Love that goes beneath the surface.
Real talk on trust, repair, intimacy and the seasons that test a marriage, with Dr. Regina Ransom. Short episodes. One thing to try together, every week.
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Pick the one that sounds like home. We'll point you to the right episode, the right read and the right next step.
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The Episodes
Every conversation, with takeaways, a full transcript and one thing to try tonight.
Browse episodes → ReadThe Journal
Longer reads for when you want to sit with it, from couples intensives to affair recovery to small daily rituals.
Read the Journal → NourishThe Table
Hormones, stress, sleep and food: what the body brings into the marriage.
Explore Nourish → Free resourcesThe Library
Free cards you can use together: the Daily Reconnect card and Our Cycle Map. More trackers and guides are on the way.
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Private couples intensives, the Rooted Reserve and the Rooted Retreat.
Work with Dr. Ransom →The episodes
Praying Together When You Believe DifferentlyNew
When one of you prays every morning and the other isn’t sure anyone is listening.
When Your Partner’s Past Is Running Your Present
Sometimes the fight happening today started long before you met.
Coming Home Different: Military Couples After Deployment
Everyone celebrates the homecoming. Few talk about the weeks after.
Money Secrets: Financial Infidelity and Rebuilding Trust
Some of the deepest betrayals happen through a hidden card, a secret account or debt nobody talked about.
Is It Me or My Hormones? Perimenopause and Your Marriage
Irritable, exhausted, foggy, and wondering what is happening to you and your marriage? You’re not imagining it.
What Actually Happens in a Couples Intensive
The question Dr. Ransom hears more than any other, answered honestly, including the parts people are nervous to ask.
The Dance Most Couples Are Doing
The same fight with different details. It might not be about the dishes at all. It might be the dance.
Stop Drifting, Start Choosing Each Other
The house, the kids, the routines, and still feeling like you’re just existing together.
The body keeps the marriage, too.
Sleep, stress hormones, perimenopause and what's on the table at dinner all show up in how two people treat each other. Nourish is where we talk about it.
Nourish is education, not medical care. For root-cause lab testing and functional medicine, Dr. Ransom's clinical practice is New Birth Family Counseling.
When perimenopause comes to bed
Desire, sleep and the conversation most couples never have.
Listen + read →Cortisol and the 6 p.m. fight
Why the same couple argues more at dinnertime than on Saturday morning.
Coming soonA slow dinner for two
A simple, blood-sugar-friendly menu built for talking, not rushing.
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Dr. Regina Ransom
Regina has been married for 33 years and raised six children with her husband. She knows that lasting love is built in ordinary moments, and rebuilt in hard ones.
She leads private couples intensives in San Diego, blending the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy and whole-person wellness. Before all of that, she served in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear engineer aboard a submarine.
When you're ready to go deeper
Some seasons need more than an hour a week. These are for those seasons.
Couples Intensives
Focused, private work in San Diego with the Rooted Method: Foundation, Repair, Rebuild and Stabilization.
The Rooted Reserve
A private house, a private chef and three nights designed around the two of you. By invitation.
The Rooted Retreat
A few couples, one beautiful setting, and the space to reconnect alongside others who understand.
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