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Thomas Doochin firmly believes in humanity's story of love and interconnectedness. This great faith in humanity led him and his peers at the University of North Carolina to co-create Daymaker at the young age of 19. Through connecting employees to their communities, Daymaker is a company that helps people realize their intrinsic goodness and generosity. But to Thomas, Daymaker is more than a business; it is a living mentor that continues to teach him what generosity means.

In today's episode, Thomas and I contemplate on generosity and how we bring it into our closest relationships. We explain why, while we're generous to most people, we're sometimes least generous to the people closest to us. We describe the shame that comes when we realize that we're not being generous. We illustrate how self-care, self-compassion, and self-appreciation all help to bring out our authentic, generous selves. We also share, from our personal lives, the tendency to withhold generosity from our romantic partners and how we manage to bring it back.

"We have the space to be more of ourselves anywhere in a relationship. Our innate quality is good and graciousness, and love." - Thomas Doochin

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• How Thomas has become more generous through intentional practice
• Why generosity is a muscle that could be practiced
• The parts of the brain responsible for generosity
• How Thomas realized that he was not being generous in his romantic relationship
• The shame that comes with realizing our lack of generosity and inauthenticity
• Why our closest relationships receive the least generous part of ourselves
• How intention and mindfulness can bring generosity to relationships
• The effects of emotional maturity in relationships
• How emotional self-care and regulation creates generosity
• Why obligations and expectations stop us from being our authentic selves
• Using the idea of death to create generosity and compassion
• The power of self-appreciation and self-compassion
• The right way to accept an apology and how acceptance heals relationships

Resources Mentioned:

• The Relationship of Business Through The Lens of Giving

Connect with Thomas Doochin:

• Daymaker
• Daymaker on Facebook
• Daymaker on Twitter
• Daymaker on Instagram
• Thomas Doochin on Twitter
• Thomas Doochin on LinkedIn

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Al Bailey has been a student of the healing arts for over 30 years. Al uses his wisdom on the relationship between mind and body to help his clients return to their authentic breathing and facilitate healing and self-awareness. In addition to being a licensed massage and bodywork therapist, Al is the owner of BreatheAboutLife, a center for inner healing. Through BreatheAboutLife, he provides NOWON Bodywork, life-coaching, and Mind/Foot Circle Walking sessions to his clients to bring them to the ultimate healing.

In today's episode, Al and I discuss how body awareness can help us relate and gain more insight into ourselves and the world. We explain how the body can speak through inflammation and disease. We describe the effects of craniosacral work and self-awareness on relationships and health. We also illustrate how a lack of self-awareness can create addictions as well as underscore the importance of self-care in improving compassion for others.

"Understanding comes from practicing the awareness that we've gained. Watching the breath is an awareness. When you practice that awareness, you gain more insight." - Al Bailey

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• The importance of understanding our body
• How the body stores insight, wisdom, and information
• How the ego and suppressing emotions can create disease
• How couples create a "single body" and how they can make it healthy
• What is Mind/Foot Circle Walking and how it helps bring awareness
• The effects of regular craniosacral bodywork sessions and how it changes relationships
• How to take control of emotional pain
• How I managed pain while meditating for the first time
• Why Al encourages people to find work that they love
• The importance of self-care in enriching compassion for others
• How a lack of self-awareness can cause addiction
• Morning and night routines to help you reconnect with your physical and mental alignment

Resources Mentioned:

• How the Breath You Take Can Improve Relationship

Connect with Al Bailey:

• BreatheAboutLife

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Maureen McCarthy is a living testament that just because a marriage ended, it doesn't mean it has failed. When doctors told Maureen that she would die from a rare genetic illness, she ended her 10-year marriage with her husband, Bill. Yet, Maureen and Bill collaborate to maintain a relationship that's healthy for both of them and their children. She knew that the fear-driven stories that revolve around marriage and divorce aren't the only stories that exist. Carrying this insight with her, Maureen co-founded the Center for Collaborative Awareness, home of the Blueprint of We Collaboration Process, which helps people build and keep sincere and strong relationships.

