Chuck and Ashley

Chuck and Ashley Chuck and Ashley Elliott help you build thriving personal and professional relationships.

07/28/2026

How important is it for a woman to feel safe in a relationship?

Not just safe from abuse, but safe to express and show up fully.

07/07/2026

Are you hard on yourself?

There’s function in the dysfunction. There’s good in the negative behavior. If you are hard on yourself, you probably drive yourself to get more accomplished, which feels good. This reinforces the cycle.

This can be a problem in marriage, too. If you are critical of yourself, your spouse likely feels criticized from time to time.

Instead, be gentler on yourself. Set goals and encourage yourself to continue being a high achiever. Give yourself credit for doing hard things. Ask yourself, would I be this hard on someone else?

Lord,
Holy Creator, would You help us make the best of our days? We want to get a ton done, but we also want to be kind rather than critical, hopeful rather than discouraged.
Amen.

06/30/2026

How is it different to work with us, Chuck and Ashley, compared to a community mental health center?

In addition to our coaching services that are different, we are also willing to build something that’s tailored to an individual or couple’s needs or creative ideas!

We’ve hosted a small group couple’s mountain biking adventure and retreat, and we’ve developed workshops for boards and teams to build professional relationships and communication skills.

What creative ways have you seen people build personal and professional relationships?

06/16/2026

How is it different to work with us, Chuck and Ashley?

Here are just a couple of ways we’re different from a typical community counseling agency.

We take a smaller caseload. That means we can be more engaged and present with our clients.

We emphasize setting and reaching goals over diagnosis.

Interested in learning more about working with us?

Schedule a discovery call or book a session. Link in comments.

06/12/2026

What if it’s not because they don’t care, it’s because they don’t know what to do next.

The pattern is common. The woman is upset, the man pulls back. If the man isn’t going to fix it and doesn’t have the right answer, there is a resistance to engaging.

Men, try this. When you feel yourself going blank and wanting to withdraw, say something like “What do you need from me?”

This often defuses both of you and you can go from there.

To the women: what do you think it’s like for him to approach you when you are upset?

05/19/2026

Blame-shifting feels logical. If I can make you look worse than me, I'm off the hook.

But the couples who actually make progress aren't the ones who build the best case against their partner. They're the ones willing to take responsibility first.

And yes, your partner may have really hurt you. This is not trying to convince you they didn't. But you'll gain more ground starting with yourself than you ever will keeping score.

04/28/2026

Most anxiety isn’t a sign that everything is falling apart. It’s usually a sign that you haven’t taken the time to figure out what you want.

Clarity brings peace. Not because your circumstances changed, but because you finally know what you’re dealing with.

Try this: get off your phone, turn off the TV, go for a walk with nothing in your ears. Grab a notebook. Write down what’s stressing you out, then turn those stressors into something you can actually pray through. Pay attention to the thoughts you keep replaying. Process them instead of running from them.

Clarity follows. And when clarity shows up, anxiety loses a lot of its grip.

Life update from Ashley: It is extremely bittersweet to share that I am resigning from my role at Crossroads Christian C...
04/19/2026

Life update from Ashley:

It is extremely bittersweet to share that I am resigning from my role at Crossroads Christian Church as the adult ministry director.

During my time serving in this role, I met and connected with over 500 individuals! (I sat down and opened up a note I titled “Crossroads Names.” I counted 478 names of individuals listed. This did not include staff, their families, elders, and so many other people I’ve met.)

I am so grateful for the friendships that were built, and I know many of them will continue!
My last day is May 21. 🤍

I am excited to share that I am going to be working full-time with Chuck in our ministry/business! He has done an amazing job expanding our impact, and he’s already pushing me to do more than I saw possible. I thought I was the one doing a lot of driving over the years. I am realizing more and more how we complement one another and accelerate each other so we keep moving forward, slowly and steadily (and sometimes quick!) I like quick. Chuck is more patient. 😉

Want us to partner with you or someone you care about? We coach individuals and couples. Our couple-to-couple coaching has grown, and I’m very excited about its effectiveness. (I’m so energized that it helped me walk away from a ministry position where I saw lots of impact. But there’s something special about seeing marriages thrive and witnessing broken marriages become whole again. I sometimes think about their children and grandchildren. I get to be a part of their happiness —and likely, we will never even meet. It really is an honor.)

🤍

On Friday, I got to record again…hadn’t done that in a while! Appreciate getting to work with Lucas Ball again!

If you keep waiting for the right time to work on your marriage, your spouse might be running out of patience. "After t...
04/17/2026

If you keep waiting for the right time to work on your marriage, your spouse might be running out of patience.

"After the kids move out."
"After this project wraps up."
"After the holidays."

We hear these timelines on a regular basis.

Marriage feels like it can take a back seat because it's not on fire…yet.

But here's what we've seen dozens of times: one partner has been quietly checking out or maybe keeping score. Noticing every postponed conversation, every blown-off concern. And they haven't said anything, not because they're fine, but because they stopped believing it would change anything.

When they finally speak up, the other partner is blindsided. "Where is this coming from?" It's been coming for years.

The best time to work on your marriage is before it's falling apart. Because by the time it feels urgent to both of you, one of you has usually already started grieving the relationship being over.

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