What are the most common issues couples fight about? How can you argue less and effectively manage conflict? How do you find middle ground when it comes to tough topics like money, sex and time? How can you support your partner over the holidays when they’re faced with family and sibling conflict? Jess and Brandon share their stories and sex therapist and psychologist Dr. Rachel Needle weighs in with her expertise.

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The Most Common Couple Fights & How to Manage Conflict This Holiday Season

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You're listening to the SAX with Dr Jess podcast sacks and relationship advice you can use tonight Welcome to the sex with Dr Jess. PODCAST I'm your co host Brandon. Wear here with my lovely other. Half Dr Jess Hey. Hey doing I'm great. How you doing candidate coming up on the holidays lots going on? We do have a lot going on so before we dive in. Because we're GONNA be talking about common fights that couples bowls and even siblings and families have. And how do maybe have fewer of those fights or fight fair and resolve them. And I think I'd like to chat a little about common holiday. They've fights before we do big. Thank you to desire. Resorts increases for their ongoing support of this podcast. Be sure to check them out at desire experience. It's now joining us. Today is Dr Rachel Needle. Who is a sex therapist psychologist Tell us a little bit about your organization. Sure so thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to be here As you said I'm a licensed psychologists certified sex therapist I'm in private practice and on a group called the hall all Psychological Center in West Palm Beach Florida. I also Co Director of modern sex therapy institute. So we Do Continuing Education and certified sex therapists around the world so very excited to be here. Yes and so. I'm doing some work with modern sex therapy institutes coming up in March. Can't wait of twenty twenty in west Palm Beach not a bad place to be in March. I think Brennan will probably come down. Join me could excellent. Because it's cold in Toronto at that time and then we'll be in New York City in May and so if you are a sex therapist or counselor even educators or just enthusiasts they come and attend these clinical trainings wings on a wide range of topics including some of the most common issues. You're facing sex therapy and we're we're also going to be talking about the business of sex therapy sex exit education and sex counselling because that's sort of my background. Yeah and something that a lot of people don't talk about and don't learn anything about right how to build a business as a therapist and specifically specifically as a sex therapist so I think that's going to be a really well received one. Yeah excited to be joining forces. So you're here today because you've got the expertise. He's on fighting. What do couples come to you fighting about? What are the most common issues? Say what a thing to have an expertise the fighting expert now so we had an argument last night and we want to turn it into a therapy session. I'm just kidding Swedish it.