In part 2 of our episode about this revolutionary therapy model, the therapists dish and dive about the body and how our physical sensations can lead us to understand and experience our emotions.

The body doesn’t lie and has a wealth of information for us if we could just learn how to hear and understand it’s messages. Listen in as the ladies try to untangle the connection between the body’s cues and signals and our emotional needs.

Want to understand yourself and your feelings better? Start by listening in this week!

It’s Halloween and the therapists are scared silly! This week, Pam and Iona dish about what scares them about their partners and about their relationships!  And, as always, Pam throws in some brainiac science about the brain, that actually is quite helpful! 

Ugh, comparing ourselves to others, why do we do it? How is it helpful? Well, we do it because we are gluttons and no, it is not helpful! In fact, it is hurtful!

This week the therapists dish and dive on comparing themselves to others, or what they perceive others’ lives to be like. Its not fun because when we compare our reality to another’s fantasy, its not fair or even reasonable. Listen in as the therapists discuss how and to whom they’ve compared themselves and what the results of that are. Hint- they don’t feel great at the end of it!

Learn how to stop comparing and start appreciating the life you do have

Anxiety- yikes! This week the therapists dish and dive on anxiety. They talk about how anxiety has permeated their lives and how it impacts their relationships with their partners. It ain’t pretty! Afterwards, they dive into the literature on anxiety and learn how to live with it and how to stop it from robbing the joy out of their love lives.

If you or anyone you love struggles with anxiety, don’t miss this episode!

This week the therapists dish and dive about defensiveness. If things are escalating quickly, it's a sure sign that defensiveness is in da house!

Iona and Pam dish about accountability and how difficult it can be to own their pieces of the problem. But, they discover that ownership begets ownership and the more likely they are to own their stuff, the more likely their partners are to do the same.

Conversely, ownership can also feel like a hot potato, tossing blame back and forth between partners, no one wanting to hold it for very long. The therapists then dive into the literature and learn that the tossing of the hot potato  can lead to major consequences- divorce being one of them.

Listen in as they learn more and more about accountability, blame and how to safely own your part of the issue so you can feel more like a team.

This week the therapists dish and dive about what the hell women really want. They ask themselves if they even know what they want?

And if they don’t know, how do they expect their partners to know?  It’s a tough question and not a simple answer.  However, the therapists dive into some pretty solid research about it and come up with some surprises thanks to Drs. Julie and John Gottman and their  years of research into this issue.

Listen in as the therapists try to figure it out for themselves and talk about how their partners are doing trying to figure it out as well. The men in their lives are pretty much in the dark about it and liken it to a moving target. Listen in as they dispel the myths and highlight the research and discover that it’s not as difficult as it seems.

This week on the podcast Pam and Iona dish about triggers -  those things that pull us into big emotional responses and experience emotions that we just can’t regulate.  

What triggers the therapists and how do they navigate these triggers so they don’t cause damage? Listen in and learn how to self regulate, self soothe and catch these triggers before the gun goes off!