Sit With Me: A Connection Experiment

This episode is absolutely delectable! Meg had so much fun talking with Elena Davis about connecting using a tool every person uses every day...FOOD! Elena teaches that using food in an intentional way can lead to deeper relationships and a connection with family and friends everywhere. 

In this episode, Meg talks to Megan Woodbury, a junior high counselor, about what teens are doing well and what they are struggling with in regards to social relationships. Some key points from this episode: how the pandemic has affected teens' social lives, what parents can do to play a supporting role in their kids' relationship building, and thinking about ways to praise our teens for their resilience in the last two years. 

In this episode, Meg and Brooke Romney have a pretty fantastic conversation about holding space for your teens, finding moments of intentional teaching every day, and creating opportunities for teens to develop empathy and kindness. Those are just a few of the highlights, but this episode is stuffed to the rafters with goodness. 

In this episode, Meg gets into some wilderness talking about fun stuff (periods! pre-frontal cortex development! listening!) with Penny and Steph from The Messy Bun Podcast. It's fun, pinky promise. Penny and Steph have a lot of insight into the minds and hearts of teens, and how we can improve their experiences in relationships.

In this episode, Meg finally snagged her most favorite guest to date...her teenage son. He has some great insight into what relationship training COULD look like, and what his opinion is of current relationship training he has received. If you can look past the generous use of the word "like" and other typical teen boy sounds, this episode is delightful. Also, high fives. 

That title sounds sort of space shuttle inspired, but what we're ACTUALLY talking about is a pivot on purpose here on Sit With Me. This episode discusses explicit relationship training, and how to get more of that in the lives of the young people in your care. 

In this final episode of season two, Meg reviews all the best lessons from the last fifteen episodes. It has been such a joy to learn from the guests. The next season will have some fun surprises as well, so, as always, thanks for being here. 

In this episode, Meg talks to Trevor and Keirsten Hall about the landscape of their unique marriage, building trust after divorce, keeping a family together through deployments and PTSD, and the power of therapy. 

In this episode, Meg continues talking to Randi Fuller, who provides some fantastic recommendations about how each person, regardless of body size, can be an ally and an advocate for those living in larger bodies. 

1. Recognize everyone is different (2:42)

2. Say less, listen more (3:14)

3. Acknowledge the differences (5:02)

4. They already know (7:25)

5. Mourn with them and lead with compassion (9:45)

6. Celebrate with them on things they can do (14:28)

7. Be a second witness (17:36)

8. Your actions will signal your allyship (21:44)

In this episode, Meg talks to one of her dear friends Randi about body size and its effect on pretty much every aspect of life. Randi has spent most of her life in a bigger body, and she has great insights into how all bodies can be better about supporting one another and overcoming biases.