Jackie & Stacey have been speaking enthusiastically together for years, and are ready for you to listen in. We may or may not solve all of life's problems, but we will sure learn and laugh along the way! Join us?!? Each month we will discuss a new topic through four lenses - with an episode for each: Self, God, Close Relationships, and Community. We end the month with a personal interview focusing on the monthly topic and all four lenses. We would love to have you join us as we wade through ...
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S6/E29: How does TENSION impact how we show up in our community?
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Monthly Topic: TENSION In today’s episode we: 1. Brainstorm types of tensions we encounter in communities (cultural, political, socio-economic, access to justice, etc); 2. Discuss the impacts of those different tensions (negative and positive); and 3. Highlight the ways in which we can manage our community tensions (acknowledging, navigating, highl…
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S6/E28: How does TENSION impact how we show up in close relationships?
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Monthly Topic: TENSION Listen in with us as we wade through e multitudes of ways to experience tension in close relationships. Jackie and Stacey describe several ways we experience tensions - and remind us all that tensions are not problems to be solved, but instead topics to be monitored and managed. Then we discuss ways to do just that: monitor a…
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S6/E27: How does TENSION impact how we show up in faith?
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Monthly Topic: TENSION There are so many instances of tension within faith, and today we explore a few of them. Join us as we manage the tensions of what is versus what is to come; what we want to do versus what we actually do; and more dichotomies of living in faith.
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S6/E26: How does TENSION impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: TENSION After Jackie brought up Andy Stanley’s latest leadership wisdom we had to pursue this topic further. In today’s episode, we start with ourselves, and how we define the different types of tension: problems to be solved (temporary tension) and tension to be managed (ongoing tension). We hope you find this topic as fascinating a…
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S6/E25: INTERVIEW w/ Jane and Lexi about LOYALTY
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Monthly Topic: LOYALTY Jane and Lexi drop some major wisdom! Tune in to the podcast to listen in on our interview of these two teenage philosophers! From faith to love, we’ve covered it all. What does loyalty mean to you?
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S6/E24: How does LOYALTY impact how we show up in community?
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Monthly Topic: LOYALTY There are many benefits a community experiences because of the loyalty of its members: longevity, support, camaraderie, and more. We discuss some great communities we are in that we get these benefits from. And also, we discuss the challenges experienced in communities when there is blind loyalty, or challenges to loyalty. Th…
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Monthly Topic: LOYALTY This topic continues to fascinate us! In this episode, we wonder especially if you can be loyal to a person, but not loyal to that person’s opinions/ideas/values? It so interesting *especially* in this political climate, but really any time we disagree with someone we love.
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S6/E22: How does LOYALTY impact how we show up in faith?
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Monthly Topic: LOYALTY In today’s episode we struggle with the concept of blind loyalty in faith, compared to the benefits of faith practices. We work through which aspects of faith and values to hold on to tightly, and which we can hold loosely. In zero instances must we live in fear that our faith is a house of cards, and cannot survive healthy q…
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S6/E21: How does LOYALTY impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: LOYALTYLoyalty is such and interesting concept: sticking by someone/something no matter what. We discuss in today’s episode: is that healthy? Is it controlling to demand or expect loyalty? When do you give loyalty freely? A fascinating topic, and we hope this episode sparks reflection of your own brand of loyalty.…
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S6/E2: INTERVIEW on Failure with Eddie Guajardo
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Monthly Topic: Failure Eddie is a long time friend of Stacey’s, a local real estate estate agent, and life long leaner. In this interview, Eddie shares why he wasn’t offended in the slightest when we asked to interview him on the topic of failure. His perspective, deep thoughtfulness, and genuine desire to maintain a growth mindset will inspire you…
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S6/E19: How does FAILURE impact how we show up in community?
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How many times have we failed at bringing community together? Oh, let us count the ways… However, as we have continued to ask throughout this month: is it really a failure to not succeed at something? Instead, we choose to frame the stories we tell about things that doesn’t work out: we choose to build resilience, to make sure we are congruent with…
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S6/E18: How does FAILURE impact how we show up in close relationships?
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You could say that Stacey “failed” to follow the plan for today’s episode! Instead, you are be invited to a real life, real time, resolution of Stacey’s failure to show up for Jackie at an important time. Learn along with us as we literally practice openness and forgiveness after failure in THIS close relationship.…
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S6/E17: How does FAILURE impact how we show up in our faith?
