Coaching Your Family Relationships

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 75 - Strengthening Your Marriage in Times of Stress, with Aimee Gianni Your overall life satisfaction and happiness will directly relate to the connection in your most intimate relationship. Stress can pull you apart from your spouse or you can use it to grow together. It all depends on how you handle it and how you...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 74 – The Pyramid of Influence, What Other People Hear, with Brent Bartel - part 5 of 5 This episode finishes the Pyramid of Influence series. Stephen R. Covey’s Pyramid of Influence tells us how to have ethical and positive influence on other people. Brent Bartel is a certified life coach and spent many years as a S...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 73 - Being an LGBTQ+ Family at Church with Allison Dayton from Lift + Love I’m releasing this episode at the beginning of December for a reason. This month as we celebrate the birth of Christ, I think of it as celebrating the greatest gift of Love that God could give us – the savior Jesus Christ. This episode is abo...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 72 - Giving and Receiving Gratitude This is not just another podcast on why you should be grateful! This podcast presents ideas from the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife. You will see how cultivating a grateful heart creates joy in your life and puts more joy and happiness into th...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 71 - Navigating the Holidays with a Mixed-Faith Family, with Jennifer Barnhart If this is your first holiday season as a mixed-faith family, this is your episode. This is also your episode if you have been a mixed-faith family for a long time and want new ideas of how to celebrate the religious holidays. Jennifer Ba...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 70 - The Pyramid of Influence - What Other People Feel, part  4 of 5 Tina Gosney and Brent Bartel are back to discuss level 2 of Stephen R Covey's Pyramid of Influence - the relationship level and what other people feel when they are around you. This episode is the 4th in a 6 part series on the Pyramid of Influ...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 69 - The Pyramid of Influence - What Other People Feel, part 3 of 5 Tina Gosney and Brent Bartel continue their discussion on Stephen R. Covey's Pyramid of Influence and in this episode they focus on the 2nd level of influence - what other people feel when they are around you. If you are wishing and wanting to...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 68 – Mastering the “Pause Button” through breathwork Pausing before you react to difficult people and difficult situations in life is something most people are trying to get better at. One way to gain more control of your reactions is to sustain a daily meditation practice, but most people struggle to make meditatio...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 67 – Learning from Failure No one wants to fail, but everyone does. It doesn’t really matter how many times you fail, but it does matter what you do after you fail. Especially when you have fails in your family relationships. You can dwell on those failures for days, weeks, even years. Or you can take time to learn...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #065 - The Pyramid of Influence with Brent Bartel, part 1 of 5 If you're a parent, you probably wish you had more influence on your children than you do. But, how do you make that happen? Brent Bartel, a coach, and Tina Gosney talk about Stephen R Covey's Pyramid of Influence in his book, "Principle-Centered...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 66 - Pyramid of Influence with Brent Bartel, pt 2 of 5 If you're a parent, you probably wish you had more influence on your children than you do. But, how do you make that happen? Brent Bartel, a coach, and Tina Gosney talk about Stephen R Covey's Pyramid of Influence in his book, "Principle-Centered...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 64 – The Way Other People Treat You Gives You Information  When you feel mistreated by another person, it is easy to become very reactive, to feel victimized, angry, and justified in your reactions. But that doesn’t have to happen. The way another person acts towards you gives you information about them and what is...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #063 – Processing Emotions I’ve helped hundreds of people process emotions and I can help you too. Don’t let your emotions take you for a ride and drive you around. You can get back in the driver’s seat of your own life if you know how to process them and learn from them. Listen to this episode to learn how.  Set up a 50-mi...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #062 Let People Tell You Things You Don’t Want to Hear Warning! This podcast will cover an advanced topic that is helpful after you have done the foundational work. Of course, you can listen to this episode without learning the basics first, but you will get more out of it if you have listened to the foundational topics bef...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #061 – Slow Down and Stop Being So Reactionary One thing I teach my clients is to slow down their reactions to other people and choose intentionally how they want to respond. Most people struggle with this! So, if you’re one of those people, you’re in good company! Being reactive – saying and doing things you regret later –...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #060 – Stop Beating Yourself Up for Not Being Better in the Past If you’re one of the many people who are stuck beating yourself up for things you’ve done in the past, telling yourself you’re a failure, listen to this episode. Focusing on the past not only keeps you from moving forward, but it also keeps you stuck in emotio...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #059 – Family Vacations and Reunions – wanting everyone to get along and have a good time. Wanting for everyone to get along and have a good time when you get together is perfectly normal, and it’s a common desire in the people I work with. But it’s also something you have no control over and something that gets you upset w...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #058 Four Relationship Killers and What to Do About Them  There are definite road signs that signal trouble in a family. They start gradually and then begin to build up over time. If you leave them unchecked, they take over and can kill the relationships.  These signs are taken from Dr. John Gottman at the Gottman Institute...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #056—W.A.I.T.? Before You Talk If you’re the parent of a Young Adult, you’re probably making one of the mistakes I outline in this podcast when you’re talking to your child.  I know this because I’ve been coaching a lot of young adults lately, and they’ve been telling me what their parents are doing when they try to talk wi...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #056 - Creating the Relationship You Want to Have If you're feeling hurt and stuck in a relationship you want to be different, this episode will help you start to move forward. If you do things the way you've always done them, you'll get the same results you've always had. So, start doing something diffe...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #055 - Forgiveness as a Path to Personal Healing There are many things that get in the way of us forgiving others, and most of the time when we think we’ve forgiven someone, we’ve actually stuffed down our feelings and tried to numb ourselves to the pain of how we’ve been hurt in an attempt to get past it. This doesn’t work...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast B onus Episode Sign up for the “ How to Have a Hard Conversation without the Overwhelm ” workshop July 21, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm $17 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER  Tina Gosney is the Family Conflict Coach. She works with parents who have families in conflict to help them become the grounded, confident leaders their family needs.  --...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #053—Apologizing will help repair and strengthen a relationship Most apologies are not true apologies, and they actually add more hurt on top of the person who was hurt. Listen to this episode to learn the 9 most essential ingredients of a true apology. Using these tools will help you to repair hurts that were done and stre...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #053—“Do I like the person I’m being in this relationship?” – A question to ask yourself. My website: tinagosney.com If you’re like most people, you want to change the people in your life. But, you can’t actually do that, and it causes problems in your family when try to change others. Your power lies in how YOU show up, no...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #052 – When life’s storms hit, what are you going to do? Sometimes life looks a lot different than you thought it was going to and it’s really easy to dwell on the disappointments or frustrations of things not being as you had planned. You get to determine what your experience is in your own life. No one else determines tha...