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Heal Your Relationships
This is a show about marriage, Unlike other shows about marriage, Heal Your Relationships is for women whose partners refuse therapy. If that is you, please know that you can still have the marriage you want, and we can help you get there. I’m your host Dr. Kavetha Sun, M.D. Even as a double board-certified psychiatrist, I struggled for years in my intimate relationships. This show is a culmination of everything I learned over ten years of stumbling through my own healing journey. My hope is…
Episodes
- Heal Your Relationships
Unlocking Sex & Intimacy: Creating Connection Without Pressure
Have you ever wanted to initiate intimacy with your partner but weren't quite sure how to approach it? Or perhaps you've found yourself saying "no" to sex…
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3 Things That Successful Couples Do Differently
After more than 15 years of helping people heal their relationships, I've noticed something interesting about couples who manage to build lasting, fulfilling…
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How to Deal with Incompatibility in Relationships
We're back with another episode of Heal Your Relationships, and this week's topic is something I'm sure many of us have wondered about at some point! Have you…
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3 Step Formula to Shift Contempt to Connection
Have you ever found yourself rolling your eyes at your partner, criticizing the smallest things they do, or feeling like you're having the same argument over…
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A Surprising Take on Outsourcing
I’ve spent years learning how to outsource things that don’t necessarily bring me joy. And honestly? I’m incredibly grateful that I can. But this weekend, we…
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The Tripod Model: How to Go from Keeping Your Head Above Water to Truly Thriving
Does therapy work? Yes. But I believe there’s a better question: Is therapy alone enough? Therapy can be incredibly valuable. It can help us understand our…
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The 6 Phases of Healing From the Past
Last week, we talked about No More Band-Aids, and the three pieces I believe are essential for deep, lasting healing: mind, body, and relationships. But…
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No More Band-Aids: A Model for Permanent Healing
Last week, we talked about following your complaints like breadcrumbs... Looking beyond the surface problem to understand what might actually be asking for…
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Your Complaints Are a Doorway to Your Healing
Your Complaints Are a Doorway to Your Healing Last week, we talked about the power of language — and I invited you to start paying closer attention to the…
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Power of Language
Quick gut check: If I recorded your self-talk today, would you want to play it back for someone you love? Last week, I shared more of my own imperfect healing…
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My (Imperfect and Ongoing) Healing Journey
I’ve been on a healing journey for a long time. And I’m still on it. I still get triggered. I still get suspicious. I still have moments when trusting and…
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3 Tools to Remove Limiting Beliefs From Your Subconscious Mind [Part 2]
Last week, we talked about how to uncover the limiting beliefs quietly shaping your choices. But recognizing them is only the beginning. Because you can know…
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3 Ways to Uncover Your Hidden Limiting Beliefs [Part 1]
Have you ever known exactly what you wanted to change… but somehow kept doing the same thing? Maybe you want to change a pattern in your relationship. Make a…
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Use Your Imagination to Renew Your Mind Using These 4 Inner Resources
Last week, we explored a powerful idea: You are not your thoughts or your feelings. So the next question becomes... If I'm not my thoughts, then how do I…
- Heal Your Relationships
A Simple Tool to Reduce Anxiety and Stress in Just 90 Seconds
Last week, we talked about how unresolved trauma can keep our nervous systems stuck in a constant state of alert, even when we're no longer in danger. So the…
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3 Signs You are Struggling with Hidden Trauma and 6 Ways to Begin Healing Today
Last week, we explored how certain thinking patterns can quietly create more suffering—and how reversing them can change the direction of your life. But what…
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How to Reverse Your Miserable Thinking
Last week, we explored what it means to become the bus driver instead of getting carried away by every thought and emotion that comes along. This week, I'd…
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How To Think About Your Thinking (and Stay Connected to Who You Truly Are)
Last week, I invited you into a simple but powerful experiment: What if you are not your thoughts or your feelings? If you haven't listened to that episode…
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Five Steps to Getting Unstuck, From ANYTHING
Have you ever felt like you're trying so hard to move forward... yet somehow you keep ending up in the same place? Whether it's your relationships, your…
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You Are Not Your Thoughts Or Feelings
Have you ever had a thought that scared you? Or a feeling so intense that it seemed to take over your entire world? What if I told you that neither your…
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The Emotional Freedom Formula
Do you ever feel like you're stuck in the same emotional loops? The same arguments. The same frustrations. The same moments where you promise yourself, Next…
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How to Control Intense Emotions Instantly
Have you ever had one of those moments where you know you're upset... and then you find yourself replaying the situation in your mind, Feeling more irritated…
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Emotional Sobriety
Have you ever noticed how different you become when you're triggered? One moment you're calm, thoughtful, and clear. The next, you're overthinking, shutting…
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Emotional Immaturity: Signs and Solutions
Do you ever feel like your emotions take over before you even have time to think? Maybe you snap at someone you love…Then regret it later. Maybe you shut down…
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Dealing with Emotional and Practical Overwhelm
Do you ever feel overwhelmed… no matter how much you get done? Like your nervous system never fully settles. You move from one responsibility to the next…
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Are You Unknowingly Triggering These Two Toxic Emotions In Your Child?
