The Mental Battle For Your Marriage | Ep. 572
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Your mindset has a powerful impact on everything in your life - including your marriage. Is yours helping or hurting your marriage? Today Dr. Kim shares some sneaky ways your thoughts might be harming your marriage, without you even realizing it, as well as practical advice for how to overcome them.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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How to identify and correct unhealthy thought patterns
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Why even our fleeting thoughts matter
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One thing that prevents many of us from being honest with God and with ourselves, and how to overcome it
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
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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. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. In order to have a healthy and awesome marriage, |
| 0:31.2 | you have to protect it and nurture it. And one really important way to do that is by protecting |
| 0:35.1 | your thoughts. What we think is going to overflow |
| 0:37.6 | naturally into everything we do. So it is essential to have a healthy mindset about our marriage. |
| 0:43.6 | Today we're going to talk about ways to battle unhealthy thought patterns. So Dr. Kim, first of all, |
| 0:48.7 | when it comes to marriage, why are our mindset and our thought life so important? |
| 0:54.1 | I think they are just because everything begins there. Our thoughts is just for, Why are our mindset and our thought life so important? |
| 0:56.6 | I think they are just because everything begins there. |
| 1:02.5 | Our thoughts is just where our thoughts happen before our words happened, before our actions happen, before our reactions happen, how we look at our spouse, how we frame our spouse, |
| 1:06.8 | and that's going to have a lot to do. |
| 1:07.9 | What are you thinking about with your spouse? |
| 1:10.2 | Then it relates then about how you treat your spouse. |
| 1:13.5 | What you say to your spouse? |
| 1:14.5 | If you have framed your spouse in your thoughts as an enemy or they're just not being fair |
| 1:20.3 | to me or things like that, well, your reactions, the way you interact with them will be the same. |
| 1:23.5 | If you frame your spouse in a very healthy way, most of the time, your words and actions |
| 1:28.5 | and things that happen are going to be positive. And so I think it makes a big difference. And |
| 1:33.4 | sometimes I don't think we realize how important our thought life is and how much it affects |
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