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    • About
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      • Services
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    • Mental Help Tools
      • #1 Basic Tools
      • #2 Telka's Stress Tools
      • #3 Anxiety Tools
      • #4 Depression & Grief
      • #5 Anger Tools
      • #6 Relationship Tools
      • #7 Self- Esteem tools
      • #8 Difficult People
    • Mental Help Videos
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Need Skills? Improve mental health & relationships

Telka Arend-Ritter LMSW

Telka Arend-Ritter LMSWTelka Arend-Ritter LMSWTelka Arend-Ritter LMSW
  • About
  • Services
    • Services
    • FAQ
  • Mental Help Tools
    • #1 Basic Tools
    • #2 Telka's Stress Tools
    • #3 Anxiety Tools
    • #4 Depression & Grief
    • #5 Anger Tools
    • #6 Relationship Tools
    • #7 Self- Esteem tools
    • #8 Difficult People
  • Mental Help Videos
    • #1 Stress Videos
    • #3 Anxiety Videos
    • #3-a OCD Videos
    • #4 Depression,grief video
    • #5 Anger Videos
    • #6 Relationship Videos
    • #7 Parenting Stuff
  • Resources & Trainings
    • Local Resources
    • Telka's Talks

Telka's recommended Relationship Videos & Podcasts

"Are you a fault finder or a love seeker?" Gary Chapman

Relationship skills require emotional intelligence and open communication.  Watch these 12 videos to improve your relationships with others and within yourself. 

Tools to compliment these videos

#1 Relationship Skills Start with Gottman!

Video # 1  Gotta love  Gottman!

4 Ways to Ruin a Relationship, From Relationship Expert John Gottman  2 minute video  | 2014 | 

#2 "Blame is the Opposite of Insight"

Video #2  Blame is the opposite of insight.  Brene Brown's short video helps you understand how blame negatively impacts relationships. 3 minutes

#3 Brene Brown on Empathy

Video #3 Need relationship skills?  This Brene Brown brief video shows you how empathy builds connection in relationships.  2  1/2 minutes  

#4 emotional bank account

Video #4 Interested in more relationship skills? Understanding the Emotional Bank Account may help. 

This 2 1/2 min. video compliments the Relationship Bank Account Tool #08

#5 Brene Brown and the Gottmans 3 Part Podcast

Brene Brown Podcast Unlocking Us 9/28/2022

#5 The Love Prescription Part 1 & 2

Brene Brown Unlocking US Podcast in 3 parts 

The Love Prescription Brene Brown 50 min-podcast with relationship experts.  Improve relationships in 7 days!  Part 1 of 3   9/28/2022

Part 2 10/5/2022

#6 Change your story, change your life

 #6 Change your story, change your life. Relationship expert Lori Gottleib shares tips and tools to build communication skills| Ted@Dupont| Sept 2019|  16 minutes. 

NPR Life Kit's practical tips to improve relationships

#7 Stuck doing all the household chores?

22 minute NPR Life Kit Podcast can help.  9/2022

Click to listen to podcast

Trust

Video #8 Anatomy of Trust

 What is trust? How do you learn to trust?

Material compliments Relationship Tool #8

BRAVING | Brené Brown |  April 2020  | 8 min.  


Video #9 4 Habits of ALL successful relationships

ALL relationships face a similar set of hurdles. This includes romantic partners as well as parenting, friendships, and workplaces. 

People go where they are welcome, they stay where they are valued.

1. Be curious not critical

2. Be careful, not crushing

3. Ask, don't assume.  

4. Connect before correct.

 17-minute Tedx.com | 2019 | 

#10 Why Emotional Intelligence is Necessary for Healthy Relationships

Why Emotional Quotient (EQ) is More Important Than IQ  Happiness and love are rooted in personal relationships.  Learn the four stages of developing your awareness and emotional management skills.    TEDxWaiakea-2011 Michael Benner-  | 14 minutes |  

Successful Dating Videos

Video #11 The Person You Really Need To Marry.

 If your love life has not been picture perfect- this relationship video is for you... post divorce, blended family, learning to date again and wanting to find "The person you really need to marry" | Tracy McMillan |Tedx2014 | 14 min  

Video #12 Bad Relationships Are A Form of Addiction

  Brain research explains why its so hard to break up-- some relationships are like addictions. This Ted Talk explains the neuroscience of love and of breakups.

Can we choose to fall out of love? |Dessa| TEDxWanChai|     12 minute 2019 

NPR Life Kit's practical tips to improve relationships

#13 How To fall in love, Dating tips

Dating is a learned skill, with a step-by-step process — says Logan Ury author of, How to Not Die Alone.   

If you are a  frustrated dater— learn which type describes you: The Romanticizer,The Maximizer,The Hesitater 20 minute NPR Life Kit Podcast aired 12/2022

Click to listen to podcast

Disclaimer

help is available

 Need safety and protection from relationship violence?

Abuse in LGBTQ+ communities 

Lansing Women's Shelter Eve's House 

Women's Center of Greater Lansing 

Michigan Sexual Abuse Hotline

Siren: Eaton County Relationship Violence Shelter

Telka's tools, resources and recommendations are not a substitute for mental health treatment or intended to be used as medical care. This site is not intended to diagnose or treat psychiatric or medical conditions. Always consult your own health care professional for the  treatment of mental illness. 


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