Blame And Criticism are the Junk Food of Relationships

OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 6 OF 31 Ahh, the crackle of breaking open the bag of crunchy, salty, fatty yummies! Blaming and criticizing—you or others—releases a burst of adrenaline, which has about the same effect on the quality of connection as junk food does on your health. Let’s…

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Committing Gets You Into The Game: Recommitting Lets You Create a New Game

OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 5 OF 31 Committing still has a pretty formidable rep—many people confuse it with being restricted and controlled. Or they think, if I commit then mess up, it’s over. We’ve found that using the true power of committing is the key move to solve…

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Saying Something Real Creates Right-Now Intimacy

OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 4 OF 31 One of our biggest relationship wows has been learning the power of authenticity. Being honest and transparent creates THE doorway to relationship magic. Something real doesn’t have to be profound; it just has to be real. You notice what you’re experiencing…

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Appreciating Gives You the Highest ROI of Any Relationship Move

OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE – PART 3 OF 31 Appreciating gets a lot of lip service. Yes, we all know that in good relationships, people are nicer to each other. But what does that mean? It doesn’t mean being superficial or ignoring what you’re feeling. It’s not the fly-by “love…

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Being Right Isn’t Worth It

OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE - PART 2 OF 31 Let’s give credit to the most popular relationship sport: being right. There are many, many ways to claim victory in the being right domain, including scorekeeping, criticism and corrections, interruptions, The Look and outright quarreling and yelling. You get one payoff,…

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You Create Your Relationships One Choice at a Time

OUR BIGGEST RELATIONSHIP WOWS OVER 40 YEARS OF MARRIAGE - PART 1 OF 31 Several years ago, a seminar participant came up to ask a question about the ACTUAL possibility of having a great relationship and said, “Well, it’s easy for you to say cause you have a great relationship.” We laughed at first, thinking…

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Why Constantly Complaining About How Others Treat You Could Be A Sign Of A Much Deeper Truth… About Yourself

Constantly complaining about others reveals a far deeper truth about yourself.  Click here to learn why.

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Watch Katie and Gay’s Interview with Alana Fournet!

Katie and Gay were interviewed by Alana Fournet for her virtual event, Radiate: Leading Experts Reveal Their Secrets for Boosting Your Energy Naturally.  Alana focused on Gay and Katie's approach to relationship as a way to restore vital energy and reclaim vibrant health.    

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Presencing our Inner World 3/8/21

Today Katie explored the concept of emotional literacy through presencing our inner world and shared how our prejudice towards emotions causes a lot of the social-emotional challenges in our world. Feelings, like our blood, are circulating all the time, and when we let ourselves enjoy experiencing feelings, we open up our ability to connect more…

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How Reading Gay Hendricks’ Book in 2020 Inspires My 2021

Written by Reyzan Shali Published on January 8, 2021 by The Thrive Global Community I love to read. As a doctor, a big part of my job is to read and analyze new medical studies in various journals. I will be the first to tell you that these readings are not the most inspiring, as…

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The Architecture of Agreements 2/22/21

Every Monday Katie shares an integrity skill from our Integrity Deck, a resource that you can use to deepen your commitment to authenticity, responsibility and appreciation. In today’s session, Katie suggests that we can recover our wholeness using the integrity skills like Impeccable Agreements. When we do what we say we are going to do…

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Big Leap Bridge Class: Healthy Responsibility

Watch this recording of Healthy Responsibility: Creating Opening to Learning facilitated by Kathlyn Hendricks, Phd, BC-DMT.   Learn how to move from blame to wonder in this one hour class where Katie shares tools from the Integrity Deck and talks about how we can learn how to respond, rather than react, in our daily lives. You’ll…

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