Empowered Relationship Podcast: Your Relationship Resource And Guide

By Jessica Higgins

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Helping you turn relationship challenges into opportunities and setting you up for relationship success, satisfaction, and intimacy

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ERP 250: How to Use the Blu...

01.12.2021

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Lindsey Ellison, and we discuss the ways we cope with trauma and pain. We all have pain points, and it is important to understand the origins of our pain points and why we are ...

Empowered Relationship Podcast: Your Relationship Resource And Guide episodes:

01.12.2021 ERP 250: How to Use the Blueprint of Pain for Healing and Growth with Lindsey Ellison In today’s episode, I’m joined by Lindsey Ellison, and we discuss the ways we cope with trauma and pain. We all have pain points, and it is important to understand the origins of our pain points and why we are ...
01.05.2021 ERP 249: How to Develop Beyond Distorted and Collapsed Ways of Being in your Sexual Energy An Interview with Michael McPherson In today’s episode, I’m joined by Michael McPherson as we chat about how to develop sexual energy and sexual intimacy beyond the typical immature and limited notions we live within. Michael talked about how common it is for people to ...
12.29.2020 ERP 248: How To Negotiate Skillfully To Reach A Win-Win In Relationship - an Interview with Juliet Grayson In today’s episode, we will take a look at negotiating with your significant other when you have a conflict. My interview with Juliet Grayson will delve into how she works with couples to navigate intimacy and find a win-win relationship. ...
12.22.2020 ERP 247: How To Turn Towards Your Partner To Strengthen Your Love With modern day life, it is easy to get wrapped up in outside distractions and at times even turn towards these distractions as a way to avoid discomfort and pain. However, in the process of turning towards outside distractions (i.e. ...
12.15.2020 ERP 246: How to Deepen Your Connection Through the Power of Ritual - An Interview with William Ayot William Ayot has worked in personal development and organizational settings, using poetry and the arts to teach worldwide. He speaks about his emotional state at the age of 30, being clinically depressed, not finding any joy in relationships, and he ...
12.08.2020 ERP 245: How To Build More Rapport in Your Relationship with Richard Bolstad Richard Bolstad has devoted his time to running workshops with his wife Julia and has authored many books on coaching and cooperative relationships. In this episode, we talk about how he became interested in couples therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and how ...
12.01.2020 ERP 244: How Being a Child of Divorced Parents Impacts Relationship Health in Adulthood - An Interview With Dr. Angela Cusimano Angela shares her stance on what divorce does to a child’s development, as well as looking at how a divorce is handled before, during and after can determine how much it impacts a child down the road. She discusses the ...
11.24.2020 ERP 243: How To Skillfully Engage In A Conversation To Overcome Conflict In Relationship - An Interview With Kenneth Cloke Kenneth Cloke talks about how the language we use, the stories we tell, and how we approach our conflicts often have the outcome of making them worse and destroying our relationships. He talks about how to avoid using certain verbiage, ...
11.17.2020 ERP 242: How To Stop Being Attracted To Emotionally Unavailable Partners - An Interview With Ryan Haddon Suppose you're with an emotionally unavailable partner. In that case, you'll find that you can feel emotionally destabilized at times, that your partner is keeping you at arm's length. You might find that you can't talk deeply about the relationship ...
11.10.2020 ERP 241: How to Prevent Your Smartphone from Hurting your Relationship w/ Dr. Lori Whatley Have you sat down to dinner with your partner only to find them on their cell phone most of your time together? Does your significant other consistently bring their computer into the bedroom, and you have a feeling of being ...
11.03.2020 ERP 240: How To Prevent A Break-up In Your Relationship - An Interview with Chris Seiter Bio: Chris Seiter, the founder of Ex Boyfriend Recovery and Ex Girlfriend Recovery has been helping thousands of broken hearted individuals win their exes back for over a decade. Implementing the very creative "no contact rule," which shuts down communication ...
