Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss how to navigate your relationship when you and your partner have different habits around consuming relationship advice and content.

Episode 118: Healing in a Relationship

Mar 3rd, 2024 40m 27s

Listen as Ryan and Talia explore the power relationships have to support healing, and how to access that power in your relationship.

Episode 117: Three Reasons to Graduate Therapy

Feb 18th, 2024 41m 26s

Listen as Ryan and Talia explore the three common scenarios for people to end couples therapy: meeting their treatment goals, lack of progress, ending the relationship.

Episode 116: Do You Believe in a Thing Called Love?

Feb 4th, 2024 35m 23s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss the concept of Core Beliefs, how they impact relationships, and how to communicate them to your partner.

Episode 115: Out of Bound(aries) In-Laws

Jan 21st, 2024 48m

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss how to collaborate with your partner to identify, communicate, and maintain boundaries with one another’s family members.

Episode 114: Keep Your New Year's Resolutions (Boundary Maintenance)

Jan 9th, 2024 33m 53s

Listen as Ryan and Talia introduce a new co-host to the podcast, as well as discuss tips and tricks for keeping some of your relationship New Year’s Resolutions.

Episode 113: Hopes + Fears

Dec 24th, 2023 29m 43s

Listen as Ryan and Talia dive into the dynamic of competing emotions Hope and Fear.

Episode 112: Cut the Criticism

Nov 26th, 2023 34m 38s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss how to shift from hard criticism to soft sharing for successful communication in your relationship.

Episode 111: Travel Tips

Nov 12th, 2023 45m 34s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss best practices for your relationship when preparing to travel and while you’re traveling together.

Episode 110: And Baby Makes Three...

Oct 15th, 2023 41m 15s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss what to expect for your relationship when you welcome a newborn into your family.

Episode 109: Assumption of Needs

Sep 17th, 2023 39m 12s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss the many pitfalls of using telepathy to communicate and understand the day to day needs in a relationship.

Episode 108: Self-Worth and Attraction

Sep 3rd, 2023 35m 58s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss how our self-worth effects who we attract and who we are attracted to.

Episode 107: No More Complaining

Aug 20th, 2023 46m 33s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss what’s really happening when we complain to our partner and how to shift from complaining to asking for our needs to be met.

Episode 106: Relief or Recognition

Aug 6th, 2023 32m 47s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss the difference between asking your partner for relief or recognition, and how to intentionally communicate which one is best for you.

Episode 105: Resistance + Accountability

Jul 23rd, 2023 47m 50s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss how to shift from resistance to accountability in order to nurture change in your relationship.

Episode 104: Clarity Conundrum

Jul 2nd, 2023 39m 52s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss what it's like and how to fix when you have a disconnect with your partner where one person thinks they've been clearly asking for something and in reality they are hinting or indirectly explaining the consequen

Episode 103: Gooaallll!

Jun 25th, 2023 39m 27s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss how to get the most out of couples therapy with goal setting

Episode 102: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire (Part 2)

Jun 11th, 2023 38m 57s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss how to address lying in a relationship, in this second episode of a two part series.

Episode 101: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire (Part 1)

May 28th, 2023 41m 27s

Listen as Ryan and Talia discuss how to address lying in a relationship, in this first episode of a two part series.

Episode 100: Cheers to 4 Years!

Apr 30th, 2023 52m 45s

Listen as Ryan and Talia celebrate their 100th episode and four years of co-hosting The Couples Guide Podcast together.

Episode 99: Maximize Your Investment

Apr 16th, 2023 43m 54s

Listen as Ryan and Talia answer the listener question, “How to get the most out of couples therapy?”

Episode 98: Defeating Defensiveness

Apr 2nd, 2023 42m 5s

Listen as Ryan and Talia answer the listener question, “How to tell a defensive partner they are wrong or they’ve done something you don’t like without making them cry?”

Episode 97: Active Listening

Mar 19th, 2023 36m 54s

Listen as Ryan and Talia dive into the fundamental relationship technique of active listening and how to practice it with your partner.

Episode 96: Stop Micromanaging Your Marriage

Mar 5th, 2023 40m 17s

Listen as Ryan and Talia explore the emotional undertones of micromanagement and how to shift away from micromanaging your partner (and how to feel good about it!).