In this tender episode of the Communication Mastery Series, Kristine Carlson shares the practice she and her late husband, Richard, used to keep their marriage strong: setting aside sacred time for heart-to-heart communication. She explains the simple yet powerful parameters they followed so each of them felt deeply heard and understood.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

• Choose a set time for intentional, heart-to-heart connection
• Create a safe space for open and honest sharing
• Speak without interruption and listen with full presence
• Honor each other’s feelings with empathy and respect
• Use this practice to bring more intimacy and trust into your closest relationships

Kristine invites you to bring this practice into your own life as a way to cultivate deeper love, closeness, and understanding one heartfelt conversation at a time.

Recorded just before her Italy retreat, Kristine shares how to move beyond the surface and create genuine intimacy in new relationships. Drawing from her experience working with women in retreat settings, she explains how simple gestures—like a warm greeting, smiling, or gentle touch—can melt away superficial barriers and allow us to meet each other in our shared humanity.

In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

• Offer a warm greeting that immediately softens barriers
• Use smiling, touch, and presence to create safety and warmth
• Open your heart so others feel truly seen
• Meet someone beyond the surface, in their humanity

She also reflects on how our triggers can be powerful teachers, guiding us toward deeper compassion—and how each new connection is an opportunity to practice intimacy, presence, and love.

Kristine launches her brand-new series, Communication Mastery, with an inspiring invitation to explore how deeper, more mindful communication can transform every relationship in your life.

In this series, you’ll discover how to:

• Navigate difficult conversations without triggering defensiveness
• Become less reactive and more grounded in your responses
• Understand “separate realities” and practice greater empathy
• Create more powerful, connected conversations at work
• Lead with love in every interaction

Plus, you’ll learn a powerful guided imagery meditation to help you transform the way you listen and speak! Get ready to bring intimacy and closeness into all of your conversations with this illuminating series.