In the 95th Episode of The Couples Expert Podcast Stuart talks about ways to take your good relationship and make it truly great relationship. The truth is, greatness resides in all of us; you merely need to know how to tap into it and bring it out. Each relationship has room for improvement, and if you listen today, you will learn that even if you think your relationship is going fine, it’s good, you can make it even better. Shoot for the stars!

Quote:” When someone else’s happiness is your happiness that is love.”

When you’re in a great relationship, you and your partner are so in synch, so close and connected that you are each other’s happiness. All of the love and emotion that you feel is linked to your partner. If they’re sad, you feel it. You share both joy and sorrow together.  All the negative and positive emotions are felt by both of you and your main purpose in life is to make each other happy. Your relationship will take priority over anything else that’s happening and your mission in life is to have that relationship with your partner where you feel connected, close, and important.

Tune in to Episode 95, Turning A Good Relationship Into A Great Relationship.

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Tune in to the 94th Episode of the Couples Expert Podcast! In this episode Stuart and his special guest talk about the latest innovations in research and information on love and relationships. This podcast is all about some newer therapeutic tools and techniques that are being used to help individuals and couples. Especially those who have had trauma or suffering in their past.

 “Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” – Gary Zukav

When it comes to healing, no matter what you’re healing from love is the answer.

Because wiith love, everything is easier, you don’t feel alone, and you can trust the one you love to support you and be there for you and help you as you heal. Sometimes it’s the mere presence of the one you love that makes you feel secure and safe. The love that you and your partner share helps you to heal from past hurts and allows you to look ahead towards the future.

Stuarts guest on the show this week is Jackie Leger, LPC. Jackie recently joined the Couples Experts as part of the clinical staff. She specializes in EMDR therapy. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. This therapy model is being used extensively for trauma and PTSD sufferers with excellent results. This is used in conjunction with traditional talk therapy with great success.

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In this episode of the Couples Expert Podcast Stuart will talk about someone he greatly admires, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King’s life and message was all about love, peace and affecting change without violence. These are attributes that are definitely still needed in the world today. Stuart talks about some of the lessons he learned about love from Dr. King

Stuart discusses some of the lessons he learned about love from Dr. King. Whether you remember Dr. King, and the incredible impact he had on this country during the era of the Civil Rights Movement, or not; even if you’re in the generations that have grown up since his untimely death in 1968, his influence and his great words still echo down through history. Love is the answer.

What you will learn today:

• How authenticity is needed in our relationships at 12:05
• What to do when you are triggered or argue 14:30
• Why you should fight for connection 15:28
• What having a peaceful home can do for you 17:50
• What a dream for your life can be 20:06

The takeaway from the message of Martin Luther King, Jr. is that love in action is the most powerful force in the Universe. That hate meeting hate, anger and violence meeting anger and violence only creates more of the same. What we need is to put love in action in our everyday lives, with our partners and our family and friends.

Quote:  “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.” MLK

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In this episode of The Couples Experts podcast, Stuart welcomes Couples Expert Kelsey Blythe to discuss issues surrounding being prepared for marriage and setting yourselves up for a lifetime together in a happy and successful marriage. Kelsey is new to the Couples Expert staff, and has been a warm and wonderful addition to the team. She is running the premarital program at the Couples Experts and we’re very happy to have her on board. Kelsey herself has recently gotten engaged to be married so she will be speaking on a personal as well as professional level on the topic of premarital counseling. Take a listen!

In this episode you will learn:  

• Why working on and maintaining your relationship is vitally important at  9:50
• How you can be proactive about problems at 13:40
• Premarital counseling helps couples do more than work out details about the marriage, it helps them decide about their commitment at 17:30
• A custom program for couples that contains EFT(Emotionally Focused Therapies) focuses less on  content than the connection between the couples at 19:30
• What a premarital counseling session is like at 22:00
• Why having a counselor as a resource throughout the marriage is helpful  25:57

Premarital counseling can help couples to prepare for their marriage by opening up discussion on topics ranging from finances to family planning. Couples learn how to communicate on a deeper level and are prepared to navigate the bumps in the road that inevitably come during marriage.

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