Asking for a Friend

We are stuck at home with our spouses — and no amount of premarital counseling prepared us all for quarantine. Can our marriage survive the apocalypse?

Brook and I share some funny marriage stories, and some advice to help your marriage survive during this time!

100 Humans

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist 

Schitt’s Creek

Brooklyn 99

Kim’s Convenience

Blackish

Superstore

Does anyone else feel like they are trapped in the apocalypse and can't escape? We are all trying to survive this crazy season, and many of us are wondering — will my parenting survive?

Today I sat down with my friend Melanie Dale and we discussed our love for apocalyptic fiction (and dislike for the actual apocalypse). We share a lot of fun resources to read, Melanie encouraged us to find GRACE.

The Fireman by Joe Hill

Outbreak on Netflix

Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel 

Prayer Forty Days of Practice by Justin McRoberts & Scott Erickson

Twister 

The Iliza Schlesinger Sketch Show

Mike Birbilglia: The New One

Lock & Key

Marvel Films in chronological order

Lord of the Rings

Why is it so stinking hard to just love ourselves and have a healthy body image? As women, we pick ourselves a part and fight the battle with the mirror every day. But can we actually have a healthy body image? We think so! I sat down with my friend Brittany Estes to discuss this challenging topic. We have both struggled with body image after finding ourselves at a weight we weren’t happy with and talked about the challenge of learning to love ourselves through that.

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I'm taking the reins of the show with trembling knees but with a big heart! Listen in to this short and sweet episode to hear the heart behind the new direction of Asking for a Friend with Kara-Kae! 

Sometimes life shifts and changes and we feel a bit scattered. How can we find our footing when everything changes direction? Today we are sharing some BIG news for the podcast and chat about life changes. 

We recently received this question from a listener and we knew it was a topic we had to discuss! Raising kids in our western culture, we can get lost in raising them in the midst of entitlement. But how can we raise grateful, well-rounded humans? Join us as we share our stories and share some great ideas to implement!

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A big, heavy question and one that can be difficult to ask within the Church. - is medication OK for mental health? ⁠ Today on the show, we are discussing this very question and what it looks like for women who love Jesus...but struggle with mental health.

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It’s not much of a surprise, any shows we talk about mental health are some of our most popular shows -- it just goes to show how much women are struggling with mental health, and maybe unsure how to have these discussions or possibly hiding their struggles. We want to encourage you with this discussion and if you’re struggling with mental health, you are not alone! Join us today as we answer the question “is anxiety a choice?”

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Today we are tackling the super popular topic of “self-care”. What is it? Why do we need it? How does it differ from soul care? We toss around manis, pedis, and yoga and call it “self-care... but that’s not necessarily the case. According to the definition, self-care is any activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional, and physical health.

Join us as we dig deeper into this topic and how we can truly find a place of renewal for our minds and bodies!

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We all have people in our lives who have been through hard things and we want to know how to love them well. Or maybe the person you are struggling to love is YOU and we just want to be able to love ourselves well through our hardships. Ashley Abercrombie joins us this week to discuss how to love broken people. Ashley is the author of the book “Rise of the Truth Teller” and she has an incredible story to share! 

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