Boundaries Within Your Relationship - Ep. 123 (Boundaries Series)

Have you ever created or expressed boundaries in your marriage? If not, learning how to create and set boundaries within your relationship may be the key to keeping it healthy. On today’s episode, we discuss setting boundaries around time, space, and decision-making. Here are the questions posed throughout the episode to discuss within your relationship:

Time: How do you each prefer to spend your time? Are you and your spouse making it a priority to get the time and space you need to recharge and refuel so that you can be your best for those around you? If not, how can you work together to create some boundaries around your time that lead to mutual happiness in your marriage? 

Space: How much space do you desire to have in the morning? After work? After a full day with the kids? During conflict? What’s a reasonable boundary you two could set in each of these areas, given your current stage and season of life?

Decision-Making: To what degree do you listen to and consider your spouse in the decision-making process? To what degree do you assert your needs, wants, and desires in the decision-making process? What is your partner’s perspective? How can you each set a boundary that better includes the both of you in the decision-making process?

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Thanks to John Tibbs for the amazing music each week, Evan Duszynski for podcast editing, & you listener, for tuning each week to make your marriage even better. May God be glorified in you and through your marriage.

How to Mitigate Misunderstandings - Ep. 112 (Q+A Series)

How do we mitigate misunderstandings? Listen in for a few tips, and thanks to you listener, for posing the question!

To work with Kensi, visit bravemarriage.com.

Thanks to:

• John Tibbs for the amazing music each week.

• Evan Duszynski for producing and editing.

• You, the listener, for tuning each week in service of making your marriage better. May God be glorified in you and through your marriage.

Staying Close through Career Change and Transition - Ep. 111 (Q+A Series)

Today’s question comes from a listener who, with her husband, has decided to go to work for herself instead of someone else. The listener wonders how to stay close and connected through all the change, transition, and uncertainty that a mutually-agreed upon decision like this can bring.

To work with Kensi, visit bravemarriage.com.

Thanks to:

• John Tibbs for the amazing music each week.

• Evan Duszynski for producing and editing.

• You, the listener, for tuning each week in service of making your marriage better. May God be glorified in you and through your marriage.

If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say - Ep. 097 (Relational Health Series)

This month, we’re covering 4 concepts that I often address in my practice. Today’s episode is all about eliminating criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and negativity from your marriage relationship and home environment by practicing self-control.

If you enjoyed this episode, please rate, review, and share this podcast! To work with Kensi, visit bravemarriage.com.

Scripture Verses:

“Do all things without grumbling or disputing…” -Philippians 2:14

“For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.” -Romans 7:15-18

“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” -Colossians 3:12-14

“Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.” -Colossians 4:6

Thanks to:

• John Tibbs for the amazing music each week.

• Evan Duszynski for producing and editing.

• You, the listener, for tuning each week in to make your marriage better.

Boundaries: The Best Gift to Give Your Family This Christmas - Ep. 077 (Holiday Series)

Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries. The best gift to give yourself, your marriage, and your family this Christmas.

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Thanks to: John Tibbs for the amazing music each week; Evan Duszynski for producing, editing, and being the incredible husband that you are; and you, the listener, for tuning each week in service of making your marriage better - may God be glorified through you and through your marriage.