Untangling Me: The Podcast

Join us as we utilize a tool introduced by Dr. Brené Brown to untangle some of our complicated feelings about communicating with loved ones. Dr. Brown has so many incredible phrases, suggestions, and research that we love but the phrase "the story I'm telling myself" is probably our most beloved! Listen in as we share our take on her wise words of wisdom!

It's officially summer so the conversations have begun about "summer bodies" and all the weight loss trends are hot topics of conversation! Today Tracey and Colleen peel at the edges of that conversation by chatting about being GenX women who were children of the 70s/80s, why it doesn't matter if an outfit is "flattering" or not, the GLP1 trend, and the difference between Body Positivity and Body Neutraility. Grab a friend, up a chair and join the conversation!

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Today Tracey and Colleen get curious about the well-known concept that women of a certain age, are very clearly fed up! Did our mothers feel this way? Is it related to age? Menopause? Politics? Join us as we begin to untangle why we're feeling less like we care what people think and more about authentically showing up in the world. 

In this special Pride Month episode, Colleen's daughter Theresa joins the podcast as our very first "Coffee with Our Girls" guest! Theresa shares her own coming out story, what Pride Month means to her, and schools us on vocabulary, intersectionality, and the ups and downs of being queer in America today. If you are a Gen Xer like us, you're going to want to turn up the volume on this one! Please give a warm Untangling Me welcome to Theresa!!

On today's episode Colleen and Tracey share how their roles as caregivers in recent months have been both beautiful and brutal - "brutiful" as Glennon Doyle often says. While this episode is rich in poignant moments, it might bring up some difficult feelings for listeners who have served in a challenging caregiver role or who have lost loved ones. Please listen with this in mind and be good to yourself.

Love it or hate it, change is a part of life and today Tracey and Colleen start to untangle how they approach it...for good and bad. How do the people around you respond to change and does that impact your approach? How does your life story inform how you view change? And with all of the things going on in your life, how can you begin to untangle the challenges that come with change? Join us today while we kick it around a little and see how we respond to change and growth in our own lives. 

Show note: Credit to the origination of the phrase "There is no growth without change" is due to speaker Rick Warren

How in the world do women do it? This time of year can be particularly harried for women as they try to balance the spinning plates of family, work, school, partnerships, and so much more! Colleen and Tracey share an analogy that they've adopted over the years and chat about their thoughts behind the multi-taxing, mental overload of women.

Join Colleen and Tracey as we untangle our health as women in our fifties...I mean sure, no problem we can absolutely "untangle" this ridiculously complex issue for midlife women in one episode...nah. Instead maybe just come walk alongside us as we start to peel the first layer back on this very complicated issue. Listen in as we talk about the doctors we're having conversations with, the way we're supporting each other, and how we're trying to listen to our bodies.

Parenting isn't for the weak, everyone knows that, but rarely do people talk about the beauty and complexities of raising kids when they are teens and twenties. Knowing when to support from a distance and when to get in the mess with them can be challenging. Join Colleen and Tracey as we untangle the knots of parenting young adults in today's world.

Pope Leo is a rockstar and he's inspiring millions of active Catholics, lapsed Catholics, Christians of other denominations, and even agnostics and atheists...what do you Tracey and Colleen think? In this episode we pick back up with our conversation about where we are now as kids who grew up Catholic and aren't feeling connected to the Catholic Church anymore.