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Hi and welcome to The Couples Expert Podcast with your host Stuart Fensterheim. We’re so happy you’ve joined us for today’s show. Stuart’s guest on the podcast is Nicole Burgess, LMFT. Nicole specializes in counseling teens and women. She teaches mindfulness practice as a way to being a more centered and balanced individual. Nicole has always felt like being a counselor is her calling even before she was one!  Listen in while Nicole and Stuart talk about the practice of mindfulness and how we can incorporate that into marriage and family life.

What you’ll learn from today’s podcast:

  • Some background on Nicole Burgess 4:45
  • Why unmet expectations causes conflicts and  Practicing mindfulness can change that 8:24
  • When being in the moment isn’t fun 10:30
  • Mindfulness practice can look different to each person 16:30
  • How mindfulness helps couples and families connect and communicate with each other on a deeper level 22:00
  • Steps to begin this process 27:13

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Learning to be present in your body, aware of and observing your surroundings, helps to ground and center you. Approaching even difficult situations and conversations when you and your partner are triggered can change when you practice mindfulness. Using this practice will help to diffuse and deescalate problems and disagreements and will transform the way you and your partner interact and the result will be deeper understanding and a closer connection.

 

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Next Week on The Couples Expert Podcast

Can your marriage be saved? Have you gotten to the end of your rope to the point where you don’t know whether to let go or tie a knot and hang on? Stuart will be addressing this in the next episode of The Couples Expert Podcast. We hope you’ll tune in.

 

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My favorite part of doing these podcasts is participating in the conversations they provoke. Each week I present one question, and this week, here is our focus: Question: How do you practice mindfulness in your way daily?

 

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