Love Made Easy With Susie & Otto Collins

We all want to feel respected but what do you do when you just don't like the people in your life are respecting you? When you don't feel respected, do you get angry, upset, pull away, yell, scream, tell the other person how hurt you feel or do you do something else to try to get the love and respect you want? So many people don't truly understand what happens that causes them to feel a lack of re...

Sometimes it's scary to allow ourselves to be vulnerable. And yet, being vulnerable and showing up in ways that invite vulnerability from the people in our lives is critical to having close, connected and loving relationships. Sometimes we refer to this vulnerability as getting emotionally "naked" and whether you're willing to do that or not varies from person to person and moment to moment. In th...

It's undeniable that our fears, doubts, insecurities, unhealthy habits and disempowering ways of looking at the people and situations in our relationships and lives get in the way of what's possible for us. ...And much of the time, we don't even see it, recognize it  or know that it's happening. One of the ways this plays out is what we're unconsciously thinking, believing and making real after we...

Most people have way more resentment stored away within them than they're willing to look at AND it's incredibly destructive to their relationships and lives. In this episode, (episode 43) of our Love Made Easy podcast, we’re talking about hidden resentments, why we hold onto resentments (especially if they're so damaging to our relationships), and most importantly... how to let go of them. Listen...

Honesty in a relationship isn’t just about big things like lying, cheating, infidelity and affairs. Honesty (or the lack of it) can also be about the “little things” that keep us from being as close, connected and loved as we could be. In this episode, (episode 42) of our Love Made Easy podcast, we’re talking about Honesty: Why we hide the truth From ourselves and others… Listen to this episode no...

Getting your needs met is one of the biggest challenges in love and life and yet it can be so much easier than you think. In this episode, (Episode 41) of our Love Made Easy Podcast our topic is "Getting Your Needs Met." We're taking a look at the two kinds of needs we all have, why getting our needs met can seem so hard, what to do when someone else isn't giving you what you want and much more. L...

Guilt (and feeling guilty) can rob you of your happiness, love and connection with the people in your life when it doesn't have to.   In this episode, (EP40) of our Love Made Easy podcast, we're talking about how to let go of guilt in your relationships and life. As you listen to this episode, you'll learn all about guilt from a totally new perspective. You'll learn where guilt comes from, why we...

We've all had failures in love and life. Some of those "failures" have kept us stuck and kept us from creating what we've wanted in our relationships and life. Other times we could really see the gifts in our "failure" and allow them to be the catalyst for creating something new, special or amazing. In this episode (EP39) of the Love Made Easy podcast, we're talking about finding the gifts of fail...

Some people say arguments are good for a relationship. Other people suggest you want to avoid arguments all together and do whatever you can to create more peace and harmony in all your relationships. What's best? What's the truth? Are arguments healthy for a relationship? In this episode, (EP38) of our Love Made Easy podcast, we're talking about arguments and whether they are good or bad for your...

The baggage we (and others) carry around with us is one of the biggest barriers to love. In this episode, (EP37) of our Love Made Easy podcast, we're talking about what to do when baggage (yours or someone else's) is getting in the way of love. As you listen to this episode, you'll discover what baggage truly is, where it comes from, why we hang onto it and most importantly how to keep it from rui...

If you've ever wondered whether it's okay to "Agree to Disagree" like many other people have, then you're going to love this episode. Many think that in order to have happy, healthy and harmonious relationships, they need to agree with what the other person is saying or thinking. Not necessarily. In this episode (EP36) of the Love Made Easy Podcast, we're diving deep into the question of whether i...

When jealousy is a problem, it can look and feel like the person who's jealous has been "hijacked" or "taken over" by it. The question is: what do you do to stop it if jealousy's a problem?  In this episode (EP35) of the Love Made Easy podcast, we give some real life examples of the kinds of problems jealousy can create for two people who really care about each other. We also talk about where it c...

