by Zach Beach | Nov 21, 2021 | Attunement, Mindfulness, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Psychology, Spirituality
A committed relationship is a friendship, a love affair, and a capacity to heal injuries. Those are are three foundations of a good committed relationship. And the way you maintain that is by being responsive to each other. Noticing the other person’s emotional...
by Zach Beach | Nov 14, 2021 | Attachment Theory, Parenting, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Psychology, Sex
Becoming a parent is one of the most vulnerable and transformative life events. There are so many hopes and fears in the act. Becoming a parent is a new identity that you’re never recused from, you’re never not a parent, and there’s never another...
by Zach Beach | Nov 7, 2021 | Attachment Theory, Intimacy, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Psychology
A love relationship is something you have to work on for as long as you are in that relationship. I think that it is a evolving experience, and when two people are working on the relationship, that’s when it is as it best.So it’s not just about finding the...
by Zach Beach | Oct 31, 2021 | LGBTQ, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Science of Love, Sex
I happen to think that the human experience is quite broad and we ought to not narrow it to little categories. In my past, I had used the labels, when I was doing survey research. But when I began actually talking to young people, and interviewing them, all the young...
by Zach Beach | Oct 24, 2021 | Communication, Conscious Relationships, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Skills for Love
So many people are working on their race-day strategy, but aren’t ready to run the race at all. People always ask me about where to meet people, what to wear, what to say, but they don’t ask what it means to actually be ready to be in a relationship with...
by Zach Beach | Oct 17, 2021 | Kindness, Meditation, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Unconditional Love
To me loving-kindness is a wakeful meditation, a matter of being present in the world. I think of it as throwing open the doors to my heart. I think of it as lowering a drawbridge over the moat of my ego, which allows me to be vulnerable, to let others in, practice...
by Zach Beach | Oct 10, 2021 | Communication, Marriage, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Psychology
We are people, not categories. Saying men are from Mars or woman are from Venus does not honor us as individuals. When you classify people based on categories, you bring all the preconceived ideas about those categories, and then you lose sight of that person as an...
by Zach Beach | Oct 3, 2021 | Communication, Intimacy, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone, Self-Love
When people are uncompromising and genuinely curious and genuinely curious and not threatened by the other’s desires and experience, that leads to more connection, more creativity, and new solutions that one of them trying to manage the whole thing...
by Zach Beach | Sep 26, 2021 | Divorce, Finances, Marriage, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone
Someone who gets a prenuptial agreement is no more likely to get divorced than someone who doesn’t. In a large part, it’s really insurance, and the best insurance that you can buy, because a lot of what you are protecting against is the confusion about...
by Zach Beach | Sep 19, 2021 | Communication, Dating, Marriage, Podcast Episodes, Posts for Everyone
I’m much in favor of a collaborative type marriage, where no one is considered superior or in charge of the relationship. It’s a joint venture; you’re a team that is investing energy to keep your relationship great so that both of you are fulfilled...
