Do you love your partner and want to stay married, but you know it could be better? Do you find yourself feeling annoyed and irritated? Is your communication and intimacy dwindling? Are you just too tired and exhausted to work on your relationship anymore? If so, you need an easier way to stop the frustration and exhaustion. It's possible to create more joy and connection in your marriage again, but it starts with you. It starts with you seeing your own worth and value. When you learn to giv ...
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Ep 114: Fight Right: Staying Connected Before Things Are Resolved, With Raquel Reis
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Are you struggling to stay connected with your partner amidst ongoing conflicts? Do you feel like unresolved issues are driving a wedge between you and your spouse? In this insightful episode, I sit down with Relationship Coach Raquel Reis to discuss how to maintain a strong bond even when disagreements are left unresolved. We dive deep into effect…
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Ep 113: Navigating Burnout and Rediscovering Joy
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Ever wonder what a coach talks about with her coach? You're in for a treat. In this episode of Joyful Love, I'm diving into a topic that affects many of us—burnout and how to rediscover joy in our lives. I'm working on these things with another coach friend and I knew I wanted to share it with you. What You'll Learn in This Episode: A Peek into My …
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In today’s episode of Joyful Love, I’m diving into a question from one of my clients that I think many of us can relate to. Her question was: “How do I handle detrimental thoughts?” I know this is a topic that hits home for many of us, and it certainly does for me. So let’s explore some practical ways to take control of your mind when intrusive tho…
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Ep 111: Perimenopause and Parenting With Carla Atkinson
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In today's episode of Joyful Love, I talk with Dr. Carla Atkinson about perimenopause. There's a lot of discussion about this time of life for women right now ... and it's about time! We live in an era of awakening around women's health, and we are lucky to have providers like Dr. Carla who stay up to date with the latest and best care for their cl…
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Ep 110: Stop Over-Drinking With Coach Patrick Fox
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We're tackling the problem of overdrinking In today's episode with Patrick Fox. Patrick helps men who want to stop drinking and is the host of the Alcohol Rethink Podcast. Alcohol can have damaging affects on relationships. I've seen it too many times to count. But there is hope! Patrick shares his own story about drinking and how he changed his li…
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Ep 109: Communicate Better: How To Respond Instead Of React
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Have you ever snapped at your partner after they said something, only to regret it later? Maybe you wondered, "Why did I react so quickly? Where did THAT come from?" In this episode, we delve into the powerful difference between reacting and responding. You'll learn how to understand your emotions and transform your interactions with your partner b…
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Ep 108: I know you love me, but do you like me?
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Have you ever wondered if your partner even likes you anymore? You know you love each other deep down, but has the fondness, laughter, and enjoyment of each other left the building? When we have a culture of criticism and irritation in our homes, it can feel as if you don't even like each other. You can change that culture though. Listen to this ep…
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Ep 107: When Divorce Is An Option, with Coach Corrie Woods
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Today in episode 107, I'm talking with Divorce coach, Corrie Woods. In this insightful conversation, Corrie shares her personal journey through divorce, offering valuable wisdom and practical advice for anyone facing a similar situation. From managing the emotional rollercoaster of making that decision, to co-parenting with grace, Corrie's experien…
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Ep 106: Calm, Cool, And Connected Parenting With Best Selling Author Pam Howard
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In this episode of Joyful Love, I sit down with Master Parenting Coach and author of "Less Drama More Mama," Pam Howard. Together, we delve into practical strategies for having a more calm, cool, and connected experience with motherhood. One of the key topics we explore is the all-too-relatable issue of yelling at our kids. Pam offers invaluable gu…
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Ep 105: What Is Love? With Cris Cunnngham
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In this episode of Joyful Love, Cris joins me as we discuss the meaning of LOVE. After 27 years, our definition of love has changed a little. Or maybe a lot. One thing we agree on is that the more we care for ourselves, the easier it is to love each other. But how do we do that when life is so hard? How do we actively love ourselves in thought and …
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Ep 104: Embracing perimenopause and the power in the Pause
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In this episode of Joyful Love, I share with you how I'm choosing to embrace Perimenopause and listen to my own needs right now. During my 4-month hiatus, I've had so many benefits of hitting the "pause" button on a few things in life. Slowing down has helped me prevent burnout, make clearer decisions, and deepen my relationships. But it also gave …
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Ep 103: Wintering Wisdom: The Transformative Magic Of Rest
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In this episode, we dive deeper into the concept of planned rests and intentional breaks, exploring how they act as crucial periods of healing and growth. Drawing inspiration from nature's cyclical rhythms, we examine the necessity for rest in our lives, especially amidst our busy routines in womanhood, motherhood, career pursuits, and relationship…
