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#431 Intrusive Love

Love is one of the greatest gifts we have to offer the world and ourselves. Sometimes, though, we start straying into other people’s lanes in intrusive ways. We start behaving in ways that overstep ou...

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#432 The Struggle to Love

So many of us struggle to love, but we don’t recognize it because we are so focused on our spouse’s struggle to love us. We are judging and blaming and accusing them for showing up poorly, when in rea...

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#430 Ten Things I Wish I’d Known in My Previous Marriage

Feeling unseen or unsure of your worth in a struggling marriage can be lonely and multiply the challenges you are experiencing. In this episode I share some lessons that, upon reflection, I think are ...

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#429 Emotionally Mature Conflict

Because we’re all humans who see the world from our unique perspective, it is inevitable that we will experience conflict in all of our relationships. As we increase our emotional maturity we are able...

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#428 Amazing Grace

I believe grace is one of the most Christlike ways that we can be loving. When we better understand Christ’s Grace for us, when we can accept that Grace into our own lives, and when we can then extend...

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#427 Considering Love

Love is an amazing feeling. And it starts with our thoughts. Our ability to show up loving in our relationships begins with having loving thoughts about them. And many of us have gotten into a unfortu...

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#426 Mourn with Those That Mourn

In The Book of Mormon, Alma teaches that those who want to more fully follow Christ need to be willing to ā€˜mourn with those that mourn’. I believe many of us are good at seeing people who are mourning...

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#425 Greatest Hits – Should and Shame

ā€˜Should’ is a sketchy word. Not only does it keep us in a place of limbo, somewhere between doing things and not doing things, it also creates a lot of shame around our lack of focus and momentum. And...

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#424 Greatest Hits – Don’t Should Yourself

In our home we call it the ā€˜sh’ word, because should is a word we like to stay away from. It creates shame and annoyance from unmet expectations and it makes us incredibly judgmental of the person we ...

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#423 Greatest Hits – All You Need Is Love

In this greatest hits episode, I get a little bit personal when I tell you about an experience I had hurting someone's feelings and what I learned from it. Basically, that it's all about love. If I ca...

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#422 Greatest Hits - I Am Enough

Are you enough? With all of your flaws and imperfections, with all of your mistakes and misunderstandings, how can you really be enough? As women, many of us have spent years grappling with this conce...

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#421 Greatest Hits – Boundaries Pt. 3

Until we can understand and honor our own boundaries, we will not be able to create the kind of honest, equal partnerships and connections we desire. Because they are so vital to great relationships, ...

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