Empowered Relationship Podcast: Your Relationship Resource And Guide
428 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 129 ratingsThe Empowered Relationship Podcast helps you turn relationship challenges into opportunities and sets you up for relationship success, satisfaction, and intimacy.
This podcast is designed to inspire, motivate, and guide individuals and couples into more empowered, conscious, and evolved ways of loving.
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ERP 127 : What To Do When You Feel Insecure In Relationship – Part Two
November 22, 2017 21:34 - 47 minutes - 38.6 MBBe sure to check out the previous episode, ERP 126: What To Do When You Feel Insecure In Relationship if you missed it. WHAT WILL WORK WHEN ADDRESSING INSECURITY IN RELATIONSHIP (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear explanations, stories and examples.) 1. EXPLORE YOUR BELIEFS, FEARS, AND WORRIES. Understand your attachment style. Secure attachment style leads to feelings of trust, confidence, and belief in relationship. Whereas, insecure attachment...
ERP 126: What To Do When You Feel Insecure In Relationship
November 15, 2017 01:09 - 37 minutes - 30.7 MBLISTENER’S QUESTION “I have been listening to your podcasts and i find them very helpful for me to understanding how to communicate and work through some of my thoughts and needs in my relationship. I have been having an internal struggle with myself in my relationship that i was wondering if you might be able to help me work through and understand. I think this might have to deal somewhat with self love and self esteem but i am not sure how to get better with these subjects. I have this...
ERP 125: How Kindness Can Strengthen Your Love
November 06, 2017 04:33 - 39 minutes - 31.7 MBA long while back I remember this article from The Atlantic circulating on social media, titled “Masters of Love,” by Emily Esfahani Smith. One of the main points of the article is the key to lasting relationships is kindness and generosity. Based on the research of Gottman and others, “kindness (along with emotional stability) is the most important predictor of satisfaction and stability in a marriage.” When kindness is expressed in relationship, couples feel more care, consideration, l...
ERP 124: How To Improve The Climate Of Your Relationship
October 28, 2017 05:05 - 31 minutes - 25.9 MBWHAT IS YOUR CURRENT RELATIONSHIP CLIMATE? In the lastest episodes, I interviewed two experts in the field of relationship. Arielle Ford talked with us about How To Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate. One of the questions, I asked her was how to use the law of attraction in your relationship. In her response, she focused more on how to attract a partner. I truly believe that when one partner raises their vibration it attracts a completely different interaction. What does raising the v...
ERP 123: Forgive For Love With Dr. Fred Luskin
October 20, 2017 15:08 - 42 minutes - 34.7 MBGUEST: DR. FRED LUSKIN Dr. Luskin founded and currently serves as Director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects. He is also Senior Consultant in Health Promotion/Wellness at the Stanford University Health Center and Department Chair in Clinical Psychology at Sofia University. At Stanford, Dr. Luskin teaches classes on Positive Psychology, The Art and Science of Meditation, Forgiveness, Wellness, Flourishing and The Psychology of Storytelling to undergraduate and graduate student...
ERP 122: How to Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate with Arielle Ford
October 13, 2017 04:48 - 43 minutes - 35.3 MBGUEST ARIELLE FORD: Arielle Ford is a love and relationship expert and a leading personality in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. For the past 25 years she has been living, teaching, and promoting consciousness through all forms of media. She is a speaker and the producer and host of Evolving Wisdom’s Art of Love series. Arielle is a gifted writer and the author of 11 books, including Turn Your Mate Into Your Soulmate devoted to exploring a simple, fun and effec...
ERP 121: How To Get An Unsupportive Parent Onboard
October 03, 2017 21:45 - 46 minutes - 37.3 MBLISTENER’S QUESTION “I’ve been listening to your podcasts and they’ve been really helpful thank you! I am thinking of approaching my partner about your program in the near future because I think we would benefit from it greatly. Moving forward, I have a question for your podcast. For a bit of context, because I was working and undertaking law school at the same time I didn’t really date and have never had a boyfriend until recently. My mother is the biggest influence on my life and befor...
ERP 120: How To Build Trust With Your Partner – Part Three
September 24, 2017 03:45 - 41 minutes - 33.7 MBTrust is essential to the success of a happy, loving, lasting relationship. Yet, many of us are confused about how to develop trust in a relationship. In episode 118, I offered you 2 of the 5 tips in how to build trust with your partner. I encourage you to check it out if you missed it. In episode 119, I discussed Brené Brown’s talk on The Anatomy of Trust, where she offers important components of trust, which is based on her research and findings. Brené Brown gives us an acronym to work...
