4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriage Book Review: How to Improve Your Marriage in 15 Minutes a Day

Therapy in a Nutshell

Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Keeping your marriage happy can be hard. And while many people want to learn communication skills to improve their marriage, that can only go so far. The real skills that make marriage better are skills that help you have more joy more often. In their book, The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages: How 15 Minutes a Day Will Help You Stay in Love, the authors Chris Coursey and Marcus Warner teach essential skills and habits to have a better relationship, more joy, and more love in your marriage. Buy The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages: https://amzn.to/2UiViks (not a sponsor but an affiliate link) Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional for $65/week. Try it now for 10% off: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=06162020 Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=podcast Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC, and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC Music licensed from www.Bensound.com or Artlist.io Images from Freepik.com (premium license), Pixabay, or Wikimedia commons

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to therapy in a nutshell. I'm Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family
0:19.7	therapist, and this is the podcast
0:22.2	where I condense mental health skills. If you're ready to learn more in-depth mental health skills,
0:31.8	check out my online courses on anxiety, coping skills, and how to change your brain. 10 alternatives to medication to improve mental health.
0:40.2	The link is in the description.
0:41.9	You can use the code Nutshell for 25% off.
0:49.5	Hi everyone, Emma McAdam here.
0:53.1	I've got a new favorite book about relationships,
0:55.3	and it's called The Four Habits of Joy-filled Marriages.
0:58.3	So in this little nugget of help,
1:00.0	I'm going to sum up why I love this book
1:01.9	and what I learned from it,
1:03.8	including how to turn on the relational circuits of your brain.
1:08.1	And I'm also going to talk about what the four habits are.
1:18.9	Okay. circuits of your brain. And I'm also going to talk about what the four habits are. So let's start with why I loved this book. I love this book for a lot of reasons. Number one,
1:26.0	it's solution focused. So instead of focusing on problem
1:29.2	solving or, you know, communication skills to manage conflict or negotiation skills or whatever,
1:36.1	this book is all about bringing more joy and happiness and love to your relationships.
1:41.9	And this makes so much sense because the reason people get married in the
1:45.7	first place is not so that they can communicate well or stop being a jerk. It's so that they
1:51.2	experience joy and love together. And this book really teaches you how to strengthen your
1:56.6	relationships and specifically your marriage by shrinking the joy gap. The joy gap is basically the
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