Life Lessons

This week, Gin and Sheri are joined by Sharon Brubaker, founder of Healing Starts with the Heart. After suffering a devastating loss, Sharon made it her life’s mission to learn about grief, and to help others learn how to process their grief and heal. Many times people think grief only happens when we lose somebody we love, but grief is an emotion that we experience all through our lives, during difficult, sad, and even happy events. In this episode, Sharon shares what she has learned and has tips to help you heal.

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Have you ever had a friendship that ended in a way that left you feeling hurt or confused? In this episode of Life Lessons, Gin and Sheri discuss fractured friendships. Fractured friendships are ones that are terminated by one party for some reason or another, and oftentimes one of the parties doesn’t even know why or what happened. In the episode, Life Lessons community members share times when they experienced a fractured friendship, as well as their advice for how to move forward.

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In this episode of Life Lessons, Gin and Sheri talk to Life Lessons community member KC Train. KC and her husband used Emotionally Focused Therapy to heal their marriage, and KC shares their journey. She shares insights into this type of therapy, and about what they learned that helped them move from the brink of divorce, to renewing their wedding vows.

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Refreshing a room in your house and making it feel new again doesn’t have to be expensive. There are lots of ways to redecorate without making a large investment and starting from scratch. In this episode, Gin and Sheri share money saving decorating tips sent in by the Life Lessons community, as well as Gin's and Sheri's best tips.

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In this week's episode of Life Lessons, Gin and Sheri talk with Kim Tubbs, a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. Kim recently released her first book in a series, Lavy’s Rainy Day, which is designed to help teach children emotional intelligence skills. Kim specializes in treating children, adolescents, and adults with a variety of issues, including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, mood disorders, behavioral issues, trauma histories, autism spectrum disorders, and ADHD. She works with her patients in a holistic manner to address both biological and thought issues to get to the root of her patients’ problems.

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This week Gin and Sheri are joined by Jennifer Collier. Jennifer and her family have spent the last 12 years living with her son Heyden’s childhood-onset mental health disorders combined with suicidal ideation. She joins us to raise awareness, help end the stigma of childhood mental illness, and to offer support to other families who are struggling.

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As the prices of everything--food, transportation, housing--rises, we all want to figure out how to save money on everyday items like food, gas, and household expenses. Even saving just a few cents here and there can really add up. In this episode, Gin, Sheri, and the Life Lessons community share more of their best money saving tips and hacks to extend your family's dollars.

Part 1 of this topic can be found on episode 87, which was released on 7/27/22.

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This week, Gin and Sheri are joined by Merle Saferstein. Merle has been journaling for 48 years and has amassed a collection of 380 journals. After twenty-six years as a Holocaust educator, where she helped hundreds of Holocaust survivors leave their legacy, she retired and created “Living and Leaving Your Legacy®”.

Through classes, workshops, and lectures, Merle has guided thousands of people in sacred legacy work, writing for wellness, and journaling. In this episode, she will inspire you to start journaling or to improve upon your current journaling practice.

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In this episode of Life lessons, Gin and Sheri talk with Elisa Stancil Levine, author of This or Something Better. Elisa’s life was marred by abuse, pain, financial and interpersonal struggle, just like too many of us. But she kept pushing through the pain and struggle, and she went from barely surviving at times to thriving. In this episode, she shares insights she has learned along the way.

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As the prices of everything--food, transportation, housing--rises, we all want to figure out how to save money on everyday items like food, gas, and household expenses. Even saving just a few cents here and there can really add up. In this episode, Gin, Sheri, and the Life Lessons community share their best money saving tips and hacks to extend your family's dollars.

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