How to Have Healthier Relationships with Yourself and Others with Jillian Turecki

Sep 23, 2022

Jillian Turecki, a certified relationship coach with 20 years of experience, shares insights on transforming relationships. She discusses the importance of mindfulness in recognizing how our narratives shape connections. Jillian emphasizes personal accountability, noting that a healthier love life starts within. The conversation highlights the roles of forgiveness and truth as essential medicine for relationships. Listeners learn that self-love is foundational for loving others well, and positivity is crucial for nurturing intimacy.

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INSIGHT

Mind as Battlefield

Our minds are battlefields where thoughts can lead to suffering.
We can choose which narratives to feed with our attention and energy.

INSIGHT

Thought Patterns

Thoughts become narratives, chapters, and eventually entire sagas.
Recognizing this helps us mitigate when our minds get the best of us.

ADVICE

Objective Communication

Start with objective facts in a disagreement, like what a camera would record.
Separate interpretations from actual events to avoid escalating conflict.

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Jillian Turecki is a certified relationship coach, teacher, and writer who for the last 20 years has taught others how to transform their relationship with themselves and others. Jillian is also the host of the podcast, Jillian on Love.

In this episode, Eric and Jillian discuss her work coaching and teaching people how to develop healthier relationships with themselves and others.

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Jillian Turecki and I Discuss How to Have Healthy Relationships with Yourself and Others and …

Her podcast, Jillian on Love
Recognizing that our minds create stories that we can easily get caught up in.
The importance of understanding issues in a relationship aren’t just about the other person, but as much about yourself
Taking responsibility for your love life is not about blaming yourself
How we need to love ourselves before we can love others well
Important medicine for relationships: accountability, forgiveness, and truth
The biggest problems in a relationship is trying to change the other person and relying too much on the other person to make you happy
Asking “how can I change to help you change?”
When a relationship is failing, we often go into survival mode and neglect to see our role in the relationship
How we need to keep acknowledging our appreciation to our partners
Our “emotional home” is the pattern of what we do when we’re stressed
How all of our emotional patterns come from fear
The critical role of cC\ommunication in relationships
Remembering that we should be listening more and talking less
How you think about your partner’s intent when feeling hurt or angry

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