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Dear Dr. Tracy

Dear Dr. Tracy

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 Welcome to Dear Dr. Tracy, the podcast that helps you navigate the everyday challenges of relationships, marriage, and parenting with expert advice and real, relatable conversations. Hosted by clinical psychologist and relationship expert Dr. Tracy Dalgleish, this podcast is your place for honest, no-nonsense guidance on love, intimacy, boundaries, and communication. With over 18 years of experience, Dr. Tracy brings a mix of clinical expertise, evidence-based research, and personal insights as a wife and mother to help you break unhealthy patterns and build stronger connections. Each week, Dr. Tracy answers the questions so many of us have but don’t always know how to ask—about resentment, desire, mental load, and how to truly feel like a team with your partner. She’s joined by fellow experts, real couples, and her husband Greg, who offers a down-to-earth perspective on the struggles so many relationships face. If you’re ready for actionable tools and heartfelt conversations that will help you create a relationship that feels fulfilling, this podcast is for you.Cloud10 Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • Repairing Trust After Half-Truths and Defensiveness

    Repairing Trust After Half-Truths and Defensiveness
    Apr 5 2026
    Trust doesn’t always break in one explosive moment. Sometimes it erodes through small lies, half-truths, and protective reflexes that made sense in childhood, but create distance in adult partnership. Dr. Tracy responds to a listener who wants to know if trust can be rebuilt after a long-standing pattern of not telling the full truth, and what to do when their partner feels hypervigilant, exhausted, and close to leaving.She explains that repair starts with willingness: the willingness to repeatedly “cross the bridge” into your partner’s experience without making their fear about your shame. Then she lays out what rebuilding looks like in real time: naming the urge to hide, slowing the moment down, practicing meta-communication, and choosing truth even when your nervous system wants to protect you. Trust isn’t rebuilt through pressure or promises, it’s rebuilt through consistent, visible moments of honesty, accountability, and emotional intimacy. 🔗 WANT TO GO DEEPER? Be Connected — 24/7 relationship support, including Dr. Tracy AI trained on Tracy's clinical work. Get real answers in the moment, even when your partner won't do the work with you. One spot left for a couples intensive with Dr. Tracy — a 2-day deep dive designed for couples who are stuck and not seeing results from weekly therapy. In-person or she travels to you. Read the book: ⁠⁠⁠You, Your Husband, and His Mother⁠⁠⁠ Not sure where to start? Find your relationship's negative cycle — free quiz here. Ready to deepen your connection?⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download my 100 Questions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want your questions answered on the show?⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Submit them here!⁠⁠⁠ Build better connection and feel close starting today. ⁠⁠Join the⁠ ⁠⁠30 Days to Us Challenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📲 FOLLOW DR. TRACY Subscribe to You Tube Follow on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Follow on Facebook ⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 mins
  • The Yes Starts Way Before the Bedroom

    The Yes Starts Way Before the Bedroom
    Apr 2 2026
    There was a time when sex felt easy, and then life happened. Kids, stress, mental load, exhaustion, being touched out… and suddenly both partners are wondering: is something wrong with me, with you, or with us? Dr. Tracy reframes this in a way most couples have never been taught: you don’t have a desire problem, you have a conditions problem. And that’s hopeful, because conditions are something you can actually work with.In this conversation, Dr. Tracy and Greg break down the two pathways to desire (spontaneous vs. responsive), why pressure quietly shuts desire down, and why sex can’t exist in a silo when resentment, cortisol, and disconnection are running the show. The goal isn’t to “manufacture the mood” or withdraw completely, it’s to co-create the kind of daily conditions (touch, safety, shared load, emotional closeness) that make desire possible again. 📎 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Want your questions answered on the show?⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Submit them here!⁠⁠⁠ Grab the freebie: 5 Ways to Nurture Your Intimacy 🔗 WANT TO GO DEEPER? ⁠Be Connected⁠ — 24/7 relationship support, including Dr. Tracy AI trained on Tracy's clinical work. Get real answers in the moment, even when your partner won't do the work with you. ⁠One spot left⁠ for a couples intensive with Dr. Tracy — a 2-day deep dive designed for couples who are stuck and not seeing results from weekly therapy. In-person or she travels to you. Read the book: ⁠⁠⁠You, Your Husband, and His Mother⁠⁠⁠ Not sure where to start? Find your relationship's negative cycle — free quiz here. Ready to deepen your connection?⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download my 100 Questions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Build better connection and feel close starting today. ⁠⁠Join the⁠ ⁠⁠30 Days to Us Challenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📲 FOLLOW DR. TRACY Subscribe to You Tube Follow on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Follow on Facebook ⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    43 mins
  • The 4 Steps to Setting a Boundary That Actually Sticks

    The 4 Steps to Setting a Boundary That Actually Sticks
    Mar 29 2026
    If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation thinking, “I know I need a boundary… I just don’t know how to do it without making things worse,” this episode slows it all the way down. Boundaries aren’t about getting someone else to change. They start with you getting clear on what would need to feel different inside the dynamic so you can feel okay, grounded, and steady.Dr. Tracy breaks down four practical shifts that make boundaries more doable: getting clear with yourself first, saying it early (or rehearsing it ahead of time), letting the other person’s reaction belong to them, and deciding what you’ll do when the boundary gets crossed. Because the follow-through is the part that turns a “boundary” from a hope into something real. 📎 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Read the book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠You, Your Husband, and His Mother⁠⁠⁠⁠ 3 Ways to Respond when someone reacts to your boundary. 🔗 WANT TO GO DEEPER? Be Connected⁠ — 24/7 relationship support, including Dr. Tracy AI trained on Tracy's clinical work. Get real answers in the moment, even when your partner won't do the work with you. ⁠One spot left⁠ for a couples intensive with Dr. Tracy — a 2-day deep dive designed for couples who are stuck and not seeing results from weekly therapy. In-person or she travels to you. Not sure where to start? Find your relationship's negative cycle — free quiz here. Ready to deepen your connection?⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download my 100 Questions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want your questions answered on the show?⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Submit them here!⁠⁠⁠ Build better connection and feel close starting today. ⁠⁠Join the⁠ ⁠⁠30 Days to Us Challenge⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📲 FOLLOW DR. TRACY Subscribe on YouTube Follow on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Follow on Facebook ⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    12 mins
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