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Monthly Topic: FAILURE. Jackie leads today’s episode by walking us through 5 scriptures (read: Bible verses) that are often repeated - and perhaps even often misconstrued. Hear from the mouth of God what He thinks about failure - and what that means for us.
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S6/E16: How does FAILURE impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: FAILURE You lost the game, you didn’t get the job, someone else got the girl. You failed. How do you respond? What now? In today’s episode we unpack the negative emotions that may come from failure. Then we come up with a plan to reframe failure into an opportunity to get smarter, to learn.…
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S6/E15: INTERVIEW with Steve McShane on Uncertainty
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Monthly Topic: UNCERTAINTY. You guys are going to LOVE this interview. Salinas public servant for over 25 years, Steve McShane joins us this week for a candid, sweet, and very deep and connecting conversation about uncertainty. Steve speaks with us about his long service to the Salinas community, his beautiful family, his big changes of recent mont…
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S6/E14: How does UNCERTAINTY impact how we show up in our communities?
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Monthly Topic: UNCERTAINTY. We start today’s episode discussing the adage, “life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.” It cannot be more evident than with the level of uncertainty we experience in the great big world of our communities - a place where anything can (and does happen!)…
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S6/E13: How does UNCERTAINTY impact how we show up in close relationships?
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Monthly Topic: UNCERTAINTY What is your personal tolerance level for uncertainty? Can you guess Jackie’s or Stacey’s - like on a scale from 1-10? What are some of the influences on your level? No matter your level, Jackie will teach us 5 ways to practice accepting uncertainty in close relationships.
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S6/E12: How does UNCERTAINTY impact how we show up in faith?
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Monthly Topic: UNCERTAINTY. The Message translation of the Bible states, “The fundamental fact of existence is this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see.” Listen in to today’s episode to consider our hypothesis that faith establishes a solid foundation t…
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S6/E11: How does UNCERTAINTY impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: UNCERTAINTY. Do we ever really know if something will or won’t happen? Join us as we identify strategies for embracing uncertainty as an opportunity. When we manage expectations, access our growth mindset, and practice resilience, we build self-trust. Then we can reframe fear of uncertainty into embracing opportunity.…
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S6/E10: INTERVIEW with Valerie Padilla & Kim Perez on Responsibility
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Monthly Topic: RESPONSIBILITY We are filled with hope and joy to witness the Gen Z party unfold. These gals are funny, witty, brilliant, and … you guessed it … RESPONSIBLE! Join us as we hear from Kim & Valerie on this topic that inspires and motivates them!
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S6/E9: How does RESPONSIBILITY impact how we show up in our communities?
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S6/E8: How does RESPONSIBILITY impact how we show up in Close Relationships?
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S6/E7: How does RESPONSIBILITY impact how we show up in faith?
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Monthly Topic: RESPONSIBILITY Jackie poses an interesting stance about responsibility in faith: we don’t have any. The Bible does go on and on about how we need God, and we can’t ever earn forgiveness or entrance into heaven, or anything really - it’s all about Jesus. So, is Jackie’s statement true? Listen in for the discussion!…
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S6/E6: How does RESPONSIBILITY impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: RESPONSIBILITY This new month/new topic stems from last month’s discussion on Agency. One thing we have control of is taking responsibility for our words and actions. In this first look at responsibility (the stuff we have to do) through the lens of ourselves, we find four ways to practice taking responsibility AND not taking respons…
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S6/E5: AGENCY INTERVIEW with Michael Lipe
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Monthly Topic: AGENCY Welcome to our last episode on the topic of agency - our interview! Join us in welcoming our enigmatic friend Mike Lipe. We appreciate his boisterous attitude, zest for this community, and absolute adoration of his wife and family. You will be highly entertained and energized by listening! Enjoy!…
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S6/E4: How does AGENCY impact how we show up in our communities?
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Monthly Topic: AGENCY. Movement > motivation. Done is better than perfect. Today we encourage you to take action in an area or on an idea that may be a baby step - the first bite of the elephant. Because nobody ever accomplished much by just complaining about it!
