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Conversations from the Heart

A weekly, soul-nourishing podcast offering psychologically grounded, heart-centered reflections on human relationships, inner healing, and compassion-based communication. Focused on live mini-coaching moments to help callers shift from reactive, domination-based communication to collaborative, heart-centered connection. Listen for new scripts for stuck situations, new ways of responding to old relationship dynamics and guidance on how to approach these situations with empathy, self-awareness, and

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#69 - From Problem Solving to Emotional Presence

Conversations from the Heart ·

2024/11/25

Friendships can be so difficult to navigate sometimes. In today's conversation, we help identify the factors that can make friendships feel icky, and work out ways to show up authentically and with an open heart, rather than trying to problem solve.We discuss:1:00 Looking for an in-person opportunity to work with me? Consider attending my retreat!3:52 Help! My friend and I can really trigger each other.6:33 What to do when needs are different.10:38 We...

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#68 - Navigating Post-Election Conversations

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2024/11/18

Are you worried about Thanksgiving dinner conversations with family members who voted differently than you? In this week's episode, we listen to a conversation with Suzanne, who is trying to navigate issues of duty and connection with family members who don't share her values.We discuss:1:39 How do I explain to my family that I can't talk to them?4:55 Working with the concept of duty9:48 Developing boundaries around our relational terms of engagement 15:32 W...

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#67 - 8 Practical Insights for Setting Boundaries

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2024/11/11

This week's podcast features one of my favorite discussions: Boundaries. It can be hard to set boundaries with life-long friends, and this week's discussion explores the complications concerning caring for ourselves, and helping others.In this episode we explore:1:00 Looking for an in-person opportunity to work with me? Consider attending my retreat!4:01 A follow up conversation - "I had that hard conversation with my friend..."8:59 What needs of yours did ...

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#66 - Caring About vs Responsible For - All About...

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2024/11/04

When they're good, our friendships can greatly contribute to the overall quality of our life. When they're hard, our friendships can make life really difficult.On this episode of Conversations from the Heart, we talk about all kinds of issues regarding friendships. We discuss:1:01 How do I take a break from a friendship?8:10 How to acknowledge a truth instead of debate it.14:46 Is it worth it to try and reveal myself to a friend or should I just cut ties?19:55&nb...

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#65 -When to Stay, When to Let Go: Honest...

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2024/10/28

One of the hardest decisions we can make is to dismantle a marriage when there are children involved.On this episode of the podcast, we uncover how to make the decision of whether to stay in or leave a marriage because of the kids. We also discuss:1:34 How do I make accommodations for my needs and my children's needs at the same time?4:01 Determining the values behind our needs6:15 Grief and acceptance in a relationship8:28 An old flame is coming into town. ...

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#64 - Stop Being Polite: How to Say the Disruptive Thing

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2024/10/21

It's domination programming that teaches us the louder we raise our voices, the faster the other person will capitulate and join our side.However, in order to affect real change, the key is to get others to care about what it is we're caring about. And this is a much slower, longer, harder task.In this episode, we talk with a caller embarking on a trip to South Africa, who is interested in showing up authentically to her traveling companions, without raising their defenses. The ul...

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#63 - Setting Terms of Engagement

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2024/10/14

The locus of control in a boundary lies with us, and concerns what we are willing and unwilling to do.One of the data points we can use when negotiating our boundaries is how others engage with us.In this podcast episode, we discuss our responsibility for setting up terms for engagement that are centered around our values, and we discuss:1:11 How do I reinforce a boundary with out losing my temper?5:37 The locus of control in boundary setting5:55 Setting terms of engagement ...

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#62 - How to Build Emotional Connections with People...

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2024/10/07

It can be incredibly painful when we find ourselves in relationships where we long for deeper authentic connection but can't seem to elicit that desire in others.In this episode, we discuss:1:11 How can I connect with someone who can't work won't talk about his feelings?8:13 If someone is unhappy, that must mean something is wrong, right?12:11 How our agenda is often an obstacle to authentic connection19:42 How can I find closure with my ex-best friend?23:46 I wa...

