If you and your partner want to improve your communication in 2024, here are 4 common sticking points that you will need to overcome.

January is a time of New Year resolutions, commitments to do better, and learning something new.

Here are 4 things to consider if you and your partner want to improve your communication in 2024.

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If you are wondering if you and your partner are compatible, or if you should break up, Alexandra has questions to consider to help you decide if you want to continue in your relationship.

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If you are looking for a sustainable, long-term relationship, this is the episode for you. Dr. Gottman reviews how to find safety and security in a love relationship.

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If you are looking for a sustainable, long-term relationship, this is the episode for you. Dr. Gottman reviews how to find safety and security in a love relationship.

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After being sleep-deprived, I was reminded about how important sleep is to a happy, healthy and harmonious relationship.

At risk of sharing overly simplistic suggestions, in this podcast we are talking about the importance of good sleep hygiene and the impact on a relationship.

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Tanner and Anne found themselves disconnected and hopeless as Tanner struggled with chronic pain. In this episode, they share how Tanner healed from his pain, and how their relationship healed too. Both Social Workers, Tanner and Anne share a unique perspective how pain impacts not only the person suffering but also the relationship.

In this episode we cover:

- Relationship healing

- Structural pain vs. somatic pain

- Mind-body concerns

- How understanding led to healing

- Communication as a couple

- Overcoming hardship as a couple

Website: https://www.painpsychotherapy.ca/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/painpsychotherapy/

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Have you tried to raise an issue to your partner and rather than hear you, they whine, make excuses, or worse – they turn the issue on you?

Maybe you are the person who responds in these ways, and you don’t know why you do this.

In this podcast I will cover the common reasons people are defensive, and how to overcome it.

In this podcast we discuss:

- 5 reasons people are defensive

- The role of criticism

- What to do if you’re defensive

- Tools to change defensiveness

- Tools to decrease the chances your partner is defensive

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If you want to reignite the spark in your sex life, and gain a practical tool to keep your sexual pilot light on, check out this episode with Gina Gutierrez.

In this episode we discuss:

- The link between imagination and arousal

- Responsive vs spontaneous sexual desire

- Scheduling sex and spontaneous sex

- How “shoulds” can get in the way of a fulfilling sex life

- The role of fantasy in sex

Link for the 30 day free trial to Dipsea: https://www.dipseastories.com/PSYCH or click here.

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Do you and your partner struggle to communicate? Have you ever experienced…

- Things you thought were small issues turn into a blowout fight.

- Your partner tells you they feel criticized.

- You see your partner walk away in conflict and it makes you upset.

        - You’re unsure what is going wrong and why you are fighting so much with the person you love.

In this episode, we are going to cover what Drs. John and Julie Gottman studied relationships and identified what they call the Four Horsemen of conflict discussions. When these communications styles make up the majority of interactions, the relationship breaks down. When couples come to me for communication issues, most of the time these four communication patterns are dominating their communication and their relationship.  

Link to Communication Cures

https://www.emberrelationshippsychology.com/communication-cures

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This authentic conversation about struggles, triumphs and the courage to be selfish with herself left me compelled to be more vulnerable and braver in so many areas of my life.

If you are looking for a story about overcoming incredible odds to overcome challenges, breaking multi-generational cycles and healing this is the podcast for you.

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Yesterday I sat down at the dinner table with my husband, and we ate in silence. We were both tired, it had been a long day, and I thought “what if this is what our relationship was like?”. I would probably feel lonely, disconnected, and bored.

I can imagine over a series of silent dinner eating, I might feel like we are drifting apart. Or I might even get mad on the inside that he wasn’t talking to me (even though I could have initiated the dialogue).

I have clients tell me that at first the silence was like an ache in their chest, but over time the ache hardened into awall. They stopped caring that they weren’t connected, instead they built a wall between them and their partner and shut down their emotional connection.

If you have had many moments in silence, are feeling disconnected, and want to rekindle the connection between you and your partner, here are some practical tools to help you do that.

1. Use conversation starters to help you have great connections.

2. Think/talk about what is going right.

We have gone over two tools to help improve your emotional connection. Look, you can’t start and keep a fire going without fuel and a spark. In your relationship, you need a spark of willingness to take action, and the fuel is both partners engaging repeatedly in actions/beliefs that will fuel the relationship.

Connection isn’t a one-and-done process. It needs to be consistently worked on over the course of the relationship to keep the connection alive.

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