John Amodeo PhD, MFT, has been a licensed marriage and family therapist for over thirty-five years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of Dancing with Fire: A Mindful Way to Loving Relationships. His other books include The Authentic Heart and Love & Betrayal. He is a former writer and contributing editor for Yoga Journal, and has conducted workshops and lectured internationally on relationships and couples therapy.

He has appeared as a featured guest on programs that included CNN, Donahue, and New Dimensions Radio and he is a popular blogger for Psychology Today. In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include:

How to develop mature love in our life.
How to speak from the heart.
How to be authentic and practice authentic relating.
How to improve emotional awareness.
Best ways to begin mindfulness.
How nature, yoga and meditating can improve mindfulness.
How to get out of the young love mindset.

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100: Young Love vs Mature Love