The Learn to Love Podcast

Zach Beach
The Learn to Love Podcast

The Learn to Love podcast is your guide to everything love, sex, intimacy, and relationships. Every week your host, Zach Beach, interviews new experts on love, including couples’ therapists, relationship coaches, sex educators, and best-selling authors. Learn the best tips and cutting edge wisdom to better love yourself, others, and the world. Thanks so much for listening, we hope you enjoy the show. Learn more at www.zachbeach.com and www.the-heart-center.com

  1. JAN 19

    Ep 149: Radical Self-Care with Shelly Tygielski

    How do we balance caring for ourselves and caring for others? How can we prevent burn-out? What does it really mean to show up? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the mindfulness teacher and self-care activist Shelly Tygielski on Radical Self-Care. For more on this episode click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-149-radical-self-care-with-shelly-tygielski/ Learn more about your guest below: Shelly Tygielski is the author of Sit Down to Rise Up and founder of the global grassroots mutual aid organization Pandemic of Love. She is also the co-founder of Partners in Kind, a purpose in production equity funds that invests in social impact in entertainment projects. Her work as a self-care activist, community organizer, and mindfulness teacher has been featured by over 100 media outlets, including CNN Heroes, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS This Morning, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. A trauma-informed mindfulness teacher and a former Garrison Institute Fellow, she has been called one of the “12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful.org. Shelly is currently working on her doctorate degree at the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. Learn more at Website: http://www.shellytygielski.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mindfulskatergirl Facebook Professional: http://www.facebook.com/shellymeditation YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bentleyangel Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shellymindfulness/ Get the book: https://amzn.to/3C9P9Q9 Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com

    43 min
  2. 11/03/2024

    Ep 148: Divine Ecstatic Mystical Love with Andrew Harvey

    How can we fall madly in love with all of life? What can spiritual traditions teach us about activism? Why do mystics from very different religious traditions report the same ecstatic joyful loving divine experience? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the author, spiritual teacher, and religious scholar Andrew Harvey on Divine Ecstatic Mystical Love For more on this episode click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-148-divine-ecstatic-mystical-love-with-andrew-harvey/ Learn more about your guest below: Andrew Harvey is Founder & Director of the Institute for Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. Andrew has written and edited over 30 books, including Dialogues with a Modern Mystic, Hidden Journey, The Essential Mystics, Son of Man, The Return of the Mother and The Direct Path. Other honors he has received include the Benjamin Franklin Award and the Mind Body Spirit Award (both for Mary’s Vineyard: Daily Readings, Meditations, and Revelations). Learn more at https://www.andrewharvey.net/ https://www.facebook.com/AndrewHarveyNet/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1R-1gKU92vp0bLrC57i-eQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Harvey_(religious_writer) Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com *****Support The Show****** If you like the show there are many ways you can support it, such as, Schedule a FREE love coaching session with Zach: https://www.zachbeach.com/coaching/ Check out one of our sponsors, Listenable, and use the discount code “zachbeach” for the first seven days on the platform for free. There you can find Zach’s How To Be a Better Partner Course: https://frstre.com/go/?a=76205-87a7d9&s=1256514-e13191&p_affiliate.referral_code=zachbeach Purchase a book from our blossoming professional network: https://www.the-heart-center.com/books/ Purchase one of Zach's books: https://www.amazon.com/author/zach_beach Review, Like, and Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Spotify. Like us on Facebook facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

