Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. Got a very important show planned. This one is going to

save the quality of your life and the quality of your relationships. We talked about a little bit

kind of rounding it out. It's something that comes up in every single therapy session I do.

It doesn't matter who I'm working with. It doesn't matter what the issues we're working on. These core concepts are just woven in to the fabric of what we're

doing here on this planet within our existence. And it's learning how to be a better

interpersonal relator and interpersonal being.

That's really where our work is located. That's why I'm always advocating for us assessing the quality of all the various relationships we're part of to really help determine the quality of our lives.

And when we're not feeling good in our lives to focus on, well, how are my relationships going?

They're not the entirety of your happiness or mental health in your life, but they're a very, very, very big component of that.

They're the foundation upon which everything else happens, you know, making things easier or harder.

And they also can buffer or shave down and soften some of the

sharp edges of other things that are going on. So if it isn't to the center point, it's definitely

a thread that's woven in throughout. And one thing I noticed, and that's why this is something that

has worked on in some capacity in every single session, whether it's an individual session,

a marital therapy session, specific sex therapy work that I might do is we're always talking about

these different components because they're all systems.

And that's what even if someone comes to me with their partner and they say, we're just

working on sex therapy, maybe even it's very behavioral, almost sex coaching, how to just

improve their sex lives and all of that. These threads

still exist in there because nothing happens outside of it. Nothing happens in a vacuum. How we're

thinking and feeling and interacting with the individuals in our lives impact the relationships we have

with them. So we're going to kind of break down what are the core components we need to pay attention to

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