195. High Conflict Couples
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Virginia Gilbert is a licensed marriage and family therapists serving clients in North Carolina and California. She specializes in helping people go through high conflict divorce, relationship problems with their partner and attachment trauma. In this episode, Virgina and I have a conversation about high conflict couples including high conflict divorce and ways to manage this dynamic. High conflict couples have a lot of intense, out-of-control, hurtful fights. Usual the fights are complicated, twisty, blaming, and contemptuous. The fighting also escalates quickly and both people say and do...
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194. What To Do After a Fight
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Corey Costanzo is the Co-Owner of Asheville’s Still Point Wellness Spa, a licensed addiction counselor, trauma specialist, licensed massage therapist, master didgeridoo player, colleague, and good friend. In this episode, Corey and I have a conversation about what to do after a fight with your partner. We share our strategies and stories with our own spouses as well as tips and tools from working with our clients. We also stress how important it is to reflect on your own role. Think about how you may have contributed to the disagreement and how you could communicate better next time and...be...
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193. Empower Yourself and Your Relationships Through Dance and Movement
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In this episode, I have a conversation with Misa Terral. Misa Terral is founder of Soulpower Dance, offering transformational classes for embodiment, joy, and self-healing. Her training as a licensed Occupational Therapist specializing in sensory integration, a certified Death Doula, and in nature-based spirituality cultivated her unique style of teaching and empowering others. She facilitates programming for the nonprofit Dance to Be Free, taking the healing power of dance to prisons. You can find her soon on Dance and Movement are wonderful ways for us to embody our authenticity and express...
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192. How to Listen Without Being Defensive
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In this episode, I have a conversation with Cathy Courtenay. Cathy is a relational coach and facilitator. She works with both couples and individuals who are striving to find deeper connection and intimacy both with themselves and each other. She helps her clients to see the patterns of relating that are holding them back from what they truly desire. Cathy also facilitates the practice of the Circling Method where she creates a safe space for people where they can stand in their truth and experience what is real for them. Responding to life’s call to find truth, Cathy is committed to a...
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191. Navigating Being in Business with Your Spouse
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Robin Fann-Costanzo is the Co-Owner of Asheville’s Still Point Wellness Spa, a licensed massage and bodywork therapist, Esalen massage instructor and practitioner, craniosacral therapist, somatic experiencing practitioner, and yoga instructor. In this episode, Robin and I have a conversation about the challenges and benefits of working in business with your spouse or partner. Many couples that work together have a challenging time navigating their business relationship and their personal relationship. Robin gives her experience of what work and what doesn’t in her relationship with her...
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190. The Importance of Men’s Work and Men’s Groups
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In this episode I have a conversation with Thomas Doochin. Thomas is a men's work Facilitator, a farmer, and a storyteller. He lives with his family in the mountains surrounding Asheville, NC. Thomas is a believer in Life and human's innate capacity to bring forth more Beauty. For 9 years, Thomas led Daymaker, a social impact startup that grew to serving kids in over 30 states. He is also my neighbor and dear friend. Thomas and I have a very heartfelt conversation of the deep challenges and deep joys of men opening their hearts to one another This is the healing work so many men are incredibly...
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189. Rebuilding Trust Through Non-Violent Communication
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In this episode I have a conversation with Zucu Ingersoll. Zucu is a relationship facilitator and relational healing guide. She is a perennial (and stumbling) student of the spiritual paradigms and practical skills that lead to deeply satisfying relationships. She and her beloved work as a team supporting individuals, couples, and groups who long for relational healing and the deepening of authentic connection You can learn more about their work at . Zucu shares some past incidences in her relationship with her husband Eric where they needed to repair their relationship, learn the skills to...
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188. Fantasy vs. Reality and the Effects on Relationships
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In this episode I have a conversation with Eric Ingersoll. Eric is a relationship transformation guide. He knows transformation from the inside out, because he is walking this path himself. Once a brooding indie-rock musician using sexual fantasy to try and meet his needs for aliveness and acceptance, he has since learned the relational skills that empower him to get his needs met in his real-life relationships. By cultivating a magical blend of intimacy and autonomy, he and his wife are falling more deeply in love with each passing day. They now work as a team supporting individuals and...
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187. The Householder’s Path: Sacred Practice for Everyday Life
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In this episode I have a conversation with Mana Vermeulen-McLeod . Mana has been an Earthaven Ecovillage (in Black Mountain, NC) resident and member since 2007. She believes in the potential of transformation in each present moment. She is a mother, natural builder, hair-dresser and conflict mediator at her village. A social activist committed to anti-oppression work in areas of race, gender and class differences. Always a student of life, she has worked as a student advisor for Gaia University, where she also received her Associate Degree in Integrated Eco-social Design. She is now...
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186. Compromising in a Relationship
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In this episode I have a conversation with my wife, Yvonne Rainbow Teplitsky. She is the founder of Artsy Goddess Studio, where she actively carries out her role in helping others and the planet heal. Rainbow is passionate about art, as seen in the upcycled clothing she creates from second-hand materials, as well as the visual arts she creates, such as murals, paintings, and tapestries. She also helps women transform through voice empowering workshops and helps couples through workshops and retreats that she co-facilitates with me. We talk about how to compromise in a relationship. What makes...
info_outlineAl Bailey has been a student of the healing arts for over 30 years. Al uses his wisdom on the relationship between mind and body to help his clients return to their authentic breathing and facilitate healing and self-awareness. In addition to being a licensed massage and bodywork therapist, Al is the owner of BreatheAboutLife, a center for inner healing. Through BreatheAboutLife, he provides NOWON Bodywork, life-coaching, and Mind/Foot Circle Walking sessions to his clients to bring them to the ultimate healing.
In today’s episode, Al and I discuss how body awareness can help us relate and gain more insight into ourselves and the world. We explain how the body can speak through inflammation and disease. We describe the effects of craniosacral work and self-awareness on relationships and health. We also illustrate how a lack of self-awareness can create addictions as well as underscore the importance of self-care in improving compassion for others.
“Understanding comes from practicing the awareness that we’ve gained. Watching the breath is an awareness. When you practice that awareness, you gain more insight.” - Al Bailey
This week on Relationships! Let’s Talk About It:
- The importance of understanding our body
- How the body stores insight, wisdom, and information
- How the ego and suppressing emotions can create disease
- How couples create a “single body” and how they can make it healthy
- What is Mind/Foot Circle Walking and how it helps bring awareness
- The effects of regular craniosacral bodywork sessions and how it changes relationships
- How to take control of emotional pain
- How I managed pain while meditating for the first time
- Why Al encourages people to find work that they love
- The importance of self-care in enriching compassion for others
- How a lack of self-awareness can cause addiction
- Morning and night routines to help you reconnect with your physical and mental alignment
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