Doing Family Right Podcast

Podcast 136: COVID CRAZY: COPING WITHOUT CRASHING   A No-Nonsense and Practical Look at Overcoming Pandemic Pressures as a Person, a Partner & a Parent! To discuss causes of family tension and strategies for stability that will allow homes to outlast the current health crisis. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast […] The post Podcast 136: COVID CRAZY: COPING WITHOUT CRASHING appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 135: RECOVERY 16 – Coming Clean: The Value of Honest Disclosure   In this podcast, Dr. Dave covers the topic of Coming Clean. This podcast is set to help individuals realize the long-term value in coming clean – telling the extent of their personal, moral, marital or sexual failures including the what, why and […] The post Podcast 135: RECOVERY 16 – Coming Clean: The Value of Honest Disclosure appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 134: P.E.R.G.E. – Recovering from your Husband’s Sexual Addiction In this podcast, Dr. Dave and his guests tackle a question many couples who have faced sexual addiction: What about the wife?   This podcast is set to  help women who are facing their spouse’s Porn or Sexual Addiction begin to understand the benefits of […] The post Podcast 134: P.E.R.G.E. – Recovering from your Husband’s Sexual Addiction appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 133: RECOVERY 15 – Against All Odds: A Sexual Addiction Recovery Story This podcast is a special one to us! It details how, against all odds, a couple overcame the struggles and tribulations that sexual addiction brings into a relationship. We hope that you find hope in this story and know that with the […] The post Podcast 133: RECOVERY 15 – Against All Odds: A Sexual Addiction Recovery Story appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 132: Drop the Edge To help individuals and couples realize the impact that their negative tone has on the interaction and connection between them and others – especially husband and wife. Listen in and be encourage on how to find new ways to handle conflict with your spouse.  Click here if you are having […] The post Podcast 132: Drop the Edge appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 131: First Responder Marriages Part 3 – Understanding your first responder – what makes their jobs different? To discuss the very unique challenges facing First Responder vocations – Police, Fire and Ambulance, the effects on the marriage and to determine the best steps to keep their family life strong. Click here if you are […] The post Podcast 131: First Responder Marriages Part 3 – Understanding your first responder – what makes their jobs different? appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 130: The ABC’s of Hugging Dr. Dave and our talented co-hosts cover the topic of Hugging…did you know there is more than one kind?! This podcast helps you to understand the power of human touch in the family and how to improve your marriage and family closeness through increased affection. We hope you and […] The post Podcast 130: The ABC’s of Hugging appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 129: Intimacy Roadblock: Overcoming Sexual Barriers in Marriage Dr. Dave Currie shares practical tips and a helpful perspective to help couples face the many challenges encountered in the bedroom, and shares timely advice to deepen the sexual connection with your spouse.  Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player Feature image […] The post Podcast 129: Intimacy Roadblock: Overcoming Sexual Barriers in Marriage appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 128: RECOVERY 14 – WINGMAN– The Role of Accountability in Sexual Addiction Recovery Dr. Dave Currie and our podcast couple dive into the value of having an accountability partner when someone close to you is struggling with PORN or Sexual Addiction. Listen now for tips and the non-negotiable value of being held accountable by […] The post Podcast 128: RECOVERY 14 – WINGMAN– The Role of Accountability in Sexual Addiction Recovery appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 127: First Responder’s Marriages Part 2: Wise Conversations for Survival This special podcast features Dr. Dave Currie along with Mike and Leanne Novakowski and Jonathan and Rachelle Siemens.  This podcast works to help police and fire marriages to face and focus on the discussions that are wise to work through to allow the marriage […] The post Podcast 127: First Responder’s Marriages Part 2: Wise Conversations for Survival appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 123: Handling The Rebellious Teenager To help parents face the tumultuous days of a reactionary and defiant teenager. Learn the best steps to rebuild and reconnect with your child as much as possible. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player Feature image used with permission by pexels.com The post Podcast 123: Handling The Rebellious Teenager appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 126: PARTNERS IN PAIN: Understanding the Trauma of Facing Your Husband’s Sexual Addiction To help women face the horrific pain associated with their husband’s porn and sexual addiction giving the best steps to try to survive those early weeks/months of recovery from the betrayal and lies. Click here if you are having trouble with […] The post Podcast 126: Understanding the Trauma of Facing Your Husband’s Sexual Addiction appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 125: Facing Burnout within the Family To help spouses and families better support and understand those in the family facing emotional collapse or physical exhaustion. Focusing on what they can do best to help their family member and how to cope. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player For more […] The post Podcast 125: Facing Burnout within the Family appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 124: Family Crises—Where is God When It Hurts To help couples and families face the dark and challenging seasons in life and to gain perspective and draw strength from a deep and lasting Faith in God. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player Other DFR Resources Also see Dr. Dave […] The post Podcast 124: Family Crises—Where is God When It Hurts? appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 122: The Addiction Dynamic—Grasping the Impact of Substance Abuse To help spouses and couples better face their addiction to drugs and alcohol and grasp the effects it is having on their relationships. