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Host: Dr. Beth Erickson
Relationships 101 is a series of conversations about relationships of
all kinds: spouses, partners and singles, parents with children and grandchildren, siblings with each other, friendships, and mentors and the mentees whose growth they invest in nurturing. Its central theme emphasizes the importance of relationships to everyone’s quality of life and the problems that occur when they are fractured.
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Relationships 101 – Politics with a U.S. Senator, Out of the Closet into the Corner Office
Dr. Beth Erickson (www.drbetherickson.com) first spoke with Senator Adlai Stevenson III (www.Adlai3.com), author of The Black Book, about our political landscape nationally and internationally. Politics is in his DNA. His grandfather was Vice President of the U.S. before the turn of the 20th century, and his father was U.N. Ambassador. Then she spoke with Selisse Berry … Read more about this episode...
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Biography
DR. BETH ERICKSON
… could tell you that she:
- completed her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1976;
- then completed two years’ post-doctoral training in marriage and family therapy at The Family Institute, which is part of Northwestern University;
- has practiced marriage and family therapy for over three decades;
- is an executive and life coach, media host, and professional speaker;
- authored three books, the most recent of which is Marriage Isn’t For Sissies: 7 Simple Keys to Unlocking the Best Part of Your Life, as well as a dozen juried articles for professional publications;
- has developed a teleseminar series to accompany Marriage Isn’t for Sissies;
- previously was host of “Mirrors of the Soul,” on which she interviewed bestselling authors, women movers and shakers, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things;
- has been sought for interviews on NBC Chicago, Voice of America, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, Better Homes and Gardens, and The Miami Herald, among others;
- makes her home in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
But those aren’t her real qualifications for hosting a show on relationships. Dr. Beth is a proud wife, stepmother of 3, mother-in-law, grandmother of 5, great-grandmother of 1, aunt, great aunt, sister, sister-in-law, cousin, cat and dog mother, friend, coach, and mentor.
That’s good to know. Because she will be talking about the importance of our connections with people to our quality of life and own survival as individuals, and to the continuation of us as a people and even as a civilization. Along the way, she’ll offer tools for evaluating, maintaining, strengthening, and ending relationships of all kinds.
Dr. Beth is a regular columnist for Womens Online Marketing and is known as “The Best Part of Your Life” Doctor.
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- Relationships 101 - Politics with a U.S. Senator, Out of the Closet into the Corner Office May 13, 2013
- Relationships 101 - Building Character in Teens, and In the Shadow of a Worldwide Giant May 6, 2013
- Relationships 101 - Chronic Illness and Relationships, Gaining Sobriety by an Ancient Ritual April 29, 2013
- Relationships 101 - The Invisible Wounds of War and The Healing Power of Forgiveness April 22, 2013
- Relationships 101 - Lessons from Chicago, and Father-Son Bonding by Mountain Climbing April 15, 2013
- Relationship 101 - Global Interconnectedness, and History Is Prophesy April 8, 2013
- Relationships 101 - Teaching Traumatized Children, and Single Dad Adopts Three Abandoned Children April 1, 2013
- Relationships 101 - What Will Happen to the New Colorado Shooter? and “Cold Feet” Before Marriage March 25, 2013
- Relationships 101 - Solutions for Infertility, and Increasing Your Emotional Quotient March 18, 2013
- Relationships 101 - Grieving for Widows, and Going Back to Connect with an Old Love March 11, 2013
- Relationships 101 – Can Catholic Priests Remain Celibate? When a Service Member Deploys March 4, 2013
- Relationships 101 – The Power of Introverts, & Children of Holocaust Survivors February 25, 2013
- Relationships 101 – Recovering from Quadriplegia, and Conversation Is Sexy February 18, 2013
- Relationships 101 – Attachment Styles, and Male Victims of Domestic Violence February 11, 2013
- Relationships 101 – Does He Cheat? and Smarter Dating February 4, 2013
- Relationships 101 – Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers, and Emotionally Abusive, Narcissistic Fathers January 28, 2013
- Relationships 101 – Marrying a Narcissist, and What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur January 21, 2013
- Relationships 101 – Married to a Narcissist, and Incarcerated Youth January 14, 2013
- Relationships 101 – Grip, and Resolving Regrets & Starting the New Year Clean January 7, 2013
- Relationships 101 – The Power of Mentors, and Fathers’ Grief When Their Wives Miscarry December 31, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Helping Bullied Kids, and Spotting Anxieties around the Holidays December 24, 2012
- Relationships 101 - If Your Passion is Politics and Policy, and Avoid Getting Stuck in Negativity and Disillusionment December 17, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Learning Financial Intimacy, What Is at Stake in the 2012 Election November 5, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Emotions and Business, and Eliminating Chronic Pain October 29, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Gaining Control of Your Time, and Solving Contemporary Problems Using QuantumThink October 22, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Carcinogens in Our Environment, and Teen Role Model for Other Teens October 15, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Religion and Politics, and The Rise of Women over Men September 16, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Midwifery in the 1930s, and Men as Victims of Spousal Abuse September 10, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Can Third-Party Movements Survive? & Creating and Owning Your Own Success September 3, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Award-Winning Southern Novelist, and Tips and Tricks from a Stepmom August 26, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Factors Underlying the Recent Massacres, and Honeymoon Aborted by Prison Time August 19, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Forgiveness for Fear After Witnessing a Lynching, Shameless and Sex August 12, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Following Your Dreams, and a Novel about The Arab Spring in Egypt July 30, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Using Astrology to Assess Compatibility, Searching for Your Birth Father July 23, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Bosses’ Biggest Pet Peeves, and Celebrity Breakups July 16, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Hoping against Hope, and Jerry Sandusky’s Abuse of Children July 2, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Update on Twins Research, and Father Loss When He Abuses June 19, 2012
