Rebuilding Us: Marriage Podcast

How Changing Your Thoughts Can Heal Your Life & Relationships - Pt. 2


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Brenda Kennison is back for part two, diving deeper into her remarkable journey of transformation. After hitting rock bottom in the public eye, Brenda rewired her mindset and found true freedom from alcoholism, another failed marriage, and depression. Brenda shares how neuroplasticity and faith worked together to reshape her emotional and spiritual health, shifting her from toxic cycles to a place of healing and healthy relationships.

Discover how changing your thoughts really can change your life, especially within your relationships and marriage. You’ll hear practical steps for rewiring the brain, building healthy habits, and breaking free from damaging labels and generational patterns. Plus, Brenda gets real about her own journey through multiple marriages, finding lasting love, and becoming a champion for emotional and spiritual transformation.

If you’re ready to take the first step toward real change, this episode will give you the inspiration and tools you need. Dive in for a raw and encouraging conversation about what’s possible when you allow God and practical mindset work to reshape your story!

What You’ll Hear In This Episode:

  • Is Alcoholism a Disease?
    Brenda Kennison shares why she no longer views alcoholism as a disease, and how shifting this perspective empowered her to break free from addiction. 

  • The Power of Neuroplasticity and Scripture:
    Brenda explains how neuroscience and spiritual truth come together to help rewire the brain. Discover practical ways to “take every thought captive.” 

  • Marriage, Divorce, and Personal Growth:
    Learn how Brenda’s struggle with perfectionism, shame, and unhealed wounds deeply impacted her first three marriages. 

  • How Unhealed Thoughts Impact Relationships:
    Brenda offers a practical exercise to help listeners identify how they are currently “showing up” in life: through emotions, behaviors, bodily sensations, and perspectives. 

  • Building a Better Marriage Through Communication:
    Hear how Brenda and her husband learned to communicate across their differences and love each other according to their unique love languages. 

  • Practical Steps to Rewire Your Brain:
    Get Brenda’s three-step process of awareness, action, and accountability to transform negative thinking and habits. 

Resources Mentioned:

  • Day One of Sobriety Podcast & Ministry – dayoneofsobriety.org

  • How Connected Are You? Partner Quiz by Dana Che

  • Dr. Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages

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