Reframing our Stories: The Podcast
83 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsStories shape who we are and they hold a lot of power. As we navigate this world we realize that these stories need a great deal of editing. In this podcast we will examine some of these stories around sex, religion, grief, race, and joy.
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Episode 27: Sexuality Education with the Puberty Prof: Lori Reichel
December 15, 2021 15:15 - 57 minutes - 79 MBSo much of sexual health education around puberty and beyond revolves around healthy relationships and communication. Lori takes a deep dive into what that means in her classroom with students going through puberty and the young adults she teaches in college. Lori Reichel is the Puberty Prof. Lori loves to provide hands on education to children that is not lecture based to help them learn about their bodies and relationships. With over 30 years of experience as a sex educator she knows the...
Episode 26: Negotiating in Sex and Listening to the Inner Child: Francesca Gentille
December 01, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 82 MBThere is so much richness in this episode around relationships. Kara and Francesca start their conversation with BDSM and end with talking to your inner child and how our relationships mirror the unmet expectations and trauma of childhood. Francesca talks at great length about the way our brain plays a role and how we can learn how to care for ourselves to have an enriching sex life with ourselves and or partners. Francesca Gentille, Certified Clinical Sexologist and initiated shaman, insp...
Episode 25: Let’s Talk About Sex - No Shame. Dr. Lea Lis
November 10, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 59 MBWith shared enthusiasm for talking about sex to parents and kids shame free, Kara and Dr. Lea Lis get right to it with the help from her book: No Shame: Real Talk With Your Kids About Sex, Self-confidence, and Healthy Relationships. In this episode we highlight the importance of being able to talk with our children about sex and to not fear it as often as we do. Dr. Lea helps to dispel myths and provides insight into what she learned from her clients. She is uniquely positioned to help pare...
Episode 25: Let’s Talk About Sex - No Shame: Dr. Lea Lis
November 10, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 59 MBWith shared enthusiasm for talking about sex to parents and kids shame free, Kara and Dr. Lea Lis get right to it with the help from her book: No Shame: Real Talk With Your Kids About Sex, Self-confidence, and Healthy Relationships. In this episode we highlight the importance of being able to talk with our children about sex and to not fear it as often as we do. Dr. Lea helps to dispel myths and provides insight into what she learned from her clients. She is uniquely positioned to help pare...
The Fullness of our Sexuality: Todd Malloy
October 27, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBTodd Malloy, a North Carolina Certified Sex Therapist and Educator, talks with Kara about the fullness that we can experience in our sexual lives when we allow intimacy to take the lead instead of our mindset based on performance. They also discuss how our childhood experiences shape the narratives we bring into the bedroom and how we can work to change them. We can learn how to take the hardships and turn them into the fuel to move forward and create a better world for ourselves and others....
Episode 24: The Fullness of our Sexuality: Todd Malloy
October 27, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBTodd Malloy, a North Carolina Certified Sex Therapist and Educator, talks with Kara about the fullness that we can experience in our sexual lives when we allow intimacy to take the lead instead of our mindset based on performance. They also discuss how our childhood experiences shape the narratives we bring into the bedroom and how we can work to change them. We can learn how to take the hardships and turn them into the fuel to move forward and create a better world for ourselves and others....
Episode 23: Dancing Through Grief: Kelsey Beebe
October 13, 2021 05:30 - 50 minutes - 69 MBKara and Kelsey share a love for dance. It is their preferred way of communicating. In this episode, you will hear the way dance and ministry were integral for Pastor Kelsey in the way she interacts with the divine and grief. She values connection and the way our bodies hold the stories in our lives that sometimes need reframing, celebrated, or released.
Dancing Through Grief: Kelsey Beebe
October 13, 2021 05:30 - 50 minutes - 69 MBKara and Kelsey share a love for dance. It is their preferred way of communicating. In this episode, you will hear the way dance and ministry were integral for Pastor Kelsey in the way she interacts with the divine and grief. She values connection and the way our bodies hold the stories in our lives that sometimes need reframing, celebrated, or released.
