Love Your Spouse...As You Love Yourself? with Bryan Crum | Ep. 623

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Marriage, Awesomemarriagepodcast, Marriagepodcast, Awesomemarriage, Marriageadvice, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianmarriage, Christianity

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Most of us deal with self doubt, regret, and feelings of not measuring up. But learning to love ourselves properly means learning to see ourselves as God does, and it allows us to love others more freely and graciously.

Today, Bryan Crum will help you step away from nagging self doubts and into a solid biblical perspective. Give your marriage the gift of seeing yourself and your spouse through God’s eyes.

We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.

Episode highlights include:

Unexpected lessons learned from people who are facing their mortality
Why is it hard to accept loving and valuing ourselves properly?
Rewriting negative messages we’ve learned
Ideas to break away from self-doubt
Why relationships are needed to help us learn to love ourselves

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!

QUOTES

“I’m on a mission to help people fall in love with God’s greatest creation; and that’s us.” - Bryan Crum
“We all want to know our time on this earth means something.” - Bryan Crum
“I’ve discovered 2 truths about living: 1. We’re priceless. 2. For some reason, we’ve forgotten that truth.” - Bryan Crum
“We interact with people every day but we don’t always treat them like they are valuable.” - Bryan Crum
“When we acknowledge the truth of what we’re worth, we’re acknowledging a truth heaven knows well.” - Bryan Crum
“The first step is to stop comparing ourselves to each other.” - Bryan Crum
“There's power in giving each other the benefit of the doubt.” - Bryan Crum
“Giving each other grace is a small step that covers a lot of distance.” - Bryan Crum
“Marriage is promising each other that we’re all-in. We’ve got to make the conscious choice to say, ‘I’m still here.’” - Bryan Crum

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.
0:09.9	I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few.
0:13.4	On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly.
0:17.0	Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you
0:23.4	strengthen your most intimate relationship. Brian, welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. It's so
0:34.2	good to have you here. I'm excited about our conversation that we're getting ready to have.
0:37.7	And thank you. Thanks for saying yes.
0:40.0	Oh, I'm so honored to be with you, Dr. Kim. The wisdom and the example that you provide for marriage is so powerful.
0:48.1	And I appreciate just what you keep putting out there in the world because I know I'm listening and I'm definitely not
0:54.3	alone and it's just an honor to talk with you today. Well, thank you. I appreciate that and it
1:00.9	certainly makes me a better husband or Nancy says it makes me a better husband. I don't think she'd
1:05.8	ever let me quit. I can relate to that statement for sure. For sure.
1:11.9	So kind of a little bit of background, people that don't know you real well.
1:16.1	And then also you're as a hospital chaplain that you did for 10 years.
1:20.3	Kind of share with us some of those things.
1:22.5	Yeah, I worked as a chaplain for over a decade.
1:26.6	And it was just an incredible experience. It was
1:30.7	equally rewarding and challenging and heartbreaking. I don't know how that math works out
1:37.1	percentage wise, but just day to day, you don't know what you're walking into and go home often
1:43.4	with heartbreak and victory all at the same time.
1:47.1	But I still think my bigger privilege in life is that I am a husband and I'm a dad and I'm a son.
1:54.8	God has just gifted me with this wonderful family.
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