ERP 119: How To Build Trust With Your Partner – Part Two
September 15, 2017 18:16 - 37 minutes - 30.5 MBOver the last several months, I have been getting questions from listeners around the issue of trust and how to build trust in a relationship. While trust is fundamental to the success of happy, lasting love, many of us are at a loss of how to develop it. In last weeks episode, I offered you 2 of the 5 tips in how to build trust with your partner. I encourage you to check it out if you missed it. Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear stories, explanations, a...
ERP 118: How to build trust with your partner
September 09, 2017 02:29 - 38 minutes - 31 MBTrust is what helps couples feel safe together, safe to be vulnerable, and safe to deepen in their intimacy. Yet, trust takes time and skill to build. Many of us get tripped up along the way. Trust is “a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.” Google LISTENER’S QUESTION: “After listening to your podcasts I’ve realized I don’t completely trust my wife’s decisions anymore. That’s something I never consciously was aware of before, but realize ...
EPR 117: How To Work Together As A Team In Relationship -With Dr. Peter Pearson
September 01, 2017 05:54 - 48 minutes - 39.3 MBGUEST DR. PETER PEARSON In preparing for this interview, Dr. Peter Pearson and I had conversation to discuss the topic for today’s show. We also talked about some of his accomplishment, so that I could introduce him to you today. He gave me his top five professional achievements: Having worked with couples, an average of 25 hours a week for over 30 years. Writing books with his wife, Ellyn Bader, one book is for therapists called In Quest of the Mythical Mate, which describes the d...
ERP 116: How To Regain Trust and Self-confidence When You’ve Lost It
August 24, 2017 16:50 - 38 minutes - 31.5 MBLISTENER’S QUESTION: “I am from Germany and i have listened to many of your podcasts, it really helped me to understand things better. My boyfriend and me we are 5 years together, he is from a different country (Denmark) and we speak English together in our relationship although we live in my home country. I think this makes it sometimes difficult for us to express in a nice and kind or maybe playful manner. This just gives me the idea that a show about international couples could be great...
ERP 115: How to develop the strength of vulnerability – Part Two
August 17, 2017 02:59 - 54 minutes - 44.4 MBThis is part two of “How To Develop The Strength Of Vulnerability.” If you missed part one, you can check it out here. As a quick recap, in part one, I talked about how many of us have a negative association with vulnerability. We may even label vulnerability as bad and weak. Whereas, Brené Brown, through her research and teaching, helps us redefine vulnerability as “uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.” When it comes to relationship, paradoxically vulnerability is a huge strength....
ERP 114: How To Develop The Strength Of Vulnerability
August 09, 2017 01:00 - 42 minutes - 34.4 MBIn episode ERP 112: What Makes Being Vulnerable So Hard?, I discussed why vulnerability is a difficult skill to develop. I talked about how vulnerability is a deceptively powerful ingredient within an intimate connection. I described some of the ways we get stuck and fight against being vulnerable. If you missed it, you can check it out here. HOW ARE YOU WITH BEING VULNERABILITY? Do you let your partner in? Do you let them see your inner world…your weaknesses, your insecurities, your dre...
ERP 113: How to Identify Manipulative & Emotionally Abusive Relationships with Paul Colaianni
July 31, 2017 00:45 - 55 minutes - 45.1 MBGUEST PAUL COLAIANNI: Paul Colaianni is host of The Overwhelmed Brain podcast and author of the book: The Overwhelmed Brain: Personal Growth for Critical Thinkers. He helps people all over the world become empowered so that they can make decisions that are right for them. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. In this episode, Paul talks with us about the damage of manipulation and emotionally abusive relationships. He offers signs and symptoms to help identify a toxic relationship. He ...
ERP 112: What Makes Being Vulnerable So Hard?
July 22, 2017 14:47 - 44 minutes - 36 MBOver the last couple of weeks, I have been discussing the challenge of maintaining closeness and intimacy with your partner, as well as maintaining your sense of self in a long-term commitment, love relationship. In last week’s episode, I talked about how to seek validation and intimacy within your relationship. I offered 4 keys to doing this successfully: safety, ownership, vulnerability, and transparency. RELATIONSHIP SECURITY AND INDIVIDUAL AUTHENTICITY WORKING TOGETHER Within an inti...
