Yet We Thrive
By Lindsay Behr & Casey Watkins
Yet We ThriveFeb 18, 2024
Episode 147: Love Your Body Mentally
Loving our bodies mentally looks a lot like loving your body for what it is capable of doing, thinking, and creating. Join hosts, Lindsay and Casey, as they share what they love about their minds, and what you should love about yours as well!
Episode 146: Love Your Body Physically
Loving your body is hard. Loving your body after miscarriage and infertility is ever harder. But loving your body has so many benefits! Tune in this week as hosts Casey and Lindsay talk about what it means to love your body physically.
Episode 145: New Rhythms For A New Year
Forget New Year’s resolutions and tap into the goodness of adding rhythms to your life! Listen in to hear some great rhythms that you could add to your life and learn how to create a list of your own!
Full Episode 144: Peace For The Weary Heart
Are you feeling weary dear friend? Have the holidays or the hurts of infertility or baby loss exhausted you? Did you know that there is peace available to you? Tune in to hear how we’ve found peace in our hearts and homes.
Episode 143: Toni Jackson-Lawrence's Story
This week, special guest, Toni Jackson-Lawrence joins us to share her heartbreaking story of infertility and the hope that held her together.
Episode 142: Make Space For Traditions
Sometimes when you’re part of this club that you never intended to sign up for, old traditions can feel hard or stale. Or maybe you’ve never started any traditions because you’ve been waiting for your family to grow to start something new. Wherever you fall, we think now is the perfect time to start making room for traditions. Listen in to hear how.
Episode 141: Live Life In The Little Moments
So often, we find ourselves living for the big moments. Wedding days and graduations, vacations and weekends. While all those things are good and dandy, and certainly deserve to be celebrated, if we place most of our focus on them, we lose the beauty in the little moments. And really, it's the little moments that make up the big moments. Find out exactly what we mean in this week's episode.
Episode 140: A Thoughtful Thanksgiving
It's Thanksgiving week here in the United States and we know just how tricky of a time this can be for those of us who have struggled with miscarriage, infant loss, and infertility. It's ok to be sad, but we don't want you to feel discouraged. Even though our worlds have fallen apart, we still have much to be thankful for. Join us this week, and we'll help you see how to have a thoughtful thanksgiving.
Episode 139: Broken, Beautiful, and Made New
If you are in this club that none of us ever intended to sign up for, we know that you have been broken. But what if we told you that you didn't have to stay that way? What if we told you that you are still beautiful and can be made new? Find out how in this week's episode!
Episode 137: To Know Me
This miscarriage, baby loss, infertility club can feel so isolating and lonely at times. One thing that helps us through is music. Listen in to this week's episode as we talk about a special song by Lauren Daigle that lends an ear to how we feel ourselves sometimes.
Episode 138: Find Your Glimmers
This month's Thrive Tip is Find Your Glimmers. We know that the month of gratitude can feel impossibly hard when the things you had hoped for are missing. We want to help you find your glimmers to help you find your way through the dark. Listen in to this week's episode to find out how.
Episode 136: Mia Baldwin's Story
Join us this week as special guest, Mia Baldwin of The Mother's Shepherd and Isla and Elm, shares her story of loss and what she did to help her heart heal.
Episode 135: Chelsea Mueller's Story
In this week's episode, Chelsea Mueller shares about her story of her stillbirth and her other FIVE miscarriages and the heartache and hope that comes with them.
Episode 134: Honor Your Story
This month is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month and we want to encourage you to honor your story. Listen in to find out how!
Episode 133: Say What You Need To Say
There can be a lot of reasons we may be sitting alone on our couches, but one of them may be that we aren't saying what we need to say. Take it from us, we know how hard it can be to speak up, especially in the midst of impossible circumstances. But speaking what needs to be spoken is worth it! Listen in to this week's episode to hear more!
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Episode 132: Michelle Mott's Story
Join us this week as special guest, Michelle Mott, shares her loss story. You will leave feeling encouraged, empowered, and far less alone.
Also, check out Episode 104 for Q&A with a grief therapist!
Episode 131: The Science Of Hugging
Did you know that hugging has an immense number of benefits directly related to your health? It does! Listen in to this week's episode to discover what those benefits are and why you should consider making hugs more a part of your regular routine.
Episode 130: Find Your Gumption
Showing up every day in the midst of an imperfect fertility journey requires gumption, and we know that you've got it! Find out what that means and how you can harness YOUR gumption in this week's episode.
Episode 129: What If I Have Empty Arms and A Full Heart?
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they talk about how having a full heart doesn't have to mean having full arms.
Episode 128: Celebrate What You Have. Grieve What You Don't
In this week's episode, join hosts Jessica and Lindsay and that talk about how to celebrate what you have and to grieve what you don't.
Episode 127: Share What You Have Now
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they talk about why it's important for you to share what you have now
Episode 126: Embrace Who You Are Now
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they talk about taking the time to embrace who you are now.
Episode 125: You Don't Have to Wait
Join us this week as we dive in to this month's thrive tip which is DON'T WAIT!
Episode 124: Brandon Janous's Story
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they welcome a very special guest Brandon Janous as he shares his own story of loss.
