The Love Leading Podcast

Why, if you’re healthy, would you seek help? Today we’re going to talk about why prevention is healthy! It’s high intelligence. I give you a couple of examples of how I’ve worked with couples who’ve been proactive at working through things before problems arise. Learn how to be a healthy couple seeking help in this episode! Learn more about Dr. Shanon Book a free consultation Learn about my book “...

There are a lot of couples I see with a lack of stress tolerance where they don’t know how to manage their stress levels well. This can keep us from being the best versions of ourselves when we’re home with our family. We need to laugh and have fun with our partner! Healthy couples might joke, be sassy or spicy, but they know where the line is that doesn’t pass over into passive-aggressive sarcasm...

We’re continuing to learn about what healthy couples do! Healthy couples build rhythms of security with how we exit and reenter and return with one another. What is the natural rhythm in your home look like? Do we seek each other out with where we are working our home? And is your partner as sure of you as you exit? Let’s talk about it! Learn more about Dr. Shanon Follow Dr. Shanon on Facebook , I...

We’ve all been in that room, right? When there’s THE couple and you see the way they look at each other, whether standing next to each other or paying attention to each other from across the room as if they know something no one else does. They are keeping their secret and aren’t even aware others notice. You can see the look on their faces and how they soften each other’s presence. They’re kind a...

Jamie and Carrie were completely disconnected, broken, and desperate for help. Jamie left the home for a brief time, and Dr. Shanon wasn’t even sure if they were both committed to work on their relationship. They weren’t sure that working with Dr. Shanon would be any different this time after working with therapists for a long time, but they moved forward with working with her. After working with...

What does your natural rhythm look like with you and your spouse? Do you carve internal space to show that your partner is important and brings security to your relationship? Today we’re talking about another things that healthy couples do… they carry the thought of you with them! Learn more about Dr. Shanon Learn more about The Intimacy for Life Method Follow Dr. Shanon on Facebook , Instagram ,...

Today, we have Pastor Aaron and Katie Burke of Radiant church joining us! They share their love story, how they moved to Tampa on faith, the stresses of building a church as poor newly weds, and doing ministry together. They share what makes their marriage work and how they help their staff prioritize their own marriages. You’re going to really enjoy this couple - I know I did! Learn more about Ra...

How can we become the best love leaders in our most important relationships? Today we’re going to talk about how healthy couples are able to be vulnerable with one another. It takes a higher degree of emotional integrity and intelligence to be able to open up and reveal risky spots of us emotionally. If you are in a loving safe and secure relationship with your spouse, being able to take those ini...

“I felt like marriage should be different, but I didn't know how to make it different. I felt like we were missing a piece. We have a lot of other great things going on for us. And so we needed help.” Krinki and Travis came in feeling like they were missing something in their marriage. They didn’t know what is was, so they began to see me on a weekly basis before ultimately deciding to working wit...

A lot of time when couples start counseling, they don’t have the safety and security in marriage that leads to deeper connection and vulnerability. We’re going to talk about creating space in the relationship to share our inner thoughts and feelings with each other and rebuilding or deepening the intimate bond within the relationship. The emotional engagement piece is so key to experiencing each o...

What does a healthy, loving, warm, intimate, connecting marriage look like? We’re going to go back to the basics! We’re going to take some time to talk about one thing that healthy marriages do so that we can take on a specific, core, behavioral approach where we learn how to love well, and show up and demonstrate and know and be specific as to what a love leader looks like in our marriages, famil...

In this episode, Dr. Shanon talks with Lori and Shawn about God's design for marriage. Lori and Shawn began to realize how disconnected they were feeling from each other. Lori started to go into her shell and tip toe around conflict, because she couldn’t stand the heat. Shawn would feel frustrated and abandoned after Lori began to avoid him as she didn’t have the tools to communicate her feelings...

We’ve all been in that room, right? When there’s THE couple and you see the way they look at each other, whether standing next to each other or paying attention to each other from across the room as if they know something no one else does. They are keeping their secret and aren’t even aware others notice. You can see the look on their faces and how they soften each other’s presence. They’re kind a...

