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Relationship Diversity Podcast
Every relationship is as unique as you are. Relationship Diversity Podcast aims to celebrate, question, and explore all aspects of relationships and relationship structure diversity. Together, we’ll bust through societal programming to break open and dissect everything we thought we knew about relationships. We’ll ask challenging and transformational questions, like: Who am I? What do I really want in my relationships? Am I in this relationship structure because it’s all I know or is it really the fullest expression of who I am? Being curious, having courage to look within, and asking these important questions creates the space for joy-filled, soul-nourishing relationships. Your host and guide, Carrie Jeroslow is an International Best-Selling Author, Conscious Relationship Coach, and Intuitive. Through this podcast, she helps to normalize discussions about all different kinds of relationship structures from soloamory to monogamy to polyamory, and everything in between. This is a space of inclusivity and acceptance. The time is NOW to shift the conversation to a new paradigm of conscious, intentional, and diverse relationships.Join in as we reimagine all that our most intimate relationships can become.
Relationship Diversity Podcast
Hiatus Week 1:Exploring Relationship Diversity – Playlist on Relationship Models, Breaking Societal Norms, and Novogamy
Hiatus Week 1:
Exploring Relationship Diversity – Playlist on Relationship Models, Breaking Societal Norms, and Novogamy
Even while I'm taking some time off, I wanted to continue showing up for you and pursuing my passion, which is to help people break free from societal norms and rethink everything they know about relationships. I truly believe there's a new paradigm for relationships being birthed, one grounded in the concept and foundations of relationship diversity.
So, to keep the conversations alive, I've taken a look back at my two years of episodes and noticed some exciting themes emerging. Each week, during my hiatus, I'll post a specially curated playlist of episodes centered on a specific topic. Then you'll find links to those episodes in the show notes to help you dive deeper into areas that might resonate with where you are in your journey.
Let's continue exploring, growing, and embracing the expansiveness of relationship diversity together.
In this first week of hiatus, I curate a playlist focused on the foundations and exploration of relationship diversity. The playlist features standout episodes covering topics such as definitions of relationship diversity, various relationship structures, the concept of novogamy, and the importance of embracing unique relationship models. Highlights include discussions on societal norms, wounded vs. healed expressions in relationships, and deep dives with experts like Dr. Jorge Ferrer.
Episodes mentioned:
Episode 2 Exploring Diverse Relationship Structures
Episode 3 Wounded Vs. Healed Expression in Diverse Relationships
Episode 34 What Determines If a Relationship Is a Success?
Episode 74 A PSA: You Are Unique! Why Are You Trying to Fit Your Relationship Into a Box?
Episode 109 The Mono/Poly Relationship: Challenges and Solutions with Dr. Elisabeth Sheff
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Welcome to Hiatus Week 1. Even while I'm taking some time off, I wanted to continue showing up for you and pursuing my passion, which is to help people break free from societal norms and rethink everything they know about relationships. I truly believe there's a new paradigm for relationships being birthed, one grounded in the concept and foundations of relationship diversity. So, to keep the conversations alive, I've taken a look back at my two years of episodes and noticed some exciting themes emerging. Each week during my hiatus, I'll post a specially curated playlist of episodes centered on a specific topic. Then you'll find links to those episodes in the show notes to help you dive deeper into areas that might resonate with where you are in your journey. Let's continue exploring, growing and embracing the expansiveness of relationship diversity together. This week's focus is relationship diversity foundations and exploration. There are clearly so many episodes I could list under this theme, because that's what this podcast is about, but here are some of my favorites. We'll start with episode one. What is relationship diversity? Could it really be the answer to fulfilling intimate relationships? In this first episode, you'll learn more about me and my history with relationships, and it's a journey with many twists and turns. I'll also define relationship diversity. Why this way of relating is so important to me and why I think it may be the new paradigm of conscious, intentional relationships.
Speaker 0:Next up is episode two, exploring diverse relationship structures. In this episode I explore four basic intimate relationship structures as a jumping off point for the whole discussion. These four basic structures include soloamory, monogamy, open relationships and polyamory. I also explore the idea of labels, the positives and the negatives of these concepts and ideas. The goal is to find, explore and live into our own unique identity. Then next is episode three wounded versus healed expression in diverse relationships. In this episode I explore both the wounded expression and the healed or true expression with each of the four basic relationship structures Again soloamory, monogamy, open relationships and polyamory. I hear from so many people statements like that structure just doesn't work. However, when you dive in deeper to look at what's underneath that statement, you may find that it's not the structure that isn't working, but instead it may be where the person is coming from while in the structure.
Speaker 0:The next one is episode 34, what determines if a relationship is a success. So in this episode I look at societal views about what determines whether a relationship is successful or not. This is really important to look at and dive into, because this idea of a successful relationship is very limited in the current paradigm of intimate relationships. So, within the context of relationship diversity, the qualifier of a successful relationship becomes am I being my true self in this relationship and am I honoring my needs and desires while honoring my partners? Like I said, this is foundational in relooking at our relational subconscious beliefs.
Speaker 0:The next episode in this playlist is episode 59, transcending monogamy and polyamory a deep dive into relational freedom with Dr Jorge Ferrer. What if we gave ourselves the freedom to move beyond the labels of monogamy and polyamory and instead focus on the diverse and complex nature of relationships themselves? In this episode, I engage in an incredibly thought-provoking conversation with Dr Jorge Ferrer, a renowned clinical psychologist and author who shares his advocacy for relational freedom. We dive into the heart of relationship diversity, challenging the entrenched binary thinking and fueling a discourse that encourages fluid identities and a more open-minded approach to relationships. He's coined the term Novogamy as a new paradigm of relationships that transcend the monogamy polyamory binary, and I'm going to give a bonus episode here. So if you'd like to hear how Novogamy is playing out on a personal level, then check out episode 120, living More Consciously and Wisely in your Relationships with Waking Youth's Carlotta Geddesh, where she talks about her thoughts on novogamy and why that term resonated so deeply with her.
Speaker 0:Next episode I'm going to tag is episode 74, a PSA. You are unique. Why are you trying to fit your relationship into a box? One of the common themes that has emerged over the past two years has been that every relationship is as unique as you are, so encouraging people to design a relationship structure most aligned with who they are. If you've been searching for permission to be your unique self in your unique relationships, check this one out. And finally, to give you an idea of an outside the box structure, check out episode 109, the Monopoly Relationship Challenges and Solutions with Dr Elizabeth Sheff. Dr Eli demystifies this structure where one person wants monogamy and the other desires polyamory. It can work for many people, but it takes education, support and a continual questioning of self-judgments and out-of-date relational beliefs. That's it. Happy listening and remember to stay curious.
