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Love is Us: Exploring Relationships and How We Connect

By: Karin Calde
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  • Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the stress and trauma in our world? Do you feel like the world is becoming more and more polarized? Love Is Us is the antidote. Here we learn about love and we celebrate it in its many forms. We talk about relationships with intimate partners, family, friends, in the community, and in the workplace. We also discuss relationship structures, sex, and self-love. This is a shame-free, life-affirming space where people can feel free to explore what love means to them. Karin Calde, PhD and CPC, is a former therapist and current IFS-informed coach with an unquenchable thirst for all things love and self-growth. At your core, you are love and you are welcome here. Learn how to tap into that innate love and bring more of it into your life. Join us!
    2023
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  • #65: Breaking Free of Your Relationship Patterns

    #65: Breaking Free of Your Relationship Patterns
    Apr 30 2024

    Getting unstuck from a relationship pattern is often why people seek out coaching or therapy, whether it's on their own or with a partner. While most people find they need support in changing those patterns, there are some things you can do. It's not about trying to change your partner; rather, it's intensive self-work. That's not to say that the issue is necessarily with you, but regardless of what's happening, anyone has the power to shift the dynamic in their relationships (except, perhaps, when there's an extreme power differential). Are you ready to dive in?

    Learn more about Karin:

    Website: https://drcalde.com

    Instagram: @theloveandconnectioncoach
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    22 mins
  • #63: Navigating Stepfamily Life, with Amy Stone

    #63: Navigating Stepfamily Life, with Amy Stone
    Apr 16 2024
    Nearly half of all people are predicted to be part of a stepfamily at some point in their lives. Starting (or continuing) that journey with an understanding of the unique dynamics of blended families can help smooth the ride, improve your relationships, and help to make it a supportive environment for kids and adults alike. This episode will help get you started. Amy Stone is a mentor and coach for stepparents. She is a mom, a stepmom, and a grandma. She is a certified life coach but it is her personal experience as a wife and stepmom pushed her to create her own unique path to happiness. Today she shares her lessons learned and tools with others who find themselves in a similar situation. When she’s not coaching she’s usually running or swimming or biking - Amy is a 7-time Ironman Triathlon finisher and an avid marathon runner. Learn more about Amy: Website: https://amysaysso.com/ ​​IG: https://www.instagram.com/amysaysso_coaching/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/theamysaysso/ Learn more about Karin: Website: https://drcalde.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/theloveandconnectioncoach/ TRANSCRIPT Intro: Karin: This is Love Is Us, Exploring Relationships and How We Connect. I'm your host, Karin Calde. I'll talk with people about how we can strengthen our relationships, explore who we are in those relationships, and experience a greater sense of love and connection with those around us, including ourselves. I have a PhD in clinical Psychology, practiced as a psychologist resident, and after diving into my own healing work, I went back to school and became a coach, helping individuals and couples with their relationships and personal growth. If you want to experience more love in your life and contribute to healing the disconnect so prevalent in our world today, you're in the right place. Welcome to Love Is Us. Episode: Karin: Hello and welcome, everybody. Today we're gonna be talking about stepfamilies, or if you prefer the term, blended families. And this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart. As someone who grew up as a kid in a stepfamily and at a time when there wasn't a lot of good information about how to do that in a way that works best for kids and the adults as well. But also now, as an adult, I have a stepfamily. I'm not a step parent, but my husband is a stepfather to my kids. And so I see that it's really important for us to have more of an understanding of those dynamics and the challenges that come along with it, with the rewards. So when I started coaching, I was working primarily with step families, and I still work with a lot of step families, but have expanded my audience a little bit. But I'm super excited to have my guest today, Amy Stone. She is a stepmother, a long term stepmother, and now is a mentor and coach to stepfamilies, and she was just a joy to talk with. She really knows her stuff, and she's got a great sense of humor, and I felt like we could talk about a million different things. So I hope you get something out of this episode. Perhaps I will invite her back. She also has a podcast of her own called Amy says so. So I hope you like it. And thanks for being here. Here we go. Karin: Welcome, Amy. [02:24] Amy: Hi. I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for having me. [02:27] Karin: Yeah, I'm excited to have you. This is an important topic, and I have been on the lookout for the right guest to have to talk about this, because it's something near and dear to my heart, and I wanted someone who really knows her stuff, and I think that's you. [02:47] Amy: Thank you. Thank you. I accept that compliment. [02:51] Karin: Oh, wonderful. And we'll get into your podcast and everything toward the end. But I just want to start out with asking, where are you in the world? [03:02] Amy: I am in sunny Miami, Florida. [03:05] Karin: And you said it's getting warm there. [03:07] Amy: It is. I mean, this is the time of year. Starting in February is the time of year where people are really drawn to the tropics because it's warm here and that's. So that's spring break. Right. So we're finishing out spring break. I don't know if people saw it, but Miami actually did an anti spring break campaign this year, which it was fine. There were still plenty of people. But now, now that we're recording this, right at this start of April, it is, it's getting tropical hot here. But that, that's what drew me here. I came here for warm weather and I try really hard not to complain about the warm weather. [03:48] Karin: Yeah, I can relate to that. In Oregon, we complain all the time. [03:53] Amy: About the weather, whether it's cold or hot or it's, you know, I think. [03:57] Karin: We have this ten degree window where, where people are happy, right? [04:01] Amy: No, absolutely. And, you know, we sort of on reverse seasons, like, I'm not in the southern hemisphere, but it's, you know, it's delightful here in the winter and then in the summer it gets oppressive. And so, you know, that's the ...
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • #62 Discover the Wisdom of Your Sexual Fantasies, with Artemisia Devine

