Crappy to Happy

Relationships Episodes

Expert guests and valuable insights into how to improve the quality of your relationships with others, as well as yourself.
How to Save Your Relationship with Tarah Kerwin, Couples Therapist
July 24, 2025

How to Save Your Relationship with Tarah Kerwin, Couples Therapist

Couples Therapist, Tarah Kerwin opens up about how her past trauma affected her relationship with her husband EJ, also a therapist. Despite their professional expertise, they both realised they needed to address their persona...
How Relationships Help to Sculpt Your Ideal Self: The Michelangelo Effect
June 12, 2025

How Relationships Help to Sculpt Your Ideal Self: The Michelangelo Effect

Do your partner and closest friends support and validate your ideal self? Today, we're diving into the intriguing concept of the Michelangelo phenomenon in relationships. This idea suggests that the people closest to us can h...
Reconnecting in Relationships: How to Bridge the Emotional Gap
May 14, 2025

Reconnecting in Relationships: How to Bridge the Emotional Gap

Feeling disconnected in relationships is a theme that's been surfacing a lot lately in my coaching sessions, and I think it’s something that many of us can relate to. In this episode, I dive into the common struggles women fa...
Friendship Green Flags: How to have (and BE) a better friend.
Aug. 19, 2024

Friendship Green Flags: How to have (and BE) a better friend.

In this solo episode of Crappy to Happy, Cass discusses the importance of quality friendships and what makes them thrive. She highlights three key ingredients of high-quality friendships: consistency, positivity, and vulnerab...
The Key to Successful Relationships with Dr Ann Kelley
April 15, 2024

The Key to Successful Relationships with Dr Ann Kelley

This week Cass talks with Dr Ann Kelley, licensed psychologist and co-host of the Therapist Uncensored podcast, about the importance of updating our understanding of attachment styles and the limitations of categorising ourse...
How to deal with people letting you down
March 20, 2024

How to deal with people letting you down

Cass answers a listener question about what to do when you feel disappointed by people in your life. She shares ideas about how to manage your expectations, how to take responsibility for your own part in the situation, and h...
Cracking the Code on Relationships with Dr Sue Johnson
Feb. 8, 2024

Cracking the Code on Relationships with Dr Sue Johnson

Dr Sue Johnson is a psychologist, author, a pioneer in the psychology of relationships and the creator of Emotionally Focused therapy, which focuses on creating secure emotional bonds between partners. EFT is widely acknowled...
The Rise of Parasocial Relationships
Aug. 24, 2023

The Rise of Parasocial Relationships

This week, Cass is talking about Parasocial Relationships; that is the one-sided relationship between a media figure and a fan. She discusses how even 'micro-influencers' can be the object of parasocial relationships and how ...
Understanding Narcissism: the distinction between Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism
July 3, 2023

Understanding Narcissism: the distinction between Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism

These days it seems like everyone is a Narcissist. The term 'narcissism' is a bit of a buzzword that is used to describe anyone who comes across as a little self absorbed, or 'full of themselves', but is that true? Is everyon...
Understanding attachment styles
Feb. 13, 2023

Understanding attachment styles

Are you curious about how different styles of attachment are ingrained in us from when we are infants? Understanding different attachment styles that may be affecting your day to day life can help you heal and become stronger...
How To Set Boundaries During The Holidays
Dec. 19, 2022

How To Set Boundaries During The Holidays

Do you find the Christmas Holiday period stressful and overwhelming? Do you struggle to set boundaries with your family during this time? In this episode, I explain why clear communication and boundary setting is the key to a...
The science of narcissism with W. Keith Campbell
July 10, 2022

The science of narcissism with W. Keith Campbell

Keith Campbell is one of the world’s experts in narcissism, and he’s here to help us understand and interact with all the narcissistic people in our lives. In this chat the psychology professor explains the actual definition ...
Fair Play: how to divvy up the domestic load (Eve Rodsky Part 1)
Feb. 6, 2022

Fair Play: how to divvy up the domestic load (Eve Rodsky Part 1)

Cass talks with NYT best selling author, Eve Rodsky, whose unique system for gamifying and sharing the domestic workload has taken the world by storm. Women are exhausted and burnt out from carrying the weight of ‘invisible l...
Power Boundaries with Holly Tarry
Feb. 7, 2021

Power Boundaries with Holly Tarry

Cass Dunn talks with Holly Tarry, speaker, coach and author of “Power Boundaries”. Holly shares her personal story of digging deeply into the patterns in her life that were keeping her from living an empowered, joyful and mea...
Raising girls in the modern world with Madonna King
Jan. 24, 2021

Raising girls in the modern world with Madonna King

Cass talks with journalist and author, Madonna King about the particular issues faced by pre-teen girls in the age of technology, social media and a global pandemic. After she wrote her best-selling, “Being 14”, parents aroun...
Juggling family and career with Tiff Hall
Sept. 15, 2019

Juggling family and career with Tiff Hall

Tiff Hall is back in our reunion episode after a year away from the mic. In that time she’s had a baby, broken her leg, become a pro trainer for Chris Hemsworth and managed to get her body back to where she wants it. Tiff and...
Raising tweens with Rebecca Sparrow
Feb. 6, 2019

Raising tweens with Rebecca Sparrow

Rebecca Sparrow helps parents navigate the tricky road of early adolescence. Bec and Cass Dunn discuss how to be a positive role model, keep communication open and support our kids through difficult times.Connect with Cass: ...
Keeping the spark alive with Dr Nikki Goldstein
Feb. 6, 2019

Keeping the spark alive with Dr Nikki Goldstein

How do you keep the romance alive in a long-term relationship? Sexologist and relationship expert Dr Nikki Goldstein talks with Cass Dunn about sexual compatibility, how resentments can erode intimacy and gives some tips for ...
The power of relationships
March 4, 2018

The power of relationships

Strong, supportive relationships are the foundation of happiness and even longevity. In this episode, Tiff Hall and Cass Dunn discuss why our friendships can have either a positive or negative affect on our wellbeing and the ...