Mark and Vicki discuss themes and takeaways from this season of Talking to Humans, all about conflict. 

Vicki and Mark talk with guest Gina Mendez on the importance of boundaries. What boundaries are, what it looks like to have them and hold them in a healthy way. 

Mark and guest host Gina Mendez welcome back guests Dustin and Tiffany Marsh to continue their conversation on repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation in their own story of conflict. 

This episode contains serious topics including pornography, listener discretion is advised. 

Vicki and Mark talk with guests Dustin and Tiffany Marsh on the importance of repentance and forgiveness in conflict. They share their personal story of how this played out in their own marital conflict. 

Vicki and Mark talk with guest Matt Diemert on the importance of listening in conflict. We think we listen but does the other person feel heard? It takes humility to really listen.

Vicki and Mark talk with guests Joyce and Marty Lutrey on taking ownership and responsibility in conflict. Often our emotions get involved and we tend to blame shift or defend our actions. 

Vicki and Mark continue their discussion of conflict by speaking with guest Darcy Wilcoxson on our family of origin and how that shapes us and comes into play when we are facing conflict or hiding from it. 

Welcome back to Talking to Humans! Hosts Vicki Diemert and Mark Andress kick off Season 3, talking all about conflict. They welcome guest Luke Simmons to discuss the theology of conflict. They lay a foundation of the importance of conflict, why we are afraid of it and how it hasn't been modeled well. 

In this episode we talk all things trauma: little t trauma and Big T trauma, seeing the need behind the behavior, speaking our needs in honoring ways, being image bearers and vessels in God's hand.

In this episode we discuss negotiating our needs, recognizing our limits and capacity, being self aware when needs become a demand, learning to be disappointed, and working towards something vs demanding.