The Courage to Reconnect

Sarah Monares and Loudspeaker Studios

Hosted by therapist, coach, and author Sarah Monares, this show explores the patterns that keep us stuck in anxiety, people-pleasing, codependency, self-doubt, conflict avoidance, and unhealthy relationship dynamics.

Through honest conversations, personal stories, expert insights, and real-life experiences, we explore what happens when we disconnect from ourselves to stay connected to others, and how to break those patterns so we can experience deeper, healthier, more authentic relationships.

Whether you’re navigating relationship struggles, healing old wounds, learning to trust yourself, or trying to understand why you keep repeating the same patterns, you’re not alone here.

Because real connection starts with reconnecting to yourself. And when you find the courage to reconnect, it changes not only your relationship with yourself, but also the relationships that matter most.

An international co-production of the United States and Portugal produced by Loudspeaker Studios. Learn more at https://www.loudspeaker.org.

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S1 · E15
Wednesday · 27 min
S1 E15: How Self-Disconnection Impacts Your Relationships
What happens to your relationships when you’ve learned to disconnect from yourself in order to keep them?...
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S1 · E14
October 7 · 42 min
The Cornell Case: What Happens When Someone Else's Story Activates Your Own
Sometimes someone else’s story doesn’t just make you angry. It brings you right back to your own....
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S1 · E13
September 30 · 37 min
Part 2: When Fear Gets in the Way of Love: Diogo Brehm on Vulnerability, Connection & Being Yourself
What happens when the fear of losing someone makes it harder to let them see who you really are?...
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S1 · E12
September 23 · 24 min
Part 1: The Human Behind the Humor: Diogo Brehm on Overthinking, Emotion & Being Real
What happens when the camera turns off?...
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S1 · E11
September 9 · 36 min
S1 E11: Withdrawal: When You Lose Connection With Yourself
Withdrawal is the final stage of The Disconnection Loop. And it doesn’t always mean physically leaving a relationship. Sometimes we withdraw from our emotions, our needs, our voice, other people, or parts of ourselves while staying right where we are...
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S1 · E10
September 2 · 34 min
S1 E10: Self-Doubt: When You Stop Trusting Yourself
What happens when you've doubted yourself for so long that you stop believing your own voice is trustworthy?...
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S1 · E9
August 26 · 42 min
S1 E9: Self-Judgment: When You Turn Against Yourself
Have you ever made a mistake, reacted in a way you weren't proud of, or experienced rejection and immediately turned it into the thought that there is something wrong with you? That's self-judgment....
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S1 · E8
August 19 · 37 min
S1 E8: Control: Creating the Illusion of Safety
Once fear convinces us that the story in our head is true, we don't just believe the story. We start living the story....
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S1 · E7
August 12 · 29 min
S1 E7: The Spiral: The Stories Fear Tells Us
Have you ever been completely convinced someone was upset with you, that you ruined something, or that the worst-case scenario was about to happen, only to find out later that the story in your head wasn't actually true?...
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S1 · E6
August 5 · 23 min
S1 E6: Fear: What Are You Really Afraid Of?
Fear influences more of our lives than we realize. It shows up everywhere and often presents as things like people-pleasing, overthinking, perfectionism, conflict avoidance, anxious attachment, reassurance-seeking, and so many of the behaviors we strug...
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S1 · E5
July 22 · 24 min
S1 E5: How Relationships Shape the Beliefs You Live By
Exploring how childhood conditioning and relational wounds shape the beliefs we carry about ourselves, other people, relationships, and the world....
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S1 · E4
July 15 · 28 min
S1 E4: Triggered: Why Small Things Feel So Big
Emotional triggers, why they happen, and what they may be trying to tell us....
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S1 · E3
July 8 · 31 min
S1 E3: Reconnecting Through CHANGE
How do we stop repeating unhealthy patterns, reconnect with ourselves, and begin responding differently?...
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S1 · E2
July 1 · 21 min
S1 E2: Why We Disconnect from Ourselves
None of us are born disconnected from ourselves. So how does it happen?...
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S1 · E1
June 23 · 17 min
S1 E1: The Hidden Pattern Keeping You Stuck
Have you ever promised yourself you were going to stop overthinking, stop people-pleasing, stop seeking reassurance, or stop repeating the same relationship patterns, only to find yourself right back where you started?...
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June 21 · 1 min
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