Healthy Self / Healthy Marriage: Mental Health & Your Marriage | Ep. 522
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Mental health impacts every aspect of our life, so it will certainly impact our marriage. I am so thankful for Dr. Kim's deep experience with this topic! In this episode we covered everything from how to know when to work on things ourselves, when to seek help, and effective but practical ways to boost mental health in everyday life. Tune in to learn more.
Episode highlights include:
- How to know when you need professional help
- Practical everyday tips to boosting your mental health
- How to help a spouse that is struggling with their mental health, while staying healthy yourself
- Plus this week's anonymous question about a long-winded spouse
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:21.8 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship. |
| 0:28.9 | Today on the awesome marriage podcast, we are continuing to talk about healthy self and healthy |
| 0:33.4 | marriage. Our mental health impacts every part of life, so it certainly will impact our marriage. |
| 0:39.0 | And it can often be easy to neglect our mental health unless it is screaming for our attention. |
| 0:44.0 | But wherever you are today, we believe that God desires for you to thrive in mental health. |
| 0:49.6 | This is an ongoing piece of health to tend to you. And Dr. Kim, I'm looking forward to hearing your |
| 0:53.8 | take on this |
| 0:54.4 | as a seasoned Christian counselor. So what are some signs that your mental health is not in a great |
| 1:01.5 | place? Yeah, it's such a good question. I was looking at some things. The National Alliance of |
| 1:06.5 | Mental Health says that one in five adults every year will have some kind of mental illness. |
| 1:10.9 | So that is a lot. |
| 1:12.1 | And the same statistic is for kids all over the world, one in five. |
| 1:17.1 | And then that's sometimes kids, it's not as easy to determine. |
| 1:22.1 | But I think the whole idea of mental health is something that a lot of us will have to deal with at some point |
| 1:29.0 | or other in our marriage. |
| 1:30.4 | Nancy and I both had severe depression at times in our marriage. |
| 1:34.2 | And so I guess my experience is not only from counseling people, but also the things that |
| 1:41.3 | we've been through with that too. |
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