S3 E25: Patriarchy, Gender Socialisation + Misogyny: The Triple Threat with Lisa Merlo-Booth

Lisa Merlo-Booth is a straight-talking and highly effective relationship expert, speaker, and blogger. She has over twenty years of experience in the field of therapy and relationship coaching and a thriving private practice with a client base of individuals and couples spanning the United States and Europe.

Lisa earned her Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from Pepperdine University in 1991 and is a Graduate of Coach University. She is known for her lasered teaching and non-judgmental ability to guide therapists through the difficult terrain of couples work, and couples into a Radical New Approach to Relationships - one grounded in powerful strength, intimacy, and deep connection.

We speak about:

• how the ocean we swim in (an ocean we may not even be conscious of) was formed from the triple threat of patriarchy, gender socialisation and misogyny
• how this ocean damages ALL of us, not just girls and women, and the end effect is a generation of men being blind-sided when they have no capacity to emotionally connect in relationships
• how little boys are taught to "man up and emotionally shut down" and little girls are taught to be "accommodating, nice, pretty"
• childhood home environments and the impact that this has had on both Lisa and Kylie's relationship patterns
• how the traditional approach to relationship therapy (everything is 50 / 50, don't call the oppressor to account for bad behaviour) is failing couples, and ENABLING the very systems of oppression that have caused what most couples seeking help need to heal
• Lisa's radically new approach to relationships, and her "secret sauce" of actively calling out the bad behaviour of the person would be the most difficult to live with
• the four pillars of Healthy Relationships, built on a foundation of Uncompromising Safety, and how these combine to feeling like a relationship is your safe place, and feels like a gentle coming home

Find Lisa and her Radical New Approach to Relationships at https://lisamerlobooth.com/

and check out the course mentioned in this episode Tackling Defensiveness 101 at https://lisamerlobooth.com/tacklingdefensiveness/ 

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