In this episode we have a conversation with Cece Jones-Davis. Cece is a minister, artist, speaker and justice advocate and activist hailing from Halifax County Virginia. Cece gives us her experience and perspective of anti-black racism through a woman of colors lens. We then talk about the interconnectedness of justice and mental health and ways to seek flourishing for ourselves and our neighbors in doing that work in a world that can be so cruel and heavy. Connect with Cece here: Ceces website:...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 53
In this episode we have a conversation with David Bedrick. David is a Jewish author, teacher, attorney and psychologist that focuses most of his work on what he calls unshaming and helping others see themselves more than through the lens of shame. In this episode David gives us a window into how his Jewish identity and experiences has shaped him and his worldview. We then discuss the current situation in Palestine and having a morally clear vision of what is happening, but a humanizing one at th...
Feb 23, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 52
Peaks & Valleys family, we made it to 50 episodes!🥳 Our episode this week is a shorter one, but we wanted to take a moment to reflect over the start of this podcast to now having 50 episodes out, how we have progressed and a little about our framework now and where we are going. As always a big thank you to everyone that listens and leans in with us because you all listening is what keeps us going! More good things and healing conversations to come, cheers! Connect with us: Instagram: https...
Feb 09, 2024•46 min•Ep. 51
CW/TW: mention of miscarriage loss in this episode. Welcome to the first episode of 2024! In this first episode of the new year we have a peer and friend of ours Serra Jane on to share her story. In the spirit of breaking down dualistic thinking and disrupting narratives we hear her story of growing up Christian and then eventually practicing Islam. Her own journey is a beautiful window into that world. We then get the honor of holding Serras story of dealing with loss through miscarriage and wh...
Jan 26, 2024•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 50
In our last a final episode of the year we cover our favorite episodes and reflect on this years podcasting. A big thank you to everybody that leans in with us and listens to our voice. We are excited to bring more conversations and some progression to this podcast in 2024. We round out talking about the spirit of giving during Christmas, but specifically giving our voice and solidarity to Palestinian liberation this season. In such a tense topic we believe we must cut through the noise and stan...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 49
First off, so great to be back with you all sharing this collective online space! In this episode your hosts (Kyle and Jonathan) are back to talk a bit about masculinity, binary thinking and suicide awareness, because these intersect more than you think! With so much going on in our world we talk about us being complex humans, which we have chatted about in previous episodes, being confronted with complex moments/histories and navigating that better than the dualistic and binary thinking that ha...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 48
In todays episode you will hear from our other host, Kyle Ridgley and his own journey of deconstruction, mental health and navigating a crisis of faith that has lead him to where/who he is today and why he is passionate about helping others navigate their own mental health and see people flourish. He then shares about navigating life where he is now as a gay man. His story is powerful and worth listening and leaning into. We hope you are encouraged by this episode and have enjoyed getting to kno...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 47
In this two part series your hosts Jonathan and Kyle share their own journeys. What started deconstruction, navigating life/mental health amongst that and where they are now. Today Jonathan shares his own story of choosing to step away from his own faith background to questioning everything he had been taught to know is true. We hope you enjoy sitting with us and leaning into these journeys and gain some encouragement/tools for your own journey to navigate these things well and have flourishing ...
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 46
In this episode we have a conversation with Mac Scotty McGregor. Mac is a transgender man that grew up in the south, but now lives in Seattle. Before transitioning Mac was a US karate team member, a champion martial arts competitor, and coach/teacher. He now spends his time doing diversity training around gender and LGBTQ. He also founded and runs a non-profit called positive masculinity seeking to dismantle modes of toxic masculinity and help foster healthier, positive and life giving masculini...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 45
In this episode, your hosts Jonathan Coggins and Kyle Ridgley do some reflection. We reflect on our episodes on liberation out of reformed/calvinistic spaces with Noah and Hannah and our episode on ADHD in a neurotypical world with Alex of the Epics Podcast. We give our own thoughts and things we took away from each episode. We then move into a conversation about progressing and wholeness, and the interconnectedness of those two things. We round out with the importance of progressing to continua...
