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Welcome to Becoming! A place for teen, young adults, and individuals - where together we are becoming more than we are, and who we were always meant to be. Through each episode, hosted by Tawni Beardall and Erica Peterson, we will feature different topics to enhance your growth, help you see the world differently. We want to help you discover who you are, who you want to be, and who God is encouraging you to continue to become.
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Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
We have never specifically covered the topic of the atonement on this podcast. Our guest Kristen Walker Smith has an incredible lesson that shares why the atonement is so perfectly FOR teens. She talks about 5 specific ways that teens face such a difficult time in their lives, and may be at risk for distancing themselves from God. When we really understand this, we can run toward him and use the atonement to its fullest potential. This message is simple, and beautiful, and true. Christ is enough for you. We promise.
More from Kristen:
Ruby Girl - Kristen's Article to Learn More
Scholarly Source for Adolescent Brian Development
Latter Day Hero Summit - Aug 3-7
Promptly Journals has amazing journaling options for teens and teen parents. From journals directed to teens, gratitude journals, and parent child connections journals your bound to find a journal that is going to be perfect for your teen. To view available journal options click here and use the code BECOMING to get 10% off.
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Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
This month's SUMMER OF ENCORES episode is one of our top downloaded episodes ever. It's a listener favorite, and one of our favorites.
Tony Overbay has always wanted to do a podcast episode just for teens...to give them a look inside the minds of their parents. Today he is doing just that for you! So often you may feel like your parents just don't get you! They might say things like "you can talk to me about anything" that you just don't quite believe, or know that doesn't always turn out to be a great discussion.
Tony is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist...with years of experience in therapy and is here to give YOU the tools to start to change the mood in your relationship with your parents. It definitely is something that takes effort from both sides...but did you know that you, as the teen, have more power than you might think to help train, and teach your parents to listen to you and hear you! Tony is here to help you figure out the answer to the question..."WHAT'S UP WITH YOUR PARENTS?!"
More from Tony Overbay:
Episode original air date: 9/5/2019
Promptly Journals has amazing journaling options for teens and teen parents. From journals directed to teens, gratitude journals, and parent child connections journals your bound to find a journal that is going to be perfect for your teen. To view available journal options click here and use the code BECOMING to get 10% off.
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Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
It's story time with Tawni and Erica. Tawni is going to tell you a little story about a fisherman that will help you take a moment to look around at the blessings that are right in front of you. We can all use a reminder to stop and re-evaluate at we stretch and reach for new, more, and better. We hope you enjoy this short story that has some meaningful lessons!
Story Adapted from this link: Fisherman Story
Promptly Journals has amazing journaling options for teens and teen parents. From journals directed to teens, gratitude journals, and parent child connections journals your bound to find a journal that is going to be perfect for your teen. To view available journal options click here and use the code BECOMING to get 10% off.
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Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Summer time is typically a lot of family time...and most of us have been spending more of that family time than usual by now. We wanted to give you a simple tool to help grow your family friendships with just 10 minutes a day. With a little effort and a few guidelines to give you the best chance for success you could improve your relationship with your sibling or your parent with just 10 minutes a day.
Sponsored by Aligned Ambition: Aligned Ambition specializes in guiding teens and young adults (or any individual) in finding their individual strengths, values and skills to find career and education alignment that will be the best fit for your unique gifts. To get started click here.
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Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Find Your Purpose...Know Your Purpose...You NEED TO FIND YOUR PURPOSE! We believe this...we know that everyone truly has a purpose. However, it seems as if very few have the talent to direct you into actually discovering and finding your purpose. It seems like a very vague unreachable, ever changing thing, but lets get down to a crucial place to start...truth. Lucas Skrobot is our guest this week, and he has an exceptional gift for explaining complicated concepts. We can't wait for you to learn from him...and understand how to find your purpose.
More from Lucas:
Podcast: The Lucas Skrobot Show
Book: Anchored: The Discipline to Stop Drifting
More about Better Screen Time:
If you want tools to help create a more tech-healthy family turn to Better Screen Time. They have a course specifically made to help families with teens. Untangling Teens and Tech course gives you step by step tools to involve your teen to create healthy habits in tech use. Interacting with tech is a life skill that should be taught, not ignored or over controlled. If you want help teaching that life skill...click here. Use the code BECOMING to get 20% off this month only!
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Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
This episode is one of Tawni's FAVORITES! It's the episode she tells any new listener to start with. We knew we had to encore the episode to share it with our new listeners!
