Tripping Over Love

What is the voice inside your head—and where does it come from? In this fascinating conversation, we sit down with renowned psychologist and author Dr. Charles Fernyhough, whose groundbreaking research has helped shape our understanding of inner speech, self-talk, imagination, trauma, and consciousness.  Together we explore why some people experience a constant inner dialogue while others don't, h...

What happens when the habits that once made you successful quit working? In this episode of Tripping Over Love , Keith sits down with Stacey Garcia —integrative nutrition coach, personal trainer, Reiki master practitioner, and host of the Never Miss a Monday podcast—to explore the deeper patterns behind burnout, illness, and sustainable health. Stacey shares her personal journey with cancer and ho...

A major new study published in Nature suggests that very different psychiatric diagnoses — including ADHD, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, Tourette's, and anxiety — may share common genetic roots. If that's true, it could fundamentally reshape how we understand mental illness. For decades, psychiatry has treated disorders as separate categories — often prescribing medications that tar...

In this episode, we sit down with sex therapist Michael Vigorito to talk openly about the intersection of sex and substances — from alcohol and cannabis to crystal meth, MDMA, poppers, GHB, and ketamine. This conversation is educational, promotes health and safety, and does not promote dangerous or illegal behavior. We explore: - When drug use with sex is preference vs. out-of-control behavior  -...

In this episode of Tripping Over Love, Courtney and Keith sit down with Cindy DiTiberio, writer of "The Motherlode" on Substack, to talk honestly about divorce, desire, psychedelics, and the systems that shape women's lives. Cindy shares how MDMA-assisted therapy intersected with the end of her marriage, why she believes sex is not a duty, and how patriarchy surreptitiously governs marriage, mothe...

Relationships don't fall apart because people don't love each other — they fall apart because old wounds start running the show. In this episode of Tripping Over Love, we sit down with Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin, a couples therapist and Imago clinician, to unpack why the smallest moments — an interruption, a correction, a tone — can trigger outsized reactions in long-term relationships. Oh, and we bring...

Most relationship advice on the internet has one solution: leave. Too attached? Leave. Not attached enough? Leave. Read something unsettling about your partner? Definitely leave. In this episode of Tripping Over Love, Courtney and Keith pull real questions straight from Reddit—the ones people usually panic over in silence. An avoidant partner who can't say "I love you."  A spouse who reads somethi...

In this episode of Tripping Over Love, Courtney and Keith sit down with historian Peggy O'Donnell, author of Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother, to explore why the question of having—or not having—children remains so emotionally charged. This conversation looks at the historical, political, and cultural forces that shape how women are judged for motherhood, childlessness, or...

In this episode of Tripping Over Love, Courtney and Keith sit down with Betty Martin, author of The Art of Receiving and Giving, to explore intimacy, consent, desire, and the often-overlooked challenge of receiving. Betty shares the framework behind the Wheel of Consent, a powerful somatic model that helps people understand who an experience is for, how giving and receiving actually work, and why...

In this episode of Tripping Over Love, we sit down with Paul Gilmartin, comedian and host of The Mental Illness Happy Hour, for an honest conversation about relationships, vulnerability, and emotional maturity. We talk about what has to be unlearned to build healthier relationships—letting go of escalation, expressing feelings without blame, and releasing the idea that it's your job to change your...

What happens when rigorous pharmacology meets spirituality, psychedelics, and lived experience? In this episode of Tripping Over Love, we sit down with Ben Malcolm, a psychiatric pharmacist known as The Spirit Pharmacist, to explore the real-world questions people have about psychedelics—safety, medications, risk, set and setting, and why education matters more than hype. Ben shares his personal j...

What if stress—not communication—is the real reason relationships fall apart? In this episode of  Tripping Over Love , Courtney Corona and Keith Miller sit down with Elizabeth Earnshaw, licensed marriage and family therapist and bestselling author of 'Till Stress Do Us Part: How to Heal the #1 Issue in Our Relationships , to talk about how modern stress quietly erodes even strong, loving relations...

As an award-winning journalist and author of "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World," Rachel Nuwer has spent years covering MDMA's role in the psychedelic renaissance happening around us. Notably, she covered the aftermath of the FDA's 2024 rejection of Lykos Therapeutic's MDMA-assisted PTSD therapy and the role an advocacy group—Psymposia—may have played in the FDA's...

Today we're talking all things Internal Family Systems (IFS) with therapist, teacher, and host of The One Inside , Tammy Sollenberger — one of the most trusted voices in the IFS community. We explore how IFS transforms communication, conflict, and the way we love — including a live, unscripted moment where Keith turns toward a "part that needs to be right" during arguments. IFS can feel abstract u...

In today's episode of Tripping Over Love, we sit down with Dr. John Krystal—Chair of Psychiatry at Yale and one of the pioneers behind ketamine's use in treating depression. If you've ever wondered how ketamine actually works, why it's so different from SSRIs, what happened with MDMA's FDA rejection, or whether esketamine is truly better than IV ketamine…this is the episode. Dr. Krystal explains:...

This is the first of many behind-the-scenes episodes we're releasing at launch — a completely unstructured, unfiltered, lighthearted ramble recorded during the summer when rhubarb and strawberries are ripe for pie and we hit the ecstatic dance floor, sober-ish. There's no lesson plan. No expert interview. No theme. Just two people laughing at ourselves and talking about everything from rage golf,...

In today's episode of Tripping Over Love, we talk with Dr. Tammy Nelson — sex therapist, author of Getting the Sex You Want and Open Monogamy, and one of the most influential voices in modern sexuality and relationships. Tammy joins us to talk about why couples struggle with sex and communication, open monogamy and the continuum of commitment, how to rethink monogamy in a digital age, what porn, k...

What really happens inside an open marriage, beyond the fantasies, fears, and assumptions? Author Molly Roden Winter joins us to share the raw truth behind her memoir "More: A Memoir of Open Marriage," including jealousy spirals, boundary mishaps, sex that worked (and sex that very much didn't), and the emotional renovations that reshaped her 26-year marriage. Molly talks about the early chaos of...

I'm launching  Tripping Over Love on Tuesday, November 25th. It's the podcast about breakups, breakdowns, and breakthroughs. We're Courtney Laydon, former journalist, and Keith Miller, a marriage and IFS therapist who found each other while tripping over love.  We ask one big question: What if the secret to lasting love isn't getting it right… but getting real? Next week, we're launching our first...