The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. Marshall

Kathryn Mannix: What you've been told about death might be wrong

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 wo...

Dr Sam Carr: The Silent Epidemic: Loneliness

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We’re often told we’re in the midst of a post-Covid “loneliness epidemic”, but what exactly does that mean? Loneliness is a profound condition...

Claudia Loewen & Ignacio Jarquin: What women want, what men need

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"What are you looking for in a relationship?” It’s something we ask and are asked right at the beginning of a relationship – when we are dating....

Kate King: When to Mend Your Relationship and When to Move On

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Author and therapist KATE KING joins Andrew this week to discuss the question of whether to “Mend or Move On”. Kate challenges the assumption that...

Richard Nicholls: How To Be Happier

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to decide to be happier, and then to go out there and make it happen? Hypnotherapist, author and podcaster Richard Nicholls believes th...

Bob Bordone: Cope Better With Conflict

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

At work and at home, we tend to avoid difficult conversations for as long as we can. So it’s not surprising that when we are forced to face conflict...

Conroy Harris: Rites of Passage and Mentoring: How To Become An Adult

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It often feels like the modern world values and rewards people who remain psychologically suspended in adolescence. Many people, particularly men, pro...

Cecily Mak: Free Yourself from Unwanted Habits

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us indulge in escapist or addictive behaviours that fall short of what society would define as problematic addictions. According to author CEC...

Bea Gonzalez: Fairy Tales and the Route to Wholeness

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Healing from profound exhaustion of the spirit requires more than just thinking of a good plan. Author and Jungian Bea Gonzalez believes in storytelli...

Laura Munson: How to Find Wonder Again and Why It Will Transform Your Life

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why is the sky blue? Why do only birds get to fly? Why do people die? It’s natural for children to ask questions, big and small. But too often, adul...

Olivier Clerc: Forgiveness: Healing the Wounds of the Heart

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Forgiveness is a powerful spiritual tool that can bring profound relief and unleash feelings of love blocked for years by personal resentments.  In t...

Dr. Ralph Piedmont: The Big 5 Personality Types and how they Affect Your Behaviour

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is personality? Can it change over time? How does our personality influence the ways we find meaning in our lives? DR RALPH PIEDMONT has spent de...

Robert Jackman: Healing Your Lost Inner Child

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you often feel depressed, anxious, victimised or disappointed, you may be carrying a heavy load of unresolved emotional pain.  Psychotherapist and...

Susan Schwartz: Can Narcissists Find Love?

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are narcissists capable of love? Is it possible for them to achieve emotional transformation through therapy? And what does it mean to be the partner ...

Jan Day: Tantra: How to Make Your Lovemaking More Connected

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can we have more meaningful, connected sex? Many couples today are stuck in a low-sex or no-sex dynamic, while others struggle to break a routine ...

Diana Hill: Stuck? How To Get Yourself Unstuck

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re feeling exhausted and unmotivated, clinical psychologist and author Dr Diana Hill suggests that you may be channelling your energy in the ...

Dr. Kathleen Smith: Make Anxiety Your Friend

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you could write a letter to your own anxiety, what would it say? This is just one of the ways therapist Dr Kathleen Smith befriends her anxiety and...

Soren Gordhamer: How to Thrive in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), we now know almost everything there is to know: except perhaps who we are and actually what matters to ...

Ruth Ann Harpur: Narcissism: Helpful Diagnosis, or a Trap?

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Narcissist” has become the insult of choice for many of us caught on the wrong side of arrogance, self-absorption or monotonous bragging. Narciss...

Peter Ralston: Ending Unnecessary Suffering

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us believe that suffering is inevitable. We endure the inner turmoil associated with stress, shame, depression or loneliness and try to soldie...

Kathryn Mannix: How to Listen, Really Listen

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us have a conversation we’re avoiding: a child coming out to their parent, a family losing someone to terminal illness, a friend noticing ea...

Jessa Fairbrother: Into the Void: Dealing with Pain When There's No Happy Ending

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At some point in our lives, we all step into the void. Something so big happens that we struggle even to make sense of it.  This week Andrew is in co...

Malcolm Stern: Slay Your Dragons with Compassion

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are you being held back by darker moments from your past? Would you like to find the courage to shine a light on some of the tragic or shameful moment...

Connie Zweig: How We Self-Sabotage: Understanding Your Shadow

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SHADOW is a Jungian concept that refers to those traits we have suppressed in ourselves that may be waiting to find expression in our lives. This week...

Graham Johnston & Matt Wotton - Good Boundaries: The Foundation of Happy Relationships

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all know that good boundaries are essential if we want happy relationships. There is a lot of confusion, though, about what exactly a boundary is a...

