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Life and Love Nuggets(Revisited) Phubbing • Our Phones and Our Lives: Part 2 (Episode 95)Our phones are extremely helpful, but the “overuse “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/revisited-phubbing-our-phones-and-our-lives-part-two.Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible. The Life & Love Nuggets po...2025-07-2631 min
Life and Love Nuggets(Revisited) Our Phones and Our Lives: Part 1 (Episode 94)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/revisited-our-phones-and-our-lives-part-one.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 lear...2025-07-1235 min
Life and Love NuggetsHope for Sexual Brokenness - Part 2 (Episode 93)Brent continues his interview with Blaine Bartel about resurrection from sexual brokenness. They discuss the process of healing from any brokenness and how it is possible to find a new life of freedom and health as well as how to help heal the marriage traumatized by betrayal. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/hope-for-sexual-brokenness-part-2 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...2025-06-2836 min
Life and Love NuggetsHope for Sexual Brokenness - Part 1 (Episode 92)Brent interviews Blaine Bartel as he shares his story of resurrection from sexual brokenness. They discuss the process of healing from any brokenness and how it is possible to find a new life of freedom and health. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/hope-for-sexual-brokenness-part-1Help 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 been empowering couples thr...2025-06-1433 min
Life and Love NuggetsSocial Media and Mental Health (Episode 91)Brent and Janis look at the powerful impact of social media in our culture, the potential negative effects it can have on each of us, and ways we can manage it well to garner the benefits without being negatively impacted. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/social-media-and-mental-healthHelp 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 bee...2025-05-3135 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Power of Presence (Episode 90)Brent and Janis look at the negative impact of our busy, disconnected culture and how with some simple things to focus on we can make a significant difference in the lives of those we encounter each day as well as our own fulfillment and peace. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-power-of-presenceHelp 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 been...2025-05-1729 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Benefits of Laughter (Episode 89)We have all heard that laughter is the best medicine. Brent and Janis discuss the benefits of laughter not only on our physical and mental health, but also the benefits to our relationships and sense of connectedness with others. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-benefits-of-laughterHelp 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 been emp...2025-05-0329 min
Life and Love NuggetsHaving Difficult Conversations (Episode 88)Many people find themselves shying away from difficult conversations. Brent and Janis look at the negative impact on limited communication in important relationships. They also discuss the critical things to know in helping difficult conversations happen and how to ensure they are helpful in building and strengthening our relationships. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/having-difficult-conversationsHelp 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, li...2025-04-1923 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe 12 Steps for Everyone (Episode 87)Brent and Janis look at the 12 steps that originated almost 100 years ago. While they are most known in the Alcoholics Anonymous tradition, Brent and Janis share how these very principles can inspire us to grow in all of our daily lives and relationships. Ian Cron, “The Fix” How the Twelve Steps Offer a Surprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between John Ortberg, Steps: A Guide to Transforming Your Life When Willpower Isn’t Enough View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-12-steps-for-everyone2025-04-0538 min
Life and Love NuggetsLent: What is it? (Episode 86)Brent and Janis discuss a long term practice in the church: Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter and how it can be enlightening and help develop important rhythms in our daily life. View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/lent-what-is-itHelp 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 been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, s...2025-03-2228 min
Life and Love NuggetsSpiritual Disciplines (Episode 85)Brent and Janis continue their interview with Tracy Balzar, a former professor of spiritual formation and a spiritual director, about the role and impact of simple consistent practices in our daily life that can be life changing. Tracy Balzer is the author of Thin Places: An Evangelical Journey Into Celtic Christianity (Leafwood); A Listening Life (Pinyon); and Permission to Ponder: Contemplative Wisdom for the Spiritually Distracted (Leafwood). Her most recent book is A Journey of Sea and Stone: How Holy Places Guide and Renew Us (Broadleaf).View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/spiritual-disciplines2025-03-0829 min
Life and Love NuggetsThin Places with Tracy Balzar (Episode 84)Brent and Janis interview Tracy Balzar, author of Thin Places, about times and places in our life where we have uniquely felt God’s presence. They discuss the role of our anticipation as key in experiencing these moments in life.Tracy Balzer is the author of Thin Places: An Evangelical Journey Into Celtic Christianity (Leafwood); A Listening Life (Pinyon); and Permission to Ponder: Contemplative Wisdom for the Spiritually Distracted (Leafwood). Her most recent book is A Journey of Sea and Stone: How Holy Places Guide and Renew Us (Broadleaf).View the transcript at https://www.lif...2025-02-2238 min
