{Podcast} Episode 19 – Practicing Gratitude in Your Marriage
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday we focus on seeing and expressing gratitude in our lives. In this episode, Amberly highlights the importance of appreciating your spouse and expressing gratitude in your marriage relationship. She shares tips for how you can express gratitude and ideas for what you might find to appreciate in your relationship. You can use the…
{Podcast} Episode 18 – Creating Birthday Magic for Your Spouse
Celebrating your spouse’s birthday is celebrating that they were born. That they came into this world when they did. And that, because of that date, you have them in your life. It doesn’t matter what you do for your spouse for their birthday. What matters is that they know you care. And that they feel loved and appreciated and important…
{Podcast} Episode 17 – Supporting Your Spouse’s Mental Health
Even if your spouse doesn’t struggle regularly with mental health, we all have moments or seasons in life when things get hard. Support your spouse with mental health obstacles and treat them with the care and importance that you’d hope they’d show you in return. In this episode, Amberly shares six tips you can use to support your spouse’s mental…
{Podcast} Episode 16 – Prioritizing Your Own Mental Health for Your Marriage
Today’s topic is close to my heart and so crucial for the health of any relationship—how prioritizing your personal mental health can strengthen your marriage. One of my favorite quotes about managing your own mental health comes from Dr. David Schnarch. He says, “The most loving thing we can do for our spouse is to learn to regulate our own…
{Podcast} Episode 15 – Mental Health and Your Marriage
Your personal mental health has an impact on your marriage, your children, and your family as a whole. But for the Prioritize Your Marriage podcast, we’re going to focus on how the health and stability of your marriage relationship are influenced by the mental health of each partner on a day-to-day basis or in different seasons of life. This episode…
{Podcast} Episode 14 – Marriage Coaching – Interview with Dr. Kara Shade
In this episode, Amberly interviews Dr. Kara Shade, a relationship coach. They talk about what relationship coaching is and how it can benefit couples in various seasons of life. Kara shares experiences from her time working with couples as well as from her own personal life….
{Podcast} Episode 13 – Make Considering Your Spouse a Priority
In this episode, Amberly references a podcast episode she listened to over the weekend that sparked some thoughts on how you can be considering your spouse and how considering your spouse goes towards making your marriage a priority throughout every season of life….
{Podcast} Episode 12 – Routines to Help Prioritize Your Marriage
Routines become a part of your every day and help you stay grounded, no matter what you have going on. Routines can have the same impact on your marriage, keeping it grounded and stable regardless of the chaos or peace your lives are currently involved in. In this episode, Amberly shares routines you can set to make your marriage a…
{Podcast} Episode 11 – Prioritizing Your Marriage Amidst the Changing Seasons of Life
Listen: Apple // Spotify // Amazon Episode Synopsis In this episode, Amberly shares a four-step process you can use as a couple, every time you shift into a new season of life, to help ensure that you continue to make time for your marriage, make each other a priority, and that your relationship flourishes and grows through that season of life, rather than being put on the…
{Podcast} Episode 10 – Holiday Traditions for Your Marriage
The holiday season is prime tradition time. In this episode of the Prioritize Your Marriage Podcast, Amberly is talking about traditions, specifically holiday ones, and more specifically ones that you share as a couple. She also shares how these connecting tips and rituals can be adjusted to work year round, in ways that aren’t so seasonal….
{Podcast} Episode 9 – Dividing Time with Your Families for the Holidays and Year Round
Deciding how to spend your time for the holidays, which family traditions to participate in, and making sure that you get quality time with each of your families while leaving room in the schedule for quiet nights at home and your own traditions can be a challenge. That challenge doesn’t end with the holidays though. It’s a year-round, lifelong situation…
{Podcast} Episode 8 – Prioritizing Your Marriage During the Holiday Season
From Halloween to the New Year each year is one of the craziest times for families across the board. That time frame is filled with holidays, family get togethers, end-of-year events, and it’s often the busiest time of the year for individuals at work. In this episode, Amberly shares three things couples can do to make their marriage a priority…
{Podcast} Episode 7 – How to Start Prioritizing Your Marriage Again
If your marriage has been on the back burner for too long, or you’re great partners in life, but the romance piece has faded away. When going on a date together, talking about personal things, or being physically intimate feels overwhelming and uncomfortable, how do you rekindle that flame? In this episode, Amberly shares actionable ideas for starting fresh and…
{Podcast} Episode 6 – What is Keeping You from Prioritizing Your Marriage
There are a lot of reasons couples give when talking about why they don’t have more time for their marriage. Work, school, kids, opposite schedules, the list goes on when it comes to obstacles that could get in the way of prioritizing a marriage. In this episode, Amberly shares the one big reason couples aren’t able to make their marriage…
{Podcast} Episode 5 – What Does a Prioritized Marriage Look Like
Listen: Apple // Spotify // Amazon Episode Synopsis In episode five, Amberly talks about what a prioritized marriage looks like. How do you determine if you’re doing what you need to do to build that enjoyable, long-lasting marriage that’s based on the romance and friendship you share and not just your ability to manage your lives together? No matter what life has in front you, whether it’s…
{Podcast} Episode 4 – Increase Intimacy in Your Marriage
We often use the word intimacy in reference to sex, but intimacy has a much broader definition and meaning. Intimacy requires you to be vulnerable. It increases in the time that you spend connecting with each other, and it has many different facets. Can sex be intimate? Of course. Does intimacy in marriage include sex? Most definitely. But intimacy is…
{Podcast} Episode 3 – Create a Stronger Connection in Your Marriage
Connection comes when you spend time together when you talk about everyday life or work to get to know each other better, and just as you journey through life together and experience things alongside. What worked to help you connect in one season of life, might not be feasible or serve you the same way throughout different seasons of your…
{Podcast} Episode 2 – Have More Fun in Your Marriage
n this episode, Amberly talks about having more fun in your marriage and playing together as a couple. She touches on daily, everyday, spontaneous fun as well as intentionally setting aside time to do fun things together and create fun in your marriage, such as date night. Creating fun in your marriage is not only going to strengthen and connect…
{Podcast} Episode 1 – Why Prioritize Your Marriage
The tagline of A Prioritized Marriage is “making marriage a priority throughout every stage of life.” This comes from the overall mission of A Prioritized Marriage which is to help couples make time to build and enjoy their marriage throughout every stage of life. Making your marriage a priority isn’t just about keeping your relationship together throughout your life together,…
The Prioritize Your Marriage Podcast Trailer
Each episode of the Prioritize Your Marriage podcast will take the goal of creating a strong and enjoyable marriage through date night, intimacy, fun, and connection and provide you with an actionable challenge that is easy to implement but will have a profound impact on your marriage!…