In this episode, Missy and Chris are tackling the concept of verbal processing. Communication is key to any healthy relationship, but how each person processes verbal communication affects the overall value of the communication. Is the difference gender related? Can we even ask that question today?  The hosts ponder the origins of verbal processing back to cave people and wonder if how we internally process verbal communication hasn't evolved too much over the millennia. Is there a right or wrong way to process? Is it a learned behavior from childhood?  The "answers" from the hosts aren't conclusive, but they agree that for communication to take place, each person needs to understand and respect the process of the other. What are your thoughts? If you like this content, please consider buying the hosts a cup of coffee. Please click "like" and share this podcast on your social media. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Chris and Missy talk about flexibility in life. How best can we daily be flexible and why even try? The simple answer: flexibility offers inner peace and less stress.  When we "go with the flow" instead of fighting against the current we reduce our stress since we are no longer striving to control that which we can't control in the first place. Flexibility has everything to do with letting go of control and getting out of our own way.  If you like this content please press like and share with your friends! Please consider buying the creators a Cup of Coffee to enable more content. Missy's website Chris' website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Missy and Chris explore the power of words, and how we can use them to change our lives for the better. Words are incredibly powerful. They can shape our perception of the world and ourselves, and influence the way we interact with others. Our self-talk – the things we say to ourselves inside our own heads – is particularly important, as it can have a big impact on how we feel about ourselves and our lives. Fortunately, we have the power to choose our self-talk. We can choose to focus on the positive or the negative. We can choose to believe in ourselves or to doubt ourselves. It’s up to us.  If you enjoy this content like and share it with your friends. Please consider buying our creators a Cup of Coffee. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Missy and Chris are talking about staying grounded. Many of us feel overwhelmed by life and aren't sure what to do to again find our inner peace. We talk about ways that we maintain our peace when life is just too busy and chaotic. Missy shares her wisdom about "staying in my own lane" and Chris shares his approach of "not caring". Listen to find out what Chris means by that! The bottom line, the hosts agree that we need to learn to control what we can control while avoiding what we can't control.  If you like this content please like and share it with friends. Also, consider buying the hosts a cup of coffee by clicking here. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Being emotionally available is not easy for everyone. In this episode, Missy and Chris talk about what it means to be emotionally available and why some of us struggle with this.  Emotions are our guidance system in life, yet the unknown of the future causes us anxiety, in turn causing us to close off emotionally. Missy and Chris talk about the emotional walls we put up, recognizing that walls both keep things out and keep things in. It's our responsibility, or "my response" to either wall off or share our emotions.  Missy reminds us that emotions are "energy in motion", challenging us to reflect on how we can change our behaviors, in action, to effect a healthy emotional response to life. There is no right or wrong when it comes to emotions, but Missy and Chris share a bit about themselves in the hope that you can learn from them and so create your own inner peace.  If you enjoy this content please share it with your friends and consider buying the creators a cup of coffee here (plus get extras and merch). Missy's website Chris' website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Addiction is typically associated with substances, but many of us deal with daily addictions other than substances. Missy and Chris share with us some daily addictions we may have and how we can learn to cope with them.  If you are coping with substance addiction this episode is helpful, but obtaining professional treatment for your addiction will give you the opportunity for a new life.  If you like this content please consider buying the creators a cup of coffee here (and get merch). Missy website Chris website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Missy and Chris turn to the wisdom of Gary Chapman from his work "The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate".  Finding inner peace involves relationships; relationships with both self and others. Missy and Chris share with us their love languages and the issues they see in relationships when people don't know their love language.  The ideas we talk about revolve around communication skills, expectations, and trust. Check out Chapman's book here. If you like this content please share it with your friends and consider buying a cup of coffee for the creators by clicking here. Missy's website Chris' website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Find Peace Of Mind Through Progress Not Perfection To find peace of mind we need to change our perspective to "progress not perfection". Many of us seek to have a perfect life, feeling like a failure when we fall short. In our search for perfection, we miss the journey, or the progress, along the way.  In this episode, Missy and Chris speak about their journey and search for perfection as they learned to change their perspective while being true to themselves and living in the moment. Peace of mind is found when we stop using "should" as we live in the progress of the moment. We need to refocus our thoughts away from "good" or "bad", reflecting rather on "healthy" and "not healthy".  The listener challenge is found at the 24:30 mark and Missy challenges us to go for a week and look at everything as perfect in the moment. Remember, that inspired action leads us to our perfection. If you like this episode buy the hosts a cup of coffee and share this with your friends. Missy's website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Judgement Judgement is what we do on a daily basis. We are constantly judging ourselves and others based on how we feel we or they should be. Therefore, judgement is all about perspective and our expectations. Using the word "should" sets up an expectation that may or may not be reasonable. So when we judge, we are taking our perspective, combining it with our expectation, and placing it on others. This is unfair to us and them as our expectations of others may not be their expectations for themselves. Living this way takes us away from our inner peace and happiness.  Missy and Chris talk about their opinions on judging others and share how they avoid judgments so to live in inner peace.  The listener challenge is located at the 22:27 mark. Missy challenges us for the next 2 weeks to sit in our awareness of what we're judging and how it makes us feel.  If you enjoy this content please share it with your friends and consider buying the hosts a cup of coffee (you'll get merch if you do). Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support Do you feel supported by others? There are times in our lives when we wish we were supported more, or better, especially by our loved ones and friends. How does this happen, that those closest to us aren't always our best supporters? Support from others, according to Missy and Chris, is all about expectations. Our expectation of how we "should" be supported, and our loved one's expectation of how well they feel they are supporting us. We need to self-define support as that influences our expectation of support. By eliminating the "should" and accepting each other as we are in the present moment, we may realize that we are supported! Yet, maybe not in the way we "expected". The listener challenge is found at the 27:50 mark when Missy challenges us to find a way that we can support another person. For it is in giving that we receive.  Please share and "like" this podcast. Consider buying the hosts a Cup of Coffee. Missy's Website Chris' Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices