Mirror Effect

Our spouses play many important roles in our lives. They can be our best friend or biggest advocate, our most painful ...

Emotion v Logic

Many couples claim that one partner is logical and the other is emotional (and that this is a problem). Usually the ...

Emotional Responsibility

A good wife makes her husband happy I want to help my husband feel better. Happy wife, happy life. Those sound ...

Love Feel Amazing (NOT Terrible)

Love feel amazing. When we are feeing love we act lovingly.  Often we get loved mixed up with other emotions. We ...

How Can I accept them? I don’t respect what they believe or think.

Many clients come to me and ask, “How Can I accept them? I don’t respect what they believe or think. I ...

Boundaries

I have heard their is a need to establish boundaries in a Mormon mixed faith marriage. This may be true and ...

How to Feel Better About Your Mixed Faith Marriage

Our relationship we have with others is just the accumulation of thoughts we have about them. Our thoughts about what they ...

Consequences

You are probably aware of long and short term consequences. When you eat a cupcake in the short term you get ...

Selfish – Video

Progression, Change & Perfectionism – Video

Us versus Them Mentality

There is a way our brains process and categorize people and events in our lives that I call the  ‘us versus ...

Courage

If I could name one ESSENTIAL emotion to make a mixed faith marriage work I would name: Courage. It takes courage ...

Baby Blessings, Baptism, Ordination, Temple Weddings

What to do when your kids hit on of the many rites of passage in LDS culture? Do you let them ...

Inner Work for Outer Success

Most (okay, really all) the really effective work we do in our marriage is inner work. We think it is work ...

Common Worries For Active Spouses Around Parenting 

I am sure there are tons of worries out there. Here I will highlight two I have seen personally and professionally.  ...

Parenting Series # 4- Worry

I have covered so far: #1- basic parenting resources – fully vetted #2- How to deal with a spouse teaching things ...

Unconditional Love  and Respect

My husband and I have an ongoing discussion about unconditional love and respect. Suffice it to say we would like more ...

I can’t believe this is happening to me (and other unhelpful thoughts)

Have you found yourself thinking these thoughts about your faith transition or your spouse’s faith transition (and marriage transition)? I can’t ...

It Only Takes ONE

I can’t improve my marriage because my spouse is not interesting in seeking help. I hear this a lot. Here is ...

Divorce in NOT an option

This used to be how my husband and I approached our marriage. We were taught this and it sounded good, right? ...

Three Necessary Things to have a GREAT Mormon Mixed Faith Marriage

Conflict- VIDEO

A Faith Crisis Usually Brings Up Longstanding Marriage Issues- VIDEO

Mormon? Unitarian? Agnostic? Atheist? – VIDEO

Change – You can accept it or fight it (VIDEO)

Parenting Series #3: What To Do With The Kids Post COVID

Church has been a pretty low key affair for the past 13 months in our house. We still do not have ...

Parenting Series #1: Parenting in a Mixed Faith Marriage – Some Basic Resources

We have had a request for a list of resources to help teach kids values and character from a more secular ...

Parenting Series #2: How to Deal With Your Spouse Teaching Things That You Do Not Agree With

In my work as a coach for Mormons in mixed faith marriages I am doing a multi part series on teaching ...

Mixed Faith Marriage and Alcohol 

There are many charged emotions and strong reactions with alcohol. People feel very strongly about substances like this. That is OK,  ...

Marriage Challenges

What is the impact of feeling stuck and disempowered in your mixed faith marriage? Do you think of the challenges in ...

Intimacy and Validation

We sometimes get intimacy confused with something else. That something else is called many things. Maybe you know it as: validation, ...

Marriage Roles and Intimacy

Marriages often become a way for us to live out prescribed roles. It  can be an easy and simple way of ...

It Only Takes One

I can’t improve my marriage because my spouse is not interesting in seeking help. I hear this a lot. Here is ...

Divorce in NOT an option

This used to be how my husband and I approached our marriage. We were taught this and it sounded good, right? ...

AND not BUT 

Many people new to a mixed faith marriage  have been told that it is HARD and CHALLENGING and probably won’t work. ...

Jealousy 

A mixed faith marriage provides all sorts of new experiences. Jealousy might be one of them. Jealousy is a feeling. It ...

How to Process Emotions in a Conversation

Have you ever been flooded with emotions in a conversation? It can cause you to loose focus and become very ineffective at ...

When Others Are Concerned About Us

It is not the cruel criticism of people who hate us that shakes us from our knowing, it is the quiet ...

How to Handle the Holidays in a Mixed Faith Marriage

Christmas is coming! Christmas is a religious holiday and that can be challenging for some in a mixed faith marriage. Does ...

Mormon Mixed Faith Marriage Resources – VIDEO

Why You Fight About Church VIDEO

Mixed Faith Marriage and Morally Deficient- VIDEO

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Hierarchy kills intimacy – Partnership fosters it – VIDEO

  If it is time to talk to me about your mixed faith marriage – CLICK HERE TO SCHEDULE YOUR FREE ...

How Influence Your Spouse in a Mixed Faith Marriage – VIDEO

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What to do if your marriage ha been neglected? VIDEO

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Intimacy Part II

Marriages often become a way for us to live out prescribed roles. It  can be an easy and simple way of ...

Intimacy

Intimacy Part 1 of 2 We sometimes get intimacy confused with something else. That something else is called many things. Maybe ...

Anxiety

Pretty common emotion these days. It seems to be a pandemic equal to the Corona virus, or worse. it is also ...

Perspective

My husband and I walk the dog in the neighborhood. Just around the block is a pretty good sized pine tree. ...

Processing Emotions

Have you every been in a conversation with you spouse and you pretty much just say all the wrong things in ...