NEW Sept Series: The Shadow Side of Selflessness
Serving is beautiful, but there's a shadow side to it, the point where selflessness turns into self-erasure and a person, more often a woman, slowly disappears inside their own marriage or role. In th...
2 Sep 25min
Subscriber Series (FREE): The Two Shadows in Every Type: Overly Controlling and Complying
Here in this (free) subscriber series episode, Christa goes deeper into how self-erasure takes root for each of the nine types in this subscriber episode released for our entire audience. For a lot of...
2 Sep 19min
When You're Too Weary for the Work, with Amy Wicks, 7
So many this 2026 are bone-tired, pouring themselves out for everyone around them until there is nothing left, and then feeling guilty for having no energy left for the inner work they know matters, e...
31 Aug 43min
The Gift Your Marriage Never Knew It Needed: A Full You
As we have named what our spouses cannot carry for us, now we turn the corner to the best gift your marriage never knew it needed, and it is not a date night or a new technique, it is a full you. If y...
26 Aug 20min
When Parenting Takes Everything, with Abbey Howe, 3
When the kids need everything, there is often very little left over for the marriage, and yet if our family is going to make it, fighting for it is your work to do. To this end, Christa welcomes Abbey...
24 Aug 43min
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