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S6/E3: How does AGENCY impact how we show up in close relationships?
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Monthly Topic: AGENCY Today we zone in and discuss agency through the specific relationship of parenting. Allll day every day we are modeling agency to our children. Jackie and Stacey are firm believers in parenting with the end in mind. If we step in and solve all our kids problems for them, will they ever learn agency? Practice asking these quest…
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S6/E2: How does AGENCY impact how we show up in faith?
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Monthly Topic: AGENCY. Do you consider it pure joy when you face trials of any kind? Nope? Neither does Stacey. BUT, we do know that our response, our AGENCY, that we exercise in all the situations and trials of life is what builds resilience, and ultimately, that pure joy. Join us as we decide to not hunt down the snake (you’ll have to listen to f…
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S6/E1: How does AGENCY impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: AGENCY. Agency is your sense of what you can or cannot do; the power you believe you have to affect your future. In today’s episode, we discuss how, especially in our youth, it seemed like things happened TO us. Yet, as we age and mature, we become more aware that we are not just products of our circumstances. We have far more power …
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S5/E44: WHOLENESS roundtable interview
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Monthly Topic: WHOLENESS. Get excited for this episode! We host our first ever roundtable. This means we hold an awesome conversation about WHOLENESS with Letty, Kristy, Alanna and Ginger. We know WHOLENESS looks different for each of us. You will love to listen in to hear from 4 different perspectives and 4 awesome women.…
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S5/E43: How does WHOLENESS impact how we show up in community?
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Monthly Topic: WHOLENESS. I am showing up whole wherever I go. Even if I’m weaker today or kicking butt today, I’m still showing up whole into my community. And so is everyone else. I’m today’s episode, we discuss how we can let go of expectations and assumptions in order to accept others and live healthfully in community.…
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S5/E42: How does WHOLENESS impact how we show up in close relationships?
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Monthly Topic: WHOLENESS Wholeness is NOT dependent on others … but how do we avoid putting that expectation on those who we are in close relationship with? Great question. Please let us know when you find out. Haha! JK! Kinda. It DOES start with an understanding that who I am is MY business and who they are is THEIR business. Easier said than done…
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S5/E41: How does WHOLENESS impact how we show up in faith?
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Monthly Topic: WHOLENESS If being perfect in all areas of health isn’t the goal (because: unattainable), what does wholeness in faith look like? Jesus says to love the Lord your God with all your heart (relational health), mind (mental health), soul (spiritual health), and strength (physical health), and to love others as yourself. [Mark 12:30] Tod…
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S5/E40: How does WHOLENESS impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: WHOLENESS We spent the last 4 months exploring the four areas of Health in our series: Mental, Physical, Relational & Spiritual. This month, we put it all together and ask what it means to be whole. Can we look at wholeness with grace and growth, rather than perfectionism? Yes! Let’s walk though it together in this episode.…
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Monthly Topic: SPIRITUAL HEALTH. We are so so so excited to share one of the loves of our lives with you: Lisa Fletcher! She embodies love and grace and kindness and tenderness. Our hope is that by listening to her, you will grow in your openness to receive God’s overwhelming, never ending, reckless love for you. We love you, too!…
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S5/E38: How does SPIRITUAL HEALTH impact how we show up in our communities?
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Monthly Topic: SPIRITUAL HEALTH What would it look like if we were showing up spiritually healthy in our communities? Consider this radical idea: each of us showing up with the best we have to offer in that moment. If we can wrap our minds around that, our communities would increase in grace and decrease in expectations.…
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S5/E37: How does SPIRITUAL HEALTH impact how we show up in close relationships?
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Monthly Topic: SPIRITUAL HEALTH. If you have a strong faith, how do you share it authentically with those you love the most? Saint Francis of Assisi said, “Preach the gospel always. When necessary, use words.” In today’s episode, Jackie really helps Stacey work through identifying her motivation for sharing faith with those closest to her - and how…
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S5/E36: How does SPIRITUAL HEALTH impact how we show up in faith?
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Monthly Topic: SPIRITUAL HEALTH This topic seems a little superfluous. So we will right away define the differences between faith and spirituality. Then we will ask YOU about your faith. We then share some of the main tenants of the Christian faith that we share. We would love to know what you think. Please text, call or email us! We love to hear f…
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S5/E35: How does SPIRITUAL HEALTH impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: SPIRITUAL HEATH. Join us for this new monthly topic! Today we define what spiritual health is. We also talk about four areas to practice spiritual health. YOU are important, and so we always start with self!
