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The kids are getting ready to leave, and for many, this period of life has people a bit concerned about what's next.

You see that you have more time than you've had for years.

They get their license, have their own group of friends, and suddenly, time with your spouse feels awkward.

You're starting to ask yourself questions like:

• Who am I? 
• Do I want to do something different career-wise?
• Do I want to work on my marital relationship, or do I want to leave?

This week I had an excellent conversation with Kaia Hunter about that stage of life when the kids start stretching their wings.

It's a stage where many withdraw into the nest, but it can be a beautiful stage of life where you also get to stretch your wings and discover what's next. 

Tune into this week's episode and get acquainted with this next stage of your life.

Even if you don't have kiddos at this stage of life, you might be asking yourself the same questions, and this conversation might fully resonate with what you have been feeling.

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This week I had the most enjoyable conversation with Angel Adams about something every one of us battles. 

ANXIETY. 

For some, it's less of a problem than it is for others, and then there are those where anxiety tends to take over the show.

No matter where you are on the anxiety spectrum, learning how to recognize it, understand it and manage it are game changers. 

People like myself, my clients, and you are all stepping into arenas in our life that stretch us, and some form of anxiety will accompany us there. 

Anxiety can hold us back, but when you have the right tools, it will never hold you back from doing what you know you need to do to make your dreams a reality. 

Angela is a wife, mother, grandmother, and certified Life Coach specializing in Anxiety.  With her knowledge and skills, she helps people learn how to love their life and thrive, despite dealing with Anxiety.  Her goal is to help you understand, manage, and even embrace the emotions you experience in life.   Your anxiety and emotions generally do NOT define who you are.  You are so much more!  

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What they did hurt.

Disappointment, frustration, resentment.

They all lead to anger, bitterness, and disconnection.

Maybe it's time.

To forgive.

I know; it seems like forgiving is giving in.

It seems like it's telling them that what they did was ok.

It seems like we're telling them they don't need to change.

Forgiveness is none of that.

Forgiveness is about freedom.

Your freedom.

If someone has hurt you and you can't seem to shake it, maybe you've been holding on to it for what feels like a lifetime, then it's time to let it go.

Tune into this week's episode about extending forgiveness and find out why along with a four-step process you can use as a guide to begin.

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When you learn how to do this, things that don't make sense in your marriage will start making sense, and your frustrations will turn into empathy.

When you learn how to feel, identify, understand, process and then regulate your emotions, things will start to make sense.

Probably not the magic solution you were hoping for, huh?

If you think feeling your emotions is for wimps or it might feel too painful, then can I ask you a question?

Why do you think feeling your emotions is for wimps? 

Why do you think it will be too painful?

Those are entirely different thoughts that two people might think, yet they are contradictory, wouldn't you say?

What if you discovered that opening up and sharing what you are feeling is quite sexy and that feeling the pain and letting it out was cathartic?

Both are true, and if you want to experience them in your own life and your love relationship, this week's episode is for you

You will discover the one essential key to finding happiness in your marriage. This key will help you with every single problem you can imagine regarding an intimate relationship.

In this Marriage Masterclass, I am going to share: 

• What I see to be the most important thing you can work on to create a marriage that feels like something you want to nurture and grow, instead of something that makes you feel less than valuable 
• How this one thing came to affect your marriage the way it does
• Why these things are in your life and what their purpose is 
• The process to change this one dynamic and the impact it will have on your marriage

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When you get married, you have expectations about what your spouse will or won't do, but do you even realize what those expectations are and how much pain and suffering they create for you?

First, there are all those lovely things they did when you were dating that you expect them to keep doing. 

Then there are those things you assumed they would do, inherited beliefs from the household you grew up in. 

And then there are the things you imagined they absolutely wouldn't do. 

There are many problems with these expectations in your marriage, but the biggest problem is that they are tearing your marriage apart.

Look, I'm not blaming you; I'm right there with you, and you know who else is?

Your spouse!

Yep, they also have expectations around what YOU will and won't do.

With the holidays coming up and all of the expectations filling the air, this episode drops with excellent timing. 

This holiday season, you can create a new feeling in the air by looking at these expectations and deciding if you want to keep them and why.

I'll share the following: 

🎁 what expectations are
🎁 the problem with unmet expectations
🎁 how to navigate your expectations and can create joy instead of resentment

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Several weeks ago I interviewed Sonia Dhaliwal for what I thought would be another Magical Marriage Success Story episode but as I edited this conversation I decided to highlight her cross-cultural marriage journey instead because it's that good!

You heard Sonia interview me on her podcast Weight Loss for Teacher Moms, where we talked about marriage and all of the things.

As we talked, her story of intercultural struggles inside of her marriage intrigued me so much that I invited her to join me on my AwakenYou in your marriage podcast.

In this week's episode, Sonia shares so many gems from her dating to proposal to marriage journey.

This episode will be helpful to you whether you are in the thick of close cross-cultural traditions or not because each of us carries our own family of origin stories.

Sonia's family of origin was a cross-cultural blend and she married into the same tradition with a husband from northern India.

You will not want to miss the story of her experience along with what she has learned along the way.

