The Connection Podcast - Lauren Dry
The Connection Podcast, hosted by Lauren Dry, explores how the nervous system and unconscious mind influence modern relationships and family connections. Lauren shares her personal journey of rising into regulation, blending neuroscience and spiritual insights. The podcast aims to help listeners rewire and reconnect at home, offering a transformative path to having it all.
Episodes
Is Romantasy Better or Worse For Your Sex Life?
You're halfway through another romantasy novel, and part of you is wondering why it feels better than anything happening at home. That's desire, still very much alive, just looking in the wrong place.In this episode of The Connection Podcast, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Caroline Hood, a certified sex therapist and author who works at the i
Can you love a toxic family and still heal?
You've spent years angry at someone who barely remembers what they did to you.You've set the same boundary with the same person more times than you can count.And somewhere in there, you've wondered if loving your family honestly means forgiving them for everything.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Dr Nancy Dome, a speaker, autho
Polarity Isn't What You Think It Is
You can love someone completely and still feel like something between you has gone quiet. That's usually polarity, slipping away without either of you noticing.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Dr Brian Paris, founder of Emotional Engineering, for a conversation about polarity that's candid, a little provocative, and grounded in
Nice Guy Or Good Man? Let’s Talk About It
Nice guy syndrome doesn't look like a problem from the outside. It looks like someone who never causes a fuss, never asks for too much, and is slowly disappearing inside his own relationship.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Jason Lange, a men's embodiment coach and certified No More Mr Nice Guy coach who has trained with leader
The Hidden Shame Behind Erectile Dysfunction
What do men hide from their partners when shame shows up? And once you know, what actually helps, versus what makes it worse?In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Gaylen Wilson, certified Thriving Relationship Coach and co-creator of the Monument Method, to talk about what happens when shame moves into a marriage and nobody names it
Dying Made Him Finally Want Connection
Have you ever kept pushing through the moment your body was already telling you to stop?In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, talks with Jeff Luther, an entrepreneur and father of three who collapsed at a CrossFit gym in front of his teenage son and had no pulse for eight minutes. He was later diagnosed with ARVC, a rare heart condition that ended
Rewiring Series Pt 4: Life After Survival Mode (And What It Actually Looks Like)
If you've been stuck in the same cycles for so long that you've stopped being able to picture what life could actually look like, this one is for you. Not a list of tools. Not another framework. A real, tangible picture of what becomes possible when you finally regulate and reset at the root.Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores what becomes possible on t
Rewiring Series Pt 3: Doing the work solo (is there a point?)
You've been doing the work. Reading the books, sitting with the hard stuff, trying to show up differently.And they're not. So what now?In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores one of the most exhausting places a person can find themselves in a relationship, carrying the weight of growth for two people, and wondering how long they can keep go
Rewiring Series Pt 2: The Moment The Pattern Breaks (And What It Feels Like)
The breakthrough you've been waiting for probably won't look like one. What does it actually feel like when the pattern breaks? It might start in your kitchen. Over the bins. Something you've fought about a hundred times before. Over nothing, really.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores what it actually looks and feels like when a nervous
Rewiring Series Pt 1: What Rewiring Actually Means (And What It Really Looks Like)
You could probably explain your childhood trauma in your sleep. And you're still losing it over a tone of voice at dinner.You've done the therapy. You know your attachment style. You understand your nervous system, your triggers, your patterns. And you're still reacting the same way at home, still carrying the weight of a relationship that doesn't feel like it's shifting.In this episode, Lauren Dr
The Top Toxic Traits Women Have In Relationships (From a Woman Who’s Been There)
Have you ever caught yourself doing the thing you swore you'd never do? The controlling. The score keeping. The sarcasm that comes out before you can stop it.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with her husband Morgan for an honest, unguarded conversation about the toxic patterns that show up most in women in relationships, and what's
The Top Toxic Traits Men Have In Relationships (From a Man Who’s Been There)
You know that feeling. You're looking at him and you have absolutely no idea what's going on in there.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with her husband Morgan to unpack some of the most common toxic patterns men bring into relationships without realising it. Drawing from their own marriage, including the breakdown and the reset, Lau
I'm Vain. My Therapist Brain Is TOTALLY Fine With It.
Have you ever stopped to question whether your vanity is actually yours? Or just patterns you absorbed long before you had a say?Because vanity is NOT a dirty word. And pretending it doesn't affect your relationships, your intimacy, and how you feel about yourself is where things get messy.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, gets honest about he
Why Does Connection Disappear After Having Kids?