Life and Love NuggetsTransformation in the New Year (Episode 83)Why does our best effort toward New’s Year’s resolutions often end up in the rear view mirror within 30-60 days and nothing really seems to change. Brent and Janis look at the difference between reformation of our life through our best efforts and allowing ourselves to be transformed from the inside out which allows for real, meaningful growth in our lives.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/transformation-in-the-new-year
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Life and Love NuggetsWhat do you do when you don’t like your spouse (but love them)? (Episode 82)You love your spouse, but do you like them? Any one can find moments in their life when they love their spouse, but are having trouble liking them! Having these happen briefly are a normal part of living with another human. But, if this persists, it is a sign that we need to take a closer look at our relationship and get some tools to help build a more fulfilling life and relationship. Brent and Janis explore how this happens and how we can actually make changes in our attitudes and interactions that can add liking to loving your sp...2025-01-2538 min
Life and Love NuggetsChristmas Questions (Episode 81)As we have just experienced the Christmas season, Brent and his son, Father Preston Sharpe, look at some of the questions people have about Christmas from the virgin birth, to Santa Claus and Christmas trees.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/christmas-questions
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life C...2025-01-1131 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Importance of Celebration (Episode 80)As we go through this Christmas season, which is more than just a day, Brent and his son, Father Preston Sharpe, share about how being purposeful in our celebrations can be healthy and life giving throughout the year.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-importance-of-celebration
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their p...2024-12-2829 min
Life and Love NuggetsTips for a Peaceful Christmas (Episode 79)Brent and Janis discuss some simple strategies that can help us all have a more joyful and peaceful Christmas season.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/tips-for-a-peaceful-christmas
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing...2024-12-1430 min
Life and Love Nuggets(Revisited) So You're Gonna Be with Family for the Holidays (Episode 78)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/so-youre-gonna-be-with-family-for-the-holidays-revisited
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and lo...2024-12-0252 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Challenge of Suffering (Episode 77)The number one reason reported that people say they don’t believe there is a God or if there is He couldn’t be loving is because of all the suffering in the world. Brent and Janis look at the reality of suffering we all will experience at times and the pathway forward to finding peace and hope in the midst of difficult circumstances.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-challenge-of-suffering
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Life and Love NuggetsThe Importance of Sleep (Episode 76)Studies say 1 out of 3 people have some disturbance in falling asleep or staying asleep. Brent and Janis look at why good sleep is so important for us, why it is challenging to get good sleep and ways that can help us all improve the quality of this essential of life: sleep.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-importance-of-sleep
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Life and Love NuggetsThe Imposter Syndrome (Episode 75)In this episode Brent and Janis look at The Imposter Syndrome. Anxiety and some self-doubt is part of life. But feelings of shame, fear or perfectionism can cause you to have a disconnect between how others see you and how you see yourself. This results in the Imposter Syndrome. It is the belief that others view you as more capable and competent than you really are resulting in you perceiving yourself as a fraud. They talk about how to identify and overcome this false belief.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-imposter-syndrome
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Life and Love NuggetsThe Adventures of Travel (Episode 74)Brent and Janis talk about the benefits and joy they have experienced over the years in their travels around the world. How it has been a blessing to their marriage and how it has expanded their recognition of the wonder of the uniqueness and yet sameness of the people they have encountered.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-adventures-of-travel
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love...2024-10-0532 min
Life and Love NuggetsWe don’t listen to ourselves - How People Mess Up Their Lives and How to Not Make the Same Mistakes: Part 6 (Episode 73)Brent and Janis talk about the mistake people often make by not listening to themselves- their intuition, self-talk, their inner voice and possibly the voice of God. They discuss learning to pay attention to our inner world and finding the good and helpful values that lie within.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/we-dont-listen-to-ourselves.
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been...2024-09-2131 min
Life and Love NuggetsHow People Mess Up Their Lives and How to Not Make the Same Mistakes: Part Five - Not Listening (Episode 72)Brent and Janis look at another way people mess up their lives by not really listening to their spouses, children and colleagues.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/not-listening.
