371: Communication in Relationships with Sonya Jensen
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Any relationship crisis is usually coupled with a communication breakdown. Your needs are not being met, so you shut down. You’re upset about something, but instead of voicing it, you bottle it up. Your partner does the same, and over time, you grow distant, bitter, and even resentful. We’ve all experienced this poor communication pattern at some point.
But what does good communication even look like?
Do you take notes and make an outline of your key points? Do you talk, text, or email? There is no right answer to this, but everyone in a relationship needs to figure it out one way or another to survive. On this week’s show, you’ll meet a couple’s counselor who shares her best practices for couples in crisis and those who want to avoid problems in the future.
Listen & Learn:
- How to assign one listener and one speaker during conversations
- The “doing” versus “feeling” part of showing love
- How to navigate the complexities of money, sex, and lack of time
- Emotional versus physical affairs
- How polarity attracts and also creates conflict
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Sonya Jensen is a marriage counselor, premarital counselor, relationship coach, and breakup recovery counselor with Growing Self Counseling and Coaching. Her practical, positive approach helps couples succeed, and individuals create positive changes in their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood Show. I am a yoga teacher, a trainer, a |
| 0:06.7 | nutritional coach, a serial entrepreneur, and a father. But first and foremost, I'm a |
| 0:10.9 | student. I love learning this show is all about scratching my own |
| 0:13.8 | itch to learn. I go out and find people doing interesting things, writers, researchers, medical |
| 0:18.6 | doctors, yoga teachers, and I bring their best research, their best teaching to you, hopefully to improve your life. |
| 0:25.0 | On today's show, we are talking about communication and relationships. |
| 0:30.0 | There's this quote that goes, |
| 0:32.0 | the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships |
| 0:35.9 | I never really thought that to be true with the past couple of years past few years. I really have embraced that fully |
| 0:42.2 | I think the most important thing is really your relationships |
| 0:45.3 | and then the question that comes up is you know so Lucas how are your relationships and I guess I don't |
| 0:50.7 | really know it depends on which day you ask me. There are days when I find my relationship |
| 0:55.9 | with my kids and my partner and my family and my coworkers just incredibly enriching and |
| 1:01.1 | fulfilling and deep and meaningful in other days. |
| 1:03.4 | I just feel totally lonely and estranged and unable to connect with people. |
| 1:09.3 | And it's something that I don't know that I have invested enough time in if I look at the past |
| 1:14.9 | let's say 20 years since my 20s until now the things that I've invested time |
| 1:19.6 | in I don't know that I've gotten better at relationships in the way that I've gotten |
| 1:24.0 | better at other things and I think it's a big mistake so I've been trying to get |
| 1:27.6 | better. I've been trying to learn how to have better relationships, not more |
| 1:30.8 | relationships but better relationships deeper and more meaningful. not more |
| 1:34.0 | relationships but better relationships |
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