Love Shack Live: Helping Couples Rescue Their Relationships

Send us Fan Mail Ready to get your sexy on? Let me ask you, what happens when you think of the words sex and sensuality? Do they make you curious, uncomfortable, or maybe a bit of both? Most of us experience an emotional response when we feel these words. Both in the feelings they kick-off, and (most likely) create a few sensations in our bodies as well. Not to mention, sex, intimacy, passion, and...

Send us Fan Mail Do you feel like all you and your partner do is fight with each other? It probably goes something like this: you go round and round having the same argument and instead of resolving anything you both just feel crappy and lonely. Either they’ve said something that really hurt your feelings, or you did something to hurt theirs.  And the thing is...the aftermath of regret is very oft...

Send us Fan Mail This week, days away from the 20th anniversary of September 11th, we are honoring the many couples that sacrifice so much day in and day out by serving in our military.   The impact and sacrifices that military members and their families make are huge. Typically as one person is training or deployed, the other is keeping the home and family together. Couples and families can go we...

Send us Fan Mail Sexual infidelity is not the only way betrayal poisons our relationships, but it seems to be the one we are most familiar with and fixated on.  Let’s uncover some of the other forms of betrayal that are just as deadly to our relationships. These forms of betrayal often seem like little things on the surface, and many times we easily dismiss them. Then, one day we wake up and find...

Send us Fan Mail Sexual infidelity is not the only way betrayal poisons our relationships, but it seems to be the one we are most familiar with and fixated on. Let’s uncover some of the other forms of betrayal that are just as deadly to our relationships. These forms of betrayal often seem like little things on the surface, and many times we easily dismiss them. Then, one day we wake up and find o...

Send us Fan Mail Have you wished you could get some clarity on exactly what breaks a relationship down? Or what causes a breakup? Because, when we start a relationship, breaking down or breaking up is never what we are after...is it? This week in the Love Shack, we have Patrice Francois, MHRM, MBA, as our special guest. She is a dynamic entertainer, speaker, pro­ducer, writer, author, and game-cha...

Send us Fan Mail What effect does being adopted have on loving relationships? This is a question that I had not even considered (even though we have an adopted daughter ourselves) until Tom and I met Joi Fisher-Griffin, who happens to be adopted herself. The reality is there are approximately 5 million adult Americans alive today who have been adopted. It's not something that is often discuss...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you try to fix your relationship, instead all you do is make mistakes? You know you want to please your partner, make them happy, and get your relationship running smoothly, but no matter how much you try it feels like you can’t do anything right.   If this is you, please know you are not alone! I am here to tell you that every single perso...

Send us Fan Mail All we need to do to witness power struggles these days is to tune into the news or scroll through Facebook.     The power struggles that challenge us the most are the ones that take place within the walls of our homes with the people who matter most to us. I’m sure you know, a good old power struggle can destroy years of a good, loving relationship in less than 30 minutes. We pro...

Send us Fan Mail Joshua Shea is a pornography addiction expert, certified betrayal trauma coach, and the author of three books about pornography addiction, including He’s a Porn Addict…Now What? An Expert and Former Addict Answer Your Questions (2019) . This week, Joshua is our guest on Love Shack Live and he’s going to share the story of his struggle with addiction, and how he kept his relationsh...

Send us Fan Mail When infidelity happens in our relationships, most of the time we have a pre-programmed social response that happens automatically. The person who discovers the infidelity is the victim, and the person who committed the act is undoubtedly the monster. If we’re the victim, our friends and family say things to us like: “You're leaving them right?!” “You can’t let them do this t...

Send us Fan Mail Lying is a big topic when it comes to love because when we ask ourselves what’s most important in a relationship, honesty is usually near the top of the list. When we’re dating, we can spend a lot of time discerning whether or not someone is lying to us in our relationships. And, discovering a partner has lied can end a long-term relationship in seconds.  But have you ever stopped...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel like you're in prison inside of your committed relationship? This is a super common feeling that I hear all the time from my private clients and see collectively in our population.  This feeling is so prevalent, that as a society we have come to question whether committing to a significant other is worth it at all. After all, if we avoid serious relationships...