ERP 111: Is it okay to want validation from My partner?
July 14, 2017 05:38 - 50 minutes - 41.2 MBIn the Empowered Relationship Podcast episode 110: How To Manage Two Majorly Conflicting Needs In Relationship, I talked about we often get caught in the belief that being in relationship requires us to give over of ourselves in an attempt to seek relationship harmony. Yet, when we do this, we can lose touch with ourselves, our passion, and our desires. David Schnarch in Passionate Marriage talks about “Emotionally fused couples.” He explains that they “are controlled by their connection. ...
ERP 110: How To Manage Two Majorly Conflicting Needs In Relationship
July 08, 2017 01:35 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MBDo you aim to please your partner or do you aim to express yourself authentically? Do you give your partner what he/she wants immediately or do you advocate for your desires? With a sensitive topic, do you avoid stating what is real for you because you fear upsetting your partner? These questions address the continual challenge of negotiating our need for individuality (personal needs, desires, dreams) and our need for closeness in relationship (connection and intimacy). TWO CONFLICTING ...
ERP 109: How Being Gentle With Your Partner Can Make A Big Difference
June 26, 2017 04:30 - 52 minutes - 42.8 MBIn last week’s podcast episode, titled “What Most Couples Do That Creates Problems,” I talked about how couples tend to try and resolve their concerns through their partner. In a short video by Dr. John Gottman (renowned relationship expert and researcher), he talks about this dynamic. In Gottman’s language, he separates couples from his research into two major groups: the “masters” and the “disasters.” Masters are the couples that are still happily together after six years. Disasters ar...
ERP 108: What Most Couples Do That Creates Problems
June 19, 2017 06:56 - 42 minutes - 34.3 MBWe look to solve our concerns through our partner. We spend our time trying to get our partner to see what THEY are doing wrong and get them to see our perspective. We think, “If I can just point it out to them in a way they can hear it…” “Or if I can give them a good enough example and illustrate my point, they will understand.” We think if they understand, they will see the error of their ways and they will change their behavior. Attempts at this strategy usually never work. When we ...
ERP 107: How To Prioritize Relationship With Stan Tatkin
May 25, 2017 04:22 - 44 minutes - 36.3 MBGUEST STAN TATKIN: Dr. Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a couple therapist known for his pioneering work in helping partners form happy, secure, and long-lasting relationships. His method—called PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy®)—draws on principles of neuroscience and teaches partners to become what he terms “secure-functioning.” Together with his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, PhD, Dr. Tatkin founded the PACT Institute to train psychotherapists and other professionals how to...
ERP 106: What To Do When You Are Attracted To Someone Else
May 16, 2017 04:13 - 50 minutes - 41 MBRecently, a listener posed a question about how to handle attractions towards people outside their relationship. It is normal and healthy to be attracted to people, even to people outside your marriage or long-term relationship. It is what you do with the feelings of attraction that determines if the attraction is going to become constructive or destructive. When we try to hide, conceal, and deny feelings of attraction, we get ourselves into trouble. (Please listen to the podcast episo...
ERP 105: How To Deal With Limerence In Relationship
May 01, 2017 16:58 - 51 minutes - 41.7 MBWhat is limerence? Most people see limerence as infatuation, lovesickness or romantic love, while others think of it more as a love obsession or addiction. Limerence is the “I need you, want you, can’t live without you” feeling. Limerence ...
ERP 104: How Can Infidelity Make Your Relationship Stronger?
April 20, 2017 18:25 - 43 minutes - 35.6 MBLISTENER’S QUESTION: “If you heard the story of my 18 year relationship, even you might be surprised Over the last couple of years we really tested the boundaries of us being together Now we are better , stronger , more intimate and communicative than ever before We both proclaim most every day how happy we are that we each stood for the relationship when the other faltered The harshest part we went through was my pulling away , near infidelity emotionally which caused me to questioned...
ERP 103: How Love Can Transform Us In Relationship
April 11, 2017 05:49 - 46 minutes - 37.6 MBLISTENER’S COMMENT: “I’ve been listening to your podcasts for the past few weeks and I’d like to say thank you for the insight and information. Unfortunately it’s too late to help in my current marriage, but it is very insightful. Coming from a family with parents that didn’t show love to one another I never learned how to express it in a productive way. My wife recently filed for divorce and it has placed me in a state of shock. I’ve been reflecting on our relationship, going to therapy a...
ERP 102: What Do You Do When NOTHING Is Working Out?
