Ep 380 Raising the Grade with Anne Rahe and Daniel
Marriage Therapy Radio
MTR
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Zach sits down with Anna Rahe, fascia expert and founder of Genius of Flexibility, and her husband Daniel for an honest, layered conversation about what it looks like to “raise the grade” in a long-term partnership.
As Anna and Daniel explore the habits they’re unlearning—and the ones they’re trying to reinforce—they reflect on the small ways they grade their relationship, how conflict becomes a chance to build trust, and why staying curious about each other matters more than winning any argument. You’ll hear how their somatic awareness, emotional mismatches, and willingness to slow down help them stretch not just their bodies, but their capacity for connection.
Key Takeaways
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The grade you give your relationship changes
Anna reflects on how her internal scorecard has shifted over time. -
Repair is a practice, not a performance
Daniel shares that real progress means learning not to rush to a fix but to create space for the process. -
“Holding space” takes effort and awareness
Instead of stepping in to fix things, Daniel is learning to simply stay present and supportive.
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Curiosity beats control
Both agree that asking, “What’s going on for you?” opens more connection than trying to solve or control.
Guest Info
Anna Rahe
Founder of Genius of Flexibility, Anna Rahe is an educator, somatic practitioner, and fascia expert dedicated to helping people unlock emotional and physical healing through the body’s connective tissue. Her work has appeared in Goop, Vogue, and TEDx.
Daniel
Daniel is Anna’s husband and partner in the slow, intentional work of emotional growth. His grounded presence, self-awareness, and reflections on support and repair add depth and relatability to this episode.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome. And thank you for listening to this episode of Marriage Therapy Radio. My name is Zach Brittle. We're here today with Anna and Daniel. These guys are amazing. We talked for about an hour and I think we were just getting started. I hope this is the first of several conversations that I get to share with you from them. They are candid and transparent about their relationship. And I think you're really going to enjoy learning from them. They are candid and transparent about their relationship, and I think you're |
| 0:22.8 | really going to enjoy learning from them. They posed for me a couple of questions that actually |
| 0:27.3 | had me stumped a little bit, and I probably will think about this interview for a while. I started |
| 0:32.8 | out with a list of about five questions. I got to ask one of them and and then they took it from there. So I'm |
| 0:38.8 | excited to share this with you. I also want to remind you that I have relaunched my blog. It's called |
| 0:43.8 | stuff I write. I am trying to post something every week. Sometimes they're relationship posts, |
| 0:49.2 | but mostly they're not. And I would be grateful if you would subscribe and share that. |
| 0:54.9 | Just trying to flex some of my writing muscles and get them out into the world. |
| 0:58.6 | And also just diversify a little bit off of strictly relationship stuff into things that maybe are capturing my imagination. |
| 1:04.7 | Thank you for supporting Marriage Serapy Radio on Patreon. |
| 1:07.6 | It's never too late to jump on board and support the podcast financially. It's a great |
| 1:12.0 | way to help us keep the lights on and continue to bring you very cool interviews. So you can do that |
| 1:17.0 | at marriagetherapyradio.com or by going to patreon.com slash marriage therapy radio becoming a member. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm typically putting up some behind the scenes videos, whether they are from interviews that we're doing |
| 1:28.9 | or just little tidbits of context from my counseling office that maybe don't make it onto the podcast. |
| 1:35.8 | As always, I'm grateful to you for joining us. I do hope that you'll appreciate hearing from Anna and |
| 1:42.2 | Daniel. This is a very cool conversation. |
| 1:44.5 | Stick around. |
| 1:46.7 | How you doing? |
| 1:47.5 | You want to get into it? |
| 1:48.5 | Good. |
| 1:49.0 | Did you get both of our questionnaires? |
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