We’re back with season four and starting off with the big ones. Today’s question gets Jules, Vickey, and Rebecca asking, “what the heck does ‘relational’ even mean?” It’s a word we use all the time here on the WDMP podcast, so could it really be that you and your partner could have totally different ideas of what it means to be relational? And if that’s true, how do we turn that discovery into an opportunity to co-create our shared relational space?

In true WDMP style, the answers we explore are equal parts brain science, you-turns, and a gentle invitation into vulnerability and a deeper connection to yourself.

Quotes:

“…and then you could come together and see ‘where do our definitions of relational overlap?’ and where they don’t it gives me a map into stuff about you, and where they do, it gives us a map into how to hold us.”

“[Relationality is] really getting that I have influence and no control and living in the truth of that.”

Resources discussed in today's episiode: Dan Siegel's framework for an integrated system

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