One of the exercises we do when practicing relational skills is to notice what is happening in our bodies and minds and what is happening in the people around us. Chris shared how training our brains to be aware is crucial to knowing what we need and how to interact in a life-giving way with the people in our lives.

🔗 Learn more about the Foundational 5 Intro Course: https://thrivetoday.thinkific.com/courses/f5

🔗 Check out the Tools for Navigating Emotions online course: https://thrivetoday.thinkific.com/courses/navigating-emotions

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In this extended episode, Kristy and Jen interview each other to wrap up the mini series of interviews with our team. They share some fun relational skill history and share with us their stories of ways relational skills have changed their lives in a transformational way!

🔗 Listen to Episode 59: Return to Joy

🔗 Listen to Episode 89: Emotions Myth Busters

🔗 Learn more about the Foundational 5 Intro Course: https://thrivetoday.thinkific.com/courses/f5

🔗 Check out the Conflict online course: https://thrivetoday.thinkific.com/courses/conflict

🔗 Listen to Episode 94: How do Thrive and Relational Skills fit into the Life Model?

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Our guest in this episode, Michel Hendricks, is a Thrive relational skills trainer, a consultant who helps churches and mission organizations incorporate relational practices in their ministries, and also the author of "The Other Half of Church". He shares some of the difficulties he ran into as a discipleship pastor and a parent, and how learning more about how God designed our brains and relational skills has helped him love like Jesus loves in these and many other areas of his life.

🔗 Listen to Episode 94: How do Thrive and Relational Skills fit into the Life Model?

🔗 Learn more about Premier Training: https://thrivetoday.org/premier-training/

🔗 Read The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids book: https://bit.ly/4habitskids

🔗 Learn more about Life Model Works Consulting: https://lifemodelworks.org/resources/training/life-model-consulting

🔗 Check out the Tools for Navigating Emotions online course: https://thrivetoday.thinkific.com/courses/navigating-emotions

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In today's interview, Thrive Premier Training grad and Thrive volunteer, Andy, tells us about how relational skills helped when facing some challenges in his marriage. He takes us through his journey of learning relational skills and how he and his wife incorporated skills into their marriage to improve their connection and build capacity together.

🔗 Listen to Episode 94: How do Thrive and Relational Skills fit into the Life Model?

🔗 Listen to our Marriage episodes: E10 The Value of Appreciation in Marriage and E86 Valentine's Day Special

🔗 Check out our Resources by Topic: https://thrivetoday.org/resources-by-topic/

🔗 Learn more about Premier Training: https://thrivetoday.org/premier-training/

🔗 Read The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages book: https://bit.ly/4habitsjoyfilledmarriages

🔗 Learn more about Life Model Works: https://lifemodelworks.org/

🔗 Learn more about Deeper Walk: https://deeperwalk.com/

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In this episode, Kāmi shares how she was introduced to THRIVEtoday and the blessing it brought to her life. She talks about the benefits of learning to share joy (Skill 1) and the impact this has had on her family relationships. She describes learning ‘to be glad to be with people’ like sharing "a little piece of Heaven" with them!

🔗 Listen to Episode 12: Joy vs. Happiness

🔗 Learn more about Skill 1: https://thrivetoday.org/skill1

🔗 Read our 4 habits books series: https://thrivetoday.org/4-habits-series

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Thrive trainer Pam Bryan joins us today to talk about Relational Skill #6: Identifying Heart Values through suffering. She shares personal stories about developing this skill and how it is helping her live from the heart Jesus gave her.

🔗 See our upcoming events: https://thrivetoday.org/upcomingevents

🔗 Listen to Episode 40: What Your Pain Says About You

🔗 Learn more about Premier Training: https://thrivetoday.org/premier-training/

🔗 Learn more about Skill 6: https://thrivetoday.org/skill6

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In this episode, Rebecca, who is also the Thrive Premier Training (TPT) Coordinator, talks about how going to training herself has helped her "level up" her relational skills, especially for parenting. You'll also hear ways to start preparing for training now - even if you aren't able to go this year - and other resources to begin building your skills.

🔗 Learn more about Premier Training: https://thrivetoday.org/premier-training/

🔗 Listen to Episode 92: Answers to Common Questions about Premier Training.

🔗 See our upcoming events: https://thrivetoday.org/upcomingevents

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In this episode, Thrive Premier Training trainer Dana Bryan shares stories about Relational Skill 12: 'Act Like Myself', and how he was able to connect with Jesus and practice this skill, sometimes in difficult situations. 

🔗 Learn more about Skill 12

🔗 Listen to Episode 61 from Chris Coursey

🔗 Transforming Fellowship book: https://bit.ly/transformingfellowship

🔗 Learn more about Skill 11

🔗 Learn more about Thrive Premier Training

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Claudia Hendricks, one of our THRIVEtoday trainers, shares stories from her life about the importance of Godsight (Skill 13) and practical ways she has been practicing this skill. She also shares some inspiring stories about what God has been doing as she looks at people and situations through His eyes.

🔗 Learn more about Godsight and our learning pathway for this relational skill: https://thrivetoday.org/skill13

🔗 Listen to Episode 94 from Chris Coursey on the Life Model: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2184288/episodes/16928453

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Today we take a break from our current podcast interview series to have Chris and Jen join us for the 100th episode of our Relational Skills in Real Life Podcast!

In this special episode the Courseys share how they feel called by God "to live what we teach and train and tell the story of it." Doing this is vulnerable because they still make mistakes along the way, but so many have been encouraged by watching them transparently share their journey. They want others to know that God is tender with weakness and often does His best work in us in our difficulties.

🔗 Learn more about relational skills: https://thrivetoday.org/

🔗 Learn more about our Foundational 5 Course and other F5 resources.

🔗 Explore The Joy Switch book: https://bit.ly/thejoyswitchbook

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