Conversations from the Heart
Listen to live mini-coaching moments focused on helping people connect with themselves and others by speaking their truth with kindness and compassion, and listening through new filters. Get new scripts for stuck situations, hear new ways of responding to old relationship dynamics and become inspired to learn more about how tools like mindfulness, self-regulations, boundaries, nonviolent communication and empathic self-leadership can help you have more meaningful relationships with others.
Episodes
60 episodes since 2020
#59 - Transforming Cultural Norms for Healthier Relationships
We've all been well trained in the rules of the game we all know. We've been taught to be dutiful children, loving siblings, tolerant friends.But when some of us realize that we've outgrown the status quo, it can feel like an act ...
September 16, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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50:27
# 58 - Can We Inspire Care from Others?
Love cannot be ordered up. Care cannot be demanded. If we want certain people to love us, or care about us, is there anything we can do to make that more likely? This episode explores various relational moves...
September 09, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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48:36
#57 - How Can I Get You to Be Real With Me?
We may be interested in living an authentic, honest life.Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily mean those we're closest to are interested in doing the same thing.The easiest way to encourage those around us to show up authenti...
September 02, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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47:22
#56 - How to Get More of What You Want: Difficult Family Member Edition
Navigating relationships with difficult family members can sometimes be a Herculean task.This episode highlights four main strategies for walking the path of authentic communication with family members who can be hard to connect with:
August 26, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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46:11
#55 - How to Stay Engaged When You Want to Run
Changing our default patterns in relationships takes intention and effort. Whether we're wanting to act differently with loved ones at home or with strangers in public, relational transformation starts by turning inward and working with o...
August 19, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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43:13
#54 - Fitting In vs. Belonging
This week's episode explores themes of belonging, and the human need we all share for community.We explore:1:59 I don't feel like I belong anywhere5:50 Rising into grandiosity or sinking into sha...
August 12, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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48:02
#53 How To Change Other People (Nonviolently, of course)
This week's episode is an investigation into working things through in relationship: with our extended family, our mothers, our daughters, and ourselves.We explore:1:18 The dynamics I see in my nieces and...
August 05, 2024
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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53:05
#52 - Addressing Racism at Work
This week's caller is looking for scripts that can help her call out some discriminatory dynamics at work. She asks: "I am facing new challenges in my work environment. More specifically, I am noticing weird racial dynamics (...
July 29, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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23:02
#51 What Can I Do When Someone Hears Blame in Everything I Say?
It's a common - if painful - dynamic: we want to share our pain with another in the hopes of receiving empathy, but their best move is to try and fix our pain by finding fault with something we've said or done.It is so hurtful to ...
July 22, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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27:09
#50 - 4 Scripts for Common Situations
It can be so difficult to know what to say next. Whether you need to have a personal or professional conversation, sometimes finding the words are hard.In this week's podcast, we script out four different conversations for four di...
July 15, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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48:42
#49 - When Belief Systems Collide
What do you do when you discover that a friend or loved one sees something in a polar opposite way to how you're seeing it? Are you able to stay in a place of grounded, open curiosity, or do you find yourself getting worked up and...
July 08, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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48:06
#48 - What can I do when you get triggered?
As we run through our everyday lives, we'll inevitably bump up against other humans who might be less resourced than we are. Catching others as they're having a bad day can provide us stellar opportunities to increase our own empa...
July 01, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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45:30
#47 - Working with Anxiety
Do you ever worry that empathy is getting in the way? In this week's episode, one caller worried that empathizing with his mother in law's fear of having cancer was actually making her anxiety worse, and not better. ...
June 24, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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49:41
#46 - How can I use NVC to smooth out tension with my adult daughter?
It's only human to want the traditional NVC formula to solve all our connection problems.However, what the traditional observation, feelings, needs and request paradigm often does best is help us sort our own stuff out internally, first...
June 17, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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18:58
#45 - How Can I Listen to My Spouse When I'm Feeling So Defensive?
Do you find yourself plotting out how you're going to respond to someone even while they're still talking to you?We all do this.And it never works well. Not for any of us.Upleveling our listening skills is one of t...
June 10, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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30:53
#44 - The Sweet Spot Between Giving and Receiving
In this week's mini-episode, we delve into the needs that can be met when our family steps up to contribute to our lives in meaningful, important ways, and the loneliness and grief that can occur when they are no longer willing to help....
June 03, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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16:37
#43 - How Can Rules be in Alignment with Nonviolence?
Having good boundaries is not the same as being violent, and enforcing rules is not coercion.In this week's episode, we unpack a professor's desire to limit coercion and violence in her classroom and her desire to create a tight contain...
May 27, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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14:00
#42 - What to Do When Your Boss Criticizes You
It can be hard to enjoy work f you're in a power up/power down situation with a boss who consistently criticizes you.It is especially challenging if you don't trust the perspective that your supervisor has.In today's mini-episod...
May 16, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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15:50
#41 - How to Increase Your Self-Worth
High self-esteem is important because it influences how individuals perceive themselves, interact with others, and navigate the world around them. By fostering healthy self-esteem, individuals can cultivate resilience, confidence, ...
May 13, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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48:40
#40 - The Wisdom Behind Anger
It can be really valuable to talk about the difference between anger and aggression.Although aggression can't exist outside of violence, anger can.This week's podcast discusses some of the wisdom that can present itself alongsid...
May 06, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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47:54
#39 - A Roadmap for Discussing Differences
These days, it can be so difficult to discuss politics and religion.Often, people tell me they just avoid those conversations. And honestly, I get it.However, if we're invested in co-creating a relationship with someone we...
April 24, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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55:28
#38 - How to Navigate Complex Family Dynamics by Checking for Alignment
This week's episode focuses on how to navigate complex family dynamics - especially when what has previously worked is no longer sustainable.A common theme on this week's podcast is the importance of checking for alignment. If we'...
April 18, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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51:57
# 37 - When Venting Is Valuable
"Venting" often gets a bad rap.Even though many people see "venting" as an inherently negative thing, knowing how to vent effectively can actually be an effective way of reclaiming and reconnecting with yourself. Sometimes...
April 15, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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43:19
#36 - Getting Grounded in Your Goodness
One of the things that can trip us up on our personal growth journey is to force the process before we're ready.I can think of so many times when I've been longing to master a skill that I was still practicing, and then criticizing myse...
April 08, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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55:30
#35 - How do I get my partner into therapy?
Today's conversation dives into the critical role of trust and communication in professional and personal relationships. Some of the questions we answer this week include: How do I handle having trust issues with m...
April 01, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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53:42