Intentional Approval

Relationship Anxiety

n this episode of the Relationship Anxiety Podcast, your host McKell Kristen explores the power of approving of your partner. This episode covers...

✨ How the negativity bias in our brains leads us to nitpick and find flaws in our partners.

✨ The importance of shifting our focus to gratitude and approval to improve our mindset and connection.

✨ Practical steps to practice noticing and vocalizing what we appreciate in our partners and our lives.

✨ McKell shares a personal story about how her brain flipped into nitpicking mode when she was engaged.

✨ A comparison between two days, one spent focusing on disapprovals and another focusing on gratitude.

✨ Insights from Dan Sullivan’s book The Gap and the Gain, on living in gratitude for what we already have.

✨ How "habituation" causes us to tune out the good in our lives, including our partners.

✨ Ways to build the muscle of gratitude in small areas of life.

✨ Encouragement to see more of the good in your relationship by intentionally approving of what you already have.

Listen now and start practicing and cultivating your approval power