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Brave Love, Great Sex - Healing Attachment Shadows in the Bedroom w/Laurie Watson, Ph.D., Type 2
2026/09/18 | 45 mins.Most couples have deep desire for sensual and intimate love in the bedroom, and today we're looking at perhaps. the biggest shadow, your attachment shadows in the bedroom with best-selling author Dr. Laurie Watson, Ph.D, (2-9 pairing). We get to talk personality a bit here as Dr. Laurie learns about the Enneagram with us but the foremost (and fascinating) conversation here is about how to bring you safer connection, whether you're anxiously or avoidantly attached. We're also bringing you Laurie's brand new and #1 release book, Brave Love, Great Sex: Harnessing Attachment Theory for Passionate Relationships on attachment and your sex life here! https://a.co/d/0dGyNQ0g. You don't want to miss this fresh and brave conversation about true intimacy! Watch on YouTube!
Laurie's podcast, Brave Love, Great Sex is Here! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brave-love-great-sex-couples-therapy-podcast/id1083324677
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices- To kick off a special Sexy September with Date Your Spouse and a whole collective of marriage voices, Christa reframes fading desire as something covered over rather than lost. Drawing on the dual control model of desire, she shows that most couples don't have a broken accelerator, they have a brake pressed to the floor by stress, resentment, routine, and feeling unseen, plus the hidden shadow layers of shame and old messages about sex. She names the specific things that bury the spark, the mental load, unrepaired hurt, over-familiarity, and the loss of feeling wanted, and offers real hope: buried things can be unearthed. With practical ways to start clearing even one layer this week, this episode is a hopeful, freeing start to the month. And if you want the full science of turning the spark back up, the deep dive shows you exactly how.
Get Inside Your Sexy September Intimacy Vault Here!
Get inside the Enneagram and Marriage Coaching and Masterclass classroom here! https://www.enneagramandmarriage.com/the-e-m-coaching-masterclass Use the code COACH for $250 off - or - use a payment plan!!
Get inside the FREE Wholehearted Summit for Weary Women Sept 9-11 here! http://www.simplywholehearted.com/a/2148302131/MhoTboBT
Find Amy here at her website! www.simplywholehearted.com
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Big Feelings, Safe Places: The Shadow of Emotion in Marriage, with Bailey Gillespie, 4
2026/09/14 | 48 mins.Almost all of us carry a shadow around our own feelings, either we fear them, stuff them down, or let them flood a room until no one can hear each other anymore. In this warm and honest convo, Christa welcomes writer Bailey Gillespie to talk about the shadow of big emotions, and how to bring real containment and boundaries to our feelings without silencing them. Bailey and her husband navigate a rich, layered marriage: neurodiversity including ADHD, a ten-year age gap, and two passionate, emotionally alive temperaments as a type 4 and type 6 pairing. Together, we explore why differentiation is key when both partners feel things deeply, how to hold a big feeling without being held hostage by it, and how to actually express what's real in a way your spouse can receive! If you and your spouse keep losing each other in the storm of big feelings, this one will meet you right where you are, with real hope. Watch on YouTube!
Follow Bailey and her writing journey here: https://www.instagram.com/baileylgillespie/
FInd her Substack here: https://baileygillespie.substack.com
Get inside the Enneagram and Marriage Coaching and Masterclass classroom here! https://www.enneagramandmarriage.com/the-e-m-coaching-masterclass Use the code COACH for $250 off - or - use a payment plan!!
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices- We're deep in our month on shadow work, and this one gets personal. Your shadow is the part of you that you'd rather not look at, the old reactions, fears, and wounds running beneath the surface, formed long before you ever met your spouse. And here's the catch: what we won't look at, we tend to act out, usually on the person closest to us. In this episode Christa explores how your shadow shows up in marriage, the overreaction that's bigger than the moment, the story you tell about your spouse that's really about your old wounds, the pattern you swore you'd never repeat. Your spouse often isn't the real problem, they're the screen your shadow gets projected onto. But there's freedom here: when you own your shadow, you stop handing your spouse the blame for what's yours to heal, and the marriage you want may be closer than you think, waiting on the other side of the part of yourself you've been avoiding. Watch on YouTube!
Get inside the Enneagram and Marriage Coaching and Masterclass classroom here! https://www.enneagramandmarriage.com/the-e-m-coaching-masterclass Use the code COACH for $250 off - or - use a payment plan!!
Get inside the FREE Wholehearted Summit for Weary Women Sept 9-11 here! http://www.simplywholehearted.com/a/2148302131/MhoTboBT
Find Amy here at her website! www.simplywholehearted.com
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices - Addiction rarely stays in one person, it touches the whole family, and it casts a long shadow over marriages, parents, children, and homes. As we continue our month on shadow work, Christa welcomes Caroline Beidler, author, speaker, and Managing Editor of Recovery.com, for an honest and hopeful conversation about loving someone in recovery, with a non-shaming yet healthy boundaried stance as needed. Drawing on her new book and her own lived experience of addiction, mental health, and trauma recovery, Caroline speaks with the warmth, grit, and insight her readers know her for in her Type 1w9 gift of goodness and active peace. Together, we explore what it means to love someone through addiction and recovery without losing yourself, how the shadow of addiction shapes a family's patterns and roles, the boundaries that protect both love and safety, and where real hope and healing take root! Whether addiction has touched your family directly or you walk alongside someone whose has, this conversation will meet you with compassion and light. Listen here! Watch on YouTube!
Get Caroline's helpful book here, When You Love Someone in Recovery! https://a.co/d/0faMBOJI
Find Caroline on www.recovery.com
Get inside the Enneagram and Marriage Coaching and Masterclass classroom here! https://www.enneagramandmarriage.com/the-e-m-coaching-masterclass Use the code COACH for $250 off - or - use a payment plan!!
Get inside the FREE Wholehearted Summit for Weary Women Sept 9-11 here! http://www.simplywholehearted.com/a/2148302131/MhoTboBT
Find Amy here at her website! www.simplywholehearted.com
Find more about your type, the pod, freebies, and SO much more at our website right here! www.EnneagramandMarriage.com
Take the E + M Quiz at www.QuizforCouples.com
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Get Christa's Best-Selling Book, The Enneagram in Marriage, here! https://a.co/d/df8SxVx
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The Enneagram and Marriage Podcast, hosted by Christa Hardin, MA, is rooted in two decades of experience counseling and coaching couples. On top of her expert marriage advice, Christa uses the Enneagram to add another layer of understanding in how we work as individuals and gives us deeper insight into how we connect and shine together in marriage and relationships across the collective community.
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