The Peace and Passion Podcast

In this episode Michael talks about how he rose out of an addiction to weed by finding creative fulfilment in a hobby and surrounding himself with a community of great relationships.

Michael explains how a movie “Euphoria” was one of the turning points for his transformation journey out of addiction. He was able to identify with the main character’s “rock bottom” and then accept that he was in fact addicted to weed.

The journey back to a fulfilling life was facilitated by new found hobbies including roller skating and miniature model painting and even dating himself.

Michael shares his experience generously and shows it is possible to break out of habits that don’t serve you.

Links mentioned in this episode:

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This episode is about how fear sets in when you've had experiences of rejection in love.

This episode is for you if you’re scared of taking the next step towards love. When fear sets in, it can stop you from taking action towards the love that you want. You may remain guarded behind an emotional brick wall or maybe your style is to display signs of indecision, procrastination or lack of commitment. In this episode you'll find  encouragement to recognise when fear is present and to trust yourself while moving towards love.

There's only one way to deal with fear commitment and fear of love. Listen to find how? 

Brad Goodchild is the founder of Bikram Yoga Five Dock.

In this episode, Brad drills into how yoga principles are such a powerful tool to tap into the power of the mind. Brad equates yoga to a body spring clean and shows us how a yoga practice can help you cultivate inner strength, an improved mind-body connection, consistency, patience and self-realisation. Yoga is a vehicle for improving your relationship with yourself. It helps you peel back the layers to find your positive health and wellbeing.

Listen for more insights from Brad Goodchild.

We fight a lot. Is that bad? Is conflict bad?

This episode is about conflict, disagreements, fights, mishaps, and all the things that happen when two people are just are not agreeing  the conversation heads south.

Conflict is not the enemy. It's what we do with conflict, the words and the phrases that we use and the way we behave inside conflict scenarios that ruins relationships.

You may be using words to hurt your partner. You may be calling them names or hurling abuse on occasions and let’s face it, no one is perfect.

So what happens after a blunder? This episode tells you that repair is mandatory after a fight. Listen to hear about the definition of repair and how to do it.

Have you ever been suspicious of your partner’s activities ? Have you ever been accused of cheating ? In this episode we define cheating and how to know if you have a trust issue in your relationship. Flirty texts, deleted emails, a prolonged look at someone attractive or an exchange of  eye contact may be considered a breach of trust. You'll need to stop the fights and have a good conversation about expectations.

Barbe Chambliss is a professional mediator of 40 years and a couples therapist in Colorado USA. In her book Women Peace Makers. What We Have To Learn From Them, she walks us through 24 lessons from women peacemakers doing  their work as well as everyday practices that anyone can integrate into their lives.

In this episode Barbe shares her insightful definitions on equality in relationships and her perspective on as an act of peace is delivered with examples from the diverse group of women peacemakers in her book.

Peacemaking starts with attending to your own inner imbalance to create a peaceful state. She includes the ingredients  of justice, forgiveness plus the rule for a Respect Check : “am I helping empower this person the way I want to be empowered?. With true life stories from all over the world Barbe shows us that Conscious Peacemaking can be incorporated into everyone’s life.

The work of couples therapy is about understanding how you can do things differently to create a better relationship. It's about understanding yourself first then your partner and the relationship life patterns between you. It benefits you to prepare for couples therapy and that is exactly what is explored in this episode. We discuss the questions you need to ask yourself and the pitfalls and common errors that couples make. This episode will help you to get ready for seriously working on your intimate partner relationship and you can start doing that now with one handy tip inside the episode.

We all want more than functional relationships, but our intimate partner relationships evolve and change. In this episode we explore the natural progression of intimate partner relationships from being “in love” to a mature safe connection. There are 4 stages and each stage requires different skills as there are different problems for couples to navigate.

Referenced mentioned in the Podcast:

·  Book by Elizabeth Earnshaw “ I want this to work”

This episode is a guest interview with Beverly Bescher, a life coach from the US. Beverly discusses how finding love online has changed and she gives us tips for how you should show up with an attitude of authenticity that’s important to find the right mate. We discuss neediness and rejection as well. The interview offers and lightness and freedom around an important topic plus Beverly gives a list of her own red flag indicators for when your dating someone who is not your right mate.

If you’ve ever had the thought “relationships shouldn’t be this hard” it might be because you’ve got yourself in a transactional relationship. It functions well and the two of you transact, but it’s empty.

In this solo episode, I discuss 3 reasons why people end up in transactional relationships and 3 ways to shift out of a transactional way of relating.

You’ll hear about fear, internal beliefs on relationships and the trance of busyness. These 3 keep you stuck in functional transactions and hollow ways of relating.

You’ll also hear about the importance of good communication, mindful awareness and the recognition that relationships change. You can create a better relationship.