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My Conversation With Drs. John & Julie Schwartz Gottman, Author Of Eight Dates: Essential Conversations For A Lifetime Of Love
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My Conversation With Drs. John & Julie Schwartz Gottman, Author Of Eight Dates: Essential Conversations For A Lifetime Of Love

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My Conversation With Drs. John & Julie Schwartz Gottman, Author Of Eight Dates: Essential Conversations For A Lifetime Of Love

Click Here To Listen Julie Schwartz Gottman Strengthen and deepen your love with a fun, ingenious program of eight life-changing conversations—on essential topics such as money, sex, and trust—from two of the world’s leading marriage researchers and clinicians. Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort—and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner. Drawing on forty years of research from their world-famous Love Lab, Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman invite couples on eight fun, easy, and profoundly rewarding dates, each one focused on a make-or-break issue: trust, conflict, sex, money, family, adventure, spirituality, and dreams. Interactive activities [...]

By DrAlvin|February 13th, 2019|Relationships|0 Comments

My Conversation With Marc Lesser, Author Of Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons From Google And A Zen Monastery Kitchen
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My Conversation With Marc Lesser, Author Of Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons From Google And A Zen Monastery Kitchen

Business, Careers, Gospel, Self-Help, Spirituality, Uncategorized

My Conversation With Marc Lesser, Author Of Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons From Google And A Zen Monastery Kitchen

Click Here To Listen Marc Lesser What would your work and your life look like if you knew how to stay focused yet flexible, if you got more of the right things done, and if you were helping to create a more peaceful world at the same time? “A mindful leader makes the work environment a generative social field in which compassion, connection, and creativity thrive. The seven accessible practices in this book can teach you how to become just such a leader.” — from the foreword by Daniel J. Siegel, MD, executive director of Mindsight Institute Today’s leaders are grappling with the pace and complexity of change, the challenge of supporting healthy collaboration and [...]

By DrAlvin|February 12th, 2019|Business, Careers, Gospel, Self-Help, Spirituality, Uncategorized|0 Comments

My Conversation With Edward J. Watts, Author Of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny
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My Conversation With Edward J. Watts, Author Of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny

Biography, Government, History, Politics

My Conversation With Edward J. Watts, Author Of Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny

Click Here To Listen Edward J Watts A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for [...]

By DrAlvin|February 12th, 2019|Biography, Government, History, Politics|0 Comments

My Conversation With Vanessa McGrady, Author Of Rock Needs River: A Memoir About A Very Open Adoption
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My Conversation With Vanessa McGrady, Author Of Rock Needs River: A Memoir About A Very Open Adoption

Adoption, Children, Parenting, Women, Youth

My Conversation With Vanessa McGrady, Author Of Rock Needs River: A Memoir About A Very Open Adoption

Click Here To Listen Vanessa McGrady From a story first told in the popular New York Times parenting blog comes a funny, touching memoir about a mother who welcomes more than a new daughter into her home. After two years of waiting to adopt—slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair—a miracle finally happened for Vanessa McGrady. Her sweet baby, Grace, was a dream come true. Then Vanessa made a highly uncommon gesture: when Grace’s biological parents became homeless, Vanessa invited them to stay. Without a blueprint for navigating the practical basics of an open adoption or any discussion of expectations or boundaries, the unusual living arrangement became a bottomless well of conflicting emotions [...]

By DrAlvin|February 11th, 2019|Adoption, Children, Parenting, Women, Youth|0 Comments

My Conversation With Liz Arch Author Of The Courage to Rise: Using Movement, Mindfulness, And Healing Foods To Triumph Over Trauma
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My Conversation With Liz Arch Author Of The Courage to Rise: Using Movement, Mindfulness, And Healing Foods To Triumph Over Trauma

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My Conversation With Liz Arch Author Of The Courage to Rise: Using Movement, Mindfulness, And Healing Foods To Triumph Over Trauma

Click Here To Listen Liz Arch A prescriptive and transformative plan to use yoga to heal pain, anxiety, depression, and other manifestations of unresolved trauma, by an internationally acclaimed yoga teacher. Whether or not we're consciously aware of it, no one is spared from trauma. From catastrophic events to everyday experiences of traumatic stress, acclaimed yoga teacher Liz Arch is willing to bet that trauma has touched you or someone you love and may be affecting your physical, emotional, and mental health in surprising and devastating ways, causing symptoms such as anxiety, panic, depression, mood swings, fatigue, chronic pain, and digestive issues. Following her own traumatic experience with domestic violence and an ensuing struggle with [...]

By DrAlvin|February 7th, 2019|Cooking / Food, Diet, Health, Medical, Uncategorized|0 Comments

My Conversation With Karen Kingsbury & Tyler Russell, Author Of Best Family Ever
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My Conversation With Karen Kingsbury & Tyler Russell, Author Of Best Family Ever

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My Conversation With Karen Kingsbury & Tyler Russell, Author Of Best Family Ever

Click Here To Listen Karen Kingsbury-Tyler Russell Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury’s Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of millions who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell tell the childhood stories of the beloved Baxter children—Brooke, Kari, Ashley, Erin, and Luke—to inspire and entertain younger readers. Brooke is the perfect older sister. For that reason, Kari and Ashley work hard to make their parents just as proud of them as they are of Brooke. Each girl has her own talents. Brooke is an excellent student. Kari is a great soccer player. Ashley, a talented artist. And they are always there for each [...]

By DrAlvin|February 4th, 2019|Fiction, Gospel|0 Comments