Episode 22: Intersex, Gender and God: Megan DeFranza
September 29, 2021 01:00 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBIn this episode Kara and Megan discuss intersex and how learning about those with varying sex chromosomes opened their world up more to faith and understanding gender. Gender and our biology are fascinating and there is a lot to learn. Megan has done intensive studies into both the theology and science around the intersex population and advocates on their behalf in church and community spaces. Megan holds a PhD in religious studies. She is a theologian, author, speaker, and film-maker. She...
Episode 21: Sexuality Education Our Whole Lives: Amy Johnson
September 15, 2021 04:13 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBWelcome to Season 2! Kara catches up with Amy Johnson to discuss their shared love of sexual health education as well as the need to talk about it openly and without shame in our church communities. Amy has twenty+ years of experience talking to church communities and her wisdom on this topic runs deep. Amy Johnson, MSW, LICSW, CSE is a Commissioned Minister for Sexuality Education in the United Church of Christ (UCC), where she serves as Minister of Sexuality Education and Justice in the n...
Episode 20: Season Finale - Reflecting on the Past Year
July 28, 2021 16:18 - 1 hour - 84 MBIn the last episode for Season One of Reframing our Stories: The Podcast, Kara and Jenny spend time reflecting over the last year about their business and personal lessons they have learned related to racism, intimacy, connectedness, and when to seek help. You will also learn of projects they are working on and how they are continuing to create tools to help families, schools, and churches to use and make it easier to have the conversations we need around sexuality. They want to hear from ...
Episode 19: Being the Benchmark: Erin Tarr
July 07, 2021 05:52 - 45 minutes - 63.1 MBIn this episode, Kara and Erin discuss the beauty of what happens when we are our own benchmark by not comparing ourselves to others, but instead learning how to encourage and lift one another up. Erin works with those who identify as girls to help them find their confidence in who they are and start to capitalize on that while they are young to help them through the confusing teen years. In their conversation you will hear how many parents seek out similar help after they realize they have ...
Episode 18: Sexuality, Grief, Miscarriage: Danae Ashley
June 16, 2021 15:28 - 1 hour - 103 MBDenae and Kara discuss the deep connections between sexuality and spirituality. When we ignore our bodies we end up suffering. God invites us to listen more closely to ourselves daily — we just need to accept that invitation. Sometimes our story isn’t written the way we want it to be, so it’s okay to grieve that and then find life and a new purpose. Your story is still valid even if it is not what you imagined. A native of Spokane, Washington, the Rev. Danae M. Ashley, MDiv, MA, LMFT is an...
Episode 17: The Ripple Effect of Debunking Sex Myths: Pamela Joy
June 02, 2021 06:14 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBPamela Joy left her high-tech career at Apple and Facebook to found Down To There to help the world talk more openly about sex. She is a Somatica® Certified Sex and Relationship Coach, and has a Masters in Counseling Psychology with over 1,500 hours of additional training in the field of sexuality. Through her writing, speaking and coaching, she works collaboratively and experientially with clients to increase their capacity for emotional and physical intimacy. Pamela is also a Trauma-Inform...
The Ripple Effect of Debunking Sex Myths: Pamela Joy
June 02, 2021 06:14 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBPamela Joy left her high-tech career at Apple and Facebook to found Down To There to help the world talk more openly about sex. She is a Somatica® Certified Sex and Relationship Coach, and has a Masters in Counseling Psychology with over 1,500 hours of additional training in the field of sexuality. Through her writing, speaking and coaching, she works collaboratively and experientially with clients to increase their capacity for emotional and physical intimacy. Pamela is also a Trauma-Inform...
Inclusive Theology: Rev M Barclay
May 19, 2021 15:01 - 43 minutes - 59.1 MBM is the Director and Co-Founder of enfleshed where they are creating and facilitating spiritual resources for collective liberation. They love and linger in the work and the places where poets, activists, lovers, healers, queers, dreamers, and Spirit all coalesce.
