Love Anarchy
Are you the person who knows there is more to dating, relationships and love than what is shared in the mainstream? This podcast is for people who want to delve deeper into love and relationships outside of the day to day cultural norms. Love Anarchy is for the person who is curious about the spiritual, sexual, and controversial topics that influence our perspective of how relationships and love unfold themselves in our lives. Andrea Atherton is a relationship coach, therapist and intuitive who is passionate about human connection and the authentic love experience. This weekly podcast will have guests who are experts or have personal experience in topics that will help you explore, challenge and deepen your understanding of love. Join the relationship rebellion.
Episodes
254 episodes
Ep. 253 - From Generational Trauma to Generational Healing
In Episode 253, host Andrea Atherton sits down with Laziena Hodge for a deeply honest conversation about self-awareness, relationships, and the unmet emotional needs that quietly shape our behaviors. Together they explore how many of the ways w...
Ep. 252 - Reclaiming Desire, Healing Shame, and Embracing Your Sexuality
Episode 252, with host Andrea Atherton, explores a conversation that is often avoided yet deeply essential to our emotional and relational well-being: sexuality, desire, and the freedom to be fully human. With warmth, depth, and nearly three de...
Ep. 251 - Emotional Suppression Is Not Strength: The Truth About Real Resilience
In episode 251, we enter the quiet spaces where so many of us have learned to disappear inside ourselves. The places where strength was defined as silence, where resilience meant pushing through, and where emotional truth was slowly edited out ...
Ep. 250 - Earth Day: The Feminine, Gaia & The Truth We Must Face
In the 250th episode, host Andrea Atherton invites listeners into a deeply honest and emotionally stirring exploration of Earth Day, the divine feminine, and the untold histories that continue to shape our relationships today. This episode move...
Ep 249 - Too Much or Never Enough (Pt. 2): The Path to Healing Yourself & Relationship
Episode 249 continues this revealing conversation with host Andrea Atherton and guest Hanna Basel, moving beyond awareness into the lived experience of how “not enough” and “too much” wounds quietly take hold in adult relationships. In this sec...
Ep 248 - Too Much or Never Enough (Pt. 1): The Shame We Carry Into Relationships
Episode 248, Part One brings a deeply honest and tender conversation with host Andrea Atherton and guest Hanna Basel, exploring the all-too-familiar feelings of being “not enough” or “too much” in our intimate relationships. T...
Ep. 247 - The Inner Work That Changes Your Experience of Love
Episode 247 is a solo conversation with Andrea Atherton, drawing from nearly three decades as a therapist and love expert to explore the foundation that shapes every relationship we enter, the one we have with ourselves. In this episode, Andrea...
Ep. 246 - The Space Between Mother & Crone: Deepening Female Relationships
Episode 246 is a deeply nourishing and expansive conversation that speaks to the heart of what it means to be a woman in relationship, with yourself, with others, and with life itself. Host Andrea Atherton is joined by Elizabeth Makepeace for a...
Ep. 245 - Breaking Free from Toxic Love
In this deeply honest episode, host Andrea Atherton sits down with author Esther Laurenceau to explore the painful yet transformative journey of navigating toxic relationships. Esther opens up about the lived experiences that inspired her book,...
Ep. 244 - The Life Changing Power of Self-Awareness
In this solo episode, host Andrea Atherton explores the powerful concept of self-awareness and why it plays such a critical role in nearly every area of our lives. From the way we make decisions to how we communicate in relationships, our level...
Ep. 243 - Karmic Reset & The Virgo Full Moon Eclipse Portal
In Episode 243, host Andrea Atherton sits down with astrologer and love guide David Hauser for a powerful and timely conversation about the profound karmic moment unfolding beneath the South Node Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo. Together, they...
Ep. 242 - Ancient Spirits, Modern Hearts: Transforming Love Through Shamanic Practice
In this episode, host Andrea Atherton welcomes Shaman Abhay Oyun, a revered elder of an ancient Siberian shamanic lineage, for a conversation that bridges ancestral wisdom with modern relationships. Together, they explore how love, dating, and ...
Ep. 241 - Recovering From Addiction: Healing Without Judgement
In this deeply honest and illuminating conversation, host Andrea Atherton welcomes special guest Tyler Blandin, a substance abuse counselor with over 20 years of professional and personal recovery experience. Together, they explore one of the m...
Ep. 240: The Trap of Romance Scams: My Personal Experience
In this intimate solo episode, Andrea Atherton invites listeners into a powerful exploration of embodied self-reflection and the quiet courage it takes to come home to oneself. Drawing from nearly three decades as a psychotherapist and love spe...
Ep. 239 - Arriving Back To YourSelf
In Episode 239, host Andrea Atherton and Mazona Shahar, a guide in spiritual work, ancestral wisdom, and human evolution, explore what it truly means to choose oneself in a culture that fears being alone. Together, they gently unpack the differ...
Ep. 238 - Nonviolent Communication: Speaking From The Heart
In Episode 238, Andrea Atherton explores the transformative power of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a practice that teaches us how to speak from the heart while staying deeply connected to ourselves and others. Many of us were never taught how...
Ep. 237 - (Pt. 2) Breaking Free from Relationship Myths
Love is one of the most powerful forces shaping our lives, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. In this episode (Part Two - Part One Ep. 220) of the Love Anarchy Podcast, host Andrea Atherton explores how the stories we’ve bee...
Ep 236: The Cost of Control: Whole-Person Healing in an Overdriven World
Episode 236 welcomes listeners into a rich, integrative dialogue with host Andrea Atherton and Chinese medicine practitioner Keith Coley, as they explore the Eastern whole-person view of healing in contrast to the Western fixation on control an...
Ep. 235 - Clinical insights into Endings, Attachment, and the Courage to Let Go
In Episode 235, host Andrea Atherton is joined by fellow therapist Lisa Angelini for a thoughtful, clinically informed conversation about the relationship themes that are increasingly appearing in therapy rooms in 2025. Drawing on their combine...
Ep. 234 - New Year Spiritual Reset: Healing, Reflection & Renewal
As we stand at the threshold between 2025 and 2026, host Andrea Atherton offers this solo episode as an invitation to slow down and meet the New Year as a sacred cycle rather than a rushed reset. Instead of resolutions driven by pressure or sel...
Ep. 233 - 2026 Astrology Forecast
Step into the celestial flow of 2026 as Andrea Atherton is joined once again by renowned astrologer David Hauser for a timely and illuminating conversation on the astrological forces shaping the year ahead. Together, they reflect on how 2025 se...
Ep. 232 - The Cycle of Nine: Honoring the Completion of 2025
In this episode, host Andrea Atherton is joined by Elizabeth Makepeace for a reflective and expansive conversation on the Cycle of Nine, a universal rhythm of growth, integration, and completion. Together, they explore what it means to...
Ep. 231 - The Intimacy Blueprint: 8 Talks Every Couple Needs
In this powerful solo episode, Andrea Atherton invites listeners into the heart of conscious love through the transformative framework of 8 Dates by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. With her signature blend of warmth, depth, and clinical w...
Ep. 230 - Wanting and Resistance: Why Change Can Feel Impossible
In Episode 230, host Andrea Atherton opens a powerful exploration into internal resistance, that mysterious inner force that stops us even when our desire for change is bright, clear, and deeply motivating. We step into the truth that our wants...
Ep. 229 - Beyond Relationship Trauma: Stepping Onto Your True Path to Love
Host Andrea Atherton is joined by Danielle Young, founder of Inspired Action Wellness, whose lived experience and professional expertise illuminate the healing journey from trauma and domestic violence to emotional sovereignty and self-respect....