Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions we have

about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships and self-confidence

about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the absolute full.

Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate it together as

girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. So you guys know that around here we spend a lot of

time talking about relationships. Our relationships with God, with ourselves, with our friends,

our significant others and more. We talk about these relationships because A, they can be really tricky

and B, they're super important. These relationships are everything to us. And as I've spent so much time

learning in my own relationships and walking with women through theirs, the thing I've noticed

along the way is that as we become healthier, our relationships do too. It's true. The healthier we are,

the healthier our relationships are and that's why I am so excited to have my friend Deborah Folletta

back on the show today. Deborah is a licensed professional counselor who is also seen and studied and

personally experienced this connection between our health and the health of our relationships.

In fact, she recently just wrote a whole book about it. Deborah's new book is called Are You Really

Okay? And in it, she helps us get real about who we are and how we're doing spiritually,

emotionally, mentally and even physically so that we can recognize where we need some growth and

some healing. And doing this healing is not only so important for us, but it makes an enormous

difference in every single one of our relationships as well. In this episode, Deborah and I are talking

about how to understand and express your emotions in healthy ways, how to get to the root of what you

believe about yourself and others and God, how to honestly assess your own mental health and

pursue help when it's needed, how to prioritize your physical well-being and how it affects every

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