Episode 16: Inclusive Theology: Rev M Barclay
May 19, 2021 15:01 - 43 minutes - 59.1 MBM is the Director and Co-Founder of enfleshed where they are creating and facilitating spiritual resources for collective liberation. They love and linger in the work and the places where poets, activists, lovers, healers, queers, dreamers, and Spirit all coalesce.
Pop Up Books, Boxes that Confine, and Sex Education: Kristen Lilla
May 05, 2021 03:28 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBKristen Lilla is Nebraska and Iowa’s only AASECT Certified Sex Therapist (CST) and AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator (CSE) through the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). She is also one of four dually Certified Sex Educator and Therapy Supervisors in the world. In addition, Kristen Lilla published two books in 2019; Boxes and How We Fill Them: A Basic Guide to Sexual Awareness, and Vaginas and Periods 101: A Pop-Up Book. She is frequently quoted in...
Episode 15: Pop Up Books, Boxes that Confine, and Sex Education: Kristen Lilla
May 05, 2021 03:28 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBKristen Lilla is Nebraska and Iowa’s only AASECT Certified Sex Therapist (CST) and AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator (CSE) through the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). She is also one of four dually Certified Sex Educator and Therapy Supervisors in the world. In addition, Kristen Lilla published two books in 2019; Boxes and How We Fill Them: A Basic Guide to Sexual Awareness, and Vaginas and Periods 101: A Pop-Up Book. She is frequently quoted in...
Episode 14: An Eye for Underdogs: Mark Pickering
April 21, 2021 05:30 - 59 minutes - 82 MBKara catches up with her high school English and journalism teacher, Mark Pickering. After three decades of teaching, Mark recounts his experiences coming from the business world to teaching literature, writing and business. He advised the school newspaper for five years and coached both boys and girls golf for 23 seasons. They discuss how journalism provided an outlet for kids from diverse backgrounds to come together, express themselves, find their voice and be heard.
Episode 13: Community Organizing and Race Relations: Elle Dowd
April 07, 2021 03:10 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBElle Dowd (she/her/hers) is a bi-furious recent graduate of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and a candidate for ordained ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Elle has pieces of her heart in Sierra Leone, where her two children were born, and in St. Louis where she learned from the radical, queer, Black leadership during the Ferguson Uprising. She was formerly a co-conspirator with the movement to #decolonizeLutheranism and currently serves as a board member ...
Episode 12: Lady Bits Physical Therapy: Julie Kwong
March 17, 2021 15:34 - 59 minutes - 82 MBJulie Kwong, MPT, is the owner and primary therapist for Lady Bits Physical Therapy, based in Sacramento, CA. She is honored and dedicated to work with every lady trusting her with their special bits. Having experienced pelvic floor dysfunction herself, she can relate to the experiences, frustrations, pains, and feelings of isolation. As she learns and grows as a therapist (because a good therapist never stops learning), she always seeks to improve her skills and knowledge so that every ...
Episode 11: Learning Self Worth through Boudoir: Andrea Mendoza
March 03, 2021 06:46 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBAndrea Mendoza is the owner and artist behind Andi Boudoir. Andrea considers herself a champion of women, and has made it her mission to empower, heal and hold space via photography, helping teach women the power in understanding and feeding themselves as an individual. She operates out of a gorgeous studio in the heart of Old Roseville, CA chasing light and walking women through a journey of self appreciation. Learn more about Andi and her work at: www.andiboudoir.com/lovenotes This episo...
Episode 10: Where the Church Needs to Go: Eric Clapp
February 17, 2021 15:02 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBIn this episode we talk to my friend, Eric Clapp, a Lutheran pastor. He openly speaks out about white supremacy, is a feminist, and works to be inclusive in his ministry. I have long admired Eric's thoughtfulness, wisdom, and the ability to be open to learn from many other voices. He is an avid reader and wants to see the church become a place that seeks reconciliation and uphold the true teaching of the gospels.
