The conversation around building emotionally intelligent relationships continues, as Skye and Amanda read The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work by psychologist and researcher, John Gottman. The two discuss Gottman’s popular theory within couples therapy, the Sound Relationship House - which breaks down the seven floors (or principles) a couple (even ones who aren’t married) must build to create a sturdy bond. 

Books mentioned in this week’s episode are linked to our Bookshop.org shop:
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman, PHD

Articles mentioned in this week’s episode:
https://www.gottman.com/blog/what-is-the-sound-relationship-house/

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Skye and Amanda are back for season 2! 

Inspired by events that occurred over the break the ladies start off the new season with the love basics by rereading The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Last by Gary Chapman. The two discuss the importance of understanding each of the languages and the dialects within, examples as to why they have one primary language over the others as well as other life-changing realizations. 

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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts

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That's right, your favorite readers are back for season 2 of Long Story Short! The new season returns every Thursday beginning October 6th! 

Skye and Amanda read Goodbye To All That, a compilation of essays written by New Yorkers who have both loved and left New York. The two have a conversation from their opposing perspectives on NY; Amanda being ready to leave it and Skye still loving it. The conversation evolves and the ladies talk about when and why it could be time to move on from what is comfortable and what to consider when it comes to where you live.

*Tune in for a special announcement*

Books mentioned in this week’s episode are linked to our Bookshop.org shop:
Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving Leaving New York

Check out what Skye & Amanda have been loving this week:
Usher Tiny Desk

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This week Skye and Amanda read, How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning & Organizing, a book that teaches them how to move with ease and release the guilt of not being able to keep up by suggesting a life-changing approach to cleaning their homes. Therapist, KC Davis, gives a practical guide on that never ending to-do list while shifting the language and mindset around what mess and functionality can mean while also getting to the root of this programming. 

Listen in to hear the ladies discuss how they plan to keep their heads above water when that “stress-mess” tries to engulf them to make their homes functional and feel like a sanctuary again. 

Books mentioned in this week’s episode are linked to our Bookshop.org shop:
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning & Organizing 

Check out what Skye & Amanda have been loving this week:
Loot on Apple TV
The Bear on FX

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This week Skye and Amanda circle back on the topic of friendship and read an Atlantic article ‘The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship’ by Julie Beck, author of The Friendship Files, a series of 100 interviews with friends of all ages, lengths and dynamics. With the series coming to an end Beck gives her readers six recurring themes that she sees help form friendships and maintain them through the years: accumulation, attention, intention, ritual, imagination, and grace. 

Listen in as Skye talks about what it has been like for her in these recent months of reconnecting with old friends and Amanda shares more on her new found desire to make new adult friends. 

Books mentioned in this week’s episode are linked to our Bookshop.org shop:
Friending: Creating Meaningful, Lasting Adult Friendships

Articles mentioned in this week’s episode:
The Atlantic: The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship 
The Atlantic: How Friendships Change in Adulthood

Check out what Skye & Amanda have been loving this week:
I Love That For You on Showtime TV

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This week Skye and Amanda read a book that has come highly recommended by their peers, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert. The two break down Gilbert’s unique perspective on what it means and looks like to be creative; something she deems us all capable of if we live life in spite of the things that scare us. 

Listen in to hear the ladies break down the difference between being fearless and brave, what bravery looks like and how it often sounds when we talk ourselves out of pursuing our interests. Learn about Gilbert’s views on the magical, energetic ways that ideas work and how we should decide which ones to go for and which ones to let go of. 

Skye and Amanda each walk away with next steps they will take to cultivate a more creative life built from taking chances, staying inspired and having fun. 

Books mentioned in this week’s episode are linked to our Bookshop.org shop:
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Check out what Skye & Amanda have been loving this week:
Boogie Down Bronx Honey
Legendary on HBOMax

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This week Skye and Amanda read This Time Tomorrow, a story about a New Yorker named Alice, who goes to sleep the night of her 40th birthday and wakes up back in 1996 on her 16th birthday. The ladies get inspired to consider what it would be like to be 16 again.

Listen in to hear all about their 16th birthdays, what teen life was like for them and find out what they would do differently if they went back in time to the year 2004 to do it all over for a day. 

Books mentioned in this week’s episode are linked to our Bookshop.org shop:
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub 

Check out what Skye & Amanda have been loving this week:

Severance on Apple TV
Jean Michele Basquiat: King Pleasure Exhibit
Dulce de leche recipe 
Books Are Magic bookstore 

Check out this episode’s Book EP for some of the top songs that Skye and Amanda were bumping at 16

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Check out what Skye & Amanda have been loving this week:
Sweet Potatoes Restaurant (in New Rochelle)
Couples Therapy on Showtime
This Is Us on NBC

Books mentioned in this week’s episode are linked to our Bookshop.org shop

• An Actor Prepares
• The 36 Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease
• Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
• The Worry Trick
• It Didn’t Start With you: how inherited family drama shapes who we are and how to end the cycle
• The Self-Love Workbook: A Life-Changing Guide to Boost Self-Esteem, Recognize Your Worth and Find Genuine Happiness 
• Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
• Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfaction
• Tiny Pretty Things
• Seven Days in June 
• On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar 
• Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power

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This week Skye and Amanda dive deeper into the taboo topic of infidelity, by reading The State of Affairs by their favorite couples therapist, Esther Perel. The two discuss Perel’s controversial  breakdown of the complexities of cheating - how it happens, why it happens, and what the results can be for a couple or individual (both good and bad). 

Listen in for the ladies’ personal takes on cheating as a deal-breaker, what brings reconciliation and healing, what we can learn from infidelity, and the many layers of what happens before, during, and after an affair. 

Books mentioned in this week’s episode are linked to our Bookshop.org shop
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel 

Check out what Skye & Amanda have been loving this week:

Married at First Sight on Lifetime TV
Where Should We Begin? Podcast (with Esther Perel)
Couples Therapy on Showtime TV

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