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Do you love your partner and want to stay married, but you know it could be better? Do you find yourself feeling annoyed and irritated? Is your communication and intimacy dwindling? Are you just too tired and exhausted to work on your relationship anymore? If so, you need an easier way to stop the frustration and exhaustion. It's possible to create more joy and connection in your marriage again, but it starts with you. It starts with you seeing your own worth and value. When you learn to giv ...
It can be scary to expose your true self and feelings to another person - especially when you want that person to like you - forever! So it's easy to avoid vulnerability in our most intimate relationships. However, if you want a connected, intimate marriage, it's important to build a culture of vulnerability in your home. In this episode, you'll le…
You can have goals in life - from simple things you’d like to accomplish around the house to big bodacious dreams! But if you don’t plan the path to your goals, they’ll take longer than they need to or they’ll never get out of your head and become a reality. I want you to achieve your goals. I want your heart's desires to be realized! That’s why to…
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Ep 77: Heal Your Relationship With Your Mother-In-Law
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Today, we’ll be talking about the ultimate boss battle: your relationship with your mom and/or your mother-in-law! It’s a topic that makes many people shiver! Managing our relationships with our mothers can be challenging, and if there’s tension between you and your mother-in-law, it can create rifts in your relationships with your partner. From pa…
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Ep: 76: How To Stop Quitting On Your Goals
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We've all done it. Made a New Year's Resolution or set a goal and determined once and for all that you are going to achieve it! You were motivated - for a week. And then, you went right back to your old habits. So what gives? Why do you want this goal so badly, and yet give up on it over and over? Good news: There's nothing wrong with you. It's not…
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Ep 75: How To Connect When Your Partner Isn't Trying
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Are you showing up, trying to be the best partner possible, and yet your spouse isn't meeting you in the middle? You probably feel like you're carrying all the weight in the relationship and wondering if they even want this marriage to work. Do you finally just throw in the towel and say, "I'm done"? Or do you give it another try? Only you know the…
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Ep 74: Don't Rush Your Relationship Goals
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Do you feel pressure to meet your relationship goals fast? You want better communication, more intimacy, and you want to feel like a team. And you want it yesterday already! I get it. Once we know what we want and decide to go after it, we want to hurry up and see success. But what if your growth in certain areas is slow ... and as long as there is…
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Ep 73: The Problem With The Five Love Languages
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Have you ever tried using the Five Love Languages to help your relationship and ended up disappointed, confused, and thinking you and your partner are just not compatible? Yup - welcome to the club. You’re not alone. It’s a beautiful idea that the more we understand our own love language and our partners - we can KNOW how to love better!Unfortunate…
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Ep 72: Two Must-Have Goals That Will Create Freedom In Your Soul
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It's a brand new year! It's the time for intentions, self-reflection, and goal setting. And I'm here for it! But sometimes we can try to cram in so many goals around health, wealth, family life, and work that we forget that our soul has desires too. Our soul desires to connect, create, and contribute to the world around us. It's important that we d…
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Ep 71: Respect Your Nervous System During Difficult Conversations
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In today's episode, I share with you why you should embrace your Nervous System as your wise BFF! We've all been in difficult conversations where our body starts to react. We want to run, hide, scream, fight, or even freeze. Or maybe it's your partner that has a fight-or-flight response. What are you even arguing about at this point? Tomorrow you…
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Ep 70: Being Open To Influence From Your Partner
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In today's episode of the Joyful Love Podcast, you'll hear Day 3 of The Connected Communication challenge. These skills will help you build connection and friendship with your life-long partner! You'll learn: 1. Why you shouldn't be a mind-reader. 2. How to be open to your partner's influence - even if you're independent and opinionated like me! An…
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Ep: 69 Get Curious and Assume The Best To Create Deep Connection
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In today's episode, I share Day 2 of The Connected Communication Challenge. You'll learn how assuming the best of your partner and a curious mind make your discussions easier. And as a BONUS, you'll learn why the brain wants to hold you back from growth and change and what to do about it! Enjoy today's episode with your partner and begin pract…
