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Let's get this party started and embrace your inner bride chilla.

What's up, Chillas?

Today we are with Dr. Sarah Hensley, who is the founder of the Love Doc coaching services and hosts of the Love Doc podcast.

I am so excited for our discussion

today on relationship advice, especially when we get to attachment styles and compatibility.

Dr. Hensley, thank you so much for being with us today. Thank you for having me.

So give us a brief background about your history, getting into counseling services, and founding your company and your

podcast. I've had a very interesting journey. I am a social psychologist, and a lot of people don't

know that only 33% of the discipline of psychology is actually clinical psychology. The rest of us are what we call experimentalists. So we are researchers and experts in our little niche of psychology. And so I have two sort of sub-concentrations that I graduated with as a doctor of psychology. One is health psychology and one is social psychology. And so those two

things kind of merged together in my early career in research. I was very much interested in how

things like social support or strong romantic relationships, strong marriages could buffer the

effects of chronic illness. That's kind of where I started in my research journey.

And of course, what we know in that area of research is that happy marriages really do provide

a lot of protection against chronic disease, chronic illness, and can make recovery times faster

for things like surgery, et cetera.

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