Bruce Learns to Label His Feelings :: Bruce and Heather [Ep 316]
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Don't Mom Alone Podcast
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🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
“What’s something you’ve grown in but at different speeds?”. After collecting listener questions, this question stood out to my husband Bruce. So instead of doing a general Q and A episode (in honor of our 22nd wedding anniversary), we decided to discuss Bruce’s journey in learning how to identify what he is feeling, labeling it and sharing it with others.
Listen to how we learned to process our feelings through church small group. And how we’ve grown as a couple to express those emotions in a healthy way.
“I think a common theme through all of this is just having a really constructive, clear language to talk about things. It is not like any one of these methods solves things. It's not a formula. The more precise and constructive and simple we make this language, the more effective communication can be.”
Here are the cards we reference in the show (see website show notes).
More Episodes with Bruce:
- 20th Anniversary Q & A :: Bruce and Heather [Ep 242]
- The Right to Change My Mind :: Bruce and Heather [Ep 196]
- This is Us :: Bruce and Heather {Ep 145}
- Goals, Roles and Superpowers :: Bruce and Heather MacFadyen {Ep 112}
- When your Husband has a Demanding Job :: Bruce and Heather {Ep 38}
Links Mentioned:
- Steps into God’s Grace (12 step program) by Lynn Hoffman
- Recovery for Life :: Lynn Hoffman [Ep 129]
- BOOK: People Fuel by John Townsend
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | I am your host Heather McFadian and this is a place where I'm going to walk alongside |
| 0:15.0 | you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:20.9 | And this episode number 316, I've invited back to the show, my husband, Bruce McFadian. |
| 0:30.1 | But we've talked before even about things like any agreement, strange spider. |
| 0:33.8 | And I think a common theme through all of them is just having a really constructive |
| 0:40.0 | clear language to talk about these things. |
| 0:43.4 | Whether it's how I feel, whether it's what I want, whether who I am and how I best contribute |
| 0:51.6 | to this world and to this family and things like that. |
| 0:54.9 | I think what's really just helpful about all of these is not like any one of these like |
| 0:59.2 | solves a button that's not a formula but I think a more precise and constructive |
| 1:04.9 | language is in the more simple languages I think the more you know the more effective |
| 1:11.2 | communication is. |
| 1:13.2 | Bruce has been on the show several times, we linked to all of them in the show notes |
| 1:16.9 | but it's been a couple years and so we thought we haven't come back on. |
| 1:20.7 | It is our 22nd wedding anniversary on March 6th. |
| 1:25.5 | I can't even believe it. |
| 1:27.0 | We got married in 1999 and we partied like it was. |
| 1:30.5 | Anyway, I asked listeners for questions and one question when I shared it with Bruce, |
| 1:34.8 | he was like, I know what I want to talk about. |
| 1:37.3 | Bruce listener asked what's something you have grown in at different speeds and he said |
| 1:43.8 | I want to talk about my journey of learning the language of emotions and identifying what |
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