This week on the Stay Bright podcast, Kristy and Angie begin a 4-week journey about physical health beginning with learning about food as fuel. Based on Michael Pollan's adage, "Eat real food, not too much of it, mostly plants" we begin to break down some essentials to have what we put into our bodies really work for us: work to heal us, work to give us energy, work to sustain our active lifestyles, and so on. We learn how to and why it's best to make choices for REAL food, how to coach ourselves to eat the right amount, and why adding more plants to our diet is imperative for successfully optimizing our physical health. Come learn and gain principles to share with your own family and friends so we can help each other understand our human body and feel better! 

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After a positive COVID test and an unusually challenging week for both hosts, Kristy and Angie break from the usual Stay Bright format with some unscripted real talk about how to get through this rapidly changing pandemic world. Kristy shares five things to help high achievers reconcile the new struggles many haven’t previously had like depression, lack of motivation and decreased productivity. Angie shares how she overcomes mom-guilt when she needs to take a break or ask for help, and Kristy gives encouragement on how to nourish our bodies, spirits and minds with good food and self care. Listen in and refuel with us!

Buckle up! This isn’t our typical Stay Bright episode! How well can we spot the snares of moral relativism? 

In this segment, we’ll reveal three warnings we need to identify in order to steer clear of worldly traps that can harm us. We’ll learn about the scriptural significance of salt and how it relates to our moral potency and effectiveness and then discover how powerful the savor of just one soul can be in effecting others. 

Then, we’ll take our own temperature to gauge our standing with the three “D’s”: Diluting, Downplaying and Denial. We’ll strengthen our faith and resolve to stand fast in turbulent modern times by having an honest assessment of where we really stand today.


RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

Stand as Witnesses of God by Dallin H. Oaks

With so many philosophies about what is right and wrong, we can find ourselves pushing the line. Things can become hazy, unclear, confusing or even scary. In this episode, Kristy approaches moral relativism through the talk Free to Act For Themselves by D. Todd Christofferson. 

We’ll start from the base that we have the principal decision-making role for our lives and talk about four ideas that help us decide what compels us to live within a moral code and what we will base those decisions on. Learn how to discover truth and obey, influence others for good and even how to love others even if their code directly opposes ours. 

Find joy and freedom through applying truth instead of resisting it. Listen in and join the conversation!


RESOURCES AND REFERENCES :

1. Free Forever to Act for Themselves by Todd Christofferson

2. Explaining Away Responsibility

“While the body may reach the peak of its maturation in a few years, the development of the spirit may never reach the limit of its capacity, because there is no end to progression.” Russel M. Nelson

This week, Angie teaches about a personal hero, Gordon B. Hinkley through the lens of Russel M. Nelson. She shares what the prophet has observed about growing our spiritual capacity from the example of President Hinkley. 

Learn how the power of personal interests and passions can enrich our souls, how curiosity can expand our experiences, the role of the Holy Ghost in our learning and a super tool to help us master our gifts and talents! 

RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

1. Spiritual Capacity

CHAPTER MARKERS: 

1:05- Various areas where we can develop spiritual capacity  

1:35- Our focus today: How we can increase our spiritual capacity through knowledge.  

2:40- Development of spiritual maturation never ends. Age enhances (does not impair) our spiritual capacity 

5:02- “Hobbies" can aid in spiritual development 

14:28- Tool #1- Being curious

19:55- Tool #2- Learning and teaching with diligence 

25;33- Tool #3- Living close to the Holy Ghost can enrich and expedite our learning. The Holy Ghost can illuminate and magnify our learning

30:44- Tool #4- Making choices that will give us growth and joy in this life and in the life to come 

Do some days feel like you can tackle the world, but other days feel like you’re just creeping by? This week, Kristy draws on lessons from nature to show how our physical, emotional and mental resources relate to our ability to maintain or grow our capacity. We’ll talk about which major and minor life factors can affect our capacity and how they contribute to why our load is always changing. We’ll learn cues to help us know if it’s time to slow down or hit the gas and then brainstorm ways we can rest and replenish so we’re more equipped to carry our loads and stay bright!


RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

1. 4 Examples of Carrying Capacity

2. Carrying Capacity

CHAPTER MARKERS: 

1:00 Carrying Capacity/ Population Density

3:30- Our "Core" Capacity loads

4:55- Personal Carrying Capacity, Fringe Capacity: The space outside of our Core demands

Specific examples of carrying capacity in nature
7:23- 1st- North American Deer- as we make changes to our environment, we need to check our core/ fringe capacities and make sure not to exceed of personal carrying capacity or we can figuratively begin to starve. We need balance. 

12:59- 2nd- Grazing Cattle- once we are "overgrazed" it can take a long time for the nutrients to return to the soil. We cannot sustain anything new. We need to give ourselves time and space to heal and replenish. 

