On this episode of The Marriage Life Coach Podcast, I am joined by the wonderful Brig Johnson, one of my favorite humans on the whole planet. She is a master certified life coach who helps high-achieving women become un-fuck-withable. Her philosophy is that the more we can connect with and accept ourselves, the more we can connect with and accept others.

Brig is someone who leads with compassion, wisdom, love, and science and I love her for it.

Our conversation today delves into ambivalence in our marriage or relationship. We all have different seasons of life where we’ll have to deal with ambivalence, and knowing how to approach it effectively is such a skill! How do we really feel about this issue? Our feelings can be so mixed or even contradictory… How do we know which thread to follow?

Brig is here to help us with that today.

She’s sharing her deep wisdom and understanding about how to trust yourself, and the things that get in the way of feeling safe in our relationships. Most importantly, Brig is teaching us how to approach getting out of ambivalence and “going all in” with love and acceptance for ourselves and our partner.

It’s SO good. Give our discussion a listen and check out the resources linked below to get the most out of this episode.

In this episode of The Marriage Life Coach Podcast, I’m joined by Tara Simkins, a life coach who helps people get through tough times to create meaningful lives. Our aim is to better understand perimenopause/menopause, especially how it affects our lives and naturally, our relationships.

But before we dive in, I want you to know you do not need to be going through menopause for everything we talk about today to apply to you!

This episode will prepare you to be confident if/when you enter that chapter of your life, or whether you just use one of the takeaways right now to help you with whatever's feeling challenging in your relationship.

Just for clarity, perimenopause is a physiological and psychological shift in a woman's experience as they go towards menopause that can start as early as your late thirties. And on a societal level, almost NO ONE is talking about it and how it affects our lives and relationships.

We’re changing that today!

Join us for this episode to hear more about:

- Why women may feel shame around personal health

- The stress perimenopause can put on relationships

- How to understand what your needs are and communicate them to your partner

- The importance of talking and learning more about perimenopause

Something miraculous happened to me recently and I knew that what I learned from it would help you have a stronger, better, more amazing relationship.

Physical therapy.

Okay, so maybe it wasn’t an actual miracle, and it’s not immediately obvious how my attending physical therapy is going to help your marriage, but stick with me! I promise it makes sense.

In this episode, I’ll share 6 lessons that I believe can help you have a better relationship right now. There are so many parallels I draw between my experience with physical therapy and some of the most common experiences with relationship struggles.

There was pain. There was fear. There was the whole “I’m used to it” when it came to this particular problem (a clicky, painful knee, in my case). There were tons of completely reasonable-sounding excuses for why I didn’t need help, and why I didn’t try reaching out sooner.

Sound familiar?

I told you it would all make sense. Ready to hear how you can take this analogy and apply it to your marriage starting today?

Listen in and hear more about:

- Why it’s so important to stop waiting and take the big step forward

- How progress doesn’t always LOOK like progress

- What it means to believe things can be different

Find full show notes and links to resources at: http://maggiereyes.com/podcast/160