In today's episode, Maureen and I discuss how to design a break-up or divorce process, why you should maintain a healthy relationship with an ex-partner, and how to get along with your ex after a break-up or divorce. We discuss why Maureen and Bill opted for a divorce and how they collaborated to maintain their friendship after their marriage ended. We also highlight how a healthy divorce affects children positively and underscore the power of purposefully designing a relationship.

"Relationships are like containers. You're going to be in a relationship as long as you can call it a memory. There's no real ending to a relationship. You have to morph the container to fit the new situation." - Maureen McCarthy

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• Why Maureen and her ex-husband opted for divorce
• Why Maureen decided to maintain a relationship with her ex-husband
• How Maureen and her ex-husband collaborated for a graceful divorce
• The effect of a graceful and healthy divorce on children
• What is "lookback learning" and how to use it days after an argument
• Maureen's childhood experience with her parents' divorce and how it affected her
• The difference between the "safety" brain and the "connecting" brain
• The power of designing a relationship with an ex-partner
• How maintaining a good friendship with her ex positively affected Maureen's health
• The importance of self-care, ownership, and accountability when transitioning into a divorce

Resources Mentioned:

• Designing Collaborative Relationships with Maureen McCarthy
• Coming Apart: How to Heal Your Broken Heart by Daphne Rose Kingma

Connect with Maureen McCarthy:

• The Center for Collaborative Awareness (use the code "Pripo" to receive 50% off the Blueprint of We document)
• Maureen McCarthy on LinkedIn

Let's Talk About It!

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Gregg Levoy is devoted to helping people find and sustain their passions in life. His books, Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion and Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life, reflect his mission of helping people feel alive through their passion. He is currently a regular contributing author to Psychology Today and holds workshops and keynote presentations at organizations such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Microsoft. A former reporter and adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, Gregg has mastered the art of generous conversations and understands how to hold space that lets people feel understood and validated.

In today's episode, Gregg and I discuss what it means to have a generous conversation. We discuss how curiosity interplays with listening to create great communication skills. We share tips and exercises to improve listening skills and explain how to set boundaries with talkative people. We also explain how generous conversations impact other people as well as share our own experiences with using listening skills and promoting a generous conversation.

"Communication is shared understanding and "co-mmunication." - Gregg Levoy

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• What makes a great conversation
• Why curiosity is a key aspect of excellent listening skills
• How to deal with people who talk too much
• Why many people in relationships don't enjoy the conversations they have with their partner
• Ways to practice conversational skills
• Why people are scared of telling a talkative person to slow down
• How to use supportive language in response to someone who had a bad experience
• How to leverage silence in business negotiations
• How couples can cultivate connection through silence and presence
• How culture influences a person's tendency to be talkative
• The impact of a generous conversation

Resources Mentioned:

• 008 The Importance of Self-Inquiry in Building Healthy Relationships
• 024 Following Personal Passions and Taking Risks Can Nurture Your Relationships
• 031Releasing Tension: The Courage to Feel
• 037 Heartbreak Part 1: Getting Wacked By Love
• 064 A Conversation Between Two Young Elders

Connect with Gregg Levoy:

• Gregg Levoy
• Gregg Levoy on Facebook

Let's Talk About It!

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Don't forget to visit our website, like us on Facebook at HeartShare Counseling, join our Relationships! Let's Talk About It Facebook group, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Share your favorite episodes on social media to help others build better, more meaningful relationships.

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There are times in a relationship when a person needs to set boundaries. It could be healthy to take a step back and soothe the emotions in times of anger. But while it's helpful to 'take a breather' during escalated conflict situations, refusing to engage or acknowledge the other person in the relationship is not healthy. Stonewalling, silent treatments, or sulking can be hurtful, and in some cases, manipulative. If there's no communication, there's no relationship.

In today's episode, I discuss stonewalling, the silent treatment, and the many reasons people resort to it. I explain how stonewalling can undermine communication and, eventually, the relationship itself. I explain why men stonewall more than women and the steps you can take to handle the silent treatment. I also share the steps I took to change my stonewalling habits as well as identify the ways a couple can handle conflict situations better.

