The Women's Well

8 - Setting Boundries with Janelle, Alyssa & Ruth

Is there an ugly sweater in that gift bag? You’d better appreciate the Granny who knitted it for you! In our final episode at The Well this spring: Dr. Janelle McNeal, Alyssa Erickson, and, Ruth Nelson: Women from 19 through 53 talk about emotional boundaries: What they are, why they’re vital (and sometimes not), and how they’re so much about taking up enough space in our own lives.  And others. ”Even if I am not someone who imagines myself having fences up, I need to be very comfortable with the fact that other people really, really need and like to have fences.” ~Ruth ”I’m one who always wants to say yes...I have to tell myself at the end of the day, for my own personal energy threshold, that I need to be able to say no sometimes.  It’s not something I want to do, it’s something I have to do.” ~Alyssa “I wholeheartedly believe that I am responsible for my own happiness— yup I’m not counting on anyone else to make me happy, that’s my job....There are times though, when I will do something for someone else that would be to the detriment of my own happiness, because of the level of love, or respect, for that person.” ~Janelle “I’m really measuring the cost. What is it going to cost me to be a little uncomfortable doing this thing for you that I know you need, and if I can accept the cost of doing this thing, then I give it, no strings attached.” ~Lisa Find Dr. Janelle McNeal at TrueNorthLex.com Find Alyssa Erickson (who also designed Lisa’s fabulous logo) at KYHempsters.com More about Lisa and The Women’s Well at: Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQAk0aNP0zmEgoetCuDSqHQ]: Lisa Miller Beautiful Day Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/lisamillerbeautifulday/]: @LisaMillerBeautifulDay Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/LisaMillerBeautifulDay]: LisaMorrisMiller and on our website at LisaMillerBeautifulDay.com [https://www.lisamillerbeautifulday.com/].

7 - Margaret Verble, Pulitzer Nominated Author

At The Well with Margaret Verble, the author of Maud's Line, a 2016 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.  Her new novel, Cherokee America, was released in February 2020, and has been praised in the New York Times as a gift to historical fiction lovers especially as "an essential corrective to the racially tinged myths created to justify the annihilation of indigenous cultures and the theft of native lands." In March 2020, Cherokee America won the Spur Award for Best Traditional Western, and was shortlisted for the Reading the West Adult Fiction Award. Margaret, an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, lives in Lexington, KY. Find Margaret at MargaretVerble.com More about Lisa and The Women’s Well at: Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQAk0aNP0zmEgoetCuDSqHQ]: Lisa Miller Beautiful Day Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/lisamillerbeautifulday/]: @LisaMillerBeautifulDay Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/LisaMillerBeautifulDay]: LisaMorrisMiller and on our website at LisaMillerBeautifulDay.com [https://www.lisamillerbeautifulday.com/].

6 - Judy Heidrich and Beth Marcil

At The Well, a continuing conversation about “callings,” with: Judy Heidrich in Florida, Licensed Psychotherapist and Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Beth Marcil in Hawaii, Teaching Artist and Fine Artist As Oprah has helped us realize for decades: We are each born to a life purpose. The personal work for each of us is to decide what that is, and to get to the business of living it. But at various chapters in our lives as we grow and evolve, and as circumstances change, we don’t always know where to begin. Judy and Beth are companions to people ready for this type of inner work. And added to their expertise, they are specialists who help people discover where the joy in life exists, and how to make more of that too. Connect with Judy Heidrich: SoulEssenceStudio.com JHeidrich26@gmail.com More about Beth Marcil in Maui: ArtFromTheInsideOut.com [https://www.artfromtheinsideout.com/] BethMarcil@gmail.com More about Lisa and The Women’s Well at: Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQAk0aNP0zmEgoetCuDSqHQ]: Lisa Miller Beautiful Day Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/lisamillerbeautifulday/]: @LisaMillerBeautifulDay Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/LisaMillerBeautifulDay]: LisaMorrisMiller and on our website at LisaMillerBeautifulDay.com [https://www.lisamillerbeautifulday.com/].

5 - Donna Foster, Licensed Dietician and Nutrition Counselor

How do you know when you are being "called" to something bigger than you dreamed for yourself--bigger and more important than you planned for your life? Wisdom keeper, Donna Foster, shares the story of launching a new career in her 60's: "feeling the fear and doing it anyway." Tune in with us, and then tune inward to notice how the YES of your own calling might be beckoning right now. More about Lisa and The Women’s Well at: Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQAk0aNP0zmEgoetCuDSqHQ]: Lisa Miller Beautiful Day Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/lisamillerbeautifulday/]: @LisaMillerBeautifulDay Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/LisaMillerBeautifulDay]: LisaMorrisMiller and on our website at LisaMillerBeautifulDay.com [https://www.lisamillerbeautifulday.com/].

4 - Jennifer Barber, United Nations delegate

Like every one of us who dream, plan, work, sweat, work, work, work, Asian American immigants and citizens also want “for the next generation, a better life.” And often, their wanting and work ethic becomes a blessing for the communities in which they live. This is the very story of Jennifer Yue Barber, and her parents, who carried her home asleep after their restaurant closed nightly—with cooking burns on their hands and faces—keeping faith that their daughter would in fact have a better life while also continuing to contribute to community in her own way. Jennifer is an attorney--a Kentucky native--who served in the U.S. Department of State as Special Advisor to the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and as a United States Delegate to the 75th United Nations General Assembly where she delivered formal statements on behalf of the U.S. government, advised on foreign policy, and negotiated with other delegations to advance United States positions in the areas of human rights and humanitarian aid. More about Lisa and The Women’s Well at: Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQAk0aNP0zmEgoetCuDSqHQ]: Lisa Miller Beautiful Day Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/lisamillerbeautifulday/]: @LisaMillerBeautifulDay Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/LisaMillerBeautifulDay]: LisaMorrisMiller and on our website at LisaMillerBeautifulDay.com [https://www.lisamillerbeautifulday.com/].