Your relationship isn't broken. It's just been running on autopilot for a while, and autopilot is nobody's idea of a love story.

This guide gives you five things you can do this week, backed by thirty years of working with real couples and the neuroscience of how connection actually works. None of them take more than twenty minutes. All of them work faster than you'd expect.

Five practices. Five days. One surprisingly quick shift.

Daily greetings that neurologically reconnect you after time apart.

Intentional play that opens the relationship back up.

Loving check-ins that keep you tethered to each other through the day.

Eye contact that wires your nervous systems back together.

And a gratitude practice that retrains your brain to see everything your partner is already doing right.

Simple, specific, and grounded in how your brain actually works.

Download it, try all five this week, and see what happens.

I think you'll surprise each other.

I'm Carolyn Sharp, a therapist, coach, author, and TEDx speaker who has spent thirty years in the room with couples doing the hardest and most rewarding work of their lives.

I wrote Fire It Up because I believe most of us are capable of far more connection than we're currently experiencing, and I created this guide because I wanted to give you something you could use right now, today, without waiting for the perfect moment or the right therapist or a weekend away.

Five practices, less than twenty minutes a day, and you'll feel the difference by the weekend. I'd put money on it.