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Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice
by Dr. Morgan Anderson
Are you ready to take the mystery out of having great relationships and to gain the knowledge you need to step confidently into the next level of your life? Welcome to the Let’s Get Vulnerable podcast where your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, gives you real talk on all things dating, relationships, and sex. Dr. Morgan is a relationship coach, psychologist and creator of the E.S.L relationship method. She brings humor, truth and knowledge to the complex world of dating and relationships. Podcast episodes will provide you with tangible strategies that you can implement immediately to improve your life and attract the exact relationship you desire. Episodes will feature expert advice from your host and psychologist, Dr. Morgan Anderson, interviews with incredible people offering you their stories and wisdom, and LIVE coaching sessions where you will have an exclusive glimpse into the growth process as it is unfolding. Episodes are recorded in a live format to give you the feel of a live talk
Episodes
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EP 696: Situationship Hell: Why Is Dating So Hard Right Now Pt. 3
Sometimes the hardest relationship to get over is the one that was never actually a relationship. You weren’t officially together, you never had the DTR, but you talked with this person constantly. You were getting just enough closeness to keep you hopeful, but never enough reassurance, emotional...
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EP 695: Why Everyone Feels Emotionally Unavailable Right Now
You can text someone all day and know their entire childhood story, and still never feel close to them. We have more information about attachment than ever before, and somehow we’ve never been harder to reach. In this episode, I’m getting real about the emotional unavailability crisis: what...
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EP 694: The Difference Between Knowing Your Attachment Style and Actually Changing It with Sabrina Zohar
Is what you’re getting enough to grieve what you’re not? My friend Sabrina Zohar is back on the show for round three, and this time she’s bringing her brand new book along. We talk about the night she sent 173 texts (her count stopped there because her phone kept refreshing), the programming that...
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EP 693: How to Break Limerence and Finally Stop Obsessing Over Them (Why Love Feels So Hard Pt. 1)
Have you ever been more devastated over someone you almost dated than someone you actually dated? Maybe it was only a few dates. Maybe it was never official. You still find yourself rereading the texts, checking their stories, and comparing everyone you meet to a relationship that never actually...
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EP 692: Secure Attachment is Your Birth Right
What if secure attachment was never something you had to earn? This episode has been on my heart for months, and I'm so glad it's finally here. So many of us walk around saying "I'm anxious" or "I'm avoidant" like it's a life sentence. But you weren't born with an insecure attachment style. You...
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EP 691: You Can’t Think Your Way Into Secure Attachment
You can know exactly what a healthy relationship looks like and still find yourself sending that third text. Awareness matters, but it was never going to be enough on its own. In Pt. 1 we did the belief work, in Pt. 2 we worked with your nervous system, and today we're putting the rubber to the...
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EP 690: How to Become Securely Attached: Heal Your Nervous System So Triggers Stop Running Your Relationships
If you still get anxious when someone pulls away, does that mean you haven't healed? "Heal your nervous system" gets thrown around constantly, and almost nobody explains what it actually means. So in Part 2 of this series, I'm breaking it down in plain language, in the context of your attachment...
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EP 689: How to Become Securely Attached: Belief Work
What if the reason you keep repeating the same relationship patterns has nothing to do with willpower, and everything to do with the map your brain is still using? You know your attachment style. You can name your triggers in real time. And somehow you're still ending up in the same place with a...
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EP 688: Self Love in Action: You're Ghosting Yourself in Your Relationship
If you love yourself beautifully when you're single and then lose yourself the second you're in a relationship, this one's for you. We're wrapping up Self-Love September with the question so many of you bring to me: what does it actually look like to love yourself while you're loving someone…
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EP 687: How to Stop Attracting the Wrong Guy, with Serena Kerrigan
She almost said no to the man who became her person, because he didn't check every box. This week I'm sitting down with Serena Kerrigan, author of Let's Fucking Date, to talk about the standards that almost kept her from Felix, the guy who's now her partner of four years. Serena opens up about…
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EP 686: Self Love in Action: High Self-Worth Beliefs & Behaviors
Here's the thing nobody tells you about self-love: you can do all the right behaviors and still feel empty if the beliefs underneath them are broken. I'm recording this one from a hotel room in New York, and honestly, I've been thinking about this episode all day. This is part two of our…
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EP 685: What Does "Self-Love" Even Mean? My Personal Definition
When you hear the words "self-love," what comes to mind? A bubble bath? Treating yourself to lunch? Setting a boundary or two? Those things aren't wrong, but they're not the whole picture. In this episode, I'm sharing my personal, working definition of self-love, the one I've landed on after…
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EP 684: Why Knowing Isn't Healing: What Actually Changes Your Attachment Style
You can understand your attachment style perfectly and still repeat it every single time. That's not a you problem, that's the missing piece nobody talks about. This is the episode I've been building toward all series. If you've ever sat there thinking "I know why I do this, I've read the books,...