March 31, 2017 03:57 - 47 minutes - 38.3 MBIn this episode, you will hear me share a personal story of dealing with continual roadblocks. I also offer 4 tips on how to deal with the experience of things not working out as planned. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear more explanations, stories and examples.) HOW TO DEAL WITH THINGS NOT WORKING OUT 1. Understand that experiencing hardship is a normal part of living. There is nothing wrong with you. 2. Surrender the need to control the process. A...
ERP 101: How To Move Into Wholeness With Jeff Howard
March 23, 2017 03:24 - 50 minutes - 41 MBJeff is a Reichian/Somatic Psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado who works with men, women, couples, Men’s groups, and members of the LGBTQ community in an emotion-focused, body-centered way. His work centers on relationship—both with self and other—and the ways that unacknowledged trauma can inform how we are in relationship. He also works in the realms of soul & shadow, while using awareness practices as a means to clarify our unique purpose in life. In this episode, Jeff Howard talks wit...
ERP 100: 3 Building Blocks For A Conscious Intimate Relationship
March 14, 2017 20:08 - 54 minutes - 44.4 MBWHAT DOES A SUCCESSFUL, THRIVING, PASSIONATE RELATIONSHIP LOOK LIKE? In this episode, I share with you a little about my personal story and what led me to studying this topic. I also share with you three of the nine themes that came out of my dissertation research. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear more explanations, stories and examples.) 3 BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A CONSCIOUS INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP Here are three themes from my dissertation research: ...
ERP 099: How To Work The Masculine And Feminine Polarity with Michaela Boehm
March 07, 2017 21:12 - 53 minutes - 43.4 MBGUEST MICHAELA BOEHM Michaela Boehm teaches and counsels internationally as an expert in intimacy and sexuality. She combines her background in psychology and extensive clinical experience with her in-depth training in the yogic arts as a classical Kashmiri Tantric lineage holder into a unique offering of experiential learning. She is passionate about teaching skills that enhance deep intimacy, lasting attraction and give each participant the tools for full embodiment and capacity. Michael...
ERP 098: How are your Marriage Vows helping you?
February 28, 2017 06:11 - 44 minutes - 36 MBTHE CHALLENGE WITH WEDDING VOWS: Wedding vows are beautiful expressions of love. When we go to a wedding, we want to hear about the couple’s love for one another. We are moved by the deeply sentimental proclamations. We are inspired by the power of love, demonstrated through a reading, scripture, poem, original vows or some combination. However, vows are often aspirational and very hard to follow. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear more explanations, s...
ERP 097: How to rewrite your relationship story
February 21, 2017 02:54 - 36 minutes - 30 MBWHAT IS THE STORY YOU TELL YOURSELF? The story you tell yourself is so important, and most likely you are reinforcing the story over and over again. It is said that 90% of our thoughts are repetitive and 70% of these thoughts are negative. What does that mean for your story? Our story shapes our identity, who we are and what we experience. If you listened to last week’s podcast episode, we looked at how our beliefs can have a dramatic affect on our experience. Also, I gave you several ex...
ERP 096: How Your Beliefs Can Destroy Your Relationship – Part Two
February 14, 2017 01:56 - 50 minutes - 41.2 MBMake sure you check out Part One ERP 095: How Your Beliefs Can Destroy Your Relationship, if you missed it. In this episode, you will learn why we can go from anticipating the best about our partners and relationship to anticipating the worst (as a form of protection). When we are triggered, we are more likely to react and jump to conclusions. Therefore, it is important to slow down. so that we can calm our nervous system and enable our higher level thinking. In turn, this will help us eng...
ERP 095: How Your Beliefs Can Destroy Your Relationship
February 05, 2017 17:34 - 37 minutes - 30.6 MBIn podcast episode 94, “4 Reasons Why Creating Lasting Love Is So Difficult” I offered four reasons why partners will give-up on or break-up a relationship. Today, we are exploring the mechanisms behind our belief systems in relationship. This will be a two-part series. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear more explanations, stories and examples.) HOW COME MY PARTNER SEEMS SO DIFFERENT FROM WHEN WE FIRST STARTED DATING? A challenge we are faced with al...
ERP 094: 4 Reasons Why Creating Lasting Love Is So Difficult
January 31, 2017 06:10 - 39 minutes - 31.9 MBLISTENER’S QUESTION: A while back, I received a question from a listener who was going through an extremely painful time with his wife. One of his greatest pains was she was pulling away, just as he was starting to learn how to be a better partner. He described trying to encourage her to belief in them and believe in their marriage. Yet the harder he tried, the further she would distance from him. “Having listened to your podcast constantly and really trying to practice what I am learnin...
