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The Marriage Conversation

Summary: Dr Stephen Frueh, acclaimed marriage coach shares his insights into the marriage conversation – a new paradigm and a creative approach to marriage that helps couples rethink and re-imagine their relationship.

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Podcasts:

 Dreams Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:22

Freud said that ‘dreams are the royal road to consciousness.’ In a heavily dunned entertainment culture where we live too often on sound bites, dreams are mostly ignored, shoved to the periphery of our attentiveness, seen as not really relevant to our lives. We do that at our own expense, losing the rich images that guide, the stories that awaken.        

 Fathers and Sons Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:55

The mystery, meaning, and deep power that is possible between fathers and sons is often missed. We perhaps are lulled by the struggles of living or seduced into creating a version of each other that most times isn’t true. Whatever the case, finding a pathway to relationship is rich in possibility.

 Whining Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:24

Need awareness is perhaps the most critical component of healthy relating. It’s hard to allow yourself to be aware of your own needs when your life has been spent in the presence of adults who applaud need denial. “What a great player!” I heard a youthful soccer coach say. “He played the entire second half […]

 Stop Look Listen Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:09

It’s easy to let the world around you control your focus. It doesn’t take much effort to be a stooge of the ‘entertainment culture.’ Being entertained, distracted, pulled in directions others want you to go makes you lazy, relationally speaking. You can reclaim your focus and rebirth your relationship simply by creating your own purposeful […]

 Resentment Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:36

That which is unaddressed, avoided or denied can cause great havoc in your relationship and set a mood – resentment – that will poison even your best efforts at loving. Of course you must be prepared for anything once you decide to speak your heart thoughts outloud.

 Secrets Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:40

The unfinished business you carry around can be like a cancer in your body. Secrets, I’m not talking here about an individual’s right to private thoughts, can be toxic even lethal. Take a look at what you’re protecting and why. You may find a new path to intimate connections hidden in the very secrets you […]

 Faithfulness Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:04

We make much, in American dialogue about marriage, of the need for faithfulness. “Married 27 years and never been unfaithful.” There is another dimension to faithfulness that we don’t so often talk about. You’ll find it here in this reminder of what faithfulness is really all about.

 Yes No Maybe Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:25

If your life together is bland and joyless. If your conversations drift along with no energy, if you often feel resentful, this little story is for you.

 The Art of Surrender Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:20

Surrender used in the way we usually use it, has a negative connotation. “I give up,” or “I gave in.” There is a powerful need for surrender in relationships. It has to do with facing your own out of control ego. Power struggles are common but we don’t have to indulge our need for power. […]

 Discovering Who you Are Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:31

It’s tempting to live in the future and it’s tempting as well to live in the past. All of us can live somewhere where we are not presently living or live with someone who is not our partner. This fundamental human talent causes a great deal of confusion. Tolle, in the Power of Now, reminds […]

 The Marriage Conversation Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 7:21

You really can’t do a whole lot about revitalizing your marriage until you face the basic premise or premises it’s built upon. We call those premises the marriage paradigm. What we need to do is take the mask off our model of marriage so we can expose its origins and expectations. There’s a new way […]

 Wounds into Gold Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:52

What happens to us sometimes happens for us. What we call wounds can be the impetus to self realization. I don’t mean to be an ‘airy – fairy’ optimist here. I do mean to encourage you to take a second look at those experiences you perhaps have felt victimized by and see how you can […]

 Cognac Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4:33

Consciousness is partly distilled wisdom. It is the capacity to take one’s own experience together with the experience of others and create a third thing. Consciousness summarizes, focuses, points. We are always distilling miles and miles of information – emotional, intellectual, spiritual, psychological and physical – and using it to make sense of our complex […]

 Why Tell Stories in Marriage Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 6:47

The stream of experience, the wealth of learning, the vast resources of memory – all are contained ‘in a nutshell’ in our stories. Stories help us feel our commonality, community, and communicate images we count on to survive. Stories pull us, push us, startle us, perplex us. Life without stories would be flat lined indeed.

 It Pays to Stop Paying Attention Episode | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5:49

We are wonderfully made. We have all kinds of radar for picking up information that we’d otherwise miss. We also have a vast capacity for imagining, for creating clues to guide us. Trouble is, most of the time, we aren’t tuned in to the clues or the signals that our hard wiring offers.

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