    54 min
  3. 10/13/2024

    Ep 147: Reconciling the Desire and the Domestic with Sharon Costanzo

    How do we find equal footing in relationships without getting too transactional or resenting the unfairness of relationships? What’s the best way to approach the balance between childcare, chores, and money? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the relationship coach and fellow podcast host Sharon Costanzo on Reconciling the Desire and the Domestic. For more on this episode click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-147-reconciling-the-desire-and-the-domestic-with-sharon-costanzo/ Learn more about your guest below: Sharon Costanzo has always been interested in relationships. She read her first relationship book "Men are from Mars" long before she had a love interest of her own. It seemed pretty clear that most people were struggling to make their relationships work and she was determined to break the odds. Her early venture into the world of personal development and relationship growth led her to a lifelong passion for improving her own relationships and helping others discover what really works in sustaining long-term, loving & collaborative relationships. She hosts a weekly podcast - Respected & Connected - and works privately with couples and individuals to create intimate, collaborative relationships. Learn more at respectedandconnected.com https://www.instagram.com/respected_and_connected/ https://www.facebook.com/RespectedConnected Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com *****Support The Show****** If you like the show there are many ways you can support it, such as, Schedule a FREE love coaching session with Zach: https://www.zachbeach.com/coaching/ Check out one of our sponsors, Listenable, and use the discount code “zachbeach” for the first seven days on the platform for free. There you can find Zach’s How To Be a Better Partner Course: https://frstre.com/go/?a=76205-87a7d9&s=1256514-e13191&p_affiliate.referral_code=zachbeach Purchase a book from our blossoming professional network: https://www.the-heart-center.com/books/ Purchase one of Zach's books: https://www.amazon.com/author/zach_beach Review, Like, and Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Spotify. Like us on Facebook facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

    51 min
  4. 10/13/2024

    Ep 146: Living Apart Together with Vicki Larson

    What are some different ways couples can Live Apart Together? What are some myths and advantages of such a style? What practices ensure the success of LAT relationships? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the award-winning journalist and author, Vicki Larson on Living Apart Together. For more on this episode click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-146-living-apart-together-with-vicki-larson/ Learn more about your guest below: Vicki Larson is an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area journalist and author of the just-released book LATitude: How You Can Make a Live Apart Together Relationship Work as well as Not Too Old for That: How Women are Changing the Story of Aging, and co-author of The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels. The former longtime lifestyles editor, writer and columnist for the Marin Independent Journal, her writing can also be found in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek, AARP’s The Ethel, The Huffington Post, Medium, The Greater Good Science Center and elsewhere. She specializes in writing about living and loving outside conventional models of coupling and the nuclear family as well as busting ageist and sexist narratives about aging as a woman and women’s sexuality and desire. Learn more at https://www.vicki-larson.com/ https://www.facebook.com/VickiLarsonJournalist/ https://www.instagram.com/omgchronicles/ https://x.com/omgchronicles https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickilarson/ https://www.tiktok.com/@vlarson7 LATitude: https://amzn.to/46Mrikm The New I Do: https://amzn.to/3yEnUvk Not Too Old For That: https://amzn.to/3YLHS1U Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com *****Support The Show****** If you like the show there are many ways you can support it, such as, Schedule a FREE love coaching session with Zach: https://www.zachbeach.com/coaching/ Check out one of our sponsors, Listenable, and use the discount code “zachbeach” for the first seven days on the platform for free. There you can find Zach’s How To Be a Better Partner Course: https://frstre.com/go/?a=76205-87a7d9&s=1256514-e13191&p_affiliate.referral_code=zachbeach Purchase a book from our blossoming professional network: https://www.the-heart-center.com/books/ Purchase one of Zach's books: https://www.amazon.com/author/zach_beach Review, Like, and Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Spotify. Like us on Facebook facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

