Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan MD

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In a difficult co-parenting dynamic, it’s easy to assume you’re the more evolved one, and that assumption is exactly what keeps you stuck. 

This week’s audacious ask came from a woman who wants cordial, drama-free co-parenting with her ex and asked me how to pull it off without getting pulled into his reactivity.
My answer starts somewhere uncomfortable: the commitment to not speak ill of your son’s father. It’s a healing practice for you, your inner masculine, and your father line. And it pairs with a second practice: looking at how often you position yourself as the better parent, the more stable one, the more spiritual one.
Family constellation work places you and your ex on the same line, not in a hierarchy. From that seat, your choices become visible. You can see the bait when it’s dangled, and you can stay trained on what you came to ask for, instead of defending yourself into another round of drama.
Through a simple scheduling conversation that goes sideways, you’ll see the specific move that keeps you with yourself when he changes the subject. If raising your son means staying linked to a man you’d rather not deal with, this is the reframe that changes the practice.
You’ll learn:
[0:00] Introduction
[2:31] The audacious ask about drama-free co-parenting after divorce
[4:06] Co-parenting as a growth crucible the Mom actually chose
[6:04] Resolving superiority and the paradigm of better and worse
[8:13] Family constellation puts her and the ex on the same line
[10:04] Not taking the bait of the drama
[12:17] The line between trusting someone entirely and not at all
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Resources Mentioned:
Breakup Breakthrough Masterclass | Website
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Men: you might be conditioning your partner’s body to fear you.

Alex Charfen is the founder of The Brotherhood, and he teaches masculine containment as a trainable discipline after his own wife told him she didn't feel seen, heard, or safe.
Almost every couple runs on a pattern they never name: trigger, escalation, rupture, withdrawal, repair. Alex became exceptionally good at repair, and it changed nothing. While his body told him they were making progress, her nervous system was still telling her she wasn't safe.
He asks the men he works with three questions. Are you stronger than your partner? More physically capable? More capable of violence? Every man answers yes to all three, and taken seriously, that answer changes what a man is responsible for in the room.

I believe women are the custodians of their own experience. Alex believes men have to self-initiate first. The most useful parts of this conversation live in that friction.
We also get into why the car is a diagnostic for polarity, why the calmest man in the room is the most dangerous, and why regulating your nervous system gives entrepreneurs more capacity than any biohack.
You’ll learn:
[0:00] Introduction
[6:36] How an ultimatum catalyzed Alex's reclamation as a man
[9:44] The hidden pattern in many heterosexual relationships
[14:57] The biological reality of a woman's nervous system under threat
[22:20] What shifted in his wife after he committed
[25:51] Micro choices a woman makes in every moment
[31:30] Whether Katie could have done anything to induce Alex's shift
[39:13] The nice guy versus the man in his dark masculine
[44:03] Dominance of oneself, not of her
[52:35] Why successful entrepreneurs so often fail at relationships
[1:00:28] Always putting out fires means you're probably the arsonist
[1:02:55] Contained masculine energy as a healing force in The Brotherhood
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Resources Mentioned:
Momentum Podcast - EP54: The CEO's Secret Weapon | Podcast
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks | Book
Laura Doyle | Website
Learn more on Alex's upcoming men's groups here.
Find more from Alex:

Alex Charfen | Instagram | Facebook
The Brotherhood Society | Website
Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT) Podcast | Spotify or Apple
Find more from Kelly:
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Website: kellybroganmd.com
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Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.
Discover Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here.
Save your seat for Kelly's Turn on Training here.
Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.
Reserve your free spot for Kelly’s Biological Marriage event here.
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How can you activate your true feminine energy?

My guest Nina Lombardo teaches conscious intimacy, polarity, and sacred feminine practice at Way of Devotion, and she's one of the few voices in this space who refuses to sell an outcome.

We start with her own arc from what she calls "puddleness" into a woman with a spine, and how that reshaped the way she now teaches women coming from the opposite direction: armored, ambitious, over-functioning.

Nina makes a distinction between a need and neediness that reorganized how I think about asking my partner for anything.

There's a piece on choosing partners who conveniently can't meet your depth, because staying hidden feels safer than being fully seen. She doesn't let anyone off the hook here, including herself.

Later, Nina walks through what it actually looks like to express anger through the body as an invitation instead of an accusation, and why a whimper in real time beats resentment every single time.

