217: Essential Elements Of Happiness

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There are a lot of myths surrounding the attainment of happiness. Understanding these myths and moving toward a better path will improve your relationship and your life. Listen to today's show to learn how get on a path toward more happiness! In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Examples for how we look for happiness in all of the wrong places Developing rituals with your partner to increase relationship satisfaction Using chocolate to develop mindfulness and become more attuned with your partner The importance of not personalizing our partners actions Looking at our partner in a new light without or predetermined labels And much more! Diane R. Gehart, Ph.D., is an author, an award-winning professor of Counseling and Family Therapy at California State University, Northridge, and a practicing psychotherapist. Her new book is Mindfulness for Chocolate Lovers: A Lighthearted Way to Stress Less and Savor More Each Day (Rowman & Littlefield, Sept. 15, 2019). Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/217 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Mint: Get your new wireless plan for just $15 a month, and get the plan shipped to your door for FREE. Visit mintmobile.com/ido Spark My Relationship Course: For a limited time, get access to our bonus, Mastering Money Talk In Your Marriage! Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! 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. Hey Love Tribe
0:29.4	What's going on guys?
0:30.4	Thank you for tuning in.
0:32.4	We are happy to have you here wherever you're
0:35.0	joining us from, whatever you're doing. Yeah we have a super yummy
0:39.2	episode for you today. Oh yeah, we talk about the essential elements of lifelong happiness with
0:47.4	Dr. Diane Gayhart and she has an accomplished practitioner, professor, and research of psychotherapy for over 20 years.
0:57.6	And the reason Sarah said it's yummy is because her new book is Mindfulness for Chocolate Lovers, a light-hearted way to stress less,
1:07.6	save her more each day. And that involves chocolate. So who doesn't want to stress less?
1:12.9	Eat some chocolate, develop your mindfulness,
1:16.0	and improve your life, improve your relationship.
1:18.8	And Diane gives us some great tips,
1:21.6	a little bit outside the box of how to approach mindfulness, why it will
1:26.2	improve your relationship, how to do that.
1:29.9	And yeah, the key is chocolate here.
1:32.6	Yes, I was about to say, bring in the chocolate and...
1:37.2	Now we're talking.
1:38.2	Exactly, exactly.
1:39.5	Now it was a wonderful interview and kind of from a different perspective that I haven't heard before
1:44.6	about incorporating meditation into the relationship via chocolate.
1:50.8	That's one way.
1:51.8	Yeah, that's one way. We won't give you all the ways you have to listen to it to the episode to hear all of them but just a teaser break out the chocolate for this episode.
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