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player The post Podcast 122: The Impact of Substance Abuse appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 121: RECOVERY 13—Recovery Mechanics: “What” & “Why” of the 12-Step Program To help people understand and embrace the process and the benefits of the 12-Step Recovery Program used in our Recovery Group for people with sexual/pornography addiction called: REGROUP. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player *Follow this link for […] The post Podcast 121: RECOVERY 13—The 12-Step Program appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 120: The Power of Shared History in Marriage—What Amazing Benefits Long-Lasting Love Brings To help couples appreciate the depth, impact and richness of a married life of shared memories, events and experiences with your spouse. Richer, deeper and longer. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player Also read Dr. Dave’s […] The post Podcast 120: The Power of Shared History in Marriage appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 119: Parents in Transition—Facing the Challenges of Aging Parents To help couples better support their aging parents through their later years discussing how to cope with growing parental needs, demands and expectations in the hard choices and sometimes difficult life transitions. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player The post Podcast 119: Facing the Challenges of Aging Parents appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 118: Affair Discovered—What to Do When All Hell Breaks Loose? To help a spouse with the best first steps to take after finding out that their mate has had an affair. How to react? What to think? Who to tell? How to best face the emotional upheaval? Click here if you are having trouble […] The post Podcast 118: When Your Spouse has an Affair appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 117: RECOVERY 12—Cutting Your Losses—How Sexual Addicts’ Choices Hurt Their Partners To help the partner of a porn or sexual addict realize the multiple ways that they have been hurt by their spouse’s addiction and acting out and to give equal opportunity for the addict to begin to grasp the ramifications of their choices. […] The post Podcast 117: RECOVERY 12—How Sexual Addicts’ Choices Hurt Their Partners appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 116: Seeing Red—Getting Your Marriage Out of the Black Hole of Debt To help couples understand the core principles and practical steps of getting their marriage back on track financially. How to face debt well. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player Image used with permission by pexels.com The post Podcast 116: Getting Your Marriage Out of Debt appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 115: RECOVERY 11—It’s Time to ReGroup To help individuals understand the purpose and see the value of regular attendance at one of DFR’s Sexual Addiction Recovery groups called ReGroup. Listen as leaders, Curtis and Silas discuss the benefits and what to expect. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player *Follow […] The post Podcast 115: RECOVERY 11—Sexual Addiction Recovery Groups appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 114: Aging Graciously—Learning to Embrace the Inevitability of Growing Older To help individuals and couples grow old in a way that reflects that God is in control of every part of life’s journey whether we’re younger or older. What are the benefits of growing older and how to best face the changes? Click here […] The post Podcast 114: Aging Graciously—Embrace Growing Older appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 113: RECOVERY 10—Corrective Measures: How to Recover Well after a Porn/Sexual Addiction Relapse To help individuals and couples take redeeming recovery steps after one falls back into porn or sexual addiction. Steps to understanding the fall and what to do to best improve moving forward. Click here if you are having trouble with the […] The post Podcast 113: RECOVERY 10—Recover Well After an Addiction Relapse appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 112: Soul Pain—Facing Depression in a Life and Marriage To help individuals and couples find a way beyond the difficult and challenging effects of one spouse facing depression. What to understand and what to do. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player **NOTE: If you, your marriage or family is […] The post Podcast 112: Facing Depression in a Life and Marriage appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Getting Current: Dealing with My Past before God, My Spouse and Myself One of the most challenge podcasts you’ll listen to as we help individuals and couples experience a new level of freedom in their lives and marriages by dealing with their past failures, mistakes and poor choices before God and others. Find out what […] The post Podcast 111: Dealing with My Past before God, My Spouse and Myself appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Loving in 3D: Understanding Lasting Marital Intimacy Dr. Dave and Donalyn share one of their favourite concepts on how to keep a marriage strong and last long! Loving in 3D – or 3 dimensions – is a practical and reliable framework to build satisfying and sustaining relational, emotional and sexual intimacy. Click here if you […] The post Podcast 110: Understanding Lasting Marital Intimacy appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Working Through Pain and Loss: Understanding the Grief Process Based on the ground-breaking work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, we share a clear and helpful understanding of the various stages of grief that will guide those going through a myriad of life’s stresses and challenges—especially on death and dying. Click here if you are having trouble with […] The post Podcast 109: Understanding the Grief Process appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Intimacy Anorexia: Why Emotional Connection May Seem Impossible Based on the landmark work of Dr. Doug Weiss, we seek to help couples determine if they are facing the paradigm of Intimacy Anorexia. What it is and how to address it in a marriage with the goal of propelling their intimacy past the huge emotional gulf […] The post Podcast 107: Why Emotional Connection May Seem Impossible appeared first on Doing Family Right.

