Ep. 6: Your Best (Relational) Self when everything’s on fire, literally

Give your partner a trip back home to their self and you have given enough. In this episode, I encourage us to take a look at how we have the possibility of “sending our partners on a trip” back to the place where they will always find the most sense of grounding, resource and agency, within their self. I also discuss how this might be the last thing we’re thinking of doing, and also the thing that best allows for what we want to see shift our relational dynamics.

In this episode I invite us to take full responsibility for our judgements and unchecked attempts at control in in our romantic partnerships, while noticing the long history of this in the relational dynamics between people and power in the US and the world.

In this episode I call on all of us committed to relational self work, to consider this as one of the most important ways to use our energy at this time.

In this episode I discuss ensuring your conflict supports your relationship goals!Subscribe, Review & Comment friends! We can get more answers together!

Recorded just one week after the election, I use this episode to address the relational climate as a US collective and invite everyone to the relational therapy couch. I imagine treating the collective as I would a relationship I’m working with in therapy. I call us in to take a look at, and take full responsibility for, our relational selves and the relational dynamics we’re engaged in.

A brief Election Day word on navigating the high-tension relational dynamics of this US election and how we move from conflict to working together.

What comes next after becoming more relationally self aware AND owning it?! In this episode I discuss how to use your new found relational self awareness to invite two new changes into your relationship dynamic.

In this episode I discuss what it means to fully own and embrace our relational selfhood, and the important impact this can have on our partnerships.

In this timely mini episode, I call us in to respond to the invitation to improve our relational selves as a way to inform change in how we do relationships, starting in partnership and ending with the global collective. “None of us are free, until all of us are free.”

This episode starts with raw share on why I’m doing this, that I felt inspired to record while driving ☺️. After this, I get into where I think we should start. What even is a relational self and where do I find it? In this episode we get on the same page about what I mean by “relational self.” I encourage us to take a non-judgmental look at our end of the relationship dynamic, to find insights that may be more supportive to our work to create relationship change than we’ve realized.