Relational Skills in Real Life
Chris Coursey brings you the THRIVEtoday podcast, full of real-life stories of encouragement and transformation from people using relational skills every day! What are "Relational skills"? They are brain-based skills that give us the ability and capacity to build meaningful connections with the people in our lives. With practice, relational skills are what we use to maintain our relationships during strain, conflicts and difficulties so we endure hardship well as we stay connected. www.thrivetoday.org
Episodes
THRIVEtoday team and board member, Lizabet Nix, shares how practicing Relational Skill 13: Godsight, has transformed her life and interactions with others. Listen to her story and get some tips on how to learn this skill for yourself.
🔗 Learn more about Skill 13: https://www.thrivetoday.org/skill13
🔗 Go through our Foundational 5 Intro course and get an overview introduction to the 5 mos...
Shannon Campau, one of THRIVEtoday team members, tells about her personal journey of learning Relational Skill 2: Simple Quiet. She shares about her challenges in practicing Skill 2 and the amazing difference it made in her life and relationships.
🔗 Visit our Skill 2 page for more info and resources on Quieting.
🔗 Explore Thrive Premier Training and consider joining us in person: https://thrivetoday.org/premier-training/
In this extended episode, Chris shares one of his favorite relational skills and the wonderful effect practicing it has on him and his family. He also shares the plan for the next few months of podcast episodes and gives a sneak peak into what we can look forward to!
🔗 Learn more about Skill 4: https://www.thrivetoday.org/skill4
🔗 The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled People book: https://thrivetoday.org/4-habits-people/
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What is the Life Model? How does the mission of THRIVEtoday and what we do fit into that? These questions and more are addressed in this episode, along with a list of great resources to help you on your journey to your God-given identity!
🔗 Watch the 'History of Thrive' webinar: https://youtu.be/Sx1CdRzEff0?si=1NZiqoQ3HFsG5EJE
🔗 Learn more about Life Model Works: https://lifemodelworks.org
🔗 Living from the Heart Jesus Ga...
How can we use the relational circuits (aka RCs) in our brain to stay connected? Every interaction we have, including connecting to God, is impacted by our brain's "master switch". Training this switch to stay on will help us be our best self at all times. Chris gives tips of how to practice keeping our relational circuits on and relational so that we can love the people in our lives no matter what's going on ar...
In this week's episode, we focus on information and testimonies about our Premier Training. Chris addresses commonly asked questions, such as:
- Why do I need this training if I am using other resources?
- What are the benefits of traveling to a live event?
- How do I fund my training?
- What if I don't have a partner?
🔗 Learn more about Thrive Premier Training
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The story this week comes from our friend Paul, who illustrates the need to grow our capacity before working toward healing on some of the really tough things in life. If we don't have the capacity to stay ourselves and connected to God when facing hard memories or traumas, we need to grow some more! Chris shares about why this is, and gives some resources to help.
🔗 Learn more about our Foundational 5 Course and other F5 reso...
Chris shares the story of a season when he and Jen went back to the basics in their own skill practice. Receive encouragement that practicing relational skills doesn't have to be complicated, and we can start right where we are.
🔗 Take the 28-Day Joy Challenge! https://4habits.org
🔗 Learn more about THRIVEtoday: https://thrivetoday.org/about
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This episode of the podcast dives into the topic of emotions: Are emotions bad? Why do we need them? What are/aren't emotions? We also hear a story from Todd, who is learning healthier ways to view and navigate emotions.
🔗 Listen to our free webinar "Stories of Emotions".
🔗 Visit our Skill 11 page for more info and resources on the skill of 'Return to Joy'.
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We all mess up from time to time. This provides the perfect opportunity to practice our relational skills as we repair! This episode features a story from Jeremy, whose day wasn't going smoothly with his daughter, and how he repaired and changed the course of their interaction.
🔗 Visit our Skill 4 page for more info and resources on the skill of ' Create Appreciation'.
🔗 The Thriving Mamas blog has many stories of pa...
This episode discusses times when emotions can be hard to manage and why some situations are harder for us to return to joy from than others. Chris walks through how to tell if you have adopted some unhealthy coping habits for these moments and how to change that to better ways to connect with God and not feel alone when you have big emotions.
🔗 Visit our Skill 11 page for more info and resources and for info on NEW Return to Joy r...
In this delightful episode about the importance of sharing joy with our loved ones, Chris explains some of the science behind connection and shares several helpful exercises that we can use to connect with those close to us in a meaningful way--just in time for Valentines' Day!
🔗 The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages Book
🔗 Learn more about Skill 3: Bonds for 2
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The tool we call "VCR" can be a life changing way to interact with our loved ones and even those who feel like enemies. Chris tells us stories about how to validate others' hearts and feelings, even when we may not agree with them, so that everyone can end up in a place of God's peace.
🔗 Do you ever find it difficult to face and manage your emotions or struggle with how to respond to others in their big feelings...
Join Chris and Kristy for a conversation addressing the topic of conflict and how relational skills offer us solutions that we can’t find with good communication skills alone.
🔗 Our next online event is on the theme of conflict. Join us live on February 22, 2025: https://thrivetoday.org/conflict-event
🔗 Watch our new 30-min webinar “Hope for Conflict”: https://thrivetoday.myflodesk.com/conflict-recording
🔗 Explore relational skill...
Through Sarah's story of dealing with a difficult situation, Chris explains how feeling high and low energy emotions at the same time can ramp up the stress in any situation.
🔗 Read the book: The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled People
🔗 Watch our new 30-min webinar “Hope for Conflict”: https://thrivetoday.myflodesk.com/conflict-recording
🔗 Our next online event is on the theme of conflict and will be live on February 22, 2025. Learn m...
It can be hard to hear that you have messed up or missed something, but to have someone who cares about you willing to speak into your life is a gift! Chris discusses how to "Return to Joy" (Skill 11) from shame and interact with Jesus to get "Godsight" (Skill 13) about the situation.
🔗 Visit our Skill 11 page for more info and resources and for info on NEW Return to Joy resources coming 2025.
🔗 Visit our Skill ...
Skill 10, Tell Nonverbal Stories, is a skill that we use all the time, even without thinking about it. What our faces, voices and body movement says is powerful and conveys a message to the people around us. Chris shares how we can develop our "mind-sight" and get good at attuning and relating to others.
🔗 Visit our Skill 10 page for more info and resources.
🔗 Learn more about our 5-day Premier Training
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As we transition from one year to the next, we want to talk about some things that will help you look forward to a wonderful new year. Our brains are natural amplifiers--if we look backward and see pain, we may look forward and expect more of the same. Yet, if we are able to look back with appreciation and connection with Immanuel, we amplify the good stuff and look forward to more. Chris shares his story about how he learned to tr...
Chris shares the miracle of God coming down to this earth to be with us, and how wonderful it is to be able to connect with Immanuel on a daily basis and use the skill of "Godsight" (Skill 13) to see what he sees when he looks at us and the people around us.
🔗 Visit our Skill 13 page for more info and resources on Godsight.
We pray blessings over you and your loved ones during this special holiday season. What a gift that ...
We need relational skills most when handling stressful situations, and today's podcast guest, Kim, shares a story as an example of how to be our relational best selves when in the midst of difficulty.
🔗 Visit our Skill 18 page for more info and resources.
🔗 Learn more about Track 3, part of our in-person Premier Training.
🔗 Check out the chapter on Skill 18 in Chris' Transforming Fellowship book.
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