First Responder Marriages: Facing the “Calls” at Home To discuss and understand the unique challenges that people in police, fire and paramedic careers face in their home relationships seeking to determine the best practices to keep their marriages and families alive and well. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player Image […] The post Podcast 106: First Responder Marriages appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Extraordinary: Finding Ways to Stay Connected When Work Calls You Away Débuting the new DFR Podcast Host couple—Leland & Carrie Klaassen—Listen to understand the principles and practical steps of keeping a marriage strong in spite of being apart a lot due to work. Leland shares the impact of his lead role in the movie “Extraordinary” […] The post Podcast 105: Stay Connected When Work Calls You Away appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Cold Wars: Restoring the Peace in Extended Family Disputes Lines are drawn, walls are up and people are not speaking. Learn the wisdom principles and practical steps of extended family reconciliation. What keeps the cold wars going? What are the best steps to resolve family splits? Click here if you are having trouble with the […] The post Podcast 104: Restoring the Peace in Extended Family Disputes appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Personality Clash: Respecting Your Mate’s Temperament Personality conflict in marriage? This podcast coaches couples through the common challenges that come with blending two lives with hugely different personality styles. We know that opposites attract. Learn how to find more freedom than friction. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player Image used […] The post Podcast 103: Personality Conflict in Marriage—Respecting Your Mate’s Temperament appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Full House—Keeping Sane in the Family Chaos Years To help couples survive and even thrive through the challenges of keeping a healthy and balanced home life during the psycho, busy years of raising a young family. What are the greatest pressures? What can you do about them? How to work better together as parents. Click […] The post Podcast 102: Keeping Sane in the Family Chaos Years appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Great Grandparenting: How to Do It Right To coach grandparents the ways to have the greatest and most lasting influence on their grandchildren, looking at level of involvement, the role they play and even where to draw the line and pull back as they work with their children to support in the effort to raise […] The post Podcast 101: Grandparenting—How to Do It Right appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Digital Delight or Distraction: What’s Your Cell Phone Doing for You? Are you hooked on your cell phone? This podcast explores the pervasive and growing negative impact that our electronics are having on our lives and looks at ways to balance our use so as to not destroy our primary relationships. Click here if you […] The post Podcast 100: What’s Your Cell Phone Doing for You? appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 099: RECOVERY 9—Building a Credible Sexual Recovery Plan Understanding the importance of the careful development of a solid and detailed plan for sexual and porn addiction recovery including choosing and committing to actions steps, wise purity boundaries and appropriate relapse consequences. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player *Follow this […] The post Podcast 099: RECOVERY 9—Building a Sexual Recovery Plan appeared first on Doing Family Right.

The Dark Side of Christmas: Learning to Face the Pressures and Problems of Going Home Dr. Dave Currie along with Wayne & Mary Jane Dahl, address the common stresses the people face during the Christmas season within their extended families and looking for ways to overcome the difficulties. Click here if you are having trouble […] The post Podcast 017: Going Home at Christmas—Pressures and Problems appeared first on Doing Family Right.

When Tragedy Hits: Help for the Heartbreak of the Humboldt Bronco Family With genuine love and compassion we give our best suggestions on how those impacted by this horrific bus crash can face the incredible loss and life-altering adjustments in the healing process. All of Canada is hurting. Dr. Dave and the team stand with […] The post Podcast 108: Help for the Heartbreak of the Humboldt Bronco Family appeared first on Doing Family Right.

