Welcome to the Pure Desire Podcast, helping you take back your life from unwanted sexual behavior and betrayal trauma.

Hello, listener. I'm your host Trevor Windsor, and you're listening to Episode 354 of the Pure Desire Podcast.

Here joining me, as always, my co-host, next in time.

Less talking, more walking i've got nothing that's great me neither i have no idea where that's from just came up with it

is that a next dunbo original i've heard it a lot of places. I'm sure some

listener could write in and tell us where they've heard it. Um, I feel like it's a phrase from my

childhood, honestly, of like, you know, when you're supposed to be working in the garden or helping

on a chore and you're busy doing something you shouldn't be. You know, it's like a parent comment of like less talk, more walk. Like let's get the job done and

quit goofing around. I would hear a little bit of less talking, more walking. Yeah, bringing

up a little bit of trauma in me. It's great. Yeah, maybe it is. Okay, so I can see where you're going

with that. Today we had Sherry Chinson on the show and she's one of our clinicians. And, man, she's just, she's

great. We really like Sherry in our time with her. And we had her on to talk about healthy

communication, specifically in marriages that are in the recovery and healing journey.

Yeah, I think we're emphasizing how important communication is, and one of the themes is that it takes time.

It takes a commitment to communicating.

And I think there's a reality that we have grown up, most of us that are listening to the podcast in a Western culture that prioritizes work and accomplishment and production and may have grown up with that model of like

less talk more walk like get get it done produce something and you know that the talking will

get around to it later and in some ways in relationships we may be seeing the outcome of that

kind of a lifestyle that it doesn't tend to produce healthy

relationships because we try to make our relationships fit in the margins and along the way

kind of the activities versus really slowing down and prioritizing communication. And so if we grew

up hearing phrases like less talk, more walk, job done quick goofing around we may have this

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