The Story of Us
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03/25/22 • 32 min
Why hello super cool humans! We are Kat and Val and we heartily welcome you to our podcast. Each week we will focus on a specific topic and dive into our 3 favorite questions.
- What is bringing you pleasure?
- What are you learning?
- What is moving around for you?
We are lovingly referring to this episode as our origin episode. You'll hear each of us share a lot more about who were are and how we got here. Super relatable shit like how we met in Bible College, were both Pastors in a conservative evangelical pentecostal denomination, and how we each deconstructed from that worldview.
We learn about Val's passion for therapy, cracking the perfect joke while playing pickleball, and her long term marriage to a talented, hilarious, brazilian businessman named Rafick. Val (she/her) is deeply wise, warm and candid as she shares about their journey to make peace with childlessness.
We also learn about Kat's choice to end a long term marriage to the father of her two kids, then discovering she is in fact, gay as hell. Kat (she/they) credits a tremendous amount of personal transformation to the body liberation movement and her work as a fat artist.
- Reminiscing about bible college and evangelical culture (4:10)
- Exploring our evolutions, throughout of 26 year friendship (6:53)
- Val shares about her life and who she is today (8:37)
- Kat shares about her life and who they are today (13:17)
- Closing thoughts on pleasure, growth, evolutions, and gratitudes (27:00)
Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast
Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love ClubKat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art
Additional resources/definitions referenced in this episode:
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD
Why hello super cool humans! We are Kat and Val and we heartily welcome you to our podcast. Each week we will focus on a specific topic and dive into our 3 favorite questions.
- What is bringing you pleasure?
- What are you learning?
- What is moving around for you?
We are lovingly referring to this episode as our origin episode. You'll hear each of us share a lot more about who were are and how we got here. Super relatable shit like how we met in Bible College, were both Pastors in a conservative evangelical pentecostal denomination, and how we each deconstructed from that worldview.
We learn about Val's passion for therapy, cracking the perfect joke while playing pickleball, and her long term marriage to a talented, hilarious, brazilian businessman named Rafick. Val (she/her) is deeply wise, warm and candid as she shares about their journey to make peace with childlessness.
We also learn about Kat's choice to end a long term marriage to the father of her two kids, then discovering she is in fact, gay as hell. Kat (she/they) credits a tremendous amount of personal transformation to the body liberation movement and her work as a fat artist.
- Reminiscing about bible college and evangelical culture (4:10)
- Exploring our evolutions, throughout of 26 year friendship (6:53)
- Val shares about her life and who she is today (8:37)
- Kat shares about her life and who they are today (13:17)
- Closing thoughts on pleasure, growth, evolutions, and gratitudes (27:00)
Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast
Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love ClubKat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art
Additional resources/definitions referenced in this episode:
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD
Next Episode
ADHD
In this Episode, Kat and Val discuss the ins and outs of living with and loving someone with ADHD.
- Welcome chit chat: Val did lots of traveling, Kat (who has ADHD) fell in love (0:36)
- Val shares about her long term marriage to Rafick who has ADHD (1:19)
- The ADHD paradox (5:06)
- Information in relationships vs. the story or meaning we tell ourselves about it (6:15)
- ADHD defined in detail (10:46)
- Executive Function (12:21)
- Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (12:58)
- Shame and Masking with ADHD (14:17)
- Unearned confidence around cooking while having ADHD (17:41)
- The perception of time when you have ADHD (20:17)
- Being partnered with someone with ADHD can be really fun (21:20)
- Three Questions: (30:23)
- What's bringing Val pleasure about her long term marriage to Rafick who has ADHD (ass slapping is involved) (30:45)
- What's bringing Kat pleasure about having an ADHD diagnosis (32:25)
- What Val and Kat are learning about ADHD these days (33:16)
- What's moving around for Kat and Val in their understanding of ADHD (35:59)
- Know Thyself (38:34)
Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast
Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love ClubKat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art
Additional resources/definitions referenced in most episodes:
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD
3 Questions with Kat & Val - The Story of Us
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You're listening to three questions with Kat and ,Val. I'm Kat and I'm Val. And We've been friends for over 20 years. Val's a therapist. And Kat's an artist. We're both great talkers. And we're both exvangelicals who used to pastors. I'm gay now! And we both have chronic illnesses. Join us!! We think we're fucking hilarious.
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