The Wise Wife Podcast

The Wise Wife Podcast

Hosted by: Natasha Drisdelle

The Wise Wife Podcast is for women who are standing for their marriage and refusing to surrender God’s design to passivity, fear, or cultural advice. Hosted by Christian author and mentor Natasha Drisdelle, each...

Episodes

E45 Are You Letting God Write Your Story?

Season #3

You say you've given your marriage to God, but are you still telling Him how the story has to go? Many of us have one thing we have decided cannot happen in our marriage. It might be papers showing up, or another...
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E44 You Keep Rebuking the Demons, But Are You Feeding Them?

Season #3

You're praying, "Satan, get behind me." Then you spend the next six hours checking your husband’s location, rehearsing everything he said, arguing with him in your head, stalking the other woman online, and calling...
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E43 What No One Tells You About Marriage Restoration

Season #3

Most women standing for their marriage treat restoration like the finish line. He comes home, the affair ends, he finally chooses the marriage, and after all the praying and fasting and waiting you think, "We made it....
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E41 Is Your Marriage Harmful... or Just Hard?

Season #3

Hard marriages contain problems. Harmful marriages contain patterns of power. Most Christian women have never been taught how to tell which one they are living in. You have been taught forgiveness. You have been...
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E42 Is Your Marriage Harmful... or Just Hard? Part 2

Season #3

You will learn more about your marriage from what happens after you set one boundary than from anything he says when things are calm. In a hard marriage, a boundary frustrates him. In a harmful marriage, a boundary...
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E40 The 7 R's of Restoration

Season #3

You can pray for restoration every morning and still not be ready for it.  After almost 20 years of standing with women who are believing God for their marriages, I keep seeing the same 7 things in the wife before her...
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E39 The Single Strategy that Saved My Marriage

Season #3

You've been praying, you've been showing up, you've been doing what everyone told you was the right thing. And your marriage is still getting worse. There are 2 types of prodigal spirits that drive relationship...
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E38 How to Laugh at the Days to Come When Your Life is Falling Apart

Season #3

Proverbs 31:25 says a woman clothed in strength and dignity can laugh at the days to come. Most of us can't laugh, because tomorrow scares us and we're holding our version of how things should go with both hands. In...
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E37 Are You Ready for Restoration?

Season #3

Women come to me to heal their marriages. Almost every time, what they needed was to heal themselves first. I know that is hard to hear when your husband is the one who looks broken. But I spent years so fixed on his...
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E36 Follow the Fruit to the Root

Season #3

Years ago I walked into our bathroom and found raw sewage backing up into the toilet and the tub. We could have spent the rest of our lives scooping it out, or we could deal with the massive tree root that had grown...
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E35 Victim vs Martyr - How to Share Your Story Well

Season #3

There are two sinful responses to trauma, and most of us are living in one of them. The victim is sharing her story compulsively, looking for someone to confirm her pain is real. The martyr is stuffing it all down and...
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E34 My Marriage Stand Part 3 - How He Came Home

Season #3

My Marriage Stand: Part 3 — How He Came Home I got the call I had been fasting and praying for. Tim's opening line was, "Natasha, I don't love you. I haven't loved you in a really long time." I dropped to my...
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