    #62 Discover the Wisdom of Your Sexual Fantasies, with Artemisia Devine
    Apr 9 2024
    Your sexual fantasies contain wisdom. Tune into this episode with Artemisia de Vine to learn about your sexual fantasies and how listening to their innate wisdom can help you change your life in ways you never imagined. Artemisia is a Certified somatic sexologist, BA in anthropology and former sex worker and professional dominatrix. She’s also a sexual fantasy expert who teaches the world's leading sexperts the meaning of our sexual fantasies, and how to bring them out of our heads and into our beds. Understand how stories work and you understand why we have sexual fantasies - and how to create powerful, real-life transformative sexperiences that satisfy the real desire behind the story symbolism. Artemisia de Vine is the author of upcoming book: The Spirituality of Smut: The surprising wisdom of sexual fantasies. Learn more about Artemisia: Website: https://www.artemisiadevine.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artemisiadevine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtemisiadeVine Learn more about Karin: Website: https://www.drcalde.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theloveandconnectioncoach/ TRANSCRIPT Intro: Karin: This is Love Is Us, Exploring Relationships and How We Connect. I'm your host, Karin Calde. I'll talk with people about how we can strengthen our relationships, explore who we are in those relationships, and experience a greater sense of love and connection with those around us, including ourselves. I have a PhD in clinical Psychology, practiced as a psychologist resident, and after diving into my own healing work, I went back to school and became a coach, helping individuals and couples with their relationships and personal growth. If you want to experience more love in your life and contribute to healing the disconnect so prevalent in our world today, you're in the right place. Welcome to Love Is Us. Episode: Karin: Hello, everybody. As you begin to listen to today's episode, I want to urge you to put aside all your judgments and tap into your curiosity if at all possible. Now, if you struggle with that and you notice a critic or judgmental part of you popping up, just notice that and see if that part of you or those parts of you can make some room for you to listen to this episode with an open mind. Because my guest today, Artemisia divine, is onto something big here. And I think there's a good chance you're going to learn something today that, for some of you at least, could be life changing. I certainly learned something from talking to her. She is so smart and insightful. This is about way more than sex and sexual fantasies. But by tapping into them and really listening to them, you just might unlock something really important for yourself. I am grateful for her and the work that she's doing. I hope that you will let me know what you think of it by visiting me on Instagram where I'm the love and connection coach. Where you can leave me a message as well. And you can also let me know what relationships and self development topics you'd like me to cover in upcoming episodes. I would love to hear from you. So thanks for being here. [02:11] Karin: Buckle up. [02:11] Karin: And here we go. Welcome, Artemisia. [02:16] Artemisia: I am delighted to be here with you. [02:19] Karin: All right, people might have already guessed, but tell us where you are in the world. [02:25] Artemisia: My accent gave me away. Did it? I am in Australia. I'm in rural Victoria, outside of Melbourne. So right down the bottom. And I live in the future because it's already tomorrow for me. The time's over. There you go. [02:44] Karin: And have you always lived in that region of Australia? [02:49] Artemisia: Oh, I've lived and worked all around Australia. But probably this has been one of my main homes. This and Sydney probably feel like my homes. Oh, my goodness. I've got a croaky throat. First thing in the morning, it is early because we have different time zones. Yeah. [03:08] Karin: And what keeps you in, Victoria? What do you like about it? [03:15] Artemisia: I'm in a beautiful space. This is. We're going in again on the flip side of the other side of the world. We're in the opposite seasons to you. So we're just entering into autumn right now. And this is one of the most beautiful magical places with so many autumn leaves and gorgeous mists that make you believe fantasies and an awful lot of interesting fungus that grows around here. [03:39] Karin: So tell us what you do for work. [03:42] Artemisia: So I am a sexual fantasy coach. I am an expert that teaches the sexperts in how to understand and engage sexual fantasies. Because really, if you want to have mind blowing sex, you have to understand the role the mind plays in sex. So I am somebody who has created an entire system around understanding and being able to bring fantasies out of your head and into your bed. [04:13] Karin: So how did you come to do that work? [04:16] Artemisia: It's not exactly typical work, is it? Being a ...
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    54 mins
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