Episode 9: Permission Granted - Sexuality and the Bible: Jennifer Bird
February 03, 2021 02:39 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBAs a biblical scholar, Jennifer Bird wants to have honest, I mean really honest, conversations with others about what the Bible does and does not say on any given topic. Her personal background and feminist framework mean that she is particularly interested in the topics of women, sex, sexuality, and relationships. What potentially unhealthy expectations and practices are alive and well in our society, in part due to not critically evaluating how biblical texts have shaped and informed them....
Episode 8: Life Coach - Learning from People and the Stories They Tell Themselves: Tami Hackbarth
January 20, 2021 06:35 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBTami Hackbarth is a life coach and the host of the 100% Guilt-Free Self-Care podcast. She works with women who want to get their time and energy back so they can go after their big dreams and create the world they want to live in. In our conversation, Tami notes a recent focus in her podcast on managing through the pandemic - check out episode 56: 10 Tips for Feeling Less Like Shit. She believes 100% Guilt-Free Self-Care is the answer to creating your dream life. She brings a philosophy of ...
Episode 7: Purity Culture - Reframing Sexuality from an Evangelical Lens: Linda Kay Klein
January 05, 2021 22:03 - 1 hour - 101 MBIn Linda’s book Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, she discusses what it was like as an Evangelical girl growing up in purity culture and the effect it had on her sexuality. The book also highlights the countless other women who she interviewed nationwide on the same topic. Whenever I do workshops within a church community, I recommend this excellent book which mirrors so many stories of women who grew up in religious communiti...
Episode 6: Music Sustains - Following Your Passion Through Grief: Dave Kellan
December 02, 2020 07:40 - 46 minutes - 64 MBIn this episode I talk to Dave Kellan, a musician in the greater New York area. Dave and I went to high school together and I always admired the way he followed his love for music. Dave has won multiple awards and competitions for his music and has opened for bands like Uncle Kracker and Bowling for Soup. His love for music has carried him through difficult times of grief, which you will hear about in this episode. If you enjoy the intro and outro music to Reframing our Stories: The Podcast,...
Episode 5: Motherhood - Why Didn't They Tell Me? : Kelly Conroy
November 18, 2020 07:45 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBKelly Conroy is the creator of Fierce Unfolding, an organization with a mission to build community, dismantle internalized patriarchy, and facilitate systemic change. She offers space for women to cultivate self-awareness and know themselves, to heal and love who they are. In this episode, we talk about the paths to motherhood and the unspoken expectations, loss and identity challenges that many women experience in becoming a mother. Kelly is a writer, researcher, and mother who is changi...
Episode 4: Race, Health, and being a High-Powered Dad: Tory High
November 04, 2020 02:53 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBIn this episode, I’ll introduce you to Tory High. I have known him since college and it has been a joy to see Tory pave a path for himself helping others achieve health and wellness as a personal trainer, and also share and motivate about being a strong and attentive parent through his business called The High-Powered Dad. Discussing race can be challenging - I struggle to find my own words, but there are some conversations we need to enter into, even if we stammer and stumble. Tory ...
Episode 3: How Trauma and Grief Opened a Path to Equity and Inclusion Work: Sara Johnson
October 21, 2020 12:34 - 53 minutes - 72.9 MBMy good friend Sara Johnson does amazing racial equity work as a Founding Partner with The Truth & Titus Collective. Trigger warning for listeners -- in this episode, we talk about the death of a child. We also discuss church, fear, risk and learning to be uncomfortable. These are hard subjects for many, so please do what you need to do and care for yourself.
Episode 2: From Client to Partner: Jenny Mohler
October 07, 2020 04:23 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBIn today’s episode, I’m going to introduce you to my dear business partner, Jenny Mohler. She talks about her childhood and growing up in a family where the real conversations around sexuality just didn’t happen and how that affected her going forward. I think many of us can relate to this one. Let’s dive in!
Episode 1: Pilot of Reframing our Stories
September 16, 2020 18:55 - 9 minutes - 7.85 MBIn the pilot of Reframing Our Stories, I’ll tell a little bit about my story and passion behind this podcast. I believe stories have the power to transform us as people and I want to share some truly inspiring stories from guests in all aspects of life. Our stories can be scary and beautiful. That's what this podcast is about.