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Small Things Often — 181 episodes

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1

How to Hit the Reset Button

2

Do You Have Time for a Date?

3

Building Your Relationship with Humor

4

How to be Lovers and Friends

5

Why Does My Partner Hate Me?

6

Letting Your Partner Make Mistakes

7

Four Things that Make Up Successful Relationships

8

Are You Sensually Communicating?

9

Navigating Valentine’s Day

10

Why Passion and Parenting Can Co-Exist

11

What to Say to Have a Deep Connection with Your Partner

12

How to Get in the Mood for Love-Making

13

How to Curb Your Expectations

14

Why You Should Stop Trying to Fix Your Partner's Feelings

15

A Busy Couple’s Guide to Sharing Fondness and Admiration

16

How to Turn Your Relationship Goals Into Habits

17

How to Reverse Relationship Bankruptcy

18

Ask for What You Want

19

Why You Should Surround Yourself with Healthy Couples

20

How to Give Your Relationship a Fresh Start

21

The Importance of Taking Breaks

22

How to Battle Loneliness in a Relationship

23

Who are we? Defining the Culture of your Couplehood

24

Creating Shared Meaning Through Rituals of Connection

25

Gifts From the Heart

26

A Couples Guide to Handling Conflict

27

How to Celebrate Differences During the Holidays

28

Ways to Make a Better Bid for Connection

29

How to Stay Connected Through the Holidays

30

What Are Three Things You Love About Your Partner?

31

Show Your Gratitude in a Thank You Note

32

Making Your Relationship a Priority

33

Conversations that Matter Most in Relationships

34

3 Ways to Keep a Positive Perspective

35

Simple Ways to Show Fondness and Admiration

36

The Power of Being Polite

37

The #1 Couple

38

Strengthen Your Relationship With the Magic Ratio

39

How to Inspire Your Partner to Attend Couples Therapy

40

Questions to Ask Your Date

41

5 Tips to Help Your Relationship Thrive

42

How to Find a Therapist

43

An Easier Way to Talk About Finances

44

Are You Being Attentive?

45

How to Fall in Love With Your Partner Again

46

The Relationship Myths to Ignore

47

How to Build Emotional Intelligence

48

Emotion Coaching is Not Just for Kids

49

Ways to Turn Towards Each Other as New Parents or Caregivers

50

The Little Things You Do

51

8 Conversations That Matter Most

52

How to Create a Shared Financial Vision

53

Why “Sorry” Isn’t Enough

54

Are You Assuming Positive Intent?

55

Which Box is Your Relationship in?

56

Lookout for Sliding Door Moments

57

Bringing Heartfulness Into Your Relationship

58

Two Practices to Help Protect Your Relationship in Times of Conflict

59

How to Start and End your Day Together

60

How You Can Stop the World Together

61

How to Support Your Partner When You’re Hurting Too

62

How to stay connected during life’s transitions

63

Finding Ways to Accept Influence

64

Do you Look at your partner through Rose-colored glasses

65

Ways to Invest in Your Relationship

66

6 Ideas for the Perfect Playdate

67

Rituals to Reconnect in Your Relationship

68

Ways to Stop Taking Each Other for Granted

69

Mindful Listening Tips During Conflict

70

How to Become a Really Great Listener

71

How to Invest in Your Emotional Bank Account

72

Why Core Needs Aren't Negotiable

73

A Guide to Complaining

74

How To Turn Towards Instead of Away

75

Ways to Make Your Love Last

76

How to Get Your Relationship Back on Track

77

How to Support Your Partner’s Life Dream

78

Do You and Your Partner Dream Together?

79

How to Build Trust In Your Relationship

80

Here’s What Trust and Commitment Look Like in a Relationship

81

What to Do if You Don’t Trust Each Other

82

Learn to Create Shared Meaning in Your Relationship

83

How to Strengthen Your Relationship with State of the Union Meetings

84

How to Use a Repair Remote Control

85

What to Do When You Disagree

86

How to Process an Argument

87

Rules for a Stress-Reducing Conversation

88

How to Rescue your Relationship from Stress

89

Managing Physiological Flooding

90

How to Practice Self-Soothing

91

Tips on How to Cope with Overwhelm During Stressful Times

92

Bonus Episode: Dr. Julie Gottman’s Guided Relaxation Exercise

93

Do You Know When Your Partner is Feeling Flooded?

94

Questions Happy Couples Ask Each Other

95

Ways to Fall in Love with Your Partner All Over Again

96

How You Can Pursue Your Partner at Every Stage

97

Learn the 2 Biases That May Be Hurting Your Relationship

98

Are You Surrounded by Healthy Couples?

99

Simple Tips to Reconnect and Nurture Your Relationship

100

Why It’s Important to Be “In Like” With Your Partner

101

Love Out Loud

102

How to Use Small Things Often Together

103

How Do You View Your Relationship?

104

How to Express Feelings Instead of Judgments

105

Why Resting Is Good for Your Relationship

106

How to Embrace Ambiguity

107

Are You a Good Teammate?

108

How to Listen Out Loud

109

How to Make Time for Date Night

110

What is Trust?

111

Sharing to Heal

112

How to Get Friendly

113

Are You a Differentiated Partner?

114

How to React to a Partner in Pain

115

What Are the Seasons of Love?

116

Here's One Simple Question to Learn More About Your Partner

117

Bottling or Brooding: How do you process difficult emotions?

118

Learning How to Care for You

119

Why You Should Schedule Your Next Conflict

120

How to Respond Non-Defensively

121

Identifying the 3 Forms of Defensiveness

122

How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship

123

How to Recognize Gridlock and Overcome It

124

How to Become Aware of Your Emotions

125

Why You Don’t Always Have to Agree

126

Embracing Relationship Changes

127

What Are Love Maps?

128

Are You Taking Responsibility in Your Relationship?

129

Why Being Neutral Can Be Invalidating for your Partner

130

Building Relationships Brick by Brick

131

There’s No Such Thing as All Good or All Bad

132

Having Difficult Conversations with Loved Ones

133

Acknowledge Subjective Realities

134

How to Be a Better Listener

135

How to Take Care of Each Other By Taking Care of Ourselves

136

Connecting in Crisis

137

Practicing Positive Needs

138

Good Enough Relationship

139

Finding Joy

140

Redefining Individuality and Togetherness

141

Stress-Reducing Conversations

142

Little Repairs That Have A Big Impact

143

You Don’t Need to Cheer Up Your Partner

144

Hurt Feelings

145

Attunement Through Awareness

146

What Is a Bid for Connection?

147

Emotion Coaching

148

Under Stress, We All Regress

149

Understanding Your Feelings

150

Mindfulness and Awareness

151

Flooding and Overwhelm

152

We Want to Hear From You...Before Season 2 Begins!

153

Say What You Need

154

What Does Compatibility Really Mean?

155

The Grass is Greener Where You Water it

156

Change the Metric

157

Facts Over Myths

158

Intimacy Through Self-Disclosure

159

Emotional Triggers

160

Self-Soothing

161

Two Sides of Stonewalling

162

Difficult emotions

163

Magic Ratio

164

Celebrate your partner

165

Complaints vs Critcism

166

Intentional Choices to Connect with Your Family

167

Redefining Rituals

168

Staying Connected Through Times of Great Stress

169

Attunement

170

Destress with your Partner

171

Disconnect to connect

172

Listen to understand

173

Understanding must precede advice

174

You don't have to solve your problems

175

Trust is built in very small moments

176

Move from me to we

177

Self-care isn't selfish

178

Catch your partner doing something right

179

What can you do in five minutes?

180

Who are we? What are we going to do?

181

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