10.28.2020 ERP 239: How To Break Out Of Sexual Routines And Ignite More Pleasure - An Interview With Sarrah Rose Bio: Sarrah Rose is the founder of the tantric sex coaching platform Tantric Activation. She developed her coaching techniques by studying tantra, mixing in evolutionary biology, and adapting the method for practical use in the modern world. Sarrah was trained ...
10.20.2020 ERP 238: How To Find Your Emotional Balance In Relationship One of the most difficult tasks in relationships is to maintain our sense of self...to not loose our self in relationship. This can be even more challenging during times of conflict, stress and uncertainty. And especially true when our partner ...
10.13.2020 ERP 237: How To Develop A Gratitude Mindset In Relationship - An Interview With Karl Staib Bio: Karl Staib is the author of Bring Gratitude and the Creator of the 30-Day Bring Gratitude Challenge. He has helped thousands of people train their brains. He developed the Dig to Fly method and SOAR technique to help his ...
10.06.2020 ERP 236: How To Deal With Uncertainty And Ambiguous Grief An interview With Dr. Michael McNulty Bio: Mike McNulty, PhD is a psychotherapist specializing in couples therapy, and the founder of The Chicago Relationship Center, and practices in Evanston and Highland Park, IL. Dr. McNulty is a senior certified Gottman relationship therapist and master trainer for ...
09.29.2020 ERP 235: How To Emerge From Quarantine With Your Finances In Tack - An Interview With Ericka Young Bio: Ericka Young founded Tailor-Made Budgets in 2005 after she and her husband Chris climbed out of nearly $100,000 in debt. She is a certified financial coach by Ramsey Solutions and combines her passion for helping people with creative debt ...
09.22.2020 ERP 234: How To Deal With Fears Of Intimacy - Part Two Love presents a great opportunity, and it can also feel like a great risk. Especially, when we have felt hurt in the past. If we are not conscious (and aware), we can mistake the fear we feel as an indication ...
09.15.2020 ERP 233: How To Deal With Fears Of Intimacy - Part One While we want to experience love and intimacy, it can often bring fears to the surface. The fears often have ties to previous pain and are subconscious or unconscious until we enter into a love relationship. In the episode, I ...
09.07.2020 ERP 232: How To Deal With Food & Eating Differences In Relationship- An Interview with Melissa Costello Bio: Melissa Costello is a Transformational Eating Coach, Holistic Nutritionist, Speaker and Author. Her mission is to empower busy professionals to get off the yo-yo dieting rollercoaster and end emotional eating so they can lose the weight that is holding ...
09.01.2020 ERP 231: How To Gain More Acceptance And Expression Sexually- An Interview with Stacie Ysidro Bio: Stacie Ysidro is the founder of Holistic Progressions and is acknowledged by the World Association of Sex Coaches. Starting her career with business and life coaching in 2009, Stacie combined sexology education, somatic coaching and spirituality to create a ...
08.25.2020 ERP 230: How To Resolve Conflicts From Mental Blindspots - An Interview with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky Bio: Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is an internationally-recognized thought leader known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, who is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases, which devastate bottom lines and bring down high-flying careers. ...
08.19.2020 ERP 229: Eight Dates to Support and Nurture Your Love & Relationship Recently, I have been recommending the book "Eight Dates: Essential Conversations For A Lifetime Of Love" by John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams and Rachel Carlton Abrams. Since the last two podcast episodes have been referring to the importance ...
08.11.2020 ERP 228: How To See Relationship As A Spiritual Teacher - An Interview with Allana Pratt Bio: Allana Pratt is an intimacy expert, relationship coach, author of 6 books, and the host of the edgy podcast “Intimate Conversations.” Allana offers private, group and online coaching programs for singles and couples to help her clients develop a ...
08.04.2020 ERP 227: How To Date Your Significant Other An Interview With Dr. Bill Harley Willard F. Harley, Jr., Ph.D. earned his Ph.D. degree in psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1967 and has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Minnesota since 1975. Dr. Harley is best known as the author ...
