Dec 29, 2025
Vulnerability and validation work together in our relationships to create intimacy and connection. When both people in a partnership are willing to step into both, we can create something magical. When one in the partnership is unwilling or unable to engage in either, it definitely creates a problem, but we can learn to...
Dec 22, 2025
Sometimes we get these expectations around the holidays, and we think that this should be such a magical time and that no one should get grumpy or annoyed. We might believe we should feel the joy and peace of Christmas in abundance and all the regular challenges of life should just melt away under the warmth of the...
Dec 15, 2025
Many of us grew up hearing about the bucket analogy, an we were taught to believe that we could fill other people’s buckets by complimenting them or telling them great things about themselves. In this podcast I propose that we can’t fill anyone else’s bucket. That filling our bucket is a job that only we can do,...
Dec 8, 2025
Creating a partnership in our marriages was the goal when we got married, and yet many of us over the years, end up retreating into a paper marriage, a place where we live in the same space, but we do so as roommates, people who aren’t connected. The goal of marriage isn’t just to share a house and a washing...
Dec 1, 2025
When Christ informed his disciples that one of them would betray them, their response was, ‘Is it I, Lord?’ When I’m confronted with something that I did wrong or an accusation, most often my immediate response is, ‘What are you talking about? I didn’t mess that up! How could you accuse me of such a...