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Marriage Therapy Radio

Marriage Therapy Radio

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Look... 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 therapist Zach Brittle 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 his alternatives to traditional therapy at marriagetherapyradio.com.

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  • Ep 431 The Couple Who Healed Their War Zones w/Frannie and Danny

    Ep 431 The Couple Who Healed Their War Zones w/Frannie and Danny
    2026/06/30
    Zach sits down with Frannie and Danny, a married couple and wellness practitioners based in Florida who run an energy center in Palm Beach Gardens and lead workshops rooted in trauma recovery, energy work, and conscious relationship practices. Both come from what Frannie calls "war zones." Danny grew up in Israel with an Egyptian-French mother. Frannie was raised in Canada by Holocaust survivors, kept her Jewish identity secret, and spent decades working through what she describes as inherited PTSD. Their life together, and the tools they use to sustain it, form the backbone of this conversation.What emerges is a vivid picture of what intentional partnership looks like in practice: morning hugs with spoken affirmations customized to each other's tender spots, humming exercises to shift body chemistry in real time, inner child meditations done side by side, and a shared commitment to flooding the end of every day with joy and laughter before sleep. Danny talks candidly about going from hot-headed and heavy to lighter in every sense over the past six months. Frannie traces the roots of that transformation to the willingness to stop fighting your old story and start feeling a new one.The conversation goes deeper when Zach asks about the "woo-woo" question and Frannie's answer grounds all of it: the quantum field, nitric oxide, vagal nerve activation, heart-brain coherence. None of this is fringe anymore. It is the science behind why these practices work. And when she walks through the inner child work she and Danny do together, including forgiving the inner children of parents who caused harm, something clicks about why this couple carries so little weight for people who came from so much pain.Key TakeawaysWars between people, and within relationships, often begin with a war inside the self. Healing starts with learning to love who you are.Affirmations work best when they are personalized to your actual vulnerable spots, not generic positivity scripts.A daily heart-to-heart hug of over a minute creates measurable physiological shifts in the body. It is not sentimental. It is chemical.Humming is an ancient, science-backed tool for stress regulation. Exhaling on the word "home" activates nitric oxide and the vagus nerve throughout the body.Shame is often the hidden block that keeps people from changing their story. It is not about accountability. It is about the fear that if you could have shifted sooner, you wasted time.Inner child work is not just about forgiving yourself. Visualizing your parents as innocent children who only wanted love is one of the most effective ways to release intergenerational resentment.Affirmations require emotional alignment, not just words. The mind and the emotion have to move together, or the words are just noise.Ending your day on purpose: choosing funny, light, joyful content before sleep is a form of nervous system hygiene, not just a preference.Guest InfoFrannie Sheridan Wellness practitioner, performer, storyteller, and workshop facilitator specializing in stress management, inherited trauma recovery, inner child work, and humming-based somatic techniques. Originally from Canada, raised by Holocaust survivors. Decades of international work in healing and performance. Recipient of multiple Mayoral Awards and accolades.Book: I Tried to Be Normal, But It Was Taken (Kindle version now available on Amazon; audiobook coming July via ACX/Amazon) Amazon link: https://a.co/d/03D3L5zR Companion guide: The Post-Traumatic Joy Overload Playbook (32 actionable stress management techniques) Website: franniesheridan.com All social links: linktr.ee/StressBUSTERHumFESTDannyCo-facilitator and Frannie's husband of twenty-plus years. Background in business; grew up in Israel. Co-leads workshops and runs Loving Light Regeneration (lovinglightregeneration.com), a holistic light frequency center in Palm Beach Gardens, with Frannie.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    45 分
  • Ep 430 When the Therapist Comes Home: Marriage, ADHD, and the Work Behind the Work w/Eli & Ariella

    Ep 430 When the Therapist Comes Home: Marriage, ADHD, and the Work Behind the Work w/Eli & Ariella
    2026/06/23

    Zach sits down with Eli, a therapist, podcast host, and author, and his wife Ariella, a registered dietitian, for an honest look at what it actually takes to build a good marriage, not the sanitized version you'd expect from someone with a therapy practice and a book on relationships, but the real one. Seven weeks from welcoming their third child, living in Las Vegas with two kids already in tow, this couple brings both credentials and candor to a conversation about the daily, unglamorous work of staying close.

    The conversation covers the full terrain: how they define a good day versus a bad one, the specific argument that sent Ariella to two books in one week, the way Eli's ADHD reshapes how they communicate and how Ariella has had to rewire her instinct to simply fix or suppress conflict, and what they have learned after 11 years of marriage and counting. Eli is refreshingly unguarded about the fact that knowing everything about relationships professionally does not mean you execute perfectly at home. Ariella matches that candor, walking through her peacemaker wiring, her inherited anxiety around conflict, and the work she has had to do to give Eli the space to fully express himself instead of rushing toward resolution.

    What comes through most clearly is that the couple treats their marriage as a system they are actively tending, not a fixed state they arrived at. The "tank check," the "flash mode" codeword, the end-of-argument debrief, the habit of asking what kind of conversation this is before jumping in: none of this happened by accident. It came from arguments, mess-ups, therapy, books, and a genuine willingness to keep being curious about each other even when things get hard.


