No marriage is perfect. But every marriage can get better. Do you feel like the spark is gone? Has a critical spirit invaded your marriage? Do you want more intimacy, but something is in the way? You could be suffering from the Perfection Infection.



The Perfection Infection happens when we cultivate unrealistic expectations of ourselves and our spouse, gradually leading to intimacy-killing behavior, also known as the "Seven Slow Fades." That was the case for Jill and Mark Savage, and it eventually led to infidelity.



In her book No More Perfect Marriages and in today’s episode, Jill speaks honestly about their struggles, how they came back from betrayal, and the principles that keep their marriage strong today. She guides us in everything we need to know to kick the Perfection Infection right out and return to intimacy.



On today’s show, we discuss:




How the Perfection Infection invades a marriage--even a good marriage


How to detect and correct the Seven Slow Fades


How to set and communicate realistic expectations


What to do if your spouse won't change


How to guard your marriage from the Perfection Infection for good



Join us in realizing that hurting marriages can heal and  good marriages can become great. Your marriage isn’t perfect, but it can be perfected. 



Connect with Jill:

https://jillsavage.org/



Read the Show Notes:

https://rachaelkadams.com/

No marriage is perfect. But every marriage can get better. Do you feel like the spark is gone? Has a critical spirit invaded your marriage? Do you want more intimacy, but something is in the way? You could be suffering from the Perfection Infection.
 
The Perfection Infection happens when we cultivate unrealistic expectations of ourselves and our spouse, gradually leading to intimacy-killing behavior, also known as the "Seven Slow Fades." That was the case for Jill and Mark Savage, and it eventually led to infidelity.
 
In her book No More Perfect Marriages and in today’s episode, Jill speaks honestly about their struggles, how they came back from betrayal, and the principles that keep their marriage strong today. She guides us in everything we need to know to kick the Perfection Infection right out and return to intimacy.
 
On today’s show, we discuss:
 
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How the Perfection Infection invades a marriage--even a good marriage
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
How to detect and correct the Seven Slow Fades
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
How to set and communicate realistic expectations
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
What to do if your spouse won't change
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
How to guard your marriage from the Perfection Infection for good
</li>
</ul>
 
Join us in realizing that hurting marriages can heal and  good marriages can become great. Your marriage isn’t perfect, but it can be perfected. 
 
Connect with Jill:
<a href="https://jillsavage.org/">https://jillsavage.org/</a>
 
Read the Show Notes:
<a href="https://rachaelkadams.com/">https://rachaelkadams.com/</a>

Loving Fully and Living Faithfully
Real stories of women who are living out their faith in love to God, others, and even to themselves. Tune in to discover how you too can be a love offering to those around you and learn to believe that what you offer matters.

The Love Offering

Loving Fully and Living Faithfully - Real stories of women who are living out their faith in love to God, others, and even themselves. Tune in to discover how you, too, can be a love offering to those around you and learn to believe that what you offer matters.

Loving Fully and Living Faithfully - Real stories of women who are living out their faith in love to God, others, and even themselves. Tune in to discover how you, too, can be a love offering to those around you and learn to believe that what you offer matters.

In this episode of the Love Offering Podcast, Jill Savage shares her journey of overcoming the 'perfection infection' in marriage and parenting. She discusses society's unrealistic expectations of relationships and how they can lead to discontentment. Jill recounts her own marriage story, including the challenges of infidelity and the importance of forgiveness and rebuilding trust. She emphasizes the need for emotional connection and vulnerability in relationships and how God's guidance played a crucial role in her healing process. The conversation also touches on practical steps couples can take to strengthen their marriages and the significance of being intentional in love.

No More Perfect Marriages with Jill Savage

Your emotions are not your enemy. They are a gift.

Feelings are messy, and we all have different strategies for dealing with them—usually controlling, avoiding, or indulging them. But what if you allowed yourself to follow your feelings in prayer instead of trying to run from them?

In today’s episode, Anjuli Paschall helps you move from being stuck in your feelings to a place of peace by:

· Identifying and giving you words for every emotion--the good, the confusing, and the complicated--helping you name exactly what you feel

· Offering you 75 prayers to pray--one for every feeling

· Providing scripture for every emotion

Her book Feel is a resource that will guide you throughout your day and offer you hope, wisdom, and courage through some of the most challenging seasons of your life. Instead of navigating around your feelings, allow them to guide you toward healing, wholeness, and abiding connection with God. Then, you will begin to see how feelings are a doorway into intimacy with a Savior who loves you.