Sonia Dhaliwal is a weight loss coach for teacher moms. She helps teachers lose weight for the last time so they can feel comfortable in their own skin again. After many years of being a professional dieter, Sonia decided enough was enough with this battle. Going through preeclampsia during the end of my youngest child’s pregnancy was a wake-up call. She had been teaching elementary school for over 11 years and knew something had to change so she could get some answers. 

While concentrating on family during her maternity leave, Sonia decided to enroll in the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to learn more about holistic health and what it means to eat in a way that doesn’t involve counting calories, points, or grams of fat. It changed her life in so many ways and one of the biggest was becoming a health coach. By losing over 55 lbs through the whole food eating approach, she decided this would be an eye-opener for the busy teacher moms out there who were just like her. She keeps it practical, simple, and doable because teacher mommas are busy. Slow and steady is her approach and it’s what keeps the weight off for the long term.

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Leaks in your marriage commitment often go unnoticed.

• An extra hour at work.
• A little extra time spent at that volunteer event.
• Bringing the kids to that last-minute event even though you had a date night planned.
• That extra cardio session at the gym.
• That conversation with that co-worker of the opposite sex that really gets you.

Over time, these little leaks add up to a neglected marriage where the damage seems so overwhelming that you have no idea where to start your repair project.

What is it that you're doing that has you avoiding that thing you want to do in your marriage to begin the process but feels way too uncomfortable?

This week on AwakenYou in your marriage, I dig into the messy work of closing up relationship commitment leaks and the effect that work will have on moving you closer to the marriage you desire.

Learn the process by listening today, and please, share this episode with someone who might need to hear this message today.

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Many of us married our partners because we thought they would heal all of our old heart wounds.

Of course, you didn't say that to yourself 🤣, but if you take a moment to think about it, it makes complete sense.

Then they do something that makes you pull back and protect your heart.

Maybe they started staying at work longer than you thought they should.

Maybe they didn't fix the leaky faucet as daddy did.

Maybe they stopped preparing your lunches.

That's when your heart remembers those old wounds and starts protecting you by lashing out or trying to patch things up even though you're angry, or maybe you withdraw and ignore the feelings in your heart.

Attachment styles help us understand how we deal with our hurting hearts, and this week on AwakenYou in your marriage, I am sharing last week's Marriage Masterclass because it was that good.

And because it might help you make sense of how you show up when you feel unloved by your spouse.

Start making sense of your behaviors and use the three action steps I share at the end to discover your go-to attachment style and start the work of creating your secure attachment.

In this Marriage Masterclass, I am going to help you:

• Demystify the attachment style concept so you can see how it plays out in your life and relationships
• Discover both of your dominant styles and see how this combination may be keeping the relationship stuck
• Learn how you are (unconsciously) seeing your spouse as a threat to your lovability so you can start interacting with discovering safety in interactions
• Start having your own back and opening up to the love you desire

Watch on my YouTube channel

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I have a fantastic teacher who has told me that in everything you read, you can find a concept that applies to intimate relationships.

At first, I thought she was a bit insane, but I learned she was right over time.

Somehow that seems to be the theme of my life, and this week we will apply that teacher's philosophy to the principles of improv.

When a colleague of mine, Lisa Schwaller, mentioned that she'd love to talk to my audience about how to apply the principles of improv to your marriage, I was SO intrigued.

Was this a new game I could create for my clients? ( Don't be surprised, remember what I said about creating relationship concepts)

So I took Lisa up on her suggestion, read the book Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up by Patricia Ryan Madson to prepare, and we had a fun discussion about improv, life, and our marriage relationship.

Lisa Schwaller is Strengths Strategy Certified Coach and Certified Life & Weight Coach. She works with overwhelmed working parents who are exhausted by the demands of their adult responsibilities. People work with her to improve their skills at parenting, balancing work and family life, and nurturing all the most important relationships that make life meaningful. Lisa’s favorite thing is to teach her clients how to manage the stress of modern living while having more fun in the process. 

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Catch our conversation this week on AwakenYou in your marriage and discover three more ways you can take the principles from something fun like improv and use them to improve your intimate relationship!

Book referenced in the episode: Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up by Patricia Ryan Madson

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Have you ever looked back at something that happened in your life which at the time seemed like a tragedy, but now you're able to see the gift of that experience? 

It makes me think of the story about the Chinese farmer; if you haven't heard it, you can check it out here. 

There are so many messages to take away from this parable. My takeaway is to be present to all the things in front of us, being curious as to what magical place this experience will lead us to.

Often we look at our life and marriage through glasses that zoom in on us, seeing how we're being cheated of the life and marriage we signed up for. 

But can you look at your experience from a different vantage point?

When you are focused on what's wrong, you might sharpen your mind, but your heart becomes dull. 

Focusing on what's wrong doesn't allow you to see what is right, what is working, and what is good. 

This week I talk about a new way to filter the circumstances of your day, so you can see the gifts and appreciate your interdependence on others instead of taking it all for granted.

Find out more by tuning into this week's episode of AwakenYou in your marriage, and listen to the end, where I share a practice you can use this month to help you start looking at life through a whole new lens!

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