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and a...2024-09-0720 min
Life and Love NuggetsHow People Mess Up Their Lives and How to Not Make the Same Mistakes: Part Four - Poor Boundaries (Episode 71)Brent and Janis continue their series looking at the mistakes people make to mess up their lives by not setting good healthy boundaries in dealing with money, social relationships and work.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/poor-boundaries.
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They re...2024-08-2429 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Strength of Asking for Help (Episode 70)Brent and Janis look at why we have a hard time being vulnerable and transparent and asking for help. They go on to share why it is so important and healthy to open up to others.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-strength-of-asking-for-help.
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in...2024-08-1025 min
Life and Love NuggetsPeace in the Midst of the Storm (Episode 69)In the midst of all the stress, conflict and unrest in the world Brent and Janis offer encouragement and ways you can find peace in the midst of your storms.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/peace-in-the-midst-of-the-storm
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently re...2024-07-2726 min
Life and Love NuggetsMagical Thinking (Revisited • Episode 68)We revisit this episode on Brent and Janis discussing how magical thinking in our culture impacts our lives and relationships.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/magical-thinking-revisited.
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing t...2024-07-1328 min
Life and Love NuggetsSabbath Rest (Episode 67)We join Brent speaking at their local church in Tulsa about the amazing reality that the more we understand how our brains work, the more it makes sense why God would have encouraged certain rhythms in our life to keep us healthy.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/sabbath-rest.
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and mar...2024-06-2939 min
Life and Love NuggetsHow People Mess Up Their Lives and How to Not Make the Same Mistakes: Part Three • Marital Neglect cont’d (Episode 66)
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/how-people-mess-up-their-lives-and-how-to-not-make-the-same-mistakes-part-three.
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.
The podcast is produced by Clayton Creative
(http://ww...2024-06-1526 min
Life and Love NuggetsHow People Mess Up Their Lives and How to Not Make the Same Mistakes: Part Two – Marital Neglect
Brent and Janis continue their series on the mistakes people make in their lives and how to not make the same mistakes. They cover mistakes or mistaken beliefs people have:
· Don’t think marriage takes work.
· Talk to each other in ways and with words they would never use with anyone else.
· Don’t give enough time to the relationship -other things are a priority.
· Are in competition instead of supporting each other in goals.
· Insist on their way even if they realize they are wrong or that it will harm the relationship.
...2024-06-0128 min
Life and Love NuggetsHow People Mess Up Their Lives and How to Not Make the Same Mistakes (Part One - Episode 64)LLN #64 This week Brent and Janis are starting a new series entitled: How People Mess Up Their Lives and How to Not Make the Same Mistakes.
This episode (part one) is on comparison: the natural tendency to compare ourselves that can cause us to not be content with our own lives.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/how-people-mess-up-their-lives-and-how-to-not-make-the-same-mistake
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Life and Love NuggetsProcrastination (Episode 63)Brent and Janis look at why do we procrastinate about important things in our life sometimes and what are strategies to minimize the negative effects in our life and relationships.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/procrastination
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently...2024-05-0431 min
Life and Love NuggetsSafe and Wise People: Safe People Part 2 (Episode 62)
Brent and Janis continue their discussion of Safe people and look at the characteristics of people who are both safe and wise.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/safe-and-wise-people
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of past...2024-04-2026 min
Life and Love NuggetsSafe People (Episode 61)Brent and Janis discuss why we need safe people, how to identify safe people and how to become safe people.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/safe-people
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to h...2024-04-0633 min
Life and Love NuggetsAccepting Your Parents - Parents and Their Adult Children (And Adult Children and their Adult Parents) - Part 4 (Episode 60)Most of us idolize our parents when we are small and grow up to find out that they are humans too. Accepting them as humans helps us accept ourselves and our own weaknesses.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/accepting-your-parents.
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, sinc...2024-03-2332 min
Life and Love NuggetsHow to have a Good Relationship with your Adult Children - Parents and Their Adult Children (And Adult Children and their Adult Parents) - Part 3 (Episode 59)Brent and Janis share the do’s and don’ts of interacting with your adult children.
View the transcript at
https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/how-to-have-a-good-relationship-with-your-adult-children
The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice.
