All Episodes

340. You Tried to Talk… They Shut It Down. Now What?

339. What Do You Do When You Don't Like Your Friends Family?

338. The Five-Step Framework for Actually Solving Your Problems

337. Feeling Like No One Understands You? Here’s Why You’re Stuck

336. Why Taking Responsibility Is the Key to Emotional Growth

335. If Peace Requires silence, It's Poison, not Health.

334. Boundaries and Empathy: How to Care Without Losing Yourself

333. Growth Often Feels Like Loss First

332. The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Being “Calm”

331. Emotional Maturity: The Skill No One Taught You

330. How Do We Know if We Had a Good Conversation?

329. Why Some People Feel Attacked by Accountability

328. Big Emotions Happen. They Don't Excuse Bad Behavior

327. Wishing You a Happy Holiday Season.

326. Do You Love Someone Who is Toxic or Do You Just not Like Them?

325. The Counterintuitive Benefit of Reading Books You Don't Like or Agree With

324. Celebrate Failure. Utilize These Five Steps to Improve Your Life

323. How Do Navigate Family Stress at the Holidays?

322. How Much Cancel Culture Lives in All of Us?

321. Your Words Build Your Life. For Better or Worse.

320. The Truth About Change: It Doesn’t Build Character—It Reveals It

319. What Version of You Does Your Family Get?

318. What Do You Do When Your Parents Aren't Healthy?

317: How Do We Talk To Ourselves When It Isn't Working?

316. Want Real Conversations Again? Try the Rule of Three

314. Consumer Church is Killing Us

313. It's not about stirring the pot

312. Slow Down. Breathe. Enjoy Today. Tomorrow isn't Promised

311. What Failure Teaches Us (If We’re Listening)

310. Enough Already: Why Your Value Isn’t Earned—It’s Your Birthright

309. We Think We Want Money, What if We Really Want Meaning?

308. The Art of Doing Less: Savoring Every Moment This Summer

307. Want to Raise Great Kids? Start with These 3 Human Needs

306. The Surprising Reason You’re Still Stuck (And How to Break Free)

305. 8 Surprising Benefits of Conflict in Relationships (Yes, Really!)

304. Men Grieving; Cognitive Distortions and Navigating Our Messy World

303. What does Good Empathy Look Like?

302. The Controversial Truth that Empathy Alone Is Not Enough

301. Men, Grief, and Growth: Navigating Loss with Strength and Support

300. Emotionally Healthy People Know Why Conflict Can Bring You Closer, Not Push You Apart

299. Use Your Voice to Develop Important Character Skills

298. Mastering Anger: How Emotionally Healthy People Stay in Control

297. Transform Your Life by Following Four Simple Rules

296. Healthy People Don't Vilify Those They Disagree With

295. Face Everything! Be Free and Wild

294. You Can Still Achieve Your Goals This Year

293. Final Episode of 2024

292. When Counselors Feel Overwhelmed: A Human Perspective

291. Say No, Protect Your Greatest Power in Parenting

290. Relationship Wins. You Are a Great Parent. Build The Relationship

289. Maybe Bridezilla's Have Something To Teach Us

288. Counseling is More than Talking

287. Emotionally Healthy People Embrace Examination of Their Words

286. Let's Have Better and More Productive Conversations About Book Banning

285. What Kind of Tales Do You Tell Yourself?

284. Sexual Assault and the Church. Interview with Cindy Clemishire

283. In Difficult Times Do These Two Things to Experience Happiness

282. Living in a Time of Grief

281. Why We Need To Let Our Kids Fail

280. Two Keys to Living a Meaningful Life

279. Inside Out 2: A Good Start with a Glaring Problem

278. 10 Ways to Enhance Communication and Deepen Intimacy

277. Utilize these four questions to make difficult decisions.

276. Robert Morris Did Not Have an Affair, He Assaulted a Little Girl

275. People with Peace Filled Lives Know These Two Truths

274. New Research on Screens and Our Emotional Intelligence

273 You won't be happier later if you're not happy now.

272. Build Your Relationship, Don't Burn it Down

271. How do we love our toxic parents and be healthy?

270.Paddle from Both Sides to Spur Growth in Your Life

269. What Good is our Faith?

268. Is Avoiding Conflict Conversations Hurting Your Quality of Life?

267. Constructs Create Our Understanding of the World

266. How to Have the Most Difficult Conversation with Our Children

265. Bad Therapy Book Review Podcast: A book I wanted to love but was left mostly frustrated with

264. Financial Tips to Manage the Difficulties of Life

263. Why I Think it's Incredibly Important to Talk about Men's Mental Health; Responding to an Email

262. Grieving with a Friend: Why It's Important to Show Up

261. Are there hidden dangers to Accommodation Culture?

260. One of the Most Powerful Questions We Can Ask Ourselves is Also the Most Freeing.

259.Can we accept our feelings and love to challenge them at the same time?

