Master Your Marriage

This episode explores how trauma creates automatic defensive stances in relationships and how understanding these patterns can lead to healing and stronger connections.

The hosts share a personal travel story about an unexpected, lengthy Uber ride that forced them to engage in conversation instead of work, illustrating how tolerating discomfort can lead to meaningful connection in relationships.

This episode explores how assumptions and judgments in communication can damage relationships, using a real-life couple's therapy session to illustrate common patterns and offering insights from non-violent communication principles.

This episode announces a 50% off discount for the annual Marriage Values Summit, an interactive virtual workshop designed to help couples strengthen their relationships by aligning core values and setting goals for 2026.

This episode explores the science of repair in relationships, focusing on how couples can mend conflicts using research from experts like Dr.

This episode explores how individualism may be harming relationships by prioritizing personal freedom over connection, introducing relationism and brain science to argue that humans are wired for deep emotional bonds.

This episode explores why spouses may lack motivation in relationships, contrasting fear-driven avoidance with vision-driven action to create lasting joy.

The hosts share a personal health crisis after a scuba diving vacation to introduce how neuroplasticity can help rewire the brain for a better marriage.

This episode explores what 'I don't feel safe' really means in relationships and introduces the 'couple bubble' concept as part of a series on building secure, lasting marriages.

This episode explores how secure couples effectively notice and soothe each other's emotional triggers to strengthen their marriage.

This episode discusses National Quitters Day, using Strava's data on fitness goal abandonment as an analogy to explore why relationship goals often fail and how to make them stick.

This episode explores the importance of gratitude in marriage, offering a new ritual to deepen connection and discussing why gratitude is often overlooked in relationships.

This episode explores how married couples can use intentional rituals of connection to prevent complacency and strengthen their relationship, based on the hosts' personal experience.

This episode discusses three essential conversations for couples to redesign their marriage through annual values and goal-setting retreats.

This episode explores how the stories we tell ourselves about our spouse's actions shape our emotions and behaviors, offering strategies from 'Crucial Conversations' to rewrite these narratives for better communication in marriage.

This episode focuses on practical tools for healthy communication in marriage, emphasizing self-reflection to avoid destructive patterns and improve high-stakes conversations.

This episode builds on a previous communication series by providing specific, actionable tools to improve communication in marriage.

This episode features an interview with somatic therapist Leanna Hunt about breaking generational patterns in relationships through nervous system regulation and trauma healing techniques.

This episode features licensed therapists and podcast hosts Tara and EJ Kerwin discussing the unique challenges of blended families and sharing personal insights on navigating these relationships.

This episode explores how cherishing your spouse, rather than just appreciating them, is the key to a joyful marriage by combating entitlement and fostering deep gratitude.

This episode explores how unresolved trauma from the past can negatively impact marriages and relationships, offering insights into healing and changing perspectives for couples.

This episode discusses how to rebuild trust in a marriage after betrayal, emphasizing patience, compassion, and practical steps for healing.

This episode explores how the ability to disagree respectfully serves as a key litmus test for emotional maturity in marriage and relationships.

This episode explores neuroscience-backed habits to maintain passionate, lasting love in marriage, shifting focus from conflict resolution to proactive relationship-building.

This episode explores triangulation, a toxic relationship pattern where two people avoid direct communication by involving a third person, and provides strategies to recognize and break free from it.

This episode explores how defensiveness undermines personal growth and loving relationships, particularly in marriage, by preventing accountability and stunting development.

This episode explores how couples can support each other through grief, featuring a grief coach who shares professional expertise and personal stories.

This episode explores how attempts to control a partner in marriage are often unconscious efforts to manage inner discomfort, focusing on the second losing strategy in relationships.

This episode explores the damaging effects of unbridled self-expression in marriage and offers tools for healthier communication between spouses.

This episode explores stress-reducing conversations as a Gottman Method intervention to help married couples buffer external stress and strengthen their relationship.

This episode explores the nervous system science behind feeling stuck and unable to get out of bed, distinguishing it from laziness or depression, and offers insights for personal and marital wellness.

This episode features an interview with Casey and Meygan Caston, founders of Marriage 365, discussing their personal marriage journey and their mission to help couples transform their relationships through coaching and resources.

This episode explores why people often don't speak up in relationships and friendships, examining the consequences of silence and the origins of this coping mechanism.

This episode explores how couples can transform their relationship by implementing a practical system based on the 'couple bubble' concept to eliminate power struggles and lead each other as equals.

This episode continues a series on secure relationships, reviewing three key signs of a secure functioning partnership and introducing an attachment style quiz to help couples improve their marriage.

This episode explores how couples can unite as parents and partners to reduce conflict, drawing on research from experts like John Gottman to address the common decline in relationship satisfaction after having children.

This episode discusses the importance of secure functioning relationships, particularly in marriage, as a foundation for happiness, health, and safety in a chaotic world.

This episode explores how accepting your partner's influence can prevent power struggles and strengthen marriages through teamwork and respect.

This episode explores a fresh perspective on marriage growth for the new year, inspired by social media trends questioning traditional New Year's resolutions.

This episode explores why empathy often disappears in marriage through two contrasting client stories about struggling to give and receive empathy from spouses.

This episode provides two conflict blueprints for resolving parenting mismatches to strengthen marriages and benefit children.

This episode explores how parenting disagreements are a major source of conflict in marriages with young children, potentially harming relationships and kids' emotional development.

This episode explores how holding onto resentment versus choosing forgiveness impacts marriages, focusing on healing from past hurts to move forward in relationships.

This episode explores how contempt acts as a destructive force in marriages, damaging intimacy and connection, and discusses the importance of addressing relationship issues early.

This episode provides practical tools to recognize and address dysregulation in marriage by identifying warning signs of hyper or hypo arousal and offering specific strategies to respond effectively.

This episode explores how understanding the 'window of tolerance' concept can help couples manage stress and improve communication during difficult conversations in their marriage.

The hosts discuss how decluttering physical spaces inspired them to address toxic beliefs in marriage as they prepare for 2026.

This episode builds on previous communication steps, focusing on speaking wisely from a grounded self to foster collaboration in marriage, using a listener's question to demonstrate an eight-step model.

This episode focuses on improving communication in marriage by addressing the challenges of listening and defensiveness, building on previous episodes that covered preparing for tough conversations and speaking effectively.

This episode explores how small, daily improvements of 1% can transform a marriage, debunking the myth that big gestures are needed.

This episode discusses the losing strategy of appeasement in marriage, explaining why people-pleasing can harm relationships and offering better alternatives.

This episode explores the fourth losing strategy that couples often use when their relationship isn't fulfilling, aiming to help listeners recognize patterns and build a choice-based marriage.

This episode discusses the losing strategy of needing to be right in relationships and how it affects connection.

This episode introduces a series on effective communication in marriage, focusing on how to have difficult conversations without fear.

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An interview with an integrative oncologist discussing perimenopause, hormones, and breast cancer risk.

A marriage advice podcast discussing the impact of pornography on relationships and how to overcome it.

This episode discusses how unexpressed needs lead to resentment in marriage and offers a better way to communicate them.

This episode offers strategies for initiating difficult conversations in marriage without triggering defensiveness, aiming to break silence and improve communication.