Thrive Marriage Lab Podcast

Explore the essence of rebuilding relationships and emotional connection as Chris Bruno delves into the importance of risk, authenticity, and vulnerability in fostering intimacy. Discover how kindness can transform and heal emotional unavailability in this insightful episode from Thrive Marriage Lab.

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In this episode, Chris Bruno delves into the challenging experience of emotional unavailability in relationships. He describes the feeling of trying to connect with a partner who seems distant and explains how this can erode the connection between couples.

FREE 12 Months of Dates: How date nights can lead to connection
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We all tell a version of how we met and fell in love, but how do we tell the rest? Learn how to identify the themes in your marriage so that you come to better know who you are as individuals and who you are as a couple for when things get hard.

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If you are coming to understand parts of your story, but feel unsafe sharing with your spouse, what do you do? How can you begin to create safe spaces and set up safety for yourself? Listen in to hear some specific things to do and say, as well as a warning: if you are in an unsafe marriage, please seek help HERE.

Download the free pdf, "Prompts for Creating a Safe Marriage" HERE. Check out the Thrive Mini-Course on Story HERE.

Thrive Marriage Lab is a product of ReStory™ Labs, powered by Restoration Counseling and a part of the ReStory™ Universe network.

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As you learn more about your own story, how do you bring your spouse into it? How can you help each other find the meaning (or even a different meaning) in your shaping stories?

Download "Charting Your Story" for free HERE. Check out the Thrive Mini-Course on Story HERE.

Thrive Marriage Lab is a product of ReStory™ Labs, powered by Restoration Counseling and a part of the ReStory™ Universe network.

Learn more about Thrive Marriage Lab. Learn more about ReStory™ Labs. Learn more about Restoration Counseling. Learn more about ReStory™ Universe.

Learn more about marriage intensives with Chris or Tracy.

Where in your marriage have you written something, unintentionally, that has a toxic dynamic? That has been woven in alongside things that are meeting genuine needs? What do you actually want to write into your marriage rather than incorporate from someone else's teaching or influence? Whose script are you living? Spurred by thoughts on The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Podcast and the influence of Mark Driscoll on couples.

Download "Take Up Your Pen and Write" for free HERE. Check out the Thrive Mini-Course on Story HERE.

Thrive Marriage Lab is a product of ReStory™ Labs, powered by Restoration Counseling and a part of the ReStory™ Universe network.

Learn more about Thrive Marriage Lab. Learn more about ReStory™ Labs. Learn more about Restoration Counseling. Learn more about ReStory™ Universe.

Learn more about marriage intensives with Chris or Tracy.

Many of us just want someone to tell us what to do. But when it comes to the marriage relationship, there is not formula, no cookie-cutter solution that works for all couples. How can you become authors of your own marriage rather than co-opting or absorbing someone else's? Join Chris Bruno and Tracy Johnson, marriage counselors and hosts of the Thrive Marriage Lab, to hear how you can identify and move toward writing your own scripts.

Download "Take Up Your Pen and Write" for free HERE. Check out the Thrive Mini-Course on Story HERE.

Thrive Marriage Lab is a product of ReStory™ Labs, powered by Restoration Counseling and a part of the ReStory™ Universe network.

Learn more about Thrive Marriage Lab. Learn more about ReStory™ Labs. Learn more about Restoration Counseling. Learn more about ReStory™ Universe.

Learn more about marriage intensives with Chris or Tracy.

In this series, we're talking about other loves, or polyamory. Every marriage has multiple loves, not just your spouse, but multiple other loves that crowd the space. In this sixth episode, we talk about the hijacked desire for containment and how this can often turn into high control and a "ratcheted down" life, keeping us disconnected from the presence and withness of our spouse.

You can find out where your desire may be hijacked by taking the Other Loves Assessment.

Learn more about Thrive Marriage Lab.

Learn more about ReStory Labs and Restoration Counseling.

In this series, we're talking about other loves, or polyamory. Every marriage has multiple loves, not just your spouse, but multiple other loves that crowd the space. In this fifth episode, we talk about the hijacked desire for belonging and how this can often turn into a desperate need to be wanted keeping us disconnected from the presence and withness of our spouse.

You can find out where your desire may be hijacked by taking the Other Loves Assessment.

Learn more about Thrive Marriage Lab.

Learn more about ReStory Labs and Restoration Counseling.

In this series, we're talking about other loves, or polyamory. Every marriage has multiple loves, not just your spouse, but multiple other loves that crowd the space. In this fourth episode, we talk about the hijacked desire for life and how an addiction to the rush can keep us disconnected from the presence and withness with our spouse.

You can find out where your desire may be hijacked by taking the Other Loves Assessment.

Learn more about Thrive Marriage Lab.

Learn more about ReStory Labs and Restoration Counseling.