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The Problem With Perfect — 350 episodes

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What If Letting Go Is the Answer?

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Digital Detox: How to Overcome Our Smartphone and Social Media Addiction Encore

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What If The Problem Is Not Them: The Hard Truth About What Triggers Us

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The Lies Women Believe About Strength and Size with Bridget Lolli

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When Life Turns Up the Heat

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When Silence No Longer Feels Faithful With Ashely Gross Minor

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The Practice of Contentment (and Why It’s So Hard)

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When Faith Shifts: A Journey from Evangelical Church to the LDS Church With Kathy Hahn

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How to Feel Lighter in a Busy and Overstimulated World

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The Best of 2025: What Mattered, What Changed Us and What We're Changing for 2026

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Across Generations: The Joy and Science of Grandparenting

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Caring To The End: Tom May's Story of Escorting His Mother to Heaven

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The Gentle Discipline of Letting Go

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God, Food, and the Holidays: Replacing Guilt with Gratitude

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The Gift of No: Unwrapping People Pleasing During the Holidays

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How to Ruthlessly Eliminate the Holiday Hurry to Rediscover God’s Rhythm

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The Freedom of Enough: Practicing Non-Excess in a World of More

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When Love Hurts: The Psychology of Abuse and Recovery With June Berlinger

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Are These Quiet Sins Stealing Your Joy?

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Listen Up: What You Need to Know About Hearing, Aging, and Brain Health

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Stop Stealing Your Own Peace: Asteya

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From Diet Culture to Self-Compassion: A Kinder Way Forward

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How Embracing The Suck Changes our Brains and our Lives

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Everyday Habits That Build Stronger Relationships

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The Freeing Weight Of The Truth

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The Truth About GLP-1s With Dr. Nicole Dorotik

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Sarah Hill's Story: Lessons From Surviving A Heart Attack

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Made for Rest: Reclaiming the Sleep Your Soul and Body Need

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What Is A Sound Bath? (And Why You Might Need One) With Catina Topash

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Unspoken Struggles: Why Men Resist Therapy and How We can Help

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What Women Need to Know About Christian Manhood

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Feel It, Then Free It: A 90-Second Path to Peace

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Beyond The Mat: The Surprising Ethics of Yoga (And Why They Matter To You)

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How To Be Free From The Burden Of Your SHtuff: The Swedish Art of Death Cleaning

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Have You Done Your Fur-Ever Family Planning?

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When The Body Breaks and the Soul Speaks

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She's Not Okay, Part 2: The Alarming Rise of Anxiety, Depression and Self-Harm in Girls (With Dr. Tim and Anne Jordan)d Episode

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She's Not Okay: The Alarming Rise of Anxiety, Depression and Self-Harm in Girls (With Dr. Tim and Anne Jordan)

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How My Yoga Training Wasn't Just About Yoga

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Life Reimagined: Beauty In The Brokeness With Angie Howell

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From Widow To Warrior: Author Julie Barth's Story Of Hope After Heartbreak

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How To Create A Bold Next Chapter with Angie Murdock

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Pivoting Pursuits: When Life Creates An Opportunity To Follow Your Dreams

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Life Reimagined: Is It Time For A Change?

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How Does Your Garden Grow: The Soulful Benefits of Gardening

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What If Your Doctor Actually Knew You With Direct Primary Care Physician Nicole Dorotik

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Enjoying These Luxuries Can Change Your Life

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Are You Leaving Generation Health To Those You Love?

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How To Make Spring a Season of Personal Renewal

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Learning to Love Our Bodies: From Motherhood To Menopause (With Special Guests Maddie Wolf and Rachel Keller)

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What Is Expressive Writing And How Can It Improve Your Life?

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Is Functional Medicine the Missing Piece to Better Health With Dr. Michael Schmidt?

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The 5 Lessons The Super Bowl Taught Me - And They Have Nothing To Do With Football

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Why Pickleball Might Be the Perfect Exercise

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Surviving The Long Winter: Differentiating SAD from Winter Blues and Finding Our Way Forward

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Better Together: How Female Friendships Strengthen our Minds and Body

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Rethinking Health and Fitness to Reclaim Our Aging Bodies With Ruthie Massman

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Trusting God's Purpose In Our Work With Tracy Smith

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From Reflection to Intention: Your 2025 Word Journey

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365 Days of Gratitude: How One Person's Journey Can Inspire Yours With Special Guest Lisa Kent

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Menopause: Breaking The Silence (Part 2) With Dr. Stephanie Womack

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Menopause: Breaking The Silence (Part 1)

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Gift-Giving Made Easy: How To Increase Our Joy and Decrease Our Stress

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Where Did Time Go: How To Cherish Holidays Past and Present

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Holiday Harmony: How To Set Boundaries (And Keep Them!)

