How To Strengthen Your Relationships Not Just On Valentine’s Day | WKMG Channel 6 News

 

In this segment on WKMG channel 6 news, Dr. Brooke Stuart, a holistic and functional medicine doctor, talks all about how to strengthen your relationships, not just on Valentine’s day emphasizing the need for presence, connection, and understanding in relationships, whether romantic or not.  For the full segment, you can check out the video above or visit the link here!  

Relationships can be a source of an acute or chronic adverse reaction or a pronounced well of profound benefit- which makes them extraordinarily important to address when moving out of a disease and into a healing state. Regardless of your relationship status, it starts with you- which is exactly what we dove into in this segment. Ultimately, being present and investing in oneself are key elements in creating healthy and fulfilling relationships.

Throughout the segment, we discussed how to strengthen your relationships by diving into the following takeaways:

• Presence and connection: showing up intentionally, being available, creating the space to have quality time together, connect and have meaningful experiences
• Interdependence: where there is complete support and space, being on each other’s team but having your own identity and interests so that you can have inner fulfillment and bring more to the table
• Empowered communication: releasing the ego to understand and become solution oriented, this require self awareness and cultivating the ability to respond rather than react
• Make it your own: your relationship is unique, so drop the comparison and embody it all- it’s important to look at relationships through a both-and lens rather than either or, where qualities such as playfulness and depth, variety and certainty can all coexist
• Holding a shared vision: embracing the journey while moving forward, working together and through challenges, a shared vision can provide direction and a sense of purpose
• The greatest gift: the greatest gift you could ever give to your partner is an investment in yourself, the better you are, the more you can give to the relationship

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Full Transcript Here 

Bridgett: Well, we like to think love is in the air on Valentine’s Day. Right? And many of us are celebrating our relationships, friends and loved ones today and every day.

Candace: Yeah. Well, but it does take more than one person to have a healthy relationship and to get results, we wanted to find out how to cultivate a better relationship

Julie: To help us out, we’d like to welcome back Dr. Brooke Stuart of holistic counseling, acupuncture, and functional medicine. Good morning.

Brooke: Good Morning. How are you guys?

Candace and Bridgett:  Good to see you. Thank you for being here.

Julie: First of all, tell us what is, what do you do in your practice? What is this for folks who are like, what is that?

Brooke: So, in my practice, I work with patients on all aspects of their lives.

So relationships on Valentine’s Day, but just in general, obviously impact our health and well-being. And so I look at the whole person, but relationships can be a big source of stress or a big source of an amazing experience in your life, you know?

Bridgett: So what can we do to focus on our relationships and focus on love in our life, whether we’re single, married, divorced, and, and looking at the whole person and relationships outside of romantic ones?

Brooke: Definitely. So presence is so important, right? In the age of social media, I feel like presence and connection is the most beautiful gift you could ever give your partner, and that’s a huge thing that you can do on Valentine’s Day, it’s just kind of disconnect to reconnect and really focus on being present, listening to your partner and really understanding where they’re coming from.

Candace: Why do you think people just are so anti-Valentine’s Day? I mean, what is it about it?

Brooke: I mean, I think that maybe that can bring up a lot of deep- seated issues.

Candace: I guess, yeah.

Brooke:  And of course, it can also be a time to evaluate in terms of what kind of love do you wanna have in your life? If you’re single, I think it’s important to kind of look within and check in with yourself and see, okay, what have I learned from my past relationships and what did I like about them? What didn’t I like about them? And kind of go from there. But if you are in a relationship, you can do the same thing, you can evaluate your relationship and really observe, okay, where are we going? Because that can bring you through any challenge when you have that kind of vision together, you know?

Julie: And you mentioned social media and kind of disconnecting. A lot of times this day and age seems like a lot of people compare their relationships and things like that. Why do you think it’s important for people to understand that maybe what works in my relationship is different from what works in your relationship and those parameters and not compare.

Brooke: So obviously everybody’s unique, and so every relationship will be unique. In social media, in this digital world, everybody’s trying to uphold an image, but it’s not necessarily reality.

So I feel like the more that we can tune into ourselves and what our partner’s needs and wants and desires are, the the better and more beautiful and vibrant our relationships will become because they’ll become our own.

Julie:  And there’s no real right or wrong for what your relationship looks like, right?

Brooke: Absolutely. You know every relationship is of course really unique. And so we want to be able to have everything coexist, “the both” and rather than “either or” mentality.

So often we can get stuck in a role when it comes to relationships that we can forget to be ourselves and bring all sides of the table to play. For example, being playful, but also deep. Allowing certainty and variety to all coexist and allowing us to be fully human and embrace all aspects of our being can be a great gift to even just allow that from your partner, to opt out of those roles.

Bridgett: What If you’re trying to heal? What if you’re trying to open yourself back up to the possibility of a relationship?

Brooke: Yeah, that’s a great question. If you’re trying to heal, I think that it is important to go within, even get present within like in and of yourself and be able to look at the feelings brought up, look at the past experiences, look at those recirculated patterns, and really see how you can really look at them and learn from them. Extract everything that you’ve learned so that you can up the value and really begin to kind of appreciate past experiences so that you can let go of them, but they can also let go of you.

You can ask questions like, what can I learn from this experience? What was it here to teach me? And you can take that into your next relationship. So truly in the weirdest way, the most valuable and, and most incredible investment you can give to your future partner or current is on some level, an investment in yourself.

Julie: I Like it.

Bridgett: I love that.

Candace: And so the moral of the story of this Valentine’s Day be present, whether it’s be present with yourself or for your significant other, your friends, whatnot.

Brooke: Definitely. Awesome.

Julie: Thank you so much.

Brooke: Anytime.

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