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EP 68: How Increasing Self Worth Makes Communication Easier
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In our conversations with our loved ones, we can get real critical real quick. “If he’d just do things this way, he’d be better.” “If she’d act this way, I could love her easier.”And with each critical thought or remark, we hold ourselves back from deep connection between our soul and our partner's soul.But it doesn’t start (or stop) with our loved…
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Ep 67: How To Manage The Holidays Without Overwhelm
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The Holidays are among us and it’s a beautiful time to give and receive. But what do we really want this month? Many of us want rest and recovery. We want to hunker down and sit by the fire reading books and sleeping in a little longer. We want the comforts of home and peace. We want long snuggles with our loved ones! However, with all the extras i…
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Ep 66: Do This When Your Monkey Brain Is On Over-Drive
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This week we continue the conversation about fear and love. How do we let love lead when fear is the overwhelming emotion? How do you calm the animal brain so you can relax and take action from love?The truth is fear rises in many situations - whether it’s actual danger, perceived danger, or even the fear of judgment. So you need a process to take …
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Ep 65: Almost Empty Nesters and The Drive To Protect
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In today's episode, I get personal and record on the fly in my car. I feel like for the past 6 months our family life has been in constant change. So much newness and change and wonder. And with change can come fear. So what do we do with fear? Is it helpful? Is it necessary? Or is there a balance to bring in .... with Love and Trust? Tune into tod…
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Ep 64: Feeling Apathetic In Your Relationship
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Are you feeling numb about your relationship? Maybe you’re apathetic about creating a connection with your partner… maybe you’d rather be alone than have a date night. Most long-term couples feel a little apathy during different phases of their relationship.Sometimes our brain just wants to take a break because we’ve got a lot going on! And sometim…
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Ep 63: How Perimenopause & Menopause Affect Moods & Relationships w/ Candy Wright
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Low energy, intense cravings, mood swings, waking up in the middle of the night - they’re all symptoms of hormones shifting! It can be enough to cause you to question everything in life! When you reach your 40’s and 50’s (and sometimes even earlier), you start to notice a difference in how you feel. Is there anything you can do about it? What does …
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Ep 62: Resolving Conflict in Neurodivergent Relationships
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When one or more partners in a relationship are neurodivergent, it can add unique challenges to a marriage. Neurodiversity refers to a variation in how one’s neurology (their brain and nervous system) operate. It includes autism, ADHD, OCD, sensory processing difficulties, and other brain variations. This means your brain (or your partner's brain) …
We live in an information age. There are tons of books, classes, and programs that guide us with great advice - advice we try hard to listen to. But when your brain avoids the discomfort of change or is met with confusion, you don’t implement the great advice you've learned. This is normal. Don’t beat yourself up for one more day about it! You just…
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Ep 60: Asking The Right Questions For Relationship Growth
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On this episode of Joyful Love, I talk about asking the right questions to get better results in your life and relationships. Our brains want to focus on the negative, so it's natural to think there are problems where there are not. When we focus on the wrong issue, it distracts us from making the changes we do need to make. In this episode, I shar…
If your personal self-concept is low it's going to show up in every area of life. Low self-concept can make you feel shame if others compliment you or do something nice for you. It can hold you back from genuine connection in your relationships. And it will prevent you from creating a life that you love living. So it's time to raise your self-conce…
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Ep 58: When You're Married To An Alcoholic, With Deanna Marie
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When you’re married to an alcoholic or an addict, it adds a whole new dynamic to your relationship. It brings up frustration, exhaustion, and loneliness, as you try to figure out the next best steps.Should you stay? Or should you go? Sometimes the answer isn’t as black and white as we’d like it to be. That’s where Deanna Marie comes in. She’s a lif…
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Ep 57: Stop Waiting For Confidence, Create it Now
