In this episode, Bill and Marty welcome psychologist, author, and relationship coach Susan Campbell. Susan guides Bill through a live coaching process focused on resistance to self-expression, using body awareness, breath, and “witness” perspective to work with fear, withdrawal, and anger triggered by a recent defensive reaction in a partnership context. Bill connects the present trigger to an earlier marriage experience and to childhood abuse, naming themes of feeling unsafe, misunderstood, and unfairly blamed, and practices offering compassion and validation to his younger self.

About Susan Campbell:

Psychologist Susan Campbell has worked as a corporate trainer and relationship coach for 60 years. A former professor at the University of Massachusetts, and frequent guest lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and UCLA, she is author of twelve books on the topic of relationships and human communication, including her groundbreaking book, The Couples Journey: Intimacy as a Path To Wholeness, published in 1980--the first popular book that introduced mainstream audiences to the idea of relationship as spiritual journey. She has been featured on such national TV shows as, CNN’s News Night, Good Morning America, and The Dr. Dean Edel Show.

Susan's website: www.susancampbell.com

Social media:

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Chapters:

00:00 Resistance And Fear

00:45 Meet The Guests

02:51 Coaching Setup

04:23 Danger In Disclosure

06:35 Second Marriage Trigger

09:24 Witness And Inner Coach

13:21 New Response Skills

19:24 Recent Partnership Trigger

03:51 Body Fear On Zoom

25:24 Self Criticism After Conflict

26:33 Anger at Being Misunderstood

28:34 Tracing It to Childhood Wounds

30:37 Reparenting the Triggered Child

32:57 Wholeness and Healing Integration

33:53 Courage to Reopen Dialogue

35:47 Slow Down and Find the Witness

39:41 Different Paces in Repair

44:29 Marriage Reset and Weekly Ritual

48:12 Vitality, Humor, and Where to Connect

50:43 Closing Thanks and Farewell

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