"Stonewalling could be really detrimental to a relationship. Have the courage to mess up, to say things that are vulnerable, and to reach out for love." - Pripo Teplitsky

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• The definition of stonewalling and the reasons people resort to it
• How stonewalling damages communication in relationships
• A healthy way to temporarily withdraw from conflict situations
• Why men stonewall more than women
• How the silent treatment affects a relationship
• How to re-engage with your partner after a stonewalling episode
• The steps I took to change my stonewalling behavior
• Effective ways to deal with the silent treatment
• The ways stonewallers can change their behavior
• How to build your empathy muscle
• What emotional maturity is and how it helps a relationship
• The signs of a healthy relationship

Let's Talk About It!

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If you have a relationship question you'd love to have answered, visit our podcast page to leave us a voice message. Your question may be featured on a future episode!

Don't forget to visit our website, like us on Facebook at HeartShare Counseling, join our Relationships! Let's Talk About It Facebook group, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Share your favorite episodes on social media to help others build better, more meaningful relationships.

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Relationships! Let's Talk About It is produced by Auxbus. You can create your own great podcast - faster and easier - at Auxbus.com

Thomas Doochin believes in humanity's inherent capacity for love and interconnectedness. At the age of 19, Thomas took this faith in humanity and, together with his peers from the University of North Carolina, co-created Daymaker. Through helping employees and their companies connect with under-resourced communities, Daymaker helps people realize and foster their intrinsic goodness and generosity. Now at 25 years old, Thomas continues to discover what it means to give and receive as he serves as Daymaker's messenger of kindness and love.

In today's episode, Thomas and I discuss giving and how it fosters goodness in business. We illustrate how his philosophy affects not only his work but also the people he works with. We share how to bring a message of love to business and explain how running a business can be a spiritual practice. We discuss the value of being authentic and connecting with joy. We also share how fostering generosity impacts your employees' wellbeing as well as benefits the company's abundance.

"Giving is our innate wiring as humans. Companies that help amplify those values in their people are building more vibrant, healthier workplaces." - Thomas Doochin

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• Thomas' philosophy of giving and how it affects the people at Daymaker
• How running a business can be a spiritual practice
• What is Daymaker and how it helps employees connect with communities
• How Thomas brings the message of love to a business or corporation
• The importance of finding and connecting with joy
• What is countertransference and how it can encourage authenticity
• How authenticity inspires other people to be true to themselves
• What causes the need for validation and how it affects the attitude of giving and generosity
• How businesses can benefit from fostering their employees' generosity

Connect with Thomas Doochin:

• Daymaker
• Daymaker on Facebook
• Daymaker on Twitter
• Daymaker on Instagram
• Thomas Doochin on Twitter
• Thomas Doochin on LinkedIn

Let's Talk About It!

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If you have a relationship question you'd love to have answered, visit our podcast page to leave us a voice message. Your question may be featured on a future episode!

Don't forget to visit our website, like us on Facebook at HeartShare Counseling, join our Relationships! Let's Talk About It Facebook group, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Share your favorite episodes on social media to help others build better, more meaningful relationships.

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Mollie Curry is a 'true Earth' person. In addition to being a wilderness ranger, communitarian, permaculturist, home herbalist, and gardener, she is a natural builder who aims to help the planet and its people come to greater balance. Through her work, Mollie fosters more profound connections with herself, society, the Earth, and spirit. She was first involved in the art of natural building in the mid-90s when she moved to the Earthhaven Ecovillage in North Carolina.

After years of honing her skills and working as a ranger for the Forest Service, Mollie met her husband, Steve Kemble, at the Lama Foundation, a spiritual community in New Mexico. They eventually moved to Asheville, NC. where she combined her business, Earth Circle Natural Building, with her husband's to create MudStrawLove, an organization dedicated to training people in natural building techniques.

In today's episode, Mollie and I discuss how health and diet can affect relationships. We discuss what caused her addiction to sugar and what made her decide to choose a healthier diet. We discuss the cycle of shame that came with her sugar addiction and how that shame affected her relationship with her husband. We also discuss the psychological aspects of eating habits and why distressed couples eat unhealthy food.

