What you believe is what you belong to. And that changes everything about your relationships.
That's the idea at the center of this conversation with Dean Goossen — counselor, friend of the podcast, and father of eight. Dean has spent years sitting with people in their hardest moments, and what he keeps coming back to is this: most of our relational struggles aren't really about the other person. They're about the island we're living on inside.
In this episode, Dean walks us through a deceptively simple framework for understanding why we do what we do in relationships — why we use people as rungs on a ladder, why encouragement doesn't always land, and why achieving everything we thought we wanted can still leave us feeling anxious, depressed, and unsatisfied.
The answer, he says, always comes back to belief. What have you come into agreement with? And is it actually true?
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