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An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth

An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth

Everyone wants to live a fulfilled life with less stress and more laughter. Join Kelly Arrendell and Sydney West as they explore the wonder, humor, challenges, and sometimes self-inflicted wounds on the journey of personal growth. Our weekly podcast conversations provide tools you can incorporate into your own path of growth. The journey to becoming more fully yourself is lifelong but is something you can start now, wherever you are. Kelly is our resident expert on self-growth and shares her own mistakes and resources, with Sydney asking questions relevant to millennials and Gen-Zers. Take a breath, and take a listen.

Recent Episodes

Feb. 18, 2025

Episode 56- Emotions and The Body

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly discuss the effect emotions can have on the body. Body Mapping Emotions...where you feel emotions in your body Parts of the body are activated by e…
Feb. 11, 2025

Episode 55- Highly Sensitive People

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly explore the traits of a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). This is not the same as Sensitive Processing Disorder, which is a diagnosis. This topic has …
Feb. 4, 2025

Episode 54- Rage Room Experience

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly reflect on their experience in a rage room at Unchartered Adventures in San Antonio. Rage rooms began around 2008 Can be a great release, it took a…
Jan. 28, 2025

Episode 53- Optimism

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly wrap up January with a look at optimism. This is our one year anniversary! How to keep a hopeful, optimistic outlook What is optimism? Creating a m…
Jan. 21, 2025

Episode 52- Motivation

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly discuss motivation and tools that help keep us motivated. Extrinsic and Intrinsic motivation Process of motivation Importance of both internal and …
Jan. 14, 2025

Episode 51- Forgiving Yourself

In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly discuss the freedom that comes from self-forgiveness and how it is tied to forgiving others, Kelly interrupts Sydneys clever segue. Forgiveness is …

Recent Blog Posts

April 9, 2024

Laughter Is A Great Medicine

Laughter, genuine laughter! Uncontainable, joyous! Pure and unrestrained. A true gift given. My daughters and I were flying a kite on a wonderful, breezy afternoon.  The youngest was holding the spool of string, the rest of us had our necks …

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Feb. 6, 2024

Hope for Growth

I often struggle with limits...well, some limits. Take speed limits, because of them I've had the opportunity to meet a variety of officers, sit through several defensive driving classes, both in-person and online, as well as watch my bank account …

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About the Hosts

Kelly Arrendell

Podcast Host

Sydney West

Podcast Host