The podcast is produced by Clayton Creative in Tulsa, O...2024-03-0932 min
Life and Love NuggetsHow Cultural Events Impact Us as Individuals and Our Parenting Style | Parents and Their Adult Children and Adult Children and Their Adult Parents (Part 2 • Episode 58)
Brent and Janis continue their series exploring the complexities of parents adapting to their role change with their adult children from parent to friend. In each episode they will explore a different angle of this relationship from the side of the parent and the side of the adult child. And they will help encourage both sides to communicate, establish boundaries and roles so they can thoroughly enjoy an adult-to-adult relationship.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/how-cultural-events-impact-us-as-individuals-and-our-parenting-style
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Life and Love NuggetsParents and Their Adult Children (and Adult Children and Their Adult Parents) (Part One - Episode 57)Brent and Janis begin their series exploring the complexities of parents adapting to their role change with their adult children from parent to friend. In each episode they will explore a different angle of this relationship from the side of the parent and the side of the adult child. And, they will help encourage both sides to communicate, establish boundaries and roles so they can thoroughly enjoy an adult to adult relationship.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/parents-and-their-adult-children-and-adult-children-and-their-adult-parents-part-one
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Life and Love NuggetsWhere is God when things don’t make sense? (Part 2 • Episode 56)Brent and his son Preston, pastor of Sacrament Church in Nashville, Tennessee, continue their discussion on the questions people have in the middle of difficult circumstances and the struggles we have in understanding where God is in the midst of suffering.
View the transcript at
https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/where-is-god-when-things-dont-make-sense-part-two
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and...2024-01-2729 min
Master Level MarriageMLM 25 | EPISODE 25!!! Guests Brent and Janis Sharpe on The Magic 4%WE DID IT!!! WE HIT OUR 25TH EPISODE. On this show our guests Brent and Janis Sharpe, Marriage and Family Therapists share their marital approach to making a healthy marriage, "The Magic 4%" Listen in as Dr. Ronnie interviews his friends Brent and Janis Sharpe. You can find them at: Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-love-nuggets/id1654893944Online at: https://www.brentandjanissharpe.com/podcasthttps://www.lifeconnectioncounseling.com/Their book The Making of a...2024-01-151h 03
Life and Love NuggetsWhere Is God When Things Don’t Make Sense? (Part 1 • Episode 55)Brent and his son Preston, pastor of Sacrament Church in Nashville, Tennessee, discuss the questions people have in the middle of difficult circumstances and the struggles we have in understanding where God is in the midst of suffering.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/where-is-god-when-things-dont-make-sense-part-1-episode-55
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in thei...2024-01-1328 min
Life and Love NuggetsTransformation (Episode 54)Developing good self awareness to help you recognize areas in your personality that need growth and healthy habits to help you grow and thrive!
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/transformation-episode-54
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral mini...2023-12-3023 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Power of Awe (Episode 53)
How discovering “awe” in your daily life can increase joy, life satisfaction and enhance relationships.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-power-of-awe-revisited
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individu...2023-12-2333 min
Life and Love NuggetsRevisited: The Inner Critic (Episode 52)
Brent and Janis Sharpe, licensed therapists, give insights on talking back to negative thinking that keeps us from flourishing in life.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/revisited-the-inner-critic
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral mini...2023-12-1633 min
Life and Love NuggetsRevisited: Are forgiveness and trust the same? (Episode 51)
Brent and Janis talk about how we can forgive hurts from the past and find freedom in our life even if those that hurt us don’t change and how that process is very different than trusting someone.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/revisited-are-forgiveness-and-trust-the-same
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therap...2023-12-0940 min
Life and Love NuggetsRevisited: The 90:10 Lie - How to Avoid the Negativity Bias (Episode 50)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.
