Healthy & Whole Marriages: Recent Episodes
Healthy & Whole Marriages Team
Encouraging married couples to have healthy and whole lives, marriages, and families thereby cultivating healthy and whole communities.
Seth & Damia share a list of lessons, advice and/or perspectives after 16 years of marriage.
Have you experienced all 4 seasons in your marriage? How do you cope with the winters? How do you enjoy the summers? Do you overindulge in the freedom it brings? We share a few practical and biblical approaches so your marriage will come out Healthy & Whole no matter the season you’ve endured.
Inspired by “trust” spoken of in 1 Corinthians 13:7 from our last podcast, we decided to discuss whether a marriage can exist without trust? Is love really enough?
Is it possible to love your spouse the 1 Corinthians 13 way? We engage in a practical, personal, & biblical discussion on this. Is it real or is it just in the Bible and for home and office walls.
Is it possible to love your spouse the 1 Corinthians 13 way? We engage in a practical, personal, & biblical discussion on this. Is it real or is it just in the Bible and for home and office walls.
Some topics can be hard to discuss in marriage - finances/financial struggles; sex; fears & anxieties; traumas, etc. Here are some tips/tools to make deep conversations easier to discuss.
Forgiveness is a necessary part of a healthy and whole marriage that isn't often discussed (if at all) during premarital counseling. However, if forgiveness isn't present in your marriage, you can guarantee an easier and quicker path to divorce. How do you forgive in marriage? From the small and mundane to the unexpected and most egregious, we offer tips to help you forgive your way towards a healthy & whole marriage.
The importance of a husband’s leadership, loyalty, & prayers. A discussion about the ways each impacts the other and how each topic can collectively impact a marriage.
New Year’s Resolutions are commonly set to map out how we want our lives to look at the beginning of each year. What about your marriage? Do you all have a resolution, a vision at the beginning of the year for how you want your year to go in marriage? Here we share tips on how to have a prosperous (healthy, happy, and whole) year of marriage in 2023.
The holidays are over. You have made returns for unwanted items and finished packaging decorations in Christmas containers until next year. Your home is back to normal, but how’s your marriage? Here are (3) tips to jumpstart your marriage for this year.
Maintaining physical attraction in marriage can be tough at times.
Are you still attracted to your spouse?
Are you keeping yourself up?
We share Biblical, practical, and our personal perspective on how to maintain physical attraction in marriage.
Why is sex, when it comes to marriage, such a taboo topic in the church? Why is it rarely, if at all, addressed? We share a little of our experience and perspective on the topic.
Everyone has an opinion about marriage, whether married or not; whether you want to hear it or not. What advice do you listen to? What advice should you listen to?
We discuss the importance of setting boundaries in marriage. Is it necessary? What if we have not concerns about fidelity? Scripture references: Romans 14:16 Lamentations 3:22-23 Proverbs 4:23-27 1 Peter 5:8 1 Corinthians 10:13 Galatians 6:5 Provers 15:1 Colossians 4:6
Husbands, after your wife feels safe, she will feel safe enough to be free in the bedroom. God not only blesses marriage but the marriage bed.
Safety must be a priority in marriage. This episode addresses safety from the perspective of safety for a wife. However, it can apply to either spouse as it’s essential to the stability, health and well-being of the marriage as a whole.
How beneficial are outside friendships to a marriage? Should a married couple have them? Individually? Collectively? Are outside friendships dangerous? In this episode we flip the coin of the friendship conversation and discuss realities of having friendships outside of marriage.
How important is friendship in marriage? Is it really necessary to be your spouse’s friend? Here we discuss whether or not such a relationship is a requirement of a healthy and whole marriage. We also look at whether there are biblical principles one way or the other.
By now, you’ve likely heard of the 5 love languages by Gary Chapman. What does the Bible say about the love languages. We discuss the love languages with our own little Biblical approach. Do you know your spouse’s love language? Have you told them yours?
Is premarital counseling really worthwhile? Is it only a means to getting the marriage license? We discuss whether premarital counseling is beneficial and how it may or may not affect your marriage in the long run.
Sometimes children can get in the way of having the marriage you want or once had. The spontaneity may fizzle and the intimacy may become a part of your weekly schedule. Here we discuss how to keep your marriage a priority while raising children.
Oftentimes, when we think of the word provision in the arena of marriage it’s often related to the husband financially providing for his family. In this episode, we discuss the how unfortunate this misconception can be to a marriage, what provision should really entail, and what to do to ensure that you’re providing for your spouse and family.
How do you deal with your in-law situation? How should you deal with them? Should the spouse who’s parent’s are out of line address their own family?
How important is it to have a community of married friends to your marriage? Is it important at all? How can such a community benefit your marriage?
A discussion of how and why authenticity is essential for a healthy and whole marriage.