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Relationship Advice
Relationship Advice helps listeners uncover the stuck spots in their relationships by taking expert advice from three licensed professional counselors and boiling it down into digestible tips and tools. Colter, Cayla, and Lauren help people to see that the first step to connecting with somebody else is by connecting with you. They focus their show on understanding and navigating the cycles that couples face, how to practice individuation, and staying in an emotionally regulated state. Just them…
Episodes
Relationship Advice183: Hormones And Your Relationship
Being a human is complicated. Mind and body often blend to create all kinds of difficulties. Combine this with being in a relationship with another human and…
Relationship Advice182: Dating After The Death Of A Partner
Losing a partner can be one of the most devastating life events. Healing from such a loss takes time, however, it is completely normal to want to find love…
Relationship Advice181: Can I Be Friends With My Ex?
It's one of the cliche relationship situations that everyone seems to have a strong opinion on. Can we be friends with our ex's or members of the opposite sex?…
Relationship Advice180: Caring For Ageing Parents And The Affects On Your Relationship
You can choose your friends but not your family....so the saying goes. For some of us, family is fun and a joy to be around. For others, not so much. In either…
Relationship Advice179: Reconnecting Sexual Intimacy In Your Relationship
It's easy to have high sexual energy very early in a relationship. However, six months to one year into a relationship, the hormones can start to die down —…
Relationship Advice178: What's Your Fantasy?
Sexual fantasy can play a large role in a relationship and individual sexuality. However, there's often a fair amount of shame around sexuality and sexual…
Relationship Advice177: Rebalancing Your Relationship
Each individual has a role in a relationship. Maybe you take out the trash and your partner handles the dishes, or you're the primary caretaker of the kids…
Relationship Advice176: Is ADHD Affecting Your Relationship?
ADHD is a mental health condition that can negatively impact your relationship and often goes undiagnosed in adults. Distractability, poor listening and…
Relationship Advice175: How to Stop Life Stress From Derailing Your Relationship
Ahhhhh! STRESS. If you've never been stressed out you are either, not human, or you've achieved an extreme level of enlightenment and your brain should be…
Relationship Advice174: Rejection In Romantic Relationships
We’ve all felt rejected and down in the dumps. It sucks. I mean it really sucks. But there’s hope! Maybe you’re dating and can’t seem to find the right…
Relationship Advice173: Are Narcissistic Habits Killing Your Relationship?
Sometimes it feels like we live in the most narcissistic time in history. Selfies are a ‘thing’, social media encourages us to always share how great we are…
Relationship Advice172: How Childhood Emotional Neglect Affects Our Relationships
Getting in touch with our feelings and emotions is much easier said than done. If we can learn to understand our emotions and where they come from, then we can…
Relationship Advice171: Honesty and Conflict Resolution in Your Relationship
Communication and smart conflict resolution are extremely important in any relationship. You know this! Yet we all struggle with these things too often (at…
Relationship Advice170: Love Better By Becoming Your Authentic Self
Just be yourself. Easier said than done in this mixed up and sometimes crazy world. Gender roles, stereotypes, expectations and culture all shape how we see…
Relationship Advice169: Get The Love You Deserve
It's easy to lower our self worth in a relationship. Maybe it's because you are so madly in love you'll do just about anything for your partner — no matter how…
Relationship Advice168: Why Talking About Finances Will Improve your Relationship
Dollars and cents don't sound like the most romantic relationship topic for your next date night. However, properly communicating about finances in committed…
Relationship Advice167: Help! My Partner's a Control Freak
Today's episode is the most honest and open conversation we've had on this podcast to date. We're no different than any other couple when it comes to…
Relationship Advice166: Staying Connected When Life Gets Busy
Life is busy. Work, kids, Netflix, your phone. There are more things than ever pulling us away from our partners. Maintaining connection is a key component of…
Relationship Advice165: Key Tools to Obtain a Healthy Relationship
Why are relationships so damn hard!? Simply put: We weren’t born with all of the tools to live, love and create a life with another human. It takes practice…
Relationship Advice164: The 15 Minute Relationship Fix
Sound too good to be true? Well...depending on the state of your relationship, you may not fix EVERYTHING in 15 minutes, but this episode will put you well on…
Relationship Advice163: The Importance of Showing Appreciation In Your Relationship
It’s easy to become complacent in our relationship. The longer we’ve been with someone, the more we often take them for granted. This can feel terrible for…
Relationship Advice162: New Relationship Rules
Who doesn’t want to have better sex in their relationship!? The path to better sex doesn't have to be confusing and difficult. You have the power to initiate…
Relationship Advice161: Is Your Partner A Messy Slob?
