Understanding what Love REALLY is can help us avoid a power struggle, resistance or defensiveness. If you want to have a happy and loving relationship, Brett Williams says first know how to love yourself, give love, and achieve happiness.

Mr. Williams answers our biggest challenges in relationships. He gets honest and vulnerable about the positive and negative relationships that influenced him to rethink happiness.

In this powerful final episode of the season, you'll learn:

-What Love is and how to make it grow

-How to stop the power struggle

-The #1 rule for couples (because we all have bad days!)

-How to identify if you're codependent

-A husband's job

-Why the pursuit of happiness can make you very unhappy

-About Brett's nonprofit, Gathering of Good People (free online support groups)

-Brett's Big Picture: 3 Secret Ingredients That Makes Us Who We Are

Brett Williams, LMFT, is author to several books including: You Can Be Right Or You Can Be Married—Love Based Solutions for Couples, Xaler and the Dragon—Tools for the Fearful and Anxious Child. And a new book on the way, Rethinking Happiness.

If you—or someone you know—face some romantic struggles, listen to this now.

You can visit his website at: https://gatheringofgoodpeople.com

Leave or stay in a miserable relationship. Those are usually the only options that couples consider. But, there IS a Third Option, where you can create a happy and loving relationship. Ken Morris, Relationship Educator since 1993, teaches a class you can join any Tuesday through Zoom.

This class teaches 14 topics and meets every Tuesday night. Visit here to register now: https://ttofullerton.weebly.com

In this episode, we get into:

01:55 How Lucy & Alfred met Ken & Irma

02:26 Why Ken is passionate about helping couples

03:15 Ken & Irma's rocky time

05:45 Making Naomi guess some of the 14 topics of The Third Option

07:23 The full list of the 14 topics

10:40 Ken's favorite topic

12:54 Naomi shares her experience as a hair dresser

14:03 Ken puts himself in Naomi's shoes and speaks as if he were her

18:13 Ken shares his 3 most poignant relationships (make sure you have a tissue!)

28:55 Ken talks about men crying

31:26 Ken's Big Picture message to couples hurting with children

Have you seen safe, fun and healthy intimacy modeled to you? If you haven't, can you ever achieve safe intimacy? James and Kathy Flowers have taught couples from all walks of life—including from jail facilities—how to get an emotionally safe relationship even when it has never been modeled to you.

"Trust is a process where I can become vulnerable and you not hurt me," say the Flowers.

In this episode, they share:

-The definition of intimacy

-Why we desire to meet someone

-The 3 vulnerable questions we all ask a partner all the time in some way that require a YES!

-Their 3 poignant relationships

-The big picture that will have you consider "life is too precious to not have skills"

Our future generations need us the most. There is one thing we can do today to boost a teenager’s happiness and well-being. In today’s episode, Naomi and I chat about the personal hardship of being a teen (Naomi) and preparing for the teen years as a parent (Lucy), with a final big picture of what to do today to boost a teenager’s well-being and happiness. You can do it for yourself as well!

Lucy Vail and Chris Brown, therapists and artists, share their marriage's spiritual journey in this episode of Big Picture Love Stories. Chris has a masters in ceramics, and Lucy's been a film producer. They both believe in spiritual connection as a necessity for a romantic relationship. They share how to: protect & prioritize their relationship, have a sense of humor, and keep negativity and judgments low—real low.  

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You can visit Lucy at: https://www.lucyvail.com

You can visit Chris at: https://www.chrisbrownart.com

What does it take to have emotional intelligence? With personal growth, we can cope with life's challenges. We invite you to join us in this episode of Big Picture Love Stories with both Lucy and Naomi about emotional intelligence, self-compassion, the self-determination theory and their own 3 most poignant relationships in their life.

Resources recommended in this episode:

Documentary: Free the Mind by Dr. Richard Davidson

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Mind-Phie-Ambo/dp/B076CVB5W1/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=free+the+mind&qid=1614073415&sr=8-2

UCLA Guided Meditations

https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations

Books:Kindness Method: https://www.amazon.com/The-Kindness-Method-Shahroo-Izadi-audiobook/dp/B07TLFDMGL/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kindness+method&qid=1614073453&sr=8-1

Self-Compassion: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Compassion-Kristin-Neff-audiobook/dp/B005SA69UM/ref=sr_1_4?crid=23LUSVOERBT9P&dchild=1&keywords=self-compassion+kristin+neff&qid=1614073492&sprefix=self-compassion+Kristen%2Caudible%2C222&sr=8-4

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Want to deal with relationship conflict in a healthy way? Relationship experts Don and Alex Flecky are ready to help. In this episode, they share their personal experience with conflict, and how to create a healthy relationship — techniques that can heal our polarization.

Don and Alex are the co-creators of Couple Talk. An online program for couples with extensive research and part of the original Relationship Enhancement, by Bernard Guerney.

We talk about:

-The disappointment they both felt the day after they married

-How they overcame the obstacles of bad habits from their own family

-Where Couple Talk came from

-How to see each other's point of view, even if you don't agree

-Their 3 poignant relationships

-Modeled the most effective way to give and receive an appreciation and encouraged us (Lucy and Naomi) to do the exercise

-In the end, they gave us a powerful "big picture" message that gives us hope when feeling change isn't possible

These skills are vital in all the relationships you have. #BigPictureLoveStories #DonAlexFlecky #CoupleTalk #LucindaLoveland #NaomiRobertson

Thanks for listening!

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"I want to honor you for giving your daughter the greatest gift you could've ever given her in her life." In this Big Picture Love Stories episode, the incredible Bento Leal talks with Lucy and Naomi about why we need to learn empathic listening, goes into the 4 keys of effective communication with a lovely performance of a rap song and an incredible story he experienced when teaching in jail facilities. “You've got a hammer and nails and wood, and now you think you know how to build a house. You might hurt somebody with that hammer. You've gotta learn the skills,” says Bento. In the end he gave us the Big Picture of his message — a must-hear! #BigPictureLoveStories #BentoLeal #LucyandNaomi #LucindaLoveland #NaomiRobertson