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Ep 73: Putting Loving-Kindness into Action with Terry Helwig
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...
Ep 72: Creating a Marriage of Equals with Catherine E. Aponte
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...
Ep 71: Uncompromising Intimacy with Alexandra Stockwell
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 wouldn't come up...
Ep 70: Should We Get a Prenup? with Aaron Thomas
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 where each...
Ep 69: How to Date When You’re Marriage Minded with Marcia Naomi Berger
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 in all the...
Ep 68: Managing Trauma Triggers with August McLaughlin and Jamila M. Dawson, LMFT
There can be a lot of pressure just to love yourself. And cultivating self love is an important mission, but that can be a really steep, daunting goal, especially when you're in a dark place. So I think it's important to know that love isn't something you reach, it's...
Ep 67: Kindness, Happiness, and Connection with Sonja Lyubomirsky
The evidence is quite clear that giving makes us happier. In our resource we have found that for longer term happiness, it is better to give than to receive. Of course that's also correlated with creating connection, because kind actions involve others and you do...
Ep 66: Making Love Simple with Juan Lee
Peace is not something external to us, it is a state of mind. And maintaining that peaceful state of mind is more important than anything else. But you have to realize that selfishness is not going to be the way. The way you get there is through love. That's the peace...
Ep 65: Let Pleasure Be Your Measure with Heidi Gee
We all deserve pleasure. Our bodies are designed to experience pleasure. It's so important." - Heidi Gee How is the pandemic effecting our relationships? How important is a healthy sex life to the health of the relationship? How can we shift from being orgasm-oriented...
Ep 64: Navigating Desire Discrepancies with Dr. Nazanin Moali
It's completely ok for the love for your partner to strengthen and fade. At times your connection may weaken, for any number of different reasons. What's important is to know that you can fall back in love with your partner. It's all about how you are tackling the...
Ep 63: Healing from Betrayal with Debi Silber
There's no reason to stay stuck, staying stuck is truly a choice. When you're willing to let go of your old story, you can have such a better story. You owe it to yourself. You owe it to yourself to heal and enjoy that version of you that is now available because of...
Ep 62: Sexual Soulmates with Susan Bratton
Sexual soulmates are co-created. Chemistry is nice, but in all honesty, sex gets good once you practice together. When you can talk to each other about what turns you on, what you like, what feels good in every moment, and you create your sexual experience together....
Ep 61: Bringing Intimacy Back with Dr. April Brown
If we love others more than we love ourselves, that's not a good thing. Because then we're putting ourselves last, and people treat us how we treat ourselves, and that'll be last. So we have to have boundaries. Healthy boundaries are wonderful. - Dr. April Brown Can...
Ep 60: Self-Abandonment in Relationships with Kat Lee
A lot of the work around Daoism and Chinese Medicine is about looking at your body as an integrated part of you. And there when we look at your signs and symptoms, instead of trying to suppress them, downplay them, or ignore them, we look at them as the storyteller of...
Ep 59: The Relationship Alphabet with Zach Brittle
Couples that learn how to argue well can get more done. Because the root notion of argument is more along the lines of debate, not battle, and when we can manage difference with intimacy, integrity, and intention, then we can actually find ourselves becoming closer....
Ep 58: Intimacy and Emotional Wounds with Dr. Ray & Jean Kadkhodaian
The goal of a relationship is not to be happy, it is to learn and to grow. And it's the challenge of growing together and learning about another person that actually makes it worth it. A connection with a committed partner is the most challenging and most rewarding...
Ep 57: Breathing Love with Jennie Lee
When we feel any sense of depletion or drain from giving love, it is a sure sign that we are giving from a place of ego. We are giving from our personal love, and that is in a sense limited. So when we feel tapped out, that's actually reminder that we are giving from...
Ep 56: Healing Our Childhood Wounds with Riana Milne
You can't change what you don't acknowledge and understand. It's a matter of understanding where the wounds come from, healing those wounds, taking the unconscious behavioral patterns and making them conscious. People don't know what they don't know, they don't...
Ep 55: Finding Peace in Anxious Times with Lodro Rinzler
When we let go of all the stories we tell about ourselves, we are left with a sense of spaciousness, openness, and wakefulness. - Lodro Rinzler Is Buddhism a philosophy or religion? Whats the secret to overcoming anxiety around loss? How can we treat our anxiety more...
Ep 54: Finding Balance in our Busy Lives with Meghan Pherrill
I am constantly finding balance in my life, it's not like once you get it you get it. It's this journey, it's this process, it's this every-day thing. For me, I'm a disciplined person who loves my routines. So balance for me means being ok when things shift and being...
Ep 53: Loving Through Infertility with Josephine Atluri
We have all these ideas of how life is supposed to play out, and rather than just accept that you had these ideas and they didn't work out, it is important to take that extra mindful step and questioning, where is that coming from? Does it have to be that way? So you...
Ep 52: Rebuilding after Betrayal with Jennifer Lehr, MFT
The rebuilding process has to do with re-creating trust, where you have to say, "I am here for you, you are the most important to me, and I'm going to honor us." over and over and over again. And the timeline completely depends on the willingness of the participants...
Ep 51: Falling in love with parenting together with Lara Elfstrand
Falling in love with parenting means showing kindness to our partner. It means taking an attitude of curiosity so we can listen to each other's dreams instead of shutting them down when theirs conflict with ours. It means giving them the benefit of the doubt and...
Ep 50: Loving Marriage and Family, Special 50th Episode Anniversary with Michele and Charles Beach
We took our commitment very seriously early on. And what happens when you make a commitment is, you are freed up from worrying that the other person is going to leave. This means you can make a mistake and it won't ruin the relationship. This gives you a safe place to...
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