Find Your Happy

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Part 4 of Kessonga’s week on relationships. He shares how spending time alone helps us find our own joy in life, without relying on others to make us happy. Kessonga holds a Masters degree in Social Work, and is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher. He also serves as an adjunct Mindfulness instructor at UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Prior to joining Headspace he had his own private practice as a licensed acupuncturist and an outpatient psychotherapist. Send Kessonga any general questions at askkessonga@headspace.com, or you can reach out on Instagram @kgiscombe. Try the Headspace app free for 30 days here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Kaisonga and welcome to Radio Headspace.
0:17.6	It's a wonderful Thursday.
0:21.1	For today I'm going to continue with Kaisonga's relationship tips, just giving mindful tips
0:26.0	on maintaining a healthy romantic relationship and really any kind of relationship.
0:31.7	And these are tips that I found to be helpful for me.
0:35.6	Keeping in mind that we are all different individuals and also keeping in mind that I'm no relationship
0:41.3	therapist, coach or expert.
0:45.6	But at the same time I do feel confident that I know a little something about romantic
0:49.7	relationships.
0:51.3	As you know, I've been in one for more than 20 years.
0:55.0	Okay, so today's relationship tip is figure out your happy.
1:03.1	Oftentimes in romantic relationships, the tendency is to rely on your partner to make you
1:07.7	feel good, to make you happy.
1:09.8	And I don't want to say that this notion is wrong because a romantic partner does frequently
1:15.9	make us feel happiness, makes us laugh, makes us feel good, right?
1:21.8	Where it gets dicey and a bit tricky is when we solely rely on our partner for happiness.
1:28.7	Why is this tricky you ask?
1:30.6	Well, ultimately it's not really a partner's job to make you happy.
1:35.8	When you do this, you're seeking happiness outside of yourself and I humbly feel that
1:41.2	that's a lose, lose situation 100% of the time.
1:45.6	And that's just because at one point or another, the other person won't be able to make
1:50.4	you happy because they don't control your emotions.
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