Dysfunctional families, shame, the side effects of divorce, grief, and being married to someone with trauma. (Interview with Dr. Barry Gridley)

The Intentional Parents Podcast

Intentional

Christianity, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Happy Thanksgiving from Intentional! Today is a special bonus episode that you DO NOT want to miss. Brook sits down with his therapist Dr. Barry Gridley to cover a myriad of topics. To mention a few, they discuss dysfunctional family systems and how family's identities change as trauma or chronic sickness ensues. They talk about the fatigue of grief work and how to do it, the four "a's that shame leads us to, and how to be an excellent spouse to someone who has experienced or is experiencing trauma. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intentional Parents Podcast. Intentional exists to help parents in their
0:18.6	God-given task to raise passionate Jesus followers. We exist to bring hope, help, and healing
0:24.5	to families. Each week, we will talk about anything from parenting, marriage, lifestyle, and what
0:30.4	it looks like to follow Jesus in our time. Intentional is made up of Phil and Diane Comer and Brook
0:35.6	and Elizabeth Moser. I am Brook, and the funny thing is, we are all family. Elizabeth is
0:40.8	Phil and Diane's daughter, so we're a family, figuring this thing out together. We hope this
0:46.0	podcast feels like you're sitting with us in our home talking about how to do this thing called
0:51.1	together. Elizabeth and I are your host. Let's get into this week's podcast.
1:02.4	All right, on today's episode, I am so excited about today. Today is really close to my heart
1:08.8	personally, because we have Dr. Barry Gridley on the show. I'm going to introduce him in a minute
1:13.2	when we get chatting, but what an incredible human. You're going to hear his story. We talk about
1:18.5	trauma. We talk about dysfunctional family systems. What to do with shame? The four A's of
1:24.4	things that come when we try to live from shame and marriage as well. We cover so many things, but
1:31.6	Barry has been a friend of mine for almost a year now, and a friend would be the wrong word. He's
1:37.5	my therapist. He's my counselor. He's been so helpful in the arena of understanding so many
1:43.8	different things about the inside of myself. I asked him to sit down and ask him just
1:48.7	candidly if he'd have some honest conversations with us and put some microphones in front of us
1:53.9	so we could actually share that with all of you. I know you're going to enjoy today's episode
1:58.0	and please enjoy today's conversation with Dr. Barry Gridley. All right, so today I know I just
2:04.9	gave an intro, but today I'm here with Dr. Barry Gridley, Barry, Dr. Barry. What would you like to
2:12.5	call you for the rest of this episode? You can call me Dr. Barry. I like Dr. Barry. Dr. Barry,
2:17.4	welcome to the show. Thank you very much. I'm so glad to have you. I'm going to give a little
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