28:24- 3rd- Barnacles and Oysters- we must make space for the things that need space in our lives, and push other things out in order to support the most important things. 

This week Angie and Kristy discuss the relationship between confidence and spirituality and specifically identify three Christlike traits we can live TODAY to build more confidence. Angie looks for patterns that Christ lived by that can help us face difficult tasks and circumstances, shift our perspective from a place of insecurity to power, and develop our sense of worthiness as we build it in others. We hope you feel encouraged as we learn from His example!

RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

1. How to Build Confidence and Self Esteem

2. Confidence and Self Worth by Glen L. Pace

3. By Divine Design by Ronald L. Rasband


CHAPTER MARKERS: 

1:21- Pattens and Characteristics that Jesus Christ lived by help us strengthen our confidence 

1:32- Trait #1- Order - God is not haphazard in the spiritual realm where the eternal destiny of souls is at stake.  

1:46- Billy Graham quote

8:40- Trait #2- Seeing the big picture 

12:25- George Q Cannon- Quote on Divine Parentage 

20:16- Trait #3- Charity Towards All Men 

20:23- Glen L. Pace quote

21:40- proverbs 18:21- Death and Life are in the power of the tongue 

Self confidence is like the water running in your house. We may not know all of the ins and outs of it, but if it’s not working, it has a painful effect on our health and lifestyle! Our self confidence is a general view of how likely we are to accomplish a goal, especially based on our past experience. Kristy and Angie discuss three practical ways we can fortify our self-confidence. Learn how to expose ourselves to new experiences, increase our tolerance for risk and discomfort and view our non-linear progress as growth instead of failure. Invest in yourself and listen in!

RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

Practical Ways to Improve Your Self- Confidence and Why You Should

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Fit to Code


CHAPTER MARKERS:

1:24- Distinguish between Self- Confidence, Self- Esteem, and Self- Efficacy

3:55- Fit to Code Research

7:10- Three Tools to Increase Self- Confidence or the general view of how likely you are to accomplish a goal, based on past experience.

7:15- Tool #1- Expose and Educate

18:01- Tool #2- Take a Risk

29:37- Tool #3- Leave Room to Fail

Have you ever felt like you don’t have the words to navigate a disagreement? Do you find yourself getting hurt and angry or even out of control? Do you have arguments that seem to come up over and over? Join Angie and Kristy as they teach the words and phrases from the Gottman Repair Checklist that will de-escalate, soothe and repair those hurtful arguments in our lives. Learn exactly what to say when you’re overwhelmed, worried, sorry or are trying to bridge a gap, but don’t know quite how. This is a must listen for anyone wanting to add tools to your reconciliation tool box!

RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

1. Gottman Repair Checklist (for purchase)

2. R is for Repair by Zach Brittle

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This week we discover principles of reconciliation that will allow us to not only heal and restore our relationships but make them better, stronger, healthier and happier. Join us as we learn concepts that have been used to heal damaged political relationships in history and see how these relate to our own one on one relationships. Understand the connection between reconciliation, struggle and transformation and why it's important to honor the truth of what has happened in order for reconciliation to truly take place. Do you desire more beautiful relationships? Listen in and let us know how this episode helped you!



RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

1. Reconciliation, struggle, transformation: An Introduction

2. Reconciliation: A comprehensive framework for empirical analysis

3. Patrick Doyle: Reconciliation

4. No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu

5. Genocide's Legacy: A Reconciliation Village in Rwanda

6. The Role of Women in Post- Conflict Peace-building

7. God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation

8. Forgiveness and Reconciliation

9. Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwanda Holocaust


CHAPTER MARKERS: 

2:35- Exploring the word reconciliation 

4:48- Angie’s existing thoughts about reconciliation. How does reconciliation differ from forgiveness?  

7:32- Kristy’s story about manifesting reconciliation and the resources she found.  

12:53- Journal of Peacemaking- Reconciliation, Struggle, and Transformation: An Introduction 

14:31- Two ideas that encompass what reconciliation in any relationship looks like 

1- If we look at the relationship now, we would never believe that what had happened.

2- Honoring and remembering what did happen is part of the ability to create something more beautiful, stronger, healthier and more loving.  

15:47- Reconciliation: Restoration of friendly relations 

17:22- Struggle 

18:05- How have you struggled with changing your beliefs, viewpoints, ways, and thoughts in a specific relationship that allowed reconciliation to take place, and in what ways was the struggle a critical part of making things whole/ better?  

20:22- Transformation: true change 

21:39- Angie’s thoughts on transformation. Does true transformation require forgiveness?  

27:26- Honoring and remembering how history happened.  

29:19- Relationships made stronger because you honored TRUTH and the things that had happened.