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#61 - Letting Go of What You "Should" Do

Conversations from the Heart ·

2024/09/30

It's easy to let our thoughts sink into the "shoulds" that have been programmed into us:"I should be able to handle this: other people say it's easy.""He should be able to get ready and go to school by himself - he's old enough now.""I should have paid my taxes weeks ago - why does this feel so hard?"However, running our lives on "shoulds" often robs us of the joy and creative life-energy that is our human divine right, and robs us of our need for choice fulness. In this episode, w...

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#60 - How to Work With People As They Are

Conversations from the Heart ·

2024/09/23

When we want to stay in relationship with people who have hurt us, it's important for us to figure out a way to connect with them in a way that keeps us open hearted and also protected.But how, exactly, can we show up open heartedly in ways that also protect us and keep us safe? That's where open hearted and loving boundaries come in. In this episode we explore:1:00 How can I make the implicit explicit?12:00 It takes discipline to focus on what's working16:13 I f...

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#59 - Transforming Cultural Norms for Healthier...

Conversations from the Heart ·

2024/09/16

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 of rebellion and revolution as we transform the rules of a system that no longer works for us in search for a more authentic way of life.At the very beginning of this episode, I walk through my "Getting to the Heart of the Matter" Flowchart, a tool designed to ...

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# 58 - Can We Inspire Care from Others?

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2024/09/09

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 across three scenarios that might help to inspire more care for ourselves from other people. We discuss:1:36 The stove is broken. How can I inspire my partner to care about this?5:25 The two levels in every conversation: Tactical and Relational9:43...

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#57 - How Can I Get You to Be Real With Me?

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2024/09/02

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 authentically is by ensuring we make that experience as easy and enjoyable as possible for them.In this episode, we discuss:2:31 My daughter rescinded her dinner invitation and my feelings were hurt, and I pretended it was fine when I was actually really hurt.13:34 ...

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#56 - How to Get More of What You Want: Difficult...

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2024/08/26

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:1. Practicing the art of translating judgments into feelings and needs.2. Maintaining deep connection with ourselves. 3. Locating the conversation in the present and not the past.4. Melting defensiveness by creating enough internal ca...

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#55 - How to Stay Engaged When You Want to Run

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2024/08/19

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 ourselves, first.In this week's conversation we discuss:1.01 Find information on my upcoming offerings: Deep Dive into Narcissism and Shame and winter retreat Getting Grounded in Your Goodness3:16 "My usual MO would be to run .." ...

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Fitting In vs. Belonging

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2024/08/12

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 shame7:19 Belonging to Yourself12:05 The role of reverence14:03 How do I handle passive aggressive comments?25:20 We're either repeating or transforming a dynamic26:43 Make the implicit explicit34:28 My friend takes a long time to text me back and it hurts ...

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#53 How To Change Other People (Nonviolently, of course)

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2024/08/05

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 nephews repeat the dynamics between my siblings and I get triggered. How can I help myself and them?4:12 How to ground observations in micro moments13:11 I wanted care and I didn't receive it. How can I talk about this with no accusations?31:05 A scr...

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#52 - Addressing Racism at Work

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2024/07/29

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 ( for example, staff of colour all scheduled for night shift, and day shift exclusively (no exceptions) staffed by white staff. I have also heard rumours of ‘racially hostile behaviour’ from colleagues and supervisors. For context, I am black/African. I also jus...

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#51 What Can I Do When Someone Hears Blame in...

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2024/07/22

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 be blamed for our own pain. In this week's episode, a caller asks a universally applicable question: "What can I do when I share my pain with my spouse and he blames me for it?"Highlights include:2:50 If all I get is blame, why should I even t...

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#50 - 4 Scripts for Common Situations

Conversations from the Heart ·

2024/07/15

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 different scenarios. We discuss:1:06 "Please tell me you love me, dad."8:54 "I'm sorry, but you're fired."15:47 "I want to stay. Do you want that, too?"29:16 "Dear child, this is my boundary."— Thank you for tuning in. Remember...

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