Deepening Your Relationship
Resources
Recommended Books
- Turn Stress Into Bliss by Michael Lee (new 2025 edition)
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, PhD
- Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson
- The Four Noble Truths of Love by Susan Piver
- The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
- Mindful Relationships by B Grace Bullock
Useful Links
- Michael's YouTube Channel - here you will find classes, short talks, guided meditation and other useful practice and awareness tools. Please subscribe while you are there.
- Phoenix Rising Sound Cloud - more recorded classes from PRYT faculty and practitioners
- Michael's website - Flourishing with Michael Lee
- Sarah's website - Your Compass.com
- Phoenix Rising Website
Slide Presentation on Couples from the Course
THE FOUR HORSEMEN
The infographic below highlights some of Dr. John Gottman’s most notable research findings on marriage and couple relationships.

Private Individual or Couples Yoga Therapy with Michael
Book four private sessions online with Michael over 3 months, either for yourself or for both of you together, to solidify your relationship commitment with effective life action. This discounted package is available to attendees of the "Deepening Your Relationship" program and involves a 3-month commitment with sessions, weekly check-ins, resource recommendations, and action planning. It's a great way to enhance your own of life and your shared life together.
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Love
by Katie Kamara
The greatest gift you will ever offer someone is far more precious than anything wrapped in ribbon or bought with wealth. It’s the silent permission you give them to feel safe in their own skin, to breathe without fear, and to embrace their true essence without the need to shrink or apologize. It’s the quiet, unspoken acknowledgment that they are worthy, not because of what they do, but because of who they are, in all their imperfect, raw humanity.
To gift someone the feeling of being enough is to hold up a mirror not to what they lack but to the brilliance they already possess. It is to strip away the layers of doubt and insecurity that the world has cast upon them, allowing them to see themselves clearly for the first time, radiant and whole. They no longer need to strive or perform in your presence, for you have created a space where their soul can rest, where they are loved for simply being.
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When you offer this gift, you become the light in their darkest corners, the warmth in their coldest doubts. You become the one who sees them, truly sees them, beyond the masks they wear for the world. And in your seeing, they begin to believe in themselves again, trust in their own worthiness, and know that they don’t have to earn love—they already deserve it.
This is the gift that changes everything. It is the gift of belonging, of being seen and held without judgment, of being allowed to take up space in the world as they are. In giving this gift, you are telling them, with every action and word, that they are whole, worthy, and enough. And that is a gift that no one can take away.