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Solving Disconnection & Creating Connected Relationships (for Couples & Parents)
Is it possible to solve the disconnection issues in your relationship? This podcast will explore how to solve it, but here's a hint: it takes ongoing work.
The good news is that when we know how to have a harmonious and connected relationship, it feels good and can motivate us to keep doing it.
This podcast is for couples and parents. We explore how to help you have a strong relationship with your partner and your kids if you have them.
Jason A. Polk is a relationship therapist and a Clini-Coach® based in Denver, CO. He loves helping couples have more connection through this podcast and individualized marriage retreats and couples intensives.
He's a father of two young daughters and has helped couples for over ten years. He believes we can simultaneously have a healthy relationship and be great parents.
Episodes
63 episodes
63: What Is the Purpose of Marriage?
Jason explores the purpose of marriage beyond initial infatuation and love chemicals. He explains that marriage is an essential emotional refuge and economic partnership, providing a place for vulnerability, acceptance, and the shar...
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62: 10 Tips to Fix Your Relationship and Get Back on the Right Track
In this episode, Jason shares ten actionable tips to help couples maintain harmony, reduce disharmony, and effectively repair their relationships. The tips are structured within a framework that includes understanding the phases of ...
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61: Relationship lessons from Dr. Laura Louis
In this episode, Dr. Laura Louis, a seasoned couples therapist, shares her insights and experiences from her 20-year career. She discusses the challenges and joys of working with couples, the importance of effective communication, and h...
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37:53
60: From Emotional to Sexual Intimacy: A Guide for Males (and Couples)
Sex can be a powerful way to connect, but for many men, it's often the only way they're taught to access vulnerability and emotional closeness. This can create a rub, especially when partners need emotional intimacy to fee...
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59: How to Fall Back in Love With Your Partner
Do you two feel like roommates? Or cost-sharing-associates?Have you and your partner drifted into feeling more like roommates than lovers?Just co-parents?Or “cost-sharing-associates?”It’s easy for the initial spark t...
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9:22
58: What are psychological boundaries and what do they mean for you?
This episode discusses functional, psychological boundaries and what is not. What are not functional boundaries? They are if we are behind walls or boundaryless. We will define that and what physiological boundary vi...
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7:35
57: Let's talk about mess, do you think your partner is sloppy?
Mess is one of the content issues that come up in couples therapy. If this is an issue for you, you can check out what you can do on your side of the relationship and what you two can do as a team. Link to the
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56: 4 Things That Can Save Your Marriage
Is your marriage or relationship on the brink?Here are four things you can do to save your marriage. Essentially, there needs to be something different and not more of the same. These four things are usually the most com...
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7:27
55: What is a Couples Intensive aka Marriage Retreat?
This episode might be of interest to those of you who may be on the brink of divorce or breakup, for those who don't have a lot of time, and for those who harbor a lot of resentment. In this episode, I share how I define couples' intens...
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54: What Does It Mean To Date Forever? Interview with Sammi & Nate Jaeger
It means being intentional about connection and collaboration. Sammi and Nate share their framework for staying connected and the eight domains they work on together. They share what...
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53: Let's Talk About Sex, Substance Abuse, and Safety. Interview With Matt Salis
Matt Salis shares his knowledge of sexual health and how it interacts with addiction. We also talk about sexual desire discrepancies and what you can do about them. And what’s something that can get you more sex?
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29:20
52: You Can Be Right, Or You Can Be Married
What are the problems with needing to be right? And what are the issues with holding on to "objective truth." This episode will help you know what to do to fix that. To help you embrace more subjective truth in your relationship...
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6:35
51: Having More Sex: Acceptance Vs Control
What’s an effective way to go about having more sex when there are desire discrepancies? I’ll also share what I mean by my acceptance vs control. I’ll address these questions in the context of a recent couples session I had....
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50: What is the first and second consciousness in your relationship? With Kayla Crane, LMFT
Kayla Crane and I are trained in the same school of thought. Kayla shares the critical idea of taking space in your relationship – literally and in your head to create peace. She also shares her experience with couples therapy, ...
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49: A Quick Exercise for Cultivating Appreciation and Gratitude
Here are the questions for the exercise: What have I received from my partner?What have I given to my partner?What troubles and difficulties have I caused my partner?For more about Jason's therapy...
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48: What is a foundational relationship tool, that’s not really a tool?
I teach every couple one crucial thing, especially those who fight a lot. It's not quite a relationship tool, but you need to practice it for relationship tools to work.We have a Door A and a Door B and you want to go throug...
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47: What is Playful Parenting & How You Can Have More Fun Being a Parent? With Meghan Englert
Meghan Englert is a therapist and a Playful Parenting Coach and she’ll share what playful parenting is. Her tagline is, "Bond more battle less!"You will learn how to incorporate play into your parenting and why getting on the same page ...
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46: 4 Things To Do When Your Relationship Is Falling Apart
If you’re in a period of disconnection, or there’s been a big fight recently, listen to this episode and do each of the four things. I’d be lying to you if I said my current relationship has never felt like it was falling apart. In this...
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45: A Tool For Couples That Fight A Lot
The purpose of this tool is to create awareness of the Core Negative Image (CNI) you have of your partner. It also helps if your partner does this exercise as well. Here, you'll learn to stop when "CNI triggered" and how to beha...
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44: How Does Self-Intimacy Help With Sexual Desire Discrepancies? With Nicole Colleen
This episode explores sex with sex and intimacy coach Nicole Colleen. We discuss self-intimacy and how that can help you with the desire discrepancy often found between parents. We also discuss how you may have stories ass...
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43: What kills love? How can you repair that? with Cheri Timko
First question: What kills love?Second question: How can you repair that?Third question: Should we let our kids have every resource of ours?This episode is some highlights from a talk I had with Cheri Timko. Cheri ...
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42: Parenting Kids With Special Needs with Anouk Briere-Godbout
How do you manage kids with special needs and your relationship? Why is looking at your expectations of a parent an important thing to do? We will discuss these topics in today's episode with Anouk Briere-Godbout, as w...
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41: What is the Easiest and Best Thing You Can Do For Your Relationship?
If you're a parent and married or living together. You don’t have a lot of time. Here I’ll share the easy and best thing you can do for your relationship.I’ll share the basic frame I use with all the couples I work with. And we’ll start...
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10:27
40: Finding Time For the Relationship, Is That Possible?
This is one of the biggest complaints for parents. Our time is devoted to kids, work, exercise, then maybe the relationship…Where do we find time for the relationship?But... You will feel better if you two move the relat...
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39: Agreements, Resentment & Sex: A conversation with Kara Hoppe, author of Baby Bomb!
This is a replay of an episode I recorded with Kara Hoppe over a year ago. She's co-authored the book Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide For Parents with Stan Tatkin. We tackle some big topics here—agreements...
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