Have you been trying to hold it all together since having kids, the business, the marriage, the sense of self, and quietly wondering why it feels so much harder than it used to?What if the crash you've been trying to avoid is actually the thing that gets you there.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, gets into what's really happening beneath the
Good Friend or Bad Friend, What Your Friendships Reveal
Have you ever looked at the patterns playing out in your friendships and realised they look exactly like the ones in your marriage? The same fears. The same internal voice. The same desperate urge to fix it before it all falls apart.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores what our friendships reveal about our deepest relationship patterns,
Co-Parenting in Chaos: How to Find Peace When the Pattern Follows You
What if the chaos in your co-parenting relationship has nothing to do with your ex, and everything to do with the patterns neither of you has broken yet?It's a question that sits heavy for so many parents in the messy middle. Whether you're still in the marriage or already on the other side of it, the dynamics have a way of following you until something shifts from the inside.In this episode, Laur
The Visibility Dilemma: How to Be Seen Without Feeling Exposed
What if the thing stopping you from being truly seen isn't fear of judgment, but not knowing where the line is between visibility and exposure?It's a question that shows up in business, on social media, and in our most intimate relationships. And it's one most of us are still figuring out.In this episode, Lauren sits down with Amy Guo, co-visionary of Her Seat and co-owner of Millon Wines, for an
Ambitious and Exhausted: How to Stop Overriding Your Body and Start Listening to It
When did ambition stop feeling like strength and start feeling like survival?If you're honest with yourself, you already know the answer. The headaches you've normalised. The sleep that never quite restores you. The morning where getting out of bed felt impossible, even though your life looks great on paper.In this episode Lauren Dry is joined by Serena Tran, co-founder of Her Seat, a community cr
Sibling Rivalry & Nervous System Regulation, Handling Kids Fighting at Home
When your kids are fighting, something happens inside you. You go from calm adult to catastrophising parent in seconds. Why are they talking like that? What have I done wrong? Are they going to grow up resenting each other?And underneath it all is that quiet ache. I should be handling this better.If sibling conflict leaves you activated, ashamed, or desperate to shut it down fast, this conversatio
Non-Attachment and Secure Attachment, The Shift That Changes Everything at Home
Have you ever heard the term “non-attachment” and quietly thought… that sounds like not caring?Or maybe even worse, that it means staying calm while someone crosses your boundaries? This episode gently untangles that misunderstanding.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores what non-attachment actually means through the lens of attachment th
“Woo Woo”, Religion or Science: What is the Future of Regulation in Relationships?
Have you ever quietly judged anything that felt “woo woo”, only to later crave something deeper than logic alone? Or felt the pressure of believing it’s all on you, your growth, your healing, your parenting, your relationships?This episode is a personal one.In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, shares her journey from proud skeptic to curious expl
Covert Narcissist Signs: How To Tell If It’s More Than ‘Just Relationship Problems’
There’s a particular moment many high-functioning people recognise. You’re self-aware, emotionally intelligent, and used to solving problems. You reflect, you communicate, you look for tools, yet the relationship still feels heavy, confusing, or quietly draining. You start wondering what you’re missing, and why it still doesn’t feel settled in your body.In this episode, Lauren Dry is joined by psy
Why You Feel Safer Alone Than in a Relationship (Even When You Want Deep Connection)
Have you ever noticed that you can be the most supportive, present friend in the world, but the second you’re alone with your partner, you feel like you're losing your footing?You’re functioning. You’re handling the logistics. You’re a success everywhere else. But inside your marriage, it feels like the air has gone heavy and you’re back to feeling like the "common denominator" who just can't get
Why Small Chats Turn Into Big Spirals: The Defensive Resentment Dance
You know that feeling when everything was fine ten minutes ago, but suddenly you’re in a cold, prickly standoff over something as small as the school pickup?You’re not trying to be dramatic. You’re not trying to pick a fight. But suddenly, the air feels heavy, someone is quiet, and you’ve both retreated into your corners without even knowing how you got there.If you’ve ever thought, Why does every
When Marriage Feels Like Roommates, Not Lovers
If your relationship has started to feel more like managing life than sharing it, there’s a reason.You’re functioning. You’re handling the logistics. You’re a solid team. On the outside, it looks like things are working.But inside, it can feel like the relationship part has gone quiet. Like you’ve become really good at running a life together, and you’re not sure how to find your way back to close
“The Ick”, Resentment & Romance: The Nervous System Piece We Overlook
You know that feeling when you still love them, but your body is like… nope.You’re not trying to be dramatic, you’re not trying to nitpick, but suddenly everything feels irritating, flat, or strangely off.If you’ve ever thought, “Why am I getting the ick?” or “Where did the romance go?”, this episode is a deep exhale. It’s not about blaming your partner or making you feel broken. It’s about unders
Why Does Saying Sorry Feel Impossible in the Moment?
