Your Spouse Is Not Responsible for Your Happiness (Part II) - Ep. 099 (Relational Health Series)

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Our spouse is not a one-stop shop to meet all of our needs, nor is our spouse equipped to carry the weight of our extensive expectations for happiness. Listen in as we discuss a better model for marriage than that of holding our spouse hostage for our emotional state (it includes looking to Jesus for our happiness and taking responsibility for ourselves)!

Feel free to share this episode with friends and family, and leave a rating and review if you’ve found this episode helpful! Thanks to John Tibbs for the music each week, to Evan Duszynski for editing, and to YOU for listening in.

Your Spouse Is Not Responsible for Your Happiness (Part I) - Ep. 098 (Relational Health Series)

Our spouse is not a one-stop shop to meet all of our needs, nor is our spouse equipped to carry the weight of our extensive expectations for happiness. Listen in to learn more about how we arrived at such unrealistic expectations in the first place, and the effect it’s having on Christian marriages. And be sure to stay tuned for Part II next week, where we’ll discuss a better model for marriage than that of holding our spouse hostage for our emotional state (come on, it will be fun)!

Feel free to share this episode with friends and family, and leave a rating and review if you’ve found this information helpful! Thanks to John Tibbs for the music each week, to Evan Duszynski for editing, and to YOU for listening in.

Mentioned in this Episode:

  • Esther Perel’s State of Affairs

  • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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

If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say...

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.

Aiming Toward a Better Normal - Ep. 096 (COVID-19 Series)

Aiming Toward a Better Normal
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In our sixth and final episode of this series, we discuss how to make decisions, establish healthy routines, and form better habits as we aim toward a better normal - while addressing 3 of our core existential desires as we do.

Mentioned in this Episode:

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.

How to Deal With Wedding Worries - Ep. 095 (COVID-19 Series)

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Today’s question comes from a listener in Indiana who wonders about how to help her small group of engaged women walk through the uncertainty they’re facing as their wedding days approach.

If you’d like to sign up for WedWell and do premarital coaching online with Kensi, just visit bravemarriage.com/wedwell or email kensi@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.