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PODCAST

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 16: Calmly Building Bridges

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/06/08

Grab yourself a drink and settle in for our conversation with Dr. Christine Norton as we chat about stress, parenting, and the concerns of the world around us right now. Dr. Christine Lynn Norton is a Professor of Social Work at Texas State University. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board Approved Clinical Supervisor, a Certified Clinical Adventure Therapist, a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and a Level III Certified Experiential Therapist with the International Society for

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00:00:37

Season 2 Teaser

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/05/13

Hear what happened during our little break AND what's coming for season 2! --- 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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00:56:06

Episode 15: Heart-centered and Inspirational...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/05/13

Grab a drink, settle back, and listen in on our conversation with Sky Gray. We delve into the heart of resilience, through our careers in mental health, our challenges and success with our families, and our own personal curiosities. Enjoy! --- 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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00:35:14

Episode 14: Pause and Pivot with Lise and Bobbi

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/03/06

Grab that cup of coffee or tea and settle in with our guest, Lise Brown, from Winnipeg, Canada, and Bobbi (while Maurie is still recovering). Lise is co-owner of Momenta (https://experiencemomenta.com) as well as a parent and fellow adventurer. They talk about navigating this past year, impacts on their families, and their hopes for the coming year. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast:

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00:59:23

Episode 13: Friends, Colleagues, and Quantoids

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/03/02

Grab your cup of coffee or tea and dive into t-tests, ANOVA, and chi-squares. Don’t worry, you don’t really need to know this vocabulary to enjoy this episode of how Bobbi met UNH researcher and professor, Dr. Anita Tucker as they dive into how a collegial relationship was forged, the work of a researcher in mental health, and the importance of women supporting each other in the workplace. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support

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00:59:48

Episode 11: Seasoning Day

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/01/20

Grab your coffee and settle in for our conversation with Jesse, Bobbi's 23 year old son, as we have a candid conversation - including the infamous seasoning day. Jesse shares thoughtfully about what it is like to have a parent who is a mental health practitioner, how adventure therapy ideas were integrated during childhood, how Montessori education reinforced these values, and on growing up with moms who are lesbians.(Also included is a brief update after surgery with Dani.) --- Send in a voice

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00:47:00

Bonus Episode: Stories from the Field Interviews Bobbi

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/01/15

Listen in on the interview as Bobbi was a guest on the podcast "Stories from the Field: Demystifying Wilderness Therapy." Stories from the field is dedicated to demystifying wilderness therapy and is hosted by Dr. Will White. In this podcast Will interviews various wilderness therapy researchers, program founders, writers, executive directors, guide staff, clinicians, critics and more. He educates the listener to the long history of the field and different trends related to this evolving treatment

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00:43:15

Episode 10: Ksporking, Cooking, & Caregiving

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2021/01/06

Grab your coffee (or tea or hot chocolate) and join us as we chat up Bobbi’s partner Dani just a day before her surgery, then we dive into some theory about relationship roles and being a primary caregiver, before we take a little jaunt off road into baking shows, cooking for kids, and backcountry kitchens. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast:

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00:35:47

Episode 9: All I Want for Christmas is... Reinforced...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/12/23

Grab your coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and pull up a chair to listen in as we chat about our holiday traditions, how this looks during a pandemic, and the ordinary struggles of our everyday lives as we navigate our exciting work and lively families. Be sure to check out our Facebook page, Pondering Life Adventures, if you want to see the photo we are referencing in this segment! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this

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00:35:58

Bonus: "Graduate to Guide: On the Other Side of...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/12/18

Check this bonus episode out! Maurie was interviewed by Emma Stein. Here is how she describes this episode: "In the second interview of this podcast, Emma welcomes a seasoned leader in the field of adventure therapy to the show, Maurie Lung. Maurie discusses her work at Life Adventures Counseling and Life Adventures For All and shares how she integrates her work into her own life and her life experience into her work. She gives valuable advice to anyone new to the field of mental healthcare." Emma's

