Woman Being

This week, Kelley shares all the details of getting married when she was only 18 years old, just weeks after graduating high school. She talks about her expectations of what a young Christian wife should look like, navigating marriage with college responsibilities, and how to know when it's the right timing. Find out what it was like to be engaged in high school, and the kinds of feedback she rece...

The Women Beings sit down together to discuss the topic of singleness. Emma, the singleness expert, shares about the ups and downs, the awkward comments, and how to avoid comparison. Most importantly, why your relationships status doesn't indicate your value or determine your worth. Live your life to the fullest, singles!   ---   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womanbeingpodcast/ We...

Can Christians be gay? This week, the Woman Beings sit down to tackle this mountain of a question with Jared Edskerud, an aspiring author and advocate for LGBTQ+ in the church. He shares his own journey growing up gay in conservative Christian culture and how he eventually came out and married another man after 28 years of struggle.    Resources Mentioned: Boy Erased on Amazon: https://a...

In the midst of a pandemic, the importance of mental health couldn't be more prevalent. The Woman Beings sit down with licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Ashley Ellis to talk about therapy. How do you practice self care during what some consider to be the hardest year yet? What are the hardest things about the job? Should everyone go to therapy, or just the people who need it? All that and...

Let's be real. There's hair down there. What does it mean - is it good? bad? ugly? The Woman Beings sit down with wax specialist Sarah Parker to talk about hair, vaginas, body image, and fully living in the skin you're in. Spoiler: your vagina? Yes, it's totally normal. We promise. The Pretty Peach Wax: https://www.theprettypeachwax.com/ ---   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womanbeingpo...

This week, the Woman Beings interview Lana Cruz - a pastor, mother, and wife - about what it means to be a woman in church leadership. She goes deep into the value that women bring to the church, what it's like to forge your own path, and how to live as your truest self. Buckle up, grab a kombucha and DIVE into this episode!   ---   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womanbeingpod...

This week the Woman Beings are reviewing the documentary, The Social Dilemma. Should you leave social media and live as a hermit? Are you becoming a robot under the influence of the algorithm slowly taking over our society? You'll find the answers to those questions and so much more in this episode!  ---   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womanbeingpodcast/  Website: https:...

Your 20s are truly a wild and crazy time - whether you're graduating college, entering the workforce, or just figuring out how to be an adult. This week, in honor of our birthday month, the Woman Beings dive into all the hurdles that come along with a quarter life crisis and give our advice on handling feeling like your life is totally falling apart! ---   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com...

Welcome to the very first Not Your Mom's Book Club review! Today the Woman Beings discuss the book, "Educated" by Tara Westover. "Educated" is Westover's memoir about growing up in rural Idaho under the care of extremist, hyper-religious parents. They denied their daughter a proper education out of fear that she would be influenced by corrupt governmental systems. Against all odds, Tara was accept...

Many who grew up under the influence of abstinence teaching remember well the book, “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” by Joshua Harris. In a world where Harris has renounced the book and his faith, many have started to question the validity of abstinence teaching, and its hand in perpetuating shame culture. The Woman Beings dive into the topic of abstinence and the way the Church has implemented it. From...

This week the Woman Beings sit down with Chloe Lynch to talk about the foster care system in California, the role of women in social services, the pay gap, and some of the amazing ways that people are making a huge difference in the lives of children and families.   Resources Mentioned: The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk: https://bit.ly/34qPt8b The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez...

One episode on modesty just wasn't enough! Join the Woman Beings as they discuss the stigmas surrounding nudity, caring for 'brothers in Christ,' and the women who bravely stood up for clothing equality. They also discuss how parents can navigate these discussions with their teenagers, and the power of forgiveness in these conversations.   ---   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...

In this week's episode, the Woman Beings talk about the critically acclaimed yet highly controversial film, Cuties or Mignonnes. Netflix and the director, Maïmouna Doucouré, have received a lot of backlash for this French film featuring 11-year-old girls dancing provocatively. Many have spoken out against the film for exploiting young girls and promoting pornographic imagery of children, birthing...

The discussion of 'modesty' is not unfamiliar to young women in the church. In fact, for some, it was a central doctrine. Find out what the 'problem with modesty' really is as the Woman Beings share their own stories of learning how to navigate clothing and purity, and how they had to learn to love their skin.  ---  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womanbeingpodcast/ Website: https:/...

Poet, preacher, activist, storyteller, and co-founder of MVMNT Collaborative, Tinasha LaRayé joins the Woman Beings to share on racial justice, black history, kingdom principles, and the role of women in the black history movement.    Disclaimer: We mention the death of Jacob Blake near the beginning of the episode, and just wanted to clarify that we misspoke. Jacob Blake is alive and cu...

Woman Being is a community of people who happen to be female. We host conversations in order to gain perspective and promote healing. On our own we only have a part of the story but together we create a whole story, the human story. This project was birthed out of a close group of friends getting lost in conversation. Maybe we just like hearing ourselves talk, or maybe we found our conversations s...