In this episode, Amberly interviews Dr. Kara Shade, a relationship coach. They talk about what relationship coaching is and how it can benefit couples in various seasons of life. Kara shares experiences from her time working with couples as well as from her own personal life.

In this episode, Amberly talks about considering your spouse in life, what that looks like, and how considering your spouse plays a role in making your marriage relationship a priority. This podcast episode was inspired by episode 312 of the Marriage Therapy Radio podcast.

Routines become a part of your every day and help you stay grounded, no matter what you have going on. Routines can have the same impact on your marriage, keeping it grounded and stable regardless of the chaos or peace your lives are currently involved in. In this episode, Amberly shares routines you can set to make your marriage a priority each day and through every season of your lives together.

Some stages (or seasons) of marriage and life can be counted on to happen, like the changing seasons of weather throughout the calendar year. A lot of the seasons we see in our lives are expected (i.e. becoming parents, retiring, kids leaving home). Although they are expected and follow the almost natural lifecycle, those seasons come on their own timeline and often come with unique challenges and mini-seasons that impact your family dynamic, and at the foundation, your marriage. Those seasons, stages, and circumstances impact the way you live your lives, as an individual, a couple, and a family unit. They require an adjustment of priorities, and shifting of routines.

In this episode, Amberly shares a four-step process you can do as a couple, every time you shift into a new season of life, to help ensure that you continue to make time for your marriage, make each other a priority, and that your relationship flourishes and grows through that season of life, rather than being put on the back burner, or even starting to fall apart in some way.

The holiday season is prime tradition time. In this episode of the Prioritize Your Marriage Podcast, Amberly is talking about traditions, specifically holiday ones, and more specifically ones that you share as a couple. She also shares how these connecting tips and rituals can be adjusted to work year round, in ways that aren't so seasonal.

**Show notes and a full transcript of the episode can be found at https://aprioritizedmarriage.com/blog/podcast-episode-10-holiday-traditions-for-your-marriage/

The holiday season can be busy with family activities and traditions, and other end-of-year things to be done. Don't put your marriage on the back burner, even for what you know would just be a few weeks. Make time to connect as a couple and start the new year off stronger than you are now.

**Show notes and a full transcript of the episode can be found at https://aprioritizedmarriage.com/blog/podcast-episode-8-prioritizing-your-marriage-during-the-holiday-season/

If your marriage has been on the back burner for too long, or you're great partners in life, but the romance piece has faded away. When going on a date together, talking about personal things, or being physically intimate feels overwhelming and uncomfortable, how to you rekindle that flame?

**Show notes and a full transcript of the episode can be found at https://aprioritizedmarriage.com/blog/podcast-episode-7-how-to-start-prioritizing-your-marriage-again/

There are a lot of reasons couples give when talking about why they don’t have more time for their marriage. Work, school, kids, opposite schedules, the list goes on when it comes to obstacles that could get in the way of prioritizing a marriage. Regardless of the reason couples have for not making time to work on their relationship with each other, believe there is one underlying reason that is the same for everyone. Married couples aren’t able to make their marriage a priority because they keep finding reasons not to, instead of making a way to prioritize each other.

**Show notes and a full transcript of the episode can be found at https://aprioritizedmarriage.com/blog/podcast-episode-6-what-is-keeping-you-from-prioritizing-your-marriage/