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Healing Relationships: The 4 Essential Pillars for Lasting Love with Dr. Rachel Glik | 283

Feb 24, 2025

Dr. Rachel Glik, a licensed professional counselor with over 30 years of experience, discusses the four essential pillars for creating lasting love: Responsibility, Growth, Priority, and Purpose. She offers practical tips for transforming all kinds of relationships by emphasizing personal accountability and the importance of prioritizing partners. Dr. Glik also introduces the 'PBR' technique for defenseless communication and highlights the value of nurturing connections in a supportive network. Discover how these principles can lead to deeper, more fulfilling relationships.

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Taking personal responsibility for one’s own happiness fosters self-awareness and empowers individuals to cultivate healthier relationships.

Embracing relationship friction as a growth opportunity enhances understanding and intimacy, leading to deeper connections between partners.

Deep dives

The Struggles of Women's Work

Many women experience overwhelming challenges in their daily lives as they balance careers, family responsibilities, and personal ambitions. This strain is often compounded by the societal expectation to excel in all areas while feeling lonely and burnt out. Redefining what constitutes women's work calls for an urgent examination of personal relationships and how they support or hinder this balance. Acknowledging that progress in the workforce has not translated into equitable sharing of domestic and emotional burdens is essential for fostering healthier dynamics.

Intro

4min

Building Fulfilling Relationships

9min

Transformative Listening: The Power of Defenseless Communication

2min

Listening and Prioritizing: Key Pillars of Cherished Relationships

3min

Pillars of Connection

15min

Redefining Relationships: The Modern Approach to Connection and Fulfillment

3min

In this episode, we explore how to transform all of our relationships—romantic, platonic, and everything in between.

Our guest, Dr. Rachel Glik, is a licensed professional counselor with over 30 years of experience assisting couples and individuals in building stronger, healthier, and more fulfilling relationships. She is the author of A Soulful Marriage: Healing Your Relationship With Responsibility, Growth, Priority, and Purpose, which outlines four foundational pillars for lasting love:

Responsibility: Being personally accountable for one's own happiness and well-being.
Growth: Utilizing relationship challenges as opportunities for individual and mutual development.
Priority: Placing your partner as the most significant person in your life.
Purpose: Using the relationship as a force for sharing and contributing positively to the world.

Dr. Glik has contributed to MindBodyGreen, an online magazine with over 10 million readers monthly, and is a regular contributor on the Fox Morning Show in St. Louis.

In our discussion, Dr. Glik elaborates on these four pillars, providing practical advice on how to implement them to heal and strengthen various types of relationships. She emphasizes that connection is not just part of the solution; it is the solution.

Connect with Our Guest: Dr. Rachel Glik

Website: https://www.drrachelglik.com/

Book: https://www.drrachelglik.com/a-soulful-marriage

IG: https://www.instagram.com/drrachelglik/

FB: http://www.facebook.com/10156474190839727

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