    Key Takeaways

    • Knowing the theory does not guarantee you live it. Even a therapist has bad days, snaps at his wife, and has to walk it back.
    • Checking in on each other's "tank" before making requests can short-circuit a lot of unnecessary conflict.
    • "Don't go to bed angry" is not universal wisdom. Sometimes sleeping on it is the smarter move.
    • ADHD in a marriage is not a dealbreaker. It requires over-communication, agreed-upon signals, and a partner who stays curious rather than just compensating.
    • The "matching principle": knowing whether a conversation is logistical, emotional, or relational before jumping in prevents a lot of crossed wires.
    • Repair matters more than a clean fight. What you do at the end of the argument, the debrief, the "what's our takeaway," is where growth actually lives.
    • Accountability does not mean your partner gets to stay heated indefinitely. Both people have a job: one to express fully, one to stay present without shutting it down early.
    • Keeping the effort you put in while dating, the check-ins, the curiosity, the showing up, does not stop being necessary just because the relationship became official.


    Guest Info

    Eli Weinstein, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist in private practice, and host of "The Dude Therapist" podcast. He is the author of From I Do to We Do: Navigating Marriage in the Parenting Years, an honest, humor-forward guide for couples working to stay connected through the chaos of raising kids. The book is available now via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, and Books-A-Million.

    Website: eliweinsteinlcsw.com

    Personal: @eliweinstein_lcsw

    Ariella is Eli's wife of 11 years, a registered dietitian, and a full-time working mom of two with a third on the way at time of recording. She is not currently active on social media.

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    44 分
  • Ep 429 The Therapist and Her Partner: What It Actually Looks Like to Live the Work w/Anna & John

    Ep 429 The Therapist and Her Partner: What It Actually Looks Like to Live the Work w/Anna & John
    2026/06/16
    Zach sits down with Anna, a faculty member at the Relational Life Institute and one of his mentors, and her husband John, a self-described practitioner of life rather than therapy. Together, the three of them get into something that rarely happens on relationship podcasts: a real, textured, honest look at what it means to actually live relational principles inside a marriage, not just teach them.The episode turns on a fascinating contrast. Anna has been steeped in Relational Life Therapy for years, knows the language and the tools inside and out, and still finds herself slipping into covert control. John has no clinical training, no internet footprint, and no interest in marketing the work, but walks into every conversation with an intuitive grasp of what healthy relating requires. Zach presses both of them on this. What does doing the work actually mean when one partner has the vocabulary and the other just seems to live it? The answers are more interesting than either of them might have predicted.The centerpiece story is a moment from a joint retreat in Costa Rica, where Anna had to manage a minor household crisis back home without telling John what was happening. She kept things managed, kept things calm, and kept him in the dark, and then eventually had to reckon with the fact that her "helpfulness" had crossed over into exactly the pattern she spends her professional life helping couples dismantle. When she finally told him, his response was one of the most reparative moments she had experienced in their relationship. That single story opens into a much bigger conversation about the difference between protecting your partner and controlling the room, about what it costs to never let yourself be surprised by someone else's goodness.What sticks is this: the goal is not to never get off balance. It is to catch it sooner. Anna says it plainly and Zach echoes it with his now-running story about screaming at strangers in the Costco gas line. Nobody has figured this out. Nobody is immune. But some people are getting better at noticing, and this episode is 45 minutes of what that actually looks and sounds like in a real marriage.Key TakeawaysIntimacy requires level ground. You cannot have real closeness from a one-up or one-down position, whether that means superiority, caretaking, or control.Covert control often starts as kindness. What begins as "protecting" your partner can quietly become a way of managing your own anxiety about their reaction.Predicting a bad response can cost you a good one. When Anna stopped waiting for John to disappoint her and told him what was going on, she got one of the most reparative moments in their relationship.The work is not a destination you arrive at. It is the repeated, unglamorous act of noticing when you have drifted, and coming back.Doing the work is not the same as talking about the work. John's ability to intuit the relational principles without the clinical vocabulary challenges the assumption that people who read the books and say the right things are necessarily further along.How you show up solicits how your partner shows up. Bringing your grounded, adult self to an interaction invites the same from the person across from you. It is not a guarantee, but it raises the odds significantly."On a good day" is not the benchmark. The real growth shows up in what you do when it is a bad day and the old patterns are calling your name loudest.Repair is available more often than we let ourselves believe. The barrier is usually not the other person. It is the story we are already telling about how they are going to respond.Guest InfoAnna is a therapist, teacher, and faculty member at the Relational Life Institute. She is a practitioner and trainer in Relational Life Therapy, an approach developed by Terry Real. She references her use of RLT both in her clinical practice and in her own marriage. She is also Zach's mentor, a relationship he acknowledges directly during the episode.John is Anna's husband. He is not a clinician. He came to the relational principles through personal experience, yoga, mindfulness practice, and what he describes as a forced epiphany roughly a decade before this recording. His perspective as the non-therapist partner in a therapist-led framework is one of the central tensions the episode is built around.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    51 分
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