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of p...2023-12-0229 min
Life and Love NuggetsLighten Up (Episode 49)
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 been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help indi...2023-11-2531 min
Life and Love Nuggets(Revisited) So You're Gonna Be With Family for the Holidays (Episode 48)
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-family-for-the-holidays
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relati...2023-11-1851 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Grief of Pregnancy Loss • Part 2 (Episode 47)
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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after fort...2023-11-1128 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Grief of Pregnancy Loss • Part 1 (Episode 46)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-of-pregnancy-loss-part-one
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life...2023-11-0421 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Art of Decision Making (Episode 45)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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering coupl...2023-10-2833 min
Life and Love NuggetsPhubbing • Our Phones and Our Lives: Part 2 (Episode 44)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-phones-and-our-lives-part-two
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn va...2023-10-2131 min
Life and Love NuggetsOur Phones and Our Lives (Part 1) • Episode 43Phones 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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life...2023-10-1435 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Nuts And Bolts Of Managing Money • Money: Part 2 (Episode 42)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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are...2023-10-0734 min
Life and Love NuggetsHow To Not Fight About Money In Marriage • Money: Part 1 (Episode 41)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 Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are...2023-09-3029 min
Life and Love NuggetsSurprising Ways to Improve Your Mood • Episode 40We 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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in th...2023-09-2327 min
Life and Love NuggetsBetrayal in Other Relationships (Love, Lies and Betrayal • Part 6) Episode 39In 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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They rece...2023-09-1623 min
Life and Love NuggetsFalse Intimacy: Step #4 of Recovering from Betrayal (Love, Lies, and Betrayal • Part 5) Episode 38Brent 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.lifeandlovenuggets.com/false-intimacy-step-four-of-recovering-from-betrayal-love-lies-and-betrayal-part-five
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you lear...2023-09-0930 min
Life and Love NuggetsGrief: Step #3 of Recovering from Betrayal (Love, Lies and Betrayal • Part 4) Episode 37Brent 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-betrayal-part-four
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Jani...2023-09-0238 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe First Steps of Recovery (Love, Lies and Betrayal • Part 3) Episode 36Brent 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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are...2023-08-2636 min
Life and Love NuggetsPrerequisites for Healing (Love, Lies and Betrayal • Part 2) Episode 35In 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 insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and...2023-08-1927 min
Life and Love NuggetsWhy so many affairs? (Love, Lies and Betrayal • Part 1) Episode 34Brent 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-part-one
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have...2023-08-1238 min
Life and Love NuggetsNecessary Endings (Change: Part 3) Episode 33In 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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their...2023-08-0531 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Neurobiology of Change: How it Happens (Change: Part 2) Episode 32In 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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their...2023-07-2935 min
Life and Love NuggetsChange: Part 1 (Episode 31)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
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The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre...2023-07-2233 min
Life and Love NuggetsYou are not the only one: Part 2 (Episode 30)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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages and families in their private practice....2023-07-1529 min
Life and Love NuggetsYou are not the only one: Part 1 (Episode 29)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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages and families in their private practice.2023-07-0831 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Love of the Father (Episode 28)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 insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. T...2023-07-0133 min
Life and Love NuggetsOur Disconnected World - Our Changing World, Part 3 (Episode 27)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-three
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 empowering couples t...2023-06-2432 min
Life and Love NuggetsOur Struggle with Identity - Our Changing World, Part 2 (Episode 26)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 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 empowering couples through pre-marriage an...2023-06-1722 min
Life and Love NuggetsManaging Expectations - Our Changing World, Part 1 (Episode 25)Brent and his oldest son Father Preston, a priest in the Anglican tradition who founded and pastors a church in Nashville talk about all the shifts and changes in our world and how that impacts each of us in very significant ways. In this episode, they talk about the importance of managing expectations.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/managing-expectations-our-changing-world-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 hav...2023-06-1031 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Three Steps: Issue Resolution Part 3 (Episode 24)In Part 3, Brent and Janis finally reveal the mysterious 3-step process they have been building up to in the first two parts. If followed, these can lead us to find unity and common ground in our relationships. It is a powerful way to build emotional intimacy in our marriages, families and friendships.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-three-steps-issue-resolution-part-three
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 be...2023-06-0345 min
Life and Love NuggetsProductive Guidelines for Healthy Conversations: Issue Resolution Part 2 (Episode 23)Brent and Janis continue with keys to resolving issues in relationships, the benefit of valuing our differences, and present healthy guidelines for managing conflict.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/productive-guidelines-for-healthy-conversations-issue-resolution-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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to h...2023-05-2738 min
Life and Love NuggetsHow to Break Unproductive Patterns: Issue Resolution Part 1 (Episode 22)Brent and Janis begin a three-part series dealing with how to resolve issues and find common ground in relationships. This first session shows how to break an unhealthy pattern that all relationships are susceptible to experiencing and how to set the stage for a productive strategy to resolve conflict.
