The Relationship Revolutionary, with Dr. Jeni Wahlig

You cannot build the relationship you want from a nervous system running on stress twelve hours a day... and your partner can feel your state before you say a single word. In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig kicks off a brand new series, Alive In Love: The Serious Business of Joy, by laying the foundation for everything that's coming this month: the difference between primal state and powerful st...

You're following a relationship script you never got to read first. Most of us inherited our ideas about love from our parents, from movies, from a culture that had very specific ideas about how relationships were supposed to go. We assumed our partner inherited the same script And then we collided around the parts nobody ever talked about. In this episode of Catalyst Conversations, Dr. Jeni W...

There is no normal. So stop trying to be it. On Juneteenth and on their birthday therapist, liberation educator, and artist Kelz Cousins joined Dr. Jeni Wahlig for one of the most paradigm-disrupting conversations in Catalyst Conversations history. Kelz specializes in queer communities, consensually non-monogamous relationships, kink, and neurodivergence. Their work is grounded in liberation, plea...

A surrogacy journey in the US can run a quarter of a million dollars for one child. And that's only the cost you can put on a spreadsheet. This week's guest is Sam Leeson, founder of babyREADY, host of the Becoming Baby Ready podcast (now in its fifth season), and a birth worker and educator who has supported queer families for nearly three decades, from the very beginning of their journey...

She thought something was wrong with her for decades. She was wrong about that. In this episode the first in the Proud Love Series Dr. Jeni Wahlig tells her own identity story in full for the very first time: queerness, genderqueer identity, graysexuality, and polyamory. A doctorate in marriage and family therapy, fifteen years as a clinician, and she still spent twenty years cycling through label...

Catalyst Conversations: A Relationship Revolution Ep. 13: The Biggest Myth About Happiness (And What Actually Works) | May Myths Finale You've done the work. Read the books. Tried the therapy. Done the journaling. And still something is missing. The reason? You've been looking in the wrong place. In this final episode of the May Myths series, Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with Christy Holt — a...

In this episode of Catalyst Conversations: A Relationship Revolution, Dr. Jeni Wahlig is joined by Gianna Yazana — philosopher, relationship coach, and writer — whose work draws on Socrates, Carl Jung, Eric Fromm, and ancient mythology to dismantle one of the most damaging stories women carry: that love is a reward for becoming desirable enough. Together they unpack why performing for love guarant...

The past is in the past. You can't change it ... you can only accept it and move on. That's the myth. And it's one of the most costly beliefs we carry. In this episode of Catalyst Conversations: A Relationship Revolution, Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with Nikko Anna Jean CEO of Heartshine Revolution, #1 Amazon best-selling author, and creator of the Heartshine EFT Method to bust open the...

What if the identity you've been living was never really yours? In episode two of the May Myths series, Dr. Jeni Wahlig is joined by Charu Seth — ICF-certified identity strategist, transition coach, and author of She Stands Strong ...for a conversation that dismantles the myth most high-achieving women never see coming: the myth of who you are. Charu works with women over 40 who are navigating...

The box someone built for you was never built with your name on it — and it's time to stop pretending it fits. In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with writer, speaker, and disability advocate Michelle Steiner, who was told she couldn't go to college, couldn't be published, and couldn't build the career she wanted. She did all of it. Their conversation goes far beyond disabi...

You survived. You're finally safe. So why does it still feel like you're waiting for something to go wrong? This week on The Relationship Revolutionary, I'm sitting down with Ruth Carroll — author, speaker, EMT, and a woman who survived nearly three decades of abuse and then had to learn, from the ground up, how to actually live again. Ruth doesn't speak from a textbook. She speaks...

You’ve been carrying pain that no one around you can quite see. In your body. In your relationship. In the quiet ache of a dynamic that just won’t shift. This week’s Catalyst Conversation changes that. Jen Uschold is a physical therapist, Fellow of Pain Science, and national board-certified health and wellness coach with 35 years of clinical experience — and what she’s learned about pain in the bo...

There is a strange and painful kind of loneliness that no one talks about. Not the kind where you're alone. The kind where you're surrounded... and still unreachable. You've built the career. The family. The reputation. And somewhere in all of that building, you stopped letting people all the way in. Not on purpose. It just happened — one guarded moment at a time. This is the 4th episode in March,...

You've read the books. You've tried the strategies. You can name exactly what your partner is doing wrong — and nothing has changed. Here's the truth no one teaches you: your power has never been in what they do. In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig opens her newest series-- Hard-Won Truths: Lessons That Transformed Everything-- with the story that changed it all, and led to the creation o...

Your relationship didn't change. Your hormones did. And nobody told you what that actually means. Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with Amber Vasquez, NP, Menopause Society certified practitioner, for the conversation your doctor probably hasn't had with you. This isn't about hot flashes. It's about the biology of disconnection — why you're fighting more, feeling less close, and sudde...

Beyond the Breakup: Post-Traumatic Growth and Rewriting Your Relationship Patterns Episode 2 | The Living Relationship: How Love Dies, Evolves & Is Reborn Your breakups are not failures. They are data. They are doorways. In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig sits down with marriage and family therapy intern and trauma-informed coach Deborah Feathers for a conversation that will change how you see e...

Stop trying to save your relationship. Start asking what it's trying to become. In this episode, Dr. Jeni Wahlig opens the March series with a truth that most people have never been given permission to hear: love doesn't fail because it changes. It fails because we keep trying to preserve what was never meant to last forever. What you'll discover in this conversation: Why "a good...