331: There's Hope for Your Relationship
The Connected Life
Justin Stumvoll
4.9 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Most of us don’t realize how much of our relationship pain is rooted in old stories—until those stories start playing out with the person we love most. It’s easy to blame our partners for the chaos in a relationship. But what if the truth is that we’re all just scared kids trapped in adult bodies, equally making messes as we search for safety?
In this raw and redemptive episode, Justin and Abi share the full arc of their healing journey—from trauma bonding and codependency to finding internal safety, building emotional resilience, and learning to love without self-abandonment. They reflect on the missteps, the meltdowns, the moments that nearly broke them, and the powerful shifts that changed everything. Together, they paint a picture of what it means to stop trying to fix each other and start healing from the inside out.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in patterns you don’t understand, judged yourself for how you react, or wondered if your relationship could really change—this episode is for you. Don’t miss out!
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| 0:00.0 | Life isn't perfect, and neither are we. |
| 0:05.0 | No, but we know how to face our fears and have some fun. |
| 0:10.0 | And talk about all the messiest things of life. |
| 0:13.0 | Like the messiest things. |
| 0:15.0 | Get connected to yourself, get connected to others, and get connected to the life right in front of you. |
| 0:21.6 | This is the connected life with Justin and Abby. |
| 0:24.6 | That's me. |
| 0:25.5 | That's you. |
| 0:26.5 | And you. |
| 0:27.7 | So somebody reach out to us and they left us a message on Instagram. |
| 0:32.6 | Yes. |
| 0:33.0 | I want to read that right now. |
| 0:34.2 | Okay, great. |
| 0:35.3 | And that's how we're going to kick this thing off. |
| 0:37.4 | All right. So this user, user, follower, well, I was like, the person that's online here. |
| 0:45.5 | The person who wrote it. The person who wrote it says, do you two have a podcast episode or |
| 0:50.8 | episodes where you talk strictly about your marriage prior to the healing and how you guys |
| 0:56.3 | were before, how you came to terms with knowing you both needed deep healing. And then now |
| 1:04.0 | how you came together and created this amazing platform. And I was like, you don't need a |
| 1:10.4 | whole episode for that. I'll tell you how it |
| 1:12.1 | worked. We trauma bonded. Done. You're welcome. Next question. Yeah, when I read that, I thought |
| 1:22.0 | it was a great question and I felt really inspired to actually share about that journey. |
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