Something We Can Talk About

For The Love with Melinda Williams

Melinda Williams and two of her friends started a labor of love during the "lockdown" of the Covid pandemic. Its a local food truck that provides free Thursday night meals for "Neighbor Night". We talk about the inspiration, the beauty of seeing it accomplish its mission, how to avoid burn out in doing good, and what you can do FOR THE LOVE.
 
You can follow along with other food truck friends on Instagram & Facebook : @forthelovenwa
And find out all about the truck, volunteering, more HERE
 
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Politics and Disagreeing with Kelly Krout

Welcome to Season Three!
 
Our guest for today's episode is not only a longtime friend, but she's an author and political canditate; Kelly Krout. Kelly is running for Lt. Governor for Arkansas. She gives us an inside view of what it's like to campaign during a pandemic (twice!) and we discuss how to disagree respectfully.
 
Learn More about Kelly and get involved with her campaign  HERE
Follow her campaign on Socials @kellyforarkansas
Find Kelly's Books on Amazon HERE
 
Vote for Kelly for Lt. Governor!!
 
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Finding and Practicing Belonging with Tammy Mores

In our last episode of Season 2, Tammy Mores shares her journey of being a transplant to Northwest Arkansas and her deep dive of self discovery around the topic of belonging. She shares her struggles, as well as, practical tips to help us all practice belonging.
 
Tammy Mores is a 25+ year retail executive veteran whose stress was balanced with the practice of yoga. After spending years on her personal practice and not finding the experiences & community she was longing for, she decided to dive in and develop her own yoga studio. Cocoon Yoga Lab was born just months before the pandemic hit causing her quite a bumpy start-up. Despite closures, masks, virtual and limited class sizes, her studio has not only survived but thrived. Named Small Emerging Business of 2021 by Bentonville’s Chamber and Best Yoga Studio of NWA by Citiscapes Magazine, her story is just beginning to unfold. Cocoon thrives on creating unique experiences that deliver harmony to the mind and body. Tammy is certified in multiple yoga modalities including Aerial Yoga, Stand-up Paddleboard, Yin, Reiki, and Sound Healing. Her focus is helping those with an overactive mind find a switch to a calmer mind and stronger body, creating balance and purpose. Tammy is also a wife of almost 25 years, a mom of 2 sweet girls, lover of photography, art and travel. And butterflies, of course…hence the metamorphosis her life has been on.
 
Thanks for listening in!
 
More about Cocoon HERE
Follow Cocoon on IG @cocoonyogalab
PEGS is available on Amazon
 
Our original music is by Micheal Curtis
This episode was written, produced, and edited by Megan Meredith
Follow along on IG: @_meganmeredith_
or on FB @authormeganmeredith
 
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I Can‘t Save The Chicken

A chicken named Beyonce. Chicken rigor mortis. These are things we can talk about today. Telling you a story on myself today, laughing about how a chicken named Beyonce  helped me begin to unravel a lifetime of doing "all the right things".
 
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Coming Home Meditation

Here is the "Coming Home" Meditation that I shared at the end of Episode 4 "Trauma and weight" in a stand alone format should you want to revisit it.
 
Original Music by Michael Curtis @producedbymkc www.producedbymkc.com
Written, Produced, and Edited by Megan Meredith
@copyright 2021 All Rights Reserved

Resiliency and development with Dr. L. Carol Scott

Dr. L. Carol Scott talks with us about child development, ACEs, resiliency, and her own unique models for personal growth and success. 
 
ACEs infographic
TEDx Talk
The S.E.L.F. model
The SASS Model
More about Dr. L. Carol Scott
 
Original Music by Michael Curtis @ Produced by MKC
Written, Edited, and Produced by Megan Meredith
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Trauma Connection to Weight

In this episode Megan rounds out the three part series centered around Body Talk by sharing her own personal story around trauma and weight gain. She does not offer subscriptions, plans, miracles, or even tried and true-one size fits all plans. Or any plans at all. She just shares what happened and how its going. 
Megan guides us through a short meditation at the end of the episode specifically about feeling safe and at home in your body. 
Enjoy!
 
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Theme and Mediation Music is by Michael Curtis at www.producedbymkc.com
Written, Edited, and Mixed by Megan Meredith
 

Body Image with Kerry Underwood MS, LPC, LMFT

Friends! 
 
I’m over the moon this week to have my dear friend Kerry Underwood, who is a wonderful marriage and family therapist, on the podcast this week, to have a conversation about body image. 
In the same vein as our last episode, but with a therapists perspective, we discuss the lies that we’ve been fed about our bodies and why it matters to debunk those. 
 
 
Several things that we mention in this episode, I want to drop here for your extracurricular personal reading/listening: 
 
 
Glenn Doyle’s Episode on Warring with our bodies: 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-bodies-why-are-we-at-war-with-them-and-can-we/id1564530722?i=1000528690307
 
Origins of Diet Culture:
https://theconversation.com/the-long-strange-history-of-dieting-fads-82294
 
https://find-foodfreedom.com/history-of-diet-culture/
 
 
 
Origins of Modesty and Purity Culture:
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/abstinence-pledge-evangelicals.html
 
https://time.com/3918215/modesty-culture-rape-culture/
 
https://www.cbeinternational.org/resource/article/mutuality-blog-magazine/7-lies-purity-culture-teaches-women
 
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Thanks for listening!