Fierce Intimacy

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Terry Real is a family therapist, author, and founder of the Relational Life Institute, which hosts workshops on family and relationships throughout the country. He has written several books, including The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work. With Sounds True, he is the creator of Fierce Intimacy, an audio training in essential communication skills for couples. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon talks to Terry about the inherent challenges of being in relationship and the many approaches to addressing those challenges in couples therapy. Terry discusses how men and women relate to one another in different ways, as well as the steps necessary when couples are badly out of sync. Finally, Terry and Tami speak on the Relational Life approach to therapy and the skills we need to develop in order to take our interpersonal relationships up to “full throttle.”

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.0	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.0	The SoundsTrue Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available.
0:24.0	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.0	The SoundsTrue Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
1:08.0	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:11.0	Today is a rebroadcast of one of my favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy it.
1:18.0	You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today, my guest is Terry Real.
1:23.0	Terry is an internationally recognized family therapist, speaker and author.
1:29.0	He founded the Relational Life Institute, offering workshops for couples, individuals, and parents.
1:37.0	A family therapist and teacher for more than 25 years.
1:42.0	Terry is the best-selling author of, I don't want to talk about it, overcoming the secret legacy of male depression, and most recently, the new rules of marriage.
1:54.0	What you need to make love work, with SoundsTrue, Terry has created a new audio learning series called Fierce Intimacy, standing up to one another with love.
2:08.0	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Terry and I spoke about the deal breakers that can happen in a relationship, and how it's possible for these deal breakers to not necessarily be a death sentence for a relationship.
2:25.0	We talked about developing the skill of what Terry calls relational mindfulness, and how to take care of your partner when you're processing a difficult issue.
2:38.0	Recorded face-to-face in person in the SoundsTrue studio, involved it.
2:43.0	Here's my conversation with Terry Real.
2:51.0	Welcome everyone. I'm here with Terry Real in the SoundsTrue studio.
2:56.0	Terry has been with us recording an audio series on Fierce Intimacy.
3:03.0	Terry, I'm so glad to be with you.
3:05.0	Oh, I'm delighted to be here, Tammy.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tami Simon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tami Simon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.