    48 min
  5. 09/15/2024

    Ep 145: Living a Vibrant Life after Sexual Trauma with Charna Cassell, MFT

    Why is trauma so pernicious? What is the window of tolerance? How does a somatic approach to healing differ from talk therapy? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the Psychotherapist and Sexuality Coach Charna Cassell on Living a Vibrant Life after Sexual Trauma For more on this episode click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-145-living-a-vibrant-life-after-sexual-trauma-with-charna-cassell/ Learn more about your guest below: Charna Cassell, an LMFT, and a Trauma-Trained Psychotherapist and Sexuality Coach, helps clients heal from trauma and find bodily joy, emotional regulation, vitality, and hope. For over two decades, first, as a sex educator at Good Vibrations located in San Francisco. Then, as a Master Somatic Coach, a bodyworker, and now a licensed psychotherapist. Outside of private practice, Charna teaches sexuality education classes, leads body wisdom workshops, and offers trauma and resilience training in various institutions, nonprofits, and therapeutic settings. Currently, she is building an online course, Pathways to Peace: Mindful Practices for Transformative and Vibrant Living, and writing a book. As the host of The LaidOPEN Podcast, Charna shares her own story, answers listeners' questions, and offers practical exercises. She has conversations with post-trauma thrivers who share creative resources to support reaccessing our connection to aliveness. Together they explore how to live a pleasure-filled, peaceful life while reducing and gaining control over reactive behaviors. In every episode, Charna explores how to build our physical and emotional capacity to be with all that moves through us and around us to ultimately feel more liberated on the other side. Charna’s work and expertise have been featured in Oprah magazine, TeenVogue.com, InStyle.com, Psychcentral.com, and Askmen.com. Charna is in private practice in Oakland, California. You can learn more about her at https://passionatelife.org/ and www.charnacassell.com Learn more at https://passionatelife.org https://charnacassell.com/ https://www.instagram.com/laidopenpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/laidopenpodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@chachee2020 Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com *****Support The Show****** If you like the show there are many ways you can support it, such as, Schedule a FREE love coaching session with Zach: https://www.zachbeach.com/coaching/ Check out one of our sponsors, Listenable, and use the discount code “zachbeach” for the first seven days on the platform for free. There you can find Zach’s How To Be a Better Partner Course: https://frstre.com/go/?a=76205-87a7d9&s=1256514-e13191&p_affiliate.referral_code=zachbeach Purchase a book from our blossoming professional network: https://www.the-heart-center.com/books/ Purchase one of Zach's books: https://www.amazon.com/author/zach_beach Review, Like, and Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Spotify. Like us on Facebook facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

    47 min
  6. 09/01/2024

    Ep 144: Betrayal and Forgiveness with Bruce Chalmer

    What is betrayal and is it inevitable? Can a relationship become stronger and better after betrayal? What are the three stages to forgiveness? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the psychologist and author Dr. Bruce Chalmer on Betrayal and Forgiveness. For more on this episode click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-144-betrayal-and-forgiveness-with-bruce-chalmer/ Learn more about your guest below: Dr. Bruce Chalmer is a psychologist in Vermont who has been working with couples for over thirty years. Through his teaching, consulting, writing, podcast, and videos about relationships, his ideas have helped thousands of couples and their therapists. Dr. Chalmer's most recent book is "Betrayal and Forgiveness: How to Navigate the Turmoil and Learn to Trust Again." His previous books include "It's Not About Communication! Why Everything You Know About Couples Therapy is Wrong", published in 2022, and "Reigniting the Spark: Why Stable Relationships Lose Intimacy, and How to Get It Back", published in 2020. Learn more at https://brucechalmer.com https://www.facebook.com/drbrucechalmer https://www.youtube.com/user/brucechalmer https://couplestherapyinsevenwords.com/ https://ctin7.com Reignite the Spark: https://amzn.to/3FnZ3w7 It's Not About Communication!: https://amzn.to/3LmZx9k Seven Words to Jump-Start Your Love Life: https://amzn.to/3Z2ZSS5 Betrayal and Forgiveness: https://amzn.to/3YeAtb7 Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com *****Support The Show****** If you like the show there are many ways you can support it, such as, Schedule a FREE love coaching session with Zach: https://www.zachbeach.com/coaching/ Check out one of our sponsors, Listenable, and use the discount code “zachbeach” for the first seven days on the platform for free. There you can find Zach’s How To Be a Better Partner Course: https://frstre.com/go/?a=76205-87a7d9&s=1256514-e13191&p_affiliate.referral_code=zachbeach Purchase a book from our blossoming professional network: https://www.the-heart-center.com/books/ Purchase one of Zach's books: https://www.amazon.com/author/zach_beach Review, Like, and Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Spotify. Like us on Facebook facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