ERP 093: How The “Shadow” Influences Our Growth In Life And In Relationship With Dr. Keith Witt
January 21, 2017 23:35 - 57 minutes - 46.6 MBGUEST DR. KEITH WITT Dr. Keith Witt is a Licensed Psychologist, teacher, and author who has lived and worked in Santa Barbara, CA. for over forty years. Dr. Witt is the founder of The School of Love, at www.drkeithwitt.com, where he offers his six Books, his six hour audio class Loving Completely, the School of Love Lecture Series, blogs, Therapist in the Wild webseries, and Integral Conversations audios and videos on health/love/relationship/sexuality/spirituality/development/psychotherap...
ERP 092: How To Get Unstuck From Old Patterns When Cultivating A Love Relationship
January 14, 2017 02:29 - 54 minutes - 44.1 MBLASER COACHING SESSION WITH LISTENER In this episode, I offer coaching to help a listener explore her struggles with fear, doubt, and old programing as she develops intimacy in relationship. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear the conversation and examples to describe these points.) 5 TIPS FOR DEVELOPING A NEW PATTERN: 1. Recognize your pain point and old pattern, and when you feel triggered (i.e. “I don’t feel like you believe me.” “I work hard to ge...
ERP 091: Is “trying harder” the best option in relationship?
January 06, 2017 00:21 - 54 minutes - 43.8 MBFIRST LISTENER’S QUESTION: “I often listen to your podcast and try to learn from it as much as possible. Your podcast has provided me an ample amount of knowledge and made me flexible to various aspects of being in a relationship. Thank you. I came across a girl on a matrimony website and we have seen each other only 3 times in past 9 months of knowing each other as we stay in different states. The last meet we had was to talk about our trust issues by building our communication skills ...
ERP 090: How To Use Love Languages To Strengthen Connection – Part Two
December 23, 2016 23:35 - 45 minutes - 37.1 MBLOVE LANGUAGES To learn more about Love Languages; a description of each Love Language, and how to determine you and your partner’s Love Language, check out the first part of this conversation on ERP 089. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear my stories and examples to describe these points.) CAN YOUR LOVE LANGUAGES CHANGE? Depending on your life circumstances, you may become more attracted to a different love language, and your love language may change...
ERP 089: How to use Love Languages to strengthen connection
December 17, 2016 00:01 - 46 minutes - 37.6 MBWHAT ARE LOVE LANGUAGES?: Love languages are a tool to help us understand how we each give and receive love differently. This is particularly important to know if you are in a long-term intimate relationship because, most likely, you and your partner have different primary love languages. Which means you and your partner could be trying to express love to one another, but could be completely missing each other. This can be extremely frustrating and lead to feelings of disappointment, lonel...
ERP 088: How To Cope with Holiday Stress, Dread, and Blues
December 03, 2016 20:02 - 37 minutes - 30.7 MBHOLIDAY, DREAD, AND BLUES The season for “holiday cheer” can also be a season for stress, anxiety and angst. We tend to put a lot of expectations on ourselves and it can be difficult to manage these at times. Managing our stress and expectations can especially difficult when we are feeling down, lonely, or challenged. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear my stories and examples to describe these points.) Here are some things that contribute to the holida...
ERP 087: How To Handle The Stress From Your Partner’s Lost Job – Part Two
November 23, 2016 02:59 - 42 minutes - 34.7 MBLISTENER’S QUESTION “I sought out your podcast a few days ago and have found it very helpful for the difficult situation my relationship is currently in. My partner lost his job a couple months ago due to downsizing at his company. Since then he’s also lost a lot of confidence, reignited many insecurities, become extremely negative about everything related to job searching, been unmotivated. Meanwhile, I work hard 40 hours a week so it’s really hard for me to remain positive and supportive...
ERP 086: How To Handle The Stress From Your Partner’s Lost Job – Part One
November 23, 2016 02:18 - 45 minutes - 37.2 MBLISTENER’S QUESTION “I sought out your podcast a few days ago and have found it very helpful for the difficult situation my relationship is currently in. My partner lost his job a couple months ago due to downsizing at his company. Since then he’s also lost a lot of confidence, reignited many insecurities, become extremely negative about everything related to job searching, been unmotivated. Meanwhile, I work hard 40 hours a week so it’s really hard for me to remain positive and supportive...
