#285 | 42 Years Married: The Protective Parts That Show Up in My Own Marriage
What if the reaction you have with your partner isn't really you — it's a part of you doing a job it took on when you were five years old? In his yearly anniversary episode, Todd Creager marks 42 year...
31 Aug 12min
#284 | The Body Remembers: Somatic Clues That Your Parts Have Activated
Your partner hasn't finished the sentence yet, and your stomach has already dropped. Your jaw is clenched. There's a tightness across your chest that wasn't there ten seconds ago. That isn't stress. T...
24 Aug 9min
#283 | How Childhood Shame Shows Up in Adult Intimacy: Exiles, Protectors, and the Way Through
Your partner reaches for you, and something inside pulls back. Not all of you. A part of you. In this solo episode, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Todd Creager talks about the young part that ...
17 Aug 8min
#282 | Why I Combine EMDR and IFS to Help You Heal from Trauma Faster
What happens when trauma therapy stalls, even when you're doing everything right? In this solo episode, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Todd Creager pulls back the curtain on how he works with ...
10 Aug 8min
#281 | Self-Led Parenting: How to Stop Reacting and Start Leading From Calm
Why does your child's meltdown sometimes bring out a version of you that sounds exactly like your own parent? Marriage and Family Therapist Todd Creager breaks down self-led parenting, a concept roote...
3 Aug 11min
#280 | When Your Partner Triggers You: The Hidden Part of You That's Really Reacting
Why does a small comment from your spouse sometimes set off a reaction that feels way bigger than the moment calls for? Todd Creager, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 30 years of exp...
27 Jul 6min
#279 | Why Your Partner Goes Silent: Understanding Stonewalling Through an IFS Lens
When your partner shuts down in the middle of a hard conversation, it's easy to read it as punishment — as coldness, stubbornness, or not caring. What if that's almost never what's actually happening?...
20 Jul 9min
#278 | You're Not Fighting Your Spouse — Here Are the 3 Parts That Are
What if the fight you keep having with your spouse isn't really about dishes, money, or who said what last Tuesday? What if the two of you aren't even fighting each other at all? In this solo episode,...
13 Jul 10min
