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, faith, relationships and self-confidence, about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to that 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.

Our guest for today's episode is one of my very best friends, Shannon Unger.

Now, I could tell you so many things about Shannon, like how instrumental she's been in my faith or how whenever it would snow at night during our senior year of college we would put on all of our snow gear and go play on the playground, which in case you were wondering, playing on the playground in the snow is actually really fun.

But those are not the most important things you need to know about Shannon today.

The thing you need to know about my dear friend, Shannon Unger today is that she is a licensed professional counselor and a licensed addictions counselor who works with people through substance abuse, trauma and relationship issues.

I know, way, way more serious than ropping around in this snow, but Shannon is a real expert and that's exactly what we need for what we're talking about today.

Today we're going to be talking about relationships, how to know if you're in a healthy one and what to do if you're not.

Guys, I've been wanting to do this episode for a long time now and before we jump into my conversation with Shannon, I wanted to give you some background as to why.

So, twice a year, I teach an online course called Make the Most of Your Single Life.

It's all about how to live this season while you're single with joy, contentment, purpose and intentionality.

It's about setting yourself up for an amazing dating life and paving the way for an even more amazing marriage. Yes, an amen to that, right?

This online course is one of my very favorite things that we do around here and this seems like the perfect time to tell you that registration for the course is opening back up on September 10th.

I really only teach this course twice a year and so whether you're listening to this before September 10th or after, head to loveyoursinglelife.com to check it out.

And make sure to put your name on the waiting list because we totally maxed out the course back in February and so if you want to join us, make sure you sign up early.

Guys, I love teaching this course. We cover so many topics in the span of five weeks but as I've been teaching it these last few years, there's a topic that keeps coming up that I honestly do not have the expertise or the training to speak on.

Now, a lot of the women who take the course haven't dated before and a lot of them have had good healthy relationships in the past but that has not been everyone's story.

There are a lot of women in our community both here and in that course, so I know have been treated really poorly by men.

Women who have been in unhealthy relationships in the past were who are there right now and women who have been in abusive relationships too.

Guys, this is such a real thing for so many of us, so many women in our community and all over the world have been in this place and while I want to offer help and guidance and expertise and advice when people ask me about this, I'm just not the best person to give those things.

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