Optimal Relationships Daily - Dating, Marriage and Parenting

Keith Wilson shares his thoughts on loneliness.Episode 678: Loneliness by Keith Wilson of KeithWilsonCounseling on Connecting with OthersKeith Wilson is a licensed mental health counselor and certified alcohol and substance abuse counselor in New York State, with more than 30 years experience. Keith has done a lot of writing about ways to improve your relationships and become the person you would like to be. His newest book is The Road to Reconciliation: A Comprehensive Guide to Peace When Relationships Go Bad.The original post is located here: https://keithwilsoncounseling.com/2019/07/05/loneliness/Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free GiftsNow, as a special holiday offer, you can get $10 off your purchase of a Skylight Frame when you go to SkylightFrame.com/DAILY and enter code DAILY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ingrid Y Helander shares 5 steps to embrace the one you love even more when it's tough.Episode 677: 5 Steps To Embrace The One You Love Even When It’s Tough by Ingrid Y. Helander on Long-Term RelationshipsIngrid began her career in Marriage and Family Therapy after she had her three children. After her youngest son was diagnosed with a chronic illness, she decided that she wanted to train to work alongside people as they work through life’s difficulties. She has a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Central Connecticut State University. Ingrid specializes in Internal Family Systems and and Intimacy from the Inside Out Couples Therapy.The original post is located here: https://ingridyhelanderlmft.com/5-steps-to-embrace-the-one-you-love/Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free GiftsNow, as a special holiday offer, you can get $10 off your purchase of a Skylight Frame when you go to SkylightFrame.com/DAILY and enter code DAILY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven Zawila with Introvert Dear shares 6 reasons why dating an introvert is better, even for extroverts.Episode 676: 6 Reasons Why Dating an Introvert Is Better - Even for Extroverts by Steven Zawila with Introvert, DearJenn Granneman is the founder of Introvert, Dear and author of The Secret Lives of Introverts. She started Introvert, Dear in 2013 as her personal blog. She was living with an extroverted roommate, dating an extroverted guy, and working an extroverted job (teaching 4th grade). Jenn wanted to write about what it was like being an introvert living in an extrovert’s world.In true introvert form, she wrote her blog anonymously for almost two years. Jenn had no desire to be in the spotlight. And she had no idea her little blog would become this!Now, with the help of “quiet ones” around the world, she is on a mission: to let introverts everywhere know it’s okay to be who they are.The original post is located here: https://introvertdear.com/news/introvert-dating-better/Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free GiftsNow, as a special holiday offer, you can get $10 off your purchase of a Skylight Frame when you go to SkylightFrame.com/DAILY and enter code DAILY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jay and Heather Harrington share how to counter the princess industrial complex.Episode 675: Get Girls Outside to Counter the "Princess Industrial Complex" by Jay & Heather Harrington of Life And WhimJay and Heather Harrington are the husband and wife team behind Life and Whim. They started Life and Whim after moving their family to Traverse City, a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan, to break the script of their life and reimagine what's possible. They live in pursuit of a purposeful, meaningful, active, and simple life.The original post is located here: https://www.lifeandwhim.com/first-moments-blog/antidote-to-the-princess-industrial-complexVisit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free GiftsBetterHelp online counseling is there for you. Best of all it's a truly affordable option - Optimal Relationship Daily listeners get 10% off your first month with discount code ORD. So why not get started today? Go to BetterHelp.com/ord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 shorter posts from Lisa Merlo-Booth on raising healthy children & raising strong, healthy daughters.Episode 674: Raising Healthy Children (Changing Me, Changes My Children) & Raising Strong, Healthy Daughters by Lisa Merlo-BoothLisa Merlo-Booth is a straight-talking and highly effective relationship expert, speaker, and blogger. She has over twenty years of experience in the field of therapy and relationship coaching and a thriving private practice with a client base of individuals and couples spanning the United States and Europe. Lisa is widely known for her straight talk on women, and for her emphasis on teaching women to stop responding in the extremes (silencing or exploding) and, instead, to affect change in a way that is grounded, respectful, and strong. This highly effective approach to communication is about speaking from Grounded Powerful Strength (GPS) rather than the extremes of meekness or aggression.The original posts are located here:https://lisamerlobooth.com/raising_healthy/ & https://lisamerlobooth.com/raising-strong-healthy-daughters/Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free GiftsBetterHelp online counseling is there for you. Best of all it's a truly affordable option - Optimal Relationship Daily listeners get 10% off your first month with discount code ORD. So why not get started today? Go to BetterHelp.com/ord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kelly