RelateWell with Dr. Rick Marks
Dr. Rick Marks presents: RelateWell. RelateWell is the vision of Dr. Rick and seeks to help anyone who desires to live a life that is healthy and mature and is able to develop and sustain healthy, caring, loving, and mature relationships in life, love, as parents and even at work. Dr. Rick provides insights, inspiration and tools for personal and relational development. Dr. Rick speaks not just from his years of training and expertise, but also from his healing from a childhood of broken families, addictions, abuse and hurts/pains. He speaks from his journey of healing and from what he learned from his faith and from his mentors.
Episodes
116 episodes
Self-Control Is Essential: Some thoughts about self-control and maturity
Self control is listed as a fruit of the Spirit. Yet, ever noticed that some non-Christians have strong self-control and some Christians do not. Dr. Rick shares some principles regarding self-control and self-regulation that makes i...
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Forgiveness Does Not Remove the Pain of the Event
It is essential that we forgive. However, many assume that when they forgive the pain from the event will go away. It does not. Forgiveness is essential for healing and once we forgive, the pain can now heal. Healing from the ...
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Guidelines for Mature Adults in Relationships
Dr. Riok discusses some guidelines to consider as you live your life in intimate and connected relationships.
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Why A Good Marriage Will Break Your Heart
Dr. Rick reads from a treatise by David Schnark on why a good marriage will break your heart. Tune in...
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14:48
Why Risk Is Important
Have you ever considered that those who choose to live comfortably and never having taken risks have not lived life to the fullest. The choose security over growth. All growth takes risk.
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10 Pieces of Advice for a Healthy Marriage
Dr. Rick considers ten pieces of advice to help you have a healthy and mature marriage and relationship.
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16:09
Adaptive Development and Marriage
All relationships change over time and must adapt to changing situations. They must also adapt to the changes in our spouses.
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The Various Forms of Humility
Humility is a powerful way to life life and is a hallmark for living maturely. Yet, there are different forms of humility. Dr. Rick explains each of these forms and how they express themselves.
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Living Prideful: Immaturity in Action
There is a healthy and mature form of pride which is rooted in humility. Yet, there is another form of pride that leads to a haughty spirit, arrogance, and a sense that one is better than others. Pride harms others and relationships where...
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Understanding Beliefs That Knot Our Ability to Love
Dr. Lori Gordon alked about beliefs that are irrational that knot our ability to love others maturely. She called these Love Knots. Dr. Gordon identified 52 of these in one of her books. Dr. Rick discusses some of the leading ...
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Surrender: Path to Emotional and Spiritual Maturity
Ever considred that surrendering could be a position of strength and not weakness? Surrendering is about checking our egos and staying in humility and know what I can and can not control. Surrender results in mature connections with...
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Do I Matter to God?
Did you know that your ability to love others maturely is linked to your ability to love yourself? And that when we feel we do not have value, we matter or are loved or loveable, we sink into low self worth and self esteem. But what...
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You Matter to God! And Here Is How I Know
We are all adept at negative thinking about ourselves and sadly, many preachers reinforce this negative mindset on the parishoners and congregations. Yet Psalm 139 tells us something different.
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32:02
Live Powerfully Through Humility
Dr. Rick talks about the powerful life of a humble person and the types of humility that research indicates. Do you live from humility or a prideful way of being?
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24:07
Say This, Not That
Ever noticed that something you said you wish you could take back or at least had said it some other way? When in conflict and frustration we make statements that do not lead to connection and understanding, but disconnection, hurt and misunder...
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What If My Family Is Not Safe for the Lonely?
Psalm 68 tells us that God puts the lonely in families. But what if your family was not a safe place. What if families are not safe for the lonely to find and experience true love? What if the church is not a place for healthy...
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He Puts The Lonely In Families
Humans were created for connection, intimate connection with God, Self and Others. Without these essential human biological needs being met (the need for bonding, connection, intimacy) we experience relational pain and move in to loneline...
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Live Life Abundantly: Our Core Value of HREG
Immaturity is rampant today in our society. We have trainings on emotional intelligence, etc. This is all langauge for immaturity. Emotional immaturity to be specific. And I used to be an emotional child and dealt with issues ...
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You've Lost That Loving Feeling: Love As An Emotion
I think the Righteous Brothers were right: you've lost that loving feeling. Many today teach that love is not an emotion, but rather a choice or a decision. Dr. Rick argues that love is an emotion and must be understood and embraced...
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The Path to Emotional and Relational Health and 4 Questions
There are four questions every person needs answered in order to become a healthy, mature, and caring individual. Dr. Rick shares his own personal journey regarding these four questions and the challenges and joys of walking the path to h...
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Handling Broken Relationships with Dr. Rick
This message given in Nassau, Bahamas at a church on Sunday morning provides insight into the relational dynamics of what happened in the Garden of Eden and healthy relationships.
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I Need a Dad: A Testimony of Healing by Dr. Rick Marks
Dr. Rick shared his testimony on his journey of healing from his father wound at a regional conference for the Association for Marriage and Family Ministry.
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Humility: The Better Way Part 2
Humility and empathy is required to become a mature leader, a mature adult and to be effective relationally in all relationships. Yet, humility still seems to be elusive to most as it appears to most as weakness. Yet, research is cl...
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