Connect with Anjuli:

https://www.anjulipaschall.com/

Read the Transcript:

https://rachaelkadams.com/writing/

Your emotions are not your enemy. They are a gift.
Feelings are messy, and we all have different strategies for dealing with them—usually controlling, avoiding, or indulging them. But what if you allowed yourself to follow your feelings in prayer instead of trying to run from them?
In today’s episode, Anjuli Paschall helps you move from being stuck in your feelings to a place of peace by:
· Identifying and giving you words for every emotion--the good, the confusing, and the complicated--helping you name exactly what you feel
· Offering you 75 prayers to pray--one for every feeling
· Providing scripture for every emotion
Her book Feel is a resource that will guide you throughout your day and offer you hope, wisdom, and courage through some of the most challenging seasons of your life. Instead of navigating around your feelings, allow them to guide you toward healing, wholeness, and abiding connection with God. Then, you will begin to see how feelings are a doorway into intimacy with a Savior who loves you.
Connect with Anjuli:
<a href="https://www.anjulipaschall.com/">https://www.anjulipaschall.com/</a>
Read the Transcript:
<a href="https://rachaelkadams.com/writing/">https://rachaelkadams.com/writing/</a>

In this episode of the Love Offering Podcast, Rachael Adams and Anjuli discuss the journey of writing and the importance of understanding and embracing our feelings. They explore how emotions play a crucial role in our relationship with God and others, emphasizing the need to process feelings rather than suppress them. Anjuli shares insights from her books, including the significance of prayer and scripture in navigating emotions. The conversation highlights the transformative power of acknowledging feelings and the importance of love in all aspects of life.

Hope for Every Complicated Emotion with Anjuli Paschall

Are you tired of up-and-down feelings stealing your peace, sabotaging your relationships, and filling your mind with self-defeating thoughts? What if you had a proven emotional management tool to biblically respond to your feelings with compassion and clarity? Join us for today’s episode to discover three simple steps to manage emotions, reduce stress, improve decision-making, and grow closer to God.



Certified Christian life coach and award-winning podcast host Alicia Michelle is on the show chatting about her book Emotional Confidence. She shares how to effectively implement the method she's taught tens of thousands into an ongoing lifestyle practice to manage emotions for God's glory. Through a  biblical, scientifically based method, she will show you how to:


handle emotional overwhelm, overthinking, and avoidance
acknowledge feelings without judgment
process emotions through God's clarifying lens of truth
courageously choose a scriptural response



Tune in to discover practical ways to process emotions confidently for better relationships, spiritual growth, and lasting calm.



Connect with Alicia:

https://aliciamichelle.com/



Read the show notes at rachaelkadams.com/writing.

Are you tired of up-and-down feelings stealing your peace, sabotaging your relationships, and filling your mind with self-defeating thoughts? What if you had a proven emotional management tool to biblically respond to your feelings with compassion and clarity? Join us for today’s episode to discover three simple steps to manage emotions, reduce stress, improve decision-making, and grow closer to God.
 
Certified Christian life coach and award-winning podcast host Alicia Michelle is on the show chatting about her book Emotional Confidence. She shares how to effectively implement the method she's taught tens of thousands into an ongoing lifestyle practice to manage emotions for God's glory. Through a  biblical, scientifically based method, she will show you how to:
 
<ul>
<li>handle emotional overwhelm, overthinking, and avoidance</li>
<li>acknowledge feelings without judgment</li>
<li>process emotions through God's clarifying lens of truth</li>
<li>courageously choose a scriptural response</li>
</ul>
 
Tune in to discover practical ways to process emotions confidently for better relationships, spiritual growth, and lasting calm.
 
Connect with Alicia:
<a href="https://aliciamichelle.com/">https://aliciamichelle.com/</a>
 
Read the show notes at<a href="https://rachaelkadams.com/writing/"> rachaelkadams.com/writing.</a>

3 Simple Steps to Manage Your Emotions with Alicia Michelle

Exhausted. Maxed Out. Running on Fumes. Bone-Tired. Drowning.

