148: Practicing Good Emotional Hygiene To Improve Your Relationship

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all been in a situation where we’ve let our emotions get the better of us. We snap at our partner, stress ourselves out and react negatively to the smallest transgressions. Worry no more. Today’s episode will give you amazing actionable tips to help control your emotions, feel better and improve the relationship with yourself and your partner. In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: How to take control of your mood and emotions Finding an emotional grounding to avoid being controlled by the events of your day How to respond rather than react Creating a buffer period to decompress and interact positively with your partner Body scan exercises to help control your emotions and create happier relationships. And much more! Kongit is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Sex Therapist in the state of California. She's the founder of the Inspired Journey Counseling Center in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/148 Hood River Couples Retreat: Join us in Hood River, Oregon for our Couple's Retreat July 29 - August 4, 2018. Strengthen your relationship in just 5 days while vacation in the majestic Columbia River Gorge. Learn more details here: Hood River Couples Retreat Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Do you want to hear more on this topic? Do you struggle to control your emotions? If so, you're not alone. Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors FabFitFun – FabFitFun is a seasonal subscription box with full size beauty, fitness, fashion and lifestyle products. #fabfitfunpartner Use promo code IDO for $10 off your first box at fabfitfun.com If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! - Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun.
0:17.0	Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What's going on?
0:28.0	What's going on?
0:29.0	Welcome to ID Podcast.
0:31.0	Thanks so much for joining us today. We hope you are having a wonderful day
0:36.2	wherever you are joining us and today's show will allow you to have an even better day in the future where we talk about
0:47.8	a day full of emotional hygiene. So, you know, personal body hygiene, brush your teeth, comb your hair.
0:55.3	I don't usually comb my hair. I can't remember the last time I comb my hair.
0:59.1	You comb it every day. I don't comb it every day.
1:02.1	Well, anyways, it's one of the beauties of living at the beach, you just
1:07.0	fluff it over, air dry it, salt water, it's ready to go.
1:11.0	But emotional hygiene getting back on track here is something that often gets
1:16.5	overlooked and it's taking care of ourselves throughout the day so that we can manage our emotions better and not be at
1:24.9	their mercy. So like instead of letting the world happen to you, you are
1:30.8	happening to the world is kind of how I think about it like you're not
1:34.2	responding to that traffic jam or that person that cut you off with your
1:41.4	emotions just controlling yourself you're responding with with your
1:44.3	responding with presence of mind and today's guess conjut feral gives us all of the tools to help us
1:56.8	respond with peace of mind and then we bring that into the relationship and good things are going to happen.
1:58.3	ConJIT is a licensed marriage and family therapist and sex therapists in California.
2:05.0	And she's the founder of the Inspire Journey Counseling Center in the heart of downtown
2:10.0	LA.
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