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If you don’t have confidence, there’s no doubt that you’re holding yourself back from having the life and marriage you want. We often think confidence will come easy once we achieve our goals. We thing that when we’re more fit (or skinny, or curvy, or strong), then we’ll feel more confident. But if you wait for your goals to be achieved to embrace …
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Ep 56: How To Improve Your Physical Health By Embracing Your Emotions
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Have you ever made a commitment to make a serious change in your life and then given up on it after a day or two of struggle? Of course, you have. You’re a human being with a brain that doesn’t like change or anything uncomfortable. We've all been there - over and over again. So with any shift that you’re serious about making - whether it’s eating …
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Ep 55: How To Listen To Your Body And Increase Energy
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If you're a woman, you've been socialized to believe that the main reason for getting healthy is to look good in a bikini. You've also been told the lie that you have to be super thin to be healthy. This puts an enormous amount of pressure on us. Our self-confidence is often tied to our weight and dieting becomes something that takes up a lot of ou…
Most of us have a seriously hard time loving and valuing ourselves if we don't feel productive. We tie our worth and lovability to how much we accomplish in a day, a week, a year. So in this episode, I invite you into my inner world this week while I'm recovering from Covid. I was on a forced rest - and my brain was having a fit! I didn't feel like…
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Ep 53: Expansive Growth For Year 2 Of Joyful Love
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As I move into year two of the Joyful Love Podcast, I’ll dive even deeper into some of the concepts I’ve just scratched the surface on so far. The truth is that our health, energy, and our ability to slow down affects everything we do in life. They affect our relationships and our well-being. They affect our nervous system and our mental health.Hum…
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Ep 52: Change Your Sex Story With Julie Merrill
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On this episode of Joyful Love, I introduce you to my friend and colleague Julie Merrill. Julie is a Midlife Sexual Wellness Coach who brings all the juiciness to this episode!Julie’s own story takes her from being misdiagnosed as asexual to discovering sexual pleasure for herself. We discuss how our past can influence our current sex stories and h…
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Ep 51: Drop Perfection and Ask For What You Want
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What do we want? Rest. When do we want it? Now. How do we get it? Well, it's simple, we have to stop thinking everything needs to be done before we're allowed to rest. We have to stop the deep-seeded belief that everything around us needs to be done better and/or perfect. And we need to stop people-pleasing those around us to the point of feeling r…
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Ep 50: Pull Over The Car, A Lesson From My Teen
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Our emotions are here for a reason. They teach us. They give us important information. They shine a flashlight on what we need to change. And yet, they get brushed aside or buried so that we can quickly move on to the next important task. We tell ourselves, “I’m just being too sensitive.” Yet when we do this, we miss important lessons. We miss an o…
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Ep: 49 Kick Out The Patriarchy and Create More Teamwork
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Women bear the weight of having a family. From keeping the home running smoothly to planning holidays, choosing doctors, and keeping everyone healthy and whole - 90% of this responsibility falls on us. Patriarchal systems have set it up this way. It’s put men in power and women in the supporting role of that power. Although we’ve come a long way as…
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Ep 48: How To Calm Your Nerves To Face Your Fears
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Face your fears! Step out of your comfort zone!If you’ve been in the self-help world for long, you’ve definitely heard these 2 phrases - over and over.And you’ve also been told to stop hustling and to let go of stress.As women, we want both. We want peace in our lives and we want the freedom to go after our big dreams and the courage to face our fe…
You can spin in confusion for years about whether or not you’re just irritated with your partner, or if it’s time to end your relationship. If you’re constantly annoyed and irritated, it’s time to take your power back and start creating your own joy in life again. All those petty annoyances don’t have to take up your valuable brain space and they d…
The personal benefits of welcoming more humor into your life are enormous. Laughter has been shown to light up the brain's neurons, increase pleasure, and decrease overall stress. And when you bring more laughter and light-heartedness into your relationship it benefits every aspect of your marriage. Laughter is the healing balm that you and your pa…
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Ep 45: How To Create Pleasure In Your Relationship
