The Love, Happiness and Success Podcast With Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

By Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby

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Learn how to create great relationships, feel happier, grow as a person, achieve your ideal career, and make good things happen in your life. Host Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby is a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, certified life coach and founder of GrowingSelf.com. Every week she answers your questions, interviews inspiring experts, and brings you new ideas to help you create the Love, Happiness and Success that you deserve.

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Is it time to have “The Talk?” Getting into couples counseling may be the best choice you ever make for your relationship… but first, you have to talk to your partner about going to couples counseling, and that can be ...

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10.02.2023 How to Talk to Your Partner about Couples Counseling Is it time to have “The Talk?” Getting into couples counseling may be the best choice you ever make for your relationship… but first, you have to talk to your partner about going to couples counseling, and that can be ...
09.25.2023 Post-Traumatic Growth Post traumatic growth is a real phenomenon. After traumatic things happen to us, we don’t stay broken forever. We learn and grow from our most difficult experiences and use them to live more meaningful lives. But all of that can ...
09.18.2023 Tools for Surviving Infidelity You know that infidelity is survivable… but it doesn’t always feel that way when it’s happening to you. Being cheated on by someone you love and trust is a profoundly painful experience. You need some practical tools to process what ...
09.11.2023 How to Connect with an Emotionally Unavailable Partner When you feel like you can’t connect deeply with someone you love, it’s painful. It’s common for people in relationships with emotionally unavailable partners to blame themselves, and believe that if they could just be perfect enough, then their emotionally ...
09.04.2023 Setting Boundaries at Work When you struggle to set boundaries at work, it doesn’t just intrude on your personal life, it makes it harder for you to achieve your vision of career success. Learn how to set healthy limits with coworkers, achieve work-life balance, ...
08.28.2023 How to Let Go of the Past Do you feel haunted by the past? Whether you’re struggling with regret, anger, or grief, having unfinished business with the past can keep you feeling stuck. But you can let go of the past and begin moving forward, and this ...
08.21.2023 Why We Fall Out of Love (and What to Do About It) Long term relationships can get a little stale when you don’t know how to keep love alive over the long haul. It’s very common for couples to believe they’ve fallen out of love when this happens. But a stronger, more ...
08.14.2023 Navigating Pregnancy as a Team Smart couples recognize that pregnancy is more than a growing-a-baby waiting game. It is a prime opportunity to work through important relationship issues and strengthen your relationship. Having a baby can feel like it’s the Pregnant Lady Show, rather than ...
08.07.2023 Avoid the Communication Killer: Negative Sentiment Override There’s a sneaky relationship killer lurking in your communication… but you’ve probably never heard of it. Negative sentiment override happens when you get into the habit of reacting negatively to your partner because of bad past experiences, even when it’s ...
07.31.2023 How to Deal with Difficult Coworkers You know that coworker who drives you nuts? Whether you’re dealing with a controlling coworker, a deadweight, or a bully, difficult people in the workplace can drag down your job satisfaction and performance. So what can you do? This episode ...
07.24.2023 Why You Miss Your Ex (and What to Do About It) If you’re going through a breakup, you know that missing your Ex is one of the toughest parts of the heartbreak experience. Even if you know the relationship is ultimately not right for you, it’s normal to look back on ...
07.17.2023 Communication Skills: Reacting Versus Responding We've all been there: Your partner says something that just inflames you, and you say something you regret later. Or you instinctively defend yourself and withdraw when things get tense, rather than leaning into a healthy and productive courageous conversation. ...
07.10.2023 Are You In an Emotionally Enmeshed Relationship? If you feel like you have to walk on eggshells around your partner, or work WAY harder than you should to make sure they're comfy (often at the expense of your own needs), my friend, you may be in an ...
07.03.2023 Power Struggles In Relationships Do you feel like you and your partner get stuck in a power struggle where you feel one way, they feel another, and you just cannot compromise? Today's episode brings real-world relationship advice to help you communicate differently, so that ...
