Empowered Connections

Empowered Connections

Cultivate Positive Relationships

You deserve to feel loved and respected, and have mutually positive relationships that support the well-being of everyone involved in them — including you.

The Empowered Connections Collection is full of wise advice from our expert relationship counselors to support your ability to set healthy boundaries, identify (and manage) problematic relationships, develop your confidence in relationships, and create empowered connections that lift you up.

A smiling couple shares a warm, affectionate moment outdoors, illustrating emotional connection and intimacy in a romantic relationship.

Enneagram Types and Relationships: Is Your Personality Compatible with Your Partner’s?

Learn how enneagram types shape relationships, conflict, and emotional connection—and how understanding personality can strengthen your bond.
A couple sitting close together on a couch, smiling and talking while holding coffee, illustrating attentive listening and emotional connection in a relationship.

How to Listen Better in Relationships: The Japanese Art of Being a Good Listener

Learn how to listen and be a good listener in relationships. Discover skills that improve communication, emotional intimacy, and repair.
Team discussion around a table reviewing the six types of working genius framework during a collaborative work meeting.

The 6 Types of Working Genius: How Understanding Your Strengths Can Reduce Burnout, Improve Relationships, and Support Career Growth

Discover how the 6 types of working genius reduce burnout, improve relationships, and support career growth through strengths alignment.
People forming human connection in a pottery workshop, working together and improving their social wellness while overcoming loneliness.

How to Overcome Loneliness, Build Human Connection and Improve Your Social Wellness

Learn how to overcome loneliness, build human connection, and improve your social wellness with simple steps that help you feel happier.
A younger woman and her mother-in-law arm wrestle at a table, symbolizing conflict and power struggles in a toxic mother-in-law relationship.

How to Set Boundaries with a Toxic Mother-in-Law and Protect Your Marriage

Learn how to set healthy boundaries with a toxic mother-in-law, reduce conflict, and protect your marriage with evidence-based strategies.
Two men talking. How to have difficult conversations.

How to Have Difficult Conversations

Difficult conversations are tough, and easy to avoid (or botch). But authentic communication is vital for healthy relationships — especially when it’s about something hard to talk about. Get strategies for having productive, “critical conversations” on this episode of the podcast.
A silhouetted human and a humanoid robot face each other closely, highlighting the emotional nature of AI relationships against a glowing digital circuit-heart background.

When AI Starts to Feel Safer Than People: Understanding the New Landscape of AI Relationships

Learn why AI relationships with chatbots feel so safe, how they shape real connection, and what this means for mental and emotional health.
Father hugging his young son at home after an emotional moment, showing love, empathy, and how to deal with guilt in relationships.

The Power of Guilt: How Feeling Bad Can Actually Improve Your Relationships

Learn how to deal with guilt, understand shame vs guilt, and improve your relationships with support from a therapist for guilt.
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