The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. Marshall

By Andrew G. Marshall

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Hello, I am a marital therapist, communications trainer and author. I have thirty-five years helping couples and individuals make better relationships. I have written twenty-plus self-help books which include the international best-sellers ‘I love you but I’m not in love with you’ and ‘How can I ever trust you again?’ My books have been translated into twenty languages. I trained with RELATE the UK’s largest counselling charity. Perhaps it has been turning sixty but I have become interested in spiritual as well as psychological questions. Who am I? What are my values – as opposed to my parents, my teachers and the wider society? What makes my life meaningful? What do I believe about life, the universe and everything? Although my clients might come to me because of destructive arguments, falling out of love and infidelity, they are also interested in having more meaningful relationships and a more meaningful life. So what is the meaningful life? Why do we so easily lose our way and get lost in depression, anxiety, doubt, addictions and obsessions: the swamplands of the soul? One thing I know for sure is that there is not one answer. Each of us has to find out for ourselves what makes our life meaningful. But we can learn from each other, share our experiences of how to navigate the journey, how to endure and learn from the swamp, and finally how to find solid ground. I have decided to use my original training in radio and journalism to interview witnesses for what makes life meaningful. Each week, I invite someone who is a therapist, academic, self-help coach or who has an enlightening personal story to share their knowledge or experiences. I hope our discussions will help you discover what makes your life meaningful and find more purpose and contentment.

Episode Date
Dr. Pam Spurr: Emotional Eating: How to Break the Habit
May 13, 2024
Kai Tai Kevin Qiu: Emotionally Immature Parents
May 06, 2024
Robin Stern: The Three Types of Gaslighting: How to Spot and Defuse Them
Apr 29, 2024
Dr. Paula Hall: Porn and Sex Addiction
Apr 22, 2024
Jessica Baum: Anxiously Attached? How To Be More Secure
Apr 15, 2024
Robert Glover: People Pleasing: Why Nobody is Really Pleased
Apr 08, 2024
Cheryl Fraser: Kill the Soulmate and Save Your Marriage
Apr 01, 2024
Graham Johnston and Matt Wotton: Therapy: What It Is, Why it Works, How to Find the Right Sort.
Mar 25, 2024
Dr Robert Neimeyer: The Six Tasks of Grief: How to Integrate Loss Into Your Life
Mar 18, 2024
Douglas Thomas: What You Can Learn About Yourself From Your Sexual Fantasies
Mar 11, 2024
Dr. Samantha Rodman Whiten: Being an Adult Child of Dysfunctional Parents
Mar 04, 2024
Dr Joshua Coleman: Family Estrangement
Feb 26, 2024
Gregory Ripley: Going with the Flow: The Hundred Remedies of the Tao
Feb 19, 2024
Lisa Marchiano: Finding Your Fire: What's Holding You Back?
Feb 12, 2024
Beth Wallace: How the Menopause Impacts Your Sex Life
Feb 05, 2024
Jeremy Fox: How to Recover From Trauma
Jan 29, 2024
My Best Relationship Tools: Bonus Episode
Jan 25, 2024
Nataly Kogan: Breaking Negative Thought Patterns
Jan 22, 2024
Erin Vandermore: Setting Intentions
Jan 15, 2024
Philip Carr-Gomm: How to Improve Your Sleep
Jan 08, 2024
What We Learned in 2023
Jan 01, 2024
Dr Cheryl Fraser: A More Loving Christmas
Dec 25, 2023
Mark Matousek: Stoicism: How Ralph Waldo Emerson can save your life
Dec 18, 2023
Dr Susan Schwartz: Imposter Syndrome
Dec 11, 2023
Krystal Mazzola Wood: Setting Boundaries
Dec 04, 2023
Michelle Brown: Step-Parenting & What It Teaches Us About Love & Relationships
Nov 27, 2023
Terry Gaspard: Making Your Second Marriage Work
Nov 20, 2023
Bea Gonzalez: Fairy Tales and the Route to Wholeness
Nov 13, 2023
Shelia Rubin: Embracing Shame and Turning it into a Powerful Ally
Nov 06, 2023
Julia Keller: How do you Know When Enough is Enough?
