Beyond a Thought

Has it already been 4 years? The 2020 Pandemic took us for a WILD ride. In today's episode we take a look back and reflect a bit on some of the things that happened, how it made us feel and in hindsight, if we would have done anything different (if anything) and also what we've learned.

Secondary infertility is defined as the inability to conceive or carry a baby to term after previously giving birth. Our guest Jacendy went through just that. After having no issues with having her first baby, she found out at the time trying for a second that the story was not the same here causing her a lot of emotional and mental stress. Listen to her story and the shear courage, faith and perseverance of her and her family.

Marriage is no walk in the park! It takes real work to build and keep the foundation. In this episode, we explore some of the realities that we don’t often hear.

Are you like us and are in intercultural relationships or might be considering it? This episode is especially for you. We discuss some things we have found discovered being in intercultural relationships. Of course we did not exhaust the list of things to talk about in this context so we’re interested to hear from you too. What are your thoughts? What are some other things to consider?

Hide your kids for this one 🫣👀 • Have you really taken the time to really consider why one would choice to abstain from sex before marriage. Have you though of why it may be important thing to consider. We talk a lot about the pros that may come with abstinence but are there any pros? Especially in the Christian circles, we find that there are a lot of incomplete conversations and rhetorics around the topic of sex in general. In this episode, we try to explore some of the things we should perhaps consider when having these conversations. What are your thoughts? is there anything we missed? Let us know in the comments.

Have you ever taken the time to assess your friendships? This is a conversation we hope will be a conversation starter not only with yourselves but also your friends.

There seems to be this unspoken rule that once one is married, the next natural thing to do is to have kids. But is that always the truth? Have you thought of the reasons you may or may not have children or is it just the natural thing to do for you?

This is the final episode of our Parenting Series. We’re having a discussion about how some things look for us now that we are parents ourselves.

In this one, we tackling the topic of our fathers and reflecting on the impacts they had on our lives and girls and even now as women. We understand that some of these things are not easy to talk about but we hope our conversation will get you started in your own conversations perhaps with your own fathers.

This is the first part of a series where we are talking about how our upbringing has brought us where we are now and has shaped us into the women we are today. We begin with our mothers. As always, we hope this starts up conversations.

As always, we go deep! We’re talking about some of the things that we have been learning in the journey of life lately. We hope that this will be a conversation starter for you and it will give you the boldness to have authentic and real conversations not only with yourself but with those around you. • Enjoy! And please let us know what you think.

We’ve gone for a while! But we’re back now. This episode gets into a bit of the details why we were gone for so long as well as some of the things to look forward to in the coming weeks. Hope you’re all as excited as we are.

On this episode we have Dr. Brenda Dogbey, the creator and brilliant mind behind new awesome blog careerslaymama joining us. We have a quite candid and open conversation about the balancing act of motherhood. Brenda is a career mom with 3 kids; a 7 year old and 4 year old twins (boy and girl). You do not wanna miss this conversation. So much truth and lots of laughs. Follow Brenda @careerslaymama on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. You will not be disappointed. Her blog is so inspiring. We are blessed to call her friend.

Make sure your kids are not around for this one. lol Depending on the stage of your relationship, sex can be very different. In this episode, we talk about sex before, during and after pregnancy. These are based on our experience alone (as women) and we do understand that the experience may be different from person to person.  Sex is not a topic that we find is talked about enough and we hope that this episode opens a can of worms for you to start having real conversations that matter.

We absolutely loved this episode. We have an interesting conversation about where we got the narratives that has shaped the way we think about our bodies and how we are working to change shift parts of that narrative for those coming after us.

These past almost two years have been very interesting to say the very least. It has brought out the so many emotion in all of us. A lot has been felt but as well, a lot has been said.  On today's episode, we are having conversation about some of the things we have heard since the beginning of this pandemic; many coming out of the Christian community.  As always, these are our own opinions but we hope it will get your minds going and gets you thinking and having your own conversations.  Enjoy!

This week we are having a sensitive but very important discussion on the podcast. We are talking about infertility with one of our very good friends who has herself gone through the ups and downs of dealing with fertility issues. • Infertility and everything that comes with it is a reality for many women (and men) that we don't often talk about at all. ESPECIALLY in the church. • People are going through things in silence that you don't know. It's so tempting (and I know we have been culprits ourselves) to ask a woman right after the minute that say "I do", "when are you guys having a baby?". But this week's discussion really shed light on the fact that you don't ever know what anyone is really going through and how that question may make them feel

On our first episode of this series, we give you some insight into our parenting journey; the, joys, the good, challenging, some of our anxieties etc. Hope you enjoy it and that it sparks some great conversations.

Our Parenthood Series continues and it has been amazing. We're learning so much. • • We couldnt do a Parenthood Series without having a Fatherhood episode. We believe Fatherhood is such a huge part of parenting that is so often not given the platform that it is due. • • In our next episode, we have one of our good friends @chris.e.evelyn opin us to discuss the very important role that fathers play as parents. • • Have you ever wondered how post-partum depression affects fathers? Mommy guilt is a real thing but have you ever wondered if fathers have daddy guilt? Chris sheds some light on some of these for us. • • There was definitely perspectives that we didn't consider when it came to fatherhood until this episode. We are so excited for you to hear them. We ofcourse had some good laughs too cuz why not.

Last week we had a conversation with Andrea about the tragic events that have been surfacing here in Canada.  This week, we thought we might take a bit of a step back and try to put some context to that conversation.