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Learn2Love Podcast
by Learn2Love
Learn2Love brings together curated teachings from a variety of books, podcasts, and articles on how to build a great relationship. We believe that healthy love is a skill that can be learned, trained and mastered like a muscle. This education is largely missing from society at large today. To address this need, we have researched dozens of books and hundreds of interviews, articles and real-life experiences to bring our best teaching forward to you. Happy learning!
Episodes
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Recognizing Differences to Optimize Synchrony
Imagine that you and your partner are on a boat in the open ocean. Waves are coming and the wind is high. Rowing on your own, you're doomed. Rowing together in perfect sync, you can overcome multitudes. It's your job to keep the boat afloat. In this episode, we'll continue our discussion from the...
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How to (Not) Get Divorced: The Relationship-Killer Cycle (and how to get out of it)
In this episode, we'll delve deep-down into the cycle that often leads to divorce: happiness -> tension -> complaining -> criticism -> contempt -> defensiveness -> stonewalling (via flooding) -> isolation -> loneliness -> separation. We'll learn about healthy complaining vs unhealthy criticism…
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Meaning = Suffering + Justification, Letting Go, and Creating What We Want to See
We'll start this episode wrapping up the cognitive neuroscience approach to understanding feelings from the last one. This will help us understand that we often see in others what we expect to. Looking for the good in others helps us find good, whereas focusing on bad will leave us seeing and...
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A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Understanding Feelings
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the science of cognition. We'll learn about what determines the way we feel in situations. This consists of all the components of a situation, the weights we put on them, and the feelings associated with them. This understanding will examine the role of…
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Unpacking Trauma: How Heavy is a Glass of Water?
In this episode, we dive deep-down into the neuro-anatomy of trauma (including PTSD) and how it affects our relationships (hint: it plays a huge role!). We'll discover that trauma is a brain glitch where memory cannot be scrubbed from emotion and integrated from one brain region to another. We'll...
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Choose To Feel To Build Connection and Self-Esteem
Today, it's easier than ever to ignore our feelings. A bit of stress? Reach for the cellphone. We feel down? Brush it off. The problem is that when you don't put out a fire, your whole house burns down. Neglected thoughts arise in the body. Yet we feel like we're not allowed to feel different…
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Partnership vs Needy Dependence
We've learned so far that partnership is so important to building a healthy and strong relationship. But what is the difference between being a team and just being super needy and dependent? In this episode, we'll explore the concepts of independence, interdependence, and codependence in more...
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Feelings Glitch When We Don't Take Care of Ourselves
In this exciting episode, we continue our discussion on feelings started in the last one. We'll discover that our feelings often glitch when we don't take proper care of ourselves. Many of us would rather eat better, sleep more, spend more time in nature, breathe deeply, and exercise more...
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Habits Recap, Introduction to Feelings: How to Be Proactive
In this episode, we wrap up everything that we learned so far about habits. We apply this specifically to our relationships. We delve deeper to understand how our environment affects our moods, how to set up habits to deal with conflict, and the effect of stress on our habit responses (hint: it...
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Change Your Environment, Change Your Life
We’re stuck. We want to be good to our partners, but sometimes we just snap at them and don’t know why. We want to feel good, but we’re dissatisfied. The relationship is boring sometimes. Is this all there is in life! More of this, every day, week after week, year after year! Habits are like a...
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Habits: The Hidden Driver of Your Relationship
Think of yourself like a tree. When first sprouting out the ground, the branches are delicate and can be easily snapped with our fingers. If we continue to let them grow, they get thicker and heavier. Soon, we need a chainsaw and some trucks to take them down! By setting limits, we can stop...
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Leverage Neuroscience to Build Great Habits
Okay Dory, you taught me all these great things I can do to deal with anger and mitigate conflict. But now what! I've tried implementing them, but I'm not successful. When I get angry, my body just takes over in conflict and the things you taught don't come to mind. Does this sound like you? If…
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My Rights in The Relationship, Abuse, Scapegoating, and More
In this episode, we delve deep into conversations we started on the last one about the 4 Horsemen of Argumentation. We'll work hard to set ground rules on what is absolutely not okay in our household. We'll discover signs of abuse and what to do about it. Next, we'll delve into the world of...
