Booked, Blessed, and Busy

We are at the end of season 3 and we have definitely grown in our valley experience! Thank you for journeying with us! We hope that you were able to relate and engage well throughout the season. We hope it has encouraged you in your valley experience. We look forward to your feedback and continued support! 

In this episode, we take a look back at where we came from. Much has changed in our lives and we are all experiencing some element of newness in our journey. Join the conversation with us, as we reflect on our perspective shifts and move toward experiencing life from a more healed place. 

Reconnecting with our inner child can be so healing. Our childhoods carry so many nostalgic memories and using play can be a way for us to access what we need in adulthood. Join us in this episode as we chat about how our needs have evolved and learning to embrace them. 

In this episode, we share more intimate details of how we have journeyed through scripture in the valley. This episode is part 2 so go back and listen to episode 4, “Vulnerability and Safety - Can We Have Both?”! God has met us in some incredible ways. Join as as we share how God has been a keeper and friend to us. 

Have you ever felt overwhelmed, disengaged, or guarded when someone asked, “How are you? You good?”We have definitely experienced it and in this episode, we share how we navigated our well-being while in relationships with others. Join us for the journey as we discuss our need for safety and humility. 

In the midst of the valley, we often feel compelled to find a sense of grounding. For this episode, we discussed how we found moments of fulfillment in dry and disconnected places. Music, relationships, solitude, journaling, and other outlets helped to give us life. Journey with us as we share the range of ways to find soul connection and endure hardship in the valley. 

"Stop the world and let me off" accurately sums up how we often felt while we were in the valley! Journey with us in this episode as we share how we lived in the valley and ways we began to see God and ourselves differently as we moved toward hope. 

Welcome back to season 3 of the Booked, Blessed, and Busy podcast! In this episode, we discuss what it means to live in the valley - generally and personally, and we dive into deeper conversation about the significance of Psalm 23. Join us as we wrestle through the valley and embark with you on the journey to the mountaintop. 

As we conclude this journey of dismantling expectations, we discuss a place where our worlds collide - mental health and the Church.  As therapists who are Christians, it is important for us to find ways to integrate two worlds that allow for soul searching and help us to find truth. Join us in the conversation and listen in as we become enlightened by sharing our perspectives on what it can look like to bridge the gap!

As followers of Christ, we often engage the expectation that to be a good Christian means to devote all of our time, interests, and essentially identity to the specific church body that we are a part of. In essence, this has established a church culture that keeps us involved within the walls of the church. This week, we're exploring what it can look like to be a Christian outside of the typical Sunday church context. 

Experiencing trauma can leave a lasting impact on our lives, and the expectations surrounding how we process trauma can muzzle our freedom to heal. Trauma impacts our ability to cope, and in this episode, we dive into a conversation about our own experiences and ways we can be supportive to those around us. 

Leadership roles require so much from us and the expectations often leave us drained. This week, we engage in a discussion about important characteristics of leaders, personal experiences with/as leaders, and the power of embracing our humanity in the presence of those we lead.

Navigating life as a woman can be so complex. There are expectations from every angle concerning the need to be a strong, independent woman who is successful in career, but also a mom, a wife, someone who is assertive while being meek and not overstepping her place etc., and this is only half of the list! Quite the paradox! Tune in as we talk through these expectations and explore ways to embrace our authentic selves within womanhood!

In this episode, we enter into a great dialogue about our cultural experiences as immigrants and first-generation children in the United States. We have learned so much, yet our experiences come with sacrifice. Tune in to hear more about how we journey through our cultural identity and expectations that we experienced along the way.

To be gifted and black comes with many challenges and stereotypes that make it difficult to strive; needing to overcome pressures, judgment, and many obstacles. In this episode, we share our experiences and observations of expectations in the black community, including people like Oprah Winfrey, Draymond Green, and Tyler Perry.  We end by looking for ways to replace the expectations that we've dismantled - essentially, giving others the space to be the fullest version of themselves.

Who said that being educated meant that we need to know everything? This week, we're dismantling expectations in education to be the ONLY resource and continuing to embrace the mentality of being a lifelong learner. Listen in as we talk through the freedom in admitting "I don't know"! 

For this week, we tackled the topic of dismantling expectations of adulting. We explored the source of these expectations and even the potential of pride being a part of the equation. It's just the beginning of season 2, but we're coming out the gate swinging! 

We are all on a constant pursuit of growth, change, hardship. This week, we shared our journeys toward purpose. Experiencing  growing pains can be an arduous process, yet it yields so much fruit. In this episode, we discuss approaching the journey, humility, sustaining in the journey and accepting our limitations. 

Time management is something we all struggle with, but viewing it as an opportunity to invest well in ourselves shifts our perspective of time. In this episode, we discuss our struggles and intentional moves we make in using time efficiently. 

Finding your voice is a very personal growing pain. When we find our voices in relationships, professional, and spiritual places we begin to get a richer understanding of our needs and search for ways to advocate for the needs of others. In this episode, we express the challenges and necessity in finding and sustaining  our voices in an attempt to empower the things important to us. 

In this episode, we discuss our responses to personal growth and difficult changes in our lives. Holding the reality of relational changes and learning when to extend grace and accountability in relationships can be very challenging experiences. Listen to our journeys and how faith ultimately equips us for these experiences. 

Transitions and change can be a huge growing pain,  but in this episode we explore the grief that accompanies our journey to purpose. Grief looks and feels different for many of us but it is important that we acknowledge its presence and our journey of reconciling with losses in life. 

We have officially hit everyone's favorite topic-BOUNDARIES! Listen in as we unpack types of boundaries, their necessity, and how we choose to maintain them in busy seasons. The booked, blessed, and busy lifestyle isn't always so glamorous, and often demands that we make these types of sacrifices as we pursue purpose. 

The impact of imposter syndrome on our identity is a tiresome process to walk through alone. In this episode, we share how we move through self-doubt and solidify who we are through perspective changes, relational support, and spiritual integration. 

In this episode, we discuss our experiences of self-doubt through imposter syndrome and adjustment to new environments. Imposter syndrome can drain our ability to feel competent, yet it yields a great opportunity for us to reassess our expectations of ourselves and to experience humility. Join us as we journey through our experiences of learning that we belong!

Taking a leap of faith is risky business. In this episode, we discuss our individual journeys of launching out in various parts of our lives, while navigating the expectations of others and ourselves. We share our process of decision making and what life looked like as "one of few" or "one of the first" in our contexts. Join us as we share how we prepared to lean in to the opportunities laid before us! 

Welcome to the Booked, Blessed, and Busy podcast! In this episode, we share our personal journeys in fostering relationships with each other and we give you all a snapshot into our conversations surrounding growing pains. We discuss our interpretation of this concept and  where we feel the pain of growth. Join us as we begin to unfold our journeys with you!

Wah gwaan? Ha'd go? Welcome to the Booked, Blessed, and Busy podcast! Over here, we are living a blessed life with a full schedule! Join us as we set some time aside during our week to  talk about our experiences as we pursue purpose!