So many couples have the same experience after becoming parents. They grow apart, argue more often, and they forget how to have fun together.  The common thing to do is to start pointing the finger at your husband and see what they're doing wrong. This is where most couples go wrong when trying to turn their marriage around.

Have you ever noticed how talking about normal day to day stuff, it's super easy to be respectful?

But during conflict, it's much much harder? Like you become an entirely different person?

Well, respect is the foundation of a happy and successful marriage and if you can learn how to maintain that even during conflict, arguments can start go a lot smoother for you.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I share:

• The purpose of conflict
• What respect does and doesn't look like
• Why it's challenging to stay respectful during conflict
• The one thing you can do to make your arguments more respectful

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If you feel like fights with your husband always end painfully and all you want is to be able to get through arguments faster, more effectively, and actually be able to come up with resolutions that work for both of you, it could be because one or both of you are having trouble responding rather than reacting.

When you react, it's because you have your guard up which can make it challenging to say what you mean and do things that will bring you two closer and embody the qualities of a couple who love and support each other because you're more focused on protecting your heart.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I share:

• What's going on when you're feeling emotionally overwhelmed during arguments with your husband
• What it looks like when your nervous system is dysregulated
• How feeling dysregulated impacts your marriage
• The Embodied Wife and The F.E.E.L. Method

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Do you ever wonder if your BIG emotions are causing a lot of issues in your marriage?

Have you been told that you’re too sensitive, over-reacting, too much, or a personal fave… that you’re crazy?

Emotions can be so easily misunderstood, including yourself.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• What emotions are
• What purpose emotions serve
• How emotions impact relationships 

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Every marriage experiences conflict but have you ever wondered why certain couples' conflict experience calm conversations and others seem like their conflict is more like a world war?

Conflict is an essential part of your marriage and can be used to connect deeper with your husband, but only if dealt with in a healthy way.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• Why we experience conflict
• How our approach to conflict impacts marriage
• The two ways people deal with conflict

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Have you noticed you and your husband argue a lot more ever since you became parents?

What used to be fun and light, now feels heavy and hard.

Most people grow up believing that anger is something to avoid feeling because it's bad and that we should be happy instead.

Perhaps you've viewed anger as a toxic emotion that has no place in a healthy marriage.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• Whether anger is toxic for your marriage
• What anger can drive you to do
• Where couples go wrong with anger

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If you feel disconnected in your marriage, it could be because there's a lack of emotional intimacy.

When you think of intimacy, you may immediately think about sex aka physical intimacy, but emotional intimacy plays a bigger role in your satisfaction in your marriage than you might know.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• What intimacy is
• What emotional intimacy is
• What marriage is like when there is emotional intimacy
• Signs that your marriage has emotional intimacy
• Signs that your marriage could use more emotional intimacy
  

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Resentment is something everyone feels from time to time throughout the life of their marriage.

While resentment is common in marriage, it doesn't have to tear your marriage apart so that you two are eternally miserable in a co-parenting roommate dynamic or send you straight down the road to divorce.

What if you started seeing resentment as a valuable clue to how you can make your marriage better? So that you can feel closer and more satisfied in it?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• The differences between how a healthy couple handles resentment and how an unhappy one does
• What resentment is rooted in
• The impact resentment has on your relationship when left undealt with or when you don't have the proper tools to deal with it
• What's going on behind the scenes when we act from our resentment
  

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Have you started becoming more intentional about changing how you and your spouse argue but it doesn't seem like they're putting in the work?

If you've ever wished you could just tell them what to do and they'd do it or even just wave a magical wand over you two so you could transform your communication to be healthier, then this episode is for you!

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• What you can do to help your marriage communication improve
• Why criticizing how they communicate won't work
• What you should focus on to change how you two argue
  

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Connecting with your spouse is easy when things are going well, but what about when you don't feel like connecting?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• The #1 connection killer
• How to work through it so you can decrease the time you feel disconnected and create the marriage you intended to have when you said "I do"!

Listen here and remember to subscribe, leave a review, and share it if you loved this episode! 

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