07.28.2020 ERP 226: How To Understand and Deal With A Narcissist - an interview with Wendy Behary. With 25 years of post-graduate training and advanced level certifications, Wendy Behary is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC and DC. She has been treating clients, training ...
07.21.2020 ERP 225: How To Deal With Betrayal In Relationship An Interview With Dr. Debi Silber Dr. Debi Silber is the founder of the Post Betrayal Transformation Institute and is a holistic psychologist, health, mindset, and personal development expert, the author of The Unshakable Woman: 4 Steps to Rebuilding Your Body, Mind, and Life After a ...
07.14.2020 ERP 224: How To Deal With Difficult Emotions - Part Two Dealing with difficult emotions can feel uncertain, scary and extremely uncomfortable, especially when we have not had positive experiences with experiencing and expressing our emotion in the past. In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses: The next three steps (out ...
07.07.2020 ERP 223: How To Deal With Difficult Emotions - Part One Dealing with difficult emotions can feel uncertain, scary and extremely uncomfortable, especially when we have not had positive experiences with experiencing and expressing our emotion in the past. In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses: The tendency to want to ...
06.30.2020 ERP 222: How to Deal with Triggers in Relationship An Interview with Dr. David Richo David Richo Ph.D. is a Psychotherapist, Writer, and Workshop Leader. He teaches at a variety of places including Esalen and Spirit Rock Buddhist Center. He shares his time between Santa Barabara and San Francisco in California. Dave combines psychological and ...
06.23.2020 ERP 221: How To Recognize and Work with Self-Sabotage in Relationship An Interview with Brianna Wiest Brianna Wiest has traveled internationally as a journalist, written for Fortune 500 companies, and has spoken in cities around the continental United States. She is the author of five books, her latest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery ...
06.16.2020 ERP 220: How to Reconnect Emotionally with Your Significant Other In this episode, I am answering a listeners's question in how to reconnect emotionally with his wife. In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses: The four stages of separation distress. The benefits and value of going slow to maintain emotional ...
06.10.2020 ERP 219: The Human Need for Belonging Today, I am referencing Dr. Vivek Murthy's book, Together, to offer some added support for the larger conversation around institutional racism, oppression and social justice. In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses: The right of human belonging and humanization. The ...
06.02.2020 ERP 218: Black Lives Matter Today, I am pausing from the regularly scheduled episodes to stand in solidarity for Black Out Tuesday and Black Lives Matter. On the Empowered Relationship podcast, we address principles that support healthy relationship. The importance of safety, respect and reverence ...
05.26.2020 ERP 217: How To Deal With Stonewalling In Relationship Today, I am giving more attention and support to a listener's question, who writes "How do you deal with a partner who stonewalls?" In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses: What stonewalling is and what it entails. Common dynamics and ...
05.20.2020 ERP 216: What To Know About Loneliness And Relationship In last weeks episode, ERP 215, we discussed how connection to other people really begins with our connection to ourself. In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses: What loneliness is and how we experience it. The 3 dimensions of loneliness, ...
05.13.2020 ERP 215: How to Deal with Being “Alone Together” When I saw the #alonetogether, I questioned "Is this really what we are all feeling? If anything, it seems like the majority of us are feeling "togetheralone." In this episode, Dr. Jessica Higgins discusses: With the division in perspectives and ...
05.05.2020 ERP 214: How to Advance the Development of Your Relationship - An Interview with Dr. Tom Habib Dr. Tom Habib is a clinical psychologist specializing in couple’s therapy. Tom has published papers on a Couple’s Line of Development (Integral Leadership Review, Aug-Nov, 2016, revised 2018) in addition to other publications on other topics. He has presented at ...
