Flushing It Out

Tiffany wants all women to have beautiful sex lives, which is why she loves to talk about sex.

So much of what we’re told is either black or white in church isn’t really black or white.  One of the harmful things about the way the Church has approached sexuality is that it is approached as black or white.  

Tiffany talks about a book called, “Out of Sorts” by Sarah Bessey.  It explains that kids need “black and white...

Kyra was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by an ex-boyfriend her Junior year of High School.  She was taken in the middle of the night and was transported to a field behind the local HS where she was assaulted in many ways.  She was put back in the car and made the comment to him “I can’t believe I ever trusted you.”  So, instead of taking her home, he took her to the dump, where she thought she was going to die.

Nobody...

When it comes to sex, where do we start?  How do you want to be approached and how do you want to hear “no?”  This is an important conversation we all need to have with our partners.  What makes sex meaningful?  How to hear “no” is a little more complicated.  Is it a simple “no,” or is there a reason behind it?  What words are we choosing, and what messages are being received with those words?  Having these conversations e...

So, how do we talk about sex and everything that goes along with it?  For Fox, you start by acknowledging that it’s awkward.  Two people doing a very intimate physical act is very complicated.  Having humor about it can also go a long way.  So, we start by owning the fact that we don’t have a lot of practice talking about these things and that it’s going to be awkward until it isn’t.

Everybody is going to have their own...

In this episode, Samantha talks with poet and author of "How to Bury a Boy at Sea," Phil Goldstein.  Phil talks about the struggles in his life caused by his childhood trauma that eventually led him to therapy.  Once in therapy, he realized that being a victim of childhood sexual abuse didn't have to define who he is.  He talks with Samantha and her husband, Jeremy, about the entire process and about his journey to healing...

In this episode, Samantha talks with Jody Tompros, retired social worker/therapist and owner of Mindfulness Painting, and her husband, Thom Overton, who is a couple's therapist.  Thom discusses his book, "Can COVID Save This Marriage? A Therapist's Pandemic Diary," how it came to be, and how it helps people feel seen and heard.  Thom and Jody discuss previous marriages, issues they see in couples that have come to them for...

In this episode, Samantha talks with the owner of Orchid Story, Rachel Nusbaum, about how we can all explore the art of writing to help us on our own healing journeys.  Her business, Orchid Story is coaching with a focus on writing as therapy.  Rachel tells us how writing has helped her and how it has helped so many others she has worked with.  She reminds us the work of writing can sometimes be an uphill climb, but it is ...

Danielle Brooks acknowledged all that was happening.  She dug into her childhood trauma.  She started to map out how some of the unhealed areas in her life shaped the decisions she was making.  Danielle realized that people get stuck in regret or in lost opportunities.  

It was her 50th birthday and she was trying to figure out how to celebrate in the midst of the pandemic.  She didn’t want to be stuck in “healing mode....

Kerry Thomas is an organizing and productivity coach.  She has a lot of different passions, but her favorite is working with offices.  

Kerry has some things she needs to get off her chest when it comes to people’s “stuff” as they get older.  Let’s start with, “what small changes can I implement now that’ll make things easier for those we leave behind?”

When you have the luxury of helping people through the process o...

Jill Perla is staying curious with herself even at the age of 55.  She believes that you should have grace for yourself and realize that new things are coming.  There’s fear around the new chapter and there’s shame in not knowing what your next steps are.  Things are shifting, and she’s allowing room for that, but there’s also fear there, and possibility at the same time.  She wants people to stay creative and keep an open...

Heather Suri owns a Care Management Practice called Pathways In Aging.  Care management involves helping families create teams.  Their specialty is working with aging people.

Older adults, in general, tend to have a different calculation of personal risk.  When you’re in the closing chapters of your life, your risk is different from when you are a teenager.  A lot of times, adult children just wish their parents would g...

Eileen Grimes is the author of "The Us Journal," which is a parent-child joint journal that encourages the kindling of an authentic connection with your child.  Eileen has a masters in education and her passion is in healing relationships and encouraging connections.  

Eileen reminds us that we need to be curious about who our kids are.  When our kids are young, they are dependent on us for care and we are in tune to their ...

R. Featherstone, MSN PMHNP WHNP PMH-C, is a nurse practitioner in the Richmond, VA area.

They inform us that flexibility is the key to parenting.

We all have a vision of who our children will be before they’re even born and we tend to lay out our hopes and dreams for the child.  This vision isn't challenged until the tween stage when the parents’ values get challenged.  It's at this point that there’s grief there for...

Dawn Geschiere is a life and empowerment coach and owner of Yes To Life Coaching.  She is the parent of 5 adult children and has lots of experience to share with us.

The term “no regrets” pulls us into a “guilt,” and when we do have regrets, we already have the idea that we want to have no regrets.  

It’s impossible to have no regrets and when we struggle to achieve that goal, we wind up stuffing all of our “stuff” d...

Amy Slenker-Smith is the owner of Simply Enough, a company that encourages and helps people de-clutter their homes and lives.

Over the course of her life, Amy realized if she just had less stuff, she would have less stuff to take care of.  She was a really “organized hoarder.”  She was organized, but there was a lot of stuff.  For her, life is much better with less, though.

Your family of origin is going to guide how...

Elena explains that she is a guide who nudges you to find your own liftoff.  She asks questions to get people to the nudge, but it’s about you finding your own joy, value, and truth.

Our judgment of our bodies starts when we are so young.  All of her experiences growing up caused her to be her own worst enemy with her body, but it took all of that to give her the opportunity to love her body, too.  

When she got into...

We have clothes in our closet that trigger us because we aren’t at that place anymore, and we need to start demanding new things from the clothing we put on our bodies.  We have been on autopilot for so long.  Wardrobe has always been a connection to “self” for Cristina.  There’s a connection to “who am I” and that’s how she related to style.  

When we show up as our best selves on the outside, it’s important to make th...

Becky Upchurch is a clarity and mindset coach.  She, like so many people, grew up conflating weight and health and believes that people having weight and health issues has been normalized over time.  She believes that so much time and energy is wasted on focusing on the wrong things when it comes to these things.  

Becky talks to Samantha about taking baby steps when it comes to our own weight and health.  Baby steps don't ...