Taking out the trash, washing the dishes and cleaning the room all sound like pretty normal household tasks. However, when you share a house with a partner…
Relationship Advice160: How to Know You’re Ready For Marriage Or Kids
Are we ever really ready to get married or have kids? It’s a big question! There are some key things we need to ask ourselves in order to make a well informed…
Relationship Advice159: What’s Your Romantic Personality?
Understanding our romantic personality can help us find the love of our lives or better navigate an existing relationship. In today’s episode, Dr. Alex Avila…
Relationship Advice158: Key Factors For Conflict Resolution in Your Relationship
Conflict is an inevitable and necessary part of every relationship. It can eat away at the love or it can help your relationship flourish. Knowing the key…
Relationship Advice157: Eliminate These Toxic Relationship Patterns For A Happier Life
Research consistently found that it takes four positive comments to recover from one negative comment from a partner. That ratio means that criticism is a…
Relationship Advice156: Four Ways To Spark Your Relationship
Exciting Announcement: Our new online course, Spark My Relationship, has launched! Learn more and enroll here: SparkMyRelationship.com Spark My Relationship is…
Relationship Advice155: Rebuilding Trust In Your Relationship
Trust is one of the hardest things to earn and easiest to lose in a relationship. If you’ve been lied to or if you have lied to your partner, this episode is…
Relationship Advice154: Learning to Forgive
Forgiveness is a key skill for all of the relationships in our lives. Our ability to forgive has a direct impact on our personal happiness and the success of a…
Relationship Advice153: Dealing With An Addict You Love
Addiction is a disease that can be incredibly difficult on a relationship. It’s hard to know when you are enabling or helping your partner. Navigating the…
Relationship Advice152: Create A Thriving Marriage
No relationship or marriage is perfect. You probably already knew this. However, you might not know which of the four phases of marriage you’re in, and what it…
Relationship Advice151: What’s Your Sexual Personality Type?
Do you really know what you or your partner likes in the bedroom? Many of us have not asked key questions around sexuality in our relationships. Understanding…
Relationship Advice150: Navigating Finances In Your Relationship
No one wants to think about divorce or death. Deny it all we want, one happens 50% of the time and the other 100%! Understanding the legal financial side of…
Relationship Advice149: Practical Ideas To Find The Love Of Your Life
Why do so many good people end up in bad relationships? Today’s episode will help answer that and give you the tools to improve yourself to attract the right…
Relationship Advice148: Practicing Good Emotional Hygiene To Improve Your Relationship
We’ve all been in a situation where we’ve let our emotions get the better of us. We snap at our partner, stress ourselves out and react negatively to the…
Relationship Advice147: The Sexual Science Of Cuddling
Cuddling on the couch is a favorite activity of many healthy relationships. Cuddling is very much in mainstream culture, and yet it can be complicated and…
Relationship Advice146: Is Porn Causing Issues In Your Relationship?
Have you caught your partner looking at porn? Maybe browsing pictures of scantily clad women or men on Instagram or Facebook? This doesn't need to be an issue…
Relationship Advice145: Not Feeling Like A Priority In Your Relationship?
