Communication between partners can get very sticky around the holidays so today we’re taking some time to allow you a chance to refresh and review the best ways to communicate as partners of each type. It won’t be easy at times, but these E + M quick tips will help you to have a beautiful glow all season long. Listen now to add a little sparkle of kindness into your season! Watch on YouTube! https://youtu.be/hzAwqYyn6DM

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We see others' shadows readily, but seeing and releasing our own shadows is where the real change begins, even as we learn to move beyond our protective but maladaptive shadow responses. Today we talk with master Enneagram teacher Leslie Hershberger about how to release your most polarizing dynamics as we walk through each and every personality type. This is a deeper dive Enneagram-specific master training you don’t want to miss! Watch on YouTube! https://youtu.be/lNdEtSaf3Gc

Find Leslie's truly life-changing work and courses here: https://lesliehershberger.com/

More about Leslie:

Leslie has been working with the 3 centered Enneagram for over 20 years as a consultant, master teacher, coach, spiritual guide, facilitator and mentor. I am certified in the Narrative Tradition, certified in the Enneagram in Business, have served as a mentor for students and teachers in training, keynoted at conferences, have served on the board of the International Enneagram Association and I’m former editor of Nine Points Magazine, the online magazine of the IEA.

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With the holidays around the corner, it’s time to get refreshed and to get into better habit-building for you and your marriage and family. Today Christa takes you through five areas for better habit-building that you can work on individually or together with us! Take a moment to set some Atomic Habits around fitness, food, communication, marriage, and tech this season. Watch on YouTube here! https://youtu.be/xCGF7tIgppo

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Modern-day kids have so much to contend with between technology, AI, and also just learning who they’re becoming as they rapidly change. As a parent, you want to give them great tools to learn about who they are and who they’re becoming and the Enneagram offers such a big help with this! Join us in a pivotal conversation about the Enneagram and kids right here! Whether you're trekking through this stage now or just want to have fun with us as you look out at what's on the horizon, your kids and you deserve the very best together as you help build their gifts with intention. To help you, we have Enneagram expert and teen expert Ainsley Britain (Wild Confidence Podcast), Enneagram 2 (2-3 Pairing), and author of the Enneagram For Teens as well as an afterword w/Hannah Hardin, Enneagram 4, an Enneagram teen talking with Christa about how the Enneagram will help you and your developing kids as well as some cautionary reminders! We even share together more intimately as well, with a few snippets from Christa’s mom's journal from when she was parenting Christa as a teen as well (post-audio episode only). This is a fun episode sprinkled with wisdom and encouragement for you and your future or current family and community! Don't miss it or Ainsley's awesome book for teens, their families, and their mentors! Watch YouTube! https://youtu.be/qjWL2kIJR48

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Also mentioned on the podcast: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt https://a.co/d/fWuedCc

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Maintaining peace is hard on a week when the world feels a bit less stable during election week. Here are three tips for maintaining peace as you learn to focus on the here and on what you can do to take your peace back. Listen to this mini-episode here! Watch on YouTube here! https://youtu.be/cYNPrvfP9I0

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When we stop talking, we stop connecting, and this is a week in the world when we realize that kind and deep conversations are more essential than ever. Yet when we’re exhausted and weary of the distancing that can come with conflict, it’s difficult to know where to start. Today we're grateful for popular Marriage365 experts and authors Casey and Meygan Caston, who have the #1 Marriage App sharing with us about how we can hold safe and deep conversations regularly with joy. Here they walk us through both ways to have the more intense deep conversations as well as the light and fun conversational points for connecting us on day-to-day and date night levels.

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The term mental load is a hot-button issue right now in relationships, and for good reason. Many individuals, often women, but sometimes men too, find themselves in a never-ending but invisible stage-manager-like role for the family. They are behind-the-scenes, organizing everything and everyone and burnout hits hard. Tune in to this E + M mini episode today to find out more about how you can reduce mental load and find more joy in your life together again. 

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Want to share your mystery story ending to our Creative Writing Mystery contest? Enter the contest to win a free game by exercising your creative writing this spooky season. Submitting your story ending using the prompt at the beginning of today's pod! Share it with us at [email protected] or [email protected]

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Many times we want to work everything out relationally with our partner, but often the work must start within by finding your beliefs, emotions, and story. Today we have the rich expertise of husband, father, photographer, and marriage and family therapist Blake Roberts, MMFT, Enneagram 9 to help us through to trauma to regulation. Join us for an important talk with action steps for you regarding how you can find your stride, and learn more about Blake and his 9-2 story as well right here, too!

Watch on YouTube here! https://youtu.be/eTheRuiHC4c

Find Blake on his website to find his practice, writing, and upcoming podcast: https://www.blakerobertscounseling.com/ and write to him at [email protected]

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When you're feeling misaligned as a couple, relationship desire is lower and you feel so misunderstood. Today not only do you get to walk through the various ways couples can become misaligned, but most importantly Christa guides you back to alignment together right here! You'll find out ways every type comes to find themselves misaligned as well as get step-by-step processes for finding the ways you join best once again or for the very first time. Listen to this E + M Mini episode here!

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Authenticity is deeply important for a thriving marriage, yet authenticity without intentional growth can bring out the very worst of humanity. Listen to this foundational E + M episode to learn several ways to thrive in authenticity and as a result, bring your marriage to new levels of acceptance, love, and grace, even if you've had an avoidant or anxious attachment in the past, and been afraid to be real. We cover stories, tangible ways to grow in authenticity, and most of all, how you can grow closer.

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In our series, we’ve been connecting on how desire is built, but in this deeper dive episode, we talk about what prevents desire and how it is lost and recovered. We talk about the shadows we carry that carry us farther apart from another and how to return home to desire for one another as well.

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