After doing ministry for 26 years, Greg had a deep restlessness - he was doing all the right things, having success in his ministry, and seeing the metrics flow, but he still felt this restlessness. He took it to God, and God woke him up in the middle of the night with a vision of pure church- a church with no building. God told him to wait, and so for a year, he surrendered everything over to the...

Becca purposes to be the kind of Christ follower who will find you at your worst and love you wholeheartedly there.  She tries to get her hands a little dirty and to not care what others think of who she chooses to love.  She seeks to be inclusive, bringing others into her home, her group, and her life so they feel important, valued, and welcomed.  Her beliefs are important to her a...

“I find joy being with him. I gained my friend back. It takes time and a lot of work and compromising and talking and listening, but it’s all worth it! They way you brought us together was so organic. You have this magic touch with relationships.” Cory and Maria met on a blind date 26 years ago and were married 3-months later. When they came to me, Maria was in the middle of cancer treatment, rais...

Greg and Michelle were hopeless. They thought they had tried everything for their marriage, and they had tried to stop addressing the really tough stuff, because they didn’t want to create any disruption. They came into an intensive wanting Dr. Shanon to choose sides but are now grateful that she controlled their conversations and didn’t allow herself to be emotional over their emotions. Now they’...

Today we’re joined by Pastor Kevin Dean of Faith Covenant Church in St Petersburg, FL! We discuss how pastors can come alongside the couples in their congregation and at what point it’s helpful for a counselor to step in. Pastor Kevin also talks about the importance of in-person church and how it can further connect you and your spouse as your worship together. Visit Faith Covenant Church Register...

What is intimacy? How do we find it? How do we get there? And how do we protect it? Intimacy is more than just sex. It’s a knowing and a being known, and seeing into me. Let’s talk about it! Learn more about Marriage Momentum Learn more about Dr. Shanon Follow Dr. Shanon on Facebook , Instagram , and LinkedIn

Jon and Jeanette came to me with divorce on the table. It was a last ditch effort to try to fix their marriage, but they were pretty hopeless that they would ever have a healthy marriage. Convention counseling just didn’t work for them. They were getting no where. They had to get in those 8 hour sessions to just peel back the layers of destruction they had caused and get the proper tools to repair...

As the year is beginning, it’s a good time to begin to check in on yourself! How are you? How is your relationship? We’re going to talk about four different areas for you to check in on in your relationship this New Year: emotional engagement shared recreation and leisure partnership, spiritual intimate experiences, and sexual and physical connection. If you want to dive deeper and work on these t...

For as long as Ashley can remember, she’s been enamored by two things 1. The power of documenting, stopping, and ultimately encapsulating a moment in time, and 2. Understanding herself in the deepest way possible, what most people would call “a personal development junkie.” Ashley joins us today to share how with these two passions, she found her husband, herself, and life as a Courage Coach....

What do you do when only one person in the couple is ready to do the work? Today we’re going to talk about this and how I encourage that person to begin the process of doing the work, begin the process of looking at yourself, and begin the process of finding positive ways of coping. If you’re looking to start making those changes, join me for my January launch of the Exceedingly program! Start mak...

We’re joined by Sage Roberts, a licensed mental health counselor and certified EMDR therapist, as she shares how she became a therapist, what even is EMDR, and some tips on how to get through the holidays. You’ll feel so encouraged by this conversation! Learn more about Sage Roberts Reach out to Sage Follow @therapythingswithsage Learn more about my Therapist to Therapist Partnership

In this week's episode. Dr. Shanon shares more of her story and how it led her to start the Exceedingly Women's Program! Through devotionals, weekly yoga, and discussion, Dr. Shanon helps women connect deeper mind, body, and spirit to ultimately become the best version of themselves they can be. Join the Exceedingly Facebook Group Learn more about Exceedingly Learn more about Dr. Shanon Discover M...