Charlotte Fox Weber : Sacred Monsters: Why Certain People Take Up Lifelong Psychic Space

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There are people in our lives who mesmerise but at the same time diminish and damage us. They excite us about the possibilities life holds, while teac...

William Pullen: Run or Walk Your Way to Better Mental Health

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Throw away your FitBit, stop counting your daily steps, and instead learn to run mindfully. If you can find the three key elements of space, silence a...

Ross G. White: Psychological Flexibilty

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no one set of rules that will see us through. Psychologist and author PROFESSOR ROSS G. WHITE works instead on the concept of psychological ...

Robert Hopcke: Synchronicity: Meaningful Coincidences: How to Spot Them & Use Them to Grow

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever experienced a strange, inexplicable coincidence that left you feeling “like a grand, mysterious character in a story?” One that seem...

Richard Blake: The Transformative Power of Breathwork

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Could changing the rhythm of your breath offer the breakthrough you’ve been looking for? This week, Andrew talks to psychologist and breathwork expe...

Venus O’Hara: Spiritual Sex

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Venus O’Hara plans to change the world, one orgasm at a time. She believes women are equally as sexual as men, and should have the time and space to...

Jack Bohannan: Deal Better With Criticism

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can you criticise your partner without starting a flaming row, or causing them to retreat into a wounded silence? If not, you’re not alone. Many of ...

Kate Lucey: Depression : What Worked For Me

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So many of us have experienced depression, and if not, we’re likely to have seen people we love battle it. In this week’s classic episode, author ...

Polly Young-Eisendrath: Why Conflict is Necessary

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us dislike or even fear conflict with loved ones. Without it, however, you won't achieve sustained intimacy with your partner.  This week, An...

Tara Blair-Ball: Attachment Theory

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are you one of the many people who end up shocked by the ultimate similarity of romantic relationships that felt very different starting out? Why is i...

Bisexuality and Sexual Fluidity: How to be Yourself in Intimate Relationships

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to be truly seen and accepted in your sexuality? For those who identify as bisexual—or who experience sexual fluidity—the path t...

Kate Moyle: Improving your Body Image and Your Love Life

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can we learn to be at ease in our bodies so that we can be fully “in the moment” during sex? Anxiety about body image is one of the biggest ob...

Penny Wincer: How to Care Without Burning Out

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Society would grind to a halt without the work done by unpaid carers - yet they are too often left to feel invisible, unsupported and alone.  In this...

Tom Vanderbilt: The Beginner's Mind

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When did you last learn to do something totally and utterly new? Tom Vanderbilt, author of Beginners: the Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Lea...

Judith Orloff: How To Be More Empathetic

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a world that often rewards toughness and detachment, could empathy actually be a hidden superpower? This week, Andrew speaks with psychiatrist and ...

William Ayot: Healing Men's Souls

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today, the “four pale horsemen” of war, famine, pestilence and death have broken into our comfortable lives once again.  As the climate emergency...

Michele Weiner-Davis: When is it Time to Stop Working on Your Marriage?

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you tried everything to fix your relationship, but nothing seems to work? Are you torn between staying and giving it one more try, or finally wal...

Philip Carr Gomm: How to Live Authentically

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Are you living a life you really believe in, or are you filling in time until your “real life” begins? Are you waiting on marriage, a better job, ...

Carolyn Sharp: Keep the Spark Alive in Your Relationship

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do you keep the spark alive in your relationship when there are kids involved and you have ten, twenty, or thirty years on the clock? This week I ...

Simon Roe: Are You Leading a Life of Quiet Desperation?

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation” (Henry Thoreau).  In this classic episode,...

Evan Marc Katz: Why Can't I Find Lasting Love?

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many women long to be in a happy relationship, in which they feel safe, heard and understood, but have given up after years of disappointment and hear...

James Hollis: How To Be Resilient

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For Andrew, it is the writings of Dr James Hollis, one of the world’s most eminent Jungian analysts, that have “sustained me through my dark times...

Elizabeth Earnshaw: How to Stop Stress Undermining Your Love for Each Other

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is your relationship a refuge from stress in a turbulent and demanding world? Do you always have each other’s backs? OR has the stress you face at w...

Dr. Avrum Weiss: Why Men Withdraw When Women Get Angry

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When women and men argue, women can often be more comfortable in expressing their feelings of hurt and anger.  Men can feel distressed by this streng...

Dené Logan: Finding the Balance Within of Your Masculine & Feminine Forces

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Does something feel off about your intimate relationships? According to author and couples therapist Dené Logan, the answer to your problem may lie i...

Charlotte Fox Weber: What Do You Really Want? Why This Question Scares Us

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Life brings to all of us long periods where we feel lost or confused. We don't know how to get what we want, or even what it is that we want. The stru...

