26: Deepening Intimacy through Authentic Relating, with Randi Hall

Disclaimer: This episode includes candid discussions of sexuality. Listener discretion is advised.

In this episode Patty talks to Randi Hall, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist,  Grief Tender and Facilitator about Authentic Relating (AR) — a practice of realness, presence, and in-the-moment connection through simple games and conversations. We discuss AR as an open source social technology, its principles (curiosity, empathy, ownership), how it creates safety for vulnerability, and its natural synergy with IFS. 

We discuss applying AR to sexuality to build attunement, consent, and presence before intimacy, and play two live games which are surprisingly (yet not surprisingly) vulnerable and revealing. Randi highlights AR’s versatility across joyful, tender, and conflict spaces, and shares how she fell in love with these practices.

Randi Hall is the founder of Realness Rising and her work centers on creating honest, spacious, embodied containers where people can show up as they are without fixing, performing, or pretending. Randi brings together clinical training, lived experience, ritual, and years of facilitating grief circles and connection spaces to help people feel less alone in both grief and relationship.

Connect with Randi: 

IG: @realnessrising

FB Group: realnessrising and the realness rising community

Podcast: ⁠Getting Real with Grief⁠

⁠https://www.authrev.org/what-is-authentic-relating⁠

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