SC 176 - Why Spiritually Developed People Struggle With Monogamy - Ellen & Jayson
The Jayson Gaddis Podcast
Jayson Gaddis
4.7 • 999 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Is your spiritual growth helping your relationship? Are you collaborating with your partner to better yourself as an individual? Or are you going to your corner of the house to meditate all by yourself?
Their careers as therapists and decades of mediation experience have lead Jayson Gaddis and his wife Ellen Boeder to multiple spiritual development discoveries. Turns out even the most spiritually advanced amongst us struggle with relationships. Jayson and Ellen also encourage couples to discover how collaboration with a partner in times of stress can strengthen each individual.
This episode is full of tips for anyone interested in bettering themselves and their relationship at the same time!
Here are a few highlights:
SHOWNOTES
- How Ellen & Jayson Benefit from Spiritual Practice [2:00]
- Spiritually Advanced People Struggle With Relationships [10:00]
- Strengthening Relationship With Dependence [17:00]
- Calming Down Together [20:00]
- Where Spirituality Alone Falls Short [25:00]
- When “Your” Triggers Should Be An “Us” Thing [33:00]
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| 0:00.0 | We really push independence on each other as a society and on our families and it's really not that value isn't based on how humans really do best together which is there we need collaboration and relationships that really support us. |
| 0:18.2 | We can't do as much alone as most of us would like. Welcome to the relationship school's Smart Couple |
| 0:44.2 | podcast where we teach you how to have safe, |
| 0:47.0 | sexy, and successful long-term relationships. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm Ellen Bader, and here's your host my husband Jason Gatis. |
| 0:55.0 | Thanks Ellen for the sweet intro. |
| 0:57.0 | You're welcome. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, I'm so psyched you're here because we have a great episode today about spirituality and relationships. |
| 1:07.8 | You ready to rock this with me? |
| 1:09.6 | Yes, I am. |
| 1:11.2 | All right, we talk about this a lot, don't we? |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, yeah, we do. |
| 1:15.0 | For years, really, it's been since the beginning of our relationship. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, so exactly. |
| 1:21.0 | Let me give some context here for the listener. So a while back I gave a talk at the Integral |
| 1:26.4 | Center here in Boulder on why monogamy is hard for spiritually developed people. And we're |
| 1:32.2 | going to kind of riff on that subject line |
| 1:36.0 | that what we see in our own practices, what we see in ourselves is that people |
| 1:41.6 | with a lot of spiritual tools and who follow spiritual teachers and who |
| 1:48.2 | read spiritual teachings tend to struggle as much as everyone else on the planet with long-term relationship. |
| 1:55.0 | So you have to ask, well why is that? What's going on here? |
| 1:58.0 | And we have some thoughts that we'd like to share based on what happened for us in our marriage as well as what we see in other people. |
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