Episodes
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The God of my Understanding
The transcript will be delayed a couple days, as I migrate everything to a new computer. But if you're wondering what this episode's about, I'm talking about how the God of my Understanding is NOT the God of my Childhood, and what caused that to be true.
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No Reason for Shame
Transcript Thanks for joining us again on Like Driving in Fog, an emotional healing podcast. I’m Mary Young, and today’s episode is about shame. That’s a hard one for me. I was thinking the other day about shame, because I was sharing what has been - in my opinion - my deepest secret with a…
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Grief is Like a Ball in a Box
Links referenced in this podcast: Lauren Herschel's Twitter Feed Karen Lanser's blog post about Lauren's Twitter Feed----more---- Transcript: Thanks for joining us, and welcome once again to Like Driving in Fog, an Emotional Healing podcast. I’m Mary Young. When I was in high school, we had a...
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31 - Acceptance is Key
Transcript Have you ever been facing something that you just wish wasn’t true? If there is a way you could change history, that’s the history that you would change? That actually is an important milestone in the emotional healing journey. Hi, I’m Mary Young. Thanks for joining us on like driving…
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30 - Check Your Motivation
TRANSCRIPT Thanks for joining us again on Like Driving in Fog: an emotional healing podcast I’m Mary Young, and the topic for this episode is “check your motivation.” You know, we all have reasons for everything we do, but we don’t always know what those reasons are. And sometimes, even though we...
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29 - The Chameleon Effect
TRANSCRIPT I still remember a time in college when I told a friend that I was sad or depressed, and her answer was “I’m sorry,” or “I wish you weren’t sad or depressed.” to which I responded “I’m sorry. how do you want me to be?” Her reply was: "I just want you to feel what you’re really feeling,...
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28 - You are Not Alone
TRANSCRIPT Hi and thanks for joining us again on Like Driving in Fog: an Emotional Healing Podcast. I’m Mary Young, and I wanted to talk today about my own emotional healing journey. You know, the tagline on the Facebook page says “the emotional healing journey can feel like you’re driving in…
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27 - Will the Real You Please Stand Up?
TRANSCRIPT Thanks for joining us today on Like Driving in Fog: an emotional healing podcast. I’m Mary Young, and today were talking about who are you really. Or as I was thinking this morning, going back to an old, old quiz show from the 50s and early 60s: will the real you please stand up? We…
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26 - A New Year, a New Name
TRANSCRIPT Happy New Year, and thanks for joining us on the very first-ever episode of Like Driving in Fog. This is an emotional healing podcast, related to all things dealing with emotional healing, and the emotional healing journey that you might be on. my name’s Mary Young and I am so glad you...
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25 - It's OK to Change
TRANSCRIPT It’s New Year’s Eve here on the Lessons From Life podcast, which means this is the absolute last episode of the Lessons From Life podcast. I’m Mary Young. Thanks for joining us. as we move from the old year to the new year, from the end of one month to a new month, I’m thinking about...
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24 - There is Always Hope
Dedicated to Jeff, JP, Bill & Reed, and to everyone else who's just trying to hang on a little bit longer. TRANSCRIPT Hi, and welcome to another episode of lessons from life. Remember, on January 1st we are changing our name to Like Driving in Fog: an Emotional Healing Podcast. I’m Mary Young…
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23 - Sometimes There are No Answers
Dedicated to Jeff, JP, Bill, Reed, and all the others who couldn't find the answers they needed. And to all those who are still searching for answers. TRANSCRIPT Hi, it’s Mary Young, and currently the Lessons from Life podcast. In another 10 days, the name is changing to Like Driving in Fog: an...
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22 - Wrap Yourself in Boundaries this Christmas
TRANSCRIPT As a reminder: on January 1, we are changing the name of the podcast to Like Driving in Fog -- an Emotional Healing Podcast. I’m Mary Young, and I’m so glad you joined us again today. If you listened to last week’s podcast, we were talking about not going home for the holidays. You…
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21 - NOT Home for the Holidays
TRANSCRIPT Hello again, and welcome to the Lessons from Life podcast. I should tell you there’s only about three more weeks that it’s going to be called the Lessons from Life podcast. January 1, we are changing the name of the podcast to Like Driving in Fog: an Emotional Healing podcast. I’m Mary...
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20 - Not Every Day is Foggy
TRANSCRIPT Hi everybody, and thanks again for joining me on Lessons from Life. I’m Mary Young. If you remember, last week we talked about how the emotional healing journey might be confusing, maybe even nerve-wracking. I compared it to driving in fog, and that’s probably nobody’s favorite travel...
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19 - Foggy Days
TRANSCRIPT I’ve spent this entire week thinking about how to follow up last week’s podcast. If you remember, last week we talked about the difference that can be made when you go through an emotional healing journey. And the next thought that came to mind was what does that journey look like.…
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18 - What difference does it make?
