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98: How The Enneagram Can Deepen Your Marriage Connection with Jeff and Beth McCord May 05, 2020

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Have you ever felt like you don't understand your spouse? Have you ever wondered why your spouse handles a situation in a completely different manner than you would? Do you wish for a closer connection, but don't know how to get there?

In Episode 98, Daniel and Christina interview Enneagram coaches, Beth and Jeff McCord, about how the Enneagram can give you the language to communicate with your spouse, the empathy to understand your spouse, and the tools to help defuse conflicts before they start with your spouse.

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Mini Episode 5 | Ask Your Family This One Question May 01, 2020

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While there are a lot of things that are out of our control, it is helpful to underline for our families what we can control. So, sometime today, when y’all are altogether, ask your family this one question.

Ask Your Family This Question:

0:38 How things have changed.
1:14 The one question to ask your family.
1:24 Why you should be asking your family this one question.
2:17 What we can and cannot control.

Resources And Quotes Mentioned During This Episode:

Episode 4: Why slowing down life matters
Episode 68: Why your kids need to be bored this summer

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97: 5 Practical Ways To Show Grace To Your Family Even When They Are Driving You Crazy Apr 28, 2020

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No one wants their families to look back on this Quarantine and remember the stress, the short tempers, or the frustrated tears. Instead, we want our families to look back on this time and remember feeling safe - not just from COVID, but safe in our hearts and minds as well. This is why we need to show our family grace.

In Episode 97, Daniel and Christina share 5 practical ways to show grace to your family, even when they are driving you crazy!

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Mini Episode 4 | When You Can't Sleep, Try This Apr 24, 2020

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Have you ever felt so overwhelmed that you can't think? Have you found yourself tossing and turning at night because your mind is racing? When you feel out of control, when you can't sleep, try this: Palms Down, Palms Up.

Palms Down, Palms Up Exercise:

1:09 Breathing exercise to prepare.
1:36 Begin Palms Down prayer.
2:54 Begin Palms Up prayer.
4:07 Short breath prayer.

Resources And Quotes Mentioned During This Episode:

If you want to hear more about the benefits of deep breathing, listen to Centering Prayer
Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take up my yoke and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22, 23

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96: How to Raise Strong and Empowered Children with Catherine Parks Apr 21, 2020

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What makes you powerful? What makes you strong? Is strength measured in grit, tenacity, courage, bravery, and never backing down from a challenge? In Episode 96, Daniel and Christina interview author Catherine Parks about where our true strength comes from and how to start the conversation with our kids about character, strength, empowerment, and grace.

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Mini Episode 3 | A Simple Grounding Exercise To Help With Anxiety Apr 17, 2020

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Anxiety is something that most of us have experienced in our life, especially during these uncertain times. This 5 step exercise can be very helpful during periods of anxiety or panic by helping to ground you in the present when your mind is bouncing between various “what ifs.”

The Grounding Exercise:

0:31 What anticipatory grief is and why it matters.
1:33 The importance of deep breathing versus shallow breathing.
2:25 Explanation of the 5 step grounding exercise.
3:24 A step-by-step walk through of the grounding exercise.

Resources And Quotes Mentioned During This Episode:

Anticipatory grief is the mind going to the future and imagining the worst. @imbetweenshow
I was grieving things that hadn’t actually happened. I had to purposefully pull my thoughts to come into the present reality or else I would spiral out of control. @imbetweenshow
If you'd like to be taken through a deep breathing exercise, listen to our first mini episode about Centering Prayer
This quick exercise will help ground you in the present. Grounding yourself reminds your body, your nervous system, and your brain that you are safe. @imbetweenshow

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95: 4 Keys To Surviving Marital Stress Apr 14, 2020

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What does stress do to a marriage? Does it make it or break it? We are seeing stats come out of China - the first country to be quarantined from the Coronavirus - that divorce rates have skyrocketed once the quarantine was lifted.

While feelings of fear, anxiety, and stress come with the territory of unexpected times, it does not have to break your relationship. Here are 4 keys to help you and your spouse survive your marital stress while constantly being together.