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EP 683: Why Reassurance Doesn't Always Work, Even When It's Given
Reassurance isn't the problem. The wrong kind of reassurance is. If you've ever heard "I'm not leaving" or "we're fine" and felt your nervous system stay exactly as anxious as it was five minutes ago, this episode is for you. Part 3 of Attachment Theory Got an Upgrade is diving into the research…
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EP 682: A Secure Partner Won't Fix You, Here's What Actually Will
A secure partner cannot heal your attachment style. I need you to sit with that for a second. This is part two of our Attachment Theory Got an Upgrade series, and it's a good one. We're breaking down a 2025 study that followed over 1,000 couples for 20 months and the findings challenge the story…
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EP 681: Your Attachment Style Didn't Just come from Your Parents
You've spent years blaming your mom for your anxious attachment, but what if she's only part of the story? I am kicking off a brand new series today and I cannot wait to get into it with you. We're calling it "Attachment Theory Got an Upgrade," because after years of watching this concept get...
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EP 680: 37, Unfiltered: 10 Mindset Shifts that Change Everything
These are the ten truths that quietly rearranged my entire life, and I'm handing every single one of them to you. Girl, we've made it to the final episode of my birthday series, and I saved the best for last. This one is the mindset shifts, the internal rewires that changed how I see myself, my...
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EP 679: 37, Unfiltered: 10 Lies Dating Culture Told Me (That I Had to Unlearn)
For years I bought into a script I didn't even write, play hard to get, shrink yourself, don't be "too much," wait for love to just happen to you. I lived by these rules and they kept me stuck on repeat, dating the wrong people and wondering why nothing changed. In this episode, part three of my…
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EP 678: 37 Unfiltered: 7 Non-Negotiables I Didn't Have at 30 (And Have Now)
Continuing the birthday series, I'm getting real unfiltered about the seven relationship non-negotiables I didn't even know to ask for at 30 and now, five+ years into my relationship, I will not budge on. Some of these took me years of healing (and a lot of self-abandoning relationships) to even...
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EP 677: 37, Unfiltered: 10 Things I Stopped Doing
It's my birthday, y'all and I'm turning 37 with 10 confessions. To kick off my new series, 37 Unfiltered, I'm sharing the 10 things I stopped doing that changed my life, from alcohol to people-pleasing to paying for people's love. This is the real stuff. Not the highlight reel, the years of small...
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EP 676: How to Actually Heal Disorganized Attachment (The Disorganized Diaries Pt. 4)
Girl, we've made it to part four of The Disorganized Diaries, and this is the episode I've been waiting to give you. We've talked about what disorganized attachment is, where it comes from, and how ADHD and neurodivergence can pour gasoline on the fire. Today we're finally talking about the way...
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EP 675: ADHD & Disorganized Attachment: Disorganized Diaries Pt. 3
You're not "too much" and you're not broken — your nervous system just learned to survive in chaos, and now it's time to teach it something new. Y'all, this one is personal. Disorganized attachment (aka fearful avoidant) is the attachment style I lived in for a huge chunk of my life before I did...
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The Person I Needed Was the Person I Feared: Disorganized Diaries Part Two
If the person you were supposed to run to for safety was also the person who scared you, your nervous system learned a lesson that's still running your relationships today. Girl, this one goes deep. In part two of the Disorganized Diaries series, I'm taking you back to the origin, where...
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EP 673: Why You Feel Both Too Much and Not Enough at the Same Time (The Disorganized Diaries Pt.1)
You're not broken, and you're not "too much." You're just fluent in two survival strategies that never got the chance to work. Girl, this episode kicks off a brand new series I'm calling The Disorganized Diaries, and I am so excited (and honestly a little nervous) to go here with y'all. If you've...
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EP 672: It's Never Too Late to Choose Yourself
Y'all, I need you to hear this today: the belief that "it's too late for me" is not a fact, it's a thought you've been watering for years, and today we're ripping it out at the root. In this episode I'm walking you through the exact belief systems that keep so many of you stuck in relationships...
