056: Time Alone Together Ambivalence

056: Time Alone Together Ambivalence

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Do you find yourself saying, "We're so busy, I feel like roommates?” Or maybe you say, "We know we need to go on dates, but we never seem to get around to it. And then if we do go, a lot of times we get into a fight." Today on Sex. Love. Power., we're talking about spending more time together. Whether that's talking, having fun, or getting naked together. We're going to cover how to recognize the resistance so you can break through those totally understandable obstacles and actually get more closeness and heat between you.

As you listen to this episode, we’ll talk about:

  • Why time alone together matters for your relationship in the long-term

  • The reasons you don’t spend time together, even if you know you should

  • How to keep alone time from turning into a conflict

  • The habits that are keeping you from truly connecting and new ones you can form

“We need to have more fun together. In order to help us resolve some of these conflicts. It's not the other way around, where we have to resolve these conflicts before we can have fun together.”

- Michele Lisenbury Christensen 

Hot Moments in this Episode

  • The six reasons time together can be uncomfortable [5:44]

  • What to do if you don’t have anything to talk about together [8:51]

  • Why you are disappointed with the time you spend with your partner [13:23]

  • Why you might want to start with being alone with yourself first [17:05]

I hope that you are inspired to experiment with these ideas just a little bit, and then build from there so that you can give and receive more joy or pleasure and more care.

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055: Dominance and Submission

055: Dominance and Submission

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Do you feel like you're always in charge, like you're always handling all the heavy lifting in your shared life? Or do you ever feel your partner can be so controlling or perfectionistic that you tend to hang back? Both of these situations are issues of what I call polarity - the interaction between dominance and submission (and, no, I’m not just talking about in bed). If you want to go from frustration and jockeying for position, or avoiding conflict, over to playful, effective interactions sizzling with energy, this is the episode for you.

In this episode you’ll learn:

  • How the dynamics of dominance and submission play out in everyday life

  • What can go wrong when you’re missing polarity

  • The three keys to creating an arc of polarity in your relationship

  • How to get more of the energy you want from yourself and your partner

  • How you can tell if you’re in the dominant or submissive role

“We tend to reject so many of the sensations of aliveness that arise because we put them in that box that we label ‘bad sensations.’ So tear the label off that box and follow the sensations that are arising now.”

- Michele Lisenbury Christensen 

Hot Moments in this Episode

  • The three mistakes nice guys make [4:16]

  • How your marriage is like a pair of magnets [6:00]

  • How to speak in a penetrating way [8:29]

  • When your partner’s standard for you is too oppressive [10:39]

I hope that whether you are choosing to lead or to follow, you use these keys to polarity to create delicious connections and deeper love.

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054: Defensiveness

054: Defensiveness in Love & Sex

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I want to devote a whole episode to the topic of defensiveness: how we engender it in each other, and why we get defensive ourselves. This is one of the biggest things I see stopping couples from communicating effectively, from connecting more deeply, and from experiencing more turn-on and erotic charge in their relationships. So if you've had defensiveness on either side of the conversation, this episode is for you.

In this episode we’ll cover:

  • Reasons you get defensive- whether it’s stemming from you or from your partner

  • What to do when your partner or someone else seems defensive.

  • What to do when you feel unfairly attacked or accused

  • How to calm down when either of you has gotten defensive

“It's a tremendous challenge and opportunity to be fresh in today's conversation, rather than to call up that whole library of painful experiences that everybody, even in a good relationship, has over years and years together, because you're both human.”

- Michele Lisenbury Christensen 

Hot Moments in this Episode

  • Why you should celebrate when defensiveness comes up [5:37]

  • One of the best tools for dismantling defensiveness when bringing up an issue [15:25]

  • Signs that your partner may be becoming defensive [17:35]

  • What happens when you “throw in the kitchen sink” [26:40]

I wish for every couple listening today is to be able to talk about the most tender things, the most raw things, the deepest reactions you have to one another because those contain the gold of both your personal evolutions and the most intimate relationship that you can possibly have with each other.

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053: The Elements of Power in Relationship [Rebroadcast]

053: The Elements of Power in Relationship

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This week, I'm bringing back the most popular episode of the podcast for your listening pleasure.

The 12 Elements of Power framework is more relevant now than ever for us as feminists who don't want to think about power in an essentialist sense, don't want to think that there are particular qualities that we don't have access to because that hasn't been our lived experience. What we know is that we have within us, for instance, both the capacity to be self-reliant, and the capacity to be connected. Those are two of the elements of power. And all of the elements come in pairs like this that we'll talk through today.