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Mini Episode 2 | The 2 Words You Need To Stop Saying Apr 10, 2020

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There are two words that we need to erase from our vocabulary during this difficult time. People assume these two words help themselves and others get through a funk. Instead, they stunt the process of grief that we all need to walk through. Do you know what these two words are? Are you saying them? Tune in to find out.

The Two Words To Avoid:

2:30 What happens when we speak these two words to ourselves, our friends, and our family.
3:04 The dangers of comparative suffering.
3:52 The lie we've believed about pain.
5:09 What we should all be saying instead of these two words.

Resources And Quotes Mentioned During This Episode:

"Comparative suffering is dangerous. Empathy is not finite. When we practice empathy, we create more empathy. Hurt is hurt, and every time we honor our own struggle, and the struggles of others by responding with empathy, the healing that results affect us all." @brenebrown
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
"It is necessary to hold our pain in one hand, hold the pain of others in our other hand, and go to Jesus and lay them down at His feet." @imbetweenshow

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94: Learning to Celebrate Everything When You Feel Like Celebrating Nothing with Katherine Wolf Apr 07, 2020

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Does everything need to be perfect in order for us to have a reason to celebrate? Can we experience joy even when we are suffering? On Episode 94, Daniel and Christina interview author and advocate, Katherine Wolf. At the age of 26, Katherine experienced a near-fatal stroke when her son was only 6 months old. Katherine shares her inspiring story of recovery and how she learned to celebrate everything even in the midst of pain and suffering.

In This Episode, You Will Hear About:

Learn how to survive anything by redefining everything.
Hear how celebration and suffering are not mutually exclusive.
Disrupting the myth that joy can only be found in a pain-free life.
How celebration can be an act of worship, community, faith, and joyful rebellion.

Resources Mentioned During the Episode:

Purchase a copy of Katherine and Jay Wolf's newest book, Suffer Strong: How to Survive Anything by Redefining Everything
Check out Katherine and Jay's first book, Hope Heals: A True Story of Overwhelming Loss and an Overcoming Love
To find out more about Katherine and Jay, visit them at Hopeheals.com

Quotes and Tweets:

Life defines us, suffering redefines us, and hope refines us. @hopeheals
Worship in its purest form doesn't happen when everything comes perfectly together; it's most powerful when everything is falling apart. @hopeheals
Celebration can be an act of worship and an act of hope and perhaps, in a way, an act of joyful rebellion against fear. @hopeheals
We all have a seat at this table, at God's table, if we're willing to be vulnerable and brave enough to sit down to the life we have and celebrate the life we can't yet see. @hopeheals
Even in the face of the unknown, we can remember what and who we do know, and help each other remember it too. In so doing, we can start to know the truest things again. We can preach them to our own hearts until we actually believe them. @hopeheals
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. - Corrie ten Boom
God made you to do the hard thing in the good story He's writing for your life. Whether tomorrow is the best or worst or last day of our lives, we pray that God will give us everything we need to live it out to the fullest with courage and joy. @hopeheals
Celebration and joy can be part of the hard stories of suffering. Celebration and suffering are not mutually exclusive. @hopeheals

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Meet Katherine Wolf:

At the age of 26 years old, Katherine Wolf experienced a near-fatal stroke. Miraculously, she survived and continues her rockery to this day, including having a miracle baby boy in 2015. Today, Katherine and her husband Jay, run the non-profit ministry Hope Heals, and are advocates for disabled individuals and their families. The couple, and their two sons, live in the Atlanta area. To find out more about Katherine and Jay, visit hopeheals.com

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Mini Episode 1 | Centering Prayer Apr 03, 2020

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If you find yourself being bossed around by your feelings of fear or anxiety, try this centering prayer.

Centering Prayer:

2:32 - Why should I do a centering prayer?
3:37 - What is a centering prayer?
5:40 - Daniel walks us through a centering prayer.

Resources Mentioned During This Episode:

Great Are You Lord song by All Sons and Daughters
"Surely God is my help; the Lord is the one who sustains me." Psalm 54:4
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God." Romans 8:26, 27

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