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Change My Relationship offers practical solutions based on biblical truths for all difficult relationships from Karla Downing, Marriage & Family Therapist.
Change My Relationship offers practical solutions based on biblical truths for all difficult relationships from Karla Downing, Marriage & Family Therapist.
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Monday Jun 16, 2025
Is It Okay to Want a Good Life as a Christian?
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Monday Jun 16, 2025
Is it okay to want a good life as a Christian? Is it okay to want to provide a good life for your family? Or, is a Christian supposed to be poor and only care about spiritual matters? Watch this video to hear the answer I gave to a subscriber when she sent me this question. #GoodLife #Christianity #ComfortableLife #ComfortsInChristianity
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/f6ODoKna2UM

Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Don't JADE: Justify, Argue, Defend or Explain
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Dealing with difficult and dysfunctional people isn't easy. Doing the things you would do with healthy people doesn't work. This video offers an easy-to-remember acronym in "Don't JADE." This reminds you not to justify, argue, defend or explain because it only makes things worse. #dysfunctionalrelationship #difficultpeople #detaching #detachment #JADE
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PQArqm6OSrU

Monday Jun 09, 2025
Interview: How to Restore Your Sense of Self in a Neurodiverse Marriage
Monday Jun 09, 2025
Monday Jun 09, 2025
In this sequel podcast to "How You Lose Your Self in Neurodiverse Marriages, Elizabeth and Kathleen share how to restore your sense of self. Both are married to men with Asperger's Syndrome and are the founders of "My Aspie and Me," a private Facebook group for Christian women. They hear women in their group say that they no longer recognize themselves and don't know who they are. Both also experienced a loss of themselves in their marriages. In this group, they provide classes and posts to guide the women on how to respond differently to their marriage challenges by prioritizing their own mental, relational, spiritual, emotional, and physical health.
This is a timely topic given the awareness of more women that the problems they have been dealing with in their painful and difficult marriages are Asperger's. Once they realize this, they need to be given the tools and ideas to respond differently to their husbands and to intentionally restore their sense of self to create a better life for themselves.
My Aspie and Me private Facebook group is specifically designed for Christian women. It provides relational, marital, personal, and spiritual help for women married to neurodiverse men with Asperger's Syndrome. To join, please send a message to the group admin expressing your interest via Facebook Messenger. You will receive a message via Facebook Messenger.
#AspergersMarriage #NeurodiverseMarriage #ChristianMarriageHelp #ChangeMyRelationship #ChristianSelfHelp #ChristianRelationshipHelp
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMyRelationship
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sl3UZEugeEE

Thursday Jun 05, 2025
The Crazy Cycle of Abusive Relationships
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
There is a predictable pattern that victims go through when trying to figure out what is going on in abusive relationships. Anyone experiencing emotional abuse, verbal abuse or any other type of abuse knows how it feels to be on the hamster wheel of invalidation, second guessing, confusion, and gaslighting. Then something else happens. The victim gets clarity and starts to get strong. Then the abuser pulls out a new card which intensifies the abuse cycle. Watch this video to find out what this crazy cycle is so you can recognize it and end it once and for all. #abusiverelationships #gaslighting #verbalabuse #emotionalabuse #invalidation
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube:https://youtu.be/TgrqbKMT8-w

Monday Jun 02, 2025
Monday Jun 02, 2025
Therapists doing therapy with an abuser and the victim together are making a huge mistake that further harms the victim and decreases the chance that the abuser will change. Watch this video to learn why therapists should not do couples therapy with an abuser and the victim together. #couplestherapy #therapyforvictims
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5ZiqxXG89Pk

Thursday May 29, 2025
Christian Codependency: When It's You or Me
Thursday May 29, 2025
Thursday May 29, 2025
Christian codependency means you are a Christian who is codependent at least partially because you hold scriptural misconceptions about what God wants you to do. For everyone who suffers from this, there will be a time if it continues, when you will ask this question: When it's you or me, and I have to choose one or the other, who should I choose? You need to know the answer if you are at that place or if you are heading there. Watch this video to find out what it is. You will be glad you did. #christiancodependency #selfcare
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube:https://youtu.be/iNgdyHWEsA8

Monday May 26, 2025
Interview: How You Lose Your Self in a Neurodiverse Marriage
Monday May 26, 2025
Monday May 26, 2025
Kathleen and Elizabeth discuss how women can lose their sense of self in neurodiverse marriages, both having married men with Asperger's Syndrome. They are the founders of "My Aspie and Me," a private Facebook group for Christian women. They hear women in their group say that they no longer recognize themselves and don't know who they are. Both also experienced a loss of themselves in their marriages.
This is a timely topic given the awareness of more women that the problems they have been dealing with in their painful and difficult marriages are Asperger's. Understanding how and why they experience this loss of self is necessary because they will need to intentionally restore it to create a better life for themselves.
My Aspie and Me private Facebook group is specifically designed for Christian women. It provides relational, marital, personal, and spiritual help for women married to neurodiverse men with Asperger's Syndrome. To join, please send a message to the group admin expressing your interest via Facebook Messenger. You will receive a message via Facebook Messenger.
#AspergersMarriage #NeurodiverseMarriage #ChristianMarriageHelp #ChangeMyRelationship #ChristianSelfHelp #ChristianRelationshipHelp
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMyRelationship
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kY60RyGTuRE

Thursday May 22, 2025
Therapy Goals for the Abuser
Thursday May 22, 2025
Thursday May 22, 2025
This video provides therapists and counselors with a list of goals that the abuser needs if there is any hope of change. Most of the therapy provided for abusers misses some key elements that prevent lasting change. If you are in an abusive relationship, please watch to learn what your abuser has to do. #therapygoals #personalgrowth #toxicrelationship
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube:https://youtu.be/-ARbShGEXPs

Monday May 19, 2025
Change Your Thoughts to Change Your Life
Monday May 19, 2025
Monday May 19, 2025
Did you know that you can change your thoughts to change your life? You can, and it will have an immediate effect on your feelings and actions. It isn't difficult. If you are struggling with behaviors you cannot change, emotions that are sabotaging your life, or relationships that are stuck in a rut, watch this video to find out how to change your thoughts to change your life. #thoughts #thoughtsfeelings #changeyourlife
Here is the link to download the chart to change your thinking: https://karladowningresources.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/rational_thinking_chart.pdf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChangeMyRelationship
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/O5fn6qqVh90

Thursday May 15, 2025
Setting Boundaries: Know the Difference Between a Burden and a Load
Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
Setting boundaries is difficult when you are confused about what each person is responsible for, but if you know the difference between a burden and a load in Galatians 6:2-5, it gives you a helpful guideline. Because limits are different for each person and all individual factors have to be taken into consideration, it helps to have an objective test. If you struggle with setting Christian boundaries, watch this video to know the difference between a burden and a load. #christianboundaries #settingboundaries #boundaries
Here is the link to the Boundaries Zoom Study or to buy the study to do on your own: https://www.changemyrelationship.com/boundaries-setting-healthy-relationships-limits-zoom-study/
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@changemyrelationship
Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jZMumA1uKq8