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The 4 Horsemen of Argumentation, 3 Main Styles of Conflict, Stress, Exercise, and More
Conflict is hard. But it doesn't have to be! In this content-filled episode, we talk about the four biggest things that arise from conflict and lead to the destruction of a relationship and how to prevent them. We'll discuss the 3 main styles of conflict dynamics and how we can recognize ours…
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8 Tools to Add to Your Dealing With Conflict Toolbox
Conflict is hard. But it doesn't have to be. In this third episode on our series on conflict resolution, we 8 new tools to our conflict resolution toolbox. We'll talk all about managing our urge to defend, deny, counterattack and withdraw. We'll learn about agreeing with part of the statement,...
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Dealing With Conflict: Get the Driver Back on the Road Before Going for the Passenger
In this series, we're learning all about how to prevent most conflict and deal with the few that get through successfully. In this episode, we build on the topics of the last one by discovering more of the drivers of anger and how to address them. We are presented with an analogy to understand…
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Prevent 95% of Fights and Deal With Them Effectively
Anger and fights are hard. But they don't have to be. In this episode, we discuss the three main reasons that anger and fighting occurs. By learning to address them, we can prevent the significant majority of fights and deal with the ones that pass through effectively. We don't have to go in…
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How to Protect Our Hearts the Smart Way
Dating is hard. But it doesn't have to be. In this episode, we use the limits we learned about in the last episode and apply them immediately to dating through an in-depth analogy discovered through brainstorming sessions with our team. We'll take you through exercises where you learn to place…
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What Are Limits and How Do We Guard Them?
Limits are essential for the success of nearly any relationship and barely discussed in society. These are the ways we protect the way we interact with ourselves and others. We must share the blueprints for what is okay and not okay with our thoughts and others, for they are much harder to guess...
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What Does Healthy Teamwork Look Like in Your Relationship?
There are a million things competing for our time. We're conflicted between our partners and our other peers or parents. Our partner asks for help on something we have no idea on. We don't agree with their perspective on something. What in the world are we supposed to do? In this episode, we dive...
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What Are Soft Spots and What Can We Do About Them?
Everything is going well in the relationship so far. Then, boom. We hit one of them. We don't understand why they're there, and can't seem to get why our partner is acting that way! It's likely we just hit a soft-spot. Next, we resort to putting gas on the fire to make it all blow up in our…
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Give From Loving, Love From Giving
The more we give our partners, the more we can love our partners. The more we can love our partners, the more we can give our partners. It's the problem of what came first - the chicken or the egg! Learn to take the first step to give in your relationship to build your love and shared emotional...
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How Do You Share and Receive Love?
So many couples pump and pay for 300 litres of gas when only 50 of them get in the tank. They then get mad at the car when the gas spills all over the floor and kick the tire to break their toes. You can't win a fight with a car! Learn to share love in the way your partner wants to receive it so...
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Stages of a Relationship
There is so much misconception in society today on the stages of a relationship. Things are changing between you. That's okay! You're doing it right. Relationships change, just like we do. We're people, anyway! The stages we propose are: lust/romance, struggle, working, maintenance. We're going…
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Who We Are
Take a sneak peak on this episode on who we are, our story, and our future plans. Learn2Love* is working hard with a team of passionate individuals with a vision to create a world with healthier relationships and stronger families. Also, in the second half of this episode, learn about how to…
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Blessing or Curse? 5 Tips to Improve Your Long-Distance Relationship During COVID-19.
COVID-19, or the new coronavirus, is taking a toll on everyone. Yet long-distance relationships are especially vulnerable. Instead of making your relationship worse, the pandemic can serve as an excellent tool to strengthen it further. Watch now to learn more about how COVID-19 could be the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Learn2Love brings together curated teachings from a variety of books, podcasts, and articles on how to build a great relationship. We believe that healthy love is a skill that can be learned, trained and mastered like a muscle. This education is largely missing from society at large today. To address this need, we have researched dozens of books and hundreds of interviews, articles and real-life experiences to bring our best teaching forward to you. Happy learning!
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