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    Practical Tools to Better Understand Yourself and Your Relationships

  • These resources are designed to help you better understand what's happening within yourself, your relationships, and the different parts of life you're trying to navigate. Start with what you're experiencing, explore what might be contributing to it, and find practical ways to work with it.

    When you're ready to move from knowing to doing, explore the DO Therapy exercises for opportunities to practice something different in everyday life.

    Not Sure Where to Begin?

    You don't need to know exactly what you're looking for. You might be trying to understand yourself better, work with difficult emotions, improve a relationship, navigate a change, or simply take better care of your life. Taking Care of Your Life brings together some of the core practices that support mental, emotional, physical, and social well-being across this resource library.

    START HERE → TAKING CARE OF YOUR LIFE

    Or, use the guide below to find the area that feels most relevant to you right now.

    Find What You Need

    You don't have to work through these resources in order. Start with what seems most useful right now.

    KNOW YOURSELF

    Understand the beliefs, values, experiences, strengths, capabilities, habits, and patterns that influence how you show up.

    Explore: Identity Boot Camp • Values • Beliefs • Family of Origin & Systems • Relational Templates • Capabilities• Boundaries

    TAKE CARE OF YOUR CAPACITY

    Notice when stress, stimulation, responsibilities, or expectations are exceeding the resources you have available.

    Explore: Stress, Overwhelm & Burnout • Self Care • Always On • Languishing

    UNDERSTAND YOUR EMOTIONS

    Learn to recognize what you're feeling, what may be contributing to it, and how to respond rather than simply react.

    Explore: Understanding Emotions • Emotional Awareness • Anxiety & Worry • Depression • Shame • Grief & Loss • Rumination

    BUILD MORE RANGE

    Understand your automatic responses and develop more ways to respond when the usual approach isn't working.

    Explore: Habits & Patterns • Agency • Choice Architecture • When Different Feels Wrong • Words & Language

    TAKE CARE OF YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

    Strengthen communication, listening, boundaries, connection, conflict management, and repair.

    Explore: Communication Boot Camp • Reflective Listening • Speaker & Listener • Guardrails • Rupture & Repair • Trust

    BUILD & MAINTAIN YOUR US

    Move beyond solving problems and intentionally build the relationship you want to share.

    Explore: ME | WE | US • The Couples Manifesto • Differentiation • Connection, Intimacy & Desire • Play • Sharing the Load • System Check-In

    NAVIGATE WHAT LIFE BRINGS

    Find support for transitions, parenting, dating, separation, infidelity, changing roles, and other circumstances that can disrupt the system.

    Explore: Transitions • Parenting & Co-Parenting • Separation • Stepping Outside the Relationship • Repairing After Infidelity

    PRACTICE DOING DIFFERENT

    Knowing something doesn't automatically change what happens next. Choose one behavior or response to practice and build some reps.

    Explore: DO Therapy

    REVIEW THE TAPE

    Explore familiar situations and the patterns that show up in ourselves, our relationships, and everyday life. Slow things down, get curious about what may be happening, and consider something different to try.

    Explore: Review the Tape Podcast


    NOTICE → REVIEW THE GAME TAPE → PRACTICE → BUILD REPS → TEST & LEARN

    ME | Understand Yourself

    Build greater awareness of who you are and how you show up.

    Explore your values, beliefs, identity, capabilities, needs, boundaries, habits, and patterns

    to better understand what influences the way you think, feel, respond, and navigate life.

    Identity Boot Camp
    Explore Me
    Understand the SELFs
    How I Show Up
    Values
    Beliefs
    Agency
    When Different Feels Wrong
    Words & Language
    Self-Talk
    Family of Origin & Systems
    The Male Playbook
    Exploring Our Parts
    Object Relations
    Relational Templates
    What For vs. Why
    Habits & Patterns
    Junk Food Habits & Patterns
    Always On
    Capabilities
    Boundaries
    Journaling
    Exploring Buddhism & Stoicism

    Emotions & Mental Health

    Understand what your emotions and internal experiences may be communicating.

    These resources explore anxiety, depression, stress, overwhelm, grief, rumination, shame, fear,

    and other experiences while offering practical ways to increase awareness, expression, regulation, coping, connection, and flexibility.

    Understanding Emotions
    Emotional Awareness
    Emotional Openness and Authenticity
    Understand Your Feel Good Chemistry
    Anxiety & Worry
    Languishing
    Depression
    Managing Anger
    Resentment
    Stress Overwhelm and Burnout
    Rumination
    Shame
    Guilt
    Grief & Loss
    Meditation & Mindfulness
    Self Care

    WE | Communication & Relationships

    Better communication begins with understanding both yourself and the person in front of you.

