the terey summers podcast

Our mental health needs tending to. Collectively, we have statistics that say so. As one who has been debilitated by anxiety at a particular time in my life, I know the need first hand. Sometime I hear it still, anxiety that is- knock knock knocking at my door- sometime, even ringing my bell.

How do I better answer the door?

Lets talk about it.

After four-thousand miles of on the road again, one might tear her car apart for those ruby red slippers and get to clickin’. 

We are still on the road. Well, technically, we have settled for a few, in a beautiful setting. Everywhere I turn, I see pines. My whole person responds to the sight and smell of pine trees. That’s the truth!! “Take note!”, I say to myself! What does this meen, in the big picture? If I am true to what I love, what will that mean? Hmm. We shall see!

We are road trip people. People and canine. Jonathan, Dixie Daisy and I have roadtripped many, many miles. And we are back at it again. The first leg of our trip proved to be memorable, no doubt. Route 66 and Motel 6, if that says anything. A trip of which Alfred Hitchcock would have raised a curious brow of approval. 

When I received a message from Karen, the wife of my longtime friend Brian Argo, asking for prayer for him, it was the start of a story in their lives and thousands of others. A story of Hope. 

First of all, could you have cooler name? Vincent Van Vleet. His name grabs you from the start, and then, just consider yourself "done been grabbed". He is as charming as he is handsome, and charming fights for it's place at the top of the list with smart, capable, driven, humble and kind. to name a few contenders. I love his story. And I love Vince.

The Producing Artistic Director of The Phoenix Theatre Company, Michael Barnard, visits with me and we cover things you might expect we would, and a few things you may not.

So, now, you gotta listen, right?

Listen in on my mid- year, summer Summers' tell all.

My friend Jeff and I focus on five favorite takeaways from the book we have been working our way through, The Daily Guide To A Joy-filled Life. I am still reading through this edition, but the truths and principles identified in this author's first book on the subject, The 4:8 Principle, carry through in this book, but just in a daily dose for easily absorbed consumption. This is last time together for a while, sharing our journey through this book. Though I expect I will be sharing in detail the many ways it has initiated real change in my life.

All of our experiences, all of our relationships, and definitely all of our thoughts, go into crafting an unconscious self identity. Rarely is it not a limiting version of who we truly are and our true capacity for living our best and fullest and richest joy-filled life. Listen in on these insights for opening the windows of this unconscious self, and the self worth that accompanies.