Healing the Broken Marriage with Brian and Elisha Magill

We all know that saying, hurt people hurt people. There is so much truth in this statement. Where do you fall? Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about how in conflict and hard situations in life, hurt people tend to hurt people. How many times do you engage in a conflict and end up a million miles from where you started by bringing in every issue other than the one at han...

Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about how times in our lives the hard things we have walked through in life, we think have disqualified us for doing what God is calling us to do. Brian and Elisha share openly how the enemy tried to disqualify them by throwing their failures in their faces. But, God has already made provision for all of your mistakes and missteps. He can...

Are you struggling to trust? Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian & Elisha bring on Licensed Therapist, Madi Stonier to the conversation. Madi is a Licensed Therapist, President of One Life Counseling, and President of Healing Center SD Inc. Madi is a certified EMDR therapist; Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist; and trained in Restoration Therapy. Her experience and training is in tra...

Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don't say it in a mean way. Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about boundaries. Are you someone who has a hard time setting boundaries with people and always feel like you get run over or are taken advantage of? Boundaries are not about control, they are about keeping you safe while encouraging the other person to pursue their hig...

Why is it we do the things we don't want to do and don't do the things we want to do? Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about the inward struggle that all of us face with our desires and our actions. Why do we do things we hate to the ones we love the most? Brian and Elisha share vulnerably about decisions they have made in their own lives that they wish they hadn't made...

Is it possible to affair proof your marriage? Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha share the tools that they have learned from falling into the trap of infidelity, how to walk out of that into healing, but also how to affair proof your marriage for the future. The pain of infidelity is intense and doesn't happen with one decision, it’s a string of compromises made over time and w...

You can start again! You aren't starting from scratch, you are starting from experience. Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about many of our life resets. Is there an area of your life you want to change? Did you know that you can always start again! Whether it's your relationship, job, health, whatever it is....you can start again! You aren't starting from scratch but fro...

Today in Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha share how sometimes we think the things we want in life are also what God wants for us. But, God's ways are not our ways, and sometimes those things we want are not His will and it can cause some confusion or even disappointment. Today Brian and Elisha share how to navigate those moments of disappointment when the things we want and God's plan...

Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha share how sometimes it can feel like God isn't moving or intervening in your situation when you don't see anything changing.  It can feel like God has either forgotten about us or maybe is choosing to not answer a prayer when we don't see anything happening.  But the truth is, God is oftentimes moving behind the scenes when we least expect it....

Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about the feelings you bury alive never die.  What does that mean?  Today Brian and Elisha shared how important it is to not stuff your feelings down and not deal with them, but in fact, it's super important to deal with feelings as they come up.  We will all go through hard things in our lives, it's what we do in those hard times that ma...

Have you ever thought: If answered prayers are a sign God cares, then unanswered prayers must be a sign He doesn't?  Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha open up and share from their experiences what they have learned about God when prayers seem to go unanswered. So often we think that if something is good, then God should automatically answer yes to that prayer. But what we fail...

Have you ever felt like you lost yourself or maybe don't even know who you are anymore?  Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Elisha opens up and shares her journey of discovering her true identity amongst all the false identities and labels that was put on by other people and labels she had even put on herself. If you don't know who you are, you also don't know who you are not.  Your identity is...

Why is it that the ones we love the most are the ones we hurt the most?  Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha share openly how to do conflict when emotions are running high.  Do you verbally assault your spouse, or do you keep love as the focus?  So much of dealing with issues in marriage has to do with how you handle things when emotions run high.  Brian and Elisha share vulnera...

Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha bring to the conversation Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Heidi Mortenson.  Today Elisha and Heidi dive into the subject of trauma and how to move forward if you feel stuck. Heidi shares how to identify if you have experienced trauma in your own life, but ultimately how Jesus can set you free from everything you have faced in your past...

Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha have a conversation about what it looks like when you rush your healing process and don't give yourself the time needed to heal fully. Brian and Elisha open up and share what that has looked like in their own lives and how sometimes when you try to speed things up, you end up having to go back to the place you started.  Give yourself time to h...

Today on Healing the Broken Marraige, Brian and Elisha are revisiting a previous podcast where they talk about what they believe God is saying for marriages and relationships for 2023.  We encourage you to tune in to this episode; it will fill you full of encouragement, hope, and anticipation for all that God has for your marriage this year!  Tune in!

Have you ever struggled to "get over something?" Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about issues that seem to hang on longer than they should. Elisha openly shares her process of walking through long seasons of heartache and how those seasons started to become her identity. Sometimes we think we want to be better, but feel like if we let go, we will lose who we are. If thi...

Do you struggle when something difficult hits your life?  Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha share how disappointments in life will happen, but ultimately how you can get through those moments in your life. Brian and Elisha share openly when disappointments have come in their own lives how they dealt with them, healed from them, moved forward and grew from it!  Tune in! www.mak...

Have you ever felt like God does not see you or maybe has forgotten you? Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about times in their own lives where they felt like out of the billions of people in this world, that God has seemingly forgotten about them. They open up and share vulnerably the feeling of not being seen or maybe that God didn't care what they were going through.  ...

The devil is attacking me!  Have you ever made this statement?? Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about what happens if it's not the enemy attacking, what if it's our own actions and we are just reaping what we have sown? Brian and Elisha share some of their life stories of how their own actions caused the painful season they were walking through, but also how to make "le...

Have you ever faced something so difficult in your life you thought to yourself, "I can't do this!".  Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about hard things they have both faced in their own life where they have been tempted to confess "I can't do this!"  In life, we will all face something hard or difficult, but it's what you do in those situations that counts.  Do you run...

Why do bad things happen and why doesn't God stop them?  Have you ever asked this question?  Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about when bad things happen, why does a good God allow pain and suffering in this world.  So many times we think because we don't see God moving that He isn't.  But, what if He is moving behind the scenes all along, you just don't perceive it yet...

Are you someone who hates change? Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about how nothing changes if nothing changes.  Is there something you are facing that you want or need to change?  What is keeping you from taking that first step?  So many of us want or need change in our lives but we don't know how to start or simply just don't want to.  Change rarely just happens or fa...

Are you someone who constantly has drama surrounding them?  Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about the subject of drama.  Elisha opens up and shares how she had lived in chaos, confusion, and drama for so many years that peace felt foreign to her and drama felt more normal.  Sometimes, when you live in extended periods of drama, it can feel comfortable or make you feel l...

Do you feel like you are too much to handle?  Today on Healing the Broken Marriage, Brian and Elisha talk about when life deals you a bad hand and things get messy, how to deal with it, heal from it, and move forward.  Elisha opens up and shares her story of walking through years of heartache and feeling like her messiness preceded her when entering a room.  When you feel like you are too much, yo...