Samson with Altris shares life lessons from sticky family situations.Episode 673: Life Lessons From Sticky Family Situations by Kelly Samson with Altris on Relationships with ParentsAltris has a range of specialised Leadership Development and Executive Coaching solutions. They believe that each leader, team and organisation is unique and therefore the solutions they deliver must be distinctive.The original post is located here:http://blog.altris.co.nz/?p=1926Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free GiftsBetterHelp online counseling is there for you. Best of all it's a truly affordable option - Optimal Relationship Daily listeners get 10% off your first month with discount code ORD. So why not get started today? Go to BetterHelp.com/ord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heather Gray with The Gottman Institute shares why you need to accept your partner's needs.Episode 672: Why You Need to Accept Your Partner's Needs by Heather Gray with The Gottman Institute on Marriage CommunicationThe Gottman Institute understands that the human family is in crisis, and that all individuals are capable of and deserve compassion. It is their mission to reach out to families in order to help create and maintain greater love and health in relationships. They are committed to an ongoing program of research that increases the understanding of relationships and adds to the development of interventions that have been carefully evaluated. It is their goal to make their services accessible to the broadest reach of people across race, religion, class, culture, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.Want to improve your marriage in 60 seconds or less? Over 40 years of research with thousands of couples has proven a simple fact: small things often can create big changes over time. Got a minute? Sign up for The Gottman Institute's Marriage Minute at http://OLDPodcast.com/marriageThe original post is located here: https://www.gottman.com/blog/why-you-need-to-accept-your-partners-needs/Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free GiftsBetterHelp online counseling is there for you. Best of all it's a truly affordable option - Optimal Relationship Daily listeners get 10% off your first month with discount code ORD. So why not get started today? Go to BetterHelp.com/ord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eddie Corbano of Love's a Game asks if you have made these mistakes after your relationship break up.Episode 671: Have YOU Made These Mistakes After Your Relationship Break Up? by Eddie Corbano of Loves A Game on Dating FailsEddie Corbano's mission and life's purpose is to help you use your breakup or divorce to turn your life around and become the best version of yourself that you can ever be, and attract your ideal partner (your "Authentic Love") by being that new you.He gives you the tools, motivation, and inspiration to make this breakup the catalyst to become a stronger and more confident person: to break free from your ex, reclaim your emotional freedom, and live the life you are really destined to live.Take the test: how fast can you move on from your ex: http://lovesagame.com/healThe original post is located here: https://lovesagame.com/have-you-made-these-mistakes-after-your-relationship-break-up/Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free GiftsBetterHelp online counseling is there for you. Best of all it's a truly affordable option - Optimal Relationship Daily listeners get 10% off your first month with discount code ORD. So why not get started today? Go to BetterHelp.com/ord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Morgenstern shares how to be a present and balanced parent.Episode 670: What're You Doing For Fun? (Yes, Really!) by Julie Morgenstern on How to Be A Present & Balanced ParentJulie Morgenstern is an organizing & productivity consultant, New York Times best-selling author, and speaker. For over 30 years, Julie has been teaching people all around the world and at all stages of life how to overcome disorganization to achieve their goals. Her mission is to free each individual to make their unique contribution to the world - by helping them design their own systems for managing time and space that feel natural and are easy to maintain. This Inside Out approach to organizing everything gives readers, listeners, and clients the energy and knowledge they need to get (and stay) organized.The original post is located here: https://www.juliemorgenstern.com/tips-tools-blog/2020/3/12/whatre-you-doing-for-fun-yes-reallyVisit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free GiftsSave the time. Save some money. And most importantly, save your sanity by checking these guys out at www.generationtux.com/ORD and use promo code ORD for 10% off the entire groom's party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Brokamp with Get Rich Slowly shares the cost of being a better parent.Episode 669: The Cost of Being a Better Parent by Robert Brokamp with Get Rich Slowly on Balancing Parenthood & Family FinancesJ.D. Roth has been reading and writing about personal finance for a decade. Today he’s financially independent, but ten years ago, his money life was a disaster, with over $35,000 in consumer debt. He started turning everything around in 2004. By being the boss of your own life, you, too, can be the master of your own financial fate.The original post is located here: https://www.getrichslowly.org/the-cost-of-being-a-better-parent/Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Facebook Groupand Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices