Ep 187 Simple Pleasures
Marriage Therapy Radio
MTR
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Zach is fretting about the sizes of circles. Laura is sniffing strangers in parks. This leads to a great discussion and exercise about finding simple pleasures in life and allowing those to ground you.
They also circle back to a previous episode where they hashed out some conflict.
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| 0:45.3 | Mama knows wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody. Welcome to this episode of Marriage Therapy Radio. |
| 0:54.8 | I'm Zach. I'm here with Laura. |
| 0:56.3 | Okay, wow, it's been a crazy couple of few weeks here in Marriage Therapy Radio land. |
| 1:00.5 | Laura and I just taught the art and science of love this last weekend. |
| 1:04.8 | For the Gottman Institute, I thought it went well. |
| 1:06.5 | I thought people had a good time. |
| 1:07.5 | We learned a lot, and it was fun for us to be able to do that finally and just kind of get on the other side and kind of shake our heads out. Last week I had to interview |
| 1:15.9 | by myself. A lot of you asked if that was a result of the episode that came before. It was not. |
| 1:20.4 | It was a circumstance of timing. And this episode is a little wonky. I think we're just kind of |
| 1:24.9 | trying to find our sea legs again. But, you know, I |
| 1:28.8 | stumbled on, and we stumbled on, a topic that I think is actually pretty important. It's the |
| 1:34.1 | idea that you see what you're looking for. If we are scanning the environment and looking |
| 1:38.2 | around for stuff to disappoint us, upset us, make us sad or angry, we're going to find it. But |
| 1:42.9 | sometimes you need to go out of your way just to look for stuff that, uh, that delights you and brings you joy. That's a little bit of what |
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