Description
In this episode, I interview James Christensen, a licensed marriage therapist, about divorce recovery and relationship repair. James comes at divorce recovery from a totally different approach than I’ve ever seen before. He states men need to locate the pain they are feeling from the devastation of the divorce in a precise location on the body and work on that area. Sometimes the out-of-control actions with our emotions are the result of our child-like impulses. This podcast was definitely a heaping dose of new possibilities. It was hard to gather my questions when I was still trying to process the answer he gave me to the previous one. I feel that we only scratched the surface of the healing ways for you men over 40. So, James will definitely be asked back. Thanks James!
Takeaways:
-find where negative emotions are felt in the body to gain a better understanding of them
-focus on making requests instead of complaints to improve communication during divorce
-put in the work to develop emotional maturity and relationship skills for a satisfying marriage
-feel distress and provide self-comfort to overcome the survival instinct and move on from uncontrollable actions
-the spectrum of intimacy in communication
-leaving emotional maturity to your children is priceless
-write it down and wait until tomorrow
-complaining about the past can be harmful
-practice kindness to each other
-feel more do less
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