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EP 671: The Patterns I See In Every Woman Right Before She Walks Into The Best Relationship of Her Life
Y'all, I've worked with thousands of women at this point, and I am telling you, there is a pattern. A real, predictable pattern that shows up right before a woman walks into the healthiest, most secure relationship of her life. In this episode I'm sharing my client Megan's story (name changed,...
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EP 670: Standards and Boundaries (High Self-Worth Summer Pt. 5)
Y'all, have you ever stopped to think about the fact that you are literally teaching people how to treat you every single day? In this episode, part of our High Self-Worth Summer series, I'm getting into one of the most requested topics I get: boundaries. But before we go there, I want to talk...
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EP 669: You're Not Lazy, You're Dysregulated: The Truth About Habits & Healing (High Self-Worth Summer Pt. 4)
Girl, if you've ever beaten yourself up for "failing" at a habit, the journaling you couldn't stick with, the boundary you keep caving on, the morning routine that lasted exactly three days, this episode is for you. In part of our High Self-Worth Summer series, Dr. Morgan breaks down why habits...
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EP 668: Rewire Your Brain for Secure Love (High Self-Worth Summer Pt. 3)
A thought is a flicker. A belief is a highway. Here's how to tell the difference, and rewire the ones that aren't serving you. Girl, have you ever said "I know I need to work on my mindset" without really understanding what that means? In this episode, I'm breaking down the actual neuroscience of...
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EP 667: How to Finally Release Past Relational Trauma (High Self-Worth Summer, Part 2)
Your exes are still living in your nervous system, even the ones you swear you're over. You can change your hair, move apartments, and go full hot-girl-summer reinvention mode, but if you haven't actually processed a past relationship, your body doesn't know it's over. In part 2 of the High...
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EP 666: Processing Your Parents: How Your Caregivers Installed Your Self-Worth Operating System
You can't rewrite a blueprint you've never let yourself look at, and that goes for your relationships too. Buckle up, because we're kicking off the High Self-Worth Summer series with the foundational piece nobody wants to touch: the relational trauma you carry from your relationship with your...
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EP 665: Confidence, Curves & Calling In Secure Love with Raeann Langas
You don't have to shrink yourself to be worthy of love, girl — and this episode is your permission slip to stop waiting. I'm so excited about this one, y'all. I sat down in studio with Raeann Langas, midsize fashion and confidence expert, the voice behind Ahead of the Curve on Substack, and we…
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EP 664: Hot Take: Soulmates don't exist, Closure is a lie and Monogamy isn't Boring
We need to talk about what you actually believe about love. Not what you think you believe, what's quietly running the show underneath all of it. Because I've watched so many women do the work, read the books, listen to all the podcasts (maybe even this one), and still stay stuck. And a lot of…
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EP 663: Why Friendship Breakups Hurt More Than Romantic Ones with Danielle Bayard Jackson
That friendship breakup with your best girlfriend? The one that blindsided you? Girl, there's a reason it wrecked you more than any ex ever did. Y'all, this conversation is one I didn't know I needed. I sat down with friendship expert and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson to talk about the...
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EP 662: How to Become the Woman Who Attracts Secure, Healthy Love
Girl, your vision board isn't broken, your identity is. This week I'm getting real with you about the one thing that actually changes everything when it comes to attracting secure, healthy love: who you're becoming. Because here's the truth, a goal without an identity change is just torture. You...
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Special Episode: What Actually Changes When You Become Securely Attached (4 Women Tell All)
The transformation isn't just possible, y'all are about to hear four women prove it. In this special bonus episode, I'm doing something I've never done before: handing the mic to the women who've lived it. These are real clients from inside my program who walked in stuck in the same patterns you...
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EP 661: Special Guest: Zac Clark on Addiction, Love & Letting Go (and the story of the bank teller who saves his life)
You've been told that if you just love him hard enough, he'll change. I need you to hear what my guest says about that. Y'all, this one is different. I sat down in studio in NYC with Zac Clark, founder and CEO of Release Recovery, host of The Zac Clark Show, and a man who's 14+ years sober after...
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EP 660: Healing Isn't Knowing, It's Becoming
You can know everything about attachment theory and still keep ending up in the same painful patterns, so what's actually different about the women who break free? Girl, this one's for you if you've read all the books, listened to all the episodes, and you still feel stuck. In this solo episode,...