Download the Fear Cycle/Dance Steps printout and view the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/how-to-break-unproductive-patterns-issue-resolution-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 lov...2023-05-2043 min
Life and Love NuggetsCelebrating Motherhood (Episode 21)In part two, Janis will be talking about the challenges and yet incredible joy of being a mom.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/celebrating-motherhood
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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages and families...2023-05-1322 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Challenges of Mother’s Day (Episode 20)Mother’s Day, like most holidays, can be a day of celebration, joy, pain or grief or for many people, a mixture of these. Brent and Janis will be talking about the various aspects of Mother’s day and give some suggestions on coping skills to help yourself and how to be sensitive to others who may have a difficult time on this holiday.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/challenges-of-mothers-day
Learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com
The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you lear...2023-05-0635 min
Life and Love NuggetsEnneagram 7-9 Growth Practices (Transformation Part 4) Episode 19Brent and Janis conclude their series on Transformation as they discuss the final three Enneagram types (7-9) and growth practices that assist each one.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/enneagram-growth-practices-transformation-part-four
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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing...2023-04-2934 min
Life and Love NuggetsEnneagram 4-6 Growth Practices (Transformation Part 3) Episode 18Brent and Janis continue the Transformation series with a discussion on Enneagram types 4-6 and growth practices that assist each one.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/enneagram-growth-practices-transformation-part-three
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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, m...2023-04-2235 min
Life and Love NuggetsEnneagram 1-3 Growth Practices (Transformation Part 2) Episode 17Brent and Janis discuss each of the first 3 Enneagram types and growth practices that assist each one.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/enneagram-growth-practices-transformation-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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages and families in...2023-04-1534 min
Life and Love NuggetsTransformation Part 1 (Episode 16)Developing good self awareness to help you recognize areas in your personality that need growth and healthy habits to help you grow and thrive!
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/transformation
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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing t...2023-04-0821 min
Life and Love NuggetsCommunication - Part 2 (Episode 15)In Part 2 of Communication, Brent and Janis discuss how to deepen our relationships using the three parts of awareness in conversation.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/communication-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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, ma...2023-04-0133 min
Life and Love NuggetsCommunication - Part 1 (Episode 14)This week, Brent and Janis share some lighthearted communication mishaps and the importance of listening. Many times when people talk to us, we only listen to a fraction of what they are saying and react too quickly. We end up misunderstanding each other and get into unnecessary conflicts.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/communication-part-1
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 empowering couples through pr...2023-03-2524 min
Life and Love NuggetsPart 4: Mourning - Dealing with Life's Inevitable Losses (Episode 13)Brent and Janis discuss mourning and give a final overview of grief. They also share how you can help friends through the grieving process.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/mourning-dealing-with-lifes-inevitable-losses-part-four
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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing t...2023-03-1822 min
Life and Love NuggetsPart 3: Depression - Dealing with Life's Inevitable Losses (Episode 12)Brent and Janis continue their 4-part series dealing with how to move through the different emotions that we feel as a result of life’s inevitable losses. Today, they look at the natural discouragement many experience and how to strengthen our lives as we move through depression.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/dealing-with-lifes-inevitable-losses-part-three
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 empowering couples through pre-marriage an...2023-03-1135 min
Life and Love NuggetsPart 2: Anger - Dealing with Life's Inevitable Losses (Episode 11)Brent and Janis continue their four-part series on grief. They discuss how to process the emotion accompanying loss by looking at anger, a normal yet challenging emotion in dealing with any type of loss.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/dealing-with-lifes-inevitable-losses-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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently...2023-03-0432 min
Life and Love NuggetsPart 1: Dealing with Life's Inevitable Losses (Episode 10)Brent and Janis begin a four-part series looking at how to recover well from life’s losses. We all face numerous losses: the death of a loved one, normal life transitions or experiencing the loss of an ideal or a dream.
View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/dealing-with-lifes-inevitable-losses-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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private pr...2023-02-2638 min
Life and Love NuggetsReimagining Date Night (Episode 9)Brent and Janis talk about the power of touch and teach you how to plan Date Nights that actually work!
Get the Date Night Questions and Date Night Ideas and view the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/reimagining-date-night.
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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years...2023-02-1835 min
Life and Love NuggetsDaily Connections and Valentine Hints (Episode 8)Brent and Janis share two simple workday habits that can deepen the connection with your spouse and an idea that can be a booster shot to this Valentine’s Day.