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Ep 102: From Overwhelm to Peace: Navigating Holiday Hustle with Ease
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As the holiday season approaches, the desire to create lasting memories for our families often clashes with the need for personal rest and relaxation. In this episode, we explore how to strike a balance between nurturing our own well-being and ensuring joyful experiences for loved ones. What you'll learn: Striking a Balance: Learn how to harmonize …
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Ep 101: How To Communicate With A Defensive Partner
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In this episode of "Joyful Love," I tell you exactly how to deal with a defensive partner. We've all been there, attempting to address issues or seek improvements in our relationships, only to have our partners become defensive. This episode explores why this happens and provides practical strategies to foster a deeper connection and open communica…
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Ep 100: Unlocking The Next Chapter: Introducing The Membership
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Can you believe it? The Joyful Love Podcast has hit 100 episodes of inspiration, stories, and relationship wisdom! To celebrate this journey, I've got something special in store for you. In this episode, I'll share my most embarrassing moment as an entrepreneur yet! And then I get to what you really want to know about - the newest, most accessible …
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Ep 99: How To Turn Resentment Into Emotional Connection
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Resentment normally turns to anger and disconnection in a marriage. But what if we could flip the script and use this feeling FOR our connection instead? In today’s episode, "How To Turn Resentment Into Emotional Connection," you'll discover practical strategies for transforming feelings of resentment into emotional intimacy. What You'll Learn: The…
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Ep 98: How To Feel Better: Processing Triggers And Heavy Emotions
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If you ignore or avoid your emotions ... eventually you'll POP! I've been there and I'm sure you have too. So today, I'm showing you exactly what to do with your triggers and emotions. You know how sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives that we forget to pay attention to how we feel inside? When we barrel through our emotions and try to avoi…
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Ep 97: Getting Comfortable With Uncomfortable Conversations
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Difficult conversations are part of marriage. And it can be uncomfortable to start one. Your nervous system goes on overload. You feel tense, stressed, and like you want to RUN! This is why we often avoid hard talks and simply hold in our feelings and let them fester. But If you hold in your frustration or confusion, it’ll come out eventually … oft…
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Ep: 96 Navigating Different Communication Styles With Your Partner
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Communication with two different people who live all of life together can get tricky at times. Our decisions affect each other. And the way we talk to each other matters. Often we're married to someone who is opposite from us in communication styles. One can be an internal processor, where they need time and space on their own to think about decisi…
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Ep 95: Resilience in Love: Thriving With A Difficult Partner
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If you're married to a difficult partner, you don't have to live a life of frustration and confusion. There's a better way to approach your relationship that doesn't include suffering and discontentment. You may need to adjust your expectations or you may need to set some powerful boundaries. In today's episode you'll learn: * To own your decision …
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Ep 94: 5 Tips To Become Best Friends With Your Partner
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In this episode, we delve into the essence of building a beautiful friendship with your partner. The best marriages are friends first. Even if you started off hot-n-heavy and forgot to build a deep friendship, it's never too late! With intention and an open heart, you can foster a connected friendship to be the foundation of a strong, healthy marri…
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It’s time to get a new bestie. Yourself! Just as we cultivate and cherish friendships with others, nurturing a positive relationship with oneself is equally important. We women need to do a better job of: 👉 Accepting ourselves, 👉 Having compassion on ourselves when we mess up 👉 And Having our own back in this one, beautiful life. When you treat you…
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It’s a beautiful thing to want to make your marriage better. It’s good to say, “There’s a better way to relate with each other than what we’ve been doing.” But trying to be perfect can hold you back from growth. Because perfectionism compares. It’s discouraging. It shames and blames. So how do we continue growing, while accepting that we are not pe…
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Ep 91: Loving Through Listening and Responding, A Conversation With My Husband
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All humans want the same thing - to be HEARD and SEEN. And when a marriage begins to feel disconnected, you don’t have to look too deep to realize that one or both partners are not feeling heard and seen. Our relationships often begin this way - where we know that our partner is truly seeing our deepest beauty. They’re supportive of our heart's des…
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Ep 90: Two Years Without Wine And Date Nights
