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Pondering Life Adventures

Maurie Lung & Bobbi Beale

Two seasoned mental health therapists ponder this wild and precious life while integrating their experiences in adventure therapy, social justice, nature, parenting, and relationships. Grab a cup of coffee and eavesdrop on the sometimes funny, sometimes serious, genuinely realistic adventures of life.

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All Episodes

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Episode 35: Parenting – The First 40 Years Are The...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2022/03/01

Grab that cup of coffee (or tea!) and settle in for our conversation with Russell Chamberlain, LCSW, CADCIII/MAC. He provides a safe place for struggling teens and families to build relationship and heal at LifeSTREAM Therapy, LLC (https://lifestreamtherapy.net). We chat about parenting multiples (we all have twins/triplets in our households!) and share how when things get tough, we often cross the line into science for ideas, which we try to make it accessible to people so that it makes sense so

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00:46:05

Episode #34: Navigating Reverberation When A Loved...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2022/02/21

Grab that cup of coffee (or tea) and brace yourself for an episode that puts the raw emotions of a recent death into view. We dive into those feelings and feel them and let them reverberate as we chat about the death of a family member. From how we take care of ourselves as well as how we show up for others, especially for our young ones who are on this path, too. And sometimes you just have to let go of everything and go with the flow of what is happening and feel the things and hug the people and

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00:44:58

Episode 33: Read, Connect, Share

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2022/02/17

Grab that cup of coffee (or tea) and settle in to chat as we chat about how reading and movies influence our parenting, especially when we are reinforcing empathy and problem-solving! Plus, a little more about habits, prioritizing our to-do list, and bedtimes! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/support

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00:46:44

Episode 32: Give The Judge A Snack

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2022/02/06

Grab that coffee (or tea) and settle in for a ride today! Dr. Bobbi Beale and Dr. Maurie Lung dive right into what motivates us for change, what puts the brakes on, and then totally geek out on some of the research that supports these ideas. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/support

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00:47:02

Episode 31: Colonial Counseling: A Conversation with...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2022/01/31

Grab a coffee and come join us as we chat with Lise Brown, BRS, RSW, MSW, about resiliency, de-colonizing counseling, and radical inclusion. Lise Brown the owner of Momenta, which offers opportunities for experiential learning that fosters growth through connections to self, each other and place. She has a Bachelor of Recreation, a Master of Social Work, a Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy, and the Forest School Practitioner training. Lise combines these areas of practice to provide clinical

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00:44:58

Episode 30: Real Life Inspiration with World Renowned...

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2022/01/25

Grab your cup of coffee or tea, you are in for a treat! From our conversation of shifting language, such as hard/soft skills to the recognition of movement toward less biased language of technical and interpersonal skills, hear TA’s thoughts about how accidents are more likely to occur, decision fatigue, and interrupting power dynamics to create spaces for frequently quieted voices to be heard. (Also, you might want to check out a kick sled!) Dr. TA Loeffler is a celebrated educator, adventurer,

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00:44:57

Episode 29: Confront the Negative Bias by Savoring

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2022/01/17

Grab that cup of coffee or tea and dive into the joy of savoring and spend just a few moments to pause. We aren’t talking about toxic positivity, we are talking about combating the fatigue that is occurring from the chronic stress in our world right now. Everybody is exhausted. Everyone is overwhelmed. Take that deep breath and explore with use right now. Gift yourself this moment to just be. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:33:24

Episode 28: The Canary Is Just Okay

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2022/01/09

Grab that cup of coffee or tea and join us as we chat about how we are all dealing with the chronic stress and chaos of our world today, most of us are also experiencing burnout. Many of us are looking for some hacks to make us feel better because we are exhausted. As we learned, the conscious mind is the bottleneck for our brain. We experience fog, decision fatigue, agitation, and so much more. However, habits help reduce exhaustion and burnout because they automate our processes for us. ---

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00:30:37

Episode 27: Thoughts Swimming Around Our Minds

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2022/01/04

Grab that cup of coffee and listen in as we welcome in another new year and chat about recent parenting escapades, including when our children first realized that they were not the same as other people, re-entry after the holiday, and our confusion – and ways we find hope - with the world around us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/support

