In today's episode, Jill is joined by Jamie Afshari, who talks about flourishing outside of the feeling of contentment, place being an important factor in building flourishing, intentional grief as a step toward flourishing, and tells us about her Flourishing Plan™ that she has been following for years. We hope you enjoy!

Episode 10 with Jazzy Johnson is out now!

Today Jazzy joins us to talk about attending to our somatic experience as a means of flourishing, learning boundaries with self as a way to foster the love we want to give to self and others, and over functioning leading to burnout as a direct opposition to flourishing.

It was a joy and delight to have Jazzy on and we hope you enjoy!

Today Jill is joined by therapist Jeana Roth.  Jeana is a licensed counselor working in Missouri and soon Illinois, and she specializes in working with a variety of complex traumas, including spiritual abuse recovery and betrayal trauma. Jeana also works with those coming out of coercive and destructive groups. In today's episode we speak out the pursuit of healing after spiritual abuse and what the steps are that you can take toward flourishing when you come out of a toxic context.

We also hope you enjoy the background music of the chimes from Jill's front porch during recording. :)

Find more about Jeana here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/jeana-roth-saint-louis-mo/428329

Resources:

The Betrayal Bond by Patrick Karns

Toxic Faith by Arterburn & Felton

Bliss Boaden joins the podcast to discuss her view of flourishing as a person and as a birth and postpartum doula. We discuss the seasonality of emotions, responding to needs in a way that seeks balance, not overcompensation, the idea of "filling your cups," and connecting to each aspect of us as an expansion of who we are rather than a revision of a past self.

We hope you enjoy!

Check out more about Bliss @birthdoulabliss on IG and on her website at birthdoulabliss.com

In today's episode, I am joined by my dear friend Amber Walker.  

During our conversation, Amber shares about finding parts of yourself wherever you are and bringing your full self to your community, how being a person of faith in the social justice movement helped her to create her own permission to be fully authentic, the importance of propagating joy in ourselves and with others as a means of flourishing, boundaries as self care and community care, and looking back to your childhood passions to foster true happiness in adulthood. As you can see...we covered a lot!I am so thankful for Amber's presence in my life and her voice in this topic, and I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!

Mentioned in today's episode:

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." Thomas Merton

Join me as I talk to Licensed Mental Health Counselor Olivia Pelts as we discuss flourishing in a personal and professional contexts, how becoming a mother made her reassess what flourishing meant for her, and moving out of codependency toward flourishing with the use of boundaries.

Follow Olivia on IG @oliviapelts and find more information about her practice and her counseling intensives at her website: https://sunshinecitycounseling.com/counseling-intensive

Resources discussed in the episode:

Someone Other Than A Mother by Erin Lane

More info on the Enneagram: https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/

A big welcome to today's episode guest, writer Abby Harding!  In our episoden today we discuss what it looks like to honor your emotions through pursuing creativity and passion, honoring emotions (both positive and negative) and also not letting emotions be the final say.  Abby shared how she has experienced certain habits as grounding and how she has learned to honor her motherhood after experiencing postpartum depression and anxiety.  

We hope you enjoy our conversation!

Check out more from Abby at https://abbyharding.com and make sure to sign up for her newsletter!  You can also find her on Instagram and Tiktok (@abbyhardingwrites)

Books mentioned in episode:

Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking by Jon Acuff

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

Nabil Ince / SeauxChill (@seauxchill) joins me to talk about how seasons don't last forever and what it looks like to leave old or changing seasons gracefully. We also discuss what it looks like to intentionally build rest as preparation for new and upcoming seasons rather than always having to fall back on rest as a reaction to burnout.

Jill is joined by Ilana Litvak who shares her mantra of "action before motivation" and how that has impacted her ability to move away from stagnancy toward flourishing.  Ilana also talks about how her intentional community building helps her to create safety in her life and helps her to access wellness and the feeling of "being alive."

Licensed therapist Rachael Carr joins Jill to discuss how she has re-learned to love herself through the musical artists she follows and what it looks like to let art speak directly into the bravery it takes to pursue wellness.  She also shares from a therapist's perspective what she would share with her clients about flourishing.