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Partner Communication During High Stress — COVID-19

by Rhett Smith | Mar 27, 2020 | Marriage, Videos

During times of high stress, like we are facing right now with the COVID-19 quarantine, it is no surprise that conflict is high for many couples. In this video I talk about some specific things you can do to help you navigate the high stress and conflict.

Rhett Smith 123: Jeff and Robin Reinke on Pornography, Marriage, and Recovery

by Rhett Smith | Apr 18, 2019 | Marriage, Podcast, Restoration Therapy

In this episode I had the privilege of sitting down with my good friends Jeff and Robin Reinke. Besides being colleagues of mine in a workshop we lead in equipping ministry leaders in a variety of issues impacting the church, we are also co-authors in Vital Tools for...

Rhett Smith 108: 3 Important Relational Postures: Ask, Let Go, Hold On

by Rhett Smith | Nov 30, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

Often when I’m working with someone in session I try to think of visual and tangible ways that they can remember some of the things that we are processing together. And what I have noticed a lot about relational interactions is that there tends to be this...

Rhett Smith 106: The Importance of Adventure in Marriage — with Director of WinShape Marriage, Matt Turvey

by Rhett Smith | Nov 9, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

Over the last several years my wife and I have begun a new journey in our life. That journey has involved a couple of elements: 1) Trying to incorporate more adventure into our marriage (i.e. trips, taking on challenges, etc.); 2) Working on ways to partner together...

Rhett Smith 105: The Key to Why Some Couples Can Work Through Conflict and Problem Solve, and Why Other Couples Can’t.

by Rhett Smith | Oct 12, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

One of the reasons many couples can’t solve conflict in their relationship is because they often get stuck thinking that their argument is really about the topic at hand (i.e. money, sex, parenting, work, inlaws, etc.). And as long as they believe that, then...

Rhett Smith 103: A Personal Story About a Good Kind of Anxiety

by Rhett Smith | Sep 21, 2017 | Anxiety, Podcast

I talk a lot about anxiety on this podcast. And sometimes anxiety can seem vague or too theoretical, unless one really has experienced. And even then, just talking about it can seem like an intellectual exercise. But today I had a personal experience that really makes...

Rhett Smith 94: Three Postures on the Forgiveness Journey

by Rhett Smith | Jun 5, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to share with the ReEngage Ministry at Hope Fellowship the topic of forgiveness. It’s such an important topic not only in all of our lives, but especially in the context of marriage where one’s ability to forgive...

Rhett Smith 88: Fostering the Varied Types of Intimacy in Relationships

by Rhett Smith | Feb 23, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

This last weekend I led a class on fostering intimacy in marriage to a group of premarital couples. I love doing this work, but intimacy can be a complicated issue. When we think of intimacy in our culture we often think of sex, or at least physical intimacy to say...

Rhett Smith 86: Navigating the Chaotic Path to Affair Recovery

by Rhett Smith | Feb 8, 2017 | Marriage, Podcast

If I had to take a guess, I would guess that at least 50-60% of every couple that I work with is in my office because of an affair. Affairs come in varied forms from the physical to the emotional and everything in between. And affairs don’t discriminate based on...

Rhett Smith 82: Seven Books to Transform Your Marriage

by Rhett Smith | Nov 17, 2016 | Marriage, Podcast

One of the most common questions I get is about what marriage book I might recommend. That is a tough question in some ways because there are so many books out there, and every person responds to a certain book differently. So it’s hard to be too prescriptive on...

Rhett Smith 81: Making Your Marriage a Priority in a Culture of Busyness — Assessing Marital Drift and Strategies to Keep Your Marriage on Course

by Rhett Smith | Nov 8, 2016 | Marriage, Podcast

Last week I had the privilege of speaking to one of my favorite groups…MOPS. In this case it was the MOPS group at First Baptist Frisco which is an awesome group I have had the opportunity to speak to before (as well as their MOMSnext group). And as I was...

Rhett Smith 73: You Can’t Have Both a Great Marriage and an Activity Centered Life that Puts Your Kids First

by Rhett Smith | Aug 17, 2016 | Marriage, Podcast

I have the great privilege of working with couples in my office on a daily basis. Some come to me before they are married, some within a few years of marriage, but the great majority of them come to see me after a crisis that was indicative of the marital drift in...

Rhett Smith 72: Navigating Relationships in the Daily Transitions

by Rhett Smith | Aug 11, 2016 | Marriage, Parenting

One of the things that I’ve noticed a lot about relationships and conflict, is that a lot of it tends to happen in periods of daily transition. For example, conflict tends to arise when people are leaving the house in the morning, or coming home later in the...

Rhett Smith Podcast 71: Connect in Your Relationships with this Communication Technique

by Rhett Smith | Aug 4, 2016 | Marriage

I’m not quite exactly sure of the origin of learning about this communication technique, but I know it must have morphed together from all of my training and experience as a therapist…so I’m sure it has it’s roots in varying theorists, I just...

Rhett Smith Podcast 67: 3 Life Affirming Messages to Help You Breath Life Into Those Around You

by Rhett Smith | Jun 21, 2016 | Men, Podcast

Sunday was Father’s Day. And like Mother’s Day…it can bring up all kinds of emotions for people. Positive emotions. Negative Emotions. Feelings of joy and happiness, or anger and fear, as well as loss. And that’s just to name a few. I am very...

Rhett Smith Podcast 66: The Importance of Curiosity in Growing Your Relationships

by Rhett Smith | Jun 16, 2016 | Marriage, Podcast

In my time on staff at the Hideaway Experience doing marriage intensives, my co-therapists and I had a few rules that we would often write out for the 4 couples on the their first day of intensive work. We found that having some guiding principles (rules) made the...

Rhett Smith Podcast 56: The 3 Day Listening Exercise That Transforms Your Relationships

by Rhett Smith | Mar 17, 2016 | Marriage, Podcast

Over the course of the last 3 months I have really been wrestling with the question of “how good of a listener am I?” I’ve always thought I was a good listener…I mean, my vocation is essentially to listen to people all day. But I’m sure...

Rhett Smith Podcast 54: The Importance of Practice in Creating and Sustaining Change in Your Relationships

by Rhett Smith | Feb 24, 2016 | Marriage, Podcast, Restoration Therapy

This last weekend I had one of the greatest experiences I have ever had…and that was being able to co-lead a marriage workshop with my wife Heather. Over the last 10 years I have had the opportunity to lead a lot of marriage retreats, conferences, workshops,...

Rhett Smith Podcast 41: Transform Your Relationship Through the Practice of Your Pain and Peace Cycle

by Rhett Smith | Dec 2, 2015 | Marriage, Podcast, Restoration Therapy

This week I am spending time talking about the Pain and Peace Cycle found in the work of Terry Hargrave and his Restoration Therapy model. As I talk about previous episodes, the Pain Cycle and the Peace Cycle have transformed my life, marriage, relationships,...

Rhett Smith Podcast 40: Learning to Regulate Your Emotions by Identifying Your Peace Cycle

by Rhett Smith | Dec 1, 2015 | Marriage, Podcast, Restoration Therapy

In the previous podcast episode I talked about just how life transforming the Pain and Peace Cycle work have been to my life both personally and relationally. Ever since I learned these tools when I went on staff at The Hideaway Experience in 2010 I have continued to...
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