Relationship Masters with Zalman Nelson, LCSW

We get into the topic of dating, and how your inner world and your inner kid is at the core of attracting good partners, avoiding bad partners, and successfully navigating relationships as you build connections. We talk about red flags, negotiables versus non-negotiables, how to become relationship ready and attract good people, how to filter out the bad ones, and how to navigate vulnerability and building trust. Join the Therapy Group | Support the Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We go deep into boundaries: what they are, why we need them, and how to get them. And cover a ton of listener questions along the way: controlling knee-jerk reactions; parenting with unconditional acceptance; assumptions; implied messages; learning to be ok being alone; addictions and much more. Join the Therapy Group | Support the Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What do you see when you look in the mirror? It's time to change our relationship with ourself, and bring in the compassion, understanding, kindness, and support we need to thrive, be happy, and succeed in life. Join the Therapy Group | Support the Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Doable, quick tip for handling anxiety that you can start using right away. Join the Therapy Group | Support the Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We need healthy boundaries: where I end and you begin...and not melding them together. And to get to a place of strong, firm boundaries, protecting self, you'll need to validate yourself. To know you're allowed to feel and need, and to go make happen what you need to see happen. Join the Therapy Group | Support the Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

You count and matter, and that means you get a say. Here's a doable meditation for speaking up, expressing yourself, and putting more you into your day. Join the Therapy Group | Support the Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

You can only know what you know and what you feel. Trust and share it, go for it. BUT, leave some space for the blind spots, the things that others see, feel, and think. Put it all together, and you get an accurate picture of things. Support the podcast! patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Response to an important question asked on the video: "Car Therapy: the best way to find the right people for you" – Expressing self vs. being too vulnerable Support the podcast! patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Your past doesn't have to be a heavy burden holding you back. Rather, it can propel you forward. It's your archives of what does and doesn't work, and it belongs to you. Hear how to use it. Support the podcast! patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

You already know how to treat yourself the way you need to be treated....you're doing it for everyone else around you. Support the podcast! patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Completely, totally, and fully being yourself, without worry of rejection, and then seeing how the other person responds, is the best way to find out if that person is good for you or not. Support the podcast! patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Dealing with our Child Self and our emotional baggage and validating ourselves is challenging and work, and not easy. And often, it's really hard to get started on it. So, how to get going on these important, yet challenging issues, when you're feeling stuck? Here's a great tool to help you get going. Support the podcast! patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Get to the core of anxiety, what it is and where it comes from, and then see clearly what you can do about it. Tips and techniques that work. Become a Master today! patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What if challenges were sent your way to help you, and contained all you need to grow, heal, and reach the next level in your life and relationships? (Car Therapy is brief video talks that are easy-to-digest and simple to apply. They feature thoughts, teachings, guidance, and tons of support. Get your help and support to go!) Become a Master today! patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

No one ever taught us how to have a relationship, both with others and with ourselves. Learn the basics how to do it, and you'll have massive success. (Car Therapy is brief video talks that are easy-to-digest and simple to apply. They feature thoughts, teachings, guidance, and tons of support. Get your help and support to go!) Support the therapy revolution patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Learn the doable, powerful secret of using your emotional triggers to go inside, touch on your feelings, find your kid self, validate him/her, and form those feeling into powerful means to communicate to others and express yourself. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

"You made me angry" – not true. The feelings kicked up in us by others are our own feelings. Tune into them, and you win. You grow and radically transform your life and relationships for the good. Check out this episode and I'll show you how. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

My response to the challenges of a pandemic world, with huge needs for emotional support and less and less access to it due to finances and lockdowns. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

So many of us have no idea what to do with the feelings we have, especially triggers: that huge wave of uncomfortable emotions that get aroused in us during interactions with others. Here's a really doable approach for handling your feelings and triggers. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why I love Messaging Therapy, and how so many of my clients have used it to help them turn around their relationships. "Messaging therapy was so helpful when I first started with you. Writing your feelings when you are having them was so raw, and honest, it really helped me a lot. And the most important part was knowing that I would be heard. That someone really cared and was there to help. Thank you for really helping me. I might need a refresher course in the future, but I definitely would not be where I am without you." C.D. - Idaho Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Being comfortable with feelings, and observing then when they come up, not running, is the key to the growth and changes you're longing for. Here's how to get started. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Dealing with a narcissist can be a challenging, intense, and gut-wrenching process to deal with. And what about if you're already in a relationship with one? How do you handle that? Do you always have to cut ties and leave, or is it possible to stay? All these questions and more I tackle with Narcissism expert, and author of "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist," Dr. Ramani Durvasula. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Communication is about really hearing each other, validate their experience and feelings. Only then can you, together, move on to problem solving as a team. But there are major reasons people get stuck. Here's how to overcome. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome to my podcast, timeout. I'm crazy about this idea that we are two, two souls, two beings, to psychologies. It has a huge impact on our relationships and how we navigate them. Come see how the spiritual mystical and psychological all combine and thrive to help you thrive. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's not easy to make the decision to take a look at yourself, face your stuff, and work on it. Way out of the comfort zone and challenging, but doable an necessary, to heal and have great relationships. But when you get up the courage to take that path, the path needs to be real, effective, and get to the core. Too many approaches to growth, shifts, and healing fail to do that, and waste people's time, energy, money, bravery, and the opportunity. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

You're allowed to feel, and you're allowed to be safe and comfortable...even as you engage with others and enter relationships. Come learn healthier was to keep yourself emotionally protected while being in relationships. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In life, we often skim the surface and fill our days with so much filler that we can go for years avoiding the important issues and topics. But limbo is so painful: not moving backward, but also not moving forward. It's a boost, assist, and opportunity to be pushed and nudged by the universe to face our stuff; even if it's as uncomfortable at times as staring at yourself in the mirror for 2 hours straight. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

My path from face-to-face therapy to skype, video and phone calls, and messaging for therapy with clients around the world. How online therapy is proving a crucial support tool for people and relationships in crisis. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We never learned how to feel and deal with feelings. In fact, many of us got the message: "Don't feel." But we can, must, and need to in order to thrive, be happy, and have great relationships. It's possible to overcome the past and a lack of emotional education if you have the right knowledge, insight, and guidance. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why stressful times are stressful for relationships, what you can do about it, and how to find the opportunity for growth and change that's hiding among the challenges. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Why quarantine is so stressful for our relationships, and what you can do about it to improve things, and use this experience, challenge, and intense time to fuel your growth and changes. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Discussing our relationship with social media, the impact of quarantine and anxiety on our triggers and relationships, and an amazing tool for being productive and setting yourself up to succeed. Support healing content like this: patreon.com/relationshipmasters --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app