Are You Really OK? With Special Guest Debra Fileta | Ep. 471
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
"How are you doing?" We're all so used to the quick, one-word answers to that question, but today, we're going deeper. Debra Fileta is a much-loved repeat guest on the Awesome Marriage Podcast, and she has written a powerful new book, Are You Really OK?: Getting Real About Who You Are, How You're Doing, and Why It Matters. We're so happy to have her on today to get real about learning whether we are really doing ok, how to know if we are or not, and why it matters!
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RESOURCES
- One great step toward healing and growth is Debra's book, Are You Really OK?
- Email Debra@truelovedates.com to get the "Pastor's Guide To Navigating Mental Health" for free
- Follow Debra at @truelovedates on Instagram
- Visit True Love Dates for resources, great info and Debra's awesome podcast series on mental health
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- Our Questions To Help Your Spouse Open Up resource is designed to help grow the openness, communication and connection in your marriage
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:10.1 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.2 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:18.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:28.9 | Welcome to Awesome Marriage podcast today. I am so excited to welcome Deborah Fuleta back with us. |
| 0:34.0 | She has been with us, gosh, a number of times now with different books and things |
| 0:37.7 | she's done. She is an incredible counselor, writer, all these wonderful things, podcaster, |
| 0:44.7 | and most of all a friend. And Deborah, thanks for taking time to be with us today. |
| 0:48.9 | Oh, thank you so much for having me, Dr. Kimberling. It's always good to see you. So you start this new book with the line, you're not as healthy as you think you are. |
| 0:59.0 | So that kind of got my attention. |
| 1:02.0 | Unpack that why people think they're doing better than they are. |
| 1:07.0 | You know, it's funny because I definitely contemplated. |
| 1:10.0 | Do I want to start with this line? |
| 1:12.1 | That's definitely, that's my level of intensity. That is 100% mean in a counseling session. |
| 1:18.6 | But I think there is something to be said of people who read that line and still continue reading the book, right? |
| 1:27.3 | It's like, it's not like if it doesn't |
| 1:29.6 | turn you off, you're the exact type of person I want reading along and taking this journey. |
| 1:35.4 | And the reason I say that you're not as healthy as you think you are is because, you know, |
| 1:40.6 | there's something called the better than average effect. So social scientists took a bunch of people and they asked them to rate themselves on a scale |
| 1:49.7 | of how healthy and good they think they are when it comes to things like driving, their kindness, |
| 1:56.8 | their level of morality. |
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