Mindful Marriage
20-Minute Meditations to Reduce Stress, Transform Difficult Emotions, and Create Harmony in Your Relationship
Learn the scientifically-based method
to reduce relationship stress and conflict
Mindful Marriage is a multi-media course that gives you daily 20-minute meditations designed to reduce relationship stress.
The lessons introduce concepts to help you become less reactive and more centered, clear and calm with your partner.We'll target automatic mental habits that are ineffective at eliciting openness and receptivity from your partner such as blaming, criticism, avoidance, and defensiveness.
Intended for use as a solo activity,
partners who participate together will especially reap the benefits of
exercises that will improve communication and empathy.
Here's what you'll learn in Mindful Marriage:
- Introduction to mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)
- How stop getting emotionally triggered by your partner
- How to focus on what is important and ignore what is not
- How to build your resiliency to criticism and connect instead to what criticism is masking
- How to feel more peace and calm even when your partner is not
- How to stand up for yourself without putting down your partner
Your Instructor
Keith Miller is a licensed clinical social worker and director of Keith Miller Counseling, a private behavioral health practice that specializes in making relationships thrive. His first book, Love Under Repair: How to Save Your Marriage and Survive Couples Therapy, won the Reader's Favorite Award for non-fiction in 2015. He is also the author of 10 Myths About the Emotionally Unavailable Man. Keith has taught all around the U.S. on the subject of mindfulness, psychotherapy, and stress-reduction for
couples. He lives in Maryland with his wife of 19 years, and two
children.
Course Curriculum
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PreviewIntroduction: How this Course Works; Stress on the Brain; & Healing is Possible (3:34)
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Start1 - Lesson One - Mindfulness 101 and Focusing on Your Body with "COLA" (1:21)
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Preview2 -Lesson Two - Seeing Red Differently: Engaging the “Right” Brain in Meditation (1:13)
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Start3 - Lesson Three: Why Changing Your Mental Habits Is Something Only YOU Can Do (1:06)
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Start4 - Lesson Four: Becoming the Conductor in Your Mind (1:12)
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Preview5 - Lesson Five: You-Turn in Action. Staying Centered When Your Partner is Off-Balance (0:53)
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Start6 - Lesson Six: Underneath the Mask. Vulnerable and Protective Emotions and the Brain’s Two Layers of Emotional Intelligence (1:11)
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Start7 - Lesson Seven: Pursuing and Withdrawing. Identifying Your Protective Reactions (0:54)
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Start8 - Lesson Eight: Discovering Your Capacity to Ride the Waves of Primary Emotions (1:08)
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Start9 - Lesson Nine: Confidence and Courage from the Hidden Power of Exiles (1:22)
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Start10 - Lesson Ten: Grace for Your Soul. Knowing You Are Unconditionally Worthy of Love (0:58)
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Preview11 - Lesson Eleven: Disenchantment with Perfection (1:08)
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Start12 - Lesson Twelve: Disarming Hostility with Empathy (1:00)
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Start13 - Lesson Thirteen: Letting Yourself Be Happy. How to Get off the Hedonic Treadmill (1:04)
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Start14 - Lesson Fourteen: Becoming Real. Speaking from the Heart (1:12)
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Start15 - Lesson Fifteen: Creating a Clear Vision for Next Steps in Your Relationship (1:22)
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StartExtra Stuff: Unabridged Text PDF, Bibliography, Glossary of Terms, Resources, & Front/Back Matter