- Relationships 101 - Finding Balance Between Life and Achievement, & Babies Need Mothers June 11, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Empowerment in the Dating Process, Medicine in Crisis June 4, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Unhooking from Powerful, Destructive Emotions, and Healthy Eatin May 28, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Sobriety by a Native American Ceremony, and More on Losing a Best Friend May 21, 2012
- Relationships 101 – From Panic to Peace, Perspective for Moms May 14, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Friendship Interrupted, and Lean and Healthy to 100 April 30, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Surviving the Holocaust as a Child, The Murder of Trayvon Martin April 23, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Ritual Sex Abuse of a Boy, Mad Dad’s President on Leaving a Gang April 9, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Reclaiming a Vibrant Life after Being Left for Dead, and Leaving a Gang April 2, 2012
- Relationships 101 – PTSD in the Line of Duty, and A Method for Making the Impossible March 26, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Neuroscience of Love, Sex, & Intimacy, and Empowering Women to Break the Glass Ceiling March 19, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Parenting Teens and Tweens, and the Process of Change March 12, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Brutalized by a Spouse, Surviving Ritual Child Sex Abuse March 5, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Crazy Things We Do When We Fall in Love, & Protecting Kids from Child Sex Abuse February 20, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Spouse with a Life-Threatening Illness, & Cooking a Special Valentine’s Day Meal February 13, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Adult Attachment Styles and Marital Conflict, and When a Beloved Brother Dies February 6, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Updating Your Job Search Strategy, and Networking Singles January 30, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Integrating an All-White School, & Successful Entrepreneurship January 16, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Someone Else’s Twin, and Explaining Unhappiness January 9, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Body Traders, and Boys Coming of Age January 1, 2012
- Relationships 101 – Triumphing Over One Crisis after the Other, and Meet to Marry December 19, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Life for Poor Folks, and Creating a Calm Home December 12, 2011
- Relationships 101 – "Nancy Grayson Beckerman and Bruce Cameron" December 5, 2011
- Relationships 101 - Developing Mental Toughness, and First Love, First Loss Dr. Beth November 28, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Pedophiles and Sex Traffickers, & A Twinless Twin November 20, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Ambitious Women, and Surviving a Heart Attack and a Stroke November 14, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Job Search Advice for Newly-Minted College Grads, & Communing with Your Unborn Child October 31, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Having a Chronically Ill Sibling, and Overscheduled Kids October 3, 2011
- Relationships 101 – How 9/11 Changed America and Americans, and Conversation with an American Muslim September 26, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Narcissist-Codependent Dance, and Causes of Addictions Revisited September 19, 2011
- Relationships 101 – What Makes a Happy Marriage, & Three Additional Ingredients of a Happy Marriage August 22, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Mistaken for ADHD, and Being Gay and Black August 15, 2011
- Relationships 101 – The Transformative Power of A Faith Crisis, and Transformed by Gratitude August 8, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Holistic& Integrative Medicine, and People’s Relationship with Money August 1, 2011
- Relationships 101 – A Danish Family’s Legacy as Members of the Their Country’s Resistance During World War II, and What is a Master Teacher? July 25, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Why Remarriage Is So Challenging, and a Successfully Remarried Couple July 18, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Being Parents of a Drug Addict, and Older Women Dating Younger Men July 11, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Building Better Marriages, and Understanding Identity Confusion July 4, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Selfishness of Parental Alienation, and Succeeding Against All Odds June 27, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Day Sex Solution, and Children of Incarcerated Parents June 20, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Fathers Are Essential for Children’s Welfare June 13, 2011
- Relationships 101 – What Can Happen to Foster Children, and Being Proactive as a New Stepmother June 6, 2011
- Relationships 101 – 053011 May 30, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Surviving Life in a Cult, and Blessings and Challenges of Intermarriage May 22, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Launching Adult Kids, and “Landing” Mr. Right May 19, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Inconceivable May 9, 2011
