Today, the “four pale horsemen” of war, famine, pestilence and death have broken into our comfortable lives once again.

As the climate emergency and shortage become normalised, how do we live through crisis after crisis without falling into fear and anxiety on the one hand, or agitated reaction and rage on the other?

Do we face the horsemen, go into denial or settle for the dull throb of numbness? And how do we maintain contact with the heart, with soul, with love and compassion?

In this week's classic episode, Andrew speaks with award-winning poet, author and teacher William Ayot about:

⭐️The burdens men carry

⭐️The healing power of ritual

⭐️Male loneliness and how men’s groups help

⭐️Confronting shame and anger

As well as his writing and poetry, William Ayot leads workshops and seminars on personal development topics and creates and conducts private rituals and ceremonies. William is also the co-founding director of Olivier Mythodrama and worked around the world for ten years, teaching leadership through story, theatre practice and ritual. He founded NaCOT- The National Centre for the Oral Tradition, and hosts the poetry series On the Border.

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This week supporters will hear:

• Creating a daily ritual for a deeper connection to life.
• Three Things William Ayot knows to be true.
• AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

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Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin

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Visit William Ayot and Juliet Grayson’s online library of poetry and talks on shame, men’s issues and relationships

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Have you tried everything to fix your relationship, but nothing seems to work? Are you torn between staying and giving it one more try, or finally walking away?

This week, Andrew talks with renowned couples therapist MICHELE WEINER-DAVIS about how to navigate one of the hardest decisions in a relationship: When is it time to stop trying?

Michele is the creator of the “Divorce Busting” approach, which aims to empowers individual to make concrete, positive changes in their relationships—even when their partner isn’t on board. Her work is deeply hopeful, but she also understands that sometimes, despite our best efforts, it may be time to let go.

Together, Andrew and Michele explore:

• Coping with different levels of sexual desire in your relationship
• Why one partner often wants change more than the other
• Common differences in how men and women communicate
• Working together in therapy to make the "final call".

Michele Weiner-Davis is an internationally renowned relationship expert, best-selling author, marriage therapist, and professional speaker who specializes in helping people change their lives and improve important relationships. She is the author of eight books including Healing from Infidelity: The Divorce Busting Guide to Rebuilding Your Marriage After an Affair, and The Sex-Starved Marriage: A Couple's Guide to Boosting Their Marriage Libido. Michele’s work has also been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and on the BBC.

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This week supporters will hear:

• How to Get Through to the Man You Love - Without Nagging.
• Three Things Michele Weiner-Davis knows to be true.
• AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

Follow Up

Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin

Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

Visit Michele Weiner Davis’s website: Divorce Busting

Read some of Michele Weiner Davis’s books:

• Divorce Busting: A Revolutionary and Rapid Program for Staying Together
• Healing from Infidelity: The Divorce Busting Guide to Rebuilding Your Marriage After an Affair
• The Sex-Starved Marriage: Boosting Your Marriage Libido

Follow Michele Weiner Davis on social media:

• Facebook: Michele Weiner-Davis
• X (formerly Twitter): @DivorceBusting

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Are you living a life you really believe in, or are you filling in time until your “real life” begins? Are you waiting on marriage, a better job, a new exercise regime or a beautiful house to create an authentic life?

Humans do need to have goals and plans, but it is also destructive to ignore those inner voices telling us what would bring us individual meaning.

In this classic episode, Andrew and PHILIP CARR-GOMM discuss how to start developing your authentic self right now, rather than endlessly kicking that important ball further down the road.

Philip Carr-Gomm is an expert in psychosynthesis, an “awe-inspiring territory that has the power to transform us”. He believes that something magical happens when the worlds of modern psychology and ancient spiritual teachings are brought together. Philip has studied Druidry extensively and from 1988-2020 was the leader of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. He has a degree in Psychology and has trained in psychotherapy, play therapy, Montessori education, yoga nidra, mindfulness meditation and Sophrology. Philip recently created an online school, The Art of Living Well, to offer courses combining psychological and spiritual understanding.

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This week supporters will hear:

• Three Things Philip Carr-Gomm knows to be true.
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How do you keep the spark alive in your relationship when there are kids involved and you have ten, twenty, or thirty years on the clock?

This week I talk to CAROLYN SHARP, a US-based marital therapist, and the author of Fire It Up: Four Secrets to Reigniting Intimacy and Joy in Your Relationship. We cover:

• Purpose: could you define a purpose for your marriage?
• Sex: how to talk about it honestly and effectively.
• Conflict: handling disagreements better
• Happiness: the habits that create lasting joy
• Acceptance: how practicing radical acceptance will feed your relationship.

Carolyn has a master of social work from Portland State University and has extensive training in attachment, neuroscience, trauma, and mindfulness. She is an experienced couples therapist and coach, with twenty-five years of training and practice in helping people build vital, vibrant, and secure functioning relationships through one-on-one and group couples coaching, workshops, retreats, and intensives. She and her husband and dogs live in northern Massachusetts.

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This week supporters will hear:

• How to totally accept your partner
• Three Things Carolyn Sharp knows to be true.
• AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

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Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin

Read Carolyn Sharp’s book, Fire It Up: Four Secrets to Reigniting Intimacy and Joy in Your Relationship.

