I’m so excited about today’s podcast. It will help so many of you get more out of your relationship. Has anyone had to be your dream killer? My life’s passion is working in the field of therapy to help couples enjoy their relationships. Today’s topic is infidelity. It’s a sad part of relationships. Affairs come in various forms - financial affairs, emotional affairs, sexual affairs. It doesn’t have to spell the end of your relationship. You can come back after an affair and have a committed and beautiful relationship.

Alicia Taverner is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, with a Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communications from the University of La Verne, and a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University.

Alicia specializes in helping women find the calm within the storm of some of the most difficult relationship struggles such as infidelity, divorce, and break-up. Alicia is also a trained Discernment Counselor, and helps couples explore options for continuing their relationship despite some very heavy challenges. She resides in the Inland Empire with her husband and two children. Her personal passions include biking, snowboarding, yoga, and spending time with family and friends. 

You can read the full show notes at www.thecouplesexpertscottsdale.com.

Being in a relationship is hard work. Add to that, being part of a couple where both are entrepreneurs, and you end up with a completely different dynamic. The sacrifices involved in entrepreneurship can be that you sacrifice relationships for the pursuit of wealth.

Is it possible to have a balanced relationship, a growing business and not sacrificing financial success in the meantime? That’s what our guest today is here to talk about. Leisa Peterson has a program that will get you to this point in your life.

Leisa Peterson has spent the last 25 years in the money business. She was drawn to it because she had some deep scarcity issues. Eventually, she was able to do more “in the business” by being aware of how money affects people.

Join us for this enlightening conversation!

You can read the full show notes and access all the links and resources at www.thecouplesexpertscottsdale.com

Today’s guest is Cait Wotherspoon and we are talking about grief and loss. We’ve just passed the 15th anniversary of 9/11 and our mood has been somber and reflective in observance of that horrid day. My brother was actually in a meeting in the World Trade Center a day or two before the attack. It really makes you realize that we have so much to be thankful for and how much we should appreciate the relationships we have.

With our relationships, we take in information and analyze it, and assign ow own interpretation of that information, and that colors our interactions with those people in our lives. If we didn’t do that, we could be much freer in our relationships. Much of Cait’s work deals with the grief of losing a child.

Cait Wotherspoon is a Therapist from Australia. She grew up wanting to be a prima ballerina and at 14, she became a ballet teacher and choreographer. She ended up meeting her husband later and it changed the course of her life. She had a toddler and was expecting twins, and one of her twins passed away, and she had multiple other family tragedies on top of that. I am so glad to welcome Cait to the show to talk about the very important topic of dealing with grief and loss.

You can read the full show notes and access the Cait's FREE gift at www.thecouplesexpertscottsdale.com

This year I’m doing a podcast on my birthday. On September 18, I will be 61. As a look back over my life, I can see how my relationships have shaped my entire life. My relationship with my significant other has allowed me to have a perspective on this world that it’s a great place to be. 

Things haven’t always been great, though. I know what it’s like to have a darkness in your perspective that comes from you not knowing that you are accepted, loved and connected to another person in a significant way. You can even begin to question what the point of life is. It’s a really bleak place to be. 

I’ve been on both sides of the relationship extremes, and I want to talk to you about what I did to go from disconnected, dark and bleak, to connected, happy and optimistic. My wife Debbie has been the one person in my life that has made it worth living!

Having a relationship with a therapist isn’t always easy, if you aren’t in the same field. But I am in an environment everyday that is happy, fulfilled and filled with positivity. It makes me see the world through a clearer, brighter lens. I am a better person and all the things I enjoy doing are more fun than ever. 

People talk about relationships as if they are optional. Without connected relationships, our world is dark and bleak.

In this episode, we talk about why love is so much more than a 4-letter word! Join us!