The EX Factor: Lessening the Negative Impact of a Resentful Former Spouse We’ll guide listeners through the “wisdom principles” of creating as positive a relationship as possible, with your former spouse. How do you do it right? Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player For more information on surviving and coping […] The post Podcast 098: Lessening the Negative Impact of a Resentful Former Spouse appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Betrayed: The Challenge of Rebuilding Trust Learn the steps in recovering from the devastating effects of a BETRAYAL in a marriage whether an affair, a sexual addiction or lying about a host of other things—finances, business, drugs alcohol, gambling and the like. Also read the article by Dr. Dave Currie: The Challenge of Rebuilding Trust […] The post Podcast 097: The Challenge of Rebuilding Trust in Marriage appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Indelible Imprint: Getting Straight A’s on your Parent Report Card (Building Confidence in Your Kids) Like Parenting 101, we aim to help parents realize the 6 keys ways that they can build strength and confidence into the hearts and minds of their children. You leave a lasting imprint whether you like it or not. Click […] The post Podcast 096: Building Confidence in Your Kids appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 95: RECOVERY 8—The Hard Facts of the Porn Hurdle—Practical Tips toward Recovery Practical and pragmatic best practices to help individuals grasp how huge porn recovery is and what are the best steps toward a successful recovery. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player *Follow this link for more resources: Victory […] The post Podcast 095: RECOVERY 8—Practical Tips Toward Porn Recovery appeared first on Doing Family Right.

FUSION 6: FUSION Finale—The Difference of FAITH Learn the importance of putting God first in your lives and how it will maximize your marriage. How is that best accomplished? What does it look like to braid the Lord in to your marital relationship? Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player To […] The post Podcast 094: Marriage FUSION 6 —The Difference of FAITH appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 93: RECOVERY 7—Renewing your Polluted Mind—What, Where, When & How Can your thought-life be cleaned up? Get help renewing your polluted mind and regain the purity and innocence in your mind and heart. Click here if you are having trouble with the podcast player *Follow this link for more resources: Victory Over Porn **NOTE: […] The post Podcast 093: RECOVERY 7—Renewing Your Polluted Mind appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 92: RECOVERY—Your Brain on Porn—Understanding the Powerful Neurological Effects of Pornography Addiction What do hours online watching porn really do to your brain? How does addiction work? Why is porn so addicting? What if you started watching at a young age when you were still growing? Listen to understand the powerful neurological effects of […] The post Podcast 092: RECOVERY 6 — Neurological Effects of Pornography Addiction appeared first on Doing Family Right.

FUSION 5—Sexual Intimacy in Marriage Learn about growing the sexual intimacy in your marriage. We will help you discover what keeps you from loving and being loved freely and fully. Are their ways to really captivate your spouse? Sexual intimacy can grow over the lifetime and you will find a mutual sexual satisfaction builds into […] The post Podcast 091: Marriage FUSION 5—Sexual Intimacy in Marriage appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 90: Family Missions—The Power of Transformation through Serving Together Taking your kids to a foreign country? Are you serious? Could we really make a difference? What will it do for them? Listen as we enlighten parents on the value and impact of taking your children with you on mission trips. Click here if you […] The post Podcast 090: Family Missions—Serving Together appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 89: Crushing the Spirit—Understanding the Damaging Effects of Emotional Abuse in Marriage Cut downs. Criticism. Rude comments. Belittling. How do you face the negative cycles of emotional and verbal abuse in the home? Listen to find ways to confront the issue and begin to move ahead in a supportive, harmonious way. Click here if […] The post Podcast 089: Emotional Abuse in Marriage appeared first on Doing Family Right.

FUSION  4—The Drag of Friction Your mate is not the bull’s eye. But if you are newer to marital conflict, you are only in your beginning stages of learning the “blame game”. Understand why you are so defensiveness. Learn whether your pattern is fight or flight. We’ll help couples find better ways to resolve conflict […] The post Podcast 088: Marriage FUSION 4—The Drag of Friction appeared first on Doing Family Right.

Podcast 87: RECOVERY 5—Pornography’s Impact on the Spiritual Life It’s hard to really measure the spiritual distance and deterioration of the soul through viewing and acting out with porn. We’ll help individuals understand how porn and their sexual addiction rob them of a strong connection with God and what they can do to address the […] The post Podcast 087: RECOVERY 5—Pornography’s Impact on the Spiritual Life appeared first on Doing Family Right.