By Yvette Erasmus
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Friendships can be so difficult to navigate sometimes. In today's conversation, we help identify the factors that can make friendships feel icky, and work out ways to show up authentically and with an open heart, rather than trying to problem solve.
We discuss:
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Are you worried about Thanksgiving dinner conversations with family members who voted differently than you? In this week's episode, we listen to a conversation with Suzanne, who is trying to navigate issues of duty and connection with family members who don't share her values.
We discuss:
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This week's podcast features one of my favorite discussions: Boundaries. It can be hard to set boundaries with life-long friends, and this week's discussion explores the complications concerning caring for ourselves, and helping others.
In this episode we explore:
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When they're good, our friendships can greatly contribute to the overall quality of our life. When they're hard, our friendships can make life really difficult.
On this episode of Conversations from the Heart, we talk about all kinds of issues regarding friendships.
We discuss:
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One of the hardest decisions we can make is to dismantle a marriage when there are children involved.
On this episode of the podcast, we uncover how to make the decision of whether to stay in or leave a marriage because of the kids. We also discuss:
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It's domination programming that teaches us the louder we raise our voices, the faster the other person will capitulate and join our side.
However, in order to affect real change, the key is to get others to care about what it is we're caring about. And this is a much slower, longer, harder task.
In this episode, we talk with a caller embarking on a trip to South Africa, who is interested in showing up authentically to her traveling companions, without raising their defenses. The ultimate goal? To get them to care about what she cares about. We discuss:
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The locus of control in a boundary lies with us, and concerns what we are willing and unwilling to do.
One of the data points we can use when negotiating our boundaries is how others engage with us.
In this podcast episode, we discuss our responsibility for setting up terms for engagement that are centered around our values, and we discuss:
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It can be incredibly painful when we find ourselves in relationships where we long for deeper authentic connection but can't seem to elicit that desire in others.
In this episode, we discuss:
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It's easy to let our thoughts sink into the "shoulds" that have been programmed into us:
"I should be able to handle this: other people say it's easy."
"He should be able to get ready and go to school by himself - he's old enough now."
"I should have paid my taxes weeks ago - why does this feel so hard?"
However, running our lives on "shoulds" often robs us of the joy and creative life-energy that is our human divine right, and robs us of our need for choice fulness.
In this episode, we have three different discussions centered around what we "should" or "shouldn't" do, as we dive into the idea of authentic choice fulness:
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When we want to stay in relationship with people who have hurt us, it's important for us to figure out a way to connect with them in a way that keeps us open hearted and also protected.
But how, exactly, can we show up open heartedly in ways that also protect us and keep us safe?
That's where open hearted and loving boundaries come in. In this episode we explore:
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