Have you ever known you should apologise, but your body just won’t let you? Not because you don’t care, but because even thinking about saying sorry feels heavy, tight, or almost impossible. You replay the moment, feel the shame rise, and somehow the words stay stuck.This episode is for the moments after disconnection, when your nervous system is still activated and repair feels out of reach, even
Overwhelmed and Snapping at Home? A Simple Practice To Help You Reset
There’s a particular kind of shame that hits after you snap at your kids or your partner, especially around holidays and long weekends when everyone’s “meant” to be happy. On the outside it looks like family time and full calendars. Inside, your body feels tense, wired and stretched thin.You know the tools. You understand the nervous system. You care deeply about your people. But in those moments
When “It’s Not That Bad” Is the Red Flag: Coercive Control, Intuition, and Self-Trust
A note before we begin: this episode includes conversation about domestic violence and coercive control. Please take care of yourself as you listen, and pause anytime you need. 🤍There’s a kind of confusion that can live inside a relationship, especially when everything looks “fine” on the outside. You’re functioning, achieving, holding it all together… but inside, something feels tight, uneasy, or
Surviving the Holiday Season: Nervous System Support for Family Conflict
There’s a kind of holiday stress that never makes it into the cute Christmas photos. On the outside it looks like full tables, busy calendars and everyone “making an effort”. Inside, it can feel like you’re bracing for certain comments, carrying the mental load, or wondering how you’ll hold it together all day.You might already know which relative will push your buttons, or which topic will set th
What Men REALLY Wish Women Knew About Their Relationship
There’s a moment in so many relationships where things look fine on the outside, but inside it feels like you’re talking different emotional languages. You’re naming what you feel, you’re trying to connect, you’re doing the work, yet somehow he still shuts down or pulls away. And if you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, “I feel like his mother”, or wondered, “Why is this so hard? Am I missing some
When Fear Shapes Your Relationships: How Survival States Quietly Pull You Away
There’s a kind of loneliness that doesn’t look like being alone. It looks like a full life, a partner you care about, a home you’ve worked hard for, yet something inside you still feels distant or quietly aching. Maybe conversations feel shallow, you’re carrying more than anyone realises, or you feel misunderstood in the places that matter most.In this episode, Lauren Dry is joined by Emma Gibbens
How Can You Maintain Connection and Being Human in an AI World
Is AI helping us connect, or quietly teaching us to disconnect?In a world where ChatGPT feels like a friend, it’s never been more important to stay human.AI is making life easier, faster, and more efficient, but it’s also changing how we relate to ourselves and each other. Beneath the convenience, something deeper is happening to our nervous systems and our sense of connection.In this episode, Lau
You’re Not Crazy, You’re Depleted: The Root Cause You Never Knew to Check
What if the real reason you’re exhausted, snappy, or totally flat... isn’t emotional at all but mineral depletion?Yep, we’re going there. If you’ve been doing the mindset work, the therapy, the breathwork, but your energy still crashes by 3pm and every little thing feels too much, this episode is for you.In this episode, Lauren is joined by Hope Pedraza, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitione
Can the Love Come Back After Infidelity or Disconnection?
