The Connection Podcast - Lauren Dry

Finally saying the sentence you've rehearsed for years, then wondering whether it was a boundary or an ultimatum. In this episode of The Connection Podcast, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores how a boundary and an ultimatum can sound almost identical, and what shapes which one comes out when you've reached your limit. It's a chance to get curious about...

What if the marriage you're grieving could end, and the two of you got to begin a second one? Some love stories take more than one beginning. In this episode of The Connection Podcast, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Rebecca Mullen, artist, writer, coach and host of Habits for Your Happily Ever After, to explore the seasons of estrangement tha...

You wake up at three in the morning, heart pounding, and you don't know why. Your labs come back completely normal. That's not proof nothing's wrong. That's perimenopause, quietly running the show long before anyone told you to expect it. In this episode of The Connection Podcast, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Nandita Mahadevan, founder of S...

Somewhere between fighting for the relationship and letting it go, you're stuck. And it's exhausting. You don't need another push to decide right now. You need to understand what's actually happening underneath it. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, walks through what it actually takes to make peace with not knowing, from the nervous system pat...

You're halfway through another romantasy novel, and part of you is wondering why it feels better than anything happening at home. That's desire, still very much alive, just looking in the wrong place. In this episode of The Connection Podcast, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Caroline Hood, a certified sex therapist and author who works at the...

You've spent years angry at someone who barely remembers what they did to you. You've set the same boundary with the same person more times than you can count. And somewhere in there, you've wondered if loving your family honestly means forgiving them for everything. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Dr Nancy Dome, a speaker, au...

You can love someone completely and still feel like something between you has gone quiet. That's usually polarity, slipping away without either of you noticing. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Dr Brian Paris, founder of Emotional Engineering, for a conversation about polarity that's candid, a little provocative, and grounded i...

Nice guy syndrome doesn't look like a problem from the outside. It looks like someone who never causes a fuss, never asks for too much, and is slowly disappearing inside his own relationship. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Jason Lange, a men's embodiment coach and certified No More Mr Nice Guy coach who has trained with leade...

What do men hide from their partners when shame shows up? And once you know, what actually helps, versus what makes it worse? In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with Gaylen Wilson, certified Thriving Relationship Coach and co-creator of the Monument Method, to talk about what happens when shame moves into a marriage and nobody names i...

Have you ever kept pushing through the moment your body was already telling you to stop? In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, talks with Jeff Luther, an entrepreneur and father of three who collapsed at a CrossFit gym in front of his teenage son and had no pulse for eight minutes. He was later diagnosed with ARVC, a rare heart condition that ende...

If you've been stuck in the same cycles for so long that you've stopped being able to picture what life could actually look like, this one is for you. Not a list of tools. Not another framework. A real, tangible picture of what becomes possible when you finally regulate and reset at the root. Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores what becomes possible on...

You've been doing the work. Reading the books, sitting with the hard stuff, trying to show up differently. And they're not. So what now? In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores one of the most exhausting places a person can find themselves in a relationship, carrying the weight of growth for two people, and wondering how long they can keep...

The breakthrough you've been waiting for probably won't look like one. What does it actually feel like when the pattern breaks? It might start in your kitchen. Over the bins. Something you've fought about a hundred times before. Over nothing, really. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores what it actually looks and feels like when a nervou...

You could probably explain your childhood trauma in your sleep. And you're still losing it over a tone of voice at dinner. You've done the therapy. You know your attachment style. You understand your nervous system, your triggers, your patterns. And you're still reacting the same way at home, still carrying the weight of a relationship that doesn't feel like it's shifting. In this episode, Lauren...

Have you ever caught yourself doing the thing you swore you'd never do? The controlling. The score keeping. The sarcasm that comes out before you can stop it. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with her husband Morgan for an honest, unguarded conversation about the toxic patterns that show up most in women in relationships, and what's...

You know that feeling. You're looking at him and you have absolutely no idea what's going on in there. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, sits down with her husband Morgan to unpack some of the most common toxic patterns men bring into relationships without realising it. Drawing from their own marriage, including the breakdown and the reset, La...

Have you ever stopped to question whether your vanity is actually yours? Or just patterns you absorbed long before you had a say? Because vanity is NOT a dirty word. And pretending it doesn't affect your relationships, your intimacy, and how you feel about yourself is where things get messy. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, gets honest about...

Have you been trying to hold it all together since having kids, the business, the marriage, the sense of self, and quietly wondering why it feels so much harder than it used to? What if the crash you've been trying to avoid is actually the thing that gets you there. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, gets into what's really happening beneath th...

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. The same internal voice. The same desperate urge to fix it before it all falls apart. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores what our friendships reveal about our deepest relationship patterns,...

What if the chaos in your co-parenting relationship has nothing to do with your ex, and everything to do with the patterns neither of you has broken yet? It's a question that sits heavy for so many parents in the messy middle. Whether you're still in the marriage or already on the other side of it, the dynamics have a way of following you until something shifts from the inside. In this episode, La...

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 question that shows up in business, on social media, and in our most intimate relationships. And it's one most of us are still figuring out. In this episode, Lauren sits down with Amy Guo, co-visionary of Her Seat and co-owner of Millon Wines, for a...

When did ambition stop feeling like strength and start feeling like survival? If you're honest with yourself, you already know the answer. The headaches you've normalised. The sleep that never quite restores you. The morning where getting out of bed felt impossible, even though your life looks great on paper. In this episode Lauren Dry is joined by Serena Tran, co-founder of Her Seat, a community...

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? What have I done wrong? Are they going to grow up resenting each other? And underneath it all is that quiet ache. I should be handling this better. If sibling conflict leaves you activated, ashamed, or desperate to shut it down fast, this conversat...

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 while someone crosses your boundaries? This episode gently untangles that misunderstanding. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, explores what non-attachment actually means through the lens of attachment...

Have you ever quietly judged anything that felt “woo woo”, only to later crave something deeper than logic alone? Or felt the pressure of believing it’s all on you, your growth, your healing, your parenting, your relationships? This episode is a personal one. In this episode, Lauren Dry, Master Marriage Coach and founder of Rise into Regulation™, shares her journey from proud skeptic to curious ex...