Marriage Therapy Radio
331 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 650 ratingsLook... every couple struggles. You fight too much; you're bored; sex is either okay (or rare); maybe you're even considering divorce. OR... maybe your marriage is actually pretty good, but you want to go deeper. In this podcast, straight-talking marriage therapists Zach Brittle and Laura Heck tackle the most common complaints virtually every marriage experience. Along the way, they reveal the science behind strong relationships and talk about what's really going on for couples. Topics include conflict, communication, compatibility, money, sex, in-laws, infidelity, time-management, future dreams, and more. If you want relief? A deeper connection? A new way forward...? Then you've got to find out what's REALLY going on in your marriage. That's what this podcast is about. You can learn more about Zach and Laura, and their alternatives to traditional therapy at marriagetherapyradio.com.
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Episodes
Ep 216 Laura is the Best Partner Ever!
May 17, 2022 22:12 - 30 minutesZach and Laura debrief a recent conflict and how each of them handled it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 215 Anxiously Attached with Jessica Baum
May 10, 2022 09:00 - 52 minutesZach and Laura sit down with psychotherapist and author Jessica Baum. They discuss her journey to becoming a mental health counselor and her new book Anxiously Attached. It's a valuable discussion for both therapists and anyone in relationships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 214 A Thousand Papercuts
May 03, 2022 19:00 - 32 minutesBoth Zach and Laura have been diving into some new books. Zach drops a dad joke. They go on to discuss the small breaches of trust that destroy relationships and what you can do about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 213 Partnering in Life and Money
April 26, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutesZach is flying solo this week. He sits down with Dan & Kay Ockey, Co-Founders of Centsei. They share what it took for them to get on the same financial page early in their marriage and what lead them to develop Centsei. Learn more about Centsei at https://www.centseifinance.com/mtr/ and if you sign up MTR gets a little kickback. It's a win-win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 212 Partnering in Life and Money
April 26, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBZach is flying solo this week. He sits down with Dan & Kay Ockey, Co-Founders of Centsei. They share what it took for them to get on the same financial page early in their marriage and what lead them to develop Centsei. Learn more about Centsei at https://www.centseifinance.com/mtr/ and if you sign up MTR gets a little kickback. It's a win-win.
Ep 212 Sexpectations
April 19, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutesLaura is upping her mindfulness game. Zach is seeing how different clients draw out different aspects of himself which leads to a great conversation about which roles they each like playing as therapists. Laura fields a listener question regarding sex drives and frequency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 211 Better Conversations
April 12, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutesLaura is not looking forward to meeting and greeting. Zach shows off his auctioneering skills. They go on to discuss some great tactics to get to better conversations in your relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 210 What You Want
April 05, 2022 21:03 - 37 minutesLaura fell down the stairs and hurt her foot. Zach doesn't want to talk about Will Smith. Or does he. Laura says "yes" to her husband but then immediately regrets it ,so she asks him for what she wants and needs. It leads to a great conversation about how to partner in what you each need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 209 The Empty Nest / Mid-Life Episode
March 29, 2022 09:00 - 43 minutesLaura is feeling a bit homesick for a place that is no longer her home because she longs to relax into the feeling of being known. Zach recounts, word for word, exactly how he would become best friends with Richard Sherman. They go on to discuss the important and often difficult transition of mid-life and the empty nest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 208 Solvable Problems
March 22, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutesLaura finished up some sex school so it hitting the road again. Zach cut off all his hair to look less like the father of his youth. They go on to discuss the importance of finding solutions to the solvable problems in your relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 207 The Art of Relationships with Austin Kleon
March 15, 2022 09:00 - 58 minutesZach and Laura sit down with writer, artist, and speaker, Austin Kleon. They discuss the intersection of art and relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 206 State of the Union
March 08, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutesZach goes on a rant about Instagram that leads to some solid marriage advice. Laura is saying yes to some of her husband's dreams. They talk about the importance of having intentional conversations about the state of your union. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 205 Start with the End in Mind
March 01, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutesZach and Laura each return from vacations in Mexico with their families. They discuss their different approaches to these vacations and how knowing what you want on the outset helps set the stage for achieving what you desire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 204 Marriage Helper with Kimberly Beam Holmes
February 22, 2022 09:00Zach and Laura interview Kimberly Beam Holmes, CEO of Marriage Helper. Find all the resources she mentioned at marriagehelper.com
Ep 204 Marriage Helper with Kimberly Beam Holmes
February 22, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MBZach and Laura interview Kimberly Beam Holmes, CEO of Marriage Helper. Find all the resources she mentioned at marriagehelper.com
