Sheryl Crow's haunting song "Home" pulls all the strings of longing and belonging into a sweeping journey of love, loss and coming to terms with the reality of our choices. Avrum and Ellie get into discussions around the meaning of home for each of us, what happens when the facades fall down, and do we really know what we want to build, and if we don't how will we ever get there?
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Charlie Puth’s song “We Don’t Talk Anymore” wasn’t Avrum's favourite but Ellie insisted and lo and behold a really interesting conversation came out of it around what is the purpose of relationships and what happens when a couple is left with nothing to say to each other.
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What happens when someone who is shy wants to have a relationship? What are some of the challenges and pitfalls? This iconic Smith's song leads Avrum and Ellie into conversations around generational trauma and using way too much hair product.
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S1 Ep20: Erykah Badu's classic "Call Tyrone" is a peek inside a relationship when one partner is clearly not happy, but why? When one person is feeling that things aren't going well, is it always the other person's fault?
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S1 Ep 19: This song by Hall and Oats is all about what shouldn't be disclosed, and in a world of full disclosure how are we to think about secrets in a relationship and what things are actually better unsaid if any?
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Straight From the Heart by Jane's Party has some great lines that get Avrum Nadigel and Ellie Bass talking about talking in relationships. How do we navigate when people want or need different things and how do we communicate this to our partner? Is it all just about communication or does it take something else to make a difference?
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Tears For Fears song Head Over Heels blast through your speakers with delight and desperation at the same time! Avrum and Ellie dissect what it means to be infatuated in a relationship, what we can learn from fantasy and cultivating the taste for self-feedback in order to know whether a relationship is good or just exciting.
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S1 Ep 16: Rose Betts has written this addictive song "Driving Myself Home", that you can't get out of your head even if you tried. Ellie and Avrum are taking the lyrics and going on a short jaunt around ideas about dating, do we really want to get into and be in a relationship, and what are the fears, doubts and unclarities that can get in the way of actually finding love?
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S1 Ep 15: Adele’s Go Easy On Me has this stunning line that pushes us to ask an uncomfortable question in our relationships. What unspoken promises have we made, and expected that got broken and seem to signal the end? Can we make those promises conscious and reinvent them to create connection rather than disappointment? In this episode we explore emotional gridlock in love and whether things can ever really change in a relationship.
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S1 Ep14: Feist's sweet voice takes into darker places when we know we've done wrong or been hurt by another. But have we? What are apologies really and do they matter as much as we think they do when we want to make things right?
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The Rolling Stones with this iconic lyric outline one of the most pressing questions when it comes to finding a partner and creating a relationship. What is the difference between wants and needs and how do we use that information to determine whether the person we are dating might be "the one"? Also, how does a long term relationship highlight the difference between these things when things get pressed?
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S1 Ep12: Exiles by Taylor Swift and Bon Iver takes us into a long discussion on the difference between character and personality and how to tell the difference on a date. What are the things we really SHOULD be asking when out with someone and how do we broach those topics without being weird?
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Joy Division's iconic song "Love Will Tear Us Apart" takes Avrum and Ellie into the topic of what love looks like when the lustre has worn off, and whether love is in the fireworks or the small moments of life.
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S1 Ep10: The Civil Wars song “I’ve Got This Friend” is a heartful and longingly sweet song that points to ideas and issues around setting people up with each other and finding the “right one”. Avrum and Ellie dig into how do we know when we are ready to date, how do we know when we’ve met “the one” and what can we do to give ourselves the best chance to make it work.
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S1 Ep9: Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper is a classic song that has been covered and loved for over 30 years. It's gorgeous and bittersweet. Avrum and Ellie are using it's feeling as well as the lyrics to explore what happens when people change in a relationship, does that mean it's over, or does it grow with....time?
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In this episode: Photograph by Cody Fry is orchestral ear candy that is beautiful, wistful and filled with the melancholy of young love about to go to the next level. We are talking this week about what happens when a couple who have been dating decide to get married, and then have kids. How does the relationship change and why?
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S1 Ep7: Black Coffee by Aviv is an addictive song about the end of love. Ellie and Avrum and breaking it down and asking what parts of a relationship should we keep once it's over, and are our lives really defined by our relationships, or is there something more?
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S1 Ep6 - When John Mayer came up we jumped at the chance to talk about this song. Daughters exposes what it means to love another person when all of us love the way we were loved.
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S1 Ep5: This epic song by Lawrence immediately inspired Ellie and Avrum to not just vibe but to dig deep into what it means to really deal with your own issues in relationships and how to come out either as a casualty of love or a harbinger of a new type of self. We discuss deep cuts and examples in our own practices and personal histories, and discover what breaking old patterns can look like, or not.
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S1 Ep4: What is love...Howard Jones and his Zen state of mind ask the deepest question about the heart. Avrum and Ellie are using this classic 80s pop tune to dissect whether any of us really knows what love is, and if not, how on earth do we get it?
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