The Mark Groves Podcast

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#079: Toxic Dating Culture with Michelle Herzog Mar 16, 2020

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Do you feel like your dating life is stale, or even toxic? Today’s guest is going to be a breath of fresh air for you. Michelle Herzog is a relationship expert, sex therapist and LMFT who is here to break down exactly what toxic dating culture means. In this episode we work through Tinder dating, gender roles, paying for first dates, to casual sex, and how to be ethical in dating. Most importantly, we break down how we can shift to take the lead in our dating life, declare our own needs, and end connections with kindness. Ultimately, we can turn a toxic dating culture into a healing one. This episode will show you how! Michelle Herzog, LMFT, CST is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Sex Therapist with advanced training from Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. She is an ethical dating advocate and utilizes a no BS approach towards educating and empowering people to craft values-based dating, relationship, and sexual experiences. Michelle is a true believer in the power of therapy and its ability to transform people's relationships with themselves and the ones they love. Michelle is the owner of the Center for Mindful Living, a relationship and sex therapy practice based in Chicago. Her specialized work is rooted in her personal belief system that everyone deserves a healthy and deeply pleasurable sex life. She can be contacted at: Website: www.liveandlovemindfully.com Instagram: @chicagosextherapy ~ Discover: Will you hold for the things you want? The modern times of "flea-bagging" "zombie-ing," "ghosting", and "bread crumbing" Where we are losing accountability on dating apps The connection between tolerating behaviors and the worth you hold Paying on the first date dilemma The power of feeling seen in relationship Why is need to text like a drug?! If you loved yourself in this situation, what would you do? The deep truths hidden inside grief How do we take control of our dating experience? Ignoring the truth and self-abandonment Communication and expectations around your needs What is healthy shame?
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#078: The Space Between - Solo Episode Mar 13, 2020

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Come on in, make yourself at home in my head and heart and listen. This week it is me sharing some feels that have been flowing through me, no other guests... Just a big dose of Mark Groves in the feels. We're going to talk about ending with grace, the space between and holding space when it hurts. Welcome! ~ Discover: What it means to hold when it hurts Are you who you say you are? How to be the observer of your thoughts What do you tolerate? What do you settle for? When you change the way you go about the world, the world changes Do you avoid hard conversations? Do you let the world tell you how to live? How to truly find love
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#077: Embracing Change with Yung Pueblo Mar 09, 2020

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I am so honoured to have Diego Perez, the writer and philosophical genius behind the pen name Yung Pueblo on the show. Diego and I discuss all the delicious ways that life is an array of constant change. As individuals, couples and communities we are in constant flux. The ways we either embrace or avoid change say so much about the way we find peace and grace during change. How can we embrace the messiness that is inherent to the constant change of life—while protecting our boundaries and having an open heart? There is so much to unpack on both the global and individual level. Let’s dive into it. diego perez is the writer behind the pen name yung pueblo. the name yung pueblo means “young people.” it serves to remind him of his ecuadorian roots, his experiences in activism, and that the collective of humanity is in the midst of important growth. his favorite word, liberation, took on a deeper meaning once he started meditating vipassana. through writing and speaking, he aims to support the healing of the individual, realizing that when we release our personal burdens, we contribute to a global peace. ~ Discover: Change is the fabric of the universe How to not make change your enemy Understanding "woundology" Every time you get activated, you're invited to some sort of mastery Cancel culture, shame, holding space for people and humanity What living without the relationship really means The monogomatron! Don't make it about you Find him on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/yung_pueblo/ Check out his book here https://www.amazon.com/Inward-Yung-Pueblo/dp/1449495753
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#076: Holistic Fertility with Jasmine Rose Mar 02, 2020

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Jasmine Rose, holistic fertility expert joins me this week for a look at her journey and her work with fertility in the emerging holistic health movement. With an emphasis on coming back to self, we uncover the stigmas associated with women embarking on their fertility journey. We unpack the deep emotional work that brought Jasmine to healing her health in an unexpected way. I can’t thank Jasmine enough for bringing this topic to light and am honoured to partake in such a vulnerable discussion with her. Whichever life stage you are at, this is a must-listen. Jasmine Rose is a Holistic Fertility Specialist + Womb Connector. She focused on bringing heart into the fertility journey + accessing the WHY when discovering dis-ease within the womb space. Jasmine believes that play, pleasure + desire are the golden keys to life. You can find her at @humblewildwellness on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/humblewildwellness/?hl=en
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#075: Own Your Healing with Jaime Jenkins Feb 28, 2020

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So many of us struggle with addiction of some kind. But the topic is still shrouded in secrecy and shame, leaving so many people feeling alone or lost in how to begin their healing. This week, I have my dear friend and human behaviour expert, Jaime Jenkins to join me on the show. Jaime and I walk through the relationship between shame, trauma and addiction. We unpack how we can move from feeling alone and detached from our experiences, toward feeling connected and in control of our journey. And, how we can shift from avoidance and denial of our pain, toward feeling and owning our own journey. Jaime Booth Jenkins BSW MAPP is a human behaviour change specialist and addictions researcher. She is currently completing her MSc Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health focusing on the experience of flourishing after addiction. Her work focuses on helping people to overcome internal obstacles that are preventing them from achieving their ultimate goals and dreams. She sits as the Chair of the Board of Directors for Make Music Matter - and believes in the power of music to change the world. She lives in Nova Scotia Canada with her husband, dog, two daughters, and quite a few chickens. IG: @practicallyawesome TikTok: @mamajenkins Website (Make Music Matter): www.makemusicmatter.org ~ Discover: The power of song and healing with addiction, ptsd, mental health Addiction is a distraction from presence Our world is created by the questions we ask Breaking up with your breakup How we let go of trauma identity
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#074: To Stay Or Go - Solo Episode Feb 24, 2020

