BBXX: Let's Get Intimate!

This is Part Three in a series of ongoing conversations with Adriana Robertson and Michael Fenchel about how to co-create your dream relationship. 

We talk about how to consciously create spaces for connection to thrive in your relationship, incorporating more fun and play into your relationship routine, and keeping the spark burning. 

We talk about how to establish agreements and boundaries that protect your partnership, tips and tricks for weekday or weekend connection rituals, and how to give or receive the gift of “spoiling sessions.” 

If you haven’t listened to our previous Humans of Intimacy episodes with Adriana and Michael, or our previous episodes in this series, then be sure to check them out!

This is Part Two in a series of ongoing conversations with Adriana Robertson and Michael Fenchel about how to co-create your dream relationship. 

We might think we know everything about our partner, but that’s not actually possible. We’re constantly learning and growing as individuals, and our relationships should also be evolving along with us. Approaching our relationship from a place of curiosity helps us create shared understanding in our relationships, which is one of the most important antidotes to conflict. 

We talk about how to get through tough times in a relationship, how to react when you are in the midst of a conflict, proactively preventing conflict through shared understanding, and how to know when it’s worth it to keep investing in your relationship vs. call it quits.  

If you haven’t listened to our previous Humans of Intimacy episodes with Adriana and Michael, be sure to check them out!

This is Part One in a series of ongoing conversations with Adriana Roberton and Michael Fenchel about how to co-create your dream relationship. 

We talk about the importance of shared understanding, defining agreements in your relationship, and strategies for repairing conflict. We explore desires, fears, and boundaries as a powerful tool for communication, as well as other tips, tricks, and strategies to include in your Couples Toolkit. Most importantly, we explore how to know when a relationship is worth fighting for—and how to recognize if it’s time to walk away. 

If you haven’t listened to our previous Humans of Intimacy episodes with Adriana and Michael, be sure to check them out!

What’s one thing that you want to unlearn? Sometimes, it’s less about what we need to *learn* and more about what we need to *unlearn* in order to be able to live the life and the relationships that we truly desire. 

We talk about the biggest lessons learned from dating, challenges in the relationship with ourselves, the process of unlearning, normalizing the hard and ugly part of the journey, and advice for what to do when it feels like you’re deep in the mud of your own personal development. We explore how to tap into the most authentic version of yourself, how to show up the way you actually want to in relationships, and what it feels like to live in relationships that are aligned with your values.Michael Fenchel is the co-founder of Breathe For Change, the largest yoga teacher training in the United States. He has co-founded and grown four companies including PRDX, a movement dedicated to empowering entrepreneurial leaders to create more belonging and flow in their lives, relationships, and teams.

How many of us have accepted ourselves fully, for everything that we are? Most of us still have a long way to go and many parts of ourselves still yet to be acknowledged let alone accepted. Adriana Robertson has become a master in helping people reclaim the many different pieces of themselves—the good, the bad and the ugly—in order to find wholeness. 

We talk about how relationships serve as mirrors to see ourselves in a different way and how we can learn, grow, and heal with another person. We learn how to tap into our intuition, discover our inner wisdom, and create an internal compass in order to better guide ourselves, our decisions, and our relationships. 

Adriana has been a Harvard leadership trainer, international development leader, and a coach & facilitator for over 10 years. She is now the co-founder of PRDX, a movement dedicated to empowering entrepreneurial leaders to create more belonging and flow in their lives, relationships, and teams.

This piece of advice will change the way you think every day. It will help you cultivate more empathy for others and more appreciation for yourself in everything you do.

Have you ever felt stuck in "analysis paralysis"? It's time to think differently about how we make decisions. Here's an easy trick so that you can make the right decision—every time. This perspective shift changed my life.

Without realizing it, most of us don’t use these words correctly. While envy tends to seem like just a stronger version of jealousy, the psychology and meaning behind it are of important difference. We love to examine the way that subtle linguistic differences can shape the way we communicate and connect with one another :)

Do you know the difference between giving thanks and expressing gratitude? While similar in some ways, the use cases for each are different and, as always, we love to examine the way that subtle linguistic differences can shape the way we communicate and connect with one another :)

Vitale Buford is an executive coach, international speaker, and author of the book, "Addicted to Perfect," in which she explores her 10-year struggle with Adderall and perfectionism.

If you hear the word "perfectionism" and you don't think it's relevant to you, please have a listen anyway. This episode is going to surprise you.

We talk with Vitale about the deeper issues that perfectionism stems from as we learn about its relationship to self-worth, personal criticism, codependency, abandonment, and its role as a coping mechanism. We also discuss the danger of living a life focused on trying to please others and the consequences of living your life without really knowing who you