Couples Therapy In Seven Words

Healthy Conflict, Happy Couple: An Interview with Lisa Gray

For the video of this episode, go to https://brucechalmer.com/lisa-gray/.

How can conflict be healthy for a couple? Our guest, Lisa Gray, tells us about how she helps couples learn the skills of healthy conflict. Lisa’s book is Healthy Conflict, Happy Couple: How to Let Go of Blame and Grow Stronger Together.

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The “Chaos Kid” Phenomenon: An Interview with Larry Bilotta

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How can one person change a marriage? Our guest, Larry Bilotta, used his own experience of transforming a “marriage hell” into a thriving partnership to develop ideas to help people heal their relationships by healing themselves.

Larry’s website is https://larrybilotta.com.

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Our sponsor is The Blue Tent: Erotic Tales from the Bible by Laria Zylber. Find out more at https://lariazylber.com.

How Surviving My Disastrous Relationships Helps Me Help Others: An Interview with Emily Hart

For the video of this episode, go to https://brucechalmer.com/emily-hart/.

Our guest, Emily Hart, tells us what she learned from a series of relationships that went badly, how she turned her life around with the help of some powerful therapeutic modalities, and how she has gone on to help others. She tells us how she uses Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy in her work as a coach and trainer. And there’s a happy-ending story!

Emily’s website is https://www.emilyhartcoaching.com/.

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Our sponsor is The Blue Tent: Erotic Tales from the Bible by Laria Zylber. Find out more at https://lariazylber.com.

Sex Therapy and the Gottman Method: An Interview with Dr. Heidi Sauder

For the video of this episode, go to https://brucechalmer.com/sex-therapy-and-the-gottman-method-an-interview-with-dr-heidi-sauder/.

Our guest in this episode is Dr. Heidi Sauder, a psychologist and sex therapist who works with couples. Dr. Sauder is trained and certified in the Gottman Method, an approach to couples therapy pioneered by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. Dr. Sauder tells us how her training and experience in sex therapy and her knowledge of the Gottman method influence how she helps couples.

Dr. Sauder’s book is Adventures in Sex: Journaling to Create Desire, Passion, Romance…And A Fun Sex Life.

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Our sponsor is The Blue Tent: Erotic Tales from the Bible by Laria Zylber. Find out more at https://lariazylber.com.

Moral Clarity

You can view the video of this episode at https://brucechalmer.com/moral-clarity/.

If you consider yourself to be someone who is concerned about social justice, and justify the actions of Hamas based on that concern, we have a message for you. We don’t expect to convince you. But we hope to invite you to examine your own moral compass.

My Husband Cross-Dresses, Lost His Job, and Complains About My Cleaning!

The video of this episode is at https://brucechalmer.com/cross-dresses-lost-his-job-and-complains-about-my-cleaning/.

What a smorgasbord of problems! What they have in common is that the woman doing the search for help with these issues doesn't feel able to talk about it with her husband. We talk about some listener comments on earlier podcasts about cross-dressing, and take a detour into rants (from Bruce) about the effects of ideology and the evils of McCarthyism as manifested in cancel culture, and the need to tolerate the anxiety of complexity.

More information on the upcoming presentations of “Jewish Perspectives on Sex: Sacred Sex and Sexual Midrash” is at https://brucechalmer.com/jewish-perspectives-on-sex-sacred-sex-and-sexual-midrash/.

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Healing and Embracing Shame: An Interview with Sheila Rubin and Bret Lyon

The video of this episode is at https://brucechalmer.com/embracing-and-healing-shame-an-interview-with-sheila-rubin-and-bret-lyon/.

We’ve all experienced shame. It’s painful! But, as our guests in this episode point out, shame is not only necessary, but it can also be helpful. How can we transform shame from a destructive force to an ally? Check out our interview and find out.

Sheila and Bret’s website is https://healingshame.com/.

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Teshuvah and Couples Therapy

What is teshuvah? And what does it have to do with couples therapy? We recorded this podcast between the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and talk about how the themes of return, repentance, and reflection, all aspects of the concept of teshuvah, are intimately related to the work of healing couples. We both get verklempt as we talk about it!

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Our sponsor is The Blue Tent: Erotic Tales from the Bible by Laria Zylber. Find out more at https://lariazylber.com.

The video of this episode is at https://brucechalmer.com/teshuvah-and-couples-therapy/.