Your Courageous Journey Podcast

This week the Julie's take a deeper look into addiction recovery. We want you to know that there is hope, and if you or a loved one is suffering from an addiction remember it's always a process. Have patience in the process. Good things are in store for you. Have patience in yourself and forgiveness for yourself. Don't forget to download and share! If you want to share your story please reach out...

This week we share our chat with Danell, all about her journey with addiction, recovery, faith, and being healthy. She has an awesome story and is an amazing person! Her story is so helpful for anyone struggling with addiction or with health issues or faith. We hope you enjoy and as always if you want to share your thoughts or your story reach out to us at ycjpodcast@gmail.com

Last week we did our first special holiday episode with spooky stories for Halloween. We talked to Julie Sickles daughter Lilly and it was so fun! We talked about being sensitive to feelings and emotions. So this week we are doing a deeper dive into what it is to be an empath, the advantages and disadvantages, and how to overcome the disadvantages. We hope you take something away from this as you...

Since this is airing on Halloween, we thought we'd do something that fits the spooky theme and share some spooky stories. Enjoy! Please reach out to us to share your spooky stories or any kind of story you want to share. ycjpodcast@gmail.com

We were definitely amazed last week with Luna and her ability to handle the huge things thrown her way back in 2020.  We decided to examine ways we can all improve our cognitive flexibility so that when life throws something crazy at us, as it does, we will be able to handle it with grace. If we can figure that out, we will be set up to grow! If you have a story you want to share please email us a...

This week we talk to Julie Sickle's sister in law Luna. She shares her exciting adventure during that global pandemic and it's pretty crazy. I really think you all will enjoy it as much as we did. Luna is an amazing story teller and her positive outlook on a tough situation is inspiring. Don't forget to download and if you want to share your story please reach out to us! ycjpodcast@gmail.com  

Some unexpected things have happened this week including a nasty stomach bug that has gone through Julie Sickle's family. We will resume next week.  We do apologize and we did not want to have to skip.  But our podcast isn't the same if we don't have both Julies.  Hope you all have a great week!

In the mind moment this week, we decided to talk more in depth about ADHD. It's definitely something that is very common in both kids and adults these days.  We hope this topic can benefit you or someone you know.  Maybe you have some struggles you didn't realize were part of ADHD.  As always thanks for tuning in and if you want to share your story please let us know! ycjpodcast@gmail.com

This is week we talk with one of the most important people in my life (Julie Faerber), my daughter Hannah. It always amazes me watching young people grow up and become wise adults, especially when it's my own kid. I love interviewing young people as you may remember if you listened to our episode with Julie Sickle's daughter Stella. Hannah shares her experiences with moving and changing her mind o...

or This week we take a deeper dive into the idea of "embracing the suck" or embracing what is.  Why do we want to do that and how do we do that? Please check out or episode post on Facebook and Instagram to see the diagram of The Growth Zone. And please reach out to us if you have questions, comments, or want to share your story.  You can email us at ycjpodcast@gmail.com or message us on Facebook...

This week we talk with Julie Faerber's gamer friend Jace. He has had a pretty interesting life, including being in the military and going on to law enforcement. He talks about the important life lessons he learned from his military days and how it's shaped the person he is now and his outlook on life. He chooses to live life like the line from Lion King, hard things happen and you can either run f...

Welcome back everybody to our 4th season.  The Julie's are excited to celebrate our one year anniversary of launching Your Courageous Journey today!  We talk about our vision for this upcoming year and share some new stories from our lives from this year. Please remember to download the episode and also reach out to us to share ideas, your story, or to give us feedback.  We appreciate you! Thanks...

It's another wrap to another great season. As always we are so thankful for all you listeners and for those who have been courageous and willing to share their stories! We love you and we will see you back here in September for year two of our podcast journey!

This week's episode is short but sweet.  The message is a pretty simple one, doing good for other people not only benefits the people we serve but it benefits us as well.  Find out a little more about what research has found about doing service for others.  As always thank you for tuning in again and please reach out to us if you want to share your story or if you have any suggestions on topics yo...

We are so excited about this week's episode because it's a little different and more upbeat than a lot of the topics we've touched on until now.  Trigger warning though...you may be very hungry after listening to this episode.  Jennifer talks to us all about her experience with food and learning how to cook from a young age with her mom. It's been good for her soul. We hope you enjoy what she has...

We talked last week about hoping to have Kenny come on and tell his perspective on his addiction and road to recovery.  However his recent move proved to take more time than he had expected (as moves often do) but we do hope to talk to him soon!  So today we decided to fulfill John's request via email and talk more about the 911 dispatching world.  I've said this before and I really mean it; I am...

In our mind moment today we discuss addiction. What is the definition of addiction? What types of addiction are there? What are signs of addiction to look for? Sandi mentioned in the interview that she had never had experience with this type of thing and there may be some of us out there that fall under this category.  This information is important for everyone because we never know who of our lov...

This week we share our interview with Sandi and her family's journey dealing with addiction.  We are amazed at her willingness to be so candid about some of the very difficult details from this experience.  Some of those details can be extremely helpful to those who may be going through a similar circumstance.  If you have questions or comments please reach out to us at ycjpodcast@gmail.com or on...

We loved talking to Jeremy last week and what he said about finding good council members.  We love good friends so we decided to focus on what we like in friendships and what makes for healthy relationships.  We all need our council people!  We hope you enjoy this episode.  Please reach out to us and let us know what you liked about what you said, or tell us your stories about your close friends a...

This week we had a fun interview interview with Jeremy.  Jeremy shares some of the lesson and wisdom that he has gained through his difficult experiences dealing with autism, adoption, and other mental health challenges throughout his life.  Jeremy has learned the skill of reaching out for help when needed and the importance of building a network of support with people who truly care about him.  ...

We are changing things up today! Instead of an interview this week, we are keeping things short and sweet!  Julie Faerber is the middle of moving 50 minutes away and is half in one apartment and half in another.  Between the move and problems with the new internet connection, today we are sharing the story of the origin of the name of our podcast and the meaning that it holds for us.  We hope you...

Hello!  We decided to dive a little deeper into perspective and how being open to exploring different perspectives can benefit multiple aspects of our lives.  Talking to Dallin last week was such a morale boost for us and we really enjoyed being able to take a more positive topic for this week's mind moment.  We hope you enjoy it too!  Remember to download and please reach out to us if you're feel...

Today we are sharing with you an interview with Dallin.  Dallin shares his unique family situation, how it evolved over the last 30 years, and how he came to make the best of an awkward situation.  We are so impressed with Dallin's positive mindset and his desire to help other people. We hope you enjoy his positive vibes as much as we did. As always thanks for tuning in and please reach out to us...

We're so excited to be back!  Happy Season 3 everybody! We do talk about this on the episode but we will be changing the day we publish episodes every week.  It will now be Thursdays instead of Tuesdays.  It just works better with my work schedule.  We love and appreciate you all.  Please reach out to us if you want to share a story with us or if you know of someone that might.  You can reach us o...

One more season in the books!  We have said it before but we are so happy to be able to create this podcast for you guys and to hear your stories and learn from you.  Season 2 was so good and we hope you all enjoy it and share with people you think it will help.  We will see you in May with season 3.  Please reach out to us on social media (Instagram and Facebook) at Your Courageous Journey or ema...