Karla McLaren: How Much Emotion is Too Much?

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re feeling anxious, meditation and mindfulness may not be the answer. Instead, author KARLA McLAREN would advise us to sit with the feelings ...

Kay Hutchinson: Navigating a Midlife Crisis

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever felt so defeated and frustrated that you want to just throw in the towel and run away? Author KAY HUTCHISON did exactly that, fleeing he...

Bryan Reeves: Why Men Resist Unwanted Feelings & How This Hurts Everyone

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Society teaches men that strength lies in ignoring their feelings and “soldiering on”. Author and relationship coach BRYAN REEVES has seen the co...

Veronica Valli: Getting Sober

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do you think about drinking alcohol more than you think about eating sandwiches? Do you spend significant amounts of time thinking about NOT drinking?...

Tracey Cox: What We Learned Last Year We'll Be Using This Year

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Where did you find inspiration and meaning in 2024? This week sex therapist and friend of the podcast TRACEY COX joins Andrew to reflect on another ye...

Chester Elton: How Gratitude Can Revolutionise Your Life

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s hard to move on social media these days without bumping into a post on gratitude. If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, this week’...

Christmas Party: The Best & Worst of Christmas Traditions with Love Coach Cate Mackenzie

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Christmas is a time of heightened emotions: lots of fun, lots of food, plenty of arguments. This year Andrew invites friend of the podcast and love co...

Ru Callender: Do We Need a New Approach to Funerals?

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do we need a complete rethink of the rituals we use to mark the end of life? This week Andrew talks to undertaker and author RU CALLENDER about what h...

Dilip Jeste: Wisdom: Five Ways to Become Wiser

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to be wise? Do we grow in wisdom as we age? Pioneering neuropsychiatric researcher Dr Dilip Jeste has spent years investigating the ...

Joseph Lee: What Your Dreams Are Trying to Tell You

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if the answers you’re looking for in your life were available to you every night, if only you could learn to pay attention to your dreams? This...

Matthew Fray: How Good People Mess Up Their Marriages

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Fray is the author of the viral article “My Wife Divorced Me Because I Left the Dishes By the Sink”. His divorce left him emotionally crus...

Mark Dean: Creativity: The Gateway to Healing

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you’re a talented artist or a complete butterfingers, art and creativity can be a gateway to healing. This week Jungian analyst and professi...

Eleanor Mills: How to Reinvent Yourself at 50 (or any age)

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“Midlife is when those dreams we had when we were young but put aside to earn a living or raise a family can finally be revisited; it’s never too ...

Robert Carabelli: Top Five Strategies for Keeping the Passion Alive in Your Relationship

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Cara...

Kathryn Mannix: What You've Been Told About Death Might Be Wrong

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 wo...

Thais Gibson: Self-Sabotage: Why We Do It & How To Stop

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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, b...

Itoro Bassey: Healing the Mother/Daughter Wound

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we find meaning in a difficult childhood and a troubled mother-daughter relationship? In this classic episode, Nigerian-American writer, mindfu...

Andrew Holecek: I'm Mindful, Now What?

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us feel like we don’t quite “get” mindfulness. Even more have struggled to create a successful meditation practice. Andrew Holecek, auth...

Dena Justice: Why Women Burn Out & How to Recover

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this classic episode, Andrew speaks with coach and teacher Dena Justice about the work she does with women experiencing burnout in their careers an...

Peter Coyote: The Breakthrough of Accepting Life As It Is

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Can the ancient teachings of Zen Buddhism help us engage with the challenges work, family and relationships throw our way? Teacher, author and Zen Bud...

Lisa Marchiano: Being a Mother: A Journey of Self-Discovery

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Diana Richardson: Slow Sex: How Tantra Can Revolutionise Your Love Life

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many couples come to me complaining of a dissatisfying love life: some are in a low-sex or no-sex relationship, while others experience sex as boring ...

Tim Dowling: Can Cynicism Improve Your Life?

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Guardian columnist Tim Dowling has spent decades chronicling his marriage and family life for the Weekend magazine. His self-deprecating humour and de...

Bud Harris: Sacred Selfishness: Why You Should Tell Yourself "I Love You".

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As children we were probably taught that being selfish was a great evil, to be avoided at all costs. Jungian analyst and author Bud Harris, however, f...

Paul Attinello: What is Your Relationship with Death and Mortality?

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Some of us try our best never to think about death, while some of us “live in death’s basement”. Composer, academic and psychoanalyst Paul Attin...

Charisse Cooke: The Attachment Solution

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Modern life - careers, technology, the pressures of parenting - can get in the way of our need to form strong attachments to other humans.  According...