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What happens when you wake up and realize you aren’t happy in your relationship? What if you feel like you’re outgrowing your partner? What if you’re outgrowing your old life? As we go deeper in our journey toward our inner truth we often find that our old patterns, habits and relationships need to shift. This can bring up a lot of anxiety and tension especially if we have had codependent patterns. Part of our healing is learning how to honour our growth while navigating our relationship with others. Part of our healing is leaning into the discomfort and uncertainty that comes up when we let our relationships shift, change and maybe even end. ~ Discover: Emotion is the currency of the future The success of your life will be determined by the quality of your relationships What does it mean to be a real man? How do you stay when enough is enough? Are you willing to dismantle your identity?
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#073: Love Your Mondays with Makenzie Chilton Feb 17, 2020

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People often say “don’t quit your day job”, but what if you do? This week I am joined by the wonderful Makenzie Chilton to talk about how we can stop dreading the work week and start loving our Mondays. Makenzie’s mission is all about discovering what you want in life—thinking bigger, thinking outside of the box, engaging the imaginative inner child within you that is still awaiting their chance to live their dreams. Makenzie walks us through her process to uncover what it is you need to do to start loving your Mondays. Find Mackenzie @loveyourmondays and loveyourmondays.co Makenzie Chilton is an ex prison counsellor turned career coach and the founder of Love Your Mondays. Since 2013 she has been helping people all over the world find their dream careers and start businesses with her signature program the WTF?! Sessions. Using her education in psychology and her background in business she strives to give her clients (and pretty much anyone that will listen) strategic advice that gets people where they want to go. Believing that society would be a happier healthier place if people were in alignment with their careers, she has made it her mission to help people get there. Coffee is Makenzie's main food group and she lives in the mountains with her dog Bruce, who is very clearly the real boss. ~ Discover: The 4 step process to loving your Mondays Listening to "the nudge" How to quit your job Using the system to invest in your dreams Maybe it's not your job, maybe it's you The real roadmap you should trust Why alignment and self-worth will give you everything
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#072: Hurt People, Hurt People - Solo Episode Feb 10, 2020

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We have all been treated badly to some extent—by our parents, our partners, our exes, our old friends, by the narcissists of the world. But once we’ve identified where we’ve been victimized, our job is to step beyond being a victim of the world and reclaim our power. Our work is to look within and enquire into what it is within us that allows painful dynamics to continue in our lives. What is it that stops us from setting boundaries, from saying ‘no’ to things that make us feel unloved, from claiming our right to be fully worthy? This week we explore all aspects of waking up to our worth and importantly how healed people heal people. ~ Discover: The disease of unworthiness Looking for worthiness is a moving target Why we need to turn towards our pain Truthful answers require us to become someone else The connection between boundaries and worth Resentment is a sign you need to choose yourself Why are we a match to poor behavior? Why do we make excuses? Are you the match for what you want? What you attract is what you need need to learn What are you afraid to find in the space of silence? What unrealized potential are you not stepping into?
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#071: Free Yourself with Sylvester McNutt Feb 03, 2020

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Sylvester McNutt III is an 8x best selling author and his passion for living a life of freedom and truth is contagious. Join us as we roll through the experiences that shaped his work as a writer, from his childhood to teen life, to today where he is now expecting a child of his own. Sylvester tells all about where his fire for self-expression comes from and how he lives that today. After listening to this podcast you’ll understand why his work has been so popular, he drops some gems on authenticity and shows us how to truly walk the talk. ~ Discover: Why do we do the things we know we don't want to do? Understanding the family tree of trauma Don't wait for people to be ready We are all students and no one has it all figured out Parenting, childhood, pain, fear and the mirror it gives us Find Sylvester on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/sylvestermcnutt/?hl=en and his Website https://www.sylvestermcnutt.net/
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#070: All About You - What Do You Really Want? - Solo Episode Jan 27, 2020

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In the new "All About You" series, I am reading your letters and diving deep into tough questions from you about your relationships, love, and what you really want from life. To begin I touch on my current journey—how I am learning to let go of the future I thought I would have and give space to the new and unknown in my life. I then cover some challenging and common situations that you have written to me about: the ex that promises to change, the new partner that is still seeing their ex, the partner that works too much, and not feeling the same about marriage and kids as our partner. I so appreciate the opportunity to know what is on your heart and I thank you for sharing this with me and everyone who will benefit from hearing your story. I'm really excited about this new format, so please share with me your thoughts and feelings on how this resonated for you. If you have a letter for a podcast you can share it via the 'Ask Mark' tab at the link in my Instagram bio. Big love to you! ~ Discover: What do you want most out of this life? What are you not willing to give up? We cannot experience true love until we model it What to do when someone wants to change after we leave The real reason for resentment Repairing after workaholism and affairs Perfectionism, high achievers, and worthiness How to work with a "recovering defender" How to know if your needs didn't get met as a child Repair and atonement after betrayal Our core beliefs are always mirrored by the lowest choice we make Alone vs. lonely
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