Have you ever heard of confirmation bias? Confirmation bias is a psychology term used to help explain why we naturally favor information that confirms our preexisting beliefs or biases. We are always seeking proof that further backs up our beliefs while discounting examples that don't support our idea. We do this without even recognizing that we are doing it! For example: You may have heard that left-handed people are more creative than right-handed people. Whenever you encounter a person that is both left-handed and creative you may place greater importance of this "evidence" that supports that thought you already believe. On the other hand, when you meet a creative right-handed individual you may just discount or overlook this experience entirely.
In this episode Tawni discusses with her dear friend Shana Blackburn, many fun and interesting examples of confirmation biases and how they can really impact your life. When you look for something you are going to find it! This can be dangerous if our biases are focused on something negative. Whatever we choose to focus on you will find evidence of. Shana is a wonderful example of using positive biases to impact her life for good. She explains how she can use her personal mantra of: "I'm God's favorite", so freely and undoubtedly. It was so insightful and inspiring to hear how her positive attitude has helped her overcome very difficult situations in her life. She encourages us all to look for evidence that you too are God's favorite child! When we look for him in the details of our lives we will always find him.
"What you think you become, what you feel you attract, what you imagine your create." Budha
If you want tools to help create a more tech-healthy family turn to Better Screen Time. They have a course specifically made to help families with teens. Untangling Teens and Tech course gives you step by step tools to involve your teen to create healthy habits in tech use. Interacting with tech is a life skill that should be taught, not ignored or over controlled. If you want help teaching that life skill...click here. Use the code BECOMING to get 20% off this month only!
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Thursday Jun 11, 2020
Thursday Jun 11, 2020
"Striving for Mediocrity"....WHAT? This is the saying that Lee Ann Norris shared with us that sparked this episode. I mean...doesn't that sound like your not even trying to do your best or be better? That is not what she means. This episode is really all about comparison, stop comparing and just do your thing! Doing your personal best effort in anything, and still being average compared to others, is still AMAZING! What about if you are way below average, but you still tried your best and worked really hard. Yep, still AMAZING! You'll love her fun stories and examples. It's all about finding happiness, appreciation, and joy in your personal efforts...no matter what place you fall in.
Photography by Lee Ann: https://leeannnorris.com/
Better Screen Time: Use code BECOMING for 20% off!
If you want tools to help create a more tech-healthy family turn to Better Screen Time. They have a course specifically made to help families with teens. Untangling Teens and Tech course gives you step by step tools to involve your teen to create healthy habits in tech use. Interacting with tech is a life skill that should be taught, not ignored or over controlled. If you want help teaching that life skill...click here. Use the code BECOMING to get 20% off this month only!
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Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Back in episode #63- Toxic Perfectionism, we interviewed a young woman who discussed how she struggled with a form of an eating disorder. That episode got a great response and is one of our most downloaded episodes. We knew that we needed to continute to break stigmas and provide a place that we can discuss and dive deeper into difficult topics. We were lucky enough to have the incredible Tony Young open up her heart and share with us the difficutlies of recovering from an eating disorder and all of the life lessons she learned along the way. We talk about how eating disorders are very rarely simply about body image and self confidence, they often stem from somewhere deeper; such as feeling a lack of control in your life. It is important to self evaluate and to find healthy ways to deal with our feelings rather than letting our stress escalate into something harmful and addictive. Our bodies are an incredible gift that we need to love and cherish- we only get one and it is so important to take care of it. In this episode you will learn different ways to educate yourself about prevention and will be able to learn from the many life lessons that Tony was able to pull from this experience even decades later.
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Thursday May 28, 2020
Thursday May 28, 2020
Your parents sit you down and say..."We are moving". As a teen...pretty sure this was a reoccurring nightmare that my friends and life as I knew it would be ripped out from under me. While many people might love the excitement of starting new...as a teen it might be one of the most challenging changes to navigate. Alexa Bevan is sharing about her moving experience during the middle of the school year. What that felt like, the blessings that she got from it, but also the hard parts. The heart of this episode is so applicable to anyone facing a new challenge or wanting to make friends. We are so grateful to teens that share their story with us!
If you want tools to help create a more tech-healthy family turn to Better Screen Time. They have a course specifically made to help families with teens. Untangling Teens and Tech course gives you step by step tools to involve your teen to create healthy habits in tech use. Interacting with tech is a life skill that should be taught, not ignored or over controlled. If you want help teaching that life skill...click here.
Visit our website or follow us on instagram @becomingpodcast
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
I surprised Tawni with an impromptu interview...which she would not have chosen...she loves to prepare. I wanted her to share her story of how this podcast came to be. I think it's a beautiful story...and one that I hope gives you a little glimpse of the love she truly has for you. YES YOU. Her story is as impactful to me as any of the interviews we've done and it is inspiring to see how she's changed and taken her opportunity to BECOME. I also asked her to share a favorite moment from doing the podcast these past 9 months...we can't believe it's been that long...but here we are!
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