Leeana shares reflections and challenges, directed mostly to her white listeners, on attitudes and behaviors that are congruent with Christ's message of reconciliation.Be sure to go to www.LeeanaTankersley.com/blog for more resources, links, and additional reflections on today's topic.

Beginning Again with Leeana Tankersley

I Believe You: Reflections on Racial Reconciliation

Leeana welcomes dear friend and group member, Debbie Cressey (aka Pirate Debs – you’ll hear the story), to the podcast to talk about planting and growing green things! What a perfect time to bring some life into your spaces. Brain research tells us that getting our hands moving in a productive way wards off depression and anxiety, and Debbie is here to help us plan and plant with purpose!You can find a corresponding blog post at www.leeanatankersley.com/blog that includes links mentioned in the episode and a summary of the podcast conversation.

Growing Your Green Thumb with Pirate Debs

Leeana and Elaine Hamilton (www.soulcarehouse.com) talk about things they are each loving lately. This episode is lighthearted and packed with random ideas if you need a boost, some inspiration, or even a bit of entertainment right now.As always, you can find a corresponding blog post (with links to everything mentioned in the episode + some bonus ideas that weren’t mentioned in the episode) at www.leeanatankersley.com/blog.

Loving Lately

Leeana welcomes back Warrior Sister and licensed therapist, Elaine Hamilton, for a conversation about family brands. Leeana talks about a pep-talk she and the rest of her family received from her brother, Trey (AKA family CEO), which led to some consideration about what being “on brand” and “off brand” looks like in a family. Leeana and Elaine each share some of the hallmarks of their own family “brands.”As always, you can find additional musings, resources, and links on Leeana’s blog, www.leeanatankersley.com/blog. Each week she includes a post that corresponds with the podcast.

#ONBRAND

Leeana welcomes longtime friend and spiritual director, Linsey Wildey, to the show to talk about accessible spiritual practices. The conversation is fun and soulful and full of resources you can use to help you during quarantine and beyond. To find out more about Linsey’s practice, visit www.linseywildey.com. And for additional resources, links, and thoughts on the episode, visit www.leeanatankersley.com/blog.

Spiritual Practices for Quarantine and Beyond

Leeana welcomes regular guest, Elaine Hamilton, and they talk through what it means to step into your true self and leave behind some of the ways we diminish ourselves. This is an important conversation about getting out of our heads and into our hearts.

As Big As You Are; As Free As You Are

Leeana welcomes show regular, Elaine Hamilton, for a conversation on the one-year anniversary of the passing of Elaine's husband. This is a tender conversation about emerging from loss and reclaiming creativity and vitality.  You can get background information, resources, and additional thoughts on this episode at www.leeanatankersley.com/blog.

From Surviving to Living

Leeana invites longtime friend and group member, Erica Ruse, to offer a "quick relax" meditation. Erica has offered these to their group for over a decade -- a way to quiet down, breathe, reintegrate, come home to your body, and begin again. 

Begin Again with a Quick Relax

Leeana and Elaine talk through quarantine, depression, anxiety, lifelines, and regulating our bodies and nervous systems. It's two girlfriends checking in on how they're each doing with a side of therapeutic expertise (Elaine)!

Surviving Quarantine: Remember What You Already Know

Leeana interviews author and therapist, Nicole Zasowski, about her new book Lost to Found. Nicole talks about the devastation of her fertility journey as a way to talk about the losses that we all experience. The conversation includes heartbreak, hope, and what it truly means to surrender.

Lost to Found with Nicole Zasowski

Leeana and Elaine talk more about groups and many of the possible issues that come up when women come together. They talk about group values, time, conflict, what it means to be the "leader," and expectations.

Deepening Connection with Other Women, Part 2

Leeana and Elaine talk about nurturing deeper connection with other women in friendships and also intentional groups. They share about the groups they've been a part of how and how they started them.

Deepening Connection with Other Women, Part 1

Elaine and Leeana talk about how to care for yourself when you're going through a tough season.

What's Helping.

Leeana and Elaine look back at 2019 and each share what they're letting go of from the past year (it was a DOOZY for both of them). And then they look ahead at 2020, sharing their words for the year, and how they hope to incorporate those words into their daily lives. (Spoiler: This is not a do more, do better, be a new you kind of episode. This one's got a lot of grace, friends!)

New Year Reflections: No Wonder I'm Tired

Elaine and Leeana Tankersley share how they are approaching this season while in the middle of big change and loss.    

Loss, Grieving And The Holidays

A conversation about the complicated endeavor of beginning again -- letting go, being a beginner, walking with ourselves through change, and the vulnerability of opening up to new life. Hosted by Leeana Tankersley. Leeana is a writer, mom of three, and storyteller. She is the author of five books, including her newest: Always We Begin Again: Stepping Into the Next, New Moment.

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Beginning Again with Leeana Tankersley

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