you know, addiction to chaos can be projected onto adult romantic relationships? Inside of this episode we go into identifying dysfunctional relationship patterns, and how to decide to heal (even if you’re the only one in your family/ friend group doing so!)    If you’re ready to take ownership of your healing, and create a ripple effect of great relationships for the next generation, then you’d love the Empowered.Secure.Loved. Program!    Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here:    Click Here to Apply P.S. Bonus Gift for you just in time for Valentines Day!    Get Access to the Embody the One: 3 Day Secure Attachment Challenge Here:    (P.S. it goes away 2/20 - so don’t miss your chance to grab it!)    Free 3 Day Challenge

"Discover Kirsten's powerful journey of finding love, with the help of Dr. Morgan and a willingness to become securely attached!"    "I had to find myself and figure out what that was before I could even be ready for a relationship like this. So I think it's just crazy how the timing happened with it all, because I literally met him two months after the meeting with you." - Kirsten Durand   Kirsten Durand is a successful business owner, streamer, and content creator who gained viral fame with her fiance for their engagement ring mishap. She is currently planning her wedding for 2024 and is passionate about helping others find love and healing through understanding attachment theory.   Kirsten Durand was single for four years, so she had developed a pattern of quickly cutting off relationships. When she met her now fiance, she was determined to do things differently. She had met with Dr. Morgan just two months before meeting her now fiance, and this helped her show up differently in her dating life. She allowed her walls to be broken down and, she went against her avoidant attachment tendencies, which led to the start of a great relationship. Kirsten and her fiance are now happily engaged! Kirsten credits her engagement to the help of Dr. Morgan.    In this episode, you will learn the following: How to Overcome Avoidant Attachment Dating Strategies What It Takes to Find the Right Person (Even if You Have an Avoidant Attachment Style)  The Viral Story Behind the Proposal Gone Wrong    Ready to begin your own journey to love?! I've got you covered:    Apply to the Empowered.Secure.Loved Program Here:  https://www.drmorgancoaching.com/esl-breakthrough   Connect with me:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmorgancoaching Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drmorgancoaching YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.morgantv5909 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/drmorgancoach   Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-get-vulnerable-relationship-and-dating-advice/id1496034764    Connect with Kirsten here:  TikTok: @tandkay01  Instagram: @kay_smilesxo     Episode Sneak Peak:  [00:00:00] Kirsten is a successful business owner, streamer, and content creator. She is currently planning her wedding for 2024. She and her fiance lost the engagement ring at the beach during the engagement shoot. Their viral video has over 39.5 million views on TikTok!  [00:01:23] Before meeting her partner, Kirsten was single for four years. She says she put a lot of pressure on first connections. She was avoiding being vulnerable.  [00:10:13] Kirsten: "In anything in life, it's effort. Why do you think dating shouldn't be effort? Anything that is worthwhile takes time to build. You must build a foundation." [00:11:31] Kirsten: The old way of dating is having high expectations and going into the date with the checklist...Dr. Morgan points out this is a way to avoid being vulnerable and to avoid connection.  [00:19:47] Dr. Morgan: "The most attractive version of ourselves is when we are authentically ourselves."  [00:24:04] Do you feel like this was the most vulnerable, real open and honest that you've been?  Kirsten: Yes. I literally met him two months after the meeting with you. I'm so glad that we've connected again. [00:25:11] "We can allow ourselves to be gushy and romantic, " Dr. Morgan says. "If we don't feel emotionally safe, we can't even access that part of ourselves " When did you know you could see yourself spending the rest of your life with this person? [00:27:08] A video of a proposal that went viral on TikTok wasn't the actual proposal. Instead, it was just the engagement shoot for save the date photos. The photographer eventually found the ring. The couple spent two and a half hours looking for it. [00:33:45] And he's just like, you know, he didn't blame me. He was like, okay, well, it's just another Tuesday with you. Let's find it and move on. And I feel like a lot of guys would be like, why did you jump in it? [00:34:07] Dr. Morgan: Having that partner that can kind of be that securely attached base really helps move us more towards a securely attached place. Sometimes it's nice to have a partner to reach out to, and they can help you in ways that they can give you grace. Both of those things are beautiful parts of being with the right partner.