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So many women want more intimacy and pleasure in their relationship. They want to be able to enjoy connection - emotional and physical with their partner. It can feel like so much is in the way of that. With our own busy lives and our partner's busy lives, raising kids, and dealing with the emotional weight of keeping things running smoothly, is th…
Mothering is the hardest job in the world. At least it was for me. Building my own business is a piece of cake when it compares to the exhaustion and sheer desperation I felt at times with loving my 3 kids so intensely.And because mothering can be difficult, it’s normal to want a break from it all. It’s normal to feel overwhelmed and question yours…
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Ep 43: How To Get Sh*t Done When You’re Not Motivated
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Have you ever wanted to make a change in your life so bad that you thought about it nearly non-stop? Yet that’s as far as you get … The dream never left your mind - for long anyway. Because you’re waiting for the motivation to get started. So you continue to wish you were already at the goal. The effort to get there just seems like too much. But wa…
In today's episode, you'll hear Day 5 of The Rekindle Your Marriage Workshop. You’ll hear the importance of investing in two of your most important assets: Your mind and your marriage. Studies have shown the best use of one's time and money is in their own emotional wellness and relationships. Your mind and marriage are more important than any mate…
Many couples don’t always see eye to eye. This can lead to arguing, criticizing, and blaming, which can be detrimental to a healthy relationship. What if you don't have to agree to have a great relationship, though?What if your differences are for your good? What if you can be on the same team ... with totally different abilities and opinions?You c…
In Day 3 of The Rekindle Your Marriage Workshop, you will learn to take ownership back over your own emotions, actions, and reactions, and ultimately the results in your life. In today's episode, you learn: That you are equals in this relationship. You have a choice (complete autonomy) over whether to be in this relationship or not. How your though…
In today’s episode, you'll learn the ground rules for a healthy marriage. When you approach your relationship with the foundation that you are both worthy of total and complete love, you create safety in your marriage. ✅ Safety to get curious about your differences. ✅ Safety to connect and be vulnerable with each other.✅ Safety to have different op…
Every couple reaches a point in their marriage where change needs to be embraced. Most of us don't want to leave our marriages, but we are fully aware that things need to change in order to feel fully alive and happy in our relationships. If this resonates with you, it's time to rekindle the love and connection you once felt. And it's time to learn…
Will is the memoir of actor and musician Will Smith. The memoir provides a glimpse into Will’s life from his days as a child all the way through his struggles in marriage.Cris and I recently listened to the audio version together.There were so many insights on what it takes to have a healthy relationship that we decided to chat about it on the podc…
It’s been said that the deepest need in humans is to feel appreciated. And if we tie that to our relationships, I’d agree. One of the most important things to cultivate in your relationship is a habit of appreciation for each other.Appreciation lets us know that we are valued, validated, and seen. And it feels amazing.If appreciation is missing in …
It’s not uncommon for women to feel like they're the ones responsible for holding it all together. From the home to the kids. From work to making sure everyone gets fed. And the thousands of little (and big) things in between. Most women would say, “If I don’t make sure it gets done, it doesn’t get done.” We manage it all. Sometimes well … and some…
When you’re in survival mode as a couple, so much can feel hopeless.Now, I’m not just talking about hustle mode, where you never allow yourself to stop being busy. No, I’m talking about the kind of survival where you feel like something terrible is going to happen if you close your eyes for a minute … if you allow yourself to rest.A traumatic event…
Some relationship experts will tell you to expect less in your relationship. The reasoning is that if you don’t expect much, then you’ll be less disappointed. There are certain things we expect that can create disconnection in marriage. If we are constantly trying to change our partner so that they can somehow fulfill our happiness, those expectati…
There are a few ways of thinking about the New Year. One, that it's just another week to keep planning and growing - just like any other week. Or two, you can get excited about reaching for new goals and dive into the excitement of new beginnings. Or maybe you're someone stuck in the middle - not sure how you want to approach the new year. Wherever…
If you’ve been following me for a while, you may know that I like to give myself a break. Meditation, intentional breathing, napping … anything that keeps my nervous system balanced. And I’m working towards even more downtime in my schedule. It feels a bit radical, I admit. But I’m on a mission to include rest as regularly, daily, weekly, and exten…
In this episode, I’m excited to give you Day 1 of the Rekindle Your Marriage Workshop. I offered this 5 Day workshop inside the Facebook Group last week and it helped a ton of women light a flame in their marriage again. We covered everything from making the powerful decision to be all in - to teamwork and taking ownership for how you show up. We a…
