Monthly Topic: MENTAL HEALTH. Quick reminder that Jackie and Stacey are not mental health professionals, just to women wanting to hold open conversation authentically. Today Stacey shares a mental health recurring struggle she experiences each May. The practices she *tries* to implement might be applicable to all close relationships.

Monthly Topic: MENTAL HEALTH. Quick reminder that Jackie and Stacey are not mental health professionals, just to women wanting to hold open conversation authentically. Your comments and feedback are appreciated as we delve into tools from our faith that can help us - when we are capable of implementing them.

Monthly Topic: MENTAL HEALTH *disclaimer: we are DEF not mental health experts, just two people who want to talk about what this means to us*. The term “mental health” refers to our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It is how we think, feel and act. When effects of any of these are too big, too much, or too often occurring, it may be called “mental illness”. Today we talk about how common it is for one (or all) of these areas to make us feel bad, and that we can ask for help!

Monthly Topic: COMPROMISE We have an interesting new challenge for YOU, our listeners, this month! Listen in for a way for you to be the interviewer! We can’t wait to hear from you!

Monthly Topic: COMPROMISE Jackie asks us: can we still be friends if we disagree? Join us as we identify things that hinder our abilities to compromise, and things that facilitate our abilities to compromise.

Monthly Topic: COMPROMISE. Would it be a shock to hear that this is a tough area for Stacey? Have no fear: Jackie to the rescue with tips for practicing leaning in to COMPROMISE in close relationships! Both gals have some great recent stories of micro and major compromise-in-action.

Monthly Topic: COMPROMISE We are both finding that as we grow older, there are less things to hold really tightly to; more things that we can hold loosely. In faith, we especially find as we grow to learn more about Jesus: it’s less about rules and more about love. What values are core to your faith, and what do you find that you can compromise?

Monthly Topic: COMPROMISE What a weird word: “with promise”. Today we talk about what compromise means, how it shows up in our lives, and what we experience in the middle of it. Jackie and Stacey each have very different immediate reactions to the need for compromise … listen to find out!

Monthly Topic: INTENTION Meet Tiffany! She is the boss lady* at Blue Zones Project Monterey County AND for wellness at Salinas Valley Health. Tiffany joins us today to discuss all the ways she practices INTENTION in work and family life. You will love the language she uses in situations to clarify and de-escalate. You will love her perspective on parenting. You will basically just love her! *Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, respectively.

Monthly Topic: INTENTION Let’s review what we have learned about intention today: 1) you have got to say what you want; 2) let someone in on it; 3) ask for help / accountability. Today we talk about all the resources available in our communities to help us (or for us to help others!) put our intentions into action. Some are super hard, some are super fun, all are ways to connect with others in order to meet your intention.