Normalizing that anxiety will show up, why it is necessary, and why sometimes it can be more damaging.

Episode Four - Getting Rid Of Anxiety?

Understand how some foundational choices - sleep, movement, and nutrition - are paramount for both proactive health and as reactive measures when stress and anxiety show up.

Episode 5 - Living Well And Pushing Back Against Anxiety

The headlines keep coming; school shootings are taking place with alarming regularity. Our kids need help processing through this. Here are a few tips to engage these tough conversations.

Episode 47 - Another School Shooting: How We Can Talk to our Kids

Here is an introductory list of some red flags that, when they show up in new relationships, should give us great pause. In fact, "abort mission" should be our response.

Episode 57 - Red Flags are Waving! Proceed with Caution

For some, poor identity formation is due to parents and authority figures not inviting kids appropriately into adulthood. When this happens, people often experience mental health distress. Need a more formed identity? There is some work to be done!

Episode 63 - A Poorly Formed Identity Means There Is Work to Do!

Why do we do the things we do? Are we living a life where the motives are oriented towards changing out of love? Or, are we depending on guilt, duty, or fear to get us to change. If it is the latter, let's take a look at that!

Episode 132 - Guilt, Duty, & Fear Vs. Love

Often, when we experience rejection, we can assume it is saying something negative about us. What if it is just about incompatibility?

Episode 143 - Getting Rejected, And Being OK With It

Can you weep with those who weep? How about weeping with those who have "brought it on themselves"? How about with those who are on the receiving end of unrecognized losses? This is an area many of us could probably grow in. Take a listen.

Episode 167 - Disenfranchised Grief: Walk Gently In The Lives of Others

This is not about victim blaming. This is about pushing back against the troubling statistics of revictimization. Take a listen. Share with someone who needs to hear this!

Episode 174 - When You're Done Being A Victim

Through an illustrative story, take a trip through the exhaustion that can happen during a reconstruction phase. It takes a while to recreate. That's normal. That's ok.

Episode 239 - It Takes A While

How we language our story will heavily influence the ways we navigate life. Are we telling a clear story? A helpful story? 

Episode 260 - The Stories I Tell

Do the skills you have build match what the situation needs? Take a listen!

Episode 267 - Skills to Communicate When Uncomfortable

In an extended analogy, take a listen for why fear shows up when we "try again"

Episode 274 - Understanding over time As My Fear Center Works Overtime

Many adult singles - thirties, forties, fifties and beyond - come with a story. Often, there is loss, rupture, and a plethora of pain points they are carrying with them. And yet, they can often be unseen, unincluded, and passed by. How do we reconcile this when healthful community is a key part of living well?

Episode 276 - Do We See Them Do We Include Them

How do we know when a cause is ours to hold? Is there a pain point? How about a gifting? Perhaps that is the invitation to proceed!

Episode 277 - For the Collective Good

Why does it take so long to become who we want to be? Take a listen! It is possible and it is a process. 

Episode 278 - Identity Consolidation

A key piece of identity development is how we choose to talk about the things that we are practicing. Take a listen!

Episode 279 - The Declaratives Matter

It takes intentional effort to put things into helpful sequencing. When we take time to do it, though, it can push back against anxiety in significant ways!

Episode 280 - Sequencing for Anxiety Reduction

Establishing life priorities and creating plans that allow us to walk them out is a key piece of intentional and healthful living. What are the priorities?

Episode 281 - Establishing Life Priorities

Intentional living will always require sacrifice. Perhaps we aren't always clear what we are signing up for. Maybe that's the way it is supposed to be!

Episode 282 - The Next Little Step & Sacrafice

As we engage intentional living, it takes a while to get each domain of life developed. If DOES take time. And each area of life is important. Let's explore this together!

Episode 283 - It's a Lot It; Takes a While

I barely have words. These words only form questions. No answers. How have we arrived here? 

Episode 284 - How? Only Questions Right Now

It's true that we do not have to confront our pain, clean up our inner landscape, and work on healing. It is also true that there is a cost - and not just to ourselves. 

Episode 285 - Immeasurable Cost

Most gains we make are on the other side of sacrifice and on the other side of submission. Are we willing to let go to see what else might emerge?

Episode 286 - Submit to the Process

Identity emerges with committed action over time! 

Also, please forgive the static and the cut/splice! I was able to salvage only some content with the audio file glitched!

Episode 287 - Identity Emerges over Time

Asking some questions about self and others can help propel a deeper understanding when relational ruptures happen. 

Episode 288 - Curiosity to Process Confusion

Even when we are ready to make the change, the emotions will need to be experienced as we go. 

Episode 289 - We Can Prepare but Not Preprocess

When we take aim, the short term and the long term should be oriented in the same direction. Take a listen for the bidirectionality of goal setting. 

Episode 290 - Two Goals, Same Direction

When failure is a part of life, and we don't handle it well, it may cost us! Take a listen for encouragement around navigating failure. 

Episode 291 - Whoops! What Now

In a companion episode to last week, how are we talking to ourselves when weak spots emerge? Whether it's failure or not-yet-developed skills, we can find pathways through . . . and trying again is an option. 

Episode 292 - Try Again

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