Episode 104: How to Lead Our Relationships with Love with Irene Greaves

We don't often stop to ask ourselves where we first learned what love looks like but the answer shapes almost everything about how we show up in our relationships today.

In this episode, I sit down with TEDx speaker and Lovescaping founder Irene Greaves to explore how family of origin, culture, and early experiences quietly build our blueprint for connection. We talk about why love is so often misunderstood as a feeling rather than a skill, and how mismatched definitions of love can create real conflict not just in romantic relationships, but in friendships and even at work.

Irene shares her 15 pillars of lovescaping, including humility, empathy, communication, trust, and boundaries, and I connect them to the patterns I see in my therapy room every day. We dig into how a lack of self-awareness, difficulty identifying needs, and struggles with boundaries often come from early conditioning not personal failure.

If you've ever wondered why certain relationship dynamics keep repeating, or you're looking for a more intentional approach to how you love, this one's for you.

In Episode 103 of the Thoughts from the Couch podcast, host Justine Carino shares a powerful solo conversation on the concept of emotional inheritance and how it quietly fuels anxiety and burnout in high-achieving women.

This episode explores why success doesn’t automatically create a sense of calm and why so many driven, capable women still feel on edge despite building thriving careers and families. Justine explains how the beliefs absorbed in childhood about achievement, safety, money, rest, and worth shape the nervous system and continue to influence leadership, relationships, and decision-making in adulthood.

Through personal stories and client examples, she breaks down how inherited patterns such as perfectionism, over-responsibility, and scarcity thinking show up in modern work life. Listeners are introduced to a three-phase framework for healing: identifying the family blueprint, regulating the nervous system in real-time, and intentionally creating a new definition of success that feels sustainable.

In Episode 102 of the Thoughts from the Couch podcast, host Justine Carino welcomes therapist and meditation teacher Layne Burkette for a practical conversation about nervous system regulation in everyday life.

This episode focuses on what to do when stress reactions take over, even when you’re doing everything “right.” Justine and Layne break down why insight and mindset tools aren’t always accessible in moments of overwhelm and how small, body-based resets help bring the nervous system back to safety so you can respond with more clarity and intention.

Listeners are guided through several short somatic practices designed for real-life use, including calming resets for stressful moments, transitions between work or parenting tasks, regulating before reacting with others, and winding down at night when the body feels exhausted but wired. Each practice is simple, quick, and easy to integrate into a busy day.