In this episode we’ll talk about

  • How Driving and Receiving are two sides of the same coin… We can only do so much “making it happen” without a commensurate capacity to “let it in.”

  • Why “masculine” traits and “feminine” traits are a fallacy, even though there’s plenty of evidence for them, and what’s more true than that kind of gender essentialism

  • The twelve precise capacities every human possesses and needs to master to be fully powerful in love and elsewhere in life

"With each pair of elements, we become more and more whole as we master those skills."

Hot Moments in this Episode

  • What “psychological patriarchy” is and how it affects us [7:19]

  • How the 12 Elements of Power can be like bodybuilding [11:18]

  • The element of power that looks the least like power, but may be the most powerful [15:06]

  • Taking the elements of power into the realm of intimacy [17:15]

I hope you find this episode is just what you need to hear as you navigate your relationship in these intense times. I hope you are able to remember your exquisite beauty, divinity, and intrinsic aliveness.  And I hope you let the light within you illuminate the world around you.

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052: The Heart of Intimacy, The Root of Conflict

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This is a different kind of episode. Often, I record podcast episodes about things that have come up with clients recently or I initiate out of conversations that I feel like we need to have in the culture that we haven't been having. Today's episode is about a topic that is blowing my mind right now, because I didn't think of it this way until I was reading this amazing book, "The Audacity to Be You" by Brad Reedy. In this episode, I want to talk about Reedy’s concept of the “three circles” because I believe that this concept is at the heart of intimacy. And it's also at the root of most conflict, especially between two people.

As you listen to this episode, you'll discover:

  • Brad Reedy’s “three circles model” and how it ties in with what I am learning about myself

  • How we get walled off from one another or tangled up in each other's selves

  • How we can use the three circles model to better know ourselves and our partner

  • Where to start to create more of a sense of self and healthier intimacy with other people

  • How this can apply to many of your relationships- whether it’s your spouse, children, or friends

And more. 

 Join the conversation by listening, then share your story or response on our voicemail at 206-659-9865 or inside our free Conscious Couples’ Circle on Mighty Networks.

“The inner work of being an adult is to find those pieces of ourselves that we've disowned, that we thought weren't lovable, that we thought that no one could both see and care about us and to bring those back up.”

- Michele Lisenbury Christensen 

Hot Moments in This Episode:

  • How to “shovel while the pile is small” [3:28]

  • The “twofer” that gets in the way of building Legacy Love in therapy [4:17]

  • How the patriarchy affects your relationship that a therapist may miss [11:08]

  • What I hope your next investment in your relationship looks like [18:17]

RESOURCES OR LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
The Audacity to be You by Brad Reedy

I hope that you get to a place where this kind of invitation is just a working part of who you are as a couple; that you keep leapfrogging into new possibilities. erotically emotionally, career-wise, This is a never-ending road, not of difficulty and pain, but of potential and joy, growth, freedom, and pleasure. And that's what I want for you.

If the conversations on this podcast are resonating for you and you want to create the love, sex, and aliveness you desire with more ease, I invite you to enter a deeper relationship with me, through private coaching or my group mentorship program. Either way, you get powerful tools, conversation cheat sheets, meditations, and my loving and skillful attention every month, so your capacity for the pleasure and joy you want grows, continuously. CLICK HERE to apply for a consultation.

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051: Why Therapy Didn’t Get You There

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You've tried therapy before, and it didn't get you where you wanted to go. Maybe it helped. Many people report to me that it got them on the right path, but not really to their goals. My goal is to help couples not just reduce the “itching, burning and swelling”- the immediate pains that they're facing when they come to me- but truly create a great relationship. And, truly, what many of the couples that come to me want is to go from a good really solid relationship to a great relationship, which I call Legacy Love. Today, we're going to talk about why couples counseling often doesn't get couples to that place, and how to make sure that next time you do make an investment in your relationship, it can get you where you really want to go.

As you listen to this episode, you'll hear about:

  • The point at which most couples seek counseling

  • What I’ve learned about couples counseling from my own experiences in therapy

  • What you need to be doing between your sessions is to get the results you want

  • The importance of putting the conversation about the relationship in the context of trauma, power, patriarchy, and colonization

  • The difference between treating the symptoms and actually building towards our vision

And more. 

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“Our rates of normal marital mediocrity can be chalked up to not having a high enough vision and a deep enough devotion to being one another's person.”

