In this episode we have a conversation with Cece Jones-Davis. Cece is a minister, artist, speaker and justice advocate and activist hailing from Halifax County Virginia. Cece gives us her experience and perspective of anti-black racism through a woman of colors lens. We then talk about the interconnectedness of justice and mental health and ways to seek flourishing for ourselves and our neighbors in doing that work in a world that can be so cruel and heavy.
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Ceces website: https://cecejonesdavis.com/
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Ceces X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/cecejonesdavis
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In this episode we have a conversation with David Bedrick. David is a Jewish author, teacher, attorney and psychologist that focuses most of his work on what he calls unshaming and helping others see themselves more than through the lens of shame. In this episode David gives us a window into how his Jewish identity and experiences has shaped him and his worldview. We then discuss the current situation in Palestine and having a morally clear vision of what is happening, but a humanizing one at the same time. We then end on the idea of unshaming, what a lens of shame is and how to dismantle shame in our own lives and others.
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Davids Website: https://www.davidbedrick.com/
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@davidbedrick3872
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Peaks & Valleys family, we made it to 50 episodes!🥳 Our episode this week is a shorter one, but we wanted to take a moment to reflect over the start of this podcast to now having 50 episodes out, how we have progressed and a little about our framework now and where we are going. As always a big thank you to everyone that listens and leans in with us because you all listening is what keeps us going! More good things and healing conversations to come, cheers!
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CW/TW: mention of miscarriage loss in this episode.
Welcome to the first episode of 2024! In this first episode of the new year we have a peer and friend of ours Serra Jane on to share her story. In the spirit of breaking down dualistic thinking and disrupting narratives we hear her story of growing up Christian and then eventually practicing Islam. Her own journey is a beautiful window into that world. We then get the honor of holding Serras story of dealing with loss through miscarriage and why sharing stories for collective healing and helping each other feel less alone is immensely important for our mental health and overall wellbeing. Support Serras shop:
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What is EMDR therapy (mentioned in episode) : https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/treatments/eye-movement-reprocessing Connect with us at Peaks & Valleys: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peaksandvalleysnc/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peaksandvalleysNC
First off, so great to be back with you all sharing this collective online space!
In this episode your hosts (Kyle and Jonathan) are back to talk a bit about masculinity, binary thinking and suicide awareness, because these intersect more than you think! With so much going on in our world we talk about us being complex humans, which we have chatted about in previous episodes, being confronted with complex moments/histories and navigating that better than the dualistic and binary thinking that has become ingrained in the human psyche.
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In todays episode you will hear from our other host, Kyle Ridgley and his own journey of deconstruction, mental health and navigating a crisis of faith that has lead him to where/who he is today and why he is passionate about helping others navigate their own mental health and see people flourish. He then shares about navigating life where he is now as a gay man. His story is powerful and worth listening and leaning into. We hope you are encouraged by this episode and have enjoyed getting to know your hosts a little better.
Mental health resource: https://openpathcollective.org/
Open Path provides therapy on a sliding scale basis to help those that need help, but it is hard to afford. This is a great way to access the help you need and deserve.
LGBTQIA resources:
PFLAG: https://pflag.org/
The Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
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In this episode we have a conversation with Mac Scotty McGregor. Mac is a transgender man that grew up in the south, but now lives in Seattle. Before transitioning Mac was a US karate team member, a champion martial arts competitor, and coach/teacher. He now spends his time doing diversity training around gender and LGBTQ. He also founded and runs a non-profit called positive masculinity seeking to dismantle modes of toxic masculinity and help foster healthier, positive and life giving masculinity that champions and includes all people.
Connect with Mac here: https://macsmcgregor.com/#about_us
Buy Macs book on Positive Masculinity here: https://macsmcgregor.com/products/books/positive-masculinity-now-paperback-51233080
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In this episode, your hosts Jonathan Coggins and Kyle Ridgley do some reflection. We reflect on our episodes on liberation out of reformed/calvinistic spaces with Noah and Hannah and our episode on ADHD in a neurotypical world with Alex of the Epics Podcast. We give our own thoughts and things we took away from each episode. We then move into a conversation about progressing and wholeness, and the interconnectedness of those two things. We round out with the importance of progressing to continually become, because we are all becoming in some way. We hope you enjoy our conversation!
