Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the

Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at Rachelcable.com. Each week this podcast will

bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress and live more mindfully

in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 320 of the Mindful Kind podcast and the third episode in

my Relationships mini series. If you're new to this podcast, first of all, welcome and second

of all, make sure you also listen to the previous two episodes

of this relationship mini-series where I've been focusing on strategies and ideas for strengthening

all of the different relationships that you have in your life. In this episode, I'm really excited

to share some of my best tips for creating healthy and

vibrant relationships. Just before we dive into it, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone

who has supported this podcast by tuning in each week, leaving kind reviews and sharing

the mindful kind with their friends and family. After more than six

years of creating a new episode every week, we just reached 10 million downloads. And as wonderful

as that is for me and my partner, Dehku, edits every episode, we know that we wouldn't be here

without you. So thank you very much and we hope you continue

enjoying the mindful kind. Okay, so let's dive into some tips for creating healthier and more

vibrant relationships. Tip one is to very clearly ask for things that you might want or need.

Recently, I was chatting with a fairly new friend of mine and we talked about how we're both

quite giving people and we put a lot into our relationships, but sometimes it can feel like we don't

get the same support in return when we might need it. And one of the conclusions that we came to

was that we both need to practice asking for help and support.

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