Mindful Marriage and Family Podcast with Jake and Tamara Fackrell
Coming September 18, 2025!
Dr. Tamara Fackrell and her husband, Jake Fackrell, bring a rare and powerful perspective to love, marriage, and family. Tamara is a nationally recognized divorce attorney who has guided over 4,000 couples through the end of their marriages, and she holds a PhD in Marriage and Family Studies. She’s seen firsthand the patterns that destroy relationships—and the research-backed principles that keep them strong. Jake is a successful business leader with an MBA whose company ranks among the fastest-growing businesses in the nation.
Together, they combine professional expertise, research insights, and personal experience from decades of marriage to share practical, actionable advice for couples who want to do it right. From uncovering the small habits that make or break relationships to sharing wisdom gleaned from those who didn’t get it right, the Fackrells offer real-world guidance with warmth, honesty, and humor.
Whether you’re newly married, navigating the ups and downs of family life, or seeking to reignite connection, this podcast delivers powerful tools and bite-sized lessons you can use right away.
Mindful Marriage and Family Podcast with Jake and Tamara Fackrell
Episode 16: The Marriage Emotion Compass
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Every marriage faces emotional moments — frustration, anger, hurt, stress, sadness, loneliness, and misunderstanding. But what if those emotions weren’t obstacles to connection, but invitations to understand each other more deeply?
This podcast helps couples strengthen their relationship by learning how to regulate emotions using the Emotion Wheel. Instead of reacting in anger, shutting down, or escalating conflict, you’ll learn to recognize what you’re truly feeling and respond in ways that build safety, trust, and connection.
Each episode explores practical tools couples can use to navigate emotional moments together:
• Naming the emotion to reduce reactivity and defensiveness
• Understanding emotion families (primary, secondary, and deeper feelings)
• Identifying what is really underneath conflict
• Recognizing the balancing or opposite emotion that restores connection
• Choosing actions that create safety, empathy, and emotional closeness
When couples learn to understand their emotional patterns, arguments become conversations, defensiveness becomes empathy, and distance becomes connection.
Whether you’re navigating conflict, rebuilding trust, or simply wanting to deepen emotional intimacy, this podcast offers practical guidance to help you regulate emotions, communicate more clearly, and build a marriage rooted in understanding and love.