Welcome to season four of the Jada Edwards podcast.

As always, God is giving us his word to share personal stories and great conversations

you are going to want to hear.

I have had some interesting conversations even before these headlines happen.

And I think one of the things we wrestle with is somewhere on

this spectrum between apathy and anxiety. Like stuff happens and we're either like, it's too much.

I have to check out. Or we take it all on. We become overwhelmed. We don't know what God is asking us to do.

And so I wanted to

bring Shandria and Melissa here just to have a conversation because our mental health and our

spiritual health and our emotional health, they're just all wrapped up together. And so they are

two of the smartest women that I know. And so don't give me that look. That's what happened

when you bring your friends up. Oh, that skirt is cute. Is that the skirt? Girl, that is the skirt.

Okay. That's cute. Okay. So I'm so glad they are here. And I'm going to let y'all say, just give

us a quick little 30 seconds something, who you are and what you do. Why are you looking confused? You know I was going to ask you. 30 seconds is a long time. Okay, 10 seconds. Tell us your name. Hi, I'm Shandria Riddick, and I'm a licensed counselor here in the state of Texas, and I've been a friend of one since before one came. That's right.

We've been friends for a long time, so it's always really great to come back here and serve. So it's wonderful to be here. Thank you. So glad. You get to see us. We're all her clients today. Okay. Melissa, tell us what you do. Okay, I'm Melissa Hawley, and I'm not a licensed counselor. I'm a lay counselor and I'm just a believer

y'all who's walked with Jesus for a long time and trying to figure this out. So I'm just honored

to be here and get to walk with you guys and see if we can figure some of these things out together.

Yeah. So I'm so excited y'all. Shandria does tons of, has been counseling forever and has actually served with our conferences a few times. And Melissa oversees OAS and all of our marriage retreat stuff and just whatever we call her for. Because she's on staff at the church, so pray for her. So we call her all the time for things. So either one of you guys can jump in.

I just want to keep it a casual conversation,

but we had spoken briefly about what it means to manage life,

you know, without moving so quickly into anxiety.

Okay, so this is random because y'all know I'm an information research junkie.

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