Unpack the Baggage In Your Marriage: How To Let It Go | Ep. 558
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week we conclude our powerful Unpacking the Baggage series with some details on the process of unpacking marriage baggage, and dealing with what's underneath. I'm so thankful for Dr. Kim's biblical wisdom on this topic, as well as the excellent guests we heard from this month. If you missed the previous episodes of this series, make sure to go back and listen for some powerful wisdom on how to heal your heart and your marriage.
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
Episode highlights include:
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Some of the physical signals that can help us prevent overreactions
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Slowing down the process to identify relationship triggers
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How to begin healing from relationship triggers and figure out what's underneath
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What to do if you don't know what's underneath
*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. Today we are wrapping up our topic of unpacking |
| 0:31.6 | the baggage in your marriage. In so many marriages, the things that we haven't dealt with will |
| 0:36.2 | keep us from enjoying the joy |
| 0:38.1 | and freedom that our marriage was meant for. |
| 0:40.7 | So we're dealing with those things now to get them out of the way and help you live |
| 0:45.0 | freer, lighter, and with more joy in your marriage. |
| 0:48.3 | So Dr. Kim, as we're starting to end this series on baggage, will you briefly recap some of the |
| 0:53.9 | types of baggage we've |
| 0:55.0 | talked about? |
| 0:55.7 | Sure. |
| 0:56.5 | We've talked about things that come from our family of origin, from our childhood, |
| 1:00.7 | you know, things that, you know, sometimes I think we minimize the things that happened |
| 1:05.3 | when we were young because we were young, but those things can last a lifetime and certainly |
| 1:09.1 | they can draw into your marriage and what you experience in your family of origin. |
| 1:12.6 | We talked about finances coming into the marriage after not handling finance as well or having been hurt by someone with finances. |
| 1:20.6 | And then you kind of are really cautious relationships, of course, past relationships. |
| 1:26.6 | Maybe it was a divorce. |
| 1:28.3 | Maybe it was someone cheated on you or you cheat on somebody or you've been mistreated |
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