Oct 30, 2023
Fabian Edzard Schneider: Mismatched Levels of Sexual Desire
Oct 23, 2023
Dr Susan Heitler: Forget ”Fair Fighting” and Learn How to Do Win-Win Problem-Solving
Oct 16, 2023
Jody Day: Find Hope and Meaning Without Children
Oct 09, 2023
Connie Zweig: Understanding Your Shadow
Oct 02, 2023
Dr. Paul Dobransky: How We Fall in Love: Differences Between Men & Women
Sep 25, 2023
Elaine Carney Gibson: Family Systems Theory: How do the Rules Growing Up Still Impact You Today?
Sep 18, 2023
Dr Avrum Weiss: Anxiety: Are you and your partner playing hot potato?
Sep 11, 2023
James Hollis: Dispelling the Ghosts Running your Life
Sep 04, 2023
Barbara Zitwer: Happiness, Korean Style: Look Through the Lens of a Different Culture and Refresh Your Life
Aug 28, 2023
Renee Mill: Practical Tools for Managing Anxiety & Stress
Aug 21, 2023
Karla McLaren: What is the Feeling Trying to Tell Me?
Aug 14, 2023
John Papola: What Makes a Great Dad?
Aug 07, 2023
Clark Strand: A Deeper Connection with Everything Through Haiku
Jul 31, 2023
Dr Friedemann Schaub: How to Get Out of Survival Mode, Feel Less Anxious and Start Living
Jul 24, 2023
Dr Sharon Martin: How to Heal Stubborn & Unexplainable Health Problems
Jul 17, 2023
Dr Sam Carr: The Silent Epidemic: Loneliness
Jul 10, 2023
Conroy Harris: Rites of Passage and Mentoring: How to Become an Adult
Jul 03, 2023
Mara Glatzel: It’s OK to be Needy: How to Recognise & Advocate for Yours
Jun 26, 2023
Ayala Gill: What Can I Learn from this Moment?
Jun 19, 2023
Scott Simon: Small Acts of Courage to Change Your Life
Jun 12, 2023
Tonya Lester: How to Have Healthy Conflict
Jun 05, 2023
Richard Nicholls: How to be Happier
May 29, 2023
Sarah Swenson: Are You in a Neurodiverse Relationship?
May 22, 2023
Olivier Clerc: Forgiveness: Healing the Wounds of the Heart
May 15, 2023
Geraldine Walsh: Unraveling Motherhood
May 08, 2023
Dr Geoffrey Greif: Adult Sibling Relationships: How Do You Get On With Your Brother or Sister?
May 01, 2023
Allison Raskin: OCD: How Overthinking Impacts Your Relationships
Apr 24, 2023
Robert Jackman: Healing Your Lost Inner Child
Apr 17, 2023
Eric Maisel: What If We’ve Gotten Meaning All Wrong
Apr 10, 2023
Sherri Mandell: How to Grow Resilience: The Seven Cs & Why Creativity is Key
Apr 03, 2023
Juliet Grayson: Self Differentiation: Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved By You?
Mar 27, 2023
Dr Ruth Ann Harpur: Narcissism: Helpful Diagnosis, or a Trap?
Mar 20, 2023
Jan Day: Tantra: How to Make Your Lovemaking More Connected
Mar 13, 2023
Mar Estarellas & Orsolya Szeverics: Unlocking the Gifts of Anger
Mar 06, 2023
Malcolm Stern: Slay Your Dragons With Compassion
Feb 27, 2023
Samantha Baines: Do We Need a More Honest Conversation About Divorce?