Fear, Anger, Upsets and Disappointments are a fact of life and in this episode (EP34) we’re talking about choosing love in spite of what happens in life.   It’s a fact, no matter what’s going on in the moment, you have two choices: to show up and choose love or to choose fear, anger and disappointment and live from that place. In this episode we introduce you to the idea that living from love and...

Some people hold onto grudges MUCH longer than they have to or should and it can destroy relationships careers and a whole lot of other things as well. In this episode (EP33) of the Love Made Easy podcast, we’re talking about anger, bitterness, resentment, hurt feelings and how these things turn into “grudges.” We're also talking about how people hold onto these things for far too long, how they t...

Everything in life eventually ends and in this episode (EP32) of our Love Made Easy podcast, we're talking about how these endings can be what we're calling gracious endings filled with ease, love and grace instead of angst, upsets and pain. Through examples from our own lives (and the lives of our coaching clients), we show how love doesn't have to be a struggle, even when a relationship ends, or...

This question--"Should you stay or should you go?"--can creep up on us or hit us with full force at any time in our lives and in any situation or relationship we find ourselves in.   Here's how to know when to stay and attempt make the situation better or when it's time to leave a relationship, a job, a social group or anything else with grace and with love. Love and relationships shouldn’t have t...

Some people put up with WAY too much"bad" behavior from others in their relationships. And yet... what some people call bad behavior may not be so bad after all. In this episode of the Love Made Easy podcast (EP30), we're exploring what to do when you're up against what you call bad behavior and just how much of it you should put up with before you blow the whistle on the relationship and call it...

It's great to want to be kind, loving and do things that please other people. But what about when you go overboard with your "people pleasing" and don't even know it?  So many people are "Closet People Pleasers" ... doing things to try to please others for their own gain without even realizing their motivations. Sometimes you do things to please others out of love and sometimes it's something else...

Have you ever felt unloved--or even worse, unlovable?  We sure have and from what our coaching clients, Facebook group members and web site visitors share with us, they have as well. In this episode (EP28) of the Love Made Easy Podcast, we're talking about what's really going on when you don't feel lovable.  We talk about the difference between feeling unloved VS feeling or being unlovable.  As we...

What if there was a communication skill almost all of us were lousy at, but didn't know it? For most of us, it's listening and that's what we're talking about in this episode (EP27) of the Love Made Easy Podcast.  As you know, communication in your relationships is something you must get right if you want great relationships.  It's time to stop ignoring this skill, put some effort into how to get...

  Mind games and manipulation are big problems in relationships. Welcome to episode 26 of the Love Made Easy podcast where we dive right into how blind most people are about mind games and manipulation in their relationships. We discuss why people try to manipulate others and how to respond when you feel manipulated, as well as how to recognize it when you’re being manipulative.   We give example...

Do you have someone in your life who is "Stubborn" and you wish you could make communicating with them and loving them easier?  In this episode (Episode 25) of the Love Made Easy Podcast we're talking about stubborn people and how to best communicate with them and love them even though they are Stubborn--sometimes stubborn to a fault.  On today's podcast we talk about... Wwhat causes someone to be...

Expectations are one of those things that can kill a relationship or marriage. In today's episode we talk about loving without expectations and how loving without expectations can open up new doorways to the love and relationship you really want. So many times, people think they can't be happy unless their expectations are met (especially by the other person.) What we've found is, expectations are...

There are millions of reasons why you want to be able to trust your intuition and make sure you make the right decision in all parts of your life. Affairs, infidelity, whether to stay in or leave a relationship, truth-telling, whether to take a new job that's offered or not, whether to move to a new city, when to have kids, whether to have a recommended heath procedure and on and on... Sometimes y...

What if telling someone else the truth (or your truth) didn't have to be so hard? What we've found is, confronting someone else with the truth shouldn't have to be so hard and in this episode we break down what's really going on when you feel like you have to tell someone else the truth.   In this episode (ep22) of our Love Made Easy Podcast, we're also talking about why telling the truth is so ha...