Apr 28, 2023•53 min•Ep. 44
In this episode your host Jonathan Coggins brings his own thoughts around change and progressing. In a world that is rapidly changing this a conversation that is needed and sometimes in an off the cuff and raw disposition. Then his own thoughts around guns, trauma and the need for change in that conversation. We hope you all enjoy this short, but we believe potent episode!
Mar 31, 2023•20 min•Ep. 43
We at The Pour Over Podcast thought given our cultural moment and climate surrounding the conversation of LGBTQ people this would be a good re-release. Hopefully re-listening to this episode can humanize this conversation, and wherever you fall or don't fall religiously, and bring us all into better neighborly love and to see people in the LGBTQ community worthy of dignity, love, respect and equality. Bridget brings a powerful voice and perspective to this conversation! Bridgets website (find he...
Mar 17, 2023•59 min•Ep. 42
In this episode we have Alex Wait of The Epics Podcast where he shares stories to fight hate and marginalization to help chart better paths forward in our world and we LOVE that at Peaks & Valleys. Alex opens up and shares his journey of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and navigating life with ADHD in a world built for neurotypical people. His story and perspective is challenging, beautiful and hopefully liberatory in the way we view the diversity of people in the world around us. We t...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 41
This episode is a re-release we felt for our culture and sociopolitical moment was a good refresher for having better conversations around understanding one another and all around better community! We hope you enjoy this episode and it helps you find better paths forward and leads to flourishing mental health for you and others. As always connect with us here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peaksandvalleysnc/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peaksandvalleysNC/...
Feb 03, 2023•36 min•Ep. 40
This episode is very special. We got to share the table with and hold two journeys from two beautiful souls. We were joined by Hannah Lloyd and Noah Althoff to share their journey of navigating being in the calvinistic/reformed mode of evangelicalism. We explore what their individual experiences were, where they overlapped and what broke that tradition for them. We also talked their views of mental health within that tradition and some of their own personal experiences with their own mental heal...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 39
In this episode we have a guest co-host Timothy Lloyd to talk all things resisting Christian Nationalism. Tim is deeply committed to Jesus, but also resisting oppressive forms of Christianity like Christian Nationalism and seeing all humans flourish. We talk what is Christian Nationalism, why we resist it, why others should speak up against it and how it affects our non-religious, non-straight, immigrant, or other religious neighbor. Resources for resisting Christian Nationalism: https://www.chr...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 38
Welcome to the Christmas Special of The Pour Over Podcast! We hope you have a great holiday season and a smooth mental health experience through the many complications that come with this time of year. In this episode we talk about the importance of LGBTQ inclusion and stepping into other peoples experience and social location. We round out by talking harmful views of mental health from the evangelical community and debriefing from what was a healing and refreshing event for both of us. Connect ...
Dec 23, 2022•56 min•Ep. 37
Content and trigger warning: mentions of suicide In this episode we sit down with our friend and creative entrepreneur/barista Dylan Studt. We have a conversation about having outlets for your mental health and his own experiences with mental health and what he has observed as a peer. We round this conversation out on Dylan giving us ways to chart better paths forward in supporting youth in their mental health journeys and ways to create safe spaces for those youth and young adults that are on t...
Aug 05, 2022•40 min•Ep. 36
In this episode, your hosts Jonathan and Kyle will be responding to a terrible take on mental health from within the church that actually harms people and does not lead to human flourishing. We directly confront the harmful views and deconstruct them and then help chart some better paths forward to moving away from these harmful views. Peaks & Valleys Zoom community/support group signup (July 30th 1 PM ET): https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd--vrTsoHteryF9hzPhLD0ZS4VwrWmq_ Instagr...
Jul 22, 2022•47 min•Ep. 35
In this episode we have have a conversation with Mike Maeshiro about LGBTQ, coming out, navigating sexuality in evangelical spaces and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. Mike shares his own story and gives us some encouragement and tools for challenging our own beliefs around this conversation. We also talk about anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and resisting that for the sake of the LGBTQ people in our lives and around us. Mikes organization Numa: https://www.mikemaeshiro.com Mikes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mi...
