Talking To Humans

What if healing isn’t about fixing yourself, but about feeling safe enough to be fully human?

In this episode, Vicki Diemert and guest host Mark Andress talk with Summer Fletcher, owner and therapist at Path of Life Counseling in Gilbert, AZ, about how healing happens through connection, presence, and understanding the nervous system. They explore trauma-informed and somatic approaches that help people slow down, move out of survival mode, and feel safe in their bodies and relationships.

This conversation gently reframes mental health struggles as human experiences not failures and reminds us that emotions are gifts meant to be felt, not avoided.

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The Talking To Humans Podcast is back! 
This season, we’re kicking things off by introducing you to our host, Vicki Diemert, along with guest hosts Mark Andress and Robbin Howey. Get to know who they are, what they do at Ironwood Church, and why this podcast exists in the first place. We’ll share what this new season is all about and how we hope these conversations will encourage, connect, and serve our Ironwood community.

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.