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Healing Relationships | With Dr. Gabor Maté
This interview took place at Wisdom 2.0, in partnership with Fetzer institute and Unlikely Collaborators. The full interview is at: https://youtu.be/osew41SrNgg GABOR MATÉ Gabor Maté is a Canadian physician (retired), public speaker and bestselling author, published internationally in multiple la
Is This Worth a Second Chance?
Should we have tried harder to make this work? What if you're the one who got away? These are the questions that keep us up at night. This week, Esther helps a couple who were together for eight years and broke up a year ago. They've recently reconnected and wonder if they should give it another try
I Can't Love You the Way You Want Me To
Their relationship is on the edge. They're grappling with communication issues and the emotional scars from their past. And they're trapped. Trapped in an endless cycle of blame, defensiveness, and attack. Esther tries to help them notice their patterns of escalation and break the cycle they keep fi
Stuck in the Middle
He prides himself on being an empathic confidante to his friends…but is it to a fault? In this classic episode of Esther Calling, we meet a man fed up with being the container for his friends’ relationship woes. But, he wonders, can put up barriers without losing the intimacy of those friendships? E