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26. Gottman's Principle #7 - Creating Shared Meaning
Well - This is the last of Gottman's 7 Principles to Make Marriage Work! It's the icing on the cake - Creating Shared Meaning! If your marriage adheres to the first six principles, there's a good chance that your...
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25. Gottman's Principle #6 - Overcoming Gridlock
In this episode, we'll be discussing the 6th Principle - Overcoming Gridlock when trying to resolve conflicts. Most of the conflicts you'll experience in marriage are perpetual (66% in fact according to Gottman)-...
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24. Gottman's Principle #5 - Dealing with Confict
Every marriage is a union between two separate individuals who bring to it their own opinions, personality quirks, and values. So it's no wonder that even in very happy marriages the husband and wife must cope with a...
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23. Gottman's Principle #4 - Let Your Partner Influence You
In this episode, we'll be discussing the 4th Principle - Let Your Partner Influence You! What does it mean to let your spouse influence you? It's when we respect and honor each other's opinions and feelings. It's...
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22. Gottman's Principle #3 - Turning Toward Your Spouse
In this episode, we'll be discussing the 3rd Principle - Turning Towards Your Spouse.
When you need attention, support, and comfort from your partner, you are likely to say something or make a gesture to elicit a...
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21. Gottman's Principle #2 - Fondness and Admiration
Everyone loves to hear something nice about themselves, and it means the most when it comes from your spouse. Sharing fondness and admiration is simply vocalizing the characteristics that you appreciate.
Dr. Gottman...
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20. Gottman's Principle #1 - Love Maps
As a Gottman-trained workshop leader, I decided over the next 7 episodes to take one principle from his 7 Principles to Make Marriage Work program and share on my podcast.
We will start with the first principle -...
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19. Gottman's Principles to Make Marriage Work
I just returned home from a getaway with my husband - celebrating 36 years of marriage!! Since strengthening marriage has been on my mind and since I'm a Gottman Trained Leader for their 7 Principles to Make Marriage...
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18. What I've Learned from Byron Katie
How can you find more peace? I was first introduced to the work of Byron Katie probably 10 years ago as I was going through my own healing journey. Her work has impacted my own healing and also how I coach...
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17. Our Relationship Manuals
We value relationships and are in many relationships. Whether we realize it or not, most of us have manuals that we have unconsciously written for other people in our lives on how they should behave and what they...
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16. The Seasons of Your Life
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1
Just like a tree in nature, we experience different seasons in our personal lives, and we are greatly affected by them....
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15. When You Just Don't Feel Like It
Everyone has those days - when you just don't feel like it!! You may lack the energy, motivation, interest, or desire to carry on. In this episode, I share 7 tips and tools that I've found helpful when you just aren't...
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