Sex & Relationships

Ken Page's Book Recommendations

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Love and dating advice from a renowned psychotherapist and author

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Psychotherapist, podcast host, and the bestselling author of Deeper Dating Ken Page shares his go-to reads on love and dating in this collection of Blinks and Shortcast episodes. An advocate of building deep, intimate, and mindful connections, this collection will uncover the science behind love, teach you how to create lasting connections, and focus on the importance of communicating and understanding yourself and your needs in dating, love, and sex.

Ken Page's Book Recommendations

Love and dating advice from a renowned psychotherapist and author

Deeper Dating

How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy

How to Love

Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindful lessons on love

Getting The Love You Want

Getting The Love You Want

Harville Hendrix

A Guide for Couples

Sonya Renee Taylor: Love Yourself

Sonya Renee Taylor: Love Yourself

We arrive in this world believing we're beautiful, able, and enough. And then, society seeps in. Through images, stories, movies, and cultural mores, we're taught that our bodies are wrong and that we'll always be just shy of perfect. This mindset leads to prejudice and injustice in surprising places, from political to personal. Sonya Renee Taylor, radical self love activist and poet, makes an urgent, elegant case for learning to give ourselves radical self love in order to make the world a better place.

Wired for Love

How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship

Love Sense

The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships

Nedra Glover Tawwab: Setting Boundaries

Nedra Glover Tawwab: Setting Boundaries

As poet Robert Frost said, "Good fences make good neighbors.” People create boundaries in many aspects of their lives and done well, those boundaries can help foster healthy, flourishing relationships. In this episode, author and relationship therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab will discuss why and how to create effective boundaries—and some of the common mistakes to watch out for on your path towards creating better boundaries.

Real Love

Sharon Salzberg

The Art of Mindful Connection

In Praise Of Love

In Praise Of Love

An Ode to Romance, Relationships, and Sex

What's This Thing Called Intimacy?

What's This Thing Called Intimacy?

Do you allow yourself to be vulnerable, or do you prefer playing it safe? As humans, we all need, desire, and seek intimacy. And yet—we also engage in patterns of thinking and behaviour that sabotage and block it. In this episode, Natalie will look at what intimacy is really about, and why running the risk of getting hurt is not a bad thing. You'll also learn what you can start doing right now to allow yourself to become more intimate and experience more genuine intimacy in your relationships, in turn.

Eight Dates

John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams and Rachel Carlton Abrams

Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

Intimacy & Desire

Intimacy & Desire

Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship

Eli Finkel: The Self-Actualizing Marriage

Eli Finkel: The Self-Actualizing Marriage

Are we asking too much of our marriages? In this episode, Eli Finkel discusses how our expectations within our romantic relationships have changed over time, and what it is that we focus on now.

The Relationship Cure

The Relationship Cure

John M. Gottman and Joan DeClaire

A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships

Guy Winch: Healing Heartbreak

Guy Winch: Healing Heartbreak

Getting over heartbreak isn’t just a matter of waiting it out. There are practical things (beyond ice cream, weeping, and time at the gym) that you can do to get better. Just as a broken bone needs a cast, or a cut needs a bandage, your heart is no exception. This episode will give you an emotional first aid kit with advice from psychologist and TED speaker Guy Winch, so that you can approach your own very human heartbreak—and those of the people you love—with greater empathy and practicality.

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