258. Embrace this truth to propel yourself onward to a better life

257. What is the responsibility of spouses in men's mental health?

256.Society's Impact on the Mental Health of Men

255. Breaking Barriers: Navigating Men's Mental Health (Part 2)

254. Let's have a Candid Conversation About Men's Mental Health

253. Let's Examine Ourselves to Create a Better Society.

252. "Embracing Every Moment: A Guide to Making the Most of the Days Ahead"

251. Use this Often Forgotten Ingredient to Propel Yourself Toward Change

250. Is Regret the Most Transformative Tool We Have?

249. Boundaries Build Over Time

248. Things Healthy Couples Do (Part 2)

247. Things Healthy Couples Do (part 1)

246. We will Benefit from Creating a Rhythm of Thankfulness

245. Hey Joe, What do you mean when you say...?

244. What are Boundaries? How do they Help Us?

243. The Power of a Simple Phrase to Handle Most Parenting and Relationship Situations.

242. You are the organizational leader of your life

241. Accepting Cognitive Dissonance Will Improve Your Life

240. Beliefs over Emotions: A Journey Beyond Feelings"

239. "Embrace the Discontent: Finding Peace in Not Loving What You Do"

238. Just Win the Next Few Moments

237. Myths and Living Satisfying Lives

236. Obligation, Freedom, Responsibility, and Comfort.

235. Did It not Work or Do We need to Be Willing to Fail Some More

Welcome to Summer Break

234. Effective & Essential Problem Solving Skills

233. Tips for Practicing Identity Parenting with Your Children

232. What You Can Do When You Feel Worn Out

231.The Impact of Covid-19 Causes Concerning Behaviors

230. 7 Steps to Make Stress Your Best Friend

229. Manage Expectations for More Peace

228. Expectations and Acceptance, A Two-sided Coin for Health

227. All Change Is A Process or I want to change but I can't

226. Won't I spoil my kids if I do that?

225. Indentifying with something more than our biggest hurts.

224. Building Relationships

223. There is value in engaging those with whom we disagree.

222. Maybe our kid's behaviors are a mirror for us for self examination

221. How much satisfaction are you getting out of the relationships that have the most of your time?

220. Let's Talk About Sex (Part 3)

219. Let's talk about Sex (Part 2). What Role do Women's Actions Play?

218. Let's Talk About Sex

217. That makes me uncomfortable.

216. When you don't like your kids choices.

215. Seven Questions to Propel You into the New Year

214. Kids and Secret Rebellion

213. Kids and Technology from a Kid's Perspective

212.Virtue Signaling and Cancel Culture Suck...Redemption is a way better approach

