The Connection Podcast - Lauren Dry

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.

Together they examine how trauma,...

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 disconnected.

She shares the raw truth abou...

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 everything to do with your Nervous System...

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".

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Lauren x

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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 will help you get to the root of ...

In this episode of The Connection Podcast, we’re uncovering one of the most overlooked challenges in modern relationships: Hypervigilance.

While it may feel like a survival skill, Hypervigilance often creates disconnection, eroding trust and intimacy in ways that can go unnoticed.

We're going to dive deep into:  

- How hypervigilance shows up in relationships and why it’s so common today.  

- The hidden ways it keeps ...

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 marriage - and what to do about it...

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 the company“I Do Breakthrough” and wa...

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?

How do you come home t...

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 wiring of our Nervous Sy...

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) Write down what you Va...

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. That five letter word that we kno...

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 Podcast

Lauren X

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