Get the “Appreciation Letter” template and view the full transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/daily-connections-and-valentine-hints
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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since...2023-02-1148 min
Life and Love NuggetsLove Nuggets (Episode 7)Brent and Janis give you practical ways to enrich your relationships.
Get the 50 Love Nugget ideas and view the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/love-nuggets.
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 empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages and families in...2023-02-0433 min
Life and Love NuggetsMagical Thinking (Episode 6)Brent and Janis discuss how magical thinking in our culture impacts our lives and relationships
Learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe at www.lifeandlovenuggets.com.
View the full transcript at www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/magical-thinking.
The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages and families in their private practice.2023-01-2828 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Power of Awe (Episode 5)Discovering "awe" in your daily life can increase joy, life satisfaction, and enhance relationships.
Learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe at www.lifeandlovenuggets.com.
View the full transcript at www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-power-of-awe
The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages and families in their private practice.
2023-01-2133 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe Inner Critic (Episode 4)Brent and Janis Sharpe, licensed therapists, give insights on talking back to negative thinking that keeps us from flourishing in life.
Learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe at www.lifeandlovenuggets.com.
View the full video transcript at www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-inner-critic-negative-thinking-self-talk
The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after 40 years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages...2023-01-1530 min
Life and Love NuggetsThe 90:10 Lie - How to Avoid the Negativity Bias (Episode 3)Brent and Janis Sharpe, licensed therapists, discuss how to be mindful of our natural human negative bias and how our focus determines our attitude toward anything in life.
Learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe at www.lifeandlovenuggets.com.
View the full transcript at www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/how-to-overcome-negativity-bias
The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry...2023-01-0828 min
Life and Love NuggetsAre Forgiveness and Trust the Same? (Episode 2)Brent and Janis Sharpe, licensed therapists, talk about how we can forgive hurts from the past and find freedom in our life even if those that hurt us don’t change and how that process is very different than trusting someone.
To learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe, visit www.lifeandlovenuggets.com.
View the full transcript at www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/are-forgiveness-and-trust-the-same
The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private pr...2022-12-3138 min
Life and Love NuggetsSo You're Gonna Be With Family for the Holidays (Episode 1)Our very first episode will help you save your sanity this holiday! It’s packed with insights and tips on how to enjoy time with your extended family. As they kick off their brand new podcast, Brent and Janis (Licensed Therapists), start with one of their favorite topics of the year.
To learn more about Brent and Janis Sharpe, visit www.lifeandlovenuggets.com.
The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Li...2022-12-1849 min
Empty Nest Guests4. How Men and Women Process the Empty Nest with counselors Brent & Janis SharpeHow do men and women process the empty nesting years? “Often VERY differently,” according to licensed marriage and family therapists, Brent and Janis Sharpe. In their book, The Making of a Marriage, they share about the formation of a healthy and thriving marriage. The same principles are needed as men and women navigate this new phase of life. Join Brent and Janis, Charlotte, and her husband Gordy share common male and female responses to the encore years. The empty nest can be fulfilling and freeing as a couple seeks to understand the unique ways each is coping.
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Don't Mom Alone PodcastNurturing Your Marriage :: Brent and Janis Sharpe [Ep 299]Marriage can be really hard. You start out so in love and excited but over time the daily strain of work, home, and parenting makes it challenging to connect with your spouse. Add a global pandemic and the strain is just overwhelming. My guests Brent and Janis Sharpe are both Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists who have been married for 42 years. They are passionate about helping couples have healthy and thriving marriages even in the hardest of times. “Most marriages are dealing with malnutrition. They're feeding everything else in their life… all the demands of childr...2020-10-0544 min
Don't Mom Alone PodcastNurturing Your Marriage :: Brent and Janis Sharpe [Ep 299]Marriage can be really hard. You start out so in love and excited but over time the daily strain of work, home, and parenting makes it challenging to connect with your spouse. Add a global pandemic and the strain is just overwhelming.
My guests Brent and Janis Sharpe are both Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists who have been married for 42 years. They are passionate about helping couples have healthy and thriving marriages even in the hardest of times.
“Most marriages are dealing with malnutrition. They're feeding everything else in their life… all the demands of childr...2020-10-0544 min
New Life MidtownPeace in a Broken WorldBrent and Janis Sharpe discuss how we, as God's people, can begin experiencing peace in a broken world.2019-02-2448 min