In this episode Connie Leeson and I talk sex! We discuss communication styles and how face to face interactions are so important when expressing your feelings and needs. We share about our growing up and whether or not we were given “the talk” and how our perspectives and understandings of sex were formed. We discuss the need in creating safe spaces in our marriage for vulnerability and conversations around sex and why sex is such a difficult and somewhat taboo thing to talk about. 

Other talking points:
-How we perceive what we want to hear when communicating
-Face-to-Face interactions vs. texting and social media 
-Vulnerability in marriage 
-"The Sex Talk" 
-Shame and embarrassment around sex
-Seasons and cycles of sex in marriage 
-What we would say to our younger selves
-Forgiving yourself for what you didn't know or understand. 

Jessica Henderson joins me for this week’s episode. She’s a content strategist by day and a lover of books, music, board games and a true adventurer at heart. 

In this episode Jessica and I talk about what forms and influences our identities, being present versus the need to chase after more, planning for short term and long term goals and why both are important. We speak a lot about how to create safe spaces for friends to share their differences, knowing how and when to share safely with others and how the risks in being truthful in relationships are worth it. This is a great episode that will challenge and encourage you in your relationship with yourself and those closest with you.

In this week's episode my friend Rue Payne joins me. She is an avid traveler, TV producer and a Brazilian Zouk instructor. Rue shares this idea of being handed a life script and how we have choice to either edit it or throw it out and start over. We talk about how to cultivate and recognize intuition and what it feels like when we choose to ignore it, how to step back into alignment with our selves, what our relationships looks like with our own judgement and the recovery journey of building self trust and self love. There is even a bonus segment at the end where Rue leads me in an intuition practice that I hope you participate in as well. 

My friend Lexi Alza joins me for this week’s episode. She is a mother of two young boys, a reading teacher, an enneagram 2 and is such a fun person who you will love hearing from. 

In this episode we talk about setting boundaries in relationships, reflecting on our habits and responses, being able to recognize signals that remind us that we may need to readjust ourselves and realign with who we are. We discuss the different between forgiveness and reconciliation, fighting the shame and guilt spiral, how to regain a sense of confidence in the midst of your healing and how to produce sustainable fruit in your life. This is an amazing episode that I am so excited to have out to you all in celebration of Girl2Girls 10th episode! 

In this week's episode my friend Ashley Saunders-Mundy joins me. She is a working mother of three and has a huge passion for mental health for women. We talk about setting boundaries at work and home, battling postpartum depression, recognizing anxiety triggers, mom guilt and mom shame, the importance of giving yourself grace as you navigate finding a work-life balance. Whether your a mother, a mom to be or a single woman there is something for you in this episode. 

Ashley Lengner joins me in this week's episode. We reflect on unhealthy relationships, moving on after divorce, emotional abuse, working through depression, grief, anxiety, fighting perfectionism, the importance of stress management and how it's okay to let yourself be human. 

Welcome back for the 7th episode of Girl2GirlPodcast, a weekly show created to break down barriers in the way women discuss and engage in real conversations. This episode I celebrate my birthday week with a short and sweet episode, sharing some reflections I have had over the past year. 

2020 has been a strange year full of challenges and surprises with a pandemic that threw a wrench in any plans that I may have had. I reflect on feeling stuck in a season of grief and how life moves on ahead whether you're ready or not.  Grief and life go hand in hand and the more life you experience the more grief that comes along. 

I reflect on the past decade, mentioning illness, death, infertility, miscarriages, the unraveling of my personal life, divorce, losing and finding God. Recognizing that in the midst of those things there has been a lot of goodness: marriage, babies, friendships, a new home, accomplishing goals. However the most significant thing that I have realized is the importance of coming into my own. 

Life takes time and everyone’s timeline is different. It's easy to compare yourself to others, even your closest of friends, but we have to step back to see that we are all living life in our own ways and it's okay. 

Friendships evolve over time and life ebbs and flows in the midst of those relationships. But learning that when you stick with a group of friends or particular relationship, the ebb and flow becomes more still. 

It's okay to let things go, relationships, jobs, beliefs. Ultimately over the years I have realized that I have always been in the palm of God's hand. He gives me choice and ownership for my actions that affect my life in different ways for good or bad. But I am always able to return to the place I have never left. 

Dr. Bethany Cook joins me for this week’s episode. Not only is she an amazing woman, or that I am biased because I have known her since childhood, but her testimony and wisdom is one that I am so lucky to have been able to be witness of for so many years, and excited that she is now sharing that with us here on Girl2Girl podcast. 

In this episode we talk about taking ownership for our healing, not to be fearful of our own judgement, how to grow in confidence in hearing God’s voice, the impact of Forgiveness, and what it means to step into your original design. 

Find Bethany at @befreemiami on Instagram.