What Your Spouse Can and Can't Hold (Mind the Gap!)
As we're talking about all month, every marriage has gaps and seasons where connection runs thin or a need goes unspoken for too long. As you're learning to healthily differentiate, don't move so far ...
19 Aug 21min
Grief, Remarriage, and the Love That Lasts, with Clarissa Moll, 6
This is a special and tender episode to close our month on what our spouses can and cannot carry for us, because some things, like grief, are simply too heavy for any one person to hold alone. Chri...
17 Aug 33min
Your Virtue, Your Vice, and Awakening to Your True Purposes
So much of what we hand our spouse to fix is really our own inner work in disguise. In this episode, Christa turns to two of the most useful words the Enneagram gives us: your vice and your virtue. Yo...
12 Aug 22min
The Blind Spots Between Us, with Beatrice Chestnut, 2
Christa welcomes the beloved Beatrice Chestnut, one of the most respected voices in the Enneagram world, for a rich conversation on the three centers of intelligence, the body, the heart, and the head...
10 Aug 53min
Where Our Deeper Needs Really Belong with Coach Linda Hannigan, 3
This week Christa welcomes Linda Hannigan, 3 (3-1 pairing), an Enneagram and Marriage certified coach, gifted orator, and truth teller whose candor and artistry make her a joy to learn from. Together ...
5 Aug 43min
Feeling Unnoticed in Marriage: What Your Spouse Can't Do for You
So many of us have handed our spouse a job description they were never meant to fill, to notice our every need, validate our worth, provide our purpose, and keep us feeling seen, alive, and whole. And...
3 Aug 23min
The Intimacy of Being Believed In: The Michelangelo Effect
Close partners sculpt one another by drawing out each other's ideal self, as we learn from the Michelangelo phenomenon, we find that couples who idealize each other are more likely to last and even g...
29 Jul 18min
The Body Keeps the Score in the Bedroom: Intimacy, Safety, and Learning to Regulate
We often treat physical intimacy as something that happens only in the moment, but the body carries far more than the moment. It carries our history, our stress, and our old wounds, everything it has ...
27 Jul 19min
