In this episode, Melanie Moxness joins Amy and Bernie to explore the characters who often shape our inner lives: Managers, firefighters, and exiles. Drawing on the book Boundaries for Your Soul by Dr. Allison Cook and Kimberly Miller and Internal Family System theory, they discuss how this framework can help cross-cultural workers recognize emotional patterns, tend their souls, and seek support as they grow in the field.

📘Boundaries for Your Soul: How to Turn Your Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies by Dr. Allison Cook and Kimberly Miller

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Sometimes the guide you need shows up in the last place you'd look. For Amy, it was a book about seven U.S. presidents. Life After Power by Jared Cohen follows what each of them did once the White House was behind them, and somewhere around the third president she thought, "Wait, this sounds a lot like cross-cultural workers." Whether you're in the middle of a transition, watching one get closer, or haven't thought about life after the field at all, Amy and Bernie talk through what these unlikely mentors have to teach us. If you're wondering whether life will stink after you leave the field, this one's for you.

📗 Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jaren Cohen

📝 7 Paths After the Field from 7 Unlikely Mentors —article by Amy Young

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In this episode, Amy and Bernie talk with counselor and author Charlene Benson about her book Unstuck and her simple but powerful model for navigating relational conflict. Using the metaphor of a road with two ditches—Others-Focused and Me-Focused—Charlene unpacks how fear keeps us stuck and offers practical steps to move toward win–win, healthy relationships on teams, in families, and on the field.

📚 Unstuck: Move from Powerless to Empowered in Your Relationships by Charlene Benson

Articles from Global Trellis for your relationships:

👥 Can people from different cultures actually make decisions together?

👥 How to Give Feedback in a Cross-Cultural Setting

👥 What's hard about being a teammate?

👥 How to handle being hurt by others

👥 Conflict Management on the Field

Workshops from Global Trellis for your relationships:

🌿 Red, Yellow, Green Model on the Field

🌿 Transition Workbook: The Spaces Between Nations

🌿 Capacity Series Discussion and Activity Guide

🌿 A Mediator's Guide to Listening

🌿 Forgiveness 103: Forgiving Others

🌿 One Another Challenge: Working as a Team {5 Days}

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Amy and Bernie have a fun and helpful conversation with Melanie Moxness who shares how long COVID, injury, and prolonged physical healing led her to a practical "theology of the body." Melanie shares her story helping listeners discover God's presence, grace, and purpose in physical limitation when that becomes more of your calling than you'd like.

• Dr. Brad Fanestil (The Boulder Institute for Mind Body Medicine)

• Keith Demmon (PT, DPT, TPS at CU Sports Medicine)

• Dr. Lee Warren (follow on Instagram @drleewarren)

• The Anxiety Opportunity by Curits Chang

• And @melheals_longcovid where Melanie shares her LC healing journey

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You’re doing better than you think! In this episode, Amy shares five very different milestones—spanning 18 months to 90 years—converging to reveal one core truth: your quiet, faithful work is building more than you can see and why your faithfulness matters more than you know.

🌿 Sexual harassment on the field resources: https://globaltrellis.com/lets-talk-about-sexual-harassment/

🎉 The One Hundredth Episode: A High-Five of Celebration: https://globaltrellis.com/episode/100/

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Which zone are you in? Scott Brennan along with Amy and Bernie explore the comfort zone, stretch zone, and panic zone—a simple framework for understanding spiritual formation. Many cross-cultural workers stay in the stretch and panic zones, burning out in the process. Drawing on the Desert Fathers, Celtic spirituality, and real field experience, Scott unpacks why genuine rest matters, when stretch is healthy, and how to recognize (and exit) panic—for the sake of both your soul and your ministry. You're going to love this conversation!

📚Scott’s Substack (https://scottbrennan12.substack.com/, you’ll find the Stretch Zone article behind the paywall)

🌿 Rule of Life Podcast episode: https://globaltrellis.com/episode/26/

🪏 How To Build a Rule of Life (article): https://globaltrellis.com/how-to-build-a-rule-of-life-for-cross-cultural-workers/

🪴12 Week Build a Rule of Life for Cross Cultural Workers (included in Insiders): ​​https://globaltrellis.com/shop/build-a-rule-of-life/

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Lori Ferrell joins Amy and Bernie to explore play as a spiritual practice, drawing on her own burnout and the sabbatical that helped her rediscover joy. They talk through why adults lose the habit of play, and how small things — baking bread, nature exploration, or a simple 15 minutes of fun a day — can reconnect us to a playful God.

🔖 Read Lori's article: Let's Play! (Global Trellis)

👀 Watch the workshop: You Need to Laugh (included in Insiders)

💚 Visit Lori's website: sanctuaryvero.com

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Amy and Bernie go through the High Five of Celebration as they review the first 100 episodes. High-five to you, our guests, listeners, and stream members who have one hundred episodes of Global Trellis: the Podcast possible. We also share from you and the listeners survey. Find out where around the world this podcast is listened to, favorite episodes, and more. Join us today as we celebrate 100 episodes and look to what is next. Thank you, thank you! We are so grateful for you.

✋Get the High-Five of Celebration (PDF and short video) https://globaltrellis.com/how-to-be-better-at-celebrating/

🎉 Listen to the episode about the High-Five of Celebration: https://globaltrellis.com/episode/27/

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