What a year! Becky and Ashleyne wrap up 2020 by asking some personal reflection questions (both fun and serious) and sharing our own answers to help you think through your own year.

We highly recommend that you take a few minutes to sit down and think through these questions:

If you were to pick one word that best describes your 2020 experience, what would it be?

What are you thankful for from 2020?

How did you try to make this year joyful or fun?

What fun things are you planning to end this year with a bang?

How has 2020 grown you?

What are your goals for next year?

What kind of person do you want to be?

How will you grow your strengths?

Thanks for joining us on the Living Box-Free podcast in 2020! We’ll be back next year!

If anything has changed in your life this year, this episode is for you!

We often associate grief with death, but it’s really a part of our everyday lives that are filled with change and loss. As we come to the end of a difficult year, Grief Specialist Dana Russo joins us to talk about the symptoms and goals of grief, as well as the difference between mourning and grief. We cover four basic steps to allow grief to grow and shape us, rather than avoiding, and managing, and comparing.

You can find out more about Dana at www.Hope-Rises.com

We’re back! After a two-month hiatus, host Becky Fouard returns with an interview with her good friend, Sharita Knobloch, the Commander and Owner of Army Wife Network. 2020 has been quite the year of ups and downs, and Sharita brings insight into our secondary emotions, the need for spirituality, and empowering and uniting others. Join us as we discuss what we can and cannot control and “embracing the suck” as we end this difficult year.

You can find Sharita on Instagram @sharitaknoblock and @armywifenetwork and https://www.armywifenetwork.com/

We are wrapping up Season One of the Living Box-Free podcast with a tough but incredibly important subject: unconscious or implicit bias. Our brains unconsciously categorize what we see, and it’s important to understand how that works and what to do about it - ignorance is not bliss! Join us as Becky unravels the different types of unconscious biases and gives us practical steps to address them.

Resources to go deeper:

TED Talk on Unconscious Bias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP-cqFLS8Q4&t=930s

National Equity Project Article about implicit bias and racism:

https://medium.com/national-equity-project/implicit-bias-structural-racism-6c52cf0f4a92

Harvard Implicit Bias testing: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html

And thanks for joining us for our first season of this podcast!

Let’s talk about the joys and difficulties of pregnancy, from Becky’s perspective! We believe everyone has their own journey to a healthy, fulfilled life, and that includes both of the Living Box-Free podcast hosts. Recorded when she was still 39 weeks pregnant, this episode is all about Becky’s experience, including doing CrossFit with an alien in her stomach, continuing to work her day job, and dealing with cravings for oranges. Becky wraps up by sharing her greatest lessons learned while pregnant.

Still have questions about relationships, even at the end of the series? Good news! We have all the answers! Just kidding - relationships are challenging and we all have questions. But in this wrap-up episode, we dive into your suggestions and the internet’s most-asked questions about key relationships, including coworkers, friends, significant others, kids, and parents.

Here’s the link to Ashleyne’s blog on her key parts of true friendship: https://ashleyne.wordpress.com/2020/08/07/friend-zone/

And here’s our list of most helpful resources for relationships:

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs

The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

The Road Back to You by Ian Cron

Anything written or spoken by Brene Brown

Roommates, spouses, significant others, siblings, parents, or kids, living with other humans can be TOUGH. We all have different values, needs, and expectations when it comes to running our home. Whether you’ve been married for 20 years or are thinking about finding a new roommate, there are some basics to living with another human. Join us as we talk about everything from cleanliness to communication to sharing food (a point of tension even for married couples!)

Get ready to talk about the nitty-gritty details of marriage with our experts, Bruce and Julie Boyd! Whether you’re currently married, contemplating marriage, or just know people who are married and want to understand more (all of us) this episode is for you. Bruce and Julie have been coaching and speaking to couples for many years, and they bring the wisdom on all the important topics: communication, sex, finances, faith, and how to be a supportive spouse.

For resources, podcasts, and the Weekend to Remember conference, visit www.FamilyLife.com

There is no reason to sugar coat it...parenting - is - hard! We asked friends to share with us some of their favorite parenting fails, which we review in this episode to remind us that sometimes, you just have to laugh. No parent is perfect, and no one method of parenting is right for all children. We are honored to be joined by a special guest, and NEW MOM herself, Hannah Tindall.

Tune in, laugh, and enjoy being reminded that we are all doing our best and no parent is perfect!

Last week we released Part 1 on parenting, focused on how we grow our relationships with our parents. Today, we continue the conversation with Scott and Emily Sutherland, co-founders of Love-Better, LLC., around their journey through parenting now adult children. Scott and Emily open up and discuss how their relationship has evolved with their children, and the core elements they focus on to show that they respect their kids as adults who can make their own decisions.