"There are so many ways of being fed. If you feel an emotional eating impulse, you can go outside and take ten deep breaths. That's a way of being fed as well." - Mollie Curry

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• The factors that caused Mollie's addiction to sugar
• How physical health affects psychological health
• The shame cycle of sugar addiction
• How self-deprecation impacts relationships
• Mollie's turning point towards a healthier lifestyle
• How emotional and social factors influence eating habits
• Why couples in distressed relationships eat unhealthily
• How emotional distress can impact the immune system
• The power of appreciation in relationships
• How our environment affects the way we eat
• How cooking can be a chance for emotional connection and bonding

Connect with Mollie Curry:

• MudStrawLove
• Mollie Curry on Instagram
• Email:[email protected]

Let's Talk About It!

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Corey Costanzo is a licensed addiction counselor and somatic therapist who seeks to help people achieve a higher flow in their life experience. Another area of expertise is bodywork, a mix of Esalen Massage, Craniosacral therapy, and Didgeridoo sound vibration healing. A kind-hearted person and good friend of mine, Corey helps the local community improve their lives by offering donation-based Restorative Yoga classes at Asheville Community Yoga and teaching somatic psychology at the Center for Massage. He co-owns Still Point Wellness, Asheville's premier spa featuring sensory deprivation float tank and world-class Esalen Massage, with his wife, Robin.

In today's episode, Corey and I discuss emotional self-regulation and how we can bring awareness and mindfulness to respond to our internal experiences. We explain how we can choose to self-regulate instead of allowing ourselves to be swept by emotions and share tools and coping techniques we can use to regulate. We explain how a parent's ability to regulate their emotions can affect their children's psychological development. We differentiate feelings from emotions and explain how this distinction can help us manage our emotions. We also draw from our personal experiences to share the steps we took to self-regulate in times of conflict.

"If we know how to self-regulate as a parent, then that's a form of wisdom we can pass on to our children." -Corey Costanzo

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• Corey's definition of emotional regulation
• How to access the choice to emotionally self-regulate instead of being swept by emotions
• Using mindfulness and awareness practices to help emotional self-regulation
• The biochemistry of emotions and where they are felt
• How to distinguish feelings from emotions to regulate responses
• Self-soothing and self-care methods to increase self-awareness
• The importance of co-regulating a partner's emotional experiences
• Why parents should develop emotional regulation skills and how dysregulation can affect childhood development
• How attachment styles affect confrontation and conflict management in couples

Resources Mentioned:

• Molecules of Emotions by Candace Pert
• 045 Do the Right Thing
• 018 Is Stress Affecting Your Relationships?
• 007 Addictions and Their Effects On Relationships
• 004 Sound and Attunement in Relationships

Connect with Corey Costanzo:

• Still Point Wellness
• Still Point Wellness on Facebook
• Still Point Wellness on Pinterest
• Still Point Wellness on Instagram
• Corey Costanzo on LinkedIn

Let's Talk About It!

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If you have a relationship question you'd love to have answered, visit our podcast page to leave us a voice message. Your question may be featured on a future episode!

Don't forget to visit our website, like us on Facebook at HeartShare Counseling, join our Relationships! Let's Talk About It Facebook group, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Share your favorite episodes on social media to help others build better, more meaningful relationships.

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Relationships! Let's Talk About It is produced by Auxbus. You can create your own great podcast - faster and easier - at Auxbus.com

Ever since she felt a sense of urgency to find truth in the world at a very young age, Cathy Courtenay has lived a path of personal and spiritual growth. Inspired by this calling of truth, she studied Body-Mind Centering in her early twenties and later became interested in the potential of re-patterning and perceptual shifts, applying them into her bodywork practice. She took her pursuit of truth further by closely studying the Art of Circling with its founder, Guy Sengstock.

Cathy brings heart to everything that she does, whether it's into bodywork, dancing, leading Circling sessions in Asheville, NC, or maintaining relationships with small and large businesses in the marketing world. Her capacity to be in a wide range of human emotions and experiences, along with her deep listening skills, allows her to create safe spaces that help people be present in difficult moments.

