Losing in sports and losing in life...there is a common thread. The response to the U.S. Open and the death of Michael K. Williams explores how we can cope with loss and pain and all that comes with it to become mentally stronger and healthy individuals. Naomi Osaka gives us a perspective of transparency, but does it help us understand the human experience any better?

Hard decisions are challenging situations that you and your spouse will face. Whether it's a decision about finances, how to raise your children, or how to handle your in-laws. These decisions can provide opportunities for you and your spouse to display wisdom, love, honesty, and grace. Understanding how to make the best hard decisions can help you grow closer together as a couple and deepen your intimacy with God. Making hard decisions as a couple is both an art and science. By understanding the process of decision-making and applying tools that will help you become more vulnerable to each other, staying connected in conflict, practicing empathy and authenticity, and valuing both your preferences and your partner's, you can watch God work in your relationship.

Are you a confidence builder or buster? A confidence-builder is something or someone that makes you feel significant, confident, and secure. Confidence-busters are things that shake your confidence or make you feel less than “good enough.” Relationships and intimacy work better when we know how to build and boost our spouse's, children's, friend's, and family members confidence. Each of us have a confidence language and expression and they can either compliment or compete with those we are in relationship with. You are either a confidence buster or builder. Which is it?

You'll never be able to estimate how some things will change your life. Having kids is one of those things! We were just getting the 1 Kid thing down and then we had a COVID-Baby. Now we have 2 and it is Hella-Hard! Listen to what has been so hard and how we are working through it.

In the U.S., the CDC reported that black women experience maternal mortality at a rate two to three times higher than that of white women and one to two times higher than any other ethnicity. During the birth of our second child, we experienced a scary incident that made this statistic hit home, and we are petitioning our communities effort to change these statistics.

Join Darren and Adina on the couch as they finish asking one another 24 questions from the https://shop.theskindeep.com Asking questions can build deep levels of intimacy. Listen to the discoveries that Darren and Adina make with one another then use the same methods to discover something new about the intimacy you share with your friend, family member, or spouse.

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Deep, meaningful, funny, and heartfelt questions can take a relationship a long way. Join Darren and Adina as they process their relationship past, present, and future through a deck of cards that make them ask one another some very good questions.

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What do you do when an intimate relationship is caught in the tension of one person loving to celebrate something and the other hates to celebrate that very same thing? Adina and Darren talk about how they LoveHate Christmas and how they have not let this decision become disruptive to their relationship. Join them on the couch as they work through this issue.

Adina and Darren take us into a moment when they experienced extreme joy and fear simultaneously. They are not alone in this feeling and hope that the way they are working through it can bring healing, hope, and healthiness to others in a similar predicament.