MARRIAGE • FAMILY • FAITH • GROWTH

Hope-giving conversations for real life.

Join Dr. Sharon May for honest conversations and practical wisdom to help you grow, find hope, love well, and live wisely in every season.

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Life can be hard, but it is still beautiful and worth living well.

Choose Life Radio offers hope-giving conversations to help you face real-life struggles, love well, grow stronger, and live fully present to this one precious life.

Our Focus

Choose Life Radio explores the things that matter most - marriage, family, faith, emotional well-being, personal growth, and the struggles we all face. Our conversations integrate faith with current research and honest stories to help you find hope and encouragement for real life.

marriage and relationships
marriage and relationships

Marriage & Relationships

Communicate better, repair hurts, and love well

family and parenting
family and parenting

Family & Parenting

Navigate parenting, adult children and family dynamics

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Gold outline across an irregular black background. The outline resembles a stylized heart or mountain range.

Emotional Well-Being

 Understand your stress, emotions, triggers, and reactions

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Compass with a cross in the center

Faith & Meaning

Discover how faith strengthens your everyday life

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Umbrella with raindrops

Grief & Hard Seasons

Find courage, comfort and hope during life’s hardest seasons

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Dr. Sharon May is a marriage and family counselor, author, speaker and founder of Safe Haven Relationship Center.  She is co-creator of the Safe Haven Marriage Intensives and leader of Become Your Best women’s monthly retreat and Still Me for people facing cancer. For more than 25 years she has helped individuals, couples, families and leaders heal their marriages, foster closer families, and become more emotionally healthy.

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Sharon May, Ph.D.

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The first 10 years of Marriage - Growing Together
The first 10 years of Marriage - Growing Together

The early years of marriage can be surprisingly difficult and disorienting yet often the journey of young marrieds. Dr. Sharon May & Julie Baumgardner offer hopeful, practical steps for building a stronger marriage.

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Core Values

  • Hope

    We believe people, relationships, and lives can grow and heal. Even when circumstances cannot be changed, people can discover courage, meaning, connection, and a new way forward.

  • Truth with Grace

    We speak honestly and kindly about the real struggles of life.

  • Faith-Informed

    We integrate faith with sound research, expert insight, and lived experience.

  • Healthy Connection

    We believe loving and emotionally healthy relationships are central to a good and flourishing life. Learning to love well can strengthen marriages, families, friendships, and communities.

  • Whole-Person Growth

    We care about the whole person—mind, body, emotions, relationships, faith, purpose, and hope.

  • Courageous Steps

    We offer more than inspiration. We encourage listeners to take practical steps that can change how they think, respond, relate, and live.

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