In today's episode, Cathy and I discuss how to handle difficult conversations, whether it's in the office or at home. We explain why people avoid conversations and share tips on how to handle difficult conversations. We emphasize the value of bringing in curiosity and ownership and how they can impact communication. We discuss the reason people argue over text and why couples should avoid it. We also reflect on our personal experiences with having 'the talk' and highlight why it's essential to choose difficult conversations over the comfort of avoiding them.

"We put such a weight on positive emotions but it's important for us to be with whatever it is in the other person." – Cathy Courtenay

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• Why people avoid conversations and what happens when they do
• How relating to our partners is similar to building muscles
• The barriers that make conversations difficult
• What should be done before starting a difficult conversation
• The values of self-regulation, empathy, and curiosity in having difficult conversations
• How blaming the other person impacts conversations and relationships
• How speaking in the heat of the moment affects the delivery of a conversation
• The signs of emotional defensiveness
• How to reduce escalations in challenging conversations
• Why couples argue over text and why it should be avoided
• The importance of choosing to have difficult conversations

Resources Mentioned:

• 039 Helping Men Learn to Connect with Women
• 046 Falling in Love

Connect with Cathy Courtenay:

• Cathy Courtenay
• Cathy Courtenay on Facebook
• Cathy Courtenay on LinkedIn

Let's Talk About It!

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Yvonne Rainbow Teplitsky is a talented artist who creates tapestries and paintings from a variety of materials. Born and raised in Denmark, she now runs her up-cycled clothes design business in the USA, Artsy Goddess Studio, in addition to facilitating voice-empowering workshops in Black Mountain, NC, co-facilitating couples' workshops with me, and hosting a women's circle in our home. Yvonne does many things outside of our marriage and remains open and curious about life. Doing her own things means she spends a lot of time outside of our relationship.

Spending time apart is as vital as spending time together in a relationship. After all, some space creates the spark. Yet many couples fear being apart, with one person (or both people) in the relationship worrying that the other might find something—or someone—better. And, at the other end of the spectrum, some couples make little time to feed their relationship. How do you find that sweet spot, that balance between being alone and being together?

In today's episode, Yvonne and I discuss how we navigated as a couple in the past 25 years and found the sweet spot between spending time apart and together in our relationship. We discuss the challenges we faced in maintaining that balance and how we managed it. We share how our relationship has changed through the years and how we adapted to those changes. We stress the importance of spending alone time, what we do when we're together and apart, and how couples can improve the time they spend together. We also share something that's unique to our relationship and why we maintain it.

"It feels so enriching to be away from each other for a day, two days, or more." – Yvonne Rainbow Teplitsky

This week on Relationships! Let's Talk About It:

• How relationship cycles affect time spent together and apart
• Why every couple should explore and find out what works for their relationship
• Should couples spend all their time together?
• How talking to other people about your partner affects your relationship
• The impacts of spending too much time together and away from each other
• Why building trust is important to spend time away from each other
• Why Yvonne goes away for three months every summerand how we stay connected while we're apart
• What couples should do -and talk about -when they're together
• Doing routine work as a couple
• Reuniting and reconnecting after some time apart
• Bringing curiosity in the relationship
• The value of stepping into your own life and individuality

Resources mentioned:

• Vital Signs by Greg Levoy
• Eight Dates by John Gottman

Connect with Yvonne:

• Artsy Goddess Studio
• Yvonne on LinkedIn
• Yvonne on Facebook
• Email: [email protected]

Let's Talk About It!

Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Relationships! Let's Talk About It - the show to help you forge deeper, more meaningful connections and relationships with those around you. If you enjoyed this week's episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts, subscribe to the show, and leave us a rating and review.

If you have a relationship question you'd love to have answered, visit our podcast page to leave us a voice message. Your question may be featured on a future episode!

Don't forget to visit our website, like us on Facebook at HeartShare Counseling, join our Relationships! Let's Talk About It Facebook group, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. Share your favorite episodes on social media to help others build better, more meaningful relationships.

And if our content has helped you forge deeper connections and more meaningful relationships, be sure to help support the show by visiting our Support the Podcast page!

Theme music "These Streets" provided by Adi the Monk

Relationships! Let's Talk About It is produced by Auxbus. You can create your own great podcast - faster and easier - at Auxbus.com