If you've done therapy, done the healing, and still can't figure out why intimacy feels stuck, the answer she offers is uncomfortable in the best way.
You’ll learn:
[0:00] Introduction
[5:24] The heroine's journey and a woman's maturational arc
[10:07] The needy woman is the entitled woman
[21:53] Relaxing into desire as its own animate force
[28:28] Having a witness exposes where we're performing and hiding vulnerability
[41:57] Expressing feelings through the body rather than words
[49:09] Responding to him in the moment, versus reacting to the past
[55:04] Exposing your fullness to see whether he meets you
[1:02:18] Shifting from masculine mode into your feminine center of gravity
[1:09:35] Relaxing into subtle realms without agenda
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Resources Mentioned:
Esther Perel | Website
David Deida | Website
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Find more from Nina:

Nina Lombardo - Way of Devotion | Website | Instagram
Find more from Kelly:
YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MD
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Website: kellybroganmd.com
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Discover Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here.
Reserve your free spot for Kelly’s Biological Marriage event here.
Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.
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Should you take care of your parents, even when they decide to take the mainstream medicine route?

This week's audacious ask comes from a listener watching her mother go further down a medical path that seems to be making things worse, and she wants to know how to navigate it without losing herself in the process.

Caring for an aging parent who keeps choosing conventional medicine you no longer trust is one of the most disorienting positions a holistic-minded woman can find herself in.

The cultural assumption that adult children should manage their parents' healthcare is backwards. Family constellation work shows that healing flows from child to parent, and that repair is very different from taking responsibility for another adult's medical choices.

I go over the three parts likely driving your caretaking, and why the moment you make those visible is the moment you stop over-functioning and start setting real limits. I also share the exact boundary I set with my own parents years ago, and how it broke a decades-long pattern of commiseration around pathology in my family.

Their body is their business. What you're willing to offer is yours. The freedom sits in making that contract conscious instead of assumed.
You’ll learn:
[0:00] Introduction
[2:10] Caring for a parent whose conventional treatment seems harmful
[3:42] Taking care of a parent may not be your role
[5:36] How conscious and clear the caregiving contract really is
[7:08] Admitting we never truly know what's best for someone
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Find more from Kelly:
YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MD
Instagram: @kellybroganmd
Website: kellybroganmd.com
Join Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.
Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.
Discover Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here.
Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here.
Save your seat for Kelly's Turn on Training here.
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Your birth chart can help you navigate life transitions more than most people think.

Meli Neubek is an astrologer, co-host of Celestial Curiosities, and one of my closest friends, which means she has full permission to tell me when my two-hour-a-day YouTube astrology binge is starting to look like a coping strategy.

I recorded this a few weeks after March 3rd, when I woke up feeling like I'd been under anesthesia for six years inside a dynamic I'd been calling sovereignty. Both of our charts, apparently, had this written.

So we sit with the real question: what is astrology actually doing when it lands, and where does it turn into another way to outsource trusting yourself? Meli walks through the difference between predictive, psychological, and evolutionary work, why she practices tropical over sidereal, and what Saturn was doing to my second house the day everything cracked open.

She also names something rarely said out loud: how suicidal thoughts can show up as part of an identity death, and why that's not a sign something's gone wrong.
You’ll learn:
[0:00] Introduction
[4:05] Carrying on the Kelly Brogan chicken legacy
[6:58] Why free-ranging chickens survive when caged ones don't
[10:58] Falling down an astrology hole after an abrupt awakening
[15:09] When astrology becomes an addictive reality filter
[26:06] Choosing launch dates by the planets
[28:11] The season defines the archetype, not the stars
[36:43] The generational planets shifting from earth to fire
[45:02] Asking Mellie's mother to move out after a decade 
[55:54] Suicidal thoughts and raw sharing as part of the anatomy of transformation
[1:10:05] The Socratic paradox and admitting you know nothing
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Related Reclamation Radio Episodes:
Animal Telepath: The Hidden Messages Your Pet Sends That You Keep Missing | Podcast
Resources Mentioned:
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz | Book
Steven Forrest, Forrest Astrology | Website
Backyard Chickens | Facebook Group
Find more from Meli:

Meli Neubek | Website
Celestial Curiosities | Website
Find more from Kelly:
YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MD
Instagram: @kellybroganmd
Website: kellybroganmd.com
Join Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.
Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.
Discover Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here.
Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here.
Save your seat for Kelly's Turn on Training here.
Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.
Drop a "my blast" comment sharing something you're excited about, proud of, or loving about yourself, for a chance to win a free Beauty Backroom Peptide Perfecting Complex Face Serum or Moisturizer, gifted weekly!

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