All Episodes

Emotional Abuse: When People Make You Irrelevant

A Healthy Fear of God

Dealing with your Narcissistic Adult Children

Take a Soft Communication Approach in All Your Relationships: Toxic, Dysfunctional, and Healthy

Why I Was an Angry Mom and What I Know Now That Would Have Changed It

Unfinished Relationship Business

How to Get Difficult People to Change

Learned Helplessness

Dos and Dont's for People in Difficult Relationships

When to Move Closer to the Relationship Problem

Dealing with Prickly People

Does Forgiveness Mean Letting Go of Consequences?

My Life as a Quadriplegic Practical Lessons for Developing Resilience

Don't Complain, Blame or Explain

Toxic Relationships Vs. Healthy Relationships: Ruptures and Repairs

Caregiver Burnout

Interview: Hope and Help for Parents of Struggling Teens: An Interview with Brandon Joffe, Founder of Inspired Resolutions Counseling

Boundaries with Marijuana Smokers: Is It Okay or Not Okay With You?

Dealing with Slobs

Is the Difficult Person Good or Bad?

Interview: CoupleTalk: Cracking the Code to an Amazing Relationship

Is the Bible All You Need for Your Life and Relationships?

Boundary or Wall?

Emotional Intelligence: Understanding Primary and Secondary Emotions

Interview: My Narcissistic Abusive Spouse Changed--Can Yours?

When Your Family Won't Talk

Four Types of Controllers

Moving Forward After Difficult Life Changes and Losses: Practical Steps to Get You Out of a Rut

When to Put Your Children Before Your Spouse

Asking for Help

How Not to Be Resentful

Dysfunctional Families: Relationship Problems Are Not Fifty-Fifty

Do You Admit Wrongdoing or Do You Rationalize Your Actions?

Focus on Living Your Life in Spite of Your Dysfunctional Relationships

Manipulative Set Ups

What Is Causing the Epidemic of Parental Estrangement?

How to Protect and Support Children When Divorcing an Abuser

Do You Have to Resolve the Past to Move Forward in a Dysfunctional Relationship?

Manipulative Promises

How to Help a Family Member with Mental Illness

Love Should Never Do Harm and How the Church Gets It Wrong: An Interview With an Abuse Survivor

Dysfunctional Families: How to Manage Anxiety Over Others' Choices

Getting Mentally Ill People to Medicate

The Stigma of Mental Illness in the Church

Interview: Understanding the Maze of Confusion in Your Emotionally Abusive Relationship

Don't Go to Christian Marriage Conferences or Read Christian Marriage Books in a Toxic Marriage

Evaluate, Not Invalidate

Soul Ties: What Are They? Are They Biblical?

Let the Sun Go Down on Your Wrath

Does God Want You to Suffer?

Is It Ok to Want a Good Life as a Christian

Are Generational Curses Causing the Problems in Your Toxic Relationships?

How to Get Unstuck in Your Life and Toxic Relationships

How to Identify a Difficult Person

People with Distorted Perceptions

Manipulative Undermining

Living Congruently in Your Relationships

Scriptural Truth: Does God Break Those Who Love Him?

Do Something Different to Change the Outcome

Dysfunctional Families: When You Don't Like Your Child's Partner

Dysfunctional Family: When Your Wife Doesn't Like Your Family

Abusive Relationship: Is Power Over You an Illusion?

Holiday Triggers

Self Care for the Holidays

Healing from Sexual Betrayal: Navigating the Six Stages of Grief

Toxic Relationships: Let Go or Be Dragged

Interview: The Girl Who Believed Abuse Was Normal Until It Wasn't

Shame-Based People

Caregiver Support: Are You a Healthy or a Codependent Caregiver for Your Family Member?

Holiday Expectations

Sex in Your Dysfunctional, Painful, Toxic Marriage

Christian Codependency: Are You Enmeshed?

Trying to Convince People of Your Truth

The Last Straw in the Relationship

Should You Tell Your Church Relationship Problems?

Manipulation by Creating Fear

Dysfunctional Families: Teach Your Children to Detach

Toxic Relationships: When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them

I Divorced My Sex Addicted Gay Husband: An Interview with Heather Bennett Nuṅoz

Reciprocal Relationships

Setting Boundaries: When Is It Time to End a Friendship?

Willing to Lose the Relationship to Win It Back

Setting Boundaries: When You Say Yes, You Say No to Yourself

Stop Enabling: Let Them Fail

Healing Your Father Wounds

Faith Vs. Magical Thinking

Interview: Hope for Your Neurodiverse Marriage: Practical Skills to Change Your Interactions

Christian Recovery: Powerlessness Is Not an Excuse to Drink - Or Do Anything Else

Spiritualizing Hurts Hurting People

Abusive Relationships: Is Emotional Neglect Abuse?

Interview: Answers to the Hard Questions on How to Pray for Your Wounded Child

Toxic Relationships: Play the Movie Forward

Abusive Relationships: Are You Trauma Bonded?

Setting Boundaries: From Chaos to Clarity

Detaching from Accusations

What Not to Say to Depressed or Anxious People

Attachment Theory: What Is Secure Attachment?

Refusing to Submit to Authority

Should You Explain Your Boundary?

Low Contact Vs No Contact

Owning the Problem

Change Dysfunctional Family Rules to Healthy Rules

How to Respond to Gaslighting

Ask Yourself: "Why Am I Talking?"

When You Disagree With How Your Grandchild Is Parented

Dysfunctional Relationships: Change-Back Moves When You Set Boundaries

Codependent Slips

Toxic Relationships: What Is DARVO?

Navigating Old Age Estranged from Your Children

Relationship Safety Ultimately Comes Down to You

I Lost My Daughter to Cancer: What to Say and What Not to Say to Grieving Loved Ones

How to Stop Manipulating People

Why Do You Manipulate People?

What Is the Goal of Conflict Resolution?

Interview: I Forgave the Unforgivable

Zero Tolerance for Boundary Violations

Is It Okay to Want a Good Life as a Christian?

Don't JADE: Justify, Argue, Defend or Explain

Interview: How to Restore Your Sense of Self in a Neurodiverse Marriage

The Crazy Cycle of Abusive Relationships

Why Therapists Should Not Do Couples Therapy with an Abuser and the Victim Together

Christian Codependency: When It's You or Me

Interview: How You Lose Your Self in a Neurodiverse Marriage

Therapy Goals for the Abuser

Change Your Thoughts to Change Your Life

Setting Boundaries: Know the Difference Between a Burden and a Load

Interview: How I Found Life While Grieving the Loss of My Husband