Healing For Love
Healing for Love
A podcast for anyone who wants to stop shrinking, start healing, and grow into their most grounded, authentic self in love & life.
Hosted by Dr Gemma Gladstone — relationship coach, former clinical psychologist (25+ years), and expert in schema healing — this podcast offers thoughtful, insight-rich episodes to help you understand your patterns, heal from past emotional wounds, and gently rewrite your relationship template.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in familiar dynamics — seeking approval, fearing abandonment, dating narcissists or losing yourself in relationships — you’re not alone. Healing for Love is a space for self-reflection, emotional insight, and steady encouragement. Here, you’ll learn how to reconnect with your worth, trust your inner voice, and build relationships that support who you truly are.
This is for the woman who’s ready to feel more secure, more whole, and more herself — in love and in life.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 130
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
48: People Pleasing & Approval Seeking: Are You Looking for Approval in All the Wrong Places?
Welcome to another episode of The Good Mood Clinic Podcast!
Subjugation is common in our society, particularly amongst women and people in the helping professions.
Subjugation is relevan…
47: Are You Living a Subjugated Life?
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When we subjugate ourselves, we suppress our authenticity and aspects of who we are. In schema therapy, the self-sacrifice and…
46: The Tinder Swindler Part 2: Victim Blaming, Love Scamming and the Rise of Cat-fishing
Welcome to another episode of The Good Mood Clinic Podcast!
In this episode, we continue with our two-part series on the Netflix production, The Tinder Swindler.
In the first part, we spo…
45: The Tinder Swindler – Looking Through the Schema Lens
Welcome to another episode of The Good Mood Clinic Podcast!
In this episode, we are talking about red flags.
The Netflix movie, The Tinder Swindler, shows an extremely nasty example of a…
43: The Mailbox: How to Avoid Becoming a Narcissistic Parent
Welcome to another episode of The Good Mood Clinic Podcast!
Parenting is not easy. It is even harder for those raised by narcissistic parents because that is a particularly toxic way to …
42: Dating with an Abandonment Schema: Part 2 - What is your Coping Style?
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In our last podcast, we spoke about what an abandonment schema might look like generally when dating someone. In this episode,…
41: Dating with an Abandonment Schema - Part 1
Welcome to the first episode of The Good Mood Clinic Podcast for 2022!
When making new year resolutions, most of us tend to think about things we can improve in our lives and the patter…
ENCORE: When Your Mother Is Narcissistic
Welcome back!
2022 will be a great year!
Today Gemma discusses what it's like having a narcissistic parent and presents one of our older episodes (our most popular episode yet).
40: The Mailbox: The Self-Sacrifice Schema
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Some of the ways we behave and think are known as schemas. Schemas could be described as a filter through which we view the wo…
39. The Anxious-Avoidant Love Trap: Schemas & Attachment Styles
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Some of the ways we think and some of our behavioral tendencies are called schemas. Schemas could be described as the lens thr…
38: What Type of Inner Critic Do You Have?
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Most people have an inner critic. Some are aware of it and acknowledge it, while others do not seem to notice the disparaging …
37: Mailbox: Co-parenting with a Narcissist Ex and Supporting your Partner with Their Schema Therapy
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In this mailbox episode, Gemma and Justine address two questions submitted by two different listeners. One of the questions is…
BONUS - Meditation: 'Inner Child' Connection & Healing
Listen to a meditation by Dr Gemma Gladstone, where she takes you on a journey to connect with and start to heal an inner child part of you who needs love and connection. This meditati…
36: Fifty Shades of Red: How Knowing Your Schemas Can Prevent Toxic Relationships
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Some distinct red flags tend to show up in the very early stages of dating that indicate that the person you are dating is lik…
35: Fifty Shades of Red: Very Early Indicators of Coercive Control
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Managing all the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic can be tough and make it hard for many of us to remain grounded during t…
34: The Mailbox: Schemas and Friendships: Abandonment in Platonic Relationships
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Some people find it very hard to cope if their best friend goes out with another friend or starts a new friendship with someo…
33: The Mailbox: Help! I'm Avoiding Relationships Because They're too Painful
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Gemma and Justine have another conversation in their series on breakups and schemas in this episode.
If you have ever experie…
32: After the Break-Up: Why Can't I Get Over My Ex?
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The break up of a romantic relationship causes so much angst and heartache for so many of us. Some people can’t stop thinking …
31: Breaking Up - When Schemas Get in the Way of Calling It Quits
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It is not uncommon early on in a relationship to realise deep down that your emotional needs will not be met, yet you find yo…
30: When Your Heart Breaks After A Break-Up
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Some people struggle a lot with the intensity of their feelings when they are in the throes of a break-up of a romantic relat…