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Are date nights a regular occurrence for you and your partner? If not, it’s time to prioritize it. But what would you even do - dinner and a movie? I LOVE dinner and a movie. But I also like to spice it up sometimes and think outside the box. In today’s episode, I share with you several ideas to take your dates to the next level and welcome in more…
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Holy Moly! We need some fun in our lives! Sometimes life can get so busy and hectic that we forget to feed our soul's desire for freedom and fun. And that’s when life becomes boring and stagnant - even though you feel like you’re moving at lightning speed all day. When life stays the same and you feel bored, your brain tries to fix the problem by c…
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Ep 88: How To Have Better Family Vacations
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In this episode, I'll show you how to have a family vacation that is full of fun, connection, and peace as you create incredible memories with your family. And it starts with accepting that it doesn't have to be perfect! You'll learn why vacations are important and how to cultivate precisely what you need out of it. Can we be honest here? Vacations…
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Every long-term committed couple will have issues to navigate in their sex life. It's important to know this. You are normal. Nothing is wrong with you if you feel like something is lacking in your sex life. The business of life, parenting, different goals, communication issues, and changing hormones can all affect a couple's passion. And most coup…
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Ep 86: How To Manage Money When You Love Spending: With Financial Coach, Franchelle Caesar
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Are you a spender? You know if you are. The impulse buys online. The Amazon purchases so frequent that you have no clue what those 7 Amazon charges are in your credit card statement. And the coffee shop down the road? You might as well just give them your credit card to keep on file at this point. Every month you try to reign in the spending and yo…
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Ep: 85 How To Make Decisions When Your Desires Don’t Align
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In today’s Episode of Joyful Love, we delve into the topic of compromise in relationships and the importance of finding joy while making tough decisions. Both you and your partner have desires, dreams and opinions. And they matter - for you and your partner. Making compromises with a partner can be challenging, especially when desires differ greatl…
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Ep 84: Five Questions To Create Massive Vision For Your Marriage
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In today's episode, we will be discussing the importance of having a clear picture of what you want in your relationship and why it matters. Often, we focus too much on the negative aspects of our marriage, but by taking the time to dream up what we want and asking ourselves practical questions, we can begin to create a roadmap toward our ideal fut…
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Ep 83: Create A Healthy Relationship With Genuine Acts Of Kindness
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Love is a feeling. It’s also a verb. I talk a lot about thoughts and feelings on this podcast. And while your thoughts are the root of your results, without actions your partner may not know you love them! And vice versa, of course. So in today’s episode, we’ll be discussing the importance of being an action taker in your own love life. Expressing …
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Ep 82: Top 4 Skills To Improve Your Relationship: A Conversation With My Client, Laurel Budinot
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In today’s episode of Joyful Love, I have a treat for you! Laurel Budinot is a current client of mine. We’ve been working together for 5 months. She's been all in for the coaching experience and has created massive change in her life and marriage. She is uncovering her own wisdom and inner beauty more and more every day. In this episode, she shares…
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Ep 81: How To Stop Feeling Irritated and Build Connection With More Ease
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In today's episode, we are revisiting the workshop I taught at the beginning of April. You'll learn why you're feeling so irritated (Hint: it's not because your partner is just too annoying after all!) And you'll learn how to stop the irritation and see things from a new perspective. This isn't sticking your head in the sand and pretending that eve…
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We often want more connection and vulnerability in our relationship but we’re not sure where to begin. Great questions can open the door to feeling heard and seen - which is the deepest desire of every human! If you’re tired of asking “How was your day” without it resulting in good conversation, you need better questions! Listen to this episode of …
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It can be scary to expose your true self and feelings to another person - especially when you want that person to like you - forever! So it's easy to avoid vulnerability in our most intimate relationships. However, if you want a connected, intimate marriage, it's important to build a culture of vulnerability in your home. In this episode, you'll le…
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You can have goals in life - from simple things you’d like to accomplish around the house to big bodacious dreams! But if you don’t plan the path to your goals, they’ll take longer than they need to or they’ll never get out of your head and become a reality. I want you to achieve your goals. I want your heart's desires to be realized! That’s why to…
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Ep 77: Heal Your Relationship With Your Mother-In-Law
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Today, we’ll be talking about the ultimate boss battle: your relationship with your mom and/or your mother-in-law! It’s a topic that makes many people shiver! Managing our relationships with our mothers can be challenging, and if there’s tension between you and your mother-in-law, it can create rifts in your relationships with your partner. From pa…
