Welcome to the Relationship Coaching School podcast. This is for coaches and therapists obsessed with human transformation. We're going to nerd out on everything related to coaching. How do we get people to change? What makes a person wake up? What's ineffective and effective these days? It's also for you, if you're a client of relationship coaching or therapy, being a great

client is half the battle, and we're going to discuss how to utilize your coach or therapist

to get the best results possible. Since 2002, I've been obsessed with understanding myself

and applying that understanding in my relationship life. I'm your host, Jason Gattis.

I've been a therapist and a coach for over 20 years,

and I've been training coaches professionally since 2016.

I even came up with my own coaching methodology

called present-centered relationship coaching,

and I've trained hundreds of coaches worldwide in my methods.

I'm excited to be here. Let's go.

Hey, greetings. I want to talk today about our second principle in present-centered relationship

coaching, which if you're a therapist or coach or any kind of practitioner, I think it's

important to try this on, all right? And it's to talk about love.

Love, you could ask, what is love? A lot of us might have things that we conjure up while I,

my wife, or I fell in love with someone in high school or I'm falling in love with someone

right now and that's love and oh my god it's amazing and um people think about unconditional love

and you know it's just like what gets triggered in you when I say we're going to talk about

love and loving people loving our clients this one can be a little activating for people because there's so much bullshit out there

about what love is.

And a lot of people have it that love is a one-sided experience of all pleasure and no pain.

All good and no bad. All helpful and nothing not helpful. All support, no challenge. And it just feels good. It's like a, is it a feeling?

Is it an experience? Again, most people, depending on the

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