What if losing the love didn’t mean it’s over... but that something real is finally being revealed?Maybe you’re in a hard season. Something broke. Maybe it was infidelity, years of resentment, or just that slow, quiet drift that happens when no one’s really saying the truth out loud. You still care, but you feel distant. Maybe numb. Maybe done. And underneath all of it, the question you keep comin
Is It Really Confidence or Just Protection? How to Tell the Difference
Some of the things we say with the most conviction can feel like strength, but they’re often something else entirely. "I don't like being told what to do," "I'm just really independent," "I don't need anyone to take care of me."These phrases sound empowered. But more often than not, they’re not clarity, they’re protection. A brilliant nervous system strategy that once kept you safe, but might now
Is “I’m Tired” Keeping You Stuck? What Your Nervous System Might Be Hiding
Is “I’m tired” actually true, or is it your nervous system trying to protect you?Have you ever told yourself, “I’m just too tired” or “I don’t have the bandwidth right now” and it felt honest, but also a little off?Maybe it was a hard conversation you avoided. A class you skipped. A next step you kept pushing down the to-do list. If you’re a high-capacity, high-achieving human who still finds you
The Hidden Cost of Being the Strong One: Trauma, Burnout, and Recovery
What do you do when you're the one everyone counts on, until you can't count on yourself?If you’ve ever found yourself exhausted from holding it all together, this episode is a lifeline and a mirror. It's about what happens when the helpers need help, and how we find our way back to ourselves.This episode is a powerful invitation to anyone who has ever been the strong one, the helper, the leader,
Harder to Kill, Easier to Love: Redefining Fatherhood Through Strength and Connection
Parenting is where our deepest patterns rise up, and where the real healing begins.It's also where our nervous systems get stretched, our identities get questioned, and our old coping strategies stop working. For many high-achieving parents, especially those navigating modern relationships, parenting becomes the pressure point that reveals what still needs healing.In this powerful and insightful e
The Attachment Trap: How We Lose Ourselves Trying to Feel Loved
What if all the insight in the world still leaves you feeling disconnected?You’ve read the books. You’ve gone to therapy. You know your attachment style. And yet... the same patterns keep showing up in your relationship.In this episode, Lauren Dry is joined by relationship coach Jack Bohannan, who brings both lived experience and expert insight to the conversation around love, nervous system heali
How to Have Hard Conversations Without Shutting Down or Blowing Up
Hard conversations don’t have to blow things up. Or shut you down. Or leave you spiralling with regret.If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation thinking, Why didn’t I say that better? or Why do I always freeze or fawn when it matters most? Then this episode is for you.Whether you’re navigating hot-button issues, navigating grief, or just trying to be heard in your own home, this conversation
Healing Anxious Attachment: Why You Overthink, People-Please, and Still Feel Alone
Anxious attachment doesn’t always look how you think it does.It might look like being the fixer, the over-functioner, the one who’s “fine” until they’re not.In this deeply affirming episode, Lauren Dry sits down with Relationship and Anxiety Therapist Valerie Rubin to explore the roots and realities of anxious attachment style, and why so many high-achieving, emotionally intelligent people miss th
What Happens After the Affair? Rebuilding Self Identity, Trust, and Connection
Where is the line between accountability and compassion? Between transparency and privacy? Between shame and growth?In this powerful and tender episode, Lauren sits down with Kristina Robertson, coach, speaker, and host of Intimacy After Infidelity, to explore the complexity of healing after you have crossed a line you never thought you would.Together, they unpack the shame that keeps so many wome
Conscious Parenting Starts With You: Regulate First, React Less
So many parents want to raise connected, emotionally resilient kids, but find themselves reacting from stress, shame, or survival instead.In this episode, Lauren Dry speaks with Conscious Parenting Coach and Sleep Specialist Donna Moala about how to move from reactivity to regulation. Drawing on her training and her lived experience as a mum of three, Donna shares how healing yourself first become
The Power of Vulnerability: How to Lead Without Losing Yourself
Vulnerability isn’t weakness. But for many high functioning, high achieving people, it can feel like a threat.In this episode, Lauren Dry speaks with performance coach and brand strategist Jenni Rae Oates about what it really takes to lead, love, and live without hiding. They unpack the impact of early attachment conditioning, emotional shutdown, and the unspoken fear that being fully seen will co
Calm from the Inside Out: The Brain-Body Science Behind Nervous System Healing
If your nervous system still feels stuck despite therapy, rest, or mindset work, there may be more going on beneath the surface.In this episode, Lauren Dry talks with NeuroBalance Clinic founder Lauren Rogers about the science behind nervous system regulation and the role of neurotechnology in healing.Lauren Rogers shares clinical insights alongside her own personal story of burnout and health col