- Michele Lisenbury Christensen 

Hot Moments in This Episode:

  • How to “shovel while the pile is small” [3:28]

  • The “twofer” that gets in the way of building Legacy Love in therapy [4:17]

  • How the patriarchy affects your relationship that a therapist may miss [11:08]

  • What I hope your next investment in your relationship looks like [18:17]

I hope that you get to a place where this kind of invitation is just a working part of who you are as a couple; that you keep leapfrogging into new possibilities. erotically emotionally, career-wise, This is a never-ending road, not of difficulty and pain, but of potential and joy, growth, freedom, and pleasure. And that's what I want for you.

If the conversations on this podcast are resonating for you and you want to create the love, sex, and aliveness you desire with more ease, I invite you to enter a deeper relationship with me, through private coaching or my group mentorship program. Either way, you get powerful tools, conversation cheat sheets, meditations, and my loving and skillful attention every month, so your capacity for the pleasure and joy you want grows, continuously. CLICK HERE to apply for a consultation.

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050: Help Yourself Draw a Line

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There are some serious ways that our partners can be stuck. Many clients and members of my audience have approached me with concerns like, "I just need him to get a job and nothing I've tried has worked" or "Her drinking is really concerning to me, but it's not concerning to her so she's not about to get into recovery.” It's very reasonable that your partner might feel terrified to make a particular change and you may be the only voice or the loudest voice asking them to change. Today's episode is about how we get our partners on board with something that we really want, but that perhaps you've spent years trying to get through to them about and it hasn't worked.

In this episode, I’ll walk you through:

  • How to get clarity about what you’re willing to give in order to have the relationship you envision

  • My experience of drawing a line with my husband and how it transformed our marriage

  • How to start the conversation about your partner's behaviors in a way that can benefit you and your partner

  • Finding a “Plan B” to underscore for you what’s really going on (and how that’s different than a threat)

  • Understanding the objections that may arise when you confront these behaviors

And more. 

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“I assure you, you were built for more. If you are living in a way that is hobbled by your partner’s under-functioning or under-living, they deserve and you deserve so much more.”

- Michele Lisenbury Christensen 

Hot Moments in This Episode:

  • How you can call your partner to begin their “hero’s journey”

  • The negotiating tactic you can use to get clarity

  • The three-stage way I communicated about my partner’s outbursts

  • Some sentence starters that can help you begin a productive conversation

I hope that you get to a place where this kind of invitation is just a working part of who you are as a couple; that you keep leapfrogging into new possibilities. erotically emotionally, career-wise, This is a never-ending road, not of difficulty and pain, but of potential and joy, growth, freedom, and pleasure. And that's what I want for you.

If the conversations on this podcast are resonating for you and you want to create the love, sex, and aliveness you desire with more ease, I invite you to enter a deeper relationship with me, through private coaching or my group mentorship program. Either way, you get powerful tools, conversation cheat sheets, meditations, and my loving and skillful attention every month, so your capacity for the pleasure and joy you want grows, continuously. CLICK HERE to apply for a consultation.

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049: Unmet Needs

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Think for a moment about what conditions you thrive under, what sets you up to be your happiest, your healthiest, most balanced, joyful self. When that thing is missing it functions like a rock in your shoe. You're able to keep walking, but it’s just a little bit more painful. That’s how an unmet need can feel and how it can create tension and unhappiness in your life. Today, I want to address what needs are and what they aren't, and how you know. We'll talk about what's possible when your needs get met, and what to do when they're not.

As you listen to this episode, we’ll talk about:

  • The categories of needs that people often come to me about

  • How to distinguish between “wants” and “desires” and how they overlap

  • Signs that you may have unmet needs

  • Patterns that individuals and couples fall into when they have unmet needs

  • Approaches you can use to get your needs met

  • Unraveling myths and misconceptions around your needs

And more. 

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“Desires are the marching orders that the divine writes on our hearts. They speak to who we are to be in this world.”

- Michele Lisenbury Christensen 

Hot Moments in This Episode:

  • The difference between my approach and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (3:32)

  • The most amazing thing about needs (13:00)

  • What to try if an unmet need feels like an emergency (14:53)

  • What the “portfolio approach” is and how to make it work for you (18:21)


I hope that you're taking away a bright vision of yourself as an organism that has needs that you might not have pinpointed yet, but that you can get acquainted with. And I hope that you can see that when you honor those needs, you do a service not just to yourself, but to your partner and everyone you're close to and truly to the whole world.

