Life and Love Nuggets

Brent and Janis discuss how to be mindful of our natural human negative bias and how our focus determines our attitude toward anything in life. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/revisited-the-9010-lie . Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠ . Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valu...

Brent and Janis talk about practical ways to offset the heaviness of our modern world. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/lighten-up Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠ . Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have...

Brent & Janis revisit their very first podcast episode just in time for the holidays. We hope it helps you save your sanity this holiday season! This episode is packed with insights and tips on how to enjoy time with your extended family. This is one of Brent & Janis’ favorite topics of the year. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/revisited-so-youre-gonna-be-with-fam...

Continuing the discussion of pregnancy loss and grief, Janis shares some practical ways to help someone in your life who has experienced this type of loss. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-grief-of-pregnancy-loss-part-two Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠ . Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life & Love Nuggets podcast...

In this episode, Janis shares the complicated painful grief of all types of pregnancy loss. Sharing her own experience and years of working with other women, she offers encouragement that can be helpful as you process the loss and the very normal responses of questioning yourself, others, and God in the midst of inexplicable loss. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-grief...

Brent and Janis discuss how easy it is to get into decision overload in our daily lives. They look at ways to minimize the stress of too many decisions and then explain a very helpful tool to use when we need to make really important decisions. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-art-of-decision-making Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets....

Our phones are extremely helpful, but the “over use “of our phones or ignoring others because we are on our phone has become a real problem that effects our relationship and our mental health. Listen to see if you are guilty of “phubbing” or if you are addicted to your phone and ways to make healthy changes to your phone use. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/phubbing-our-p...

Phones have changed our lives and so has the etiquette for using a phone. We’ve all been irritated with someone walking around in public talking on their phone with the speaker on. Brent and Janis share tips that are considerate ways to use your phone, or how not to be irritating on your phone! View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/our-phones-and-our-lives-part-one Help us reac...

Brent and Janis look at practical ways to manage money that can help a couple meet their joint financial goals and aspirations. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-nuts-and-bolts-of-managing-money-money-part-two Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠ . Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you...

Brent and Janis discuss insightful perspectives on managing money in marriage that can help a couple collaborate well and eliminate financial conflict. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/how-to-not-fight-about-money-in-marriage-money-part-one Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠ . Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life & Love N...

We all long for joy and happiness in life. Brent and Janis explore some proactive ways where we all can improve our mood, regardless of our circumstances. They introduce some quirky and surprising strategies that current research is now uncovering. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/surprising-ways-to-improve-your-mood Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifea...

In this episode Brent and Janis look at other relationships, besides marriage, where betrayal can happen. They discuss how to assess the damage and move forward toward a healthy, thriving life. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/betrayal-in-other-relationships-love-lies-and-betrayal-part-six Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠ ....

Brent and Janis continue looking at full recovery from marital betrayal. They discuss the work that needs to happen in the betrayer who needs to understand and acknowledge where and how they were looking for love in the wrong places. Also, how the relationship can build strong patterns and deep emotional connection, to help insure this could never happen again. View the transcript at https://www.l...

Brent and Janis continue looking at the pathway to healing and restoration from a betrayal. They discuss some of the action steps from Stage 1 and 2 that were introduced in the last podcast and look at grief in the context of the loss of trust and safety that happen in betrayal. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/grief-step-three-of-recovering-from-betrayal-love-lies-and-bet...

Brent and Janis discuss the first two critical steps for full recovery to begin to happen in the midst of the betrayal. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-first-steps-of-recovery-love-lies-and-betrayal-part-three Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠ . Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help y...

In this episode, Brent and Janis explore the prerequisites for healing and recovering from an affair. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/prerequisites-for-healing-love-lies-and-betrayal-part-two Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠ . Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insi...

Brent and Janis begin a series looking at betrayal and how we can recover. Over the past decade, they have observed a surprising rise in marital affairs. They explore the reasons behind this trend and analyze the possibility of recovery. Additionally, they seek to extract lessons for all marriages. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/why-so-many-affairs-love-lies-and-betrayal...

In this session, Brent and Janis look at “necessary endings”. When we come face to face with roles or relationships that have become toxic or draining, why is it a healthy thing to do some pruning?  View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/change-part-three Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate . Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life &...

In Part 2 of this series on change, Brent and Janis discuss how we actually make changes that are needed in our lives. Even though change is difficult, the process of learning along with neurobiology can make it easier. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/change-part-two Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate . Your gift is tax-deducti...

Whether we like it or not, our lives are in a process of constant change.   Brent and Janis talk about how to navigate these changes.  In Part 1, they look at the inevitable changes we will experience along with sudden changes that we never asked for. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/change-part-one Help us reach more couples! You can donate at  https://www.lifeandlovenugg...

Brent interviews Janis about the most common issues she is experiencing with clients. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/you-are-not-the-only-one-part-two Learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empoweri...

Janis interviews Brent about the most common issues he is seeing today in counseling. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/you-are-not-the-only-one-part-one Learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empoweri...

Janis shares about fathers, their imprint on our lives, the love, acceptance, forgiveness and healing of Our Father God and offers encouragement for men who are fathers.  View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-love-of-the-father Learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insig...

Brent and his oldest son Father Preston, a priest in the Anglican tradition who founded and pastors a church in Nashville, finish their series as they discuss how the pandemic and other factors have disconnected our world and the importance of moving toward people that are different than us.  View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/our-disconnected-world-our-changing-world-part-t...

Brent and his oldest son Father Preston, a priest in the Anglican tradition who founded and pastors a church in Nashville, continue the series as they discuss how easily we all get caught up in issues of performance and the opinion of others in forming our identity.   View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/our-struggle-with-identity-our-changing-world-part-two Learn more about B...