#222 - Discernment Counseling
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
I've had many "my relationship is on the brink, what do I do?" questions from listeners lately. When one person is half out the door, standard-issue relationship advice and conventional marriage counseling approaches can make things worse.
But Discernment Counseling — a special, obscure type of couples counseling — can still save your relationship.
In today's episode we're doing a deep dive into the unique dynamics of failing relationships in order to help you use the principles of discernment counseling to potentially turn things around.
Join me!
More relationship questions? Leave them for me (and help yourself to more free resources) on the blog at GrowingSelf.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. |
| 0:20.4 | That's an interesting song by an interesting band to set the mood for an interesting topic. |
| 0:27.6 | The band is Toxic Water with a song we've only just begun. |
| 0:33.6 | And our topic today is about something that almost no one has ever heard of. |
| 0:40.3 | But if your relationship is in trouble, it is the only kind of couples therapy that will |
| 0:46.7 | actually save a relationship and stop a divorce. |
| 0:50.6 | And that's what we're talking about today on the love, happiness, and success podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | If this is your first time catching this show, welcome. I'm so glad you found us. I'm |
| 1:00.9 | Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby. I'm the founder and clinical director of growing self-counseling and coaching. |
| 1:06.9 | And my background is as a licensed marriage and family therapist, I'm also a licensed psychologist, |
| 1:13.6 | and I am a board certified life coach. |
| 1:16.8 | And I draw from all of those different modalities in order to provide hopefully helpful |
| 1:22.8 | and actionable advice that helps you create love, happiness, and success in your life. |
| 1:29.3 | And so today's topic, as many are, is drawn from listener questions. |
| 1:36.1 | I have been hearing from a number of you lately through commenting on the blog at |
| 1:42.8 | growingself.com, through Facebook, forward slash Dr. |
| 1:46.3 | Lisa Bobby, or on Instagram at Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby. |
| 1:51.1 | And the question is, if I were to paraphrase, because this has come in many, many shapes, |
| 1:56.6 | sizes and forms, but is some version of, let me tell you about all of the horrible things that |
| 2:02.8 | have been happening in my relationship and how I'm feeling about that. And can my relationship |
| 2:09.1 | be saved? My partner doesn't want to go to couples counseling. Is there any hope? Or I don't |
| 2:15.3 | know if I want to keep doing this. Is there any hope for my relationship or should I just let it go? |
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