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Flying Free

Do Marriage Intensives Help to Heal Abusive Marriages? [269]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Spiritual, Narcissism, Self-improvement, Marriage, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Divorce, Christianity, Education

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Gretchen Baskerville joins me in today’s episode to talk about a survey she recently conducted on peoples’ personal experiences with marriage intensives. In her survey of 330 people, what she found was shocking, fascinating, and not at all what she expected (mostly). 


Listen to today’s episode to find out the twelve biggest surprises in this survey and what they mean when it comes to the effectiveness of expensive marriage intensives. Each surprise gets more and more fascinating as the episode unravels - you won’t want to miss this!


Read the show notes and/or ask Natalie a question here

Related Resources: 

  • Gretchen’s website, Life-Saving Divorce, is a gold mine of resources.
  • Check out Gretchen on YouTube.
  • The Life-Saving Divorce, Gretchen’s best-selling book, just might be the lifeline you’re looking for. Don’t hesitate to grab your copy today! 
  • If you are a Christian woman who thinks you may be in an emotionally destructive marriage, learn more at https://flyingfreenow.com
  • I'll send you (free!) the first chapter of my book, Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage, which has an assessment to help you figure out if your relationship is abusive or not. All you have to do is hop on my mailing list
  • You can also find out about our online education and support program for women of faith at https://joinflyingfree.com.
  • And finally, if you are a divorced Christian woman who wants to take back her life and get healthy, lose weight, have amazing relationships, get things done, build a business or career, and even find a good man (if you want one) - check out Flying Higher.

Gretchen Baskerville is a Christian divorce recovery leader and researcher. Since 1998, she has worked in churches in the Los Angeles area helping heartbroken people find strength, courage, and healing. For more than 20 years she has worked with Christian women and men going through difficult, life-saving divorces, listening with compassion to those who have suffered from domestic violence, betrayal, infidelity, addicted partners, and emotional abuse. Herself the survivor of a toxic marriage, she walked through her own lifesaving divorce and was a single mother for many years. Today she is happily remarried. She is a graduate of Wheaton College with a degree in Bible and Christian Education.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com and you're listening to the

0:09.3

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

0:16.4

emotional and spiritual abuse.

0:21.6

Welcome to episode 269 of the Flying Free Podcast.

0:27.0

Today we have back one of my favorite guests, Gretchen Baskerville.

0:31.0

She's the author of the life-saving divorce.

0:34.4

It is a book I recommend all the time.

0:37.2

It's an incredible Christian resource for women who are in abusive marriages

0:41.1

and or have experienced infidelity or neglect and are wondering if they can get a life-saving divorce from a biblical perspective.

0:49.0

Gretchen is an experienced advocate and researcher and she brings all of that insight and wisdom into her book, her website,

0:57.0

life saving divorce.com, her YouTube channel, which is amazing, and her Facebook group.

1:03.4

She has been on the Flying Free Podcast

1:05.7

five times in the past, and I just want to highlight

1:08.4

those episodes in case you listen to this one

1:11.0

and you think, I'd like to listen to other ones by Gretchen.

1:15.2

Episode 33, practical tips for single women after divorce.

1:19.7

And by the way you can find these episodes by going to you can either go to the flying free

1:23.2

podcast on your favorite app or if you go to flying free now dot com forward slash and

1:31.0

then the number of the episode you can go directly to it. So episode 33

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practical tips for single women after divorce episode 35 shame busting your divorce, episode 56, questions Christians have about rebuilding their life after divorce,

1:50.7

episode 63, can a Christian get a divorce, and episode 200? She came on with

1:57.5

myself and some other advocates and it was my 200th celebration.

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