211. Year end evaluation; it's not as bad as it sounds

210. Holiday Season is here. Are there physical benefits available?

209. How should we handle rejection?

208. Compromise can be a great tool to build your relationship

207. How do we teach our kids to handle peer pressure?

206. Technology and our kids

205. Raising Emotionally Secure Kids

204. Build healthy couples habits to have a healthy relationship

203. Five Friends and Your Future

202. Students, Fidgeting and Learning. Erica's First Episode!

Break Time. Episodes will resume September 14th

201. Four Filters to use for Better Communication.

200. Dialogues over Monologues

199. What do we do when goals change?

198. Mindshift

197. Choosing our emotions is a great way to a better life

196. Rhythms, Villians, and Heroes

195. Rhythms build your life.

194. You Can Control Your Emotions

193. Let's Talk About Being More Selfish

192. Actions Matching Words and Children

191. Affirmation and Help

190. What can I learn from this?

189. Severity of Consequences, won't get us there. This will

188. Victims, Vacuums, and the Valiant

187. What are they feeling?

186. Consider these eight ways to build emotional strength.

185. What could you change?

184. Some things that emotionally strong people do

183. What happens when you can't find the why?

182. How much of your life does that cost?

181. Is Chasing Happiness Making You Less Happy?

180. Why? How one word can help us be healthier (part 1)

179. Change Your Thinking Change Your Life (part 4)

178. Change your thinking, Change your life (part 3)

177. Change your thinking, change your life (part 2)

176. Defense Mechanisms, Thinking and Healthy Living (part 1)

175. How do we talk to our kids about school shootings?

174. Let's talk about kids and rules. Parenting is hard.

173. Fail at something you love, or something you hate. It is your choice.

172. Safety is overrated; Danger is underrated

172. The Last Seven Weeks

171. Maybe it's not a cry for attention but connection

170. Daughters and Sons. Train them both.

169. Let me introduce you to your best friend

168. Incomplete. Why we need more than motivation.

167. Why is change so hard?

166. Kids and Technology. How do we navigate that?

165. Let's talk about Discouragement and Change

164. What is the difference between Kind and Nice? Why does it Matter?

163. Jesus isn't in Your Political Party and 7 Tips for a Better School Year

162. Spending time with your kids is easier than you might think

161. Setting personal intentions out of realistic expectations

160. Simone Biles, Mental Health and Our Obsession with Sports

159. Three coping mechanisms

158. Let's Talk About Defense Mechanisms

157. Teaching and living Emotional Intelligence

156. Resist. Resist the tempation to do something just because you have to do something

155. What is the difference between being a victim and being the victim?

154. Sexual Assault and Minors

153. We need to talk about sexual abuse amongst minors

152. Forgiveness, New Chapters and Abuse

151. Growth, Risk and Generosity

150. Don't tell your life by one chapter (Part 2)

149. LIfe isn't told by one chapter: Live a missable life

148. Have a happier life by picking fewer battles.

147. Personal Responsibility and Change

146. Don't turn your problems into monsters

145. Avoid CRID by keeping people you disagree with in your life

144. Our Addiction To Anger Is Killing Us (Part 2)

143. Our Addiction To Outrage And Anger Is Killing Us, Not Helping (part 1)

142. Price, Cost, Value

141. Are boundaries mean?

140. Overcoming Two Obstacles To Getting Things Done

139. Before, During and After

138. Four steps to achieving life long growth

137. Parenting During Conflict. What Is Unity?

136. Communicating When We Disagree

135. Three Tools For Change And Growth

134. First Things First: Change Starts In Honesty

133. Play the cards in front of you

132. What Are You Committed To?

131. Own Your Life. Living Intentionally.

130. Intentionally Managing Our Relationships

129. The Power Of The Circle And The Square

128. Thankfulness As A Way Of Life

127. Checking For Negative Overload and Finding the Antidote

126. Your Most Powerful Tool To Facilitate Change

125. Mental Models; How We Find Our Place In This World

124. Examine Why You Do What You Do To Change What You Get

123. Make A Small Shift In Your Thinking To Improve Your Stress Response

122. Who Do You Want To Be When Your Emotions Are Strong?

121. We Can Facilitate Healing Together

120. You Can Be A Great Communicator

119: Cuties: Child Exploitation Or Child Advocacy?