Ep 204 Marriage Helper with Kimberly Beam Holmes
February 22, 2022 09:00Zach and Laura interview Kimberly Beam Holmes, CEO of Marriage Helper. Find all the resources she mentioned at marriagehelper.com
Ep 204 Marriage Helper with Kimberly Beam Holmes
February 22, 2022 09:00Zach and Laura interview Kimberly Beam Holmes, CEO of Marriage Helper. Find all the resources she mentioned at marriagehelper.com
Ep 204 Marriage Helper with Kimberly Beam Holmes
February 22, 2022 09:00Zach and Laura interview Kimberly Beam Holmes, CEO of Marriage Helper. Find all the resources she mentioned at marriagehelper.com
Ep 204 Marriage Helper with Kimberly Beam Holmes
February 22, 2022 09:00Zach and Laura interview Kimberly Beam Holmes, CEO of Marriage Helper. Find all the resources she mentioned at marriagehelper.com
Ep 204 Marriage Helper with Kimberly Beam Holmes
February 22, 2022 09:00 - 48 minutesZach and Laura interview Kimberly Beam Holmes, CEO of Marriage Helper. Find all the resources she mentioned at marriagehelper.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 203 Mail Bag
February 15, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutesLaura's pretty tired. Zach is tired of his daughter. They open up the mailbag to answer some listener questions. Zach would love your feedback on these quick 3 questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 202 The Divine Tedium of Marriage | with Heather Havrilesky
February 08, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutesZach and Laura have a wonderful conversation with Heather Havrilesky about her new book, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 201 February is the new January
February 01, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutesZach shows off his singing voice. Laura is relinquishing control as she plans a family getaway. They go on to discuss a number of ways to reframe your approach and reaction to your partner for greater intimacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 200 Polyvagal Theory & Getting to 200
January 25, 2022 09:00Laura is hoping to learn to swim this year. Zach brings back his dad jokes. Laura brings the topic of Polyvaga Theory as a way to identify how we feel in a moment, giving us another tool to improve the way we relate to our partner. Help us celebrate 200 episodes by giving us a rating and review on your podcasting app of choice. Also, please share us with a friend to spread the love.
Ep 200 Polyvagal Theory & Getting to 200
January 25, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutesLaura is hoping to learn to swim this year. Zach brings back his dad jokes. Laura brings the topic of Polyvaga Theory as a way to identify how we feel in a moment, giving us another tool to improve the way we relate to our partner. Help us celebrate 200 episodes by giving us a rating and review on your podcasting app of choice. Also, please share us with a friend to spread the love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 199 Reconnecting with Steve & Lisa Call
January 20, 2022 01:01 - 51 minutesZach and Laura connect with Zach's first clinical supervisor and his wife, Steve & Lisa Call. They discuss the Call's unique approach to inviting couples into a reconnected intimacy through the means of their individual stories. You can learn more about the Calls and their work at https://www.thereconnectinstitute.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 198 Consent
January 12, 2022 17:22 - 37 minutesZach's hair is apparently looking good. Laura shows her lack of knowledge of the Marvel Universe. Zach is getting into meditation. They both share some insights they have recently received from clients. They go on to discuss consent, but probably not in the way you are thinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 197 New Year's Values and Practices
January 04, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutesLaura had a hard Christmas. Zach is leaning into virtual reality. They discuss the fun new games they have been playing lately. Zach shares how dying repeatedly in his new VR game has taught him some valuable tools for how to engage in conflict and relational failure. He and Laura then share some New Year practices and values. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 196 Asexuality with Anthony Bogaert
December 28, 2021 18:39 - 39 minutesIn this final episode of 2021 Laura interviews leading researcher in asexuality Anthony Bogaert, Ph.D. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 195 5ish Ways to Ruin Your Holidays
December 21, 2021 09:03 - 44 minutesLaura has been looking back at what a good last few months she has had. Zach has whittled down his social media list to two. They discuss 5ish ways you can ruin your holidays. There are some great cautionary tales as well as some insight into how to prepare and be proactive in your relationship around the holidays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 194 Marriage and Parenting with Stephen James
December 14, 2021 09:00 - 45 minutesLaura is out with a migraine so Zach flies solo to interview his long-time friend Stephen James. Stephen shares some great nuggets of wisdom on both marriage and parenting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 193 Attribution
December 08, 2021 01:27 - 44 minutesBoth back from separate trips to Disneyland, Laura is getting ready for her 75 Hard challenge. Zach is pacing it with a 45 Medium. They discuss the transformative power we all possess to reframe our conversations by attributing positive motivations to our partner's words and actions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 192 Age and Power Differences
November 30, 2021 08:55 - 32 minutesPrompted from Taylor Swift's latest single (and Laura's love for Jake Gyllenhaal), Zach brings the topic of age differences in romantic relationships. It leads to a great conversation about power and influence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 191 Spreading Hope and Giving Love with Craig Smith.