Send us Fan Mail Last week in the Love Shack we began sharing the eight epic ways to actually maintain a healthy relationship. In my body of work, I actually call them the 8 superpowers to achieve toe-tingling love. We've shared 4 of them so far: Get to know yourself and your partner often.  Avoid pretend and illusion. Emotional weightlifting is a thing…and you better know what it is and how...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone wants to make sure their relationship is running as smoothly as possible, but there are so many tips and tricks out there. How are you supposed to know what advice you should be following? How do you know if your relationship is healthy or not? And, is there an exact formula to maintain a healthy relationship? Throughout the last decade while coaching hundreds of couples...

Send us Fan Mail When you’re struggling in your relationship, how do you know when to work harder and when to let go? This is the dilemma I have personally been in (multiple times) and this is also the place where most of my clients seek me out. When you're in this place, there are so many perspectives and opinions depending on who you talk to. You’ll hear one thing from your church leader, a...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered why love and relationships can be so challenging and hurt so much? How are we supposed to understand WHY the people we love most do what they do? Heck, I’m sure you’ve questioned why you’ve done certain things to yourself. (Myself included!) I can almost guarantee we’ve almost never been given the whole story, so when the emotional pain we feel inside our bo...

Send us Fan Mail Money challenges are the number one cause of relationship breakdown, yet most couples don’t have the tools to navigate them. They carry on simply hoping things will just work out. Unfortunately, hope is not a financial strategy. And even worse, relying on hope alone robs us of communicating and working together to create a thriving relationship and the financial foundation you nee...

Send us Fan Mail In the wake of COVID-19, millions of people are experiencing new mental health challenges, and millions more have had their symptoms exacerbated. What was once healed and managed, has presented itself again, but in a whole new way.  Some of the greatest challenges we face in relationships revolve around mental health. It can be so hard to know exactly how to support a loved one wh...

Send us Fan Mail At a young age both hosts of Love Shack Live, Tom and Staci, were faced with the loss of their fathers. Later in life, they both experienced the loss of jobs, houses, money, and even lovers. Their stories are really no different than what most humans experience. It seems endings are more abundant than beginnings with all we are going through right now. And, even when our logic kno...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the Love Shack, we’re toasting to all mothers of the world. We’re honoring mothers who are grieving the loss of children, people who have difficult relationships with their moms, women who are struggling to become mothers, people who have lost their mothers, women who have chosen not to be mothers, moms with strained child relationships, stepmoms, foster mothers...

Send us Fan Mail Technology has had a huge impact on our relationships, from the way we find potential partners to the way we communicate with each other when we’re in our relationships. We have the universe at our fingertips with our phones every single day, and many of us sacrifice connection with humans to spend more time scrolling. So, it’s important that we ask the question: are we using tech...

Send us Fan Mail  If the quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives, why do we spend so little time (and money) investing in them? We expect our partners to support us through the hardest times in our lives, to literally hold us up when we feel like collapsing. But, our relationships are also the first thing we neglect when our lives get too full of obligations and responsibi...

Send us Fan Mail What would your day-to-day look like if you felt cherished all the time by your partner? Can you even imagine such a thing? (Yes, it’s possible!) Sadly, so many of us, especially those of us in long-term relationships automatically think “can’t relate” when asked this question. What does it even mean to be cherished, anyway? It sounds good and all…but what would the experience of...

Send us Fan Mail When you feel stuck, stale, and overwhelmed in your relationship, don’t you wish you could just ask for a do-over? I’ve got great news, you can!  But, the trick is that understanding that being able to create a new beginning is a learned skill. Experiencing this feeling of renewal will allow you to truly move forward and release the past. (And, it’s the only way this can happen.)...