What if your most devastating life storms are actually clearing the path to your greater purpose? From the outside, Bethany Harger was living the dream—temple marriage, young children, and a promising future. But behind closed doors, crippling depression left her bedridden while her husband battled addiction.
Justin Dyer received BA in Marriage and Family from Brigham Young University and a Master's and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also has expertise in statistics. Justin is a professor of religion at BYU, teaching religion and family classes, and focuses his research on religion and mental health. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed studies in scholarly journals.
Sister Morgan Pearson continues to examine Emma’s instruction to be a scribe and compile hymns for the Church. Sister Pearson also explores Emma’s experience with plural marriage and the importance of covenants, forgiveness, and the beauty and strength of this complicated person from Church History.
In this episode, Heather is joined by Jenn Zingmark, a coach who specializes in helping individuals navigate the challenges of divorce while staying faithful, resilient, and hopeful. Jenn shares her personal journey through divorce and remarriage, the lessons she’s learned, and how she now helps others find healing and hope. She discusses how to know when it’s time to leave a marriage, the realities of divorce, and the importance of taking personal responsibility for happiness. This conversation is filled with wisdom, encouragement, and practical tools for anyone facing divorce or relationship struggles. For more information about Jenn and for links to access all she has to offer, please click HERE! To watch this interview on YouTube, go HERE. For more information and available downloads, go to: https://ldslifecoaches.com/ All content is copyrighted to Heather Rackham and featured coaches. Do not use without permission.
What happens when your carefully planned future - BYU, dental school, marriage at 22, four kids by 35 - gets completely rewritten after an equestrian accident leaves you paralyzed? Speaker Cambry Nelson shares three tools that may help you as you face an uncertain future or wrestle with broken dreams, and how learning to see God’s detours in a new light will often lead you to an even better destination. “The right guy looks at your wheelchair and instead of seeing limitations, asks about possible upgrades.”
Mark Bell has over 20 years of experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), and has trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). Mark specializes in helping couples navigate relational and emotional intimacy challenges and much of his work is with men struggling with sexually compulsive behaviors, along with their loved ones affected by those behaviors. He focuses on healthy connections with ourselves, our God, and others in healing.
This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in July 2021. Andrea Lystrup is a licensed marriage and family therapist and owns a private practice—Andrea Lystrup Therapy—in Tucson, Arizona. She received her master’s degree from the University of Maryland in Couple and Family Therapy. She specializes in marriage therapy, particularly working with sexual issues, betrayal trauma, and mixed faith marriages.
Financial conflict is one of the most difficult things in marriages and relationships. Managing money well within a marriage is difficult, but you can do it. Professor Jeffrey Hill helps us understand how financial honesty equals marital trust and how to build that within our relationship.
Do you want better interactions with your kids or spouse? Often good relationships require skills that we were never taught in school. In this episode, therapist and relationship coach Dr. Matt Townsend shares 5 skills that can help couples and families connect in the short and long runs.
Small, ordinary actions are the building blocks of an extraordinary relationship! Just like a work of art is painted one stroke at a time, your marriage and the relationship you have with your spouse is shaped by the little things you do every day. Hank talks about the simple, consistent moments that eventually create a lasting and powerful love for one another.