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The One Thing We Can All Do To Shape The Rest of 2024

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How To Deal With Anxiety Around The Upcoming Election

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Does God Get the Best of You or What’s Left of You?

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Turning Dreams Into Reality: Behind the Writing of The Flower Sisters with Michelle Collins Anderson.

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Season Six Premiere: How to Revolutionize Your Life With AI

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Sorry, Not Sorry: Mastering the Art of Authentic Apologies

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The Anxious Generation: Unpacking Mental Health in a Digital Age

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Why Christians Can't Keep Ignoring The Pornography Problem (With Special Guest & Pastor Justin Garrett)

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Are You THAT Parent: What are Lawnmower Parents and Is that YOU?

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Celebrating Life and Supporting New Parents With Special Guests Kyle and Maddie Wolf

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Unpacking The Pornography Problem We'd Like to Ignore

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Are You The Neighbor God Calls You To Be With Special Guests Chris and Elizabeth McKinney

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How To Set Students Up For Success With Judi Schoonover

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What Does It Look Like to Love The Least of These: A Personal Story of Heartache & Redemption (Part 3)

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What Does It Look Like to Love The Least of These: A Personal Story of Heartache & Redemption (Part 2)

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What Does It Look Like to Love The Least of These: A Personal Story Of Heartache & Redemption (Part 1)

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How To Be More Patient In An Impatient World

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Are You Missing Out On This Easy Way To Enjoy Life

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Are You Ready to Come Out of Hiding With Special Guest Dr. Merry Lin

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Looking Back And Looking Ahead With Special Guest Tom May

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The Cost of Suffering From PMDD: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Struggle

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Miscarriages: How To Help Families Navigate Loss

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Kickoff To Wisdom: Analyzing Harrison Butker's Commencement Address Playbook

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Tackling Taboo Topics with Sarah Miller, DPT

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Embracing The Next Season of Life With Joyful Anticipation

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How to Boost Your Self-Esteem Through Life's Transitions

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Unveiling End-of-Life Mysteries with Chaplain Richard Sullivan

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Navigating Grief and the Inevitability of Death

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Navigating the Future: The Guide to Estate Planning and Protecting Your Legacy With Attorney Brett Barton

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Caring for Caregivers With Lauren Eisleben

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Preparing For the Inevitable: Understanding The Benefits of Hospice Care With Dr. Jaymi Meyers

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It's Okay Not To Be Okay: Balancing Toxic Positivity and Emotional Authenticity

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Are You Making Life Changing Connections?

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Transform Your Mind: 8 Habits to Unleash Your Cognitive Potential with Dr. Janine Stichter

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Your Words Matter - and So Do All The Other Ways You Communicate

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Embracing Financial Wellness: Making Peace with our Beliefs About Money with Khara Croswaite Brindle

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Giving Yourself The Self-Care You Need Even When It Feels Selfish

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Does Your Career Help You Love Yourself?

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Reflections on Self-Love: Embracing Beauty and Aging in a World of Pressure

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How To Unlock The Quiet Power of Life's Unnoticed Moments

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How To Move From Career Complancy to Passion-Driven Success With Special Guest Nancy Yeager

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Rediscovering Joy and Vitality in Our Spiritual Journeys With Pastor Beth Bramstedt

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Word Up: Are You Setting Yourself Up For Success In 2024?

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Looking Back So We Can Move Forward: Questions For Reflections on 2023

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How To Find Your Happy in the Holiday Hustle

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Embrace Your Holiday Season: Strategies for Managing Parties, People & Pain

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Lessons From a Mission Trip to India That We All Should Know

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Unraveling Artificial Intelligence: The Impact and Potential of Chat GPT

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Is Travis Kelce Taylor Swift’s End Game?

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How To Make Christmas Shopping Easy and Enjoyable

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Did The Barbie Movie Rant Get It Right With Special Guest Kate Randolph

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Why is "Gray Divorce" On The Rise And Is Your Marriage At Risk?

