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A season of Relatable would not be the same without Robert Graves. He is back dropping truth bombs about life, parenting and thriving through challenges.

Show Highlights

Stephanie shares her “love microdosing” formula.

Robert talks about his new position at DAV (Disabled American Veterans Department of California) and how he is encouraging compassion and kindness in all interractions. 

Roberts shares what he is learning about parenting and how important it is to talk to your spouse before taking action with children. 

Stephanie and Robert review the possiblies for relational learning when playing with the relational dice. 

Resources Mentioned

Disabled American Veterans Department of California

Year of the Vet Podcast

Robert’s Journal – Your Father’s Story

Backstory Behind Stephanie and Guest

Robert is a big part of the Relatable journey. We first met him on episode 22. Robert is always aware of the daily opportunties for learning and is constantly challenging himself and adding new resources to what he uses and shares with other people. I can always count on him to be present and add value to the conversation. He lifts up whatever atmosphere he enters. –  Stephanie Michele

Social Challenge of the Week

Microdose on Love Challenge

Humans are wired to dwell on negativity, so much so that we tend to emphasize prolong bad feelings over giving credit to special mini-moments where love was present and profound. Being able to recall and create these moments creates a substainable energy of love. 

The formula I use that ensures a love burst of energy is coming my way is a four-step mediation.

Step One: I connect myself to the definition of love that I resonate with the most.  In the words of M. Scott Peck in his book, “The Road Less Traveled,” he states, “Love is the willingness to extend one’s self for the purpose of one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.”

Step Two: I recall some of my favorite moments of love and let those good feelings wash over me.

Step Three: I remind myself that if I want to feel the energic vibration of love, I need to be in an “extension mode,” where I am present and willing to go pass my typical comfort zone. In this open state of now, I also need to be able to pick up on when other people are out of their comfort zone too.

Step Four: I invite the magic of spiritual energy into every human encounter I will have in whatever time is left in the day. I do this by reflecting on what the Bible verse Matthew 18:20 means to me. The verse is “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” I have come to realize that God is Love. And when people connect in an “extended love mode” (aka when they are out of their comfort zone) there is ALWAYS spiritual energy available to both parties no matter what their religious or spiritual beliefs are. It does not matter if both parties are conscious to the extension that is happening…the opportunity for magic is always there in the “WE” of the moment, when the “I” is not the focus…when interdependence is.

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