Conscious Couples

Professional Matchmaker and Relationship Strategist Dominique Clark is the go-to girl for everything love and dating, offering personal matchmaking and dating coaching for busy professionals in search of lasting love! Intent on changing the world’s perspective on dating and sustaining love, she joins us today to talk about the Power of Sex in Marriage and other Committed Relationships.

Gladys Diaz and Michelle Roza, also known as The Love Twins, are certified dating and relationship coaches and co-founders of Heart’s Desire International. Together they are on a mission to help empower women with the skills to create the life and love that their hearts desire so that they have the experience of being loved, cherished, and adored every day of their lives.

Bernice McDonald, Heartbreak to Happiness Coach, writer and relationship trainer, has found the secrets to true love after living through too many heartbreaks including divorce. She says no one should have be alone if they don't want to be – and wants us to change what you know about love in order to find magic. Now married to her Knight in Shining Armor, she teaches others to "Never Give Up on True Love."

This week we spoke with Collette Gee about unrealistic relationship expectations. Collette Gee is a world-renowned Holistic Love Coach, Author & Speaker who helps men and women overcome the relationship challenges they face in the 21st century. Collette is the creator of a relationship web series called “Finding Happily,” is a regular Huffington Post contributor and has been an active participant in organizations that help prevent violence against women. She uses an integrative method of holistic coaching to include clients nurturing and loving themselves physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Marriages often fail because both the men and women start the relationship in ‘perceived advantage’ over the other. This advantage often translates into a ‘mommy-ship’ rather than relationship. The man begins to view his partner as a mother – authoritarian figure and the woman begins to view her partner as a son – inadequate. This is exacerbated when the couple has children and the parents ‘cheat’ on their marriage by directing their love energy towards their children, instead of each other. The passion wanes and the intimacy disappears. Anthony Santen provides marriage counseling, individual counseling, divorce prevention, life coaching and training from Toronto, Canada. His main focus is on Divorce Prevention through counseling with the couple and individually. He is the creator of the Path Within® Program and a faculty member with the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH). Anthony Santen teaches in the methods of facilitating change and mind/body connection to audiences from all over the world.

We experience ourselves, others and the world via communication. Yet most of us are far less conscious of what is coloring our perceptions in communication, and how what we say is interpreted. Transforming communication is the essence of what makes our personal and business relationships succeed. In realizing the full extent of this, we are inspired to continually improve such that our own relationships blossom, and we are empowered to coach others to be better communicators. Join William Weil, an internationally recognized professional teacher, writer and relationship coach. In his writings and seminars he offers practical wisdom for self-discovery and transformation via interpersonal relationships. Bill is the author of New Earth Relationships: A Guide for Couples in the 21st Century, and From Intuition to Entrepreneurship. He also created LovePong.com, an interactive app supporting couples in elevating their consciousness and communicating more powerfully.

Nicole McCance is a Canadian psychologist and therapist and the author of the best-selling book "52 Ways to Beat Depression Naturally." She owns Nicole McCance Psychology, which has over 10 Counseling locations in the greater Toronto area. She’s provides counseling and assessment services in North America and in Russia. She is a frequent contributor to CTV News, CTV National, Global TV, CBC News, and others. She is also the Relationship Expert on Season 2 of the Cosmo TV show "Love Trap."

Dr. Gail Brenner talks with us about shifting from blaming our partners to a more powerful context, one in which we take responsibility for our own urges and feelings that come up in the context of relationship. We talk about: What is the power of pausing and being curious about what is coming up inside before taking the action of speaking to the other, and how do we do that? How does this help in terms of harmonizing relationships and using relationship as a mirror and vehicle for freedom from the habits and patterns that limit us? And how does this manifest outside our relationships? How does it help when we investigate these needs and feelings first, before putting them out into the relationship? How do we make friends with our fears? Dr. Brenner is a psychologist with 17 years of experience offering psychotherapy and an avid blogger for aflourishinglife.com. In addition to writing, she meets with people individually and in groups to support them in gaining the insights they need to release mental and emotional patterns that distract from happiness, inner peace, and full creative expression.

If you want to improve the quality of your relationship, this is a great place to start. We talk to Ashley Davis Bush about questions like: Are marriages simply hard work? What are the keys to a strong marriage? How can busy couples make time for their marriage? What are some effective ways in dealing with conflict? What are some simple, small habits that really make a big difference in the quality of our relationships? Ashley Davis Bush is a psychotherapist specializing in couples therapy and grief counseling and the author of four books. Her latest, 75 Habits for a Happy Marriage, explores things couples can do to deepen their daily connection. Her work for the past 25 years –both as therapist and as a writer – is designed to inspire others toward whole-hearted living.

Dr. Sheri Meyers is a Marriage & Family Therapist and the author of Chatting or Cheating: How to Detect Infidelity, Rebuild Love, and Affair-Proof Your Relationship. She is among the nation’s most frequently quoted and interviewed relationship and infidelity specialists and regularly appears on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and FOX. Her compassionate, practical, methods have inspired and helped thousands of men and women overcome their most complex and daunting relationship and sexual challenges.