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Relationship Advice

301: How To Get Out Of Your Monkey Mind

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

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

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Overthinking, rumination and other negative thought patterns can drive us crazy in our personal lives and relationships. Listen to today's show to learn how to get out of your monkey mind and start living a happier, healthier life! In this episode with JF Benoist, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Releasing the judgement that emotions can equal weakness Understanding how we get triggered by our conditioning How our emotions are created Why underneath every emotion is a belief about who we are Connecting to our body to help get out of our mind Breaking the pattern of negativity when we react out of feelings of not being safe How to build resilience in ourselves And much more! For more information on our guest, and for the episode links visit: https://idopodcast.com/301 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors BetterHelp: Get help on your own time and at your own pace. Get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/IDO. Cozy Earth: Cozy Earth is the softest Premium Bamboo Bedding & Loungewear company. Get 40% off your order by visiting CozyEarth.com and using the promo code IDOPODCAST at checkout. Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. 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

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0:28.0

Hey Love Tribe

0:29.0

What's going on guys? We hope you're having a wonderful day. Thank you for tuning in. Yeah.

0:34.0

To another great show where we welcome J.F. Benoit and he is the founder and program manager of the Exclusive Hawaii, a non-12-step holistic addiction treatment center.

0:49.0

And he uses his experience based methodology to teach clients practical ways to retrain their brains. And that's exactly what we talk about today.

1:00.0

He's written a book called Addicted to the Monkey Mind. Change the programming that sabotages your life.

1:07.0

And we talk about just that our monkey minds and how we can tend to be reactive rather than responding and get caught up in our emotions and not really understanding what's going on and how a lot of what we feel is based out of feeling unsafe.

1:25.0

Which I thought was a really valuable point that he made and he really dissect that and talks about how we can feel safer and communicate with our partner and make our partners feel safe in the relationship.

1:37.0

Yeah. So many of the examples he gave really were very specific to what you can do in your relationship to help strengthen intimacy within your relationship and your partner.

1:49.0

So tons of great skills to learn and a lot of really, really good examples that he used.

1:54.0

As always, thank you guys for tuning in for subscribing to the show, telling your friends and family, giving us your feedback and just diving in and improving your life and your relationship. Good on you for being here.

2:08.0

We appreciate you guys. Enjoy today's show.

2:11.0

Today's episode is brought to you by our online course, Spark My Relationship.

2:17.0

Do you guys want to create more passion, improve your communication and build a stronger, more intimate connection with your partner in less than 90 days?

2:26.0

Yes, send me up.

2:28.0

Then you guys need to check out our online course, Spark My Relationship.

2:33.0

It is an online course, like I mentioned, that we created with over 15 therapists and psychologists to bring you guys these strategies, marriage therapists, teach their clients.

2:45.0

We talk about it on the show, relationships take work. Sometimes they function pretty easily and you coast along, but we've found the reality is as you have to do work sometimes and to make them better or to change them so that they're more satisfying for both partners.

3:04.0

And you've made it here. You've made it to listening to our show. So you guys probably already know that a little bit, but what you might not know are the specific tools and exercises that you need to create those lasting and positive improvements in your relationship.

3:20.0

And like Chase said, change does not happen on its own. It takes hard work and that's why we created the course.

3:27.0

Our online relationship is designed to infuse your life in relationship with fresh, passion, skills and wisdom. And it's a self-paced journey that's perfect for turning up the heat, having some fun together and revolutionizing your intimacy and communication.

3:43.0

And just some tools and strategies that the course includes is to how to eliminate unhelpful old habits, develop mindful awareness to help improve your stress management, learn healthy and successful communication tools, create a deeper and more intimate bond and strengthen your couple micro culture, which you will find out what that is in the future together.

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