The Safe Love Podcast
Real talk, clinical tools and faith for anyone who wants relationships that feel safe, whether you are single, dating, married or healing from something that hurt you.
With Dr. Shena Manning, LPC
Most people don't have a love problem. They have a safety problem.
After more than twenty years as a counselor, Shena kept having the same conversation in her office, at church and at her own kitchen table. People love each other, and most of them are committed. What they are missing is the kind of safety that lets you be truly known. Each week she takes something people really go through and explains it in plain words, so you can understand what is happening and know what to do next.
What every episode gives you
Understanding
What is really happening underneath, explained from a counselor's point of view without the confusing language.
Tools
Practical steps you can try that same week, in your marriage, your family or your own heart.
Honest guidance
Clear signs for when it is time to reach out for more help, shared without shame.
Faith
Every episode ends in God's Word and prayer, because that is where real hope and healing begin.
Start here
Season one begins in November. New conversations arrive every Tuesday.
What Is Emotional Safety and Why Your Relationship Depends on It
Shena introduces the show and explains what emotional safety really is, what it feels like when it is missing, and what your body is doing when love does not feel safe.
Whole vs. The Hole
You are not half a person looking for your other half. Learn the difference between coming into a relationship whole and hoping someone else will fill what is missing.
Five Signs You Need Therapy and Do Not Know It
The sentence Shena hears most in a first session is "I wish I had come sooner." Here is how to recognize you need support earlier.
My Spouse Will Not Go to Counseling. Now What?
Why spouses say no, what makes it worse, and what you can do instead while you wait.
Meet Dr. Shena Manning
Shena is a licensed professional counselor and a school counselor in Georgia with more than twenty years of experience helping students, couples and families heal. She and her husband, Pastor Tony Manning, have been married for 37 years and are the authors of Safe Love: Building Emotionally Secure Relationships That Actually Last.
On the show she brings together what she has learned in the counseling room, in ministry and in her own home, including the lessons she and Tony learned the hard way.
Married? Listen to Marriage Between Sundays
Shena and Tony talk honestly about the Monday through Saturday of marriage, with Scripture, real stories and something to try together before the next episode.
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The Safe Love Podcast is for education and encouragement. It is not counseling and is not a substitute for professional mental health care. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, or call 911.