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How Setting Healthy Boundaries With Family Can Transform Your Holidays With Lauren Eisleben

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Making Difficult Family Decisions: Protecting the Most Vulnerable

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How To Be Yourself And Love Your Adult Children At The Same Time

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How To Make Room For Her: Wisdom On The Mother-Daughter-In-Law Relationship with Author Stacy Reaoch

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How To Become Your Highest Self With Tiffany Borst, LPC, RYT 500

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How To Have The Perfect Wedding & Celebrating Season Four With Rachel Keller

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Are You a Stone Thrower or a Stone Catcher?

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How To Handle Unexpected Change

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Understanding The Suicide Threat Facing Our Youth With Special Guest Lena McCain

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How To Help Your Students Manage Anxiety and Depression With Special Guest Khara Croswaite Brindle

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Teenage Wisdom: What 3 Students Say About Education, Community and What They Need to Succeed

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How To Help The Teens In Your Life Have a Healthy Relationship With Food and Their Body With Special Guest Lauren Eisleben

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What's Wrong With Kids These Days & How Can We Help Them With Special Guest Nawassa Logan

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What Brings Joy in Your Life?

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6 Things We Wish Someone Would Have Told Us About Aging

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How To Overcome Burnout With Special Guest Jamie Hoos

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July 4th Is About More Than Just Freedom

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How to Overcome The Suffering of Divorce With Author Brandi Wilson

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How Minimalism Can Simplify Your Life and Reduce Your Stress

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How To Help Christians With Our Mental Health With Special Guest LPC Lauren Eisleben

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The One Surprising Thing That Will Help You Live Longer

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How to Find The Success You've Been Searching For With Special Guest TED Talk Author Daniel Burke-Aguero

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How Acupuncture Helps With Pain, Anxiety and So Much More With Special Guest Cheryl Weatherby

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How Introspection Can Help You Reach Your Goals

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Honoring Motherhood: Stories of Inspiration

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How to Become More Positive and Confident By Asking One Question

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When Is The Right Time for Palliative Or Hospice Services?

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How To Plan For When You (or Your Loved One) Can No Longer Live Alone

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How To Leave a Legacy

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Why You (and Your Family) Need an Advance Directive

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How Writing Helps Mental Health and Heals the Heart with Special Guest BJ Jewett

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Why New Beginnings Are Scientifically and Spiritually Beneficial

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How Do You Know When It's Time To Say Goodbye?

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Why Do I Procrastinate And How Do I Stop?

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How Fred Parry’s Faith Can Impact Yours

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Why Taking The Trip of a Lifetime Was Worth Every Dime

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The Greatest Of These Is Love: Four Stories of Love, Laughter and Overcoming Adversity

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How Every Day Can Be Galentine's Day With Special Guests Kate Lunn and Jill Sartain

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How To Find Peace With Your Financial Future

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How Loneliness Is Impacting Us All - Even If We Don't Know It

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How To Improve Relationships and Increase Your Joy

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How NOT to Should on Yourself About Your New Year's Goals

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What Word Will Give Direction to Your 2023?

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What Word Mattered in 2022?

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What Is Anticipatory Grief And Is It Wrecking Your Holiday Season

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How to Find Hope In Dark Times With Dr. Mark Vellek

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Is It Time For A Change To Help You Achieve Your Ikigai?

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How To Make The Most of 2023 By Vision Casting With Krista Kippenger

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How to Make Peace with Food During the Holiday Season with Registered Dietician Lynn Eaton

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Living Life Abundantly In The Face of The Unthinkable: Tonya Goodin's Story

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Going Deeper With Your Friendships + Rachel has an Announcement

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Walk With Me: 3 Mindsets for the Rest of 2022

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Are You An Optimist Or Pessimist (And Why Does It Matter) with Special Guest Dr. Denise Bickel

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Are You Addicted to Success?

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Signs You Are Prideful + What to Do About It

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How to Find Your Fashion As You Age

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Is Perfectionism Keeping You from Having A Healthy Relationship with Yourself?

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How to Be an Inspiration When Your Life Isn't Extraordinary

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The Surprising Thing that Reduces Deaths of Despair and Improves Overall Health

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How to Live Life with Resiliency: A Life Update With Matt May

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Are You Quietly Quitting On Your Work and Relationships?

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Getting Over The "I'll Start Tomorrow" Mentality

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5 Things I'd Never Say to Another Woman as a Former Perfectionist

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How to Use 'Anti-Goals' to Figure Out What You Really Want

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Do You Use Distraction to Not Feel Your Feelings?

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How to be Kind and Caring Even When we Disagree

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Dreams Do Come True With Special Guests Rachel Bryan and Danelle Prevette

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Six Predictors of Long-Lasting Friendships

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Midyear Check-up: Are You Making the Most of 2022?