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EP 659: You're Not Burned Out, You're Underplayed with Special Guest Piera Gelardi
Girl, you're not lazy and you're not broken, you're overworked and underplayed. In this episode, I satt down with Piera Gelardi, co-founder of Refinery29, creator of 29Rooms, and author of the brand-new book The Playful Way, for a conversation that cracked something wide open in me. Piera built…
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EP 658: The Healing Advice Keeping You Stuck
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EP 657: Meet Your Partner in Real Life (Without Dating Apps) with Lydia Klemensowicz
Want to meet your partner in real life, without ever opening another dating app? Y'all, this episode is for the woman who's so over-swiping she could scream, and who secretly still believes her person is out there (because, girl, he is). I'm joined by Lydia Klemensowicz, dating coach and host of...
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EP 656: Decentering Men Without Devaluing Them (+ The Summer House Drama, Explained)
Y'all, we need to talk about decentering men, what it actually means, why it matters for your nervous system, and how to do it from a place of secure attachment instead of anger or bitterness. Here's the thing: decentering men is NOT devaluing them. I am so tired of the "all men are trash, stay...
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EP 655: How to Stay Rooted in Who You Are When the World is Watching | Bri from Love is Blind
Bri from Love is Blind: Columbus is breaking her silence and she's doing it here first. In this raw, in-studio conversation, we sat down for her first public conversation about her breakup with Connor, what really happened in the pods, and the painful unraveling that came after the cameras…
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EP 654: Why Do Relationships Turn You Into Someone Else?
You're successful at work. Calm with your friends. Emotionally regulated in your family. And then you fall for someone… and suddenly you don't recognize the woman in the mirror. Girl, you're not broken, you're caught in a pattern. And in this episode, I'm walking you through exactly why it…
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EP 653: Attachment Theory Alone Won’t Fix Your Dating Life
Knowing your attachment style is not the finish line, y'all, it's the starting line. I have a doctorate in clinical psychology and I knew attachment theory inside and out, and I still couldn't attract a healthy relationship until I did the deeper work underneath it. In this episode, I'm getting...
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EP 652: Five Things I Had To Stop Doing Before I Met My Husband (Hard Truths)
Y'all, I'm celebrating five years with my husband, and I had to come back to the mic and share what I wish someone would have told me when I was still stuck in the dating trenches. Before I met him, I was a magnet for emotionally unavailable men. I had a disorganized attachment style, low...
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EP 651: How Securely Attached Women Handle Conflict Without Losing Themselves
Why Your "Perfect" Communication Scripts Keep Failing You You can memorize every "I feel" statement on the internet, have the perfectly worded boundary text saved in your notes app, and still watch your partner pull away, get defensive, or make you feel crazy. Here's the truth, y'all, it's not…
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EP 650: Reparenting Yourself
Some of you will never get the apology your inner child needs. And your healing cannot wait on it. Hi y'all, it's Dr. Morgan, and welcome back to Part 3 of the Mother Wounds series. So many of you have messaged me saying, "Okay, I have the awareness, I see the patterns, but what now?" That's...
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EP 649: You Haven't Had 5 Bad Relationships, You've Had 1, Five Times Over (with Dr. Paul Conti)
Buckle up, y'all! This conversation is the one I wish I'd had in my 20s. If you've been stuck in the same painful dating cycle (different face, same heartbreak), this episode is going to hit different. I sat down with renowned psychiatrist Dr. Paul Conti, author of What's Going Right and one of…
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EP 648: The Mother Wound
It's not your dating apps, your "type," or your bad luck, the reason you keep choosing emotionally unavailable partners, shrinking yourself to be loved, and hearing a brutal voice in your head that sounds suspiciously like her… has a name. And girl, we're naming it today. In Part 2 of our 4-part...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Are you ready to take the mystery out of having great relationships and to gain the knowledge you need to step confidently into the next level of your life? Welcome to the Let’s Get Vulnerable podcast where your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, gives you real talk on all things dating, relationships, and sex. Dr. Morgan is a relationship coach, psychologist and creator of the E.S.L relationship method. She brings humor, truth and knowledge to the complex world of dating and relationships. Podcast episodes will provide you with tangible strategies that you can implement immediately to improve your life and attract the exact relationship you desire. Episodes will feature expert advice from your host and psychologist, Dr. Morgan Anderson, interviews with incredible people offering you their stories and wisdom, and LIVE coaching sessions where you will have an exclusive glimpse into the growth process as it is unfolding. Episodes are recorded in a live format to give you the feel of a live talk
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