Helping Young Adults Trust God When Their Life Plan Doesn’t Go as Expected

Are you a planner? Whether you classify yourself as one or not, everyone has some sort of plan or way they think their life will go. Having a plan is good but more importantly is being able to let go of the plan if needed and still know there is meaning and purpose to your life. Coach Caleb Price is on the podcast today talking about how young adults will have a much more fulfilling life as they learn to trust God and create the emotions they want to even when the plans they have made don’t work out exactly as they’d hoped. Caleb wants young adults to know that God can make much more of their lives then they could ever dream if they are willing to see the good that can come when life doesn’t go as they had planned.

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How to Better Support Your LGBTQ+ Child

When your child comes out as LGBTQ+ it can often be overwhelming and filled with a lot of questions, fears, grief, and other big emotions. But coach Jenny Byam wants to reassure parents that those big emotions and questions are normal and that you can eventually get to a good place with their child’s sexuality. She encourages parents to get all the knowledge they can, be patient with themselves, and to know that having an LGBTQ+ child is a blessing. She is talking about all these things on the podcast today. If you are someone who has an LGBTQ+ child and feel you need to know how to support them better, you definitely want to listen to this podcast. You will come away feeling better about your and your child’s position. 

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Helping Those Who Have Experienced a Baby Loss

We all experience loss in our lives but when the loss happens early during pregnancy or even soon after, many don’t know what to do to support the grieving parents.  Coach Amy Watson experienced two baby losses, one at 14 weeks and then a stillbirth at 39 weeks. She now works with women who have experienced similar loss and helps them navigate the grieving process. She is on the podcast today giving many helpful tips on how to deal with baby  loss if you have experienced it yourself or if you know someone who has experienced it, what you can do to support a family member or friend through this process. Amy is honest but loving in this conversation with Heather and brings a lot of hope to those dealing with baby loss. 

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Valuing Agency

Agency, the chance to come to earth and make choices for ourselves is central to The Plan of Salvation. We value and cherish our individual agency but sometimes it’s hard to hold the same feelings towards others agency - especially when they use it to make choices we may not agree with or to do things that could hurt or harm us.  Coach Tanya Hale is on the podcast today discussing more about agency and why it is such an important part in our growth and development here on earth. Tanya has some great insight on how to use our agency better and to honor and value the agency of others. 

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A Formula for Healing and Forgiveness

Much of the suffering we see in the world is visible and we reach out to help but a good part of the suffering in the world is silent suffering. There are so many who suffer from emotional and psychological abuse that can go undetected that those who suffer may feel they have nowhere to turn. Coach Alicia Hall has taken her own experience of being a survivor of emotional and psychological abuse and come up with a formula to help those in a similar situation she was in to find healing and forgiveness. She is talking about that formula on the podcast today. We all have found ourselves in need of healing and extending forgiveness so even if you haven’t suffered from emotional or psychological abuse in a relationship, you will want to listen so that you can apply this formula in your life as well.  

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The Refining Power of Change

Our brains are wired to resist change and yet change is what is needed for us to be refined and to make us into who God knows we can be. On today’s podcast, coach Jackie Swainson talks about why we need change, why it's an important part of our development and how change can truly take place through small and simple steps.  If after listening to this episode you want more help making the changes you want to see in your life, please reach out and contact Jackie. Enjoy the episode!

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How to Be a Better Parent By Healing Your Relationship with God

Parenting is a role in life that many of us don’t get any formal training in. We often end up parenting the way we were parented and for most of you listening the model that was shown you was a fear based parenting style. Coach Crystal Haitsma is a coach that focuses on a different approach to parenting that she likes to call connection based parenting. She has come to believe that this is truly how God parents each of us and if we want to be able to parent like He does we need to heal our relationship with Him. She is talking on the podcast today about how being a good parent is an inside healing process for the parent and when a parent does this, the children will follow and change as well. This is a great episode and one filled with hope because research shows that no matter what age your children are, even if they are adults, you can change your relationship with them and truly gain greater connection.

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The Benefits of Anxiety

Most of us try to avoid anxiety at any cost. It’s an emotion that tends to not feel the best and our natural instinct is to run away from it. But no emotion is bad and all have been given to us by our Heavenly Father. Coach Cory Hardman is on the podcast today talking about all the benefits we can have in our lives if we can learn to use anxiety as a tool to propel us forward to achieving our goals. Since every single one of you listening is a human, this is an emotion you deal with so come see exactly how well you may or may not be using anxiety in your life to create good things. If you have a teen or young adult who you know could use some help with managing their anxiety, pass this podcast along to them and then encourage them to sign up to chat with Cory on how they can manage it better.

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Empowering Women Through Community

We are wired to be together. There is much comfort in gathering with like minded people to discuss and navigate the ups and downs of life. There are times in life where feeling like we don’t have a group and don’t have the support we need is more acute. Coach Jane Copier works with one of these groups. She helps women who are in midlife come together and get the support they need to transition from having most of their time being wrapped up in taking care of their children to having an empty home and learning a new role of being a mother to adult children and having to make their own schedules. Jane is passionate about helping women in this stage of life and has created an amazing program entitled “The Empty Nest Academy” where as she puts it, it’s a place “for women who want to make the second half, the best half.”

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Horizontal Relationships

Every invested parent hopes to have a lasting relationship with their children once they grow and leave the house but transitioning from having your children at home to adult children can often be difficult. Coach Brooke Oniki is a proponent of making sure the relationship between parent and child is a horizontal one. When a horizontal relationship is achieved parents become more trusted and they can exist as a collaborator in their adult children’s lives. There is a lot covered on today's episode and Brooke discusses so much about the importance of horizontal relationships and how they will benefit your life in so many ways. 

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