Listen, this conversation you’re about to hear with my new friend, Alison Cook, felt like I was sitting on a couch across from her, tasking her with helping me navigate the things I’ve spent years avoiding navigating. There’s one part, about a quarter of the way in, where Alison talks about adjusting how you approach the personal narratives you’ve spent years telling yourself.

If no one's told you yet, let me be the first: There are seasons of life that will leave you feeling restless, stuck in feelings you don't know what to do with...feelings you, at times, don't know how to talk about.

Then, it's time for this month’s did anyone tell you with our friends, Khari and Whitney. These episodes just help you come up with something to say when you inevitably find yourself in a group of people with nothing to say.

This is part two of answering your questions you sent in to @notmpodcast on Instagram. We’re getting into the more practical sides of things and bringing our husbands along for the ride.

After our conversation on purity culture, we went over to @notmpodcast and asked some questions: Where are the gaps in what you know about intimacy? In what you knew?

We enter marriage with an expectation. An idea. And when that expectation isn’t met, when the idea remains just that...an idea...we’re left with disappointment and apprehension.

I didn't realize until my adult years how often small talk is required of you. Whether it's in the office, on the first day of class, at your kid's baseball game, at the family dinner when your aunt decides to invite her neighbors…small talk is a requirement of adulthood. These Did Anyone Tell You Episodes are here to equip you with some quick pieces of information to keep in your back pocket to use to amaze your acquaintances. Amaze is probably a slight overstatement. But just slightly.

One of the key parts of going deeper - our intention for 2021 - is showing up. Whether it's for your personal growth or relational growth - going deeper requires you to show up.

Wait, wait, wait. This isn't about your new year resolution or your word for 2021. It's more...focused. Intentional. On purpose.

Here it is. The end of 2020 coming in hot, but I think we can say this year as a whole has continually come in hot. I was hoping we could end the year with the balance of mindful and mindless we’ve all been trying strike. You know, trying to be mindful of the space we’re in, the time we spend, but also needing a break from all the personal growth we, at times, felt pressured to undergo this year.