Safe to Love

Send us Fan Mail This is a real love story. Not the kind that skips the hard parts, but the kind that goes through them and comes out the other side more in love than ever.   In this episode, April and Chad sit down with two of their closest friends, Carrie and Chad Welter, who are about to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. Carrie and Chad Welter take us through the full arc: the easy, adv...

Send us Fan Mail There is a reason so many men stop dating, ghost after great dates, or avoid intimacy altogether. It is not a lack of desire. It is a fear so loaded with shame that most men would rather disappear than face it. This episode is raw and vulnerable, and you can feel it in Chad's energy - and the numerous technical glitches that show up, even the computers were feeling it. It&apo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Chad and April sit down with human design coach Natalie Pearce, the same coach who helped them navigate a pivotal turning point in their own relationship. Natalie breaks down what human design actually is, why it's less a belief system and more an invitation to experiment, and how understanding your own wiring (and your partner's) can completely change t...

Send us Fan Mail April thought a marriage with no fighting was the goal. What she discovered was that the silence wasn't peace. It was two people slowly disappearing from each other. In this raw and deeply personal episode, Chad sits down with his partner April Benincosa to explore why avoiding hard conversations is the single fastest way to kill intimacy, and what finally happens when you st...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down with April’s mentor Mariposa to explore what grief really is, why our culture is so ill-equipped to support it, and how learning to honor loss — instead of avoid it — is the only real path to opening your heart for love again. This conversation is for anyone who has ever felt stuck after heartbreak, afraid to trust again, or ashamed of still caring abo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Chad takes an honest, vulnerable look at the real masculinity crisis — where it comes from, what it's costing men and the women who love them, and what actually rebuilds identity and attraction. This conversation is for the woman who wants to understand the man in her life, and for the man who feels something is missing but has no language for it. Explore mas...

Send us Fan Mail Jennifer Holland, somatic coach and creator of the DRIPP methodology, joins April for a raw, expansive conversation about why real pleasure can only emerge from deep safety in the body. They explore de-armoring (releasing trauma stored in physical tissue), the difference between people-pleasing and devotion, "inner daddy" energy as a reframe of reparenting, and why so ma...

Send us Fan Mail Most people think they are broken when they feel emotionally shut down, stuck in painful patterns, or numb in their relationships.  Somatic practitioner Darci Burke joins April and Chad to explain why your nervous system is not broken, it is protecting you. And how learning to work with your body instead of against it is the key to healing, deeper connection, and love that actuall...

Send us Fan Mail Everything you learned about mindset, willpower, and "faking it till you make it" has gotten you this far, but what happens when you hit the wall? In this deeply personal conversation, April sits on the other side of the mic as Chad interviews her about the somatic, nervous-system-level transformation she's walked through this year  and what embodied change actually...

Send us Fan Mail After painful divorces, years of self-work, and a lot of wrong turns on dating apps, Adrienne and Jake each got radically clear on who they were calling in and then the universe delivered.  In this final chapter of their epic love story, they share exactly how they manifested each other, what it felt like the moment they matched, and the real, unfiltered work of building a safe, p...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when the love is gone but the grief won't leave? Jake Orak opens up about the quiet unraveling of a decade-long marriage - not through betrayal, but through two people slowly drifting apart. He walks us through the coaching, the inner work, and the completion ceremony that finally gave both him and his ex-wife the energetic freedom to truly move on.  This is no...

Send us Fan Mail Today, April and Chad sit down with Adrienne Isbell, a yoga and sound healing teacher who spent over a decade inside a narcissistic marriage before her world collapsed and rebuilt itself into something far greater than she ever imagined. Adrienne opens up about the childhood wounds that shaped how she loved, the financial control that left her with no career and no way out, and wh...

Send us Fan Mail  | On this final episode of Season 1, Chad and April once again sit down with Adira - this time to share their own special love story! How it all started, this Youtube channel started with our love story and we share about courage and love. And trust and surrender. Our mission is to give the world hope and our story is full of that!! We hope you enjoy it!! Love you April and Chad...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode April sits down one-on-one with Erica Lemke, a Certified Sex and Relationship Coach,  Board Certified Clinical Sexologist, and the founder of Sex Coach SLC in Salt Lake City. We talk about all things Sex and Pleasure for women in mid-life, including  Kegels to Safe Intimacy to Body Image and everything in between!  Known for her warm presence and grounded expertise...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Safe to Love we bring you a Love story in its inception. Stephen and Carrie have not been together for decades or even years, reflecting back on the life they have shared and all they have learned together. They give us a real-time insight into what it's like to take all of the lessons life has taught us about love and integrate them into a new relationship...

Send us Fan Mail On this special episode of Safe to Love, April and Chad sit down to share with our audience what beats at the heart of Safe to Love, from our mission statement, to our Core Values, as well as who our audience is and the different themes that we use to determine the topics we talk about.  Special thanks to our dear friend Adira for coming from behind the camera to interview us for...

Send us Fan Mail In this one-on-one Episode of Safe to Love, Chad sits down with his teacher, mentor, and friend, Cam Fraser, to talk about masculinity and men's sexuality, and how our relationship to each affect how we show up in relationships. Cam is Certified Professional Sex Coach and Certified Sexologist, he served as the Deputy Chairperson for the Society of Australian Sexologists from...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we bring you the story of how painful the intersection of love and religion can be. Darci and Brandon's entire lives - including their marriage - were built upon the foundations of the Mormon Church (officially called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). When their souls could no longer fit within the confines of that religion, not only did they h...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Safe to Love, Chad sits down with April for a powerful interview about the life that led her to creating Safe to Love, the choices along the way that shaped her into the woman that she is, and the courage it takes to leave behind a marriage that is not good for either partner. April bravery and authenticity are on full display here as she shares a story that so...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Safe to Love, April and Chad sit down with Christy Foster to explore  how the body carries our unspoken stories, how physical patterns often mirror emotional imprints, and what it really means to listen to the “subconscious language” of the body. Christy shares her framework for understanding the two-way communication between body and mind, and how cultivating t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we bring you the story young love, two people starting a life together without knowing who they really were. Adam and Caitlin share their journey of both reinventing themselves and their relationship, all while confronting their own childhood trauma and juggling the demands of paying the bills and raising a family. Follow their story as they transform from two peop...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, April sits down with Chad for a deeply personal conversation about the twists and turns that shaped his life. From the reality of addiction and the long road of recovery to rebuilding his identity through the working with Men, Chad shares how choosing courage over and over again led to deep healing and opened doors he never expected. Did you know you can watch Saf...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Safe to Love, Chelsea talks with April and Chad about the history of marriage, the cultural forces that shape intimacy, the impact of religion on relationships, and what her research shows about connection, safety, and healing within partnership. Did you know you can watch Safe to Love on YouTube?  Chelsea Shields is a biological and cultural anthropologist who...

Send us Fan Mail On the debut episode of Safe to Love, we bring you a story that captures the heart of our mission to help the world believe in love again. Scott and LaRae Wright join us to share a relationship built on healing, honesty, and the courage to begin again later in life. ( Did you know you can also WATCH this episode on YouTube?!) Scott and LaRae first knew each other in high school, b...