118. One Skill Necessary To Help You Get From Here To There

117. You Are Not An Imposter

116. Listener Emails and a Short Discussion on Trauma

115. Values over Power And Fear

114. Teach Your Kids an Emotional Vocabulary

113: Let's Discuss Spanking; An Interview With Dr. Catherine Mueller Bell

112. The Gift of Thinking About Outcomes

111. Communication that heals

110. The power of admitting. Engage Change

109. You Can Do It. Looking To The Second Half Of This Year.

108. Dealing with Story Failure Creates in a Man's Head

107. Growing up as a black female in America

106. Growing up as a Black Man in America (part 2)

105. Growing up as a black man in America

104. What happens when fear becomes a Virtue? How do we discuss George Floyd

103. Grief. Dealing With The Loss Of Loved Ones

102. Racism And How We Have (or don't) Difficult Conversations

101. Ten Things We Can Do To Have Better Conversations

100. If It Saves One Life, It Is Worth It. What If It Costs A Life?

99. Just Mercy, Engaging conflict fueled communication

98. Can you pass the eyeball test?

97. Responding over Reacting; Live your values

96. Growing by learning from the inside out

95. Facing death, pandemic and fear; Differentiating between our emotions and behavior

94. Covid 19 , Grace, Empathy And Dealing With Hard Emotions

93. Raising A Child With Brittle Bone Disease

92. Let's Talk About Angry People

91. Parenting Gone Wild

90. Dealing With Anxiety In Your Life

89. Hold things in tension to be healthy, and happy

88. Change Your Brain To Be Happy

87. Kobe, Grief And Finding Meaning

86. Why we try to control others and how it is ruining our friendships

85. Five questions to accomplish what you want in 2020

84. Stop Telling Your Kids This One Thing

83. You Need Time To Make Your Goals Work

82. How do we handle the different reactions to the holiday season.

81. Dealing With Family Stress during the Holidays

80. Set Yourself Up For A Great 2020

79. Be More Trustworthy By Not Getting Along With Everyone

78. You should practice your arguments and fights

77. What is emotional reasoning and how do we work around it?

No Episodes For October

76. Cognitive Distortions, our Kids and Anxiety

75. What happens when two strangers meet in a grocery store?

74. Promposals, The Eneagram and Toxic Relationships

73. Suicide Awareness: Maybe Your Teen is Depressed

72. My vacation isn't relaxing and my mom thinks I need meaning

71. Andrew Luck And Our Values

70. Do The Work

69. Dealing with the August Blues

68. Where passion and problem solving cross paths

67. The Beautiful Power Of Habits

66. Foundations for Great Relationships

65. What happens when you don't get along with your family?

64. How do you decide if you made a good decision?

63. You Don't Have To Like Everyone

62. Tolerate distress: One of the biggest keys to a healthy relationship

61. What's the story in your head doing to you?

60. 3 Questions To Ask Your Spouse Today that will Improve Your Relationship

59. What can we learn from an NFL Quaterback about life and parenting?

58. How working at a mental hospital made me a better parent

57. Processing your hurt so you can heal

56. What Kind Of Story Are You Telling

55: You need more than self-love

54. It's time to end the shame

53. Building good habits

52. How does divorce effect adults who were children of divorce

51. Dealing with Grief.

Episode 50. What to do when you feel stuck? Three states of being to help you improve your life

Episode 49: Do you want to be right or reconciled?

Episode 48: From the 5K to the Couch

Episode 47: Can we change our feelings?

Episode 46: Parenting to Principles not Rules

Episode 45: Youth Sports and Families

Episode 44: Mind Games (the sequel)

Episode 43: Find freedom by avoiding power games

Episode 42: Parenting, Regret and Anger

Episode 41: Connected Communication

Episode 40: Dealing with Manipulation

Episode 39: Courage

Episode 38: The Power of Burning Stories

Episode 37: Set yourself up for success in 2019.

Episode 36: What's your theme going to be for the year?

Episode 35: Relational Equity and Thoughts for Divorced Parents

Episode 34. Stratagies to be a better listener during the holidays and all year

Episode 33. Dealing with the Holidays

No Episode this week or next.

Episode 32: Assumptions

Episode 31: Failure

Episode 30: Five words to help you get the right things done

Episode 29: Stop Being So Easily Offended

Episode 28: Use Your Words to Build or Tear Down

Episode 27: From whence comes our self view?

Episode 26: Build a habit of conflict?

Episode 25: Vigorous Debates, Free Speech and Growth

Episode 24: Extreme Ownership and Empathy

Episode 23: Be Thankful: Stop Complaining.

Episode 22: Living in Your Best Mind

Episode 21: Principles to Live

Episode 20. Why can't I ever tell people no?

No Episode this week.

Episode 19. Overcoming Fear

Episode 18: How to Protect all of Your Relationships

Episode 17. What Are You Doing with the Next Six?

Episode 16. What Happens When You Use Universals?

Episode 15: Stop Chasing Happiness

Episode 14. The Mirror Method. Use this tool to improve all of your communication

Episode 13. The Four Emotional Hazards

Episode 12. Suicide

Episode 11. How do you enter back into change?

Episode 10. Love Stories, Life Meaning and Promised Insurance Rant

Episode 09. How to Stop Fighting and Start Communicating

Episode 08. The Three D's

Episode 7. What Drives Your Bus?

Episode 06. What's More Dangerous Than Screen Time for Your Kids?

Ep. 05. Propel Yourself into the Change Process

Ep. 04 When You Screw Up as a Parent

Ep. 3. Managing Expectations

Episode 2. I want to Change, so How do I do it?

Episode 01. Emotional Security: What is it?