04.28.2020 ERP 213: How Shame and Grandiosity Relate to Self-esteem: An Interview with Terry Real Terry Real is a nationally recognized family therapist and author. Particularly known for his groundbreaking work on men, his work on gender and couples. He published the national bestseller: I Don't Want To Talk About It, the first book written ...
04.21.2020 ERP 212: How to Manage Political Differences in Relationship - an Interview with Craig and Debbie Lambert The Mindful Couple. Craig has over 30 years of experience dedicated to helping couples rekindle their love, deepen their intimacy and strengthen communication as a couples therapist, and Debbie is a relationship educator and coach. Through Lambert Couples Therapy, they ...
04.14.2020 ERP 211: How To Get Rid of Shame to Increase Pleasure In The Bedroom - an Interview with Ian Ferguson Ian Ferguson is an intimacy coach and teacher of the Erotic Blueprint Breakthrough™ platform, designed to radically transform how we talk about and experience sex. Ian is an expert on clearing shame and ending struggles that keep people from experiencing ...
04.07.2020 ERP 210: How Emotionally Intelligent Men are Key to a Lasting Relationship with Kyle Benson Kyle Benson is an Intentional Intimate Relationship coach providing practical, research-based tools to build long-lasting relationships. Kyle is best known for his compassion and non-judgmental style and his capacity to see the root problem. In this episode, Kyle Benson and ...
03.31.2020 ERP 209: How Unresolved Grief Affects You and Your Relationship - an Interview with Donna Lancaster Donna is one of the Co-founders and facilitators of The Bridge Retreat and has been working with individuals, couples and groups for almost 30 years. Donna is passionate about the subject of grief and the grieving process which she believes ...
03.25.2020 ERP 208: How To Find Balance And Direction No doubt, we are all feeling the stress of the COVID-19 crisis. I reach out to you today to be in community with you, as we are all being impacted. With the threats looming, it is easy to feel scared, ...
03.17.2020 ERP 207: How To Get Out Of Financial Debt When Working Together As A Couple - An Interview With Ericka Young Ericka Young is a recognized expert in financial coaching and helps families significantly improve their finances and their future. As founder and president of Tailor-Made Budgets, she teaches debt freedom through her e-newsletters, personal coaching, group programs, and speaking engagements. ...
03.11.2020 ERP 206: What Is The Relationship Between Porn And Lovemaking Typically, we don't think about porn being related to lovemaking. However, many people are experiencing relationship challenges related to the use of porn. (Please listen to the podcast episode or read the transcript to hear explanations, stories and examples.) In ...
03.03.2020 ERP 205: Overcoming Money Issues And Creating Abundance Together An Interview With Simone Milasas About Simone Milasas: Simone Milasas is a lady who knows how to be a woman, who sees the joy of possibility and future and knows that there is the prospect of possibility in every choice you choose. Simone is the ...
02.25.2020 ERP 204: Lessons learned from Renew Breakup Bootcamp an interview with Amy Chan Learning more about your attachment and communication styles can give you and your partner the power to transform a challenging relationship. About Amy Chan: Amy Chan is the Founder of Renew Breakup Bootcamp, a retreat that takes a scientific and ...
02.18.2020 ERP 203: Discussing the film Ordinary Love with Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn In this episode, I talk with Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn about the film Ordinary Love. Bleecker Street's ORDINARY LOVE, starring Academy Award® nominees Lesley Manville (“Phantom Thread”) and Liam Neeson (“Schlinder’s List”). Following its critically acclaimed debut at ...
02.11.2020 ERP 202: How To Nurture Your Sexual Intimacy And Connection In Relationship Sharing sexual intimacy and love making with your significant other can be such a profound and prominent way to express love and passion within your bond. And yet, there are so many things that make the process of coming together ...
02.04.2020 ERP 201: How To Handle Your Partner Going Against Your Wishes In this episode, I will be addressing a listener's question in a little more depth. If you do not resonate with the example shared, then please replace "tattoo" with something that your partner has done that is against your wishes. ...

