Pocket Therapist

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