The Still Waters Podcast
This podcast is hosted by the counselors and coaches with The Still Waters. Teri, Rufus, Abrielle, and Julie bring their expertise to this platform to educate, encourage and enlighten the listener. Various topics will be discussed in the hopes of helping with healing or bringing awareness to culture and community.
Episodes
68 episodes
Unlocking the Power of Positive Peer Relationships
In this Still Waters Podcast episode, Teri urges parents in the back-to-school season—whether public, private, or homeschool—to focus on who their child is “doing life” with, since peer networks strongly shape what teens see as normal and influ...
Understanding Trauma-Informed Care: An Encore Episode with The Still Waters
In this episode of The Still Waters Podcast, Julie and Teri switch roles as Julie interviews Teri about trauma-informed care. Teri explains how the approach shifts the question from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” a...
Faith-Based Healing: Embrace Still Waters for a Transformed Life
On the Still Waters Podcast, Teri talks with Julie Adams, founder of The Still Waters, about what “still waters” from Psalm 23 means as a faith-based refuge for peace amid life’s storms. They clarify trauma as a “wound” caused by an event, not ...
Back-to-School Puberty Prep: Helping Parents Navigate Critical Talks
Today, on The Still Waters Podcast, Teri urges parents—whether using traditional school or homeschooling—to intentionally lead puberty conversations at the start of the school year, warning of a major gap between what kids need and what m...
Unmasking Self-Care: The Truth Behind the Instagram Hype Part 2
In this Still Waters Podcast continuation, Teri, Abrielle and Melissa challenge cultural and faith-based misunderstandings about self-care, reframing “deny yourself” as rejecting selfish desires—not neglecting real physical and emotional ...
Unmasking Self-Care: The Truth Behind the Instagram Hype
Unmasking Self-Care: The Truth Behind the Instagram Hype On this episode of The Still Waters Podcast, Teri and Still Waters team members Abrielle Davis and Melissa Knight unpack self-care beyond the social-medi...
Planting Seeds of Success: The Importance of Early Goal-Setting for Kids
In this episode of The Still Waters Podcast, Teri explains why elementary-age children (ages 6–11) are not too young for goal setting, even though they can’t plan far-off abstract goals. Drawing on child development, research on self-control an...
From Silence to Safety: Helping Children Report Sexual Abuse
On today's episode of The Still Waters Podcast, Teri addresses why childhood sexual abuse is often not reported and why children may stay silent for months, years, or decades, citing estimates that about one in four girls and one in 20 boys in ...
Grit and Youth Development: Proven Methods for Raising Resilient Kids
On this episode of The Still Waters Podcast,Teri unpacks “grit” as passion and perseverance for long-term goals, drawing on Angela Duckworth’s research showing grit predicts success more than IQ, talent, or socioeconomic status. She argue...
Exploring Neuroplasticity: Renewing Your Mind Through Thought Patterns
On this episode, Teri asks listeners to notice the inner voice that appears when things go wrong and explains how repeated thoughts carve “grooves” in the brain, shaped by experiences, relationships, and safety. Using metaphors of wagon ruts, a...
Raising Brave Kids: The Hidden Power of Courage
On the newest episode of The Still Waters Podcast, Teri explains that the courage young people most need is the everyday strength to do what’s right under peer pressure. She defines courage as choosing what’s right despite fear. Using biblical ...
Mental Health Literacy: Weathering Life's Storms
On tths episode, Teri challenges listeners to define “mental health” and explains that mental health is not the same as mental illness. Using the World Health Organization definition, mental health is described as active wellbeing—coping with n...
The Role of Social Media Influencers in Shaping Youth Identity (Part 2)
This episode covers part two of a conversation on how social media influencers shape young people’s identity. Teri moves from information in part one (including influencer Neeza Powers) to practical steps for parents and grandparents. She urges...
The Role of Social Media Influencers in Shaping Youth Identity (PART 1)
On the newest episode of Th Still Waters Podcast, Teri asks what happens when the daily voice shaping a child or grandchild is not a parent’s, using social media influencer Neeza Powers as a case study in modern influence. Neeza Powers built a ...
Protecting Children in Abusive Environments
In this episode of our series on abuse, Teri discusses caring for children in abusive environments, emphasizing that kids often internalize harm, blame themselves, and may even equate abuse with love. She addresses the unique challenges of co-p...
Healing Journey: Reclaiming Your Life After Abuse
In this Still Waters Podcast episode airing April 23, 2026, Teri continues a series on abuse by explaining how abuse affects people during and after the experience, impacting the body, mind, inner life, and sometimes faith. The episode describe...
The Battlefield of Technology: Parenting Lessons on Pornography and Integrity
On this episode of The Still Waters Podcast, Teri recaps a weekend at a Cincinnati homeschool conference where she ran a vendor booth for the AIM (Acknowledging Integrity Matters) sexual risk avoidance curriculum and launched a new level for ag...
Empowering Survivors: Katrina Terry's Fight Against Child Trafficking
On the newest episode of The Still Waters Podcast, Teri interviews Indianapolis-based nonprofit leader Katrina Terry, founder of Lion 195 Against Trafficking and Resilient Gemstones. Katrina shares her history of childhood kidnapping and sexual...
From Nursing to The Still Waters: Introducing New Team Member Melissa Knight
In this episode of The Still Waters Podcast, Teri welcomes Melissa Knight, a nurse and mentor who helps students complete their programs, especially in nursing cybersecurity and data analytics. Melissa discusses her background, her path to coac...
Guarding Against Camp Abuse: Parental Guidance for Safer Summers
On The Still Waters Podcast, Teri and Julie shift from their abuse series to discuss child safety at summer camp, urging parents not to assume camps—especially church camps—are automatically safe. They advise investigating who camp directors re...
Spiritual Abuse-Is it Real?
In episode 48 of The Still Waters Podcast, Teri addresses spiritual abuse—often experienced as “church hurt”—as a form of power and control that uses God, scripture, or spiritual authority to manipulate, silence, and trap people in churches, fa...
Sexual Abuse and Healing: Essential Knowledge and Support
In the newest Still Waters Podcast episode, Teri issues a content warning and discusses sexual abuse amid renewed attention from the Epstein files. Citing recent CDC and advocacy data, the episode highlights the prevalence of sexual violence an...
Money Matters: Shedding Light on Financial Abuse in Relationships
The newest episode of The Still Waters Podcast continues a series on abuse by focusing on financial (economic) abuse—when money shifts from a shared tool to a weapon used for power and control. Research indicates financial abuse occurs in 99% o...
Digital Abuse in the Age of Technology: A Guide to Safe Relationships
In this episode of The Still Waters Podcast, part of an ongoing series exploring abuse, Teri explains digital abuse as a pattern of technology-facilitated behaviors used for power and control, emphasizing that abuse is not only physical a...
Recognizing Early Warning Signs of Physical Abuse in Relationships
This Still Waters Podcast episode examines physical abuse as a means of power and control, often starting before visible injuries. Referencing Darby Strickland’s definition, it addresses both overt harm (hitting, slapping, choking) and su...