Our lives our busier than ever. It's easy for one partner in the relationship to feel like they no longer are a priority to the other partner. Work, hobbies…
Relationship Advice144: Mindful Sex is Mind Blowing Sex
Want to learn how practicing mindfulness can lead to better sex? Instead of thinking about the emails you need to respond to or the kid's lunches that need to…
Relationship Advice143: Navigating the In-Laws
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family! There's a reason this cliche exists, but it doesn't have to be that way. Going over to the…
Relationship Advice142: Jealousy In The Modern Relationship
Jealousy is a common feeling that many of us have or will experience. With the pervasive use of the internet flooding our brains with sexual images, past…
Relationship Advice141: Emotional Habits
We've all felt the need to blame our partner for something going wrong in the relationship. Why do we retreat to negative emotional habits so easily? Dr…
Relationship Advice140: How To Keep The Spark Alive
Intimacy is an area of our relationships that can often be overlooked, especially if you've been together for a long time. The spark does not have to fade!…
Relationship Advice139: Avoid These Common Sex Life Pitfalls
There can be many areas in our lives and relationships that can cause frustration and disappointment. Your sex life shouldn't be one of them. Learning how to…
Relationship Advice138: You Have The Power To Change (Yourself & Your Relationship)
Creating the change you want in your relationship starts with one person: YOU! Don't wait around for your partner to change (hint: you won't be able to change…
Relationship Advice137: Managing Anxiety to Improve Your Relationship
Feeling anxious? Anxiety can manifest itself in many ways that prove detrimental to our own personal health, as well as our relationships. That sense of…
Relationship Advice136: Empowering Your Partner
One of the benefits of being in a relationship is helping your partner become their best self. We can achieve this by empowering our partner through words of…
Relationship Advice135: Coping With Your Partner's Annoying Behaviors
We all have weird pet peeves that our partner's seem to always break the 'rules' on. Chewing too loud, not squeezing the toothpaste out of the tube correctly…
Relationship Advice134: How To Have Great Sex In A Long-Lasting Relationship
Want to have better sex!? If you answered, YES!, then this episode is for you. It turns out that as relationships mature, the sex tends to become less frequent…
Relationship Advice133: The Importance of Nonverbal Communication in Your Relationship
Did you know that well over half of the communication you have in your relationship is nonverbal? We all know that feeling when your partner 'needs to talk'…
Relationship Advice132: I'm Right, And You're Wrong
We've all been in an argument where we are so sure we're right. We'll go to great lengths to stand our ground and prove that we are right and our partner is…
Relationship Advice131: Communication Tips for a Better Sex Life
Why is talking about sex in our relationships so hard sometimes? Not satisfied in bed? Unhappy with the frequency of sex in your relationship? Do you want to…
Relationship Advice130: Achieving Work-Life Balance In Your Relationship
Are you struggling to achieve a healthy work-life balance in your relationship? Do you feel like your partner is focusing more on work and less on you and the…
Relationship Advice129: Recovering From Infidelity In Your Relationship
Infidelity is unfortunately a huge part of the modern marriage. If we can understand why men and women cheat then we are halfway towards solving the problem…
Relationship Advice128: Improve Intimacy In 2018
Let's face it, getting old sucks! As we age, we may also face daily obstacles of intimacy along the way. Whether you're 25 or 55, these obstacles can be…
Relationship Advice127: Just Be Nice 🙂
The next time you want to shout, "Hey, you a**hole!", at the person who cut you off, try practicing some compassion. No really, it's the single greatest tool…
Relationship Advice126: Managing Stress In Your Relationship...Especially During Holidays
Relationships are hard — add your drunk uncle, traveling with kids, buying presents and everything that comes with the holidays, and you have a recipe for a…
Relationship Advice125: When Two Worlds Collide - Dating and Parenting
Being a single or divorced parent and dating can be difficult. Whether you are dating someone with kids, or you yourself have kids from a previous…
Relationship Advice124: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa...Oh My!
Navigating the complexities of an inter-faith relationship can be difficult, especially during the holiday season. Forty-nine perfect of unmarried…