Life and Love Nuggets

Life and Love Nuggets

This podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connection Counseling, since 1982. They recently retired after forty years of pastoral ministry and are continuing to help individuals, marriages, and families in their private practice. The podcast is produced by ⁠Clayton Creative⁠ in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The content should not be considered or used for counseling but for educational purposes only.

Episodes

June 1, 2024 28 mins

Brent and Janis continue their series on the mistakes people make in their lives and how to not make the same mistakes.  They cover mistakes or mistaken beliefs people have:

·      Don’t think marriage takes work.

·      Talk to each other in ways and with words they would never use with anyone else.

·      Don’t give enough time to the relationship -other things are a priority.

·      Are in competition instead of supporting eac...

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LLN #64 This week Brent and Janis are starting a new series entitled: How People Mess Up Their Lives and How to Not Make the Same Mistakes.

This episode (part one) is on comparison: the natural tendency to compare ourselves that can cause us to not be content with our own lives.


View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/how-people-mess-up-their-lives-and-how-to-not-make-the-same-mistake

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May 4, 2024 31 mins

Brent and Janis look at why do we procrastinate about important things in our life sometimes and what are strategies to minimize the negative effects in our life and relationships.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/procrastination

Help us reach more couples! Donate at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate. Your gift is tax-deductible.

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Brent and Janis continue their discussion of Safe people and look at the characteristics of people who are both safe and wise.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/safe-and-wise-people

Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠. Your gift is tax-deductible.

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April 6, 2024 33 mins

Brent and Janis discuss why we need safe people, how to identify safe people and how to become safe people.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/safe-people

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Most of us idolize our parents when we are small and grow up to find out that they are humans too. Accepting them as humans helps us accept ourselves and our own weaknesses.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/accepting-your-parents.

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Brent and Janis share the do’s and don’ts of interacting with your adult children.

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https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/how-to-have-a-good-relationship-with-your-adult-children

The Life & Love Nuggets podcast will help you learn valuable insights into relationships, life, and love. Brent and Janis have been empowering couples through pre-marriage and marriage therapy in their private practice, Life Connect...

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Brent and Janis continue their series exploring the complexities of parents adapting to their role change with their adult children from parent to friend. In each episode they will explore a different angle of this relationship from the side of the parent and the side of the adult child. And they will help encourage both sides to communicate, establish boundaries and roles so they can thoroughly enjoy an adult-to-adult relatio...

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Brent and Janis begin their series exploring the complexities of parents adapting to their role change with their adult children from parent to friend. In each episode they will explore a different angle of this relationship from the side of the parent and the side of the adult child.  And, they will help encourage both sides to communicate, establish boundaries and roles so they can thoroughly enjoy an adult to adult relationship....

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Brent and his son Preston, pastor of Sacrament Church in Nashville, Tennessee, continue their discussion on the questions people have in the middle of difficult circumstances and the struggles we have in understanding where God is in the midst of suffering.

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https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/where-is-god-when-things-dont-make-sense-part-two

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Brent and his son Preston, pastor of Sacrament Church in Nashville, Tennessee, discuss the questions people have in the middle of difficult circumstances and the struggles we have in understanding where God is in the midst of suffering.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/where-is-god-when-things-dont-make-sense-part-1-episode-55

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December 30, 2023 23 mins

Developing good self awareness to help you recognize areas in your personality that need growth and healthy habits to help you grow and thrive!

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/transformation-episode-54

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December 23, 2023 33 mins


How discovering “awe” in your daily life can increase joy, life satisfaction and enhance relationships.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-power-of-awe-revisited

Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠. Your gift is tax-deductible.

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December 16, 2023 33 mins


Brent and Janis Sharpe, licensed therapists, give insights on talking back to negative thinking that keeps us from flourishing in life.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/revisited-the-inner-critic

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Brent and Janis talk about how we can forgive hurts from the past and find freedom in our life even if those that hurt us don’t change and how that process is very different than trusting someone.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/revisited-are-forgiveness-and-trust-the-same

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Brent and Janis discuss how to be mindful of our natural human negative bias and how our focus determines our attitude toward anything in life.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/revisited-the-9010-lie.

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November 25, 2023 31 mins


Brent and Janis talk about practical ways to offset the heaviness of our modern world.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/lighten-up

Help us reach more couples! Donate at ⁠https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/donate⁠. Your gift is tax-deductible.

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Brent & Janis revisit their very first podcast episode just in time for the holidays. We hope it helps you save your sanity this holiday season! This episode is packed with insights and tips on how to enjoy time with your extended family. This is one of Brent & Janis’ favorite topics of the year.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/revisited-so-youre-gonna-be-with-family-for-the-holidays

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Continuing the discussion of pregnancy loss and grief, Janis shares some practical ways to help someone in your life who has experienced this type of loss.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-grief-of-pregnancy-loss-part-two

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In this episode, Janis shares the complicated painful grief of all types of pregnancy loss. Sharing her own experience and years of working with other women, she offers encouragement that can be helpful as you process the loss and the very normal responses of questioning yourself, others, and God in the midst of inexplicable loss.

View the transcript at https://www.lifeandlovenuggets.com/the-grief-of-pregnancy-loss-part-one

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