21. Dené Logan doesn’t do things she hates (and you don’t have to either)

Apr 30

Episode summary:

Find out how a practice of kindness and compassion can pave the way for the type of life that lights you up. Dené Logan is a marriage and family therapist, facilitator, and co-host of the Cheaper than Therapy podcast. Her first book, Sovereign Love: A Guide to Healing Relationships by Reclaiming the Masculine and Feminine Within, will be released in May 2024.

Here’s what went down:

How Dené managed to carve out time to write an actual book
What 2020 taught Dene about social boundaries
How Dene prioritises when it comes to letting go of commitments
Learn Dene’s non-negotiables for starting her day
Internal Family Systems: Martha butchers a description of the only therapeutic modality that has ever worked for her
Dené shares the tools she uses to get back to herself during times of overwhelm
How re-parenting (inner child work) helps Dené hype herself up
Radical self-forgiveness is the antidote to Dené’s anxiety
Dené explains masculine and feminine energetics (and it goes all the way back to Carl Jung)
Liv and Martha are #triggered by this discussion and Dené helps us understand the nuances
How to reclaim the ability to talk about fem and masc identities while understanding that the binary is BS…
…so we can integrate healthy masculine and feminine energies
Dené shares an easy system for a relationship check-in (and the importance of maintenance therapy for couples!)