RelateWell with Dr. Rick Marks

Dr. Rick and Angelia discuss five red flags to look for in your relationships.  These red flags are warnings that your relationship will not go well.

Do you know how to emotionally regulate yourself out of the stress response of the reptile brain?  To live and love maturely one must have the maturity and self-awareness to emotionally regulate so the one an treat their partner with goodwill, respect, empathy and humility.  Dr. Rick and Angelia explore...

What is a failure?  Does failing at something make one a failure?  And what are the effects of lonliness on one's physical and emotional health.  Dr. Rick and Angelia take on these two topics to help us all to have a healthy, loving and mature life and relationships.

Traditional therapy for marriages does not work well with highly conflicted couples.  Yet, there is much that suggests that couples in high distress find far greater help in 1-4 day marriage intensives.  Focusing on what research shows helps build a strong healthy marriage (Sound Marital House), Dr. Rick's RelateWell Relationship Intensives for marriages coaches couples to develop the research based and biblically sound relationship skills and principals that create a loving, healthy and mature Usness.

Did you know that most people do not follow through on their new year resolutions?  Dr. Rick and Angelia talk about these resolutions and how to make them successful and why they are not.

There is so much research on the effects of divorce and broken marriages on the adults and on the children.  But, in the last 30 years much research has taken place into the effects of what is now termed Parental Alienation Syndrome.  Dr. Rick talks about his experience being an alienated child against his mother and relates his experience to the research and patterns of alienated children and the targeted parent.

Dr. Rick and Angelia discuss the human need for control and power and how these needs affect relationships and marriage.  All humans have a biological need for control and to have a sense of power.  But when these become toxic they can have serious detrimental consequences on one's relationships and to those they are in relationship with as well.  Tune in to learn what healthy control and power looks like as well as its negative effects.

We all have heard of adultery.  Have you heard of "microcheating?"  Is it a real thing?  Does it really exist?  If it does exist, what is it, how do it reveal itself, what does it say about the microcheater and how is it different than adultery?  Dr. Rick and Angelia tackle this subject.

Christmas is a most meaningful time of year for millions across the globe.  And not just for its Christian meanings.  It is a time where our society focuses on love, family, and the things we are grateful for and appreciate.  Dr. Rick and Angelia discuss Christmas and its meaning in faith and to love and family and all that makes our nation healthy, loving and mature.  

Many people tend to get depressed in the Fall and Winter, but especially around the holidays.  The holidays are a time for family, dreaming, wonder, love and goodness.  But for many, it is a time of pain, hurt, loneliness and depression.  Dr. Rick and Angelia discuss the nature of Seasonal Affective Disorder, regular depression and what you can do to manage and thrive during the holidays.