Feb 20, 2023
Dr Anna Colton: How to Sit With Anxiety
Feb 13, 2023
William Ayot: Healing Men’s Souls
Feb 06, 2023
Charlotte Fox Weber: What Do You Really Want? Why We Are Frightened of Answering This Question.
Jan 30, 2023
William Pullen: Run (or Walk) Your Way to Better Mental Health
Jan 23, 2023
Niamh Fitzpatrick: Tell Me the Truth About Loss
Jan 16, 2023
Dr. Avrum Weiss: Why Men Withdraw When Women Get Angry
Jan 09, 2023
Tracey Cox & Andrew: Ten Things We Learned in 2022 to Take Into 2023
Jan 02, 2023
Henry Emmons: The Road to Calm and Joy (Re-issue)
Dec 26, 2022
Dr. John Kaag: Be Not Afraid: How Philosophy and William James Saved My Life
Dec 19, 2022
Tara Blair Ball: Recovering from Toxic Relationships
Dec 12, 2022
Amanda Deibert: You Have All The Answers
Dec 05, 2022
Dr. Galit Atlas: Buried Trauma: How the Past Can Unconsciously Trap You
Nov 28, 2022
Andy West: Inherited Guilt: How Philosophy Helped Me Heal
Nov 21, 2022
Dr. Christopher Kerr: What Death Can Teach Us: Visions and Dreams of the Dying
Nov 14, 2022
Phil Poole: How to Find a Meaningful Job or Make Your Job More Meaningful
Nov 07, 2022
Celia Dodd: Navigate Your Relationship With Your Adult Children
Oct 31, 2022
Dr Suzanne Degges-White: The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Why Things Turn Toxic
Oct 24, 2022
Libby Nugent: Exhausted? How Fairytales Can Refresh & Move You Forward
Oct 17, 2022
Dawn Kohler: When the Call to Be Yourself Can No Longer Be Ignored
Oct 10, 2022
Machiel Klerk: Ask Your Dreams for Help
Oct 03, 2022
Dr Matthew McKay: Loving in the Face of Pain
Sep 26, 2022
Dr. Joanna La Prade: Surviving Dark Times
Sep 19, 2022
Dr. Cheryl Fraser: How to Stay in Love
Sep 12, 2022
Julia Samuel MBE: How We Inherit Pain from Our Parents & Grandparents
Sep 05, 2022
Joanna Harrison: How to Argue More Productively
Aug 29, 2022
Prof. Paul Gilbert: Compassion: How to Develop Self-Acceptance
Aug 22, 2022
Second Time Around: How We Fell Back In Love and Got Married Again
Aug 15, 2022
Chris Partridge: Being a Rescuer: Why It Can Be a Trap & How to Break Free
Aug 08, 2022
Dr. Frederic Luskin: Forgiveness: What It Is & What It Is Not
Aug 01, 2022
Georgina Scull: Regrets of the Dying: Wisdom for Living Better Today
Jul 25, 2022
Irene Fehr: Why Desire Disappears in Committed Relationships
Jul 18, 2022
Dr. Patricia Hasbach: Reconnect with Nature and Yourself
Jul 11, 2022
Dr Susan Schwartz: Daughters and Fathers: the Impact of the First Man in Your Life
Jul 04, 2022
Veronica Valli: Does Your Relationship With Alcohol Still Make Sense?
Jun 27, 2022
Catherine Mayer: Embracing Life at a Time of Death
Jun 20, 2022
Linda Hershman: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Jun 13, 2022
Christina Patterson: Getting Out of Your Own Way: Are You Unknowingly Self-Sabotaging?
