Life and Love Nuggets

Brent and Janis look at the negative impact of our busy, disconnected culture and how with some simple things to focus on we can make a significant difference in the lives of those we encounter each day as well as our own fulfillment and peace.   

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-power-of-presence

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982.

They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice. 

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only. 

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

We have all heard that laughter is the best medicine.  Brent and Janis discuss the benefits of laughter not only on our physical and mental health, but also the benefits to our relationships and sense of connectedness with others.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-benefits-of-laughter

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible. 

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice. 

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only. 

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

Many people find themselves shying away from difficult conversations.  Brent and Janis look at the negative impact on limited communication in important relationships. They also discuss the critical things to know in helping difficult conversations happen and how to ensure they are helpful in building and strengthening our relationships. 

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/having-difficult-conversations

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible.

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

Brent and Janis look at the 12 steps that originated almost 100 years ago. While they are most known in the Alcoholics Anonymous tradition, Brent and Janis share how these very principles can inspire us to grow in all of our daily lives and relationships. 

Ian Cron, “The Fix” How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between John Ortberg, Steps:  A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-12-steps-for-everyone

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible.

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

Brent and Janis discuss a long term practice in the church: Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter and how it can be enlightening and help develop important rhythms in our daily life. 

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/lent-what-is-it

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible.

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

Brent and Janis continue their interview with Tracy Balzar, a former professor of spiritual formation and a spiritual director, about the role and impact of simple consistent practices in our daily life that can be life changing. 

Tracy Balzer is the author of Thin Places: An Evangelical Journey Into Celtic Christianity (Leafwood); A Listening Life (Pinyon); and Permission to Ponder: Contemplative Wisdom for the Spiritually Distracted (Leafwood). Her most recent book is A Journey of Sea and Stone: How Holy Places Guide and Renew Us (Broadleaf).

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/spiritual-disciplines

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible.

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

Brent and Janis interview Tracy Balzar, author of Thin Places, about times and places in our life where we have uniquely felt God’s presence.  They discuss the role of our anticipation as key in experiencing these moments in life.

Tracy Balzer is the author of Thin Places: An Evangelical Journey Into Celtic Christianity (Leafwood); A Listening Life (Pinyon); and Permission to Ponder: Contemplative Wisdom for the Spiritually Distracted (Leafwood). Her most recent book is A Journey of Sea and Stone: How Holy Places Guide and Renew Us (Broadleaf).

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/thin-places

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible.

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

Why does our best effort toward New’s Year’s resolutions often end up in the rear view mirror within 30-60 days and nothing really seems to change.  Brent and Janis look at the difference between reformation of our life through our best efforts and allowing ourselves to be transformed from the inside out which allows for real, meaningful growth in our lives.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/transformation-in-the-new-year

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible.

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

You love your spouse, but do you like them?  Any one can find moments in their life when they love their spouse, but are having trouble liking them! Having these happen briefly are a normal part of living with another human. But, if this persists, it is a sign that we need to take a closer look at our relationship and get some tools to help build a more fulfilling life and relationship.  Brent and Janis explore how this happens and how we can actually make changes in our attitudes and interactions that can add liking to loving your spouse.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/what-do-you-do-when-you-dont-like-your-spouse-but-love-them

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible.

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

As we have just experienced the Christmas season, Brent and his son, Father Preston Sharpe, look at some of the questions people have about Christmas from the virgin birth, to Santa Claus and Christmas trees. 

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/christmas-questions

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible.

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.

The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative (http://www.clayton-creative.com) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

This podcast should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.