You leave the conversation and then replay it for hours...what you said, what you should've said, whether they're upset with you. You've read the books and learned the communication tools, and you try so hard to be the good one, the nice one, the easy one to be around, yet your relationships still feel effortful, and you still lose a little of yourself inside them. What if the thing that actually holds a relationship was never about better technique at all?
In this Body & Soul Session, Kim Marie of Soul Knows the Way and Viv Oldham of We Are Enough get honest about why relationships between women can feel this way, what really lets two people disagree and still stay close, and how to stay rooted in yourself instead of disappearing into who everyone needs you to be.
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📍 IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 - Why Relationships Need More Than Communication Skills
02:25 - Competition vs. Collaboration Between Women
03:56 - How to Truly Listen and Hear the Other
06:41 - Why Communication Techniques Can Feel Rote
09:46 - How Pushing Your Agenda Breaks Connection
11:27 - Disagreeing Without Ending the Relationship
12:51 - How Two People See the Same Thing Differently
15:39 - Why We Mistake Agreement for Trust
16:49 - The Cost of Always Being Agreeable
18:18 - How Curiosity and Interest Build Trust
19:27 - How Being Truly Seen Helps You Know Yourself
21:21 - Why We Rush to Fix Instead of Being Present
22:50 - Listening to Your Kids Instead of Fixing Their Problems
25:38 - Rooting and Grounding in Your Own Body
29:16 - Masculine and Feminine Ways of Relating
31:38 - How to Stay Grounded Without Losing Yourself
34:43 - Step Outside the Situation to See It Clearly
36:09 - Finding the Middle Way Between Extremes
38:05 - How Something New Emerges Between Two People
41:34 - Why Boundaries Help You Explore Freely
43:34 - Finding Your Voice Within the Larger Whole
49:45 - Finding Your "I" Before the "We"
51:19 - The Anger and Grief of Finding Your Voice
52:42 - Closing Reflections & What's Coming Up
🎙 ABOUT SOUL KNOWS THE WAY
Soul Knows the Way: Reclaiming Depth, Wisdom & Wild Nature is a podcast for women in the second half of life who sense a Soul-hunger they can no longer ignore...a longing for depth, truth, and a life lived from the inside out. Hosted by Kim Marie, soul guide, author, and creator of Solace and The Soulstead, this podcast offers Soul wisdom, sacred living, and the journey home to yourself. New episodes weekly. Follow and join the journey.
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We Are Enough - Pleasure, Satiety and Appetite: How to shake off the epidemic of not-enoughness. Reclaiming fullness as an embodied skill that connects us to our libido and life force. Hosted by Vive Oldham, Somatic Practitioner, MotherCircle facilitator, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Auntie, and Artist serving awareness through BodyDreaming, creativity coaching, authentic expression and somatic vocal work.
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