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00:50:53

Episode 8: Bandwidth Exhaustion? Eat, Move, Breathe,...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/12/15

Listen in on our conversation with Dr. Tina Bhargava, an Associate Professor at Kent State University. She has been studying how bandwidth (a term she uses for our brain resources) relates to human behavior for the last 10 years and has discovered that truly understanding it can provide a life-changing perspective on why people do what they do—AND what we can do about it.Check out her website at www.everydaybandwidth.com! --- Send in a voice message:

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00:33:21

Episode 7: What Happens in Vagus (the nerve), Doesn't...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/11/22

Grab that cup of coffee and listen in as we wander about in our fog, directly experiencing the influence of the vagus nerve that is overseeing our parasympathetic nervous system and its vast range of crucial functions, such as communicating motor and sensory impulses to every organ in our body. From the common cold to sleep deprivation, we unpack what happens when we get overwhelmed with our world and we share a few strategies that will help to mitigate this stress that we are all experiencing in

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00:49:58

Episode 6: It's Okay to Play Ball in the House

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/11/09

Listen in on our chat as we navigate our stressful world while still trying to hold onto some of the routines that help our families thrive. We somehow link current events, with Halloween, gun sales, and the Olympic Biathlon. Finally settling on discussing regulating, family rules, the difference between tattling and telling, and the most important rule of all...to have fun. Don't miss the mindful moment at the end, as we are certainly in need of those these days! --- Send in a voice message:

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00:58:59

Bonus Episode: Stories from the Field Interviews Maurie

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/10/29

Listen in on the interview as Maurie was a guest on the podcast "Stories from the Field: Demystifying Wilderness Therapy." Stories from the field is dedicated to demystifying wilderness therapy and is hosted by Dr. Will White. In this podcast Will interviews various wilderness therapy researchers, program founders, writers, executive directors, guide staff, clinicians, critics and more. He educates the listener to the long history of the field and different trends related to this evolving treatment

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00:27:52

Episode 5: What if the virus was hot pink?

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/10/18

Grab that coffee and sit back to listen in on our conversation about our experiences during the pandemic, such as our observations about mask wearing, our children interrupting our working from home, and how we are trying to find solid sleep and helpful mindfulness. Savoring seems to be the key. Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support this podcast:

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00:25:11

Episode 4: Our Camping Roots Are Showing

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/10/12

Grab your coffee and sit back for a stroll down memory lane as we chat about our career paths into adventure therapy, camping with our families, and how our personal bandwidth is feeling a bit restricted these days. All of which is being mitigated with some good doses of playfulness and mindfulness. --- 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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00:37:24

Episode 3: Replenishing Your Surge Capacity

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/10/03

We typically access our surge capacity, our collection of our mental and physical adaptive systems, for short-term survival in acutely stressful situations. However, when we try to access it for long-term survival, it can become depleted, causing our bandwidth to become pinched and our compartmentalizing to leak. With the end of the pandemic not yet in sight, listen in as we share our struggles and our ideas of how we resource ourselves through connecting with people and sharing the gifts of

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00:41:12

Episode 2: Who We Are As Parents

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/09/26

Grab your cup of coffee, relax, and listen in on our conversation about parenting, some of our struggles, some of our successes, and just what we think about when we try to answer the question of who we are as a parent. One thing became clear, that throughout our parenting journey, we both aim to focus on our values, while juggling our responsibilities to our family, our work, our friends – all while trying not to lose ourselves in the process. --- Send in a voice message:

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00:36:34

Episode 1: It all begins with pondering stress in our...

Pondering Life Adventures ·

2020/09/18

Grab your cup of coffee and listen in as we chat about some very real life situations we are navigating, sprinkled in with some research about resiliency, tips to mitigate the impacts of the stress, and a tiny bit of mindfulness to reorient your day.This episode dives into how the stress of the pandemic is impacting our families and ourselves during what seemed to be more mundane moments. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ponderinglifeadventures/message Support

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