Episode 23 – Great Expectations

In this episode, I answer three of your questions: How do I deal with feeling ashamed of staying married to someone with a lot of problems?How do I communicate with someone with no communication skills?What are reasonable vs. unreasonable marriage expectations?

I’m back after a one-year break. Welcome to season 2. This season is going to focus more on unscripted responses to your questions submitted via Instagram (@DrAdamMoore), Facebook, and email. In this episode, I offer three unscripted responses to these questions: 1) How can marriage partners build a friendship?2) How do I deal with my spouse’s mental illness?3) What are your top tips for couples?

Everyone is stuck in their homes, practicing social distancing, and trying to plan ahead for when the toilet paper runs out. My wife, Lindsay, and I talk candidly about our thoughts, feelings, hopes, and dreams as they relate to the current global COVID-19 pandemic.

You’ve probably heard of the placebo effect at some point. But did you know that placebo is much more than a false treatment used in research studies? Did you know that you can access the power of placebo using hope, expectancy, and faith, in addition to a healing ritual? In this episode, I’ll go into some practical ways you can use your mind to heal itself.

We all need a default marital strategy that works in most situations. I dive into the dynamics of game theory to see if we can start to create a strategy that will give you the best chance at maximizing happiness for yourself and your spouse at the same time. We talk about how best to overcome past betrayal, without becoming an impenetrable emotional fortress or the ultimate doormat.

In this episode, I talk with marriage and family therapist, Micah Ingalls about how he can make a metaphor about fly fishing work to explain how starting out in “sex addiction” recovery

There are some people who just love the holidays with their whole soul. Then there’s everyone else. While holidays can be enjoyable, there is so much about that time of year that really makes life difficult. Relatives, too many get-togethers, gift giving and receiving, and way too much food. In this episode, I’ll give you six practical tips that will work wonders for helping you have a truly enjoyable holiday season, without needing six months of therapy starting in January.

What on Earth would possess someone to become a mental health professional? What kind of mental and emotional gymnastics are required to sit with people in pain all day long and want to wake up the next morning and do it all over again? Join me as I talk to Sam Major, our newest hire at Utah Valley Counseling, about why he and I decided to pursue therapy as a career, how we survive each day, and what skills you might need if you ever consider becoming a professional counselor.

I hope you enjoy another very personal episode as I join my wife again to discuss our experiences with pregnancy loss and infertility. We talk about some of our personal experiences, what we learned, and our recommendations for those who hope to help and support others who are going through similar situations. Here is a link to the song we reference in this episode: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/almost-single/1108273146

In this episode, I talk about mental health stigma and I share some of my own history of depression. I talk about a few of the key things that have helped me cope with depression, which include: awareness and public acknowledgement medication therapy getting outside myself