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Ep: 76: How To Stop Quitting On Your Goals
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We've all done it. Made a New Year's Resolution or set a goal and determined once and for all that you are going to achieve it! You were motivated - for a week. And then, you went right back to your old habits. So what gives? Why do you want this goal so badly, and yet give up on it over and over? Good news: There's nothing wrong with you. It's not…
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Ep 75: How To Connect When Your Partner Isn't Trying
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Are you showing up, trying to be the best partner possible, and yet your spouse isn't meeting you in the middle? You probably feel like you're carrying all the weight in the relationship and wondering if they even want this marriage to work. Do you finally just throw in the towel and say, "I'm done"? Or do you give it another try? Only you know the…
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Ep 74: Don't Rush Your Relationship Goals
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Do you feel pressure to meet your relationship goals fast? You want better communication, more intimacy, and you want to feel like a team. And you want it yesterday already! I get it. Once we know what we want and decide to go after it, we want to hurry up and see success. But what if your growth in certain areas is slow ... and as long as there is…
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Ep 73: The Problem With The Five Love Languages
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Have you ever tried using the Five Love Languages to help your relationship and ended up disappointed, confused, and thinking you and your partner are just not compatible? Yup - welcome to the club. You’re not alone. It’s a beautiful idea that the more we understand our own love language and our partners - we can KNOW how to love better!Unfortunate…
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Ep 72: Two Must-Have Goals That Will Create Freedom In Your Soul
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It's a brand new year! It's the time for intentions, self-reflection, and goal setting. And I'm here for it! But sometimes we can try to cram in so many goals around health, wealth, family life, and work that we forget that our soul has desires too. Our soul desires to connect, create, and contribute to the world around us. It's important that we d…
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Ep 71: Respect Your Nervous System During Difficult Conversations
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In today's episode, I share with you why you should embrace your Nervous System as your wise BFF! We've all been in difficult conversations where our body starts to react. We want to run, hide, scream, fight, or even freeze. Or maybe it's your partner that has a fight-or-flight response. What are you even arguing about at this point? Tomorrow you…
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Ep 70: Being Open To Influence From Your Partner
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In today's episode of the Joyful Love Podcast, you'll hear Day 3 of The Connected Communication challenge. These skills will help you build connection and friendship with your life-long partner! You'll learn: 1. Why you shouldn't be a mind-reader. 2. How to be open to your partner's influence - even if you're independent and opinionated like me! An…
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Ep: 69 Get Curious and Assume The Best To Create Deep Connection
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In today's episode, I share Day 2 of The Connected Communication Challenge. You'll learn how assuming the best of your partner and a curious mind make your discussions easier. And as a BONUS, you'll learn why the brain wants to hold you back from growth and change and what to do about it! Enjoy today's episode with your partner and begin pract…
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EP 68: How Increasing Self Worth Makes Communication Easier
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In our conversations with our loved ones, we can get real critical real quick. “If he’d just do things this way, he’d be better.” “If she’d act this way, I could love her easier.”And with each critical thought or remark, we hold ourselves back from deep connection between our soul and our partner's soul.But it doesn’t start (or stop) with our loved…
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Ep 67: How To Manage The Holidays Without Overwhelm
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The Holidays are among us and it’s a beautiful time to give and receive. But what do we really want this month? Many of us want rest and recovery. We want to hunker down and sit by the fire reading books and sleeping in a little longer. We want the comforts of home and peace. We want long snuggles with our loved ones! However, with all the extras i…
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Ep 66: Do This When Your Monkey Brain Is On Over-Drive
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This week we continue the conversation about fear and love. How do we let love lead when fear is the overwhelming emotion? How do you calm the animal brain so you can relax and take action from love?The truth is fear rises in many situations - whether it’s actual danger, perceived danger, or even the fear of judgment. So you need a process to take …
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Ep 65: Almost Empty Nesters and The Drive To Protect
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In today's episode, I get personal and record on the fly in my car. I feel like for the past 6 months our family life has been in constant change. So much newness and change and wonder. And with change can come fear. So what do we do with fear? Is it helpful? Is it necessary? Or is there a balance to bring in .... with Love and Trust? Tune into tod…
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