Despite all of our differences, at our core, we all want the same thing. To be understood, seen, acknowledged, appreciated, and loved for who we are, as we are, and to give this same appreciation and love to those we care about. This is why I brought in my favorite human behavior specialist to the Awakened & Aligned Podcast, my friend, Mark Groves, the founder of Create the Love, @createthelove, a social media sensation with over 1 million followers, and the co-author of the new book, Liberated Love: Release Codependent Patterns and Create the Love You Desire, to talk how to be healthier in love and life. Mark Groves and his wife, Kylie Macbeth, wrote this much-needed new book to help us navigate our relationships and create healthier connections in all areas of our lives.

Whether you are single, ready to mingle, dating, divorced, engaged, married, separated, or obsessing about the one who got away…this transformational conversation will leave you inspired to create the love you deserve from a place of empowerment rather than fear and insecurities. Mark shares clear strategies to help you feel more balanced in life and love. Including signs, you may be in a codependent relationship.

If you are ready to up-level in your life, watch this week's resource here.

I share a powerful process to help you raise your standards and set clear boundaries.

The inner work doesn’t always have to be work…and it doesn't have to be so hard. It can actually be fun and quite easy, especially with a step-by-step process. Today, I share five easy steps to help you cultivate healthier relationships. Because I practice what I preach and live and breathe my message and teaching, today's video shares more vulnerability as I peel back some layers of past relationship blunders turned into wonders...

Plus you'll discover:

• How to get your needs met in relationships (even when you feel unheard and unloved)

• An easy tweak to align to your true self and upgrade your value system

• how to communicate effortlessly with honesty, vulnerability, and trust in yourself and others

• How to build trust with yourself and others

• How to detach and love others for who they are instead of who you want or need them to be

• the single most important question to ask yourself to call in healthier dynamics

This video training shares a little bit more about my own personal journey but for tangible steps that you can apply immediately to increase the love and appreciation and all of your relationships including the one with yourself.

Have you been hurt or betrayed? When we start doing healing, inner-child, and shadow work sometimes repressed anger activates. If you were ever told to not be angry or you grew up in a household where anger was overly expressed, or not expressed at all, you could be dealing with hidden anger that wants to be noticed. In today’s resource video, I talk about how anger can help us heal, when we address it, and process it in healthy ways. Plus, I share a 5 steps process to help you turn your pain into gain. I share strategies for releasing anger and choosing boundaries. Because YOU deserve to live with peace of and harmony.

Healthy boundaries are the ultimate guide to successful relationships. Without healthy boundaries, relationships do not thrive—they result in feelings of resentment, disappointment, or violation, but for empaths or people pleasers this can be hard. In today's podcast, learn signs of someone who is in a relationship for control vs connection, and 4 ways to draw boundaries to protect your peace.

A fake friend is not a reciprocal friendship they do not have your best interest at heart and they "view the friendship from the perspective of what they can get from you rather than a place of genuine care for you." In today’s transactional culture, protect yourself from being used, or mistreated with new tips on how to spot fake friends early and save yourself trouble down the line.

It's time to take a relationship inventory...