Take a look at Carolyn Sharp’s retreats and couple coaching work, or at her therapy website,

Follow Carolyn Sharp on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram @secureconnectionscoach and on YouTube @carolynsharp9053

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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation” (Henry Thoreau).

In this classic episode, Andrew interviews therapist SIMON ROE. Simon has based his life’s work on helping men live an authentic life. After himself going through a period of quiet desperation in his mid-thirties, he went on to help men break the silence, find “the song inside” and overcome their experiences of depression, violence and loneliness.

Simon has also worked extensively with boys and their fathers to create rites of passage that help boys claim a strong, authentic sense of their developing manhood.

Simon Roe originally trained as a body psychotherapist, and is also a co-leader of the Mandorla Men’s Rites of Passage programme. He has worked extensively with perpetrators of domestic violence, and is a Respect approved trainer and supervisor. Simon is also trained in process oriented psychology.

Simon and Andrew also discuss the idea of answering “the call to adventure”, an idea powerfully captured in this poem by Rainer Maria Rilke:

Sometimes A Man Stands Up During Supper

Sometimes a man stands up during supper

and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,

because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.

And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.

And another man, who remains inside his own house,

dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses,

so that his children have to go far out into the world

toward that same church , which he forgot.

Rainer Maria Rilke ( trans. Robert Bly)

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This week supporters will hear:

• Three Things Simon Roe knows to be true.
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Take a look at Andrew’s new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools

Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin.

Visit Simon Roe’s website

Learn about the Kingfisher Project, a community dedicated to rites of passage for boys aged 13-16.

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Many women long to be in a happy relationship, in which they feel safe, heard and understood, but have given up after years of disappointment and heartbreak. This week dating coach EVAN MARC KATZ joins Andrew to discuss why it’s so hard for women to find a man who wants to commit and to build a genuine relationship. They cover:

• How to get psychologically prepared to date successfully.
• Knowing which compromises to make in the service of love.
• The difference between compromise and “settling”.
• The importance of accepting men as they are, rather than viewing them as fixable works in progress.
• Balancing chemistry and compatibility in your relationship decisions.
• Evan’s personal experiences of dating frustration, and how they led him to write one of the first and most popular books about online dating.

Evan Marc Katz is an author, CEO, podcaster, dating coach and former screenwriter who works to support strong, successful women to find lasting relationships. He has been featured by Today, the New York Times, and CNN. A total of 13,000 women from 40 countries have graduated from Love U, his coaching course and community that helps women understand men and find love.

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This week supporters will hear:

• Dealing with Unavailable Men.
• Three Things Evan Marc Katz knows to be true.
• AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

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Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

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Learn more about working with Evan Marc Katz on his website

Read Evan Marc Katz’s books

Listen to Evan Marc Katz’s Love U podcast

Follow Evan Marc Katz on Facebook @EvanMarcKatzfan, on Instagram @realevanmarckatz and on Twitter/X and YouTube @evanmarckatz.

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For Andrew, it is the writings of Dr James Hollis, one of the world’s most eminent Jungian analysts, that have “sustained me through my dark times”. Dr Hollis’ books also regularly help Andrew’s marital therapy clients create change in their relationships and recover from infidelity.

In this classic reissued episode, Andrew speaks to James Hollis about what it means to be resilient - how do we discover and develop the strength nature gives us to “walk through the forest” when we inevitably hit dark times?

Bookshops and the internet are full of “five steps to happiness” style self-help manuals, telling us that if only we wake up earlier, change jobs, or eliminate caffeine, we will solve all our problems. In fact, life is fractious and difficult, and requires us to persist. The best way to do this is not an external solution, but to find and trust the strength within ourselves.

Dr. James Hollis is a Washington D.C. based Jungian psychoanalyst and the author of seventeen books. He was Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington (JSW) until 2019. He also worked as a Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, as a Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation.

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This week supporters will hear:

• Three Things James Hollis knows to be true.
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Read James Hollis’ book, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

Read Andrew’s review of James Hollis’ book Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places:

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Is your relationship a refuge from stress in a turbulent and demanding world? Do you always have each other’s backs? OR has the stress you face at work or in the culture seeped into your home life and created a rift between you?

Marital therapist ELIZABETH EARNSHAW, the author of Til Stress Do Us Part, works with couples to identify and address the life stress that is undermining their partnership. In this episode, Andrew and Elizabeth discuss:

• Setting effective boundaries
• Self-soothing when life gets rough
• Taking responsibility for what makes you happy
• Communicating with compassion rather than resentment

Elizabeth Earnshaw is a marital therapist from Philadelphia in the US. She owns the practice A Better Life Therapy, and over the past 15 years she has supported thousands of couples as they navigate the ups and downs of life. Elizabeth has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and other national and international publications. She is also the author of I Want This To Work, 'Til Stress Do Us Part, and a therapist's guide called The Couples Therapy Flipchart.

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This week supporters will hear:

• How to Deal with Hot Button Topics
• Three Things Elizabeth Earnshaw knows to be true.
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Buy Elizabeth Earnshaw’s book, Til Stress Do Us Part: How to Heal the #1 Issue in our Relationships

Visit Elizabeth Earnshaw’s website

Follow Elizabeth Earnshaw on Instagram @lizlistens

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