185 What Is Flourishing? Defining the Good Marriage and the Good Family

Home.  Family.  Belonging.  Love.  What does it mean to have a healthy marriage, a healthy family?  Gerry Crete and Theresa Robinson join us to explore that question: “What does a thriving marriage and flourishing in family life look like?  We bring in Internal Family Systems, attachment theory, perfectionism, the importance of family members delighting in each other, parents’ vows and scripts, how loving children involves more than the will, and the importance of “being with” each other.

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Episode 85 is all about perfectionism:  https://youtu.be/bw-zUp2h_TA

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Key moments:

0:00  The home and family as a human treasure and source of joy

4:30  The core question for this podcast series

11:10 What does it mean to have a healthy marriage and family?