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This is Your Sign to Foster a Dog

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How To Know it's Time to Move On

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What Dads Don't Tell You With Special Guest Tom May

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How to Help with Addictive Behaviors with Mental Health Professional Lauren Eisleben

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How to Be Happier According to Science

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What Is Evolving In Your Life? Here's 3 Signs

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Myths About Females Lifting Weights With Brat Makes A Snack

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Why Work-Life Balance Is a Big Fat Lie

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This Is Your Sign to Schedule Your Next Girls Night

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How to Fight Fair

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Mental Spring Cleaning | 3 Mindsets to Throw Out

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How to Live with the End in Mind

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Are You Addicted to Drama?

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Why Your Female Friendships Change So Much in Your 20s

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When Doctors Don't Have Answers With COMO Wellness Founder Erin Brown

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Rethinking What You Want From Life

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Haters Gonna Hate | Why It's So Easy to Be Judgemental

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Why Choosing Sobriety Might Make Sense

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How to Not Be So Easily Offended

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Helping Others (and Ourselves) Embrace Change

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Single All the Way - Valentines Day

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The Problem With the Perfect Wedding With Special Guest Maddie May

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How to Have a Miracle Mindset

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Signs You Might Benefit from Therapy With Dr. Denise Bickel

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3 Dirty Little Secrets Stunting Our Spiritual Growth

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What Everyone Should Know about Vaginas

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Pick Your Word for the Year

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How to Give Yourself the Gift of Body Acceptance

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What Is Intuitive Eating & Will I lose Weight? With RD Caroline Shermer

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Food Guilt & The Holidays With Guest RD Isabelle Bouchard

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Major Life Milestones And How They Change Us

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How to Find Balance with your Physical and Mental Health

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Is Your Perfectionism Creating Unrealistic Expectations?

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Why It Feels Like You're Never Enough

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How to Disappoint People During the Holidays Without Feeling Disappointed

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How to Move Forward: A Father's Story of Grief and Redemption

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How to Live Authentically Transparent

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Why Making Decisions is So Hard

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How to Get Out of Your Fitness Rut

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3 Things Holding You Back From Your Best Life

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When Your Faith Is On the "Slippery Slope"

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How To Protect Your Energy & Avoid Burnout

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3 Bible Verses Christians Get Wrong

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What Does Your Soul Need to be Satisfied?

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Going Through Extreme Body (And Mind) Transformation With Guest Amber Blumberg

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How To Ask For What You Want

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What Simone Biles Taught Us About Taking a Mental Break

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3 healthy habits to start in your 20’s

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How to Manage Wedding Drama

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Have You Been Hurt By The Church? Part Two

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Have You Been Hurt By The Church? Part One

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Defining Masculinity With Therapist Eli Weinstein

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How to Love the Parts of Your Body You Hate

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Do You Have Daddy Issues?

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How To Have Better Body Image With Registered Dietitian Caroline Shermer

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Are You Really Happy? Here's How to Tell...

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Behind the Scenes of the Famous Chick-Fil-A Rap

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How to Find Happiness From Within With Comedian Jaron Myers

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Train Your Brain to Stress Less With Healium CEO Sarah Hill

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What Your Mom Really Wants This Mother's Day

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What Will Relationships Look Like Post Pandemic?

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3 Thoughts That Are Self Sabotaging Your Life

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Ditch Your Perfect To-Do List

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How Do You Get Over Getting Older?

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Flooded With Proverbs 31 Nicki Koziarz

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Why We Can't Keep Our Kids From Pain

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3 Things Confident Women DON'T Do

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Should Christians Be Self Sufficient? With Guest Co-Host Matt May

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Are You Lonely?

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How to Make Peace With Your Past with Psychotherapist Britt Frank

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Answering Your Burning Career Questions

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Lessons I Learned From Personal Tragedy

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3 Reasons You Feel Like You're Never Enough

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Why You Feel Emotionally Exhausted

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Bridgerton & Sex: What Your Mother Didn't Tell You

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Purpose over Passion With Orangetheory Coach Brandon

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What I Wish I Would've Known About Getting Married Young

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Choose Your Word For 2021 With Matt May

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How To Tell If You Have Impostor Syndrome

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When Pastors "Fall From Grace" With Special Guest Fred Herron

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Do I Need Therapy? With TV Anchor & Trauma Therapist Crystle Lampitt

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R&R #20 Can't Find the Joy in Christmas Anymore?