Check out Alex Wait and The Epics Podcast: https://epicspodcast.com/linkinbio
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We at The Pour Over Podcast thought given our cultural moment and climate surrounding the conversation of LGBTQ people this would be a good re-release. Hopefully re-listening to this episode can humanize this conversation, and wherever you fall or don't fall religiously, and bring us all into better neighborly love and to see people in the LGBTQ community worthy of dignity, love, respect and equality. Bridget brings a powerful voice and perspective to this conversation!
Bridgets website (find her book, blog and social channels here) : https://www.meditationsofatravelingnun.com
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In this episode we have Alex Wait of The Epics Podcast where he shares stories to fight hate and marginalization to help chart better paths forward in our world and we LOVE that at Peaks & Valleys. Alex opens up and shares his journey of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and navigating life with ADHD in a world built for neurotypical people. His story and perspective is challenging, beautiful and hopefully liberatory in the way we view the diversity of people in the world around us. We then have a conversation about his own podcast and the work he is doing to break down the binaries many of us have been given and better ways to live in the rich diverse world we inhabit.
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Epics Website (links here: Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, Podcast): https://epicspodcast.com
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This episode is a re-release we felt for our culture and sociopolitical moment was a good refresher for having better conversations around understanding one another and all around better community! We hope you enjoy this episode and it helps you find better paths forward and leads to flourishing mental health for you and others.
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This episode is very special. We got to share the table with and hold two journeys from two beautiful souls. We were joined by Hannah Lloyd and Noah Althoff to share their journey of navigating being in the calvinistic/reformed mode of evangelicalism. We explore what their individual experiences were, where they overlapped and what broke that tradition for them. We also talked their views of mental health within that tradition and some of their own personal experiences with their own mental health. We land on seeing life in a more liberating way after that mode of evangelicalism and some good steps and charting better paths forward.
Gary Alan Taylor from Holy Heretics has some good words here: https://www.sophiasociety.org/blog/original-theobros-faith-deconstruction
Church Clarity: https://www.churchclarity.org
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In this episode we have a guest co-host Timothy Lloyd to talk all things resisting Christian Nationalism. Tim is deeply committed to Jesus, but also resisting oppressive forms of Christianity like Christian Nationalism and seeing all humans flourish. We talk what is Christian Nationalism, why we resist it, why others should speak up against it and how it affects our non-religious, non-straight, immigrant, or other religious neighbor.
Resources for resisting Christian Nationalism: https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org
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Welcome to the Christmas Special of The Pour Over Podcast! We hope you have a great holiday season and a smooth mental health experience through the many complications that come with this time of year. In this episode we talk about the importance of LGBTQ inclusion and stepping into other peoples experience and social location. We round out by talking harmful views of mental health from the evangelical community and debriefing from what was a healing and refreshing event for both of us.
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Mentioned In This Episode:
Mad Priest Coffee: https://madpriestcoffee.com
The New Evangelicals: https://www.instagram.com/thenewevangelicals/?hl=en
April Ajoy: https://www.instagram.com/aprilajoy/?hl=en
Music: We Wish You A Merry Christmas by August Burns Red
Content and trigger warning: mentions of suicide
In this episode we sit down with our friend and creative entrepreneur/barista Dylan Studt. We have a conversation about having outlets for your mental health and his own experiences with mental health and what he has observed as a peer. We round this conversation out on Dylan giving us ways to chart better paths forward in supporting youth in their mental health journeys and ways to create safe spaces for those youth and young adults that are on the margins (race, LGBTQ, religious margins AKA not christianity).
The Trevor Project (LGBTQ youth mental health resource): https://www.thetrevorproject.org
Homeless Youth Resources: https://www.homelessyouth.org/en/
Mental Health Coalition Youth/Young Adult Resources: https://www.thementalhealthcoalition.org/resource-library/?resources_category=youth-young-adults
NAMI Youth/Young Adults: https://www.nami.org/Search?searchtext=youth&searchmode=anyword
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dylanstudt/
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In this episode, your hosts Jonathan and Kyle will be responding to a terrible take on mental health from within the church that actually harms people and does not lead to human flourishing. We directly confront the harmful views and deconstruct them and then help chart some better paths forward to moving away from these harmful views.
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In this episode we have have a conversation with Mike Maeshiro about LGBTQ, coming out, navigating sexuality in evangelical spaces and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. Mike shares his own story and gives us some encouragement and tools for challenging our own beliefs around this conversation. We also talk about anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and resisting that for the sake of the LGBTQ people in our lives and around us.
Mikes organization Numa: https://www.mikemaeshiro.com
Mikes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikemaeshiro/?hl=en
Mikes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikemaeshiro/
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