Hello, I am a marital therapist, communications trainer and author. I have thirty-five years helping couples and individuals make better relationships. I have written twenty-plus self-help books which include the international best-sellers ‘I love you but I’m not in love with you’ and ‘How can I ever trust you again?’ My books have been translated into twenty languages. I trained with RELATE the UK’s largest counselling charity. Perhaps it has been turning sixty but I have become interested in spiritual as well as psychological questions. Who am I? What are my values – as opposed to my parents, my teachers and the wider society? What makes my life meaningful? What do I believe about life, the universe and everything? Although my clients might come to me because of destructive arguments, falling out of love and infidelity, they are also interested in having more meaningful relationships and a more meaningful life. So what is the meaningful life? Why do we so easily lose our way and get lost in depression, anxiety, doubt, addictions and obsessions: the swamplands of the soul? One thing I know for sure is that there is not one answer...
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episode 169: What We Learned in 2023
Better sex, coping with strong emotions, healing your inner child and harnessing the power of compassion: these were some of the big themes that spoke to The Meaningful Life listeners in 2023.
Jon from the Marshall Method team of therapists is Andrew’s special guest for this New Year’s Day episode. Andrew and Jon each choose their favourite episodes, and share highlights from them.
These are the episodes chosen by Andrew and Jon as their 2023 favourites:
What is the Feeling Trying to Tell Me? with Karla McLaren.
Healing Your Lost Child with Robert Jackman
Tantra: How to Make Your Lovemaking More Connected with Jan Day
Slay Your Dragons With Compassion with Malcolm Stern
How to Heal Stubborn & Inexplicable Health Problems with Sharon E. Martin
Rites of Passage and Mentoring: How to Become an Adult with Conroy Harris
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- Highlights from interviews with Avrum Weiss on Anxiety, and with Olivier Clerc on Forgiveness.
- AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.
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