In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly take a playful yet, insightful look at boredom.

• Lack of interest, motivation, and engagement in the world around us
• Matching energy level to activity
• What do you do when you are bored?
• Reasons for boredom
• Mismatch between how much we want to engage cognitively and the task
• What is the energy level you are wanting to fill

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In this episode of An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth Sydney and Kelly have fun exploring the idea of interdependence.

• Interdependence: interconnected and mutual reliance in relationships to people and all creation
• Environment, ecosystems, family, traffic, agriculture, water, sports teams....
• Theological
• Does not take away all independence
• It can have negative effects and lead to conflicts
• We are made to live in community
• Inter-being
• Awareness of self and others

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly share a bit of their personal spiritual journeys.

• Church as a part of childhood for Sydney
• Sydney had a rough patch being a part of the youth group, but found a place in choir.
• Learning faith through songs
• Sustained through rough life experiences
• Church aren't perfect
• Kelly found a place to belong within the church after moving in high school
• Undergrad and masters in religious education
• Church is made up of people...need a lot of grace
• Its community and it can be hard
• Examine your faith for yourself, seek, question...grow

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly take a look at what is unique about Millennials and their spirituality.

• Focus on personal journey
• Blend various traditions and faiths
• Online access to retreats and groups, apps
• Wholistic wellness and spirituality
• Look to the church as well as other places for answers
• Okay with not having solid answers
• Community is important
• Allowing for questioning

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly discuss how images people hold of God change through personal experiences and their spiritual journey.

• Exploring images or attributes, ideas and understandings of God
• Sometimes we need to heal images of God that have been harmful
• How do we reflect the God we believe in?
• Limited language is all we have to describe God
• Doubting, questions, and growth
• No matter where you wander, God is there

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly begin a series on spirituality. This episode focuses on stages of faith development.

• How did I get here from there in my spirituality
• Foundations
• Ages 0 - 2, learning trust, this can impact our trust in God later
• Ages 3 - 6, our image of God comes from our parents, very concrete, how are responded to when we don't do what is expected or wanted, are we shamed or given grace
• Ages 7 - 12, justice and fairness, good happens to good people, God is old, white man with a white beard. Literal, logical thinking begins to develop, experience faith
• 12 - adulthood, trust in institution of religion, challenges of faith are often ignored due to feeling threatened. If this...then this. People can get stuck here
• Mid 20's to late 30's, reflective stage, forming own beliefs, owning faith
• Mid-life crisis, moves beyond conventional beliefs. Open to others faith perspective and not threatened by others understandings.
• Universalizing faith, rarely achieved. Can relate to anyone at any stage and don't have the need to push people along in their faith.

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly discuss their personal experience and journey with mental health.

• Openness to talking about mental health
• Mental health and mental well-being
• Kelly's journey walking beside daughter struggling with depression
• Looking for a therapist that is a fit
• Not being a fixer, but a support
• Short term situational depression, long term depression
• Caring for self while care-giving
• Sydney's postpartum anxiety
• Medications
• Giving yourself grace
• Depression does not have to define you

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly continue their interview with Ana Maldonado, LPC, discussing different types of therapy.

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR
• Especially for trauma and distressing situations
• Trauma is stored in your body, this approach is a bottom up versus the other therapies that start with the head...logic etc...
• Desensitizes the memory, bi-lateral stimulation
• Do not have to talk through the whole experience
• Therapists require training for this therapy
• Was created for PTSD, but is effective on OCD, anxiety, and other disorders
• Not necessarily a stand alone treatment
• Internal Family Systems, IFS, the movie Inside Out is based on this
• How you either protect your inner self or exile parts of your inner self
• It is more than just your emotions, sometimes it is general concepts, or younger self
• Emphasizes self-compassion
• Works well with EMDR
• How do you find a therapist

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