TRANSCRIPT I was working on a time-sensitive project at work, and in the room on the other side of the wall, the company owner and general manager were having a shouting match. It was all I could do to concentrate on my project. Their angry voices kept interrupting my concentration, and my “fight...
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17 - What is Emotional Healing?
TRANSCRIPT Last week, I was telling a friend of mine about the fact that I’m doing a podcast and that the podcast is about emotional healing. When I said that, my friend asked me a question that I don’t remember anybody ever asking me before. She said “what do you mean when you say emotional...
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16 - This Question can Change Your Life
TRANSCRIPT I’ve got a question for you. When you’re going someplace, especially someplace you’ve never been before, how do you find it? Did somebody give you directions? Maybe somebody texted or emailed you directions turn by turn. Back in the day, did you pull out a map or map book and plot your...
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15 - In the Weeds?
TRANSCRIPT In January 1999, I started seeing my first therapist. I worked with her for a couple years. My friends told me there was a night and day difference between who I was before I started therapy - how I seemed - and after I started therapy. And I felt different. Stuff wasn't driving me…
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14 - Stifle it? NO!
TRANSCRIPT I'm watching the movie the King's speech. I remember liking it the first time I saw it a few years ago, but I am seeing so much more in it now than I did then. And at this one point, I had to stop the movie. And I ran for the microphone because what's in my brain, in my feelings, in my...
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13 - I'm Positive!
TRANSCRIPT When I first started seeing my therapist back in January 1999, we talked about what I needed to deal with. Which was repressed memories coming back to the surface and insisting that I look at them, and not ignore them and not push them under again. She gave me a piece of wisdom that…
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12 - FUHGEDDABOUDIT!
TRANSCRIPT One of my favorite books has a passage where the characters are having a conversation about a decision that had been made 20-30 years previously. At the time, it seemed like a good decision. but here they were 30 years later, and it was coming up to... well, not quite bite them, but...
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11 - The Monster in the Basement
Transcript I've been reading a book called Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis. Rachel Hollis is a Christian, and I know that not everybody listening to the podcast really want to read things written by Christians. But I’m here to tell you that in what I’ve read so far, she is not one of those...
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10 - ALL victims need to be believed
TRANSCRIPT This is a lessons from life "short take." I'm Mary Young; thanks for joining us. The news has been full of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. Today on Facebook, I received a request to show solidarity as a woman by blacking out my profile pic. The idea is to show how empty the world...
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9 - Be Gentle with Yourself: Self Care
TRANSCRIPT Yesterday on Facebook, one of my friends posted that there are only 100 days left to this year. They posted that as a “if there was something you’re going to do this year, you’re running out of time” kind of reminder, and here’s where my brain went. My brain jumped ahead to New Year’s...
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8 - Living Above the Line - Part 2
I actually posted this as an article on LinkedIn, so instead of posting a transcript, I'll just link to it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/living-above-line-part-ii-mary-young/ Thanks for listening!
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7 - Who are you Afraid of Offending?
TRANSCRIPT “...What I want to say to young girls is forget about likability. If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly, because you are going to be so concerned with not offending, and that's going to ruin your story...” -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I...
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6 - Always Remember -- September 11, 2001
Remembering a tragic day in our history.
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5 - Living Above the Line - Part 1
I actually posted this as an article on LinkedIn, so instead of posting a transcript, I'll just link to it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/living-above-line-mary-young/ Come back for Part 2, where I talk about how important it is for supervisors to encourage their team to live above the line.
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4 - Short Takes - Who am I, and Why Should You Listen to this Podcast?
TRANSCRIPT When I was young, I thought life progressed in a straight line...you’re born, you grow up, you get married, have kids, have a job, then the kids grow up and you grow older, and eventually you die. A simple, straight-forward, linear progression. I don’t consider myself young any more…
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3 - Share Your Story
TRANSCRIPT We are bombarded daily by truly bad news -- wars, rumors of wars, accidents, murders, and on and on. Couple that with the challenges that each human being faces, and it's no wonder that most of us are in need of inspiration. The problem is that the most inspirational people in our…
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2 - Short Takes - Remembering Dee Hansen
TRANSCRIPT In this "Comfort food for the heart" short take, I'm remembering my good friend Dee Hansen, who passed away on July 26, 2018. When I first met Dee Hansen, I just thought I was going to get a greyhound. I had no idea I was also going to get a good friend, a dog-sitter, a holiday family,...
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1 - Be Gentle with Yourself: Self-Talk
TRANSCRIPT Like most people, I’ve always been hugely self-critical. I would be the first to point out flaws in something I’d done, and I would beat myself up for something as simple as running late, or forgetting to buy something when shopping. Hi, I’m Mary Young, and this is the Lessons from…
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The emotional healing journey can feel like you're driving in fog. But you're not alone.
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