Episode 74: The Safe Talk Process - A Helpful Lesson From Marriage Therapy

The Carlos Whittaker Podcast

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture

5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We're back, fam!!! This episode is another walk and talk with me! The last few days I've been doing a marriage intensive, so this episode is all about what I've been learning alongside my wife. It was hard work. It's not easy to take a look at the hard parts of your story. But that's what we've done the last few days, and it was super healing! Here's a simple but transformative tool we learned: The Safe Talk Process This is a tool that you can use all the time—whether you're in crisis or not! Take a listen for a step-by-step walkthrough of the Safe Talk Process that you can use in any kind of relationship you have! Grab a pen and paper because you're going to want to take notes! . . . . . Order your copy of my new book Reconnected HERE: ReconnectedBook.com Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to hear ALL my updates. https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1987227/1965424/ Interested in advertising with us? Reach out here. Book me to speak HERE: https://www.carloswhittaker.com/events . . . . . NIV: Find out more at NIVApplicationBible.com HIYA HEALTH: Receive 50% off your first order at hiyahealth.com/HUMANHOPE SHOPIFY: Go to shopify.com/CARLOS to take your business to the next level today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, we back, fam.
0:07.4	Welcome back to the Carlos Whitaker podcast.
0:11.5	I am.
0:13.0	I've decided so many of you enjoyed my walk the last time that why in the world would I wait to get into my hotel room to talk to you?
0:25.4	The whole stream of consciousness idea is just kind of where I feel like I'm at right now.
0:32.6	You know, I just feel like there's, oh, this is pretty.
0:35.5	There's far too many people.
0:38.1	Everything's so outlined. Everything's many people. Everything's so outlined.
0:39.4	Everything's so structured.
0:40.5	Everything's so chat GPTed.
0:43.5	You know, like, listen, like, if you have a podcast every single week that has like,
0:48.7	oh, this is beautiful.
0:50.8	I remember when I was walking in the desert?
0:53.7	And your podcast every week has like six points, 36 sub points.
0:59.4	And I'm like, no.
1:01.0	How about you just talk to me?
1:03.0	So that's what we're going to do.
1:04.5	We're just going to hang out.
1:05.1	We're going to talk.
1:07.2	And I want to talk to you about, as we come back, just something that is very fresh for me, very top of mind, very important to my life.
1:21.6	I, the last few days, I've not been on Instagram.
1:26.6	The reason why is because I've been doing it intensive.
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