The Changing Perspectives Podcast
Lean in to honest conversations about grief, mental heath, relationships, and parenting with your hosts, Jenni and Josh. As married high school sweethearts, Jenni and Josh blend their personal experiences with their professional experiences in the fields of counseling, hospice, bereavement, and education as they explore heavy topics through a lens of hopefulness and humor.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 121
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2023
Classic Perspectives: Your Last Argument
In this classic episode, we complete the "Your Last Argument" questionnaire from The Gottman Institute.
Using the questionnaire as a tool, we explore the feelings we each experienced during the disa…
Episode 118: When Friends Don't Show Up For Your Grief
Are you grieving and your friends have gone silent? Were your friends great at the beginning of your loss but now it seems like they don't understand you at all? Do you have feelings of anger or rese…
Episode 117:Keeping the Spark Alive
Join us as we explore some of the most common traits found in couples that still have a spark in their relationship even after years of being together.
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Classic Perspectives: Exploring Children's Grief
In this classic episode, Jenni and Josh explore 7 of the top needs of grieving children. Tips on how to best provide support to children and teens when they are grieving are reviewed and discussed.
Sh…
Episode 116: Are You Happy In Your Relationship?
We get a little real in this episode as we dive into the Gottman Relationship Happiness Quiz and explore the benefits and risks of using a quiz/tool like this to move your relationship forward.
Come j…
Classic Perspectives: What’s Your Communication Style?
Are you a passive communicator? Or are you more assertive? Join us as we compare and analyze our quiz results and find out what kind of communicator each of us is and what impact that has on a rela…
Episode 115:Where's The Beef - Art, Music, & Depression in the Netflix show, Beef.
Where's the Beef?
Join Jenni and Josh as they do a deep dive into the new Netflix show , 'Beef,' paying particularly close attention to the role of art, music, and depression in the show's 10 episode…
Episode 114: Anxiety in Children and Teens
This week we dive deep into the topic of anxiety in children and teens. We chat about how to recognize it, how best to respond, and what NOT to do when working with and/or parenting children and teen…
Episode 113: Anxiety and Music
Join Jenni and Josh this week as they explore the role of music in managing stress and coping with anxiety.
For exclusive expanded content after today's episode, check out the April 2023 Ramblings ep…
Episode 112: Toxic Positivity
"Choose happiness."
"It's all part of God's plan. Don't be sad."
"Cheer up!"
What do we do when pressures to stay positive become negative?
Join us as we chat about the concent…
Episode 111: Always Bring the Donut - Perspectives on Grief
In Episode 111, we chat about all things grief:
- what we need when grieving,
- how to support someone who is grieving, and
- whether to bring them a donut.
Episode 110: Perspectives on Parenting Teenagers
Join us as we discuss what we've learned from our mistakes in parenting teenagers, what the research tells us about teenage brains, and how we really feel about the societal pressures facing teenager…
Episode 109: Top 10 Misunderstandings in Relationships
Join us this week as we explore 10 of the most common misunderstandings in relationships and how best to address them.
Spoiler alert: we end up disagreeing with a lot of the items on the list. Come j…
Episode 108: Laughter in Relationships
On this episode, Jenni and Josh explore the benefits of laughter in relationships. Come join us as we review the research and share our personal experiences.
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Episode 107: The "Hard Work" of Relationships
Episode 106: Jealousy and Envy
Join Jenni and Josh as they dive into the concepts of jealousy and envy, their origins, society's views of them, and what to do with these complex emotions.
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Holiday…
Episode 105: Holidays and Grief: Why is it so hard?!
Join Jenni and Josh as they explore common grief experiences around the holidays, why the holidays are so hard when you are grieving, and some strategies to make them a little less awful.
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Episode 104: Weight Limits in Youth Sports
Today Jenni and Josh tackle the very personal topic of weight limits in youth sports, the impact it has had on their family, their game plan to make changes, and what the research actually shows.
Rea…
Episode 103: How do you define your self-worth?
How do you define your self-worth? Do you compare yourself to others successes? Join Jenni and Josh as they explore the topic of self-worth and self-esteem. Your favorite married podcasters are back …
Is it ok to break tradition?
Episode 102 is here! Is it really a wedding if the bride doesn't toss the bouquet? What about cutting the cake? Or the shower? Join Jenni and Josh as they explore the topic of traditions and whether …