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S5/E34: How does RELATIONAL HEALTH impact how we show up in community?
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Monthly Topic: RELATIONAL HEALTH. Join us for todays episode where we look at how we interact all day every day when we are out and about. What vibes do we put out? Judgment? Isolation? Kindness? We have opportunities to spread a little love and joy. Try making eye contact with a stranger and smiling at least once a day. #vayacondios…
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S5/E33: How does RELATIONAL HEALTH impact how we show up with our closest people?
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Monthly Topic: RELATIONAL HEALTH Maintaining healthy relationships with our closest people is simple. Simple, but not easy. First, we each must learn about ourselves. Head back to our first episode on this topic for more depth (and every single topic we do starts with self!). Be willing to do the work. Second, practice communication - both for what…
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S5/E32: How does RELATIONAL HEALTH impact how we show up in faith?
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Monthly Topic: RELATIONAL HEALTH Today we talk all about how God wants to be in relationship with us. Emmanuel, God with us. That’s the goal. When we are in relational health with God: taking time, being in communication (praying, reflecting, etc), we grow in health. What does that look like for you?…
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S5/E31: How does RELATIONAL HEALTH impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: RELATIONAL HEALTH Every month, every topic, we start with ourselves. Although it sounds cliché, we cannot enter into healthy relationships until we learn to love ourselves. Today we work through three steps to learn to love yourself: knowing that you have an unlimited source of love within, acknowledging truth, and practicing forgive…
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Monthly Topic: PHYSICAL HEALTH Meet Aaron Cruz in today’s interview: he’s a personal trainer, physical heath expert, and brand new dad! Learn his incredible back story - how he came to be so deeply interested in healing and health. Learn different ways to incorporate and adjust some of the major tenants of physical health. Learn how the healing and…
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S5/E29: How does PHYSICAL HEALTH impact how we show up in Community?
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Monthly Topic: PHYSICAL HEALTH. Ok, great Jackie and Stacey. We get it. It is important to be physically healthy. It impacts everything. So, where do we start? First off, it is darn near impossible to do hard things alone. In today’s episode we suggest multitudes of ways to find yourself a community (large or small) that will help you move towards …
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S5/E28: How does PHYSICAL HEALTH impact how we show up in close relationships?
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Monthly Topic: PHYSICAL HEALTH You are the sum of the 5 closest people to you. You guys help (or hurt) one another through proximity and influence. Join us in this episode to learn 5 ways that we impact others with our own actions, and how they impact us.
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S5/E27: How does PHYSICAL HEALTH impact how we show up in faith?
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Monthly Topic: PHYSICAL HEALTH Did you know that there is lots of research pointing to the incredible link between religious involvement/ spirituality and better physical health outcomes? It turns out that our spiritual practices correlate our inner control and our outer control. Join us as we discuss in detail how our spiritual practices - especia…
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S5/E26: How does PHYSICAL HEALTH impact how we show up in the world?
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Monthly Topic: PHYSICAL HEALTH Welcome to the second installment on our series on HEALTH! This month we are focusing in on aspects of our PHYSICAL HEALTH that make up our overall health. As always, we first gotta remind you that we are not experts in this area. We are just two women trying to learn alongside you. Now, (you know we had to say it..) …
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S5/E25: INTERVIEW with Mental Health Counselor Janee Carlile
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Monthly Topic: MENTAL HEALTH Today is INTERVIEW day! We are so please to introduce you to Janee Carlile. She is a Mental Health Counselor in the great state of Indiana. She shares how counseling became her life’s passion as a result of her own desire to learn and grow from her life’s challenges. Janee also helps us learn how to approach starting co…
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S5/E24: How does MENTAL HEALTH impact how we show up in community?
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Monthly Topic: MENTAL HEALTH Today Jackie leads us through 3 ways community is so important for our mental health: 1) it is where we build a sense of belonging; 2) it is where we receive various types of support; and 3) in community we have a shared sense of purpose. We hope you join us as we just barely scratch the surface, yet shed really importa…
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