We cannot go one day without hearing these words from friends, co-workers, family members, and sisters in Christ. No matter the season of life - college student, young mother, business executive, teacher, ministry leader, empty-nester, or retiree - we women long for margin, rest, and affirmation that all our efforts mean something. Does anyone even see, let alone appreciate, how HARD we are working? Surely, there must be a purpose beyond this daily grind that overwhelms our schedules and hearts.

For many, the busyness of our lives results from saying yes to good things. But at what cost? When did we trade our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health for a couple of extra likes, fewer numbers on the scale, a bit more in our bank account, or one more thing marked off our to-do list? Do you find that your life is checking all the right boxes but still cannot find satisfaction or contentment?

What’s the answer for today’s worn-out woman? A shift in perspective.

In this episode, Laura Bailey chats about her book Embracing Eternity. We journey through the book of Ecclesiastes and discover how living with an eternal perspective results in more peaceful, purposeful, and plentiful lives today. 

Join us to: 
Discover how to cling to an eternal perspective in all seasons and situations
Determine how to evaluate the worth of your time and energy
Dive into scripture for timeless reminders about true freedom

When we discover, determine, and dive into God's design for life, we can let go of the lesser things and embrace those with greater, eternal significance. Let's stop surviving and start living. We can experience life filtered through the lens of eternity, garnering the freedom only found in the permanent rather than the temporal, and discover the unimaginable benefits of a purpose and identity rooted in Christ.

Connect with Laura:

https://laurarbailey.com/

Read the Show Notes:

https://rachaelkadams.com/writing/

Exhausted. Maxed Out. Running on Fumes. Bone-Tired. Drowning.
We cannot go one day without hearing these words from friends, co-workers, family members, and sisters in Christ. No matter the season of life - college student, young mother, business executive, teacher, ministry leader, empty-nester, or retiree - we women long for margin, rest, and affirmation that all our efforts mean something. Does anyone even see, let alone appreciate, how HARD we are working? Surely, there must be a purpose beyond this daily grind that overwhelms our schedules and hearts.
For many, the busyness of our lives results from saying yes to good things. But at what cost? When did we trade our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health for a couple of extra likes, fewer numbers on the scale, a bit more in our bank account, or one more thing marked off our to-do list? Do you find that your life is checking all the right boxes but still cannot find satisfaction or contentment?
What’s the answer for today’s worn-out woman? A shift in perspective.
In this episode, Laura Bailey chats about her book Embracing Eternity. We journey through the book of Ecclesiastes and discover how living with an eternal perspective results in more peaceful, purposeful, and plentiful lives today. 
Join us to: 
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Discover how to cling to an eternal perspective in all seasons and situations</li>
<li aria-level="1">Determine how to evaluate the worth of your time and energy</li>
<li aria-level="1">Dive into scripture for timeless reminders about true freedom</li>
</ul>
When we discover, determine, and dive into God's design for life, we can let go of the lesser things and embrace those with greater, eternal significance. Let's stop surviving and start living. We can experience life filtered through the lens of eternity, garnering the freedom only found in the permanent rather than the temporal, and discover the unimaginable benefits of a purpose and identity rooted in Christ.
Connect with Laura:
<a href="https://laurarbailey.com/">https://laurarbailey.com/</a>
Read the Show Notes:
<a href="https://rachaelkadams.com/writing/">https://rachaelkadams.com/writing/</a>

In this engaging conversation, Rachael Adams and Laura Bailey reconnect after five years to discuss Laura's new book, 'Embracing Eternity in the Here and Now.' They explore the themes of Ecclesiastes, the importance of living with an eternal perspective, and how to balance life's responsibilities with spiritual growth. Laura shares her personal journey and insights on how to find purpose and meaning in everyday life, emphasizing the significance of understanding God's timing and the beauty of each season. In this conversation, Laura Bailey and Rachael Adams explore the themes of personal choices, relationships, and living with intentionality. They discuss the importance of making decisions that align with one's values and the impact of those choices on relationships. The conversation emphasizes the need for a Christ-centered approach to life, highlighting the freedom that comes from understanding one's identity in Christ. They also touch on the significance of community and the love of God in fostering a peaceful and purposeful life.

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