Jun 06, 2022
Erik Qualman: Being More Focused: the Art of Saying No
May 30, 2022
Julie Wald: Feeling Balanced: The Four Pillars of Self-Care
May 23, 2022
David Kessler: Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
May 16, 2022
Dr. Stephan Poulter: Shame: How to Break Out and Start Living
May 09, 2022
Daisy Turnbull: How to Talk to Teenagers
May 02, 2022
Dr. Connie Zweig: From Role to Soul: How to Become an Elder Rather than Just Old
Apr 25, 2022
Alan Lessik: How to Deal with Change: The Backward Step
Apr 18, 2022
Dr Wendy Suzuki: Stressed? Worried? Can’t Focus?: The Neuroscientist’s Guide to Anxiety
Apr 11, 2022
George Mumford: The Power of Mindfulness: How to Investigate Your Pain
Apr 04, 2022
Paul Attinello: What is Your Relationship with Death and Mortality?
Mar 28, 2022
Terry Real: The Five Traps that Undermine Your Love & One Simple Solution
Mar 21, 2022
Thom Rutledge: Embracing Fear in Four Steps
Mar 14, 2022
Dr Mairi Macleod: Finding a Good Man in Midlife
Mar 07, 2022
Simon Roe: Are You Leading a Life of Quiet Desperation?
Feb 28, 2022
Amanda Seyderhelm: How Can Children and Adults Cope With Childhood Grief?
Feb 21, 2022
Dr. Kathleen Smith: Make Anxiety Your Friend
Feb 14, 2022
Shani Silver: A New Perspective on Being Single
Feb 07, 2022
Julia Paulette Hollenbery: Self Care: Seven Medicines for Healing from Trauma (and Life in General)
Jan 31, 2022
Dr Dilip Jeste: Wisdom: Five Ways to Become Wiser
Jan 24, 2022
Helen Tower & Lisa Arends: Infidelity: Lessons from My Recovery
Jan 17, 2022
Dr Kathryn Mannix: How to Listen, Really Listen
Jan 10, 2022
Ten Things We Learned in 2021
Jan 03, 2022
JJ Bola: Men: How to Take the Mask Off
Dec 27, 2021
Jack Underwood: Becoming a Father: Living with Fear and Uncertainty
Dec 20, 2021
Josephine Worseck: Stress Reduction: TheTransformative Power of Cold Exposure
Dec 13, 2021
John LeFebvre: Money and Meaning: Would Your Life be Better if You Were Richer?
Dec 06, 2021
Cate Mackenzie: Flirting: Why Everyone Should Learn the Skills
Nov 29, 2021
Kathleen O‘Brien: Growing Old Is The Best Thing That‘s Going To Happen To You
Nov 22, 2021
Michelle Farris: Seven Signs You Might Be Codependent
Nov 15, 2021
Silva Neves: How to Heal Compulsive Sexual Behaviours
Nov 08, 2021
Matthew Fray: How Good People Mess Up Their Marriages
Nov 01, 2021
John McCullough: Seven Ways Poetry Can Make Your Life Richer, Deeper and More Meaningful
Oct 25, 2021
Viv Groskop: How to be Heard, Really Heard
Oct 18, 2021
Graham Johnston & Matt Wotton: Good Boundaries: The Foundation of Happy Relationships
Oct 11, 2021
Tracy McCubbin: Identifying Blocks to Letting Go: How to Declutter Your Life
Oct 04, 2021
Robert Hopcke: Synchronicity: Meaningful Coincidences, How to Spot and Use Them To Grow
Sep 27, 2021
Dr. James Hollis: How to Be Resilient
Sep 20, 2021
Dr. Warren Farrell: The Boy Crisis: How to Help Your Son Flourish
Sep 13, 2021
Oliver Russell: How a Near Death Experience Changed My Life
Sep 06, 2021
Dr. Linda Berman: Seven Ways To Become Your Authentic Self
Aug 30, 2021
Fran Bushe: How I Stopped Thinking My Body Was Broken (and Dealt With Vaginismus)
Aug 23, 2021
