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How Kindness Invites Emotional Availability
In this episode, we explore the crucial distinction between tragedy and trauma. Tragedy, often unavoidable, represents external challenges we face in life, while traum...
Risk Is Required
Explore the essence of rebuilding relationships and emotional connection as Chris Bruno delves into the importance of risk, authenticity, and vulnerability in fosterin...
How to Tell the Story of Your Marriage
We all tell a version of how we met and fell in love, but how do we tell the rest? Learn how to identify the themes in your marriage so that you come to better know wh...
How to Create a Safe Marriage
If you are coming to understand parts of your story, but feel unsafe sharing with your spouse, what do you do? How can you begin to create safe spaces and set up safet...
How do you create a Storied Marriage?
As you learn more about your own story, how do you bring your spouse into it? How can you help each other find the meaning (or even a different meaning) in your shapin...
What to do if Your Marriage has Incorporated Bad Thinking
Where in your marriage have you written something, unintentionally, that has a dynamic that is toxic? That has been woven in alongside things that are meeting genuine ...
How to Edit the Voices that Have Shaped Your Marriage
Many of us just want someone to tell us what to do. But when it comes to the marriage relationship, there is not formula, no cookie-cutter solution that works for all ...
Other Loves: Hijacked Desire for Containment
In this series, we're talking about other loves, or polyamory. Every marriage has multiple loves, not just your spouse, but multiple other loves that crowd the space. ...
Other Loves: Hijacked Desire for Belonging
In this series, we're talking about other loves, or polyamory. Every marriage has multiple loves, not just your spouse, but multiple other loves that crowd the space. ...
Other Loves: Hijacked Desire for Life
In this series, we're talking about other loves, or polyamory. Every marriage has multiple loves, not just your spouse, but multiple other loves that crowd the space. ...
Other Loves: Hijacked Desire for Affirmation
In this series, we're talking about other loves, or polyamory. Every marriage has multiple loves, not just your spouse, but multiple other loves that crowd the space. ...
Other Loves: Hijacked Desire for Comfort
In this series, we're talking about other loves and another word for that is "polyamory". Poly means multiple and Amory means loves. Every marriage has multiple loves,...
Does your marriage have other loves?
Chris and Tracy kick off Season Two by defining Polyamory and suggesting that your marriage has other loves.
Overcoming Fear to Risk Desire (Part 4)
In the last episode on The Source of All Conflict (DESIRE!), Chris and Tracy talk about the connection between fear and desire and the way it comes between them and th...
The Story of the Pink Shoes
This month we've been in a series about how the source of marital conflict is unmet desire. This week, Beth Bruno shares a vulnerable story of Chris missing her desire...
The Substitutions of Desire with the Johnsons
We're in a series this month on the source of all conflict in marriage is unmet desire. This week, Mark and Tracy Johnson talk about some of the substitutions of desir...
THE Source of all Conflict with Sam Jolman
This month we're diving into the source of all conflict based on an interview with therapist, Sam Jolman. In this episode, Chris and Tracy talk about the unmet desire ...
Which Category is Your Sex Life In?
We conclude this month's theme on Mortgaged Sexuality with Chris Bruno and Tracy Johnson asking you where you find yourselves: No thanks, Resigned and Scheduled, or Da...
Mortgaged Sexuality and Redemption
We've been in a series on "Mortgaged Sexuality" with Dr. Juli Slattery. This week, Mark and Tracy Johnson share some of the ways they have bought back and redeemed pla...
Mortgaged Sexuality and the Purity Culture
This month we're in a series called "Mortgaged Sexuality" with Dr. Juli Slattery. In today's episode, Chris and Beth Bruno share about how the purity culture filled pr...