How can you focus on other things like your personal & spiritual growth if you are constantly in conflict with your partner?In today’s world of a quick divorce, I have here an expert on relationships who has been married for 40 years! In this podcast interview of Dr. Gay Hendricks, a Stanford graduate, Phd in Counseling, author of numerous books and founder of Hendricks Institute, we explore how can we love ourselves, how that self compassion shows up in our relationships, soulmates, top 4 reasons of relationship challenges and how we can take responsibility for our own happiness in a relationship.Dr. Hendricks is the host of 'The Big Leap' podcast with Mike Koenigs. He has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS, and others. His website: hendricks.com.Key questions and moments in the video:00:58 - Introduction to Dr Hendrick’s work in counseling1:47 - “How can we bring about change in ourselves? How can we deal with negative feelings so that they do not recycle?”I requested to describe Dr Hendrick’s experience on discovering self-love, which answered these questions through an electrifying experience for the 1st time, quoted from his book: 'Learning to Love Yourself'. 8:52 - Did you feel any resistance when you were trying to love yourself?11:14 - How did you feel the shift of state inside you? How did you know for sure something changed in you?13:47 - How can we create the sensation of love within ourselves when we have trauma, self doubt, perfectionism, not accepting ourselves?16:09 - Tell me about Your Big Leap Year - what inspired you.17:36 - Walking the talk, not simply teaching but also practicing what you preach.18:41 - Why do therapists/coaches not practice what they preach? How can that be changed?21:21 - Forgetting how to love ourselves: how do we keep reminding ourselves and keep coming back to self love?22:46 - What would you advise to people when they give up when facing failures?25:58 - What do you feel is the top challenges that cause most relationships to start falling apart? And how can we avoid those from happening?32:04 - How do you identify soul mates or the right partner? Is there something like that at all?33:53 - How to not blame ourselves and yet take responsibility through our relationship challenges? How would you differentiate between taking responsibility and self blame?-------------------------------------------------------------------

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