52 How Couples Can Stay Together, And Even Get Better

One of the sacred reasons for being in a committed relationship is to heal and transmute the wounds of our past and childhood, as part of our evolution. In this episode, we share the main wound each of us brought into our relationship, how the collision of those wounds led to us almost break up many times, and how becoming students of each other, our histories, stories, and patterns, has led to growth and betterment as individuals and as a couple.

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50 The Power of Perception: The Way You Look at Things

An impala walks into a bar....  In this episode, we delve into some surprising ways to understand oft-quoted Wayne Dyer adage "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." It's not just a 'mind game,' it also involves our physical bodies.  We talk about how an impala illustrates the wisdom of the body in dealing with acute stress, the role of the subconscious vs. conscious, and more.

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49 Money and Relationships

Money is one of the top things that couples argue about.  In this episode, we share how it's shown up in our relationship, and, how knowing and sharing our money stories has helped!  It doesn't have to be all tension-filled and sooo stressful.  It can be fun, kid-friendly, colorful fried chicken-like.

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43 Who Else is Tidying Up with Marie Kondo?

In this episode, we talk about the Netflix Original series "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo."  Join us for a combination [freak-out] and [philosophy] discussion about a subversive, but truer definition of "materialism,” the huge blind spot of the question "does it spark joy?" and more.

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42 Celebrate All Love (Valentine's Day)

Instead of being a pressure cooker of "must be romantic now," how about if Valentine's Day is a prompt to simply celebrate all love.  In this episode, Siena shares why she loves Valentine's Day, we share our plans to mark the holiday, and also some embarrassing Valentine's related memories from years past.  We mean waaayyy past.

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40 The 5 Love Languages

We took “The 5 Love Languages” test.

In this podcast episode, we talk about how the “love languages” show up in our relationship, and, reflect on why we think they developed in us (nature? nurture?).

Also, The Golden Rule (“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”) might not be what you think...

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39 We're Doing a Cleanse

We geek out on how we did a mini-cleanse, in this self-care episode of the podcast. What we talk about is totally doable, non-epic, and non-extreme. It’s great insight and motivation to take ‘small’ steps, because every step makes a difference!

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34 Christmas Presents & Christmas Pasts

In this episode, our conversation is inspired by flipping through the December issue of Oprah Magazine.  It includes interesting presents in the "gift guide" (which in turn kicks off observations about the present state of our society & culture), as well as conversation-starter questions: stuff like our "true feelings" about the holidays, favorite childhood memories, people we met who surprised us, and things we were the most grateful for, this past year.

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33 We Talk Gift Wrapping Like a Couple of Gay Guys!

We get all Martha Stewart on you, talking gift wrap, gift tags, tissue paper, and ribbon.  Unexpected guests like a stalk of celery, and an iron set on low also make an appearance.  We don't have children, but we talk about children, too.  It's all over the place (and yet somehow still organized) in this very gay and geeky episode on Gift Wrap.  Four sections, plus a bonus.

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