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Safe to Love
We are on a mission to help the world believe in love again, and give you the courage to find it!
Episodes
24 episodes
More in Love at 20 Years Than We Were at the Beginning | Carrie & Chad Welter | EP212
This is a real love story. Not the kind that skips the hard parts, but the kind that goes through them and comes out the other side more in love than ever. In this episode, April and Chad sit down with two of their closest fr...
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From Avoiding Intimacy Altogether to Losing Track of Time and Space | Alex Gear | EP211
There is a reason so many men stop dating, ghost after great dates, or avoid intimacy altogether. It is not a lack of desire. It is a fear so loaded with shame that most men would rather disappear than face it. This episode is raw and vulnerabl...
How Human Design Helped Us Stop Taking Each Other's Feelings Personally | Natalie Peace | EP210
In this episode, Chad and April sit down with human design coach Natalie Pearce, the same coach who helped them navigate a pivotal turning point in their own relationship. Natalie breaks down what human design actually is, why it's less a belie...
Why the Conversation You Keep Avoiding Is the One You Need Most | April Benincosa | EP209
April thought a marriage with no fighting was the goal. What she discovered was that the silence wasn't peace. It was two people slowly disappearing from each other.In this raw and deeply personal episode, Chad sits down with his partne...
How Honoring Your Grief Finally Opens Your Heart to Love | Mariposa | EP208
In this episode, we sit down with April’s mentor Mariposa to explore what grief really is, why our culture is so ill-equipped to support it, and how learning to honor loss — instead of avoid it — is the only real path to opening your heart for ...
Shame Has Never Fixed a Man - Here Is What Actually Works | Chad Nielson | EP207
In this episode, Chad takes an honest, vulnerable look at the real masculinity crisis — where it comes from, what it's costing men and the women who love them, and what actually rebuilds identity and attraction. This conversation is for the wom...
Overcoming People Pleasing and How to Create Safety for Pleasure | Jennifer Holland | EP206
Jennifer Holland, somatic coach and creator of the DRIPP methodology, joins April for a raw, expansive conversation about why real pleasure can only emerge from deep safety in the body. They explore de-armoring (releasing trauma stored in physi...
Somatic Healing, Freeze States and Safer Relationships | Darci Burke | EP205
Most people think they are broken when they feel emotionally shut down, stuck in painful patterns, or numb in their relationships. Somatic practitioner Darci Burke joins April and Chad to explain why your nervous system is not brok...
Somatic Transformation - Why Mindset Work Only Gets You So Far | April Benincosa | EP204
Everything you learned about mindset, willpower, and "faking it till you make it" has gotten you this far, but what happens when you hit the wall? In this deeply personal conversation, April sits on the other side of the mic as Chad interviews ...
We Became the Love of Our Life - Then Manifested Each Other w/ Adrienne & Jake | EP203
After painful divorces, years of self-work, and a lot of wrong turns on dating apps, Adrienne and Jake each got radically clear on who they were calling in and then the universe delivered. In this final chapter of their epic love s...
We Just Fell out of Love - Conscious Uncoupling & the Journey to New Love | EP202
What do you do when the love is gone but the grief won't leave?Jake Orak opens up about the quiet unraveling of a decade-long marriage - not through betrayal, but through two people slowly drifting apart. He walks us through the coaching, t...
Healing After a Narcissistic Marriage: Infidelity, Trauma & Starting Over | EP201
Today, April and Chad sit down with Adrienne Isbell, a yoga and sound healing teacher who spent over a decade inside a narcissistic marriage before her world collapsed and rebuilt itself into something far greater than she ever imagined.Adr...
Nothing Left to Lose and Everything to Gain - The Love Story of Chad Nielson and April Benincosa
| On this final episode of Season 1, Chad and April once again sit down with Adira - this time to share their own special love story! How it all started, this Youtube channel started with our love story and we share about courage and love...
Sex, Menopause, and the Myth that Women Dry Up after Forty - Erica Lemke
On this episode April sits down one-on-one with Erica Lemke, a Certified Sex and Relationship Coach, Board Certified Clinical Sexologist, and the founder of Sex Coach SLC in Salt Lake City. We talk about all things Sex and Pleasure for wo...
Leaning in with our Whole Selves - The Love Story of Stephen Karafiath and Carrie Cox
In this episode of Safe to Love we bring you a Love story in its inception. Stephen and Carrie have not been together for decades or even years, reflecting back on the life they have shared and all they have learned together. They give us a rea...
Behind the Scenes: Core Values and Themes of Safe to Love
On this special episode of Safe to Love, April and Chad sit down to share with our audience what beats at the heart of Safe to Love, from our mission statement, to our Core Values, as well as who our audience is and the different themes that we...
"He Wants to Feel Safe Too" - Breaking out of the Man-Box with Cam Fraser
In this one-on-one Episode of Safe to Love, Chad sits down with his teacher, mentor, and friend, Cam Fraser, to talk about masculinity and men's sexuality, and how our relationship to each affect how we show up in relationships.Cam is C...
Reconstructing Marriage after Deconstructing Faith - the Love Story of Darci and Brandon Burke
In this episode we bring you the story of how painful the intersection of love and religion can be. Darci and Brandon's entire lives - including their marriage - were built upon the foundations of the Mormon Church (officially called the Church...
How Letting Go With Love Opens Our Heart to Something Real | April Benincosa | EP 106
In this episode of Safe to Love, Chad sits down with April for a powerful interview about the life that led her to creating Safe to Love, the choices along the way that shaped her into the woman that she is, and the courage it takes to leave be...
Archetypes and Relationships, Practical Tools to See Ourselves and Each other - Christy Foster
In this episode of Safe to Love, April and Chad sit down with Christy Foster to explore how the body carries our unspoken stories, how physical patterns often mirror emotional imprints, and what it really means to listen to the “subconsci...
Finding Ourselves without Losing Each Other - The Love Story of Adam and Caitlin Heaps
In this episode we bring you the story young love, two people starting a life together without knowing who they really were. Adam and Caitlin share their journey of both reinventing themselves and their relationship, all while confronting their...
Beyond the Man-Script - Deconstructing Inherited Masculinity with Chad Nielson (@Chadonlove)
In this episode, April sits down with Chad for a deeply personal conversation about the twists and turns that shaped his life. From the reality of addiction and the long road of recovery to rebuilding his identity through the working with Men, ...
Sex and Marriage Across Cultures - Dr. Chelsea Shields
In this episode of Safe to Love, Chelsea talks with April and Chad about the history of marriage, the cultural forces that shape intimacy, the impact of religion on relationships, and what her research shows about connection, safety, and healin...
Never too Late to Find The One - The Love Story of Scott and Larae Wright
On the debut episode of Safe to Love, we bring you a story that captures the heart of our mission to help the world believe in love again. Scott and LaRae Wright join us to share a relationship built on healing, honesty, and the courage to begi...