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Why The Holidays Suck the Joy Out of You

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Black Friday Shopping Tips with Closet 31

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R&R #19 The Latest Update On Matt

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Navigating the Mother-In-Law & Daughter-In-Law Relationship

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Bachelor Breakdown (Take a Mental Break)

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3 Ways to Find Gratitude When Life is Disappointing

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Loving Your Husband Before You Even Have One

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Behind the Scenes with News Anchor Michelle Linn

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Lunchmeat & Life Lessons with Mary B. Lucas

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Normalize Being Inspired By Your Friends Instead of Jealous

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Male Body Image with Matthew Bickel

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R&R #18: Do You Know What you Need?

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IT'S OUR ANNIVERSARY!!!

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Perfectionism and Anxiety

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Is Your Faith Coasting?

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R&R #17 Measure Your Words

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How to Be a Leader in the Online Space

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R&R #17 Five Meaningful Conversations to Have With Your Grandparent

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Who Run the World?

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How To Find Blessings In Your Battles

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R&R #16 It's Not Supposed to Be This Way...

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Do You Have Bias? Here's How to Tell

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R&R #15 Take Better Photos With Your iPhone!

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How to Help Your Mental Health When Things Suck

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How to Laugh at Yourself

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Is Self Care Selfish?

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R&R #14 What To Do If You Feel Like God Is Nudging You

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3 Ways Perfectionism is Showing Up in Your Life & How to Stop It

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R&R #13 How to be MAGNETIC in Your Job Interviews

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How to Be a Tourist in Your Own City, With Guest KC Local Events

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R&R #12 How To Not Go Down the "What If" Spiral

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Why Is It So Hard to Forgive? Learn the GRACE of Forgiveness

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How To Find New Friends After a Big Life Change

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R&R #11 Matt May Answers Listener Questions

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How Do I Stay Healthy As the World Opens Back Up?

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R&R #10 Motivation for When You Are Feeling Stuck in Life

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Is It Time for A Career Change? With Special Guest: Overanalyzed That

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R&R #9 Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

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The Do's and Don'ts of Apologizing

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4 Things Emotionally Intelligent People DON'T Do

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R&R #8: When Life Feels Like it's Not Coming Together

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Setting the Record Straight About Millennials

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R&R #7 How to Have More Peace When Life Feels Uncertain

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Things I Wish I Would Have Known Before Getting Married

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R&R #6: Mother's Day During Quarantine?! (The Ultimate Activites Guide!)

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How To Build Resilience: Four Strategies for A Meaningful Life

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R&R #5 You Don't Have to Be Perfect. It's Okay to Admit Your Weakness.

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What to Say When Someone is Hurting

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R&R #4 How To Make the Best Decision When You Don't Know What to Do

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The Episode We Never Wanted to Record

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R&R #3 How to Battle Stress By Finding Your New Rhythm

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How to Stay Home & Stay Sane: Navigating Expectations with your Spouse & Surprise Homeschooling

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R&R #2: I've Been Working From Home for Months... Here's How to Do It Well

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Surviving Social Distancing

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R&R #1: How to Hold Heartbreak and Happiness at the Same Time

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Advice From A Doctor: It's Okay if the Coronavirus Has You Grieving

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Biblical Truths to Help You Stop Living In Fear

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Budget Tips For Beginners + Money & Relationships!

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Just Breathe! And Change Your Life

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Three Ways to Be Confident in Your (Beach) Body

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Does Everyone Have a Dream?

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Why Am I So Addicted to My Phone?

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How to Make Valentine's Day Special (Even if it's Not Your Favorite)

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How To Stop Negative Thoughts (According to Science!)

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Super Bowl 2020: How the KC Chiefs Brought Healing and Hope to One Special Fan

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How Do I Find A Mentor?

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3 Reasons Why You Need a Word for 2020

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Find Your Flow in 2020

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Increase Your Productivity By 500 Percent in 2020

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3 Reasons You Feel Like You Don't Fit In (And How to Fix it)

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How To Review Your Decade

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Can Winter Make You Sad?

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How to Fake It Till You Make It & Build Confidence

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How To Set Boundaries Over The Holidays

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Love and the Enneagram

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Does The Perfect Partner Exist?

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How to Stop Feeling Guilty about Food

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Why am I Stressed? Helpful Ways To Overcome Anxiety

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How Do I Survive If Someone I Love Gets Sick?

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5 Ways To Tell Whether You Are a Perfectionist or Just a High Achiever

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Things I Wish I Would Have Known In My 20's

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When Life Doesn't Go According to Plan