ERP 085: How To Deal With Cultural Issues In Relationship
November 11, 2016 03:04 - 48 minutes - 38.9 MBLISTENER’S QUESTION: “After searching the web for answers and finding nothing closely related to the situation at hand in our family, I thought perhaps you could provide some great insight on the issue. I have four adult children, one son (32), 3 daughters (26, 25, 25). The issue is the following and involves only my daughters and their boyfriends; Ever since my daughters have begun dating as young adult women, their relationships have become so complex and sometimes broken with the add...
ERP 084: Relationship Dynamics Not Working, “Is it me or is it you?”
November 04, 2016 04:42 - 59 minutes - 48 MBLASER COACHING SESSION WITH LISTENER In this episode, I offer live coaching to help a listener explore her struggles with developing the type of relationship that she ultimately desires. We talk about self-doubt, fear of intimacy, and relationship dreams. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear the conversation and examples to describe these points.) 5 TIPS FOR DEVELOPING A GOOD RELATIONSHIP FIT: 1. Know what is important to you. 2. Honor and trust your...
ERP 083: How Vibrant Community Helps Support Healthy Relationship With Christiane Pelmas
October 27, 2016 01:03 - 43 minutes - 35.3 MBGUEST: CHRISTIANE PELMAS Christiane Pelmas has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1993. While most concerned with the connection between the human soul and the soul of The World, as inspired by the likes of Carl Jung, Marion Woodman, James Hillman and Clarissa Pinkola Estes, her work includes theory and practice from Ecopsychology, Somatics and Wilderness Therapy. She works with couples and individuals at key threshold crossings, and enjoys the initiations which accomp...
ERP 082: How To Survive A Long-Distance Relationship
October 20, 2016 05:05 - 36 minutes - 29.3 MBLISTENER’S QUESTION: “I have recently discovered your podcast and have listened to a couple episodes. I appreciate your insight in many relationship scenarios. I was hoping that you can dedicate an episode or part of an episode to long distance dating and how to sustain it. I have been dating my boyfriend for a little over a year, and we live one state apart. We seem to have an issue with communication, in that he doesn’t like talking on the phone that often and he has 2 jobs so he doesn’t...
ERP 081: How To Deal With Fear When Opening Up To Love
October 13, 2016 03:39 - 50 minutes - 40.5 MBLASER COACHING SESSION WITH LISTENER In this episode, I offer live coaching to help a listener explore what happens for her when she experiences an opportunity for love and connection and she “shuts down.” She shares about her desire for love and authentic relationship, as well as her fear of being “too much.” Listen to the episode to hear her process and the take aways (that I am sure we can all relate to): How to get out of our heads, and into our hearts. Being “heady” gives us a fa...
ERP 080: Finding Family: Part Two
October 05, 2016 01:30 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MBToday, I am sharing with you the second part of my story, where I faced my fears. If you missed the first part of the story, please listen to ERP 079: A Personal Sharing Of My Honoring The Darkness first. Please listen to the episode to hear my story. I would love to hear your feedback. Please comment below. Thank you! MENTIONED: ERP 076: How To Deal With Upset In Your Relationship In A New Way (Laser coaching podcast with a listener) TRANSCRIPT: Click on this link to access the ...
ERP 079: A Personal Sharing Of My Honoring The Darkness
September 22, 2016 05:13 - 34 minutes - 28.3 MBWhen writing the show notes for last week’s podcast episode, “ERP 078: How To Honor The Darkness,” I realized it might be helpful for me to share a more poignant example of a time in my life where I faced my shadow in a significant way. Please listen to the episode to hear my story. “Why do we choose partners so different from ourselves? It’s not fate or chance or cliches like, “the heart wants what the heart wants”. We choose our partners because they represent the unfinished business f...
ERP 078: How To Honor The Darkness
September 14, 2016 16:40 - 29 minutes - 24.1 MBACKNOWLEDGING OUR SHADOW Last week, I took a yoga class, where the instructor talked about honoring our shadow. She spoke about the fact that we all have parts of ourselves that we don’t want to acknowledge. We tend to focus our attention on positive aspirations, sensations, and feelings…like being happy, joyful, and in love. It is not as easy to look at our shadow. WHAT IS OUR SHADOW Put simply, our shadow is our blind spots and the parts of ourselves that we do not want to look at. O...