Slow Down. Breathe. Enjoy Today. Tomorrow isn’t Promised

ByJoe Martino June 18, 2025June 18, 2025

There are four things I wish for everyone. Four practices I believe can reshape your pace, your peace, and your presence. Engage with them, and your entire life could shift.
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Let’s make the world a better place by listening and learning.
ByJoe Martino June 11, 2020

I'd like to think that we all want to listen to each other. I would like to believe that almost everyone I meet wants to be an excellent listener. And yet the chaos of our world often feels overwhelming. It can often seem like everywhere I turn, I see people who are not listening Even…

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Change

No matter where you go, you’ll still be there. Thoughts on being unhappy with who we are
ByJoe Martino January 2, 2012

People who have learned to be content (and from contentment comes happiness) realize that the things that happen outside of them do not control them. …If you know someone who is angry at the world, the best most loving thing you can do is to call them on it.

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Children | Parenting

Everyone Wins! Just for showing up? (Part 4)
ByJoe Martino September 19, 2011

Part one can be found here and part two can be found here. You can find part three here. What has been the cause of this idea that everyone should win just for showing up? Certainly, part of it is good intentions. Of course, there is an old saying about the path to a certain…

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Change | Living | Main Ideas

Your life is written by the choices you make: Thoughts provoked by Hamilton the Musical
ByJoe Martino March 5, 2020November 30, 2023

My daughter asked me what I thought about the musical and I told her that I loved it because I believe there are only two stories ever told; stories of brokenness and stories of redemption. Sometimes, both brokenness and redemption are weaved throughout the story.
To me, that is what makes Hamilton so profound. It tells the story of brokenness and redemption. It shows the messiness that is life.

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Podcast

What If Phones Are Just Exposing Us?
ByJoe Martino May 20, 2026May 20, 2026

People love blaming phones for everything.Social media is ruining kids.Technology is destroying families.Phones are why people don’t want children anymore.But what if that explanation is far too shallow?In this Mental Health Awareness Month episode of The Joe Martino Show, I push back on the growing tendency to blame objects for deeply human problems. This conversation…

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Books | Counseling | Couples Counseling

The Emotionally Secure Couple: Chapter One
ByJoe Martino March 1, 2018

Then we try to soothe our pain. We try to soothe it by working out or making millions of dollars or getting involved in church. We try to outdo our shame, falsely believing that we can outrun it through activity. The net result becomes a heaping of shame on top of shame. Our activity does not do away with our shame; instead, it numbs our response to it. A numb soul tends to be numb to everything. This causes us to pick activities that keep us from connecting with someone else, which causes us to experience more shame.

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