Hey everybody this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. In today's episode we're talking with Dr. Jennifer Thomas.

She's the co-author along with Dr. Gary Chapman of the five apology languages the secret to healthy relationships.

Dr Thomas's work builds on the framework of the five love languages and offers a profound new lens for how we give and receive apologies.

So if you've ever felt like you've said I'm sorry but it just didn't quite land or if you've been on the receiving end often an apology can go unheard or feel

insincere not because you don't mean it but because you're not speaking the other

person's apology language. Just like love, apologies are not one size fits all, and her work explores the psychology behind why some apologies fail to resonate, even when they are heartfelt.

Through extensive research, she and her co-author Dr. Gary Chapman identified five distinct apology

languages, each reflecting different emotional and cognitive needs that may need to be addressed

for an apology to be effective.

This episode is full of practical advice on how to

express a heartfelt apology that truly communicates I'm sorry in a way that

others can receive and feel. It will help you to recognize what you need.

These tools and insights will provide a powerful path to restore connection and healing relationships.

And so we're so excited to share this conversation with you and really hope that it sparks some of the same deep insights that it did for us.

And with that we'll jump into our conversation with Dr. Jennifer Thomas.

All right, Dr. Jennifer Thomas, thank you so much for being here with us.

We've been so intrigued by your work and we're so

excited to to talk about this with you today. So thanks so much for being here and

for your book. Well thank you. It's my privilege to be able to be here and to

sit with you and to speak to your audience.

Thank you. I think probably everybody listening has been affected by the five love languages with Dr. Gary Chapman and he's your co-author for this book and I feel like actually

that I had the same experience of just serious epiphany when I read this book.

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