How To Relate
How To Relate
Podcast Description
Many people try to answer what makes relationships work. This podcast aims to answer how do we work relationships? I’m Brittani Procknow, a relationship therapist working with individuals and couples to deepen intimacy and live relationally. I’m taking insights from behind closed doors you, as an audience seeking to improve your way of being in relationship to yourself and others. I’m talking to people about everyday concepts including mental health, work, dating, families, friendships, and hobbies and how they influence our relationships. I’m grateful to have you here. Let’s dive in.
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The podcast explores diverse topics related to relationships, including dating dynamics, trauma recovery, and mental health, with episodes addressing themes like embodiment in relationships, navigating the complexities of dating from a therapist's perspective, and understanding attachment theory. For example, discussions involve how perfectionism impacts relationships and practical strategies for healthier connections.
Many people try to answer what makes relationships work. This podcast aims to answer how do we work relationships? I’m Brittani Procknow, a relationship therapist working with individuals and couples to deepen intimacy and live relationally. I’m taking insights from behind closed doors to you, a listener seeking to improve your relational wellbeing. I’m talking to people about everyday concepts including mental health, work, dating, families, friendships, and hobbies to give insights and actions towards living relationally. I’m grateful to have you here. Let’s dive in.
Erica Smith returns to How to Relate for a light conversation (haha) on the patriarchy, insidious trauma, and what oppression does to our closest relationships.
- Why “the patriarchy” surged in cultural vocabulary post-2020, and how it intersects with racism and the need to re-center attention away from marginalized communities
- Defining the patriarchy: from a “wealthy white men” lens to Terry Real’s framework on masculinity, invulnerability, and emotional suppression
- Boundaries vs. control — how boundary language gets weaponized to manage other people’s behavior instead of one’s own exposure
- “Insidious trauma” and death by a thousand paper cuts: the cumulative nervous-system toll of everyday dismissal, code-switching, and hypervigilance
- Family strategies for safety — advocating in medical settings, “the talk” before a breakup, staying alert in unfamiliar spaces
- Performative allyship vs. authentic accountability, and why announcing your values isn’t the same as living them
- Affinity spaces: when they help, when they isolate, and why the burden of initiating hard conversations should shift toward the group causing harm
- Individual-level change as the starting point for structural change — noticing your own nervous system, choosing regulating relationships
Erica’s Resources:
Whole Mentality: https://www.wholementality.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsericakendra/
Website: https://www.brittaniprocknow.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/brittani_procknow Intimacy Workbook: https://howtorelate.kit.com/b956780219 Newsletter: https://howtorelate.kit.com/e9f87bb2dc Sponsor: Larry’s Coffee — https://larryscoffee.com/relate
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