Going for a Heart Walk
Focus on the Family Strengthening Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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When was the last time you and your spouse went for a walk together? Erin Smalley discusses how the simple activity of going for a walk can help you and your spouse connect. Then, Jim Daly interviews Jim Turner on something called a Heart Walk
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:34.9 | So maybe it feels like you and your spouse aren't connecting. Take a walk. That actually is good |
| 0:41.2 | advice. I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, Erin. And Aaron, |
| 0:46.3 | it is good advice to just get out and do something, but why? Yeah, well, it gives you a space outside |
| 0:53.7 | of your home, possibly, and just getting out and being |
| 1:00.1 | together to do something when there's no other distractions. For example, last week I got home a little |
| 1:05.8 | bit early and Greg was home a little bit early and we went, let's get in the car and go for a drive. |
| 1:10.9 | And we ended up driving to see the leaves. |
| 1:13.6 | And it was just the best drive. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, the seasonal change here. |
| 1:18.2 | The leaves are spectacular. |
| 1:19.7 | The trees are beautiful golden in color. |
| 1:24.1 | And it's remarkable. |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.9 | And we connected at a level. We got home and we went, A, that was so fun. It was spontaneous. And B, we connected. We talked the entire way and laughed and just admired God's beauty. It was just so good to get out of the routine. And just go, let's go and do this thing. It was so fun. A simple little reset, like a walk, can make a big difference. |
| 1:45.9 | And let's go ahead now and listen to a conversation that focused on the family president, Jim Daly, had with Jim Turner, who shared how his first marriage pretty much fell apart because they could not connect. |
| 1:57.7 | Dean, his wife just couldn't make it happen. |
| 2:00.0 | But he shares a very powerful story here on how you can connect. Dean, his wife just couldn't make it happen. But he shares a very powerful |
| 2:01.5 | story here on how you can connect, even in simple ways. You also describe in the book something |
| 2:08.1 | called heart walks, which I like with the last few minutes here, I want to get to the positive |
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