Healthy Self / Healthy Marriage: The Connection Between Emotional & Spiritual Health | Ep. 521
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The healthiest marriages are between two healthy people. This week we're unpacking why it's so hard to be spiritually healthy without emotional health. The two are linked because a lack of knowing ourselves will seriously hinder our ability to connect with God and others. It's a lot simpler, more accessible, and less touchy-feely than it may sound.
Episode highlights include:
- The connection between emotional and spiritual health
- The unintended relational effects of unprocessed emotions
- Tips to grow in emotionally and spiritually health
- Plus this week's anonymous listener question about an apathetic 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. |
| 0:29.3 | Spiritual and emotional health are really hard to separate. |
| 0:33.6 | Our emotional health or lack thereof impacts our spiritual health. |
| 0:37.3 | And if we aren't in tune with our |
| 0:38.8 | own heart, it'll be really hard to let God go to work there. Many of us don't have a great |
| 0:43.9 | handle on how to do this, but it's really not as scary or complicated or as woo-woo as it might |
| 0:48.6 | sound. So let's see if today we can start to demystify the ideas of spiritual and emotional health. So, Dr. Kim, what are |
| 0:57.5 | some of the issues that arise when we are not emotionally mature or healthy? Well, I think when we don't |
| 1:04.2 | control our emotions, that always causes a problem, you know, and if we don't have any restraint, |
| 1:09.9 | or then our emotions don't |
| 1:11.1 | fit the situation maybe, our anger escalates or it just comes out, you know, we're just right |
| 1:17.2 | there below the surface all the time. And instead of dealing with things, we let it come out, |
| 1:22.3 | and then we just let us spell over all the people around us. And I think when other things that seem to happen, |
| 1:29.2 | I think it makes it hard for us to compromise because we do that. I think we can detach from our |
| 1:36.7 | spouse because we don't talk about our emotions. And so one of the things that if we're not mature, |
| 1:42.2 | it's hard for us to sit down and really talk about the real emotions. |
| 1:45.7 | You know, we talk a lot of, we have a chart in the office and has anger, and then all these |
| 1:49.6 | things that are behind anger, because usually there's something that causes anger. And so what's |
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