Mangled Spaces

This week Mel and Tasha dive into their experiences of how they have seen the Church respond to (and teach about) mental health. They discuss what they have seen succeed and fall flat in various spaces, and ultimately they gear up for a guest on the podcast coming next week!

Join Mel and Tash as they take a small peak into what it looks like to choose to scrap or salvage parts of our lives. Whether it is furniture, relationships, jobs, or thought process there is always a decision to be made.

We are back! After a long holiday season, join Tash and Mel was they discuss how to start moving forward when you feel stuck. Whether it is in parenting, realtionships, careers or in just the simple everyday moments, we hope you find this episode both comforting and helpful.

Join us as we warp up our giftting series by discussion the gift of service and how we can be recievers.

This is the second episode in our mini series on gifts. We explore gifts on a budget and what happenes when a gift fulfills it's purpose.

As the holiday season quickly desends we are kicking off a mini series on the ins and outs of gift giving. This week we discuss heart posture, conviences and the over all apppraoch we take to giving and recieveing gifts. We also throw in a couple of our epic gift fails along the way.

Tasha recounts her expereince finding community and challege while alone at a weekend conference.

This week wraps up our mini series on the power of assessment. Here we talk about what it feels like to assess and realize we have to move backwards. We'll talk about grieving the loss of former goals and plans, and reframe the idea that everything in life moves forward-or-backward.

This week we look at three steps we can take to help us move through conflict. We discuss physical and relational safety dynamics while prioritizing relationships and a path forward.

This week we are diving into the power of pausing to intentionally assess the situations around us and act accordingly. This is the first step in moving from a reactive state of living to a proactive one.

This week wraps up the mini series on the role of the housewife. We will share some of the things we have tried, and what has worked in each of our homes to restore balance to a seemingly broken cultural norm.

This week we are talking about BURNOUT, and how our society and culture has shifted toward fueling the failure of our collective wellbeing. We will examine some of the places we find ourselves in "no-win" situations, and set the stage to problem-solve next ween.

We are embarking on a 3 episode series disecting the role of the housewife in American culture. This week's episode looks at how we got here. We'll talk about some of the attitudes we have percieved as women in the workplace, in the home, and church. This week will set the stage for the next two weeks where we will discuss what isn't working about the current distribution of home responsibilities,...

Welcome Back, listeners! We are kicking off a new season after a summer break from recording. We are so thrilled that you are joining us again, and can't wait to fill you in on what we've been up to!

This week Mel and Tash talk a little bit more about parenting in the LGBTQ space. Tash opens up about how they make choices as a family amongst faith and outside influences.

We do a lot of mental and emotional work processing trauma and the tricky parts of life. But what about when your body's response doesn't align with your thoughts about a situation? This episode is all about hearing what the body has to say, and attending to it in a way that let's you move forward in a values-aligned way.

This week Tash and Mel talk through what it was like to navigate Mother's Day. Which turned out to be not all that bad.

Tasha and Mel are re-counting their experiences at Theology in the Raw's conference called Exiles in Babylon. This week's episode zeroes in on their reflections on the theme of The Future of the Church and the Multiethnic Church.

Tash and Mel share new insights they brought back with them from the Exiles in Babylon Conference they attended recently. Both were challenged by how much they have to learn when it comes to equality and inclusivity--and what that means in their approach to loving others in their day-to-day lives.

In this week's episode, Tasha and Mel share what they learned about the role of women in leadership within the church. Attending a conference called Exiles in Babylon gave them the opportunity to hear a group of theologians debate on this topic, and it left them with several new perspectives to discuss.

After a few weeks away from the microphones, Tash and Mel are back from their mental health break and here with an update! Listen I'm for a quick update of where they've been, and what they plan to share over the course of the next few episodes!

We dropped the pressure to bring educational, researched content this week. Listen in for an open-mic style conversation about absurd things people have had the audacity to say...and how we responded.

This week's episode is the third of 3 sharing our understanding and experience around attachment. This conversation is about how attachment impacts adult relationships in our lives. When we understand the vulnerabilities that may come from less-than-secure attachment types, we are better able to communicate with, uplift, trust, and empower those we interact with.

This week's episode is #2 of 3 sharing our understanding and experience of attachment. This conversation is about *how* we used our roles as mothers to attend to the attachment needs of our kiddos. Less-than-secure attachment in kids comes with a variety of needs and behaviors, and we are sharing some of the strategies that worked (or didn't!) for us through our parenting journies

This week's episode is #1 of 3 sharing our understanding and experience of attachment. This conversation is really the "what and why" behind what we know of attachment styles. This information sets us up for the next 2 weeks where we discuss the "how" of healthy relationships through the lense of less-than-secure attachment.