    48 min
  7. 08/18/2024

    Ep 143: Loving Without Losing Your Mind with Todd Baratz

    What does a lot of common relationship advice get wrong? Why do people sometimes feel like they’re losing their minds in their relationship? What does it mean to become, rather than find, ourselves? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the therapist, writer, and author Todd Baratz on Loving Without Losing Your Mind. For more on this episode click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-143-loving-without-losing-your-mind-with-todd-baratz/ Learn more about your guest below: Todd Baratz is a renowned psychotherapist and sex therapist whose innovative approach to mental health and relationships has established him as a leading figure in his field. In addition to his clinical practice, Baratz is a prolific writer and speaker. His insights are regularly featured in various media outlets, where he discusses topics ranging from romantic relationships to individual mental wellness. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles. Learn more on Instagram under his handle YourDiagnonsense.He came onto the show to talk about How to Love Someone Without Losing Your Mind Learn more at https://www.toddsbaratz.com/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4c80FbeT9YmbyE6B6NMTgN https://www.instagram.com/yourdiagnonsense Get the book: https://amzn.to/3SeyK1w Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com *****Support The Show****** If you like the show there are many ways you can support it, such as, Schedule a FREE love coaching session with Zach: https://www.zachbeach.com/coaching/ Check out one of our sponsors, Listenable, and use the discount code “zachbeach” for the first seven days on the platform for free. There you can find Zach’s How To Be a Better Partner Course: https://frstre.com/go/?a=76205-87a7d9&s=1256514-e13191&p_affiliate.referral_code=zachbeach Purchase a book from our blossoming professional network: https://www.the-heart-center.com/books/ Purchase one of Zach's books: https://www.amazon.com/author/zach_beach Review, Like, and Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Spotify. Like us on Facebook facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

    33 min
  8. 08/04/2024

    Ep 142: How Stress Is Destroying Your Relationship with Elizabeth Earnshaw

    Are we more stressed than ever before? How does stress affect our ability to relate? What is the good enough life? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this week's episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews the therapist and author, Elizabeth Earnshaw on How Stress Is Destroying Relationships For more on this episode click here: https://www.the-heart-center.com/ep-142-how-stress-is-destroying-your-relationship-with-elizabeth-earnshaw-mft/ Learn more about your guest below: Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT, CGT, is a licensed family and marriage therapist, Certified Gottman Therapist, AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and founder of A Better Life Therapy. She’s known for her popular Instagram account @lizlistens, is the author of I Want This to Work, and has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and more. She lives between Philadelphia and New Orleans with her husband and children. For more, visit elizabethearnshaw.com. Learn more at elizabethearnshaw.com https://www.instagram.com/lizlistens/ 'Til Stress Do Us Part book: https://amzn.to/3KYcqFt I Want This To Work book: https://amzn.to/4bmDsBf Learn more about your host and the show at: www.zachbeach.com www.the-heart-center.com *****Support The Show****** If you like the show there are many ways you can support it, such as, Schedule a FREE love coaching session with Zach: https://www.zachbeach.com/coaching/ Check out one of our sponsors, Listenable, and use the discount code “zachbeach” for the first seven days on the platform for free. There you can find Zach’s How To Be a Better Partner Course: https://frstre.com/go/?a=76205-87a7d9&s=1256514-e13191&p_affiliate.referral_code=zachbeach Purchase a book from our blossoming professional network: https://www.the-heart-center.com/books/ Purchase one of Zach's books: https://www.amazon.com/author/zach_beach Review, Like, and Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Spotify. Like us on Facebook facebook.com/learntolovenow Join the Facebook Community Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428012130828678/

    46 min

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The Learn to Love podcast is your guide to everything love, sex, intimacy, and relationships. Every week your host, Zach Beach, interviews new experts on love, including couples’ therapists, relationship coaches, sex educators, and best-selling authors. Learn the best tips and cutting edge wisdom to better love yourself, others, and the world. Thanks so much for listening, we hope you enjoy the show. Learn more at www.zachbeach.com and www.the-heart-center.com

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