06.26.2023 Betrayal Trauma Recovery When someone we love, trust, and rely on betrays us, it creates a deep, painful wound that doesn’t always heal on its own. As a couples therapist who often works with people around heartbreak recovery after a bad breakup or ...
06.19.2023 How to Make a Career Transition Making a career transition can be a daunting task, especially if you’ve spent years building your expertise in a particular field only to discover you don’t love your work. How can you know what career would actually feel more satisfying? ...
06.12.2023 7 Things that Will Sabotage Couples Counseling Getting into couples counseling is a fantastic idea... but you have to know how to engage with the process in order to have a good experience. Unfortunately, it's very easy to make one or more of the super common mistakes ...
06.05.2023 How to Help Someone Get Help Wondering how you can help someone get help? You have the power to have a positive impact on the lives of the people you care about, and this episode will show you how. We all will be a concerned friend ...
05.29.2023 Why You Need a Professional Development Plan Many people who are unhappy with their working lives are looking for answers. They see other people getting ahead and loving their work, and they wonder why they feel so stuck and unsatisfied. I can tell you that the missing ...
05.22.2023 How to Deal with Regret Knowing how to deal with regret helps you build a life that is authentic, ethical, and meaningful. Without regret, you wouldn’t have good information about who you are, what you need, and where you have opportunities to grow. But if ...
05.15.2023 Signs Your Relationship Is Failing Was that just a nasty fight? Or a sign that your relationship is failing? As a longtime marriage counselor, I know that it can be hard to spot the difference. Some forms of conflict are healthy and even beneficial for ...
05.08.2023 How to Love Yourself We all hear “you have to love yourself first.” But what if you don't know how to love yourself? This episode is all about authentic self love: What it really means, why having compassion and care for yourself matters so ...
05.01.2023 How to Get Closure Any kind of loss hurts, but the pain is prolonged when you don't know how to get closure and move forward. Unfortunately, closure isn’t something that anyone else can give to you. It’s also not something that just happens. It's ...
04.24.2023 How to Deal with a Defensive Partner There are few things more frustrating than trying to figure out how to deal with a defensive partner. You just want them to understand how you feel and what you need, but they’re too busy defending themselves to truly listen. ...
04.17.2023 Gretchen Rubin On How to Be More Present If you’re like most people, you're so often in your head that you feel disconnected from your life. When our minds are racing, or we're constantly distracted by, well, everything, we miss out on the best parts of our life, ...
04.10.2023 How to Stop Caring what People Think Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just stop caring what people think? Imagine how confident you would feel if criticism bounced off your psyche like pebbles off a suit of armor. Imagine all the mental and emotional energy you ...
04.03.2023 When Anxious Meets Avoidant Why are people with anxious attachment styles and avoidant attachment styles drawn to each other? Can anxious-avoidant relationships work, and most importantly, can they be healthy and satisfying? Yes, they can. But the key is through your understanding of yourself, ...
03.27.2023 How to Be More Resilient Do you ever wonder why some people bounce back quickly from anything life throws at them, while others struggle mightily to get back to baseline, even after minor setbacks? The difference is resilience. Today, you'll learn about the nature of ...
03.20.2023 Cultivating Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Many people find meaning, comfort, and connection through religion or a spiritual practice. But it’s also not uncommon to have negative religious experiences that can complicate your relationship with spirituality. As kids, we all need to be encouraged and affirmed ...
03.13.2023 Turn Conflict Avoidance Into Courageous Conversations Do you feel like your partner shuts you down or tells you whatever you want to hear in order to stop a conversation that makes them feel [anxious / tense / criticized / fill in the blank] even though that ...
03.06.2023 Am I Ready For a Baby? Having a child is one of the coolest, most meaningful experiences a human being can have. It’s also a mind-blowingly huge responsibility. How can you decide if you want to become a parent? And if that is your heart’s desire, ...
02.27.2023 How to Get Through to Your Partner “My husband doesn’t listen to me. He just tells me whatever he thinks I want to hear so that I’ll go away and leave him alone.” “I’m sick of not being heard in my relationship. Whenever I try to have ...