Jul 01, 2022•56 min•Ep. 34
In this episode we reflect on our previous episodes on people living with a disability, seeing people as whole people and dismantling the idea of "special needs". In light of sexual abuse, cover ups and gaslighting and not believing victims we affirm our position as an organization where we stand and how we seek to approach this conversation. We then round this episode out resisting the homophobia and dehumanizing LGBTQ perpetuations happening this month and better paths forward to humanize this...
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 33
In this weeks episode Jonathan has a conversation with Rachel Richards who is the face of the Instagram account heychurch. She advocates for being person centered when it relates to disabled people and dismantling/resisting ableism so all people living with disabilities are able to live more liberated and full lives. We talk about her journey of navigating church culture around this, change in theology and what she has learned from disability theology. Her son even joins us in this conversation!...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 32
In this episode we dive into a conversation about the intersection of living with a disability and mental health. We have Dionne Sanchez of Words Of Heart podcast. Dionne shares her own journey of navigating living with physical disabilities at an early age and then the ensuing socialization an mental health struggles that she walked through. She also shares her powerful story of overcoming and choosing to share her story and amplify other voices through her own podcast. Dionne was also highligh...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 31
Hang out with your hosts (Jonathan and Kyle) in this episode as we chat about the first few episodes of this season. We do some reflecting on what we have learned, expounding on things we have learned and that really stuck with us and we even share a funny story in the beginning involving Kyle and a certain coffee from Indonesia! We hope you all enjoy this style every once in a while of reflecting and us chatting/expounding. We are thinking coffee hour, or coffee conversations with Jonathan and ...
Apr 29, 2022•33 min•Ep. 30
In this episode we are joined by fellow resister Ryan Ramsey. Ryan works in healthcare chaplaincy, but has been in the organizational role of pastor. We dive into resisting the organizations and structures that oppress, abuse and domineer over people that cause grief and trauma. Ryan loves the church and shepherding people, but also knows the good work of resisting and critiquing these organizations and structures. We also dive into listening to and trusting our bodies so we can be safe and get ...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 29
In this episode we have a conversation with Tim Whitaker of The New Evangelicals. Tim shares with us about the work he does in the deconstruction space as well as sharing his own journey of navigating his own struggles, and picking up and understanding language surrounding mental health that he didn't have categories for in his evangelical context. He also shares with us how having space to be angry has been healing and how The New Evangelicals has not only been a healing space for others, but a...
Apr 01, 2022•41 min•Ep. 28
In this episode we have a conversation about religious trauma with Brian Peck. Brian is Licensed Clinical Social Worker and trauma informed coach working with people that have experienced religious trauma. He is the founder of Room To Thrive, which provides therapy and coaching, and co-founder of The Religious Trauma Institute. Brian walks us through what religious trauma is, ways to care for people well that have experienced religious trauma and a path forward. We hope you enjoy this episode an...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 27
Evolution, reformation, and growth made us realize this show needed to change along with that and what we seek to do in this space! So we introduce The Pour Over Podcast to everybody. We so appreciate you all being in this space with us and listening to our show! We hope you all enjoy this new evolution, the stories shared and get some fresh and life giving perspectives for your mental health journey. We hope you feel safe and included here, welcome to the table! Ways to connect with us: Instagr...
Mar 04, 2022•14 min•Ep. 26
In todays episode we have a conversation with Shelby Crews, founder of Tread And Trample, a mental health non-profit based in Jacksonville, Fl. We dive into a lot of stigmas surrounding the conversation of mental health, both inside and outside the church, and seeking help for our mental well being. We talk about ways to break down those stigmas with those that we come across and those we care about around us. We then round it off with ways to cultivate a culture of permission: permission to not...
Nov 12, 2021•46 min•Ep. 25
In this episode Jonathan is here to talk about navigating change ourselves and walking alongside others navigating change. This episode dives into different types of change, how trauma and anxiety is produced from change and healthy ways to navigate change personally and with others! Navigating change: https://afsp.org/story/supporting-your-mental-health-while-navigating-change National Suicide Hottline: 1 (800) 273-8255 National Crisis text Line: Text HOME to 741741 Suicide Prevention Resources...
Sep 03, 2021•17 min•Ep. 24
