JUUst Breathe: A Podcast for Unitarian Universalists

08/25/2026

Our new season has begun! Season 6, Episode 1 is out (Ep 2 will drop soon!). Check out our first episode featuring Nao Bethea and Natalie Briscoe discussing the nuts and bolts of the UUA's new lifespan religious education curriculum and its scaffolded roll out.

In Season 6 of JUUst Breathe, we’ll be exploring the ten lifespan religious education themes from Woven Faith, e.g. Interdependence, Living the Questions, Equity, Justice, Generosity, etc. Lifespan Faith Engagement Co-Director, Nao Bethea, an...

07/21/2026

Season 6 of JUUst Breathe has begun recording episodes! I wonder what we'll be talking about this year???

06/16/2026

From the Season Finale: Kitty Kaler sharing a question that many UU communities are wrestling with. Wonderful human, fantastic episode.

We are excited to have you join us for the Season Finale of our journey through the Deeper Joy Community Building map. Today we’re arriving at the Canyons of Deeper Sharing! In this episode, we are joined by Kitty Kalebarn and Lenore Bajare-D...

06/09/2026

We are excited to have you join us for the Season Finale of our journey through the Deeper Joy Community Building map. Today we’re arriving at the Canyons of Deeper Sharing!

In this episode, we are joined by Kitty Kalebarn and Lenore Bajare-Dukes to explore the Canyons - where we practice vulnerability in sharing and receiving the gifts of community, whether that is witnessing one another's life experiences or the challenges we're grappling with, or through making meaning together - listening to each other's stories and moments of awe and wonder.

Join us on this final exquisite Journey of Deeper Joy!

We are excited to have you join us for the Season Finale of our journey through the Deeper Joy Community Building map. Today we’re arriving at the Canyons of Deeper Sharing! In this episode, we are joined by Kitty Kalebarn and Lenore Bajare-D...

06/03/2026

We juust hit 7500 downloads! Thanks to everyone who listens! We couldn't have done this without you.

05/18/2026

In this episode of JUUst Breathe, we are joined by Rev Erin Walter and Rev Justin Almeida to explore the Healing Spring — a place of rest, repair, and reconnection.

If the Stretching River is where we grow through challenge, the Healing Springs are where we pause, tend to what’s been stirred up, and reconnect to what sustains us.

The springs are made up of many pools: some for individual healing, some for collective repair, and others that overflow into the wider world.

And at the source of all of them is connection , connection to ourselves, to one another, to the earth, to our values, and to something larger than us.

In this episode, we are joined by Rev Erin Walter and Rev Justin Almeida to explore the Healing Spring — a place of rest, repair, and reconnection.If the Stretching River is where we grow through challenge, the Healing Springs are where we pause, ...

05/05/2026

Moritz using metaphor as an imaginary river guide with important tips on how to navigate stretching circumstances on the river of life.

04/07/2026

Jen Shattuck shares a heartwarming story of affirmation from a time in a UU camp immersion setting. Forests of Affirmation Episode 6 is out now!