Gut Health, Burnout & the Body: How Stress Shapes the Way You Move and Connect
Ever wonder why you either push too hard at the gym or can’t get yourself to move at all? That tug of war between overexercising and total shutdown isn’t just about motivation. It’s a sign of nervous system dysregulation.Functional nutrition expert and Registered Dietitian Alex Long joins Lauren Dry to explore the hidden connection between stress, gut health, and your relationship with movement.To
Why Smart People Struggle in Relationship Conflict
Have you ever found yourself in a relationship conversation that sounds polished, calm, and articulate, while your body is quietly screaming inside? You're not alone.In this episode of The Connection Podcast, Lauren Dry peels back the layers of what’s really happening when high-achieving, emotionally intelligent people show up in conflict with all the “right words” but still feel painfully disconn
"The Ick", Resentment & Romance: What Modern Marriages Get Wrong
Ever felt ... "The Ick"? Maybe it's been small, maybe you felt like you've been repelled by your partner for no clear reason (and even sometimes, for very obvious ones)? You love them. You’re committed. But the ick is real. In this raw and eye-opening episode, Lauren Dry breaks down what the “ick” really is—and why it’s not shallow, random, or a sign your marriage is broken. Spoiler: it has everyt
Help - Are we breaking our kids? Where to from here
Did this episode hit home? There's a beautiful Reset Exercise I've prepared to get you out of your head and into your body again, in the next episode in this series - "Overwhelmed? Parts Work may be your Key to Compassion".If you need any support and to chat further, come and hang out with me in instagram at @the.connection.catalystSharing with you my BIGGEST loveLauren x Find Me: https://www.inst
Overwhelmed? Parts Work may be your Key to Compassion
Parenting, Repair, Work and just day to life - when you're completely Overwhelmed with Relationship stress - can feel debilitating. Despite our best of intentions, it feels like connection can be impossible and shame spirals from even the smallest of mistakes can take over completely. Come and walk with me today as we walk through a beautiful, supportive and wonderfully vivid visualisation that wi
Untangling Money and Marriage
Introducing the Amazing Diana Todd!In marriage we say for richer and poorer - but what happens when money really does come in the middle? What is the effect of your own - and your partners own - limiting beliefs around money, abundance, scarcity and the practicalities of where your spending styles meet? And clash.We're going to dig into the statistics around how heavily this can effect our marriag
What Are Somatics? Let's Get Clear on "BODY": One of the Three RISE Pillars
Today we're going to be covering all things SOMATICS and all of the most common questions we get around what Somatics are, and what they have to do with Marriage?Big Welcome to our first guest on the Connection Podcast: Becky Aste! Becky Aste is a Trauma-Informed Somatic Marriage coach and the host of “Your Breakthrough Blueprint”, a top 5% globally ranked podcast. She is the CEO and creator of th
Is it Over? Where to from Here?
In one of my most Highly requested episodes - We cover all the things you REALLY need to know, when it feels like it's over.There's a tonne of information out there about what to do with the house, the finances, the car, the schools... but what about the Nervous System? What about how to trust your own intuition again? What about if when your heart and mind are tearing you in different directions?
Betrayal has a Sound - How to Find Harmony Again
Take a deep breath for this one - If you've ever been on the receiving end or been involved in a form of betrayal in your relationships, this is something you're going to need to tune into.We're going to cover: - My own past and personal experience with Betrayal and how (unknowingly) it had altered the course of all my relationships- How any involvement with betrayal can neurologically alter the w
What Wins You the Debate - Love Languages? Try Values Instead
Come along as we figure out how a debate about a Gift Card got us so off track...Who Do you think was in the Right/ Wrong?Let's break it down,In order to communicate clearly, we need to know what our Values at 3 specific levels (found inside the RISE signature container), here's a condensed version:1) Write down what you Value in any kind of COMMUNICATION (Kindness, Calm Communication, Swearing)2)
Why "Sorry" Feels Like Razor Blades
If you’re like me you’ve experienced being both wronged, hurt or betrayed, …and you’ve been wrong. Often times being wrong can be something as simple as running late, losing your temper or even not taking something as seriously as you needed to. Many times it can be something more. In those cases we often have awareness that we need to initiate repair, be the bigger person, apologise, move on. But
The 5 Reasons Our Marriage Broke
Welcome to the real stuff - where we break down why we broke down. I Hope that having these Keys to where we went off track - and the Solutions we discovered, too - support you on your own Journey toward Hope, Empowerment, Laughter and Regulation, so that you can have it all at Home, too! From Us here at the Connection PodcastLauren XYou Can Find me on Instagram at www.instagram.com/the.connection
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