If the conversations on this podcast are resonating for you and you want to create the love, sex, and aliveness you desire with more ease, I invite you to enter a deeper relationship with me, through private coaching or my group mentorship program. Either way, you get powerful tools, conversation cheat sheets, meditations, and my loving and skillful attention every month, so your capacity for the pleasure and joy you want grows, continuously. CLICK HERE to apply for a consultation.

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048: Turn On Your Marriage

EPISODE SHOW NOTES

This topic is very close to my heart and it is one of the central beliefs that informs all the work I do with my clients. Today, I'm here to tell you that you deserve and are capable of experiencing pleasure no matter where you are in life. In my latest episode, we talk about how you can bring more of that pleasure and aliveness into your marriage.

As you listen to this episode, you'll hear about:

  • The five beliefs that you need to create for yourself to sustain the level of turn-on that your body and your heart yearn for

  • What happens when you think of your marriage as another “to-do” and how to turn it into an energy source instead

  • Interrogating your beliefs around what you “deserve”

  • Accepting that you can cultivate pleasure at any size, shape, age (despite your objections)

  • The importance of looking at your vision for what’s possible in your relationship

And more. 

 Join the conversation by listening, then share your story or response on our voicemail at 206-659-9865 or inside our free Conscious Couples’ Circle on Mighty Networks.

“I'm here to tell you that pleasure is absolutely possible at any age. And beyond possible, it's absolutely worthy and beautiful and it is our birthright.”

- Michele Lisenbury Christensen 

Hot Moments in This Episode:

  • The steamroller you’ll have to stand up to in order to have a turned on marriage

  • Why you already have what you need in order to have a turned-on life

  • Why learning sex tricks probably isn’t going to help...

  • The fundamental question I dare you to ask yourself


My wish for you is that you see yourself as that visionary, that change agent who is blessed with a vision that others might not yet see, but a vision that will serve you in the world very well, if you nourish yourself well enough to hold the vision and devote yourself to it with self love and perseverance. And may the light within you illuminate the world around you.

If the conversations on this podcast are resonating for you and you want to create the love, sex, and aliveness you desire with more ease, I invite you to enter a deeper relationship with me, through private coaching or my group mentorship program. Either way, you get powerful tools, conversation cheat sheets, meditations, and my loving and skillful attention every month, so your capacity for the pleasure and joy you want grows, continuously. CLICK HERE to apply for a consultation.

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047: You Want Someone Else

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Let me ask you a personal question (or a few). Do you have fantasies about sex with other people? Do you have sometimes active desires to consummate those fantasies? Do you wonder what that means about you or about your partner? I’m going to guess you answered “yes” to at least one of these questions. And you know what? That is all totally okay. Today we're going to talk about your desire for sex with other people and start to dig in to what that could mean for you.

As you listen to this episode, you'll learn::

  • Different reasons you might want sex with another person

  • What your desires or fantasies might signal about your needs and how they could actually benefit your relationship

  • What it means you are fantasizing about a specific person or about finding someone new in the abstract

  • Questions to ask yourself about to get to the root of your desire and address it

  • And more.

And more.

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“ I think of sexual fantasies as being like a Pensieve, they show us ourselves. You can see yourself in your desires.” ”

- Michele Lisenbury Christensen 

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Recommended reading regarding sex with other people:

“Sex at Dawn” by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá 

“The State of Affairs” and “Mating in Captivity” by Esther Perel, one of my teachers

“Opening Up” by Tristan Taormino

“The Ethical Slut” by Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy


Hot Moments in This Episode:

  • The money habit that’s a sex-crusher (8:20)

  • How money conflicts can be the canary in the coal mine (9:42)

  • Explaining what I mean by “financial infidelity” (13:25)

  • The different money strategies I have heard from hundreds of people (17:56)


My wish for you is that you see yourself as that visionary, that change agent who is blessed with a vision that others might not yet see, but a vision that will serve you in the world very well, if you nourish yourself well enough to hold the vision and devote yourself to it with self love and perseverance. And may the light within you illuminate the world around you.

If the conversations on this podcast are resonating for you and you want to create the love, sex, and aliveness you desire with more ease, I invite you to enter a deeper relationship with me, through private coaching or my group mentorship program. Either way, you get powerful tools, conversation cheat sheets, meditations, and my loving and skillful attention every month, so your capacity for the pleasure and joy you want grows, continuously. CLICK HERE to apply for a consultation.

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