As a physician, you’ve likely spent years learning how to stay calm under pressure in situations of stress and overwhelm. But sometimes… the hardest place to…
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The 3 Steps I Took To Heal My Trauma Triggers, and Strengthen My Relationships
As a physician, you’ve probably learned how to stay functional under pressure… But what happens when you’re no longer at work — and the smallest moments still…
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How to Use Your Triggers to Reduce Your Suffering
As a physician, you’re trained to stay calm under pressure… and yet, sometimes it’s the smallest moments in your personal life that feel the hardest. Maybe…
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Where Do Triggers Come From, The Answer May Surprise You…
Are you a physician… and tired of getting triggered, even when you know better? For years, I didn’t even realize I was being triggered. I thought I was just…
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How to Manage Shutting Down in Yourself or Your Partner
Few things feel more lonely in a relationship than trying to reach someone who has gone quiet. They stop talking. They pull away. They look checked out. It all…
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Why Doctors Struggle in Relationships
This episode will interest you even if you’re not a doctor. Because I’m pretty sure you know one. Or love one. Or have watched enough medical shows to think…
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Communication Is Not the Problem! Do This Instead to Fix Your Marriage in 10 Weeks
For a long time, I believed what most people believe: “If we could just communicate better… everything would be okay.” So I did what many people do. I dragged…
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3 Sneaky Beliefs That Hurt Relationships
Some beliefs in relationships are like undercover agents. They slip into our minds quietly. They feel convincing. They sound reasonable. And yet… they quietly…
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There Are 3 Conversations Happening (And You Only Hear One)
Most conversations don’t fail because of what’s being said. They fail because of everything that’s not being seen. Because in every conversation… There isn’t…
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Protecting Each Other’s Raw Spots
Every human being has tender places in their nervous system. Places where life feels a little sharper. A little louder. A little harder to navigate. Sometimes…
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3 Easy Steps to Become Best Friends With Your Spouse (Even if You’re the Busiest Family on the Block)
For the longest time, I believed real connection required a lot of time. Not a few minutes in passing. Not a quick check-in between meetings. Not a small…
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A New Way to Approach Conflict
Conflict has a way of hijacking your whole day. Even when nothing is being said out loud, you can feel it in your body — the tightness, the scanning, the…
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Help! My relationship feels… boring
There’s a particular kind of discomfort that doesn’t look dramatic from the outside. No screaming. No betrayal. No big rupture. Just a quiet shift. You sit…
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Valentine’s Day Pitfalls
This time of year puts love under a spotlight. Flowers. Reservations. Big gestures. And sometimes… quiet pressure. For many years, I didn’t enjoy Valentine’s…
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How To Rebuild Trust In A Relationship
This time of year often brings relationships into sharper focus. February tends to celebrate a romanticized version of love — the ideal, effortless kind. But…
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Parenting Your Sensitive Child with Dr. Ceara Deno
Last week, we talked about two toxic emotions that can get triggered in children — even by loving, well-intentioned parents. This week is a beautiful…
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Are You Unknowingly Triggering These Two Toxic Emotions In Your Child?
Most parents I work with are loving, thoughtful, and deeply invested in their children’s well-being. And yet — even the best-intentioned parents can…
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10 Ways to Stop Feeling Numb Today
Last week, we talked about why numbness happens — how it can feel like you’ve lost yourself… like you’re moving through life on autopilot, checking boxes but…
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Feeling Numb
Happy New Year! As we continue into the new year, I want to stay with something many of us quietly experience…a sense of numbness. Many of us feel like we’ve…
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How to Find Your North Star
January 1st has a certain energy to it. Not the loud, performative kind — but the quieter kind that asks real questions. Questions like: What do I actually…
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Pause and Presence in Your Relationships, with Dr. Jessie Mahoney
As we move through the holiday season, there’s a good chance life feels a little louder than usual — even when it’s a “beautiful” kind of loud. There’s the…
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Building Family Values in a Busy World
Modern life often feels like a constant juggling act. We rush from one activity to the next, collapse into bed exhausted, and wake up only to do it all…
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RelationTIP: Dream Together
Most conversations about relationships focus on how to fix things, how to communicate better, repair conflict, or understand each other more deeply. All of…
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3 Reasons We Stay In Toxic Relationships
Have you ever noticed how, in certain seasons of life, several people around you seem to struggle in their relationships all at once? Almost like these things…
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How to Change Any Habit
Whenever we stand at the edge of a fresh start — a new year, a new season, a birthday, or even a random Monday when we’re just done with our old patterns — we…
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The Unanswerable Question
Some days feel strangely effortless. You wake up, the weather is on your side, your coffee tastes like a café masterpiece, your coworkers are sunshine, your…
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Therapy Vs Coaching
Hey friend, “Do I need therapy or a coach?” If you’ve asked that, you’ve probably heard the hot takes: Coaching is dangerous. Therapy is stuck in the past…
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What is Your “F” Type?
How do you react when someone cuts you off in traffic? Or when they roll their eyes at something you said? Annoyed? Hurt? Withdrawn? Maybe you try to fix it…
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The 6 Phases of Healing From the Past
If you’ve ever wondered why healing can feel so hard—why it sometimes feels like one step forward and two steps back—you’re not alone. For a long time, I…
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No More Band-Aids: A Model for Permanent Healing
So many of us quietly believe that permanent healing isn’t possible — that we’ll always feel “a little bit broken,” or that we’ll have to keep managing the…
- Heal Your Relationships
Toxic Hope and the Messy Middle
We often talk about hope as something beautiful — a light that helps us keep going when things are hard. Yet there’s a moment when hope shifts from fuel to…
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6 Conversations that Changed My Life
Have you ever left a conversation feeling different—calmer, clearer, braver? The right words at the right moment can change how we see ourselves and the people…
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No White Lies
Today’s episode: No White Lies White lies show up everywhere—“All good,” when it isn’t; “Five minutes,” when it’s twenty; “No worries,” when your stomach is…
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The Downside to Unconditional Support
Most of us love the idea of unconditional support. We’re told it’s the gold standard because it feels warm, safe, cozy and ideal. I thought so too… until I…
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Power of Language
Quick gut check. If I recorded your self-talk today, would you want to replay it for someone you love? Or think of the last hard moment with your partner…