November 24, 2021 01:52 - 49 minutesZach and Laura welcome Craig Smith to discuss the hope that can come from clarifying your values and taking action to love yourself and others more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 190 Journey Beyond Divorce with Karen McMahon
November 16, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutesZach and Laura jump right into an interview with Karen McMahon from Journey Beyond Divorce, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 189 Emotional Banking
November 09, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutesAfter some discussion of Zach's morning routine, Laura brings up a struggle she is seeing in some couples: one or both of them not contributing to the emotional bank account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 188 Relational Life Therapy with Shane Birkel.
November 02, 2021 10:20 - 56 minutesZach and Laura get a chance to discuss different couple therapy models with Shane Birkel of The Couple Therapist Couch podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 187 Simple Pleasures
October 27, 2021 17:04 - 30 minutesZach is fretting about the sizes of circles. Laura is sniffing strangers in parks. This leads to a great discussion and exercise about finding simple pleasures in life and allowing those to ground you. They also circle back to a previous episode where they hashed out some conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
187 Simple Pleasures
October 27, 2021 17:04 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBZach is fretting about the sizes of circles. Laura is sniffing strangers in parks. This leads to a great discussion and exercise about finding simple pleasures in life and allowing those to ground you. They also circle back to a previous episode where they hashed out some conflict.
Ep 186 Being on the Same Team with Kristine Lilly
October 19, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutesZach talks with Kristine Lilly, a USWNT legend, about what it means to be part of a team and also how to balance work and play both on the field and in a relationship. They also discuss the universal truth of how it really is the little things that ultimately yield big results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 185 Zach & Laura Hash it Out
October 12, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutesLaura brings a grievance she has with Zach to work it out in real-time. The tension is real and leads to a genuine conversation that displays both skill and care in resolving the conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 184 You Go, Girl
October 05, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutesZach and Laura wish their very first listener a happy birthday. Laura is getting her wardrobe together. They go on to discuss the trend Laura is seeing in her practice of women facing identity crisis with boldness and strength. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 183 Building Trust
September 28, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutesLaura is taking into a shoe on an uncomfortably long girl's weekend while looking for age-appropriate clothes. Zach is using all his human resources. They go on to discuss the 5 pillars of building trust in your relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 182 Working Through Conflict | with Jayson Gaddis
September 21, 2021 07:21 - 52 minutesZach and Laura interview Jayson Gaddis, founder of The Relationship School and author of Getting to Zero: How to Work Through Conflict in Your High-Stakes Relationships. The conversation provides some new frameworks to think about the way you approach conflict in your relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 181 Advance Skydiving Skills
September 14, 2021 13:20 - 33 minutesZach's wife is a little concerned that his brain doesn't work. He and Laura extend the skydiving conflict metaphor from episode 2 with some helpful insight into achieving intimacy. Join them live Oct 23-24 for The Gottman Institute's Art and Science of Love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 180 Strong-Willed Tiny Humans | with Danielle Bettmann
September 07, 2021 09:00 - 42 minutesZach and Laura are recording from the same house, but different rooms as they interview Danielle Bettmann. Danielle is a parenting coach for those of us with "strong-willed small humans". She shares how she got into her work and some wonderful resources for anyone doing the difficult and important work of parenting. You can find Danielle at Parenting Wholeheartedly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 179 Types of Couples
August 31, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutesLaura is figuring out carpooling. Zach is taking a break from exercise. They discuss the different types of couples that come to therapy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 178 A.R.E. you there for your partner?
August 24, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutesLaura helps Zach reminisce about his favorite bar that closed down a few years ago. Laura is thrilled about her sex ed. Laura brings the topic of Emotionally Focused Therapy to discuss if you ARE there for your partner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 177 Agreements
August 17, 2021 16:56 - 34 minutesZach is seeing his social media from a whole new perspective. Laura completed an epic backpacking trip. They go on to discuss the importance of shared agreements in your marriage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 176 Mailbag
August 10, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutesAfter kicking it off with a couple of dad jokes, Zach and Laura get right into some questions from listeners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices