Making Love Today

Is your spouse, partner, or another loved one on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic? Do you live with a medical professional, police officer, grocery store worker, or other essential worker who is putting themselves (and potentially you and your family) at risk of infection on a daily basis? If so, you bear a special sort of stress and worry that may feel like it isolates you from society even more than typical social distancing guidelines. 

Also, if so, you are not alone. 

In this episode Anne speaks with social worker, therapist, and military wife Stephanie Black about the challenges that come along with being a front line spouse or partner. Stephanie speaks from both her professional experience as a therapist, and her personal experience of a husband who has served tours of duty in warzones. This is a must-hear episode for anyone who is either in a front line relationship, or who is wanting to support someone else who may be in that situation!  

Is your spouse, partner, or another loved one on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic? Do you live with a medical professional, police officer, grocery store worker, or other essential worker who is putting themselves (and potentially you and your family) at risk of infection on a daily basis? If so, you bear a special sort of stress and worry that may feel like it isolates you from society even more than typical social distancing guidelines. 

Also, if so, you are not alone. 

In this episode Anne speaks with social worker, therapist, and military wife Stephanie Black about the challenges that come along with being a front line spouse or partner. Stephanie speaks from both her professional experience as a therapist, and her personal experience of a husband who has served tours of duty in warzones. This is a must-hear episode for anyone who is either in a front line relationship, or who is wanting to support someone else who may be in that situation!  

Anne and fellow therapist Shannon Tappana discuss how adaption and creativity can help us overcome our moments of fear, sadness, or just feeling "stuck." Especially now with our world sometimes feeling like it is falling down around us, our primitive fight or flight instincts can kick in and make us feel like we only have a very limited number of options. Anne and Shannon discuss how taking a deep breath and looking for a third (or fourth or fifth) option can both mentally and physiologically give us the lifeline that we need to survive during chaotic times. 

Anne and fellow therapist Shannon Tappana discuss how adaption and creativity can help us overcome our moments of fear, sadness, or just feeling "stuck." Especially now with our world sometimes feeling like it is falling down around us, our primitive fight or flight instincts can kick in and make us feel like we only have a very limited number of options. Anne and Shannon discuss how taking a deep breath and looking for a third (or fourth or fifth) option can both mentally and physiologically give us the lifeline that we need to survive during chaotic times. 

In this episode of the mini-series Love in the Time of Corona, Anne and Patrick discuss how the grief cycle is currently impacting all of us. No matter who we are or what our circumstances, we have all experienced some form of loss as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic. Those feelings of anxiety, sadness, denial, and even joy and happiness are all part of the process of adjusting to something strange and often scary that is currently happening to all of us. Anne discusses some of the tools we can use to help us ride the waves of our emotions through this tumultuous time. 

In this episode of the mini-series Love in the Time of Corona, Anne and Patrick discuss how the grief cycle is currently impacting all of us. No matter who we are or what our circumstances, we have all experienced some form of loss as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic. Those feelings of anxiety, sadness, denial, and even joy and happiness are all part of the process of adjusting to something strange and often scary that is currently happening to all of us. Anne discusses some of the tools we can use to help us ride the waves of our emotions through this tumultuous time. 

Anne talks with fellow therapist Dr. Michael Whitehead about how families and couples can effectively manage the added anxiety that comes along with living in a pandemic. 

Anne talks with fellow therapist Dr. Michael Whitehead about how families and couples can effectively manage the added anxiety that comes along with living in a pandemic. 

Anne and Patrick introduce a new Making Love Today mini-series, Love in the Time of Corona. They discuss how the current pandemic is affecting relationships, and how Making Love Today plans to take a break from its regularly scheduled couple interviews to delve deep into what we can do to safeguard our relationships in difficult times. 

The mini-series will include conversations with Anne and Patrick, interviews with therapists, and bringing on couples to talk about their current experience with romance in quarantine. 

If you have any suggestions for topics for this mini-series, please leave us a note at makinglovetoday.com, or on Facebook at Rekindle Love Today, or Instagram at rekindle.love.today. 

Anne and Patrick introduce a new Making Love Today mini-series, Love in the Time of Corona. They discuss how the current pandemic is affecting relationships, and how Making Love Today plans to take a break from its regularly scheduled couple interviews to delve deep into what we can do to safeguard our relationships in difficult times. 

The mini-series will include conversations with Anne and Patrick, interviews with therapists, and bringing on couples to talk about their current experience with romance in quarantine. 

If you have any suggestions for topics for this mini-series, please leave us a note at makinglovetoday.com, or on Facebook at Rekindle Love Today, or Instagram at rekindle.love.today.