If you and your partner feel more like roommates than lovers, this week’s episode is for you. Author, physician and spiritual teacher Dr Robert Carabelli shares with Andrew his top five strategies for keeping passion alive in a long-term relationship.

According to Robert, sex is a gift from the divine, and you and your partner can reach “incredible heights”, no matter your age or level of work-related exhaustion. Andrew and Robert discuss how men can better understand what women want in the bedroom, assessing each other’s “energetic systems”, and why your sex life needs to change and grow as you age.

Dr Robert Carabellli is a physician who lives in New Jersey in the US. He is also the author of Sexual Energy, Spiritual Power.

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• How to Be Better At Talking About Sex With Your Partner.
• Three Things Dr Robert Carabelli knows to be true.
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How do we live knowing that we will die? How can we face death, and how should we prepare for it? Dr Kathryn Mannix has spent her professional life working in palliative care, and the teams she has worked on have been involved in 10-15 thousand deaths.

In this classic episode, Kathryn shares her insights into what it’s like to die and how we can love and support someone approaching the end of their life. If you struggle with thoughts of death - be it from a generalised fear, a terminal diagnosis, or the loss of loved ones - Kathryn’s calm and honest approach will help.

As well as working as a consultant in palliative care medicine, Kathryn is the author of With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well, a collection of powerful human stories of life and death. The book draws on a lifetime of clinical experience to offer advice on facing death and living life in its shadow.

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If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:

• Three Things Kathryn Mannix knows to be true.
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Andrew is appearing at the Unlocking Love Summit, where he will be working with a couple recovering from infidelity. Register for the free summit here.

Get Andrew's free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

Take a look at Andrew's new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools

Read Kathryn’s book With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well

Follow Kathryn on Twitter

Find Oliver Sacks’ book Gratitude written at the end of his life.

Read Andrew’s book on grieving the loss of his partner My Mourning Year

Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall

Is there an uncomfortable gap between your life goals and the way you are actually living? Do you tell yourself what you want is financial security, but then rack up big online shopping debts? Or perhaps a solid, connected relationship is your goal, but instead you're prioritising work and ignoring your partner’s needs.

This week, counselor and author Thais Gibson joins me to talk about SELF-SABOTAGE. According to Thais, self-sabotage arises from your subconscious, which wants something very different than your conscious mind is telling you. To move forward, you’ll need to uncover and challenge the patterns that are keeping you stuck.

Thais Gibson is a counsellor, best-selling author and co-founder of The Personal Development School. She has a Ph.D. and over 13 certifications in modalities ranging from CBT, NLP, somatic experiencing, internal family systems, to shadow work and hypnosis. Thais had nearly a decade of experience running a successful private practice and founded The Personal Development School, an online learning platform, to provide a more accessible, authentic way for clients to transform their lives. Thais is the bestselling author of Learning Love, and she and her husband split their time between Austin, Texas, and Toronto, Canada.

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• The Four Attachment Styles
• Three Things Thais Gibson knows to be true.
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Learn more about Thais Gibson’s work:

• Website: The Personal Development School
• Instagram: @thepersonaldevelopmentschool
• YouTube: The Personal Development School
• The Personal Development School Attachment Style Quiz: Take the quiz to find out your attachment style

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How do we find meaning in a difficult childhood and a troubled mother-daughter relationship? In this classic episode, Nigerian-American writer, mindfulness practitioner and educator Itoro Bassey speaks with Andrew about how to mother the wounded child inside.

Itoro now lives in Nigeria (after being born and raised in the USA) and is the founder of the digital course, From Surviving to Thriving: Becoming Your Own Inner Author. This course uses writing and energy work to bring students into the present moment.

Itoro has published on culture, identity, and healing for over ten years and now offers intuitive counseling sessions for those in need of support.

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• Three Things Itoro Bassey knows to be true.
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Follow Itoro Bassey on Instagram or contact her at itoro.paula@gmail.com

Read some of Itoro’s writing on culture, family and identity:

How to let go of your family's expectations.

Becoming My Own Woman...

The Nigerian and tenderness

How I’m Mothering the Wounded Kid Inside Who Just Wanted Love

Read about Questions for Ada by Ijeoma Umebinyuo.

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Many of us feel like we don’t quite “get” mindfulness. Even more have struggled to create a successful meditation practice. Andrew Holecek, author of I’m Mindful, Now What?, joins us this week to broaden and deepen our understanding of mindfulness, and show us how to integrate it into our daily lives.

