Snorkeling Right in Your Own Backyard (Practically)

If snorkeling seems like something you can only do on a tropical vacation, think again. In this podcast episode, we meet a river snorkeling guide who encourages us to stick our heads in the water, right in our local streams and rivers. Keith Williams thinks you'll be amazed at the aquatic life you'll see there. Tune in to Constant Wonder and get hooked with some amazing fish tales.

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Feeling at Home in Your Ward

This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in January 2020. Melody Warnick is the author of two books about thriving where you live: This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are and If You Could Live Anywhere: The Surprising Power of Place in a Work-from-Anywhere World. Her books have been featured in the New York Times, Time magazine, Fast Company, Psychology Today, and others, and her writing has appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, the New York Times, Slate, Reader’s Digest, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping, and Woman’s Day. A regular speaker about creating connection with your community, Melody lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where her husband serves as stake president. Highlights

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The Gospel of John

The gospel of John gives us insight into the personality of Christ and allows us to get to know Christ, not just about Him. Hank helps us identify some of the key players and their characteristics in the book of John as well as the roles they play throughout Christ's ministry.

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The Importance of Emotional Intimacy for High Achieving Men

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have culturally painted a picture for what a good woman looks like and as a result we have seen in many ways how doing this has been damaging. Many of the podcasts here talk about how to help women break free of that story but on today’s podcast we flip the coin to see how culturally in the Church we have also painted a picture of what a good man looks like and how that can also be damaging to these men and have negative effects on the most important relationship in their life.  Coach Rhonda Farr talks today on the podcast about what it is like to be a high achieving man in the Church who is doing all the things he was told he should do - like providing for his family and serving faithfully in a calling - and is still having significant struggles in his marriage.

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This Year I Will Love My Body

At the beginning of a new year and a new series on Body Image, Lisa and Kacy discuss the tragic legacy of Helen of Troy — the "most beautiful woman on earth" of myth and legend — and how body comparison and beauty expectations affect the way we see ourselves in the age of social media. Lisa reflects on the changes in her own body image over time, and the common ground in many stories of body image and self-love.

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