The Connection Podcast - Lauren Dry
Episodes
Good Friend or Bad Friend, What Your Friendships Reveal
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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. Th...
Co-Parenting in Chaos: How to Find Peace When the Pattern Follows You
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if the chaos in your co-parenting relationship has nothing to do with your ...
The Visibility Dilemma: How to Be Seen Without Feeling Exposed
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ambitious and Exhausted: How to Stop Overriding Your Body and Start Listening to It
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When did ambition stop feeling like strength and start feeling like survival?If you're honest with yourself, you already know the answer. The headache...
Sibling Rivalry & Nervous System Regulation, Handling Kids Fighting at Home
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Non-Attachment and Secure Attachment, The Shift That Changes Everything at Home
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
“Woo Woo”, Religion or Science: What is the Future of Regulation in Relationships?
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever quietly judged anything that felt “woo woo”, only to later crave something deeper than logic alone? Or felt the pressure of believin...
Covert Narcissist Signs: How To Tell If It’s More Than ‘Just Relationship Problems’
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a particular moment many high-functioning people recognise. You’re self-aware, emotionally intelligent, and used to solving problems. You ...
Why You Feel Safer Alone Than in a Relationship (Even When You Want Deep Connection)
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Why Small Chats Turn Into Big Spirals: The Defensive Resentment Dance
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 schoo...
When Marriage Feels Like Roommates, Not Lovers
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 logis...
“The Ick”, Resentment & Romance: The Nervous System Piece We Overlook
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Why Does Saying Sorry Feel Impossible in the Moment?
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 sor...
Overwhelmed and Snapping at Home? A Simple Practice To Help You Reset
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
When “It’s Not That Bad” Is the Red Flag: Coercive Control, Intuition, and Self-Trust
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A note before we begin: this episode includes conversation about domestic violence and coercive control. Please take care of yourself as you listen, a...
Surviving the Holiday Season: Nervous System Support for Family Conflict
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ev...
What Men REALLY Wish Women Knew About Their Relationship
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 langu...
When Fear Shapes Your Relationships: How Survival States Quietly Pull You Away
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
How Can You Maintain Connection and Being Human in an AI World
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
You’re Not Crazy, You’re Depleted: The Root Cause You Never Knew to Check
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Can the Love Come Back After Infidelity or Disconnection?
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 brok...
Is It Really Confidence or Just Protection? How to Tell the Difference
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Is “I’m Tired” Keeping You Stuck? What Your Nervous System Might Be Hiding
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Hidden Cost of Being the Strong One: Trauma, Burnout, and Recovery
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Harder to Kill, Easier to Love: Redefining Fatherhood Through Strength and Connection
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
The Attachment Trap: How We Lose Ourselves Trying to Feel Loved
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How to Have Hard Conversations Without Shutting Down or Blowing Up
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 conversat...
Healing Anxious Attachment: Why You Overthink, People-Please, and Still Feel Alone
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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” unt...
What Happens After the Affair? Rebuilding Self Identity, Trust, and Connection
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where is the line between accountability and compassion? Between transparency and privacy? Between shame and growth?In this powerful and tender episod...
Conscious Parenting Starts With You: Regulate First, React Less
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
So many parents want to raise connected, emotionally resilient kids, but find themselves reacting from stress, shame, or survival instead.In this epis...
The Power of Vulnerability: How to Lead Without Losing Yourself
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vulnerability isn’t weakness. But for many high functioning, high achieving people, it can feel like a threat.In this episode, Lauren Dry speaks wit...
Calm from the Inside Out: The Brain-Body Science Behind Nervous System Healing
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, Laure...
Gut Health, Burnout & the Body: How Stress Shapes the Way You Move and Connect
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Why Smart People Struggle in Relationship Conflict
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever found yourself in a relationship conversation that sounds polished, calm, and articulate, while your body is quietly screaming inside? Y...
"The Ick", Resentment & Romance: What Modern Marriages Get Wrong
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Help - Are we breaking our kids? Where to from here
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Overwhelmed? Parts Work may be your Key to Compassion
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Parenting, Repair, Work and just day to life - when you're completely Overwhelmed with Relationship stress - can feel debilitating. Despite our best o...
The Silent Saboteur: Why Hypervigilance is the Greatest Threat to Modern Relationships - And What to Do About It
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Connection Podcast, we’re uncovering one of the most overlooked challenges in modern relationships: Hypervigilance. While it ...
Untangling Money and Marriage
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
What Are Somatics? Let's Get Clear on "BODY": One of the Three RISE Pillars
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 wi...
Is it Over? Where to from Here?
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 informa...
Betrayal has a Sound - How to Find Harmony Again
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 somet...
What Wins You the Debate - Love Languages? Try Values Instead
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Why "Sorry" Feels Like Razor Blades
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The 5 Reasons Our Marriage Broke
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 dis...