Andrew J. Bauman is the Co-Founder & Director of the Christian Counseling Center: For Sexual Health & Trauma (CCC), Andrew J. Bauman is a licensed mental health counselor with a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Andrew is the author of 5 books, The Sexually Healthy Man, Floating Away, Stumbling Toward Wholeness, The Psychology of Porn, and (with Christy) A Brave Lament.

Dr. Lucretia Carter Berry is the founder and President of Brownicity, an agency committed to making important, scholarly-informed, antiracism education accessible. A former college professor, Lucretia designed the popular ‘beginners’ course and authored its study guide, What LIES Between Us: Fostering First Steps Toward Racial Healing. She is the director of Brownicity’s Learning Community, an online membership platform that currently hosts over 10k enrollments. Lucretia is the Anti-race/ism Curriculum Specialist for Community School of Davidson (NC), a contributor for (In)courage.me, and a TEDx and Q Ideas speaker. She is married to Nathan; they have three daughters.

In this episode, Nicole shares how she came to a point of burnout and compassion fatigue in her professional life, leading to a transition into running her own practice serving other clinicians. Her own therapy process revealed raging imposter syndrome, a concept she educates us on in this interview. Check it out!

Liz Burkholder is an integrative nurse practitioner, hypnotherapist, and trauma specialist. She is also a childhood trauma survivor herself. Her mission is to help others actually heal from trauma and reclaim their lives. Trauma Focused Hypnotherapy is one of the main therapies she uses with her clients. Liz is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mind-Body Medicine from Saybrook University.

Sandra Weber is a wellness mentor empowering her clients to rebuild a mind/body connection. Sandra has over a decade of experience in hands-on clinical bodywork and is now using that experience to assist her clients in reducing or preventing chronic pain through mind/body awareness. Sandra owns and operates Integrative Bodywork in Charlotte, North Carolina.

This week, my friend Dr. LaTonya Summers is sharing her story of victory, healing, and championing the black mental health community. You'll be fascinated to find that Dr. Summers spend time in foster care, was kidnapped twice, overcame trauma, and sought an education in counseling in order to find healing. Join us as we find out what flipped her lid and where God has taken her since then!

In my conversation with Curt Thompson, we explore the neuroscience behind shame and how it’s experienced in the mind and body. He shares the tension between desiring and fearing being found, seen, and known. This interview is packed with scientific and spiritual insight around the concepts of shame, vulnerability, how God sees us, and how we can foster healthy relationships with the people in our lives. Check it out and let me know your thoughts in the comments!

In my conversation with Meghan Tschanz, we discuss the intersection of faith and feminism. Meghan shares what it means to be a woman, which in her words, could be better described as what it means to be human.

Meghan shares her experiences growing up in the conservative Evangelical church and the damaging beliefs she adopted in that environment, as well as how she overcame them. She also speaks to her time as a missionary, as well as how being a sexual assault survivor influenced her message and passion as a Christian feminist.

In this episode, Kim and friend Thomas Floyd will flip your lid as they discuss topics such as narcissism in the church, the myth of separation, and failing upward.