Episode 123: Dancing in the Rain: Jill Howell's Story
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they welcome special guest Jill Howell to share her unique story of "dancing in the rain."
Episode 122: Dara's Story
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they welcome special guest Dara Oldham to share her story
Episode 121: The Art of Letting Them In
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they talk about the art of letting people in.
Episode 120: Micala McClain's Story
This week, join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they welcome special guest Micala McClain to tell her story.
Episode 119: What You Don't Know About Male Factor Infertility
Did you know roughly 15% of of couples in the US have trouble conceiving and over 50% of the time, there is a male infertility issue? Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay at they talk male factor infertility.
Episode 118: Michael Redden's Story
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they welcome special guest, Michael Redden (aka Lindsay's Dad) as he shares his story.
Episode 117: Be Informed
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as that talk about this month's thrive tip which is to BE INFORMED
Episode 116: Encouragement for When You Feel Forgotten
What happens when that strong support system that you had doesn't quite look like it did a week, a month, or even years after. Grief can strike at any time and you never know what might just trigger it. What then? Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay as they talk about encouragement even in the midst of feeling forgotten.
Episode 115: Lauren Allen's Story
In this episode, Lauren Allen shares her story of loss, as well as how she learned to fill up her cup in the midst of her pain. Lauren is special to the Yet We Thrive team because she makes our candles for us. Listen to this episode, and then check out her business, Pretty Little Light Candle Co.
Episode 114: Lessons I Learned on Death's Doorstep
Your perspective on life changes so much when you've looked death in the face and fought like hell to live. In this special episode, hosts, Jessica and Lindsay, as well as YWT team member, Violet Short, share the lessons they learned during each of their turns on death's doorstep. This is a great episode to listen to when life feels really hard. This life is worth it, even on the hardest days.
Episode 113: How to Survive Mother's Day in the Midst of an Imperfect Infertility Journey
Mothers Day can be so hard for so many reasons. Some of us don't have great relationships with our own mothers and for others of us, we've either been trying really hard to be a mom, and infertility has robbed us of that, or we've lost one or more babies because of miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss. We know how triggering a day like Mother's Day can be. Which is why we created this episode: So you know how to survive Mother's Day, even in the midst of impossible circumstances.
Episode 112: Its OK to Take A Break
May can be hard. Mother's Day, pregnancy and birth announcements, not to mention coming off of National Infertility Awareness Week last month. It can all be a lot. Which is why hosts Jessica and Lindsay want to encourage you to take a break this month. Learn how to do that in this week's episode.
Episode 111: Shannon Brayton's Story
Join us this week with special guest Shannon Brayton as she shares her story.
Episode 110: Infertility as a Couple
Join us this week as we talk infertility as a couple with special guest and team member Casey Watkins and her husband Carl.
Episode 109: Joelle Samples's Story
Tune in this week as Joelle Samples of YinRoot shares her story of infertility.
Episode 108: Look For Life
This week we welcome YTW team member Casey Watkins as we talk about how to look for life!
Episode 107: Your Membership to this Club is Valid...And it Never Expires
This week join us as we talk about why your membership to this club is valid because no matter what, you were never meant to sit on your couch alone.
Episode 106: Postpartum Depression After Loss
Join us this week as we welcome Claire Olsen from Piper's Purpose as she shares about her postpartum depression after loss.
Episode 105: Sarah Elgouche's Story
Join us this week as special guest, Sarah Elgouche, shares her story of infertility and secondary infertility.
Episode 104: How to Help Your Child Grieve: Tips from a Child Therapist
Navigating loss is hard. Navigating loss with your children can feel impossible. Join us this week as child therapist, Misty Hinnefeld of Foggy Morning Therapy, shares her best tips for how to navigate grief with the children in your life. And even if you don't have children, we promise you'll find some excellent tips that are applicable to your own life in this special episode.
Episode 103: How to Build Your Support System
We often talk about how important it is to have a support system, but maybe you don't have one and you're left wondering how. Join us this episode as hosts Jessica and Lindsay share practical (and sometimes unconventional) tips for how to build a support system for yourself!
Episode 102: Show Up
This week Jess and Lindsay talk about "showing up" not only for the loved ones in your life, but also for yourself, even when it isn't easy.
Episode 101: Let's Hear it From the Kids: Behr and Trotter Girl's Stories
Join us in this episode as we have some extra special guests - our daughters!!! This episode felt so special to record and we hope you enjoy this little peak into how our kiddos grieve and live every day knowing they have missing siblings.
Episode 100: Celebrate!
Yes you read that right, 100 episodes! This week join our whole team as we recap this year and celebrate our journey to 100 episodes!
Episode 99: Setting Goals For This Next Season
Join hosts, Jessica and Lindsay in this episode as they share some really great ways to set goals for the new year. Tune in to hear how to set goals you can stick with and actually accomplish instead of resolutions that fall to the wayside come February. For some additional great resources on goal setting, click HERE and HERE.
Episode 98: I'll Have A Blue Christmas
Join hosts Jessica and Lindsay, along with YWT team member Casey Watkins, as they talk about the struggles and heartache that come with the holiday season when you're missing a baby.