Kate Daigle: Have a Heathier Relationship with Food
Aug 16, 2021
Pippa Evans: Harnessing the Power of Yes and No
Aug 09, 2021
Eddie and Teri Capparucci: Betrayal & Sex Addiction - The Road to Recovery Runs Through Your Childhood
Aug 02, 2021
Giles Paley-Phillips: How To Pick Yourself Up When Things Go Wrong
Jul 26, 2021
Venus O’Hara: Spiritual Sex
Jul 19, 2021
Josh Cohen: How to Live: What You Can Learn From Your Favourite Literary Character
Jul 12, 2021
Isabel Losada: How to Bring Joy Into Your Life AND Save the Planet
Jul 05, 2021
Eleanor Mills: How to Re-Invent Yourself at 50 (Or Any Age)
Jun 28, 2021
Kate Lucey: Depression - What Worked for Me
Jun 21, 2021
Claire Thomson: Food and How it Makes Life Meaningful
Jun 14, 2021
Richard Paterson: No More Overthinking
Jun 07, 2021
Kate Moyle: Improving Your Body Image & Your Love Life
May 31, 2021
Tara Blair-Ball: Attachment Theory and How to Have Better Connections
May 24, 2021
Elaine Dundon: Stop Being a Prisoner of Your Thoughts
May 17, 2021
Hannah Martin: How To Believe in Yourself and Start Your Own Business
May 10, 2021
Dr. Kathryn Mannix: What You’ve Been Told About Death Might Be Wrong
May 03, 2021
Henry Emmons: Bring More Calm and Joy Into Your Life
Apr 26, 2021
John Poehler on Bipolar: How a Daily Plan Can Improve Your Mental Health
Apr 19, 2021
Philippa Perry: What You Wish Your Parents Knew and What Your Children Hope You Learn
Apr 12, 2021
Michael & Christy: Facing Infertility and finally celebrating the birth of our baby
Apr 05, 2021
Lisa Marchiano: Being a Mother: A journey of self-discovery
Mar 29, 2021
Angus Barge: Getting it up: What every man and woman needs to know
Mar 22, 2021
Terry Gaspard: Daughters of Divorce: the long-term impact of a marital breakdown
Mar 15, 2021
Tom Vanderbilt: The Beginners Mind: How to get out of a rut
Mar 08, 2021
Philip Carr-Gomm: Stop Living the Provisional Life and Start Creating an Authentic One.
Mar 01, 2021
Fenella Hansen: Dealing with Trauma
Feb 22, 2021
Caroline Madden: Infidelity: How to Rebuild Trust
Feb 15, 2021
Dena Justice: Why Women Burn Out and How to Recover
Feb 08, 2021
Slave Phil: Master Slave Lifestyle
Feb 01, 2021
Chester Elton: How gratitude could revolutionise your life
Jan 25, 2021
Richard Lang: Seeing who you really are
Jan 18, 2021
Itoro Bassey: Healing the Mother / Daughter Wound
Jan 11, 2021
Ten Things I Learnt in 2020
Jan 04, 2021
Nathanael Garrett Novosel: The Meaning of Life is Growth
Dec 28, 2020
Martina Schneider: Spiritual Therapy
Dec 21, 2020
Joe Horton: Men, Fathers and meaning
Dec 14, 2020
Rachel Weiss: Menopause
Dec 07, 2020
Tim Dowling: Can cynicism improve your life?
Nov 30, 2020
Charlotte Fielder: Dogs and Volunteering, and how they change your life
Nov 23, 2020
Anita Cleare: Be a positive parent
Nov 16, 2020
Susie Kahlich: Self Defence and Surviving violent crime
Nov 09, 2020
Jed Diamond: Your Personal Creation Story
Nov 02, 2020
Finn Ballard: Gender and being a trans man
Oct 26, 2020
Kay Hutchison: Coming back from a midlife crisis
Oct 26, 2020
Tracey Cox: Great sex after fifty
Oct 26, 2020
Launching on Monday 26. October 2020 - The Meaningful Life with Andrew G.Marshall
Oct 17, 2020