This was a potential banana skin here, because we have seen many high profile Christian leaders make some really big mistakes and unfortunately we don't seem to be learning from their bad decisions and how to protect ourselves as we ALL lead lives of influence. If you want to be a leader in a church environment listen in and, we hope, get some tools to design your environment so that you can avoid being in a position of temptation. This podcast isn't just for leaders and potenti...
Sometimes we get in these zones of just doing what we do without thinking about what makes us "do it". Here Sam asks Jocelyn why she is so passionate about dating and marriage. We are building our content and we are learning about each other and what works and doesn't work etc. If you have any feedback we would LOVE to hear from you. Comment directly on facebook, instagram, or email.
We tried to record a podcast in the evening after our kids went down. We eased in to the podcast, we yawned a few times and then 13mins later we stubbled across this topic "Hallmark movies, Expectations and Romance". So we cut out the first 13 sleepy minutes and fashioned out a decent podcast. We played with some sounds and put some more time into the edit as well. Please, please, please, can you comment, share and even give us feedback. We are growing this podcast and trying to build ...
We felt there was much more to say about porn so we chat about the cycle of porn addiction, the effects it has on the consumer and those they are in realtionship with. We also discuss the amazing potential for incredible sex within marriage when porn is not longer present. Because Sam has walked out freedom from porn addiction it is something he is passionate about. Getting free from porn is possible. There are benefits to kicking this habit and there is so much life and freedom to ex...
In this episode we step away from our story of restoring our marriage and we chat about something we are both passionate about...healthy sexuality!! Porn an animal we don't fully understand yet, and yet we are seeing dramatic side effects that are not helping build a healthy society. Enjoy this podcast. Be warned, this does contain sexually graphic conversations. Book References: Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain Paperback – Illustrated, 9 Dec. 2009 by William ...
Counselling for us was the cornerstone of rebuilding our marriage. It wasn't fun, but it was necessary. We answer the question, "What did you learn?" and also how has our process affected the way we forgive now. Thank you for joining us on this journey, please share our message and help us spread our story so that other marriages can be restored like ours was. Thank youThe Parkers
During this episode Sam talks about what it was like to be around people right after his emotional affair. The looks, the labels the "help" and how to allow yourself to walk through that come out the other side unbroken. Thank you for listening.
As the process of restoring our marriage starts to take shape, there is a lot of forgiveness that needs to happen. Yet, what IS forgiveness, HOW do you forgive..? These are things we have heard talked about before, yet somehow walking it out wasn't anything like what we had heard! We had to figure this one out alone. Enjoy this, as we process our steps and why we chose to forgive and not just bury our heads.
After deciding to fight for our marriage we had to walk out that decision and rebuild our trust with each other and also with a lot of other people. Part of that was, do we go back to our church where everyone knows us and our situation. Some approve, some don't and some are outspoken no matter what we choose. Anyway, on this podcast we chat about what we chose to do and how it helped us navigate the awkward road ahead.
We hash out some our ideas around how disconnection nearly ruined our marriage and prioritizing connecting saved our marriage. Connection has made our sex life better, our everyday life more peaceful and how we navigate the stresses of life so much smoother. Enjoy our process and keep a look out for our next podcast next week.Sam and Joce
Here we talk about how disconnected we were and some simple tools helped us rebuild our marriage into something we barely believed existed. Our marriage now has become so stable and exciting we want everyone to know what marriage can be, and should be and epic adventure! We recorded this right after we recorded our first podcast (How our marriage blew up). It was a long afternoon of talking, but what came out of it was some real advice and stories that we hope can inspire you on your own adv...
Hi, in this podcast Sam and Jocelyn talk about how close we got to divorce and what was the main trigger for us both realizing we need to work on our marriage or walk away!This 20 min episode is a short story of "what happened". Other episodes go in to more depth about how we resolved and restored an even better marriage!
We were talking about dating and how to set yourself up for marriage and we stumbled onto the conversation about virginity. We both have thoughts and ideas, but this conversation was us stumbling through the idea of what classifies as virginty. I don't know if we actually answered the questions, but I think we learned something. We pray you do too. Enjoy this episode and We hope and pray that you learn something as I think we did too. Share, like, subscribe....you know the drill....
People understand that when we go beyond a boundary it becomes easier to keep going past that boundary to the same point again and again. For me the emotional affair was such a shock that "I'd got there" I had to untangle how and what boundaries I had pushed that shouldn't have been pushed. Also I had to know that I was fragile while in the rebuilding process and I needed to manage my thoughts and manage what's accurate in my head and what needed to be unlearned. This is a short Podcas...