02.20.2023 Cold Feet Before the Wedding? Here’s How to Deal You’ve hired the caterer, booked the venue, and spent hours curating a playlist that is danceable and family friendly, while also conveying the story of your love. You think you should be feeling excited for your wedding — you love ...
02.13.2023 Addicted to a Toxic Relationship Toxic relationships are more than unhealthy. They can be an addiction. During the early stages of romantic love, our brains light up with flashes of ecstasy and excitement. The same chemical reward systems that are implicated in a cocaine habit ...
02.06.2023 How to Be Single and Happy Do you believe being single is a bad thing? Or that it’s a problem that needs to be resolved as quickly as possible? I hope your reflexive answer to these questions is “absolutely not!” But, even if you’re not aware ...
01.30.2023 Megan Hyatt Miller on Changing Your Mindset What is the greatest obstacle standing between you and the things you want in life? It’s easy to believe it’s bad luck, or some personal failing, or simply the hand you were dealt at birth. But in my experience helping ...
01.23.2023 Becoming Emotionally Mature Your body has changed radically since the day you were born, and your mind is continually growing and changing based on your experiences. But what about your emotional world? What does it mean to become emotionally mature, and how can ...
01.16.2023 How Do People See You Have you ever been told that “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it?” As maddening as this can be to hear (especially if it’s lobbed at you in the middle of a disagreement), it’s also true: The ...
01.09.2023 How to Stop Emotional Invalidation Feeling invalidated is at the core of communication issues. When couples fight, they're usually fighting to be heard. Feeling shut down, or bulldozed by your partner is not just frustrating — if it happens routinely it can damage your relationship. ...
01.02.2023 Achieving Your Couple Goals What goals do you have for your relationship? If an answer immediately sprang to your mind, that’s fantastic. You already know what you’d like to work on with your partner, and doing that work together will help you create a ...
12.26.2022 Cultivating Contentment Wouldn't it be amazing if you just felt genuinely happy with yourself, and your life, and like things were just the way they should be? Contentment is more than a mood state; it’s a mindset you can cultivate. It encompasses ...
12.19.2022 How to Feel Your Feelings You know that it's important to stay in touch with your self by tuning into your feelings, but how? And, which ones? Knowing how to tap into your emotions in healthy ways puts you in touch with your values, it ...
12.12.2022 How to Make a Hard Decision How can you make a hard decision when you have no idea what the future holds? Should you quit your job? Cut off contact with your difficult friend? Buy the condo, or the house? Marry your partner? Dump your partner? ...
12.05.2022 How to Be a Good Boss If you’re a hardworking, talented, and career-driven person, you probably aspire to be a leader some day. It’s easy to understand why. “Being a boss” can feel like a natural next step after years or even decades of hard work ...
11.28.2022 Teaching Empathy to Kids What hopes and dreams do you have for your kids? Do you want them to do well in school? Have good friends who love and support them? Build a successful career doing what they love? Find a healthy, loving relationship ...
11.21.2022 How to Deal When Your Ex Moves On We have all been there… witnessing our Ex move on without us. As both a therapist and breakup recovery coach who has walked with many people through the breakup recovery process, as well as a fellow human, I know that ...
11.15.2022 How to Stop a Divorce and Save Your Marriage “I want a divorce.” It’s one of the most alarming sentences a married person can hear. And — in one way or another — it means that your marriage is about to change. But it doesn’t always mean that your ...
11.07.2022 ADHD in Relationships Is untreated ADHD causing trouble in your relationship? “My partner doesn’t listen to me. He agrees to do something, and then he ‘forgets.’ I feel like he just doesn’t care. He didn’t even bother to get me a card for ...
10.31.2022 Warding Off Emotional Vampires Are there emotional vampires lurking all around you? Unfortunately, this isn’t a problem you can solve with a garlic necklace or some holy water. An “emotional vampire” (or “energy vampire”) is a very unscientific term for a person who stirs ...
10.24.2022 Facing Your Fears Learning how to face your fears productively can give you clarity, direction, and — ironically — peace of mind. No one likes to feel afraid, but fear can be a powerful tool for living the life you want to live. ...

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