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Intentional Living with Tanya Hale

Midlife brings profound shifts—and often, complex relationship challenges. Whether you’re navigating the emotional turmoil of divorce, struggling in your marriage, or facing tension in your relationships with adult children, you are not alone.

If you’re considering divorce, in the midst of separation, or working to rebuild your life after divorce, this is the place for you. We also explore what it means to navigate a struggling marriage and find connection again after years of unintentional neglect.

And we address one of the most painful—and rarely discussed—relationship challenges: managing strain with adult children while learning to let go, respect their autonomy, and honor their agency.

I’m Tanya Hale, a midlife relationship coach dedicated to helping you move from conflict toward clarity and connection. On Intentional Living with Tanya Hale, we explore the “how” and “why” behind your most difficult relationships. I offer practical, actionable tools to help you do the work—not only on the relationship, but also on yourself.

In this space, we focus on:

– Marriage and Divorce Coaching: Navigating midlife transitions, from healing broken trust to moving through the divorce process with greater clarity and grace.

– Relationships with Adult Children: Setting healthy boundaries while fostering deeper, more respectful connections.

– Rediscovering Your Sense of Self: Learning about and loving yourself and reclaiming your identity beyond your roles as a spouse or parent.

The work is challenging, but it is Work worth doing. If you’re ready to address your most difficult midlife relationships and move toward a healthier, happier life, join me.

Let’s create an intentional life together.

Copyright: © tanya hale 2020

Latest Episodes:

#290 Resentment and Contempt in Our Relationships Jan 15, 2024

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One-upping and one-downing in our relationships is so normal and expected for most of us, that we can often have a tough time recognizing when we are doing it. Here are two things to look for to help you be more aware: resentment and contempt. When we are putting ourselves in a one-down position, we will often feel resentment. When we are putting ourselves in a one-up position, we will often feel contempt. When we can learn to recognize these thoughts and behaviors, we can then start to figure out how to approach our relationships from a much healthier and happier equal place.

#289 Why Our Relationships Need Validation Jan 08, 2024

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Validation is something that we often seek from others to shore up our sense of self. And this never really works, because SELF-worth is something that can only be created within ourselves. Validation in our marriages and relationships, however, is a very important tool. It lets the other person know we see them, we acknowledge them, we accept them, and it creates connection and intimacy. In this podcast we are discussing how we can better validate our relationships to create greater connection.

#288 When You're In a Tough Marriage Jan 01, 2024

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It's hard to know what to do when you're in a tough marriage. You have tried so many things to make it better, and often it seems that despite your best efforts it's getting worse. You're stuck in limbo trying to decide what to do and whether you should call it quits or keep trying. What can we do to make it better? How do we know what the right decision is? How do we make a decision we can feel confident in? All that and more in this podcast.

#287 Equality In Your Relationships and Your Self-Worth Dec 25, 2023

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Our natural tendency as humans is to go into a one-up or a one-down approach in our relationships, especially when there is conflict. And yet, this tactic is incredibly ineffective in helping us to communicate clearly and get on the same page. In addition, when we engage with one-upping or one-downing the other person, we are attacking our own sense of self-worth, which then exacerbates our tendency to go up or down. Let's clear this up, shall we?

#286 How Miscommunication Destroys Relationships Dec 18, 2023

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Miscommunication is a silent killer in our relationships. The tricky part is, we often don't even realize we are miscommunicating, and yet it causes so many fights and so much frustration for us. When we can understand why miscommunication happens, we can behave in ways that will clear up what both of our expectations are about and we can preemptively stop most of the fights before they even start.

#285 Trust & Betrayal Dec 11, 2023

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When we talk about betrayal in relationships, we most often think of the really big betrayals such as infidelity. But just as important are the small betrayals that can occur over and over in our relationships that erode trust over time. Trust is such a vital part of our relationships, and when it's not there, we also don't have emotional intimacy or partnership. Learning to recognize our small betrayals and clean them up is vital in order to create stronger relationships.

#284 Why Vulnerability Matters Dec 04, 2023

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Many of us grew up in homes where we didn't receive any training about vulnerability in relationships. We were fairly uneducated about emotions, and it has shown to be very detrimental in our marriage relationships. My previous 24-year marriage struggled with a severe lack of vulnerability, and today we're talking about why that was such a problem and the difference vulnerability will make in your emotional intimacy.

#283 How To Be A Better Partner Nov 27, 2023

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Sometimes our relationships can get difficult, or if not difficult, a little stale. In those times it can be hard not to check out and show up in a way that nourishes our relationship. Today we're going to talk about eight ways that we can be a better partner in our marriage relationships, or in any relationship. When we show up better, the relationship is always better. And since the quality of our life depends mostly on the quality of our relationships, it's always helpful to give our relationships some solid TLC.

#282 What We Are Really Fighting About Nov 20, 2023

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Sometimes in our relationships we find ourselves fighting a lot. The fascinating part about this is that what we're fighting about, isn't really what the fight is about. We may think it's about them being a side-seat driver when it's really about our insecurities about being thought of as not being good enough or being wrong. When we can dig a little deeper into what's really going on, we can learn to have some meaningful and intimate discussions that create connection rather than fights that lead to disconnection.

#281 Mid-Life Sexuality with Jennifer Finlayson-Fife Nov 13, 2023

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Learning to step into our God-given sexuality is a necessary step to coming into a sense of self. And having a strong sense of self is vital in being able to create the life we are capable of and develop the equal marriage relationships we desire. In this episode, Jennifer Finlayson-Fife discusses how sexuality often manifests itself in middle-age and how we can learn to create a healthier sexual relationship in our relationship.

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