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Lightblub Moments // Better relationships with Steve Sutton, LCSW
Steve has been in private practice for over ten years as a licensed mental health professional with Better Man Projects. He works with couples as well as men both individually and in groups. Throughout his professional career, Steve has heard from clients all over the world who desire to build strong relationships but often run into roadblocks on trying to successfully achieve them. He has found that sometimes we need a lightbulb moment to re-ignite the important relationships in our lives. Listen to Lightblub Moments often as it will be a series of short podcasts focused on principles for achieving better communication for stronger relationships. Check us out: www.bettermanprojects.com or contact us at info@bettermanprojects.com
Episodes
23 episodes
Take Ownership of Your Preferences
Having a likeness for things to be a certain way is human nature but how do you share those desires with your partner? In this episode of Lightbulb Moments, Steve talks about how we often mix up personal predilection with our ...
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The Temptation of Connection Junk Food
How do you connect or form bonds with friends or people you admire? There are many different ways to pursue this and we are going to talk on one way in particular, complaining. Complaining about others is the junk food of connectio...
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Resentment
Do you often say YES when you really want to say NO? Do you try and avoid a conversation so not to disappoint?To avoid resentment, it's important to learn how to express your preferences with the important people in your life. Whe...
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Limiting Beliefs
In this episode of LightBulb Moments, Steve talks about how we can easily convince ourselves that conversations won’t go well with our partner so we tend to avoid them altogether in hopes of not getting into a fight. This can be problematic.&nb...
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How to progress the conversation from feelings to actions
Surprisingly, telling other people how you want to feel can backfire. This week, Steve talks about a more reliable way to lead you and your partner to a higher quality conversation than focusing on what the two of you wish to feel. ...
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End the power struggle: Take the first risk
Power struggles happen and when they do, are you brave enough to take the first risk?Taking a risk in the relationship can offer a big reward but it requires taking leadership in the midst of conversation gridlock. In this epis...
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Elevate Your Conversation #2
Are you in a conversation rut, always have the same old argument with no resolution? In our last episode 15, the first part of our Leveling Up your conversation series, Steve spoke about the role blame can play in the deg...
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7:56
Elevate Your Conversation #1
Do you find yourself stuck in right or wrong thinking patterns? In this week's episode, Steve talks about how to elevate your conversations and how to move out of conversations stuck on figuring out who is right and who is wro...
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Same Argument, Different Day
Do you often find that you and your partner are having the same fight over and over again? Stuck in low quality conversation patterns? If so, you are not alone. In this week's episode of Lightbulb Moments, Steve talks about how ...
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Naming Feelings
Do you ever start to feel overwhelmed when your partner is venting? In this week's episode of BMP's Lightbulb Moments, learn the power to demonstrate in conversation that you see and notice your partner. Steve talks abou...
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Reflective Listening
This week's episode of Lightblub Moments is part 2 of our Listening Series. Reflective listening focuses attention on identifying what the other person has communicated and reflecting back to them what it sounds like they may want. ...
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5:59
Support Vs. Challenge
When your partner comes to you with a question or a concern, how do you best support and connect with them? When they’re stressed and venting, how can you partner effectively with them? In this week's episode of Lightbulb Moments, ...
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I Think, I Feel, I Want
Do you share the new approaches to conversation from Lightbulb moments with your partner? This week we cover a simple effective technique for starting better conversations.In this week's episode, learn to stay composed during high stakes...
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Answer Before You Ask
In this week's episode of BMP's Lightbulb Moments, Steve talks about how to make space for your partner to hear you and for you to see your partner. To reduce the pressure on your relationship when it's time to initiate a conversati...
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Magic Questions
In this week's episode, BMP Lightbulb moments focuses on the magic questions. The questions aren’t really magic, but they’re so powerful it feels that way!If you’re telling yourself that there’s no way out of a situation you don’t like, ...
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Loving Influence
In this week's episode of BMP Lightbulb Moments, Steve talks about how part of loving someone is also saying, “I want you to influence me." It's a way of finding out who they are and what is important to them. When you fi...
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Letting Go of Blame
In this week's episode, Steve talks about letting go of blame. It's the 6 pillar of building better relationships and high quality conversations.In most relationships, blame is a part of what you're bringing into your conversations that...
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State Things in the Affirmative
In this week's episode, Steve talks about stating things in the affirmative or saying what you want versus what you don't want.In conversation, most of us speak to our partners in the negative. Talking about things we don't like or thing...
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9:22
Openness and Honesty
In this week's episode of BMP's Lightbulb Moments, Steve talks about the importance of openness and honesty with your partner in order to build and sustain strong relationships.If you intend to have high quality conversations with the p...
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9:55
Better Relationships
In this episode of BMP Lightbulb Moments, Steve talks about how better relationships start with knowing yourself and what matters to you. Your vision of what you want is a critical ingredient to having a shot to create it with your...
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5:41
Strong Connections
In this episode of BMP Lightbulb Moments, Steve talks about another bedrock principle for creating better relationships -- strong connections. He dives in on the components to building these stronger connections with people in your life.&...
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Episode 2
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How to Start High Quality Conversations
One of the bedrock concepts of the Lightbulb Moments podcast is discussing how to start high quality conversations with the most important people in our lives. A high quality conversation is a respectful exchange of ideas thro...
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Episode 1
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Introducing Lightblub Moments // Better relationships with Steve Sutton, LCSW
Welcome to the introduction episode of Lightbulb Moments // Better Relationships with Steve Sutton, LCSW. Steve has been in private practice for over ten years as a licensed mental health professional. He works with couples as well...
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Episode 1
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