Jed Diamond: Your Personal Creation Story

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Too many men struggle to be happy in their intimate relationships, and fail to find a healthy version of masculinity that works for them. Disconnected...

Dr Kathleen Smith: How To Be True To Who You Are

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Would you like your life to be less focused on others’ reactions and more informed by your own principles? Would you like to stop feeling responsibl...

Caroline Madden: Infidelity: How to Rebuild Trust

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We all think of infidelity as something that happens to someone else. When betrayal enters our own safe universe, it comes as a terrible shock. Many c...

Alan Pearce: What We Can Learn About Being Human from Comas and Near Death Experiences

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People who have near-death experiences or who survive medically-induced comas report back disturbing and beautiful experiences. Some encounter ultra-v...

Richard Paterson: No More Overthinking (Classic Episode)

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Meaningful Life Classic Episode: Richard Paterson on “No More Overthinking”. Do you struggle to sleep, your mind buzzing with worries about th...

Topaz Adizes: How to Heighten Intimacy With the Questions We Ask

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re feeling “stuck” in your relationships, asking new kinds of questions can be a powerful way forward. This week Andrew talks with filmma...

Tracey Cox: Great Sex After Fifty (Classic Episode)

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Meaningful Life Classic Episode: TRACEY COX on Great Sex After 50 No-one would deny sex is important to a meaningful life, but what that looks lik...

Shelby Forsythia: Can Grief Turn Toxic? The Different Ways We Cope With Loss

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Grief is a painful and confusing journey. Often, the culture encourages us to “move on”, squashing our grief down so that those around us are comf...

Esther Zeledon: Successful But Not Fulfilled? How to Find Your Purpose

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Are you successful in the eyes of family and friends, but still feel empty and a little lost? Is there a nagging voice telling you that your life coul...

Sue Atkins: How To Get On With Your In-Laws & Become a Team for Raising Your Children.

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Grandparents love to spoil their grandchildren and make them happy, whereas as a parent, you take your responsibility for your children’s health and...

Philippa Perry: What You Wish your Parents Knew and What Your Children Hope You Learn (Classic Episode)

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Parents like to feel they are independent individuals making their own decisions, but in reality parenting is hugely influenced by our own experiences...

Dr. Pam Spurr: Emotional Eating: How to Break the Habit

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Each month, 20% of us embark on a new diet. Sadly, 95% of all diets prove unsuccessful. According to psychologist and author Dr Pam Spurr, emotional e...

Kai Tai Kevin Qiu: Emotionally Immature Parents

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a child, were you made to feel like your feelings didn’t matter, while your parents’ feelings loomed large? Were your boundaries repeatedly cro...

Robin Stern: The Three Types of Gaslighting: How to Spot and Defuse Them

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gaslighting is an insidious form of emotional abuse in which a gaslighter undermines and controls another person by deflecting, twisting, and denying ...

Dr. Paula Hall: Porn and Sex Addiction

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sex and pornography addiction is on the rise. It can affect young and old, rich and poor, male and female. Those who are in the grip of this type of a...

Jessica Baum: Anxiously Attached? How To Be More Secure

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An anxious attachment style is very common, and can lead to chaotic and unsuccessful relationships. Research suggests that anxious types are more pron...

Robert Glover: People Pleasing: Why Nobody is Really Pleased

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People-pleasing is an ultimately futile and self-defeating approach to life. If we focus on making everyone else happy, we can end up frustrated, conf...

Cheryl Fraser: Kill the Soulmate and Save Your Marriage

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If our partner really loved us, wouldn’t everything be a lot easier? If they were “the one”, surely we wouldn’t be losing our minds over towel...

Graham Johnston and Matt Wotton: Therapy: What It Is, Why it Works, How to Find the Right Sort.

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Good therapy changes lives: people stop worrying as much, they make better decisions, they are kinder to themselves and their loved ones, they achieve...

Dr Robert Neimeyer: The Six Tasks of Grief: How to Integrate Loss Into Your Life

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can we live with loss? What can we do when death shakes to the core our comfortable belief that life is predictable, the world is just, and people...

Douglas Thomas: What You Can Learn About Yourself From Your Sexual Fantasies

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Have you allowed yourself to explore your sexual fantasies, or do they feel like dark territory that is off-limits? Have you explored them with your p...

Dr. Samantha Rodman Whiten: Being an Adult Child of Dysfunctional Parents

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you were raised in a sad, chaotic home, you will unsurprisingly experience difficulties in your adult relationships. If your parents were cold and ...

Dr Joshua Coleman: Family Estrangement

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Estrangement from adult children can be one of the most disorienting and painful experiences of a parent's life.  This week, Andrew talks to Dr Joshu...