Episode 7: How to be Happy in your Relationships

January 24, 2023

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How to be Happy in Your Relationships

Episode Summary: 

Where are you requiring that people act in certain ways so that you can feel happy and secure about your relationship? Join me on today’s episode as I dig into how to build healthier, happier connections. 

Show Notes:

Where are you requiring that people act in certain ways so that you can feel happy and secure about your relationship? Most of us have an explicit list or manual for our friends, partners, parents, or really anyone that we interact with of how they’re supposed to act. But, when you place your happiness in someone else’s hands, you’re taking a huge emotional gamble. 

On today’s episode, I explore how to be happier in your relationships. I challenge you to ask what you can do, think, and believe to feel worthy and valuable in your own right instead of searching for it in someone else. There’s nothing wrong with being delighted by someone’s actions, but when you create expectations and extract meaning when they’re unmet, it sparks a toxic cycle in your relationships. 

I share tangible ways to shift that story and start to love yourself more. The self-love movement can feel like a cliché at times, but it’s the number one thing that will help you cultivate more happiness in your relationships. Join me on today’s episode as I dig into how to build healthier, happier connections. 

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform. 

Topics Covered:

  • Recognizing when you attribute your emotions to other people’s actions 

  • Getting really clear on what you want more of in your relationships

  • Appreciating the people in your life for everything that they offer 

  • How to rethink your approach to relationships 

  • Learning how to take care of your own emotional well being so that you can show up better for other people

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About Your Host

I’m Cecelia, and I am passionate about helping people live the life they want to live and feel how they want to feel in their life. We do this together using mindset tools, nervous system regulation, and curious inquiry. I know that enjoying your life, feeling calm and even joyful is available to you.

If you’re ready to start right now, grab a recent workshop replay here on creating momentum.

Personally, I manifest in many ways- partner, mother, coach, sister, friend, daughter, citizen, feminist. I live with my husband and children way downeast Maine on a little bridge-connected island (after spending my first 35 years in cities). It’s beautiful here with the ocean and the wind.

I help my clients make big and small changes in life one step at a time.

No matter what’s happening in your life right now, I know you can feel different. I know that by working with your brain and nervous system, you can feel calm, content, joyful, AND you can still go after the big and small goals in your life (getting there will just feel different).

This process is simple and approachable.

You’re probably thinking- but it won’t work for me. I’ve tried it all or I was recently diagnosed with ADHD or I’m too old. But I promise, if you’re open to it, this work is not only transformative but suited for so many different kinds of people and brains.

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