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Acting from Integrity – Balancing Personal Growth with Relationship Growth – Knowing When You Are Out of Love – Making the Right Choices

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Acting from Integrity – Balancing personal growth with relationship growth – Knowing when you are out of love – Making the right choices
Acting from Integrity – Balancing personal growth with relationship growth – Knowing when you are out of love – Making the right choices
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Acting from Integrity – Balancing personal growth with relationship growth – Knowing when you are out of love – Making the right choices
May 29, 2016

A listener calls me out and tells me, “You couldn’t take a couple of minutes to answer me personally?”

I read her message on the air and respond to it. I always do my best to act from a place of integrity but did I mess up this time? 

Also, I received an email from someone in a relationship that may not work out. She wants to know how to balance her own personal growth with the work she’s done in her relationship (and not ruin that work). And she also wants to know if she’s done everything she can do before leaving the relationship. ‘Have I turned the last “Falling out of love” stone before I completely give in to the truth?’

When do you really know when you’re out of love?

There’s also another segment on how an Adult Child of an Alcoholic can trust themselves after living a life without it. Self-trust is a process and there is a way to have it again.

Filed Under: Behavior, Decisions, Human Potential, Relationships Tagged With: Balancing Personal Growth with Relationship Growth, Knowing When You Are Out of Love, Learning how to act from Integrity, Making the Right Choices

The Kids Episode – For Kids And The Kid In You

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The Kids Episode – For Kids And The Kid In You
The Kids Episode – For Kids And The Kid In You
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The Kids Episode – For Kids And The Kid In You
May 22, 2016

Kids get overwhelmed brains too. After hearing from a few kids that listen to the show, I decided to dedicate an episode talking about the hardships that kids face.

From school and getting made fun of, to home and some of the dysfunctions that can be present there.

Kids have it tough because the whole world is new and they are having experiences on the fly. Whereas adults already have so much experience under their belt that they may have forgotten the plight of being a kid and what it takes to get through some of life’s more challenging situations.

Even as adults, we have a kid in us that wants to cry, play, laugh, get angry, and more, so we need to learn to nurture the kid in us to have a more balanced, happier life. 

Whether you’re a kid or not, and whether you have kids or not, there is something in this episode for everyone.

 

Filed Under: Behavior, Family, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Relationships Tagged With: For The Kid In You, Kids Episode

Depending on Abusive People – When Physical Pain Will Not End – Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You

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Depending on Abusive People – When Physical Pain Will Not End – Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You
Depending on Abusive People – When Physical Pain Will Not End – Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You
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Depending on Abusive People – When Physical Pain Will Not End – Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You
April 24, 2016

Being in an abusive relationship of any kind, especially where you have a dependency on the abuser for one reason or another, leaves you in a tough spot.

Can you leave and still be okay, or are you so dependent that leaving will put you in a worse situation? This is a tough position to be in, so what do you do? I talk about this in segment 1. 

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Filed Under: Behavior, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Relationships Tagged With: Depending on Abusive People, Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You?, When Physical Pain Will Not End

The Delay of Relationship Happiness

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The desire to end

One of the issues some of my previous coaching clients had was a partner that couldn’t seem to make up their mind.

Their partners knew there were problems in the relationship, yet they still procrastinated or said things like, “Yeah, I know I have problems. I’m working on them.”

I know this response well because that used to be me! 

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Filed Under: Behavior, Human Potential, Relationships Tagged With: argue, marriage, relationship, trouble

The Fish Who Taught Compassion

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Since I moved in with my girlfriend in 2015, I’ve been feeding our fish, Flash, every morning. She says I feed him too much which is why he is so much larger than when I first moved in. I say he got larger because we got a bigger tank.

This debate may go on for years!

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Filed Under: Behavior, Beliefs, Compassion, Healthy Thinking, Human Potential Tagged With: Compassion for all living things, do animals have emotions?, Fish have emotions too

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