- Relationships 101 – 050211 May 2, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Trust in Business, and Facing Retirement April 25, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Boomerang Kids, and When a Child Dies April 18, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Fuel for Addictions, and the Sandwich Generation April 11, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Collaboration, and Forgiveness April 4, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Recovering from Trauma, and Increasing your Happiness Quotient March 28, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Epiphanies, and Apologies March 21, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Prediction of a Murder-Suicide, and Post-Divorce From Hell March 14, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Being Ready for a Relationship, and Final Drive March 7, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Secret Side of Anger, and Great Relationships Begin Within February 28, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Secrets of the Teenage Brain, Travel Log of Newfoundland, Secrets for Finding Love February 21, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Pernicious Addictions, and When an Infant’s Mother Dies February 14, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Ed and Eddie Rinehardt talked about Ed’s 32-year search for his father who abandoned the family when Ed was 9. February 7, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Love for No Reason, and Is Marriage Obsolete? January 31, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Promoting Healthy Marriages, and Job Interview Secrets January 24, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Transformed By a Loved One’s Death, and Grandparents Rearing Grandchildren January 17, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Cults and Spiritual Terrorism, and Becoming an Entrepreneur January 12, 2011
- Relationships 101 – Mother’s Prenatal Stress and Her Child’s Developing Brain, and Tips for Beating the Holiday Blues December 13, 2010
- Relationships 101 – End-of-Life Decisions, and Life in a Military Family December 6, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Building Resilience and What Women Want from Men November 29, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Single by Choice, and Conversations That Rewrite History November 15, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Rage-aholics, and the Ritual of Family Dinners November 8, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Building a Chosen Family, and Choosing to Remain a Family of Two November 1, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Secondary Stress Disorder Among Reporters Who Cover Disasters, and The Unheard Voice of Aging Parents October 25, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Developing a Post-Divorce Co-Parental Team, and Childlessness by Choice October 11, 2010
- Relationships 101 – How to Become a Recovering “Control Freak,” and A Program to Help Abused Men October 4, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Parenting Your Parents, and Adopting a Challenging Child September 20, 2010
- Relationships 101 – 21st Century Relationships, and Parental Alienation September 13, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Effects of Your Internalized Family on Work, and Extricating Yourself from a Borderline Personality Disordered Spouse September 6, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Giving Birth to a “Savior Child,” and Complementarity in Intimate Relationships August 29, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Parenting Grown Kids Who Go Sideways, & Mother/Daughter Business Collaboration August 23, 2010
- Relationships 101 – From Failure to Fearless, and Clergy Killers August 16, 2010
- Relationships 101 – How the Internet Is Restructuring Our Brains and End of Life Ethical Dilemmas August 9, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Marital Arguments and Advocating for a Child with ADHD August 2, 2010
- Relationships 101 – : Why Long Term Marriages End, and Marital Conflict Sparked by Sibling Positions of Spouses July 26, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Toxic and Great Parenting July 16, 2010
- Relationships 101 – A Cultural Critique and Life-Changing Events July 12, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Sex Addiction and Care for Caregivers July 6, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Replacement and Returning Children June 28, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Cures for Loneliness June 20, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Difficult Father’s Days and Family Conflict around Weddings June 7, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Fatherless Adult Children and Women Leading for a Change May 31, 2010
- Relationships 101 – The Circle of Life: Death and Birth May 24, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Coaches for Kids’ Teams and Looking Good at Any Age May 16, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Asking “Should I Divorce?” and the Challenges for Professional Women in Finding a Mate May 10, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Daughters Restructuring Their Relationship and Working with Their Mother May 3, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Mothers and Daughters Part II and Rethinking Conception by an Anonymous Sperm Donor April 26, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Mothers and Daughters Part I On Stage and In Life April 19, 2010
- Relationships 101 – The Promise and Perils of Adoption and Internet Dating April 12, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Claim New Beginnings From Endings April 4, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Extreme Challenges for Parents and Kids March 29, 2010
- Relationships 101 – The Crisis of Black Marriages and Transition Times March 22, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Special Relationships March 15, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Bullies in the Workplace and in Cyberspace March 8, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Breaking Addictions to Media, Pornography and Relationships February 28, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Children Need Both Parents February 21, 2010
- Relationships 101 – Marrying a Sports Champion February 15, 2010