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00:47:13

Throwback Thursday! Episode 25: Uncork That Bottle...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/12/31

Grab that cub of coffee or tea and join us from way back in September of 2021 as we discuss a variety of ideas around parenting supervision, generational drama, and the influence that both chronic trauma and situational trauma have over time on ourselves and our families. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/support

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00:50:04

Episode 26: Tend, Befriend, and Go with the Flow!...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/12/27

Our nervous systems are contagious! Hold on tight to that cup of coffee or tea, as Dr. Denise Mitten jumps right in to invite us to think about everything that we do, and what are the ethical ends, and how do we want to use our gifts and education to further humanity. We talk about the Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi concept of flow, which he explains, “a meaningful life is one where the person spends his time in a state of optimal experience called flow… when the best moments usually occur when a person’s

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00:40:12

Episode 24: Opportunity for a Reawakening: A...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/12/20

Grab your cup of coffee or tea and settle in for a conversation with Dr. Bobbi Beale, Dr. Maurie Lung, and our guest speaker, Dr. Tonya Elliot-Walker. “Being Tsalagi (Cherokee) and Pawnee, I love helping Native people rediscover cultural traditions and values and use them to find meaning and purpose in life. I love training my counseling interns via cultural immersion and not just book learning. I use cultural traditions, such as storytelling, basket weaving, drumming, singing and celebrating the

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00:35:40

Throwback Thursday: Episode 23: Colds and Cat Bites

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/12/17

Grab your coffee or tea and settle in for a throwback episode from September where, even through their colds and cat bites and Halloween, Maurie and Bobbi still have energy to chat about pets, parenting – from nighttime rituals, to middle school transitions, to learning to play a musical instrument - and even tackle the tough topic of talking about death with children. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast:

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00:45:51

Episode 22: Connection Before Anything: Parenting...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/12/13

It’s time! Pour yourself that cup of coffee or tea and settle in for a chat that takes many paths along the way of parenting struggles big and small, while refocusing on the values of parenting and the techniques that help us to teach the lesson that we actually want to be teaching. Even when we are tired. And, let’s face it, many of us are tired right now. All of that with a little divergence to revisit connection, hope, and a hat tip to state of flow. All of which are also helpful when we are

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00:30:33

Throwback Thursday! Episode 19: Pinecones Are Not A...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/12/10

Join us with your cup of coffee or tea as we chat about Bobbi’s family camping trip. We take a loop around parenting differences in families and reminisce about our own childhood, including our fears and worries about being a parent. As Bobbi says, “Parenting is such a tricky thing because you have to progress and evolve.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast:

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00:39:40

Episode 21: Narrow In A Bit

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/12/06

Grab that coffee (or tea) and join Maurie and Bobbi as they talk about decision-making in our current world, including when we become wishy-washy. Dive into exploring what we do when what we thought was true before after we have new information. Hint, is not a sign of inconsistency, it is a sign of intelligence. A flip-flop can actually be the way you update your ways of being when you have new information, and how all of that (plus trauma and marginalization) ties into our resiliency strategies,

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00:44:59

Episode 20: Welcome Back! Catch up with Bobbi and Maurie

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/11/29

Grab that coffee or tea and settle down to find out what we have been up to lately and the upcoming plans we have for the podcast. Plus, have you been introduced to Polly Bagel yet?! Find out what a bagel has to do with neuroscience or just take a few minutes to listen to chat about the world around us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast:

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00:42:49

Episode 18: Parenting Among Friends

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/08/24

Grab your coffee and settle in to hear all about parenting during a family reunion! And, add in the complexity that all of the children are "diblings" (donor siblings). Hold on tight for this ride! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/support

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00:21:52

Episode 17: Emerging and Reconnecting

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/07/27

Listen in as Bobbi Beale and Maurie Lung chat about our recent activities, including travel, parenting challenges, and re-connecting with others. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/support

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00:19:25

Episode 12: The Perils of Parenting in the Pandemic...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/06/16

Grab your coffee and listen in as we talk about that feeling of overwhelm by so much that is happening in our lives so quickly! We explore responsibility and blame. We remind ourselves that a calm nervous system calms nervous systems. But little did we know what was to come shortly after this January 2021 recording. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast:

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