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Empowered Relationship Podcast: Your Relationship Resource And Guide episodes:

ERP 250: How to Use the Blueprint of Pain for Healing and Growth with Lindsey Ellison

ERP 249: How to Develop Beyond Distorted and Collapsed Ways of Being in your Sexual Energy An Interview with Michael McPherson

ERP 248: How To Negotiate Skillfully To Reach A Win-Win In Relationship - an Interview with Juliet Grayson

ERP 247: How To Turn Towards Your Partner To Strengthen Your Love

ERP 246: How to Deepen Your Connection Through the Power of Ritual - An Interview with William Ayot

ERP 245: How To Build More Rapport in Your Relationship with Richard Bolstad

ERP 244: How Being a Child of Divorced Parents Impacts Relationship Health in Adulthood - An Interview With Dr. Angela Cusimano

ERP 243: How To Skillfully Engage In A Conversation To Overcome Conflict In Relationship - An Interview With Kenneth Cloke

ERP 242: How To Stop Being Attracted To Emotionally Unavailable Partners - An Interview With Ryan Haddon

ERP 241: How to Prevent Your Smartphone from Hurting your Relationship w/ Dr. Lori Whatley

ERP 240: How To Prevent A Break-up In Your Relationship - An Interview with Chris Seiter

ERP 239: How To Break Out Of Sexual Routines And Ignite More Pleasure - An Interview With Sarrah Rose

ERP 238: How To Find Your Emotional Balance In Relationship

ERP 237: How To Develop A Gratitude Mindset In Relationship - An Interview With Karl Staib

ERP 236: How To Deal With Uncertainty And Ambiguous Grief An interview With Dr. Michael McNulty

ERP 235: How To Emerge From Quarantine With Your Finances In Tack - An Interview With Ericka Young

ERP 234: How To Deal With Fears Of Intimacy - Part Two

ERP 233: How To Deal With Fears Of Intimacy - Part One

ERP 232: How To Deal With Food & Eating Differences In Relationship- An Interview with Melissa Costello

ERP 231: How To Gain More Acceptance And Expression Sexually- An Interview with Stacie Ysidro

ERP 230: How To Resolve Conflicts From Mental Blindspots - An Interview with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

ERP 229: Eight Dates to Support and Nurture Your Love & Relationship

ERP 228: How To See Relationship As A Spiritual Teacher - An Interview with Allana Pratt

ERP 227: How To Date Your Significant Other An Interview With Dr. Bill Harley

ERP 226: How To Understand and Deal With A Narcissist - an interview with Wendy Behary.

ERP 225: How To Deal With Betrayal In Relationship An Interview With Dr. Debi Silber

ERP 224: How To Deal With Difficult Emotions - Part Two

ERP 223: How To Deal With Difficult Emotions - Part One

ERP 222: How to Deal with Triggers in Relationship An Interview with Dr. David Richo

ERP 221: How To Recognize and Work with Self-Sabotage in Relationship An Interview with Brianna Wiest

ERP 220: How to Reconnect Emotionally with Your Significant Other

ERP 219: The Human Need for Belonging

ERP 218: Black Lives Matter

ERP 217: How To Deal With Stonewalling In Relationship

ERP 216: What To Know About Loneliness And Relationship

ERP 215: How to Deal with Being “Alone Together”

ERP 214: How to Advance the Development of Your Relationship - An Interview with Dr. Tom Habib

ERP 213: How Shame and Grandiosity Relate to Self-esteem: An Interview with Terry Real

ERP 212: How to Manage Political Differences in Relationship - an Interview with Craig and Debbie Lambert

ERP 211: How To Get Rid of Shame to Increase Pleasure In The Bedroom - an Interview with Ian Ferguson

ERP 210: How Emotionally Intelligent Men are Key to a Lasting Relationship with Kyle Benson

ERP 209: How Unresolved Grief Affects You and Your Relationship - an Interview with Donna Lancaster

ERP 208: How To Find Balance And Direction

ERP 207: How To Get Out Of Financial Debt When Working Together As A Couple - An Interview With Ericka Young

ERP 206: What Is The Relationship Between Porn And Lovemaking

ERP 205: Overcoming Money Issues And Creating Abundance Together An Interview With Simone Milasas

ERP 204: Lessons learned from Renew Breakup Bootcamp an interview with Amy Chan

ERP 203: Discussing the film Ordinary Love with Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn

ERP 202: How To Nurture Your Sexual Intimacy And Connection In Relationship

ERP 201: How To Handle Your Partner Going Against Your Wishes

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