Have you noticed you and your husband argue a lot more ever since you became parents?

What used to be fun and light, now feels heavy and hard.

Most people grow up believing that anger is something to avoid feeling because it's bad and that we should be happy instead.

Perhaps you've viewed anger as a toxic emotion that has no place in a healthy marriage.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• Whether anger is toxic for your marriage
• What anger can drive you to do
• Where couples go wrong with anger

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If you feel disconnected in your marriage, it could be because there's a lack of emotional intimacy.

When you think of intimacy, you may immediately think about sex aka physical intimacy, but emotional intimacy plays a bigger role in your satisfaction in your marriage than you might know.

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• What intimacy is
• What emotional intimacy is
• What marriage is like when there is emotional intimacy
• Signs that your marriage has emotional intimacy
• Signs that your marriage could use more emotional intimacy
  

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Resentment is something everyone feels from time to time throughout the life of their marriage.

While resentment is common in marriage, it doesn't have to tear your marriage apart so that you two are eternally miserable in a co-parenting roommate dynamic or send you straight down the road to divorce.

What if you started seeing resentment as a valuable clue to how you can make your marriage better? So that you can feel closer and more satisfied in it?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• The differences between how a healthy couple handles resentment and how an unhappy one does
• What resentment is rooted in
• The impact resentment has on your relationship when left undealt with or when you don't have the proper tools to deal with it
• What's going on behind the scenes when we act from our resentment
  

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Have you started becoming more intentional about changing how you and your spouse argue but it doesn't seem like they're putting in the work?

If you've ever wished you could just tell them what to do and they'd do it or even just wave a magical wand over you two so you could transform your communication to be healthier, then this episode is for you!

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• What you can do to help your marriage communication improve
• Why criticizing how they communicate won't work
• What you should focus on to change how you two argue
  

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Connecting with your spouse is easy when things are going well, but what about when you don't feel like connecting?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• The #1 connection killer
• How to work through it so you can decrease the time you feel disconnected and create the marriage you intended to have when you said "I do"!

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Do you ever question your spouse's intentions and get upset by how inconsiderate or unsupportive they're being?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• A new belief you can try on if you're feeling disconnected, unsupported and under-appreciated
• Reasons why you're not getting your needs met
• Ways you've contributed to your needs not being met

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Have you experienced a lot more anger and burnout ever since becoming a mom?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Lena Suarez-Angelino from Light Collective & Co.

Lena is the owner of a private practice, providing psychotherapy and mental health counseling to residents of New Jersey and Florida. Founder of LIGHT Collective & Co. A community dedicated to helping you prioritize yourself, guilt free. As an intuitive empowerment coach Lena offers live and self-paced programs to help you overcome overwhelm, banish burnout and cultivate confidence. Lena can provide services in English and Spanish.

In this interview, Lena shares:

• Steps you can take to manage your anger/burnout
• Who to turn to when you need support with this (P.S. It's not your family)
• Her brand new anger management workbook

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Do you constantly feel misunderstood by your spouse? As if you two just can't seem to get on the same page like you used to?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• Why your husband doesn't get it
• What two things to focus on during conflict
• A tip on what to share with your husband to have more productive conversations
  

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Are you sick of nagging? Women hate doing it and our spouses hate hearing it, so why do we do it?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I shared:

• Why women nag at their husbands
• What causes us to nag
• The impact nagging has on your relationship
• What you can do to stop nagging

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Has motherhood left you feeling like you've lost yourself?

In this week's episode of The Marriage & Motherhood Podcast, I interviewed Kelsey Smith from Momma Has Goals.

After the complicated delivery of her first son, Kelsey had the realization that while she had accomplished many "goals", they weren't goals that brought her fulfillment.

As she woke up from surgery she wondered if she hadn't woken up, what story would she leave behind? Would her children know what brought her joy? What she stood for? This experience led Kelsey to her own journey of fulfilment and self discovery where she had the massive realization that this feeling was far too common for mothers all over the world. Kelsey knew she needed to normalize moms having big dreams + making their own fulfillment a priority, so she created a space that helped women and mothers do just that.

Through her community, the Mommas Has Goals phone app, events, and programs Kelsey leads women to the...