    Explore tools for listening, expressing needs, navigating differences, creating safety, setting guardrails, managing conflict,

    and developing healthier ways of communicating and connecting.

    Communication Boot Camp
    Safe Communication
    Establishing Guardrails
    Language for Challenging Conversations
    Speaker & Listener
    Reflective Listening
    From Needs to Requests
    DeEscalate the Cycle
    Apology and Actions
    Rupture & Repair
    The Dating Game
    Trust
    Shared Journal
    20 Questions to Cultivate Emotional Awareness

    US | Building the Relationship

    Relationships are systems that need attention, maintenance, and practice.

    These resources help partners understand their patterns, strengthen connection and intimacy, navigate vulnerabilities,

    repair after conflict, and intentionally build the kind of relationship they want to share.

    Me|We|Us
    The Couples Manifesto
    Understand We
    What Matters to Us
    Attachment
    Differentiation
    System Vulnerabilities
    Relationship Traps
    Overfunctioning & Underfunctioning
    NonTherapist as a Partner
    Choice Architecture
    Sharing the Load
    Cultivating Us
    Connection Intimacy & Desire
    Play
    Encouragement & Reinforcement
    Staying Connected while Apart
    System Check-In

    Family, Transitions & Life Challenges

    Life continually introduces new roles, responsibilities, transitions, and challenges. These resources provide practical frameworks

    for navigating parenting and co-parenting, infidelity, and other circumstances that can place additional demands on individuals, couples, and families.

    Transitions
    Procrastination
    Body Double - A CoRegulation Strategy
    Parenting and CoParenting
    The Parenting Paradox
    Separation
    Stepping Outside the Relationship
    Repairing After Infedility

    Do Therapy

    Understanding something is different from Practicing it.

    DO Therapy is a collection of exercises designed to help you take something you're noticing in therapy and try something different in everyday life.

    Each worksheet focuses on one thing to practice.

    Notice what's happening, review what you can learn from it, choose something to try, build some reps, and see what happens.

    NOTICE → REVIEW THE GAME TAPE → PRACTICE → BUILD REPS → TEST & LEARN

    The goal isn't to get it right. The goal is to learn from what happens.

    ME | Practice With Yourself

    How I Show Up
    Which Self is Showing Up
    Do Different
    What I Wasn't Shown
    What Matters to Me
    What am I Believing
    Build the Evidence: Practice Agency
    Building My Capabilities
    Update the Playbook
    What is This Doing for Me
    What am I Saying to Myself
    Change the Input
    Updating My Relational Templates

    Emotions | Practice With Your Internal Experience

    Name What You're Feeling
    Make Room for the Feeling
    Turn Down the Pressure
    Find a Recovery Move
    From Inside to Outside
    What Am I Actually Feeling
    Find it In Your Body
    Sort the Worry
    Do the Next Small Thing
    Figure Out What You Need
    Find Your 90
    Interrupt the Rumination Loop
    Catch the Shame Story
    What Kind of Safety do I Need

    WE + US | Practice With Relationships

    Interrupt the Pattern
    Turn a Need Into a Request
    Pause Without Disconnecting
    Do Something Different
    Make a Bid Respond to a Bid
    Find the Minimum Dose
    Lets Get to Interdependence
    Map What Matters
    Run the Repair
    What Happened vs. What We Made It Mean
    Find the Vulnerability Under the Conflict
    How Can I Show Up for You Right Now?
    What Does US Need?
    Unpack the Junk Drawer
    Review the Date
    Listen Before You Solve
    Say the Thing
    What's Mine, Yours & Ours?
    Make a Deposit
    Make the Invisible Visible
    Check In With US
    Build the Transition
    Letting Others Know Me

    INFIDELITY & RELATIONSHIP REPAIR | Practice With Rebuilding

    Infidelity can create questions about what happened, why it happened, what can be trusted, and what comes next. These exercises are designed to support different stages of understanding and relationship repair. They are intentionally sequenced, and not every exercise will be useful at every step.

    Move through them at a pace that fits where you are in the process.

    1. What Happened?
    4. What Happens Now?
    2. What Do I Need to Know?
    5. Rebuild Safety With Behavior
    7. Are We Building Something New?
    3. What Was Happening?
    6. Trigger → Response → Repair
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    Review the Tape Podcast

    Sometimes it helps to hear the idea before trying to do something with it.

    Review the Tape is a short-form podcast exploring the patterns that show up in ourselves, our relationships, and everyday life. Each episode takes a familiar situation, slows it down, gets curious about what may be happening underneath it, and offers something practical to try.

    About 10 minutes. One situation. One pattern. One thing to try.

    Understand the pattern. Try something different. See what happens.

    Listen to Review the Tape

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