Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou.

Mind, Body, Brute.

Hey, and welcome back.

My name is Mike Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast.

This week I've got two guests.

First, I've got Mizbahok, the host of the Airborne Mind podcast, amongst other things. And second, I've got Dr. Megan

Kaden, who is a clinical psychologist. Together, they've created a course called The Art of Connection.

And on this show, we go into a lot of different things. If you've been listening to me for any amount of time, you'll know how much I love

psychology.

So the opportunity to talk to a psychologist as well as Mizba who knows a ton about the topic,

I just took the liberty of going in a lot of different directions.

And we spent a lot of time talking about relationships with intimate partners, with friends,

with clients, with people that were teaching.

And in detail, we talk about the importance of, in an intimate relationship, especially, the importance of nurturing both the individuality of each person as well as the relationship as a unique entity, as like a third entity. We talk about blaming others versus taking accountability, how to fight properly and good conflict resolution.

We talk about the dance between connection slash intimacy and sex and desire and how they are, they

require almost opposing things in our life and how to, how to do that dance successfully.

We talk about how to pick a therapist when there are so many options and frankly,

so many bad therapists out there.

So we talk about things to look for there.

And then drawing on their course on connection, we talk about what motivates people to change

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