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.
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Episodes
  • Veronica Valli: Getting Sober

    Veronica Valli: Getting Sober
    Jan 6 2025

    Do you think about drinking alcohol more than you think about eating sandwiches? Do you spend significant amounts of time thinking about NOT drinking? Or are you one of the many with an uneasy feeling that alcohol is no longer bringing anything good into your life, and may well be holding you back?

    Therapist and sobriety expert VERONICA VALLI had a problematic relationship with alcohol for twelve years. She has now been sober for twenty years, and has helped countless others give up drinking.

    In this classic reissued episode Andrew and Veronica discuss:

    ⭐️How giving up alcohol can give you the energy and freedom to be your true self.

    ⭐️Why your friends may not always be your cheerleaders if you give up drinking.

    ⭐️Why a drinking problem is really a symptom of another, underlying problem.

    ⭐️What to do if your partner has an alcohol problem.

    ⭐️Extreme social pressure to drink and how to deal with it.

    Veronica Valli has worked in the field of alcohol recovery for almost two decades. She is an author, podcaster and former clinical psychotherapist.

    Subscriber Content This Week

    If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:

    • Three Things Veronica Valli knows to be true.
    • AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

    Follow Up

    Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

    Take a look at Andrew’s new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools

    Read Veronica Valli’s new book Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alcohol

    Take a look at Veronica Valli’s website

    Listen to Soberful: the Podcast

    Find out about the Soberful private group on Facebook

    Follow Veronica Valli on Instagram @veronicajvalli and on Facebook @soberfulpage

    Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall

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    55 mins
  • Tracey Cox: What We Learned Last Year We'll Be Using This Year

    Tracey Cox: What We Learned Last Year We'll Be Using This Year
    Dec 30 2024

    Where did you find inspiration and meaning in 2024? This week sex therapist and friend of the podcast TRACEY COX joins Andrew to reflect on another year of The Meaningful Life, and to discuss the episodes that meant the most to them.

    They share highlights from episodes with:

    • Samantha Rodman Whiten (Dr Psych Mom) on Being an Adult Child of Dysfunctional Parents.
    • Jessica Baum on Anxious Attachment.
    • Douglas Thomas on What You Can Learn About Yourself from Your Sexual Fantasies.
    • Robert Glover on People Pleasing
    • Robert Neimeyer on the Six Tasks of Grief
    • Joseph Lee on Jungian Dream Analysis (bonus material)
    • Alan Pearce on Comas and Near-Death Experiences (bonus material).

    Subscriber Content This Week

    If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:

    • More things we learned last year and first news on exciting new projects for 2025
    • AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

    Follow Up

    Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

    Take a look at Andrew’s new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools

    Buy Great Sex Starts at 50: How to Age-Proof Your Libido by Tracey Cox

    Get the advice you need on your sex life from Tracey Cox

    Listen to Tracey Cox and Kelsey Chittick’s SexTok podcast

    Follow Tracey Cox on social media: Instagram, Facebook and Twitter/X.

    Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall

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    56 mins
  • Chester Elton: How Gratitude Can Revolutionise Your Life

    Chester Elton: How Gratitude Can Revolutionise Your Life
    Dec 23 2024

    It’s hard to move on social media these days without bumping into a post on gratitude. If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, this week’s classic interview with Chester Elton, “the apostle of appreciation”, is for you.

    According to Chester, gratitude cuts to the heart of who we really are. Gratitude exists at an emotional level and is about WHO is in our lives, WHAT we find meaningful and HOW we live. If we make time for gratitude, we can find a way to live that makes everything less stressful.

    Chester and Andrew also discuss the ways we can build gratitude into everyday life, adding meaning and lightness to our daily routines.

    Chester Elton has carried out extensive research into how gratitude can help us lead in the workplace. His books, co-authored with Adrian Gostick, include Leading With Gratitude and All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results.

    Subscriber Content This Week

    If you’re a subscriber to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Patreon), this week you’ll be hearing:

    • Three things Chester Elton knows to be true.
    • AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

    Follow Up

    Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

    Take a look at Andrew’s new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools

    Read Chester Elton’s Leading with Gratitude Book

    Sign up for Chester Elton’s free LinkedIn newsletter, The Gratitude Journal

    Read Chester Elton’s article on Why We Should be Grateful for Hard Times

    Read Jay Shetty’s book Think Like A Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

    Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall

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    49 mins

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Wonderful. Thoughtful. Entertaining.

Andrew G Marshall is insightful and compassionate. The guests are almost always engaging and friendly.
The podcast tackles subjects from relationships, personal growth and communication, to the psychology of fairy tales. Andrew himself, guides the listener through the topics with clarity, occational light hearted humour and enthusiasm.
Listeners can write into the podcast with a problem to be discussed, this is one of my favourite aspects of the show.
Definitely in my top 3 podcasts. The new episodes are available on a Monday morning, giving me a 'thought for the week', in which I contemplate the weeks' subject and put into practice some of the subject matter that has 'landed with me' from the pod.
Food for thought delivered in a clear and entertaining way.

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