Our host Andrew talks with our guest Andrew about:

• Why everyone can meditate, and how to start right now.
• The importance of connecting with your physical body.
• The benefits and limitations of mindfulness
• Coping with emotions like anger, jealousy and fear using meditation and mindfulness.

Andrew Holecek is a renowned author and humanitarian who teaches internationally on spirituality, meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying. He has studied sleep yoga, bardo yoga, and other traditional practices with living masters in India and Nepal. Andrew’s books include Dreams of Light, Dream Yoga, and Reverse Meditation. His work has appeared in Psychology Today, Parabola, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Utne Reader, Buddhadharma, Light of Consciousness, and many other periodicals. He hosts the popular Edge of Mind podcast and is the founder of the Night Club community, a support platform for nocturnal meditations.

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• Nocturnal Meditations
• Three Things Andrew Holecek knows to be true.
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In this classic episode, Andrew speaks with coach and teacher Dena Justice about the work she does with women experiencing burnout in their careers and relationships.

Despite loving her career, Dena hit a point where she felt empty - she was a classic case of a high performer and leader hitting burnout. That led her to choose a powerful pivot out of conventional employment and into her own business.

At the same time, Dena also consciously decided to up-level ALL of her relationships, including spending 3 years intentionally single so she could identify and change the patterns she was repeating that were contributing to relationship dissatisfaction.

Combining all of her experience, Dena now helps other women who are high performers hitting burnout and are scared to admit they’ve hit a plateau or a wall. She helps them get out of their own way and move to the next level to increase their impact so they feel fulfilled and inspired again, as well as helping them create the relationships they want in their lives.

Dena Justice is a coach, mentor and teacher. She is the creator of The Ecstatic Collective. Dena’s lifelong interest in mentoring and coaching began at age seven, when she took her first social-emotional training program. At 15, she taught her first personal development course. She has undertaken years of training in conflict management and mediation, leadership, communication, facilitation, and has two Master’s degrees.

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• Three Things Dena Justice knows to be true.
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Take a look at the courses Dena Justice offers in NLP and anxiety management, on her website

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Can the ancient teachings of Zen Buddhism help us engage with the challenges work, family and relationships throw our way? Teacher, author and Zen Buddhist priest Peter Coyote believes that they can: his new book, Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is, argues that Zen can be both a creative problem-solving mechanism and a moral guide; ideal for the stresses and problems we face day-to-day.

Andrew and Peter discuss:

• How Peter found Buddhism and became a Zen Buddhist priest.
• Why Buddhism ISN’T about turning away from the world.
• Why we need more than just “self-help”.
• How Zen Buddhism helps us engage with the suffering we see in the world.
• The importance of meditation.
• The usefulness of Buddhist teachings like The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.

Peter Coyote is an award-winning actor, narrator, and Zen teacher. He is recognized for his acting in 160 films including E.T., Outrageous Fortune, Bitter Moon and Cross Creek, and his narration work in over 140 documentaries. He narrated the PBS series The Pacific Century, winning an Emmy Award, as well as fourteen Ken Burns documentaries, including The Roosevelts, for which he won a second Emmy. In 2011 he was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest and in 2015 received “transmission” from his teacher, making him an independent Zen teacher who has ordained his own priests. His latest book is Zen in the Vernacular: Things As It Is, and he is also the author of several volumes of poetry.

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Follow Peter Coyote on Facebook @AuthenticPeterCoyote

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It isn’t hard as a parent to find advice on breastfeeding, your child’s education or managing their behaviour. What’s rarer is insight into how the parenting journey changes us as a person. Yet, becoming a mother is a unique opportunity to realise the self more fully.

In this reissue of a classic episode, Andrew and Lisa take a deep dive into motherhood: how it connects us to previous and next generations, how easy it is to be “devoured” by the experience of mothering, and what it means to feel rage as a mother.

Lisa Marchiano is a Jungian therapist from Philadelphia, the co-host of the podcast This Jungian Life, and the author of Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself. Lisa is also the parent of two young adults.

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• Three things Lisa Marchiano knows to be true.
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Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

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Take a look at Lisa Marchiano’s book Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

Listen to the podcast This Jungian Life

Find out about Dream School, This Jungian Life’s twelve-month online course that teaches people how to work with their own dreams.

Follow Lisa Marchiano on Twitter and Instagram @lisamarchiano

Find James Hollis’ essay “Free your children from you” in his book Living an Examined Life.

Read Andrew’s book on making meaningful change in your life Wake Up and Change Your Life: How to Survive a Crisis and be Stronger, Wiser and Happier.

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