Jess & Gammy talk about Gammy's Standard Poodle,  Sensation aka Sensei.  They also talk about going to the movies to see Nicholas Cage's latest movie. 

Our call to action:
The Obama Checky Scholarship for public Service, The Voyager Scholarship
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Join Jess & Gammy as we continue our discussion and break this all down and talk about our own struggles to achieve agency in our lives and how we are doing.

A Few Types of Agency discussed:

• Sexual Agency- Your control over your own body and make decisions based on your own plan
• Moral Agency- knowing right from wrong and living within certain boundaries for your own sense of morality. 
• Student Agency: Dispositional-understanding of self, active, intentional and possessing purpose.
• Personal Risk Agency: Personal experience of a place is shown to be important for teenagers' sense of agency and confidence  
• Legal Agency-legal empowerment or access to justice efforts

Also, Agency impacts many areas of your life including

• Health and Well-being
• healthy aging
• human computer interaction
• freedom and responsibility

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CALL TO ACTION
 Ability1st - The Center for Independent Living rated 1005 by Charity Navigator  Please Donate! They are community-based organization offering support services, advocacy, and information to empower people with disabilities to live independently.
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Music: Pixabay
Image: Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
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In today's episode, We will talk about the importance of having Agency AND WHAT THAT MEANS. Gammy has 4 grandchildren and wants them to be self sufficient self confident secure grown adults. Plus, Gammy admits she's working on having agency in my own life and keeping it.  

Jess recently learned what the term agency was and was immediately intrigued then disheartened at realizing that this was a concept that was not a part of  her life. As a mother of 2 and on a journey to rebuilding  life, Jess is very much looking forward to learning how to continue to live our lives to the fullest. 

Definition from The social science jargon-buster: "The ability of individuals to affect change, make autonomous and independent choices and act in self-determining ways...A sense of agency is a sense that one can be more than reactive to one’s environment; having a sense of agency means that one can be generative, creative, proactive, and reflective. "

A. Bandura, famous Psychologist, proposed that agency consists of several key factors

• intentionality: the ability to make plans
• Forethought: the ability to see what’s necessary or may happen in the future.
• Self-reactivity: the ability to act on the plans that are made 
• Self-reflectiveness: the ability to reflect upon oneself and the adequacy of thoughts and actions 

Self Reflectiveness is the key to self-efficacy- the belief in your own ability-  

Join Jess & Gammy as we break this all down and talk about our own struggles to achieve agency in our lives and how we are doing .

CALL TO ACTION
 Ability1st - The Center for Independent Living rated 1005 by Charity Navigator  Please Donate! They are community-based organization offering support services, advocacy, and information to empower people with disabilities to live independently. 
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Music: Pixabay
Image: Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
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REFERENCES:

1. "Agency." The Social Science Jargon-Buster, Zina O'Leary, Sage UK, 1st edition, 2007. 
2. Levesque, Roger J. R. "Agency." Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Roger J. R. Levesque, Springer Science+Business Media, 2nd edition, 2018. 
3. Danielle van der Burgt (2015) Spatial avoidance or spatial confidence? Young people's agency in the active negotiation of risk and safety in public space, Children's Geographies, 13:2, 181-195, https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2013.828455 
4. Potts, Cory A., and Richard A. Carlson. “What Am I Doing? It Depends: Agency and Action Identification.” Psychological Research, vol. 86, no. 2, Mar. 2022, pp. 651–66. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01510-9. 
5. Vaughn, Margaret. “What Is Student Agency and Why Is It Needed Now More than Ever?” Theory Into Practice, vol. 59, no. 2, Spring 2020, pp. 109–18. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2019.1702393. 

Today Jess and Gammy talk about self care.
Gammy realized she  hasn't been taking care of herself the way she should after a trip to the mall with her grandchildren.  Jess realized she needed to set a line item in her budget for self care after a conversation with her daughter who is growing out of her clothes.

The World Health Organization's definition of self-care is “the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health-care provider.”

Join Jess and Gammy as they discuss the need for self-care and all the pits in life that can remind you to take a moment reflect and reset by taking care of you.

Call to Action:
From Gammy: Catholic Charities of Jacksonville is preparing to take in Ukrainian refugees. Please donate if you can.
From Jess:  Be aware of these 7 pillars to Self-Care  from the article SELF-CARE IN HEALTH: WE CAN DEFINE IT, BUT SHOULD WE ALSO MEASURE IT? by David Webber, Zhenyu Guo, Stephen Mann

1. Health literacy – includes: the capacity of individuals to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
2. Self-awareness of physical and mental condition – includes: knowing your body mass index (BMI), cholesterol level, blood pressure; engaging in health screening.
3. Physical activity – practicing moderate intensity physical activity such as walking, cycling, or participating in sports at a desirable frequency.
4. Healthy eating – includes: having a nutritious, balanced diet with appropriate levels of calorie intake.
5. Risk avoidance or mitigation – includes: quitting tobacco, limiting alcohol use, getting vaccinated, practicing safe sex, using sunscreens.
6. Good hygiene – includes: washing hands regularly, brushing teeth, washing food.
7. Rational and responsible use of products, services, diagnostics and medicines – includes: being aware of dangers, using responsibly when necessary.

NEXT WEEK:  AGENCY
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Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
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In today's episode, We will ask each other questions. Gammy has known Jess’ Husband Anthony  since he was born, but long distance, as his father Tony and Gammy were first cousins: Tony raised in California and Gammy in Georgia. Jess & Gammy have known each other about 9 years via Facebook but only met face-to-face July 2021 (9 months ago)when Jess and her Husband, upon invitation after the death of Gammy’s Aunt/ Anthony’s Grandmother, came from California to live with Gammy in Jacksonville, FL. Why? To make a new start and heal from all the losses they have experienced the past 5 years.  

The old saying goes: “coming to see aint like coming to stay.” So,  Jess & Gammy decided to ask ‘What you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask’ questions of each other just to take our relationship deeper. 
We ask questions about:

• Favorites
• Dislikes
• Setting boundaries
• Being truthful
• Legacy building
• Travel dreams
• Pet peeves
• Parental Drag
• And more in between.

Join us next week when we talk about Self Care.

Our Call to action:
Gammy asks that you donate to 1000 Friends of Florida http://www.1000fof.org/
Jess Talks about a "Flat Stanley" activity to help stay close to those you love.

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Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
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Gammy and jess get reactions from family members who took part in the Family Camping experience April 8th-10th.  We hear from adults who have camped before and those who haven't. We also get reactions from the children.
 Our Call To Action
Grab your tent and air mattress and go camping.  Get outside and enjoy nature.
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Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
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Jess & Gammy went camping over the weekend (April 8-10) and recount their thoughts about the experience. Jess has led camping trips for hundreds of kids as a youth minister while Gammy a 65 year old senior has never ben tent camping in her life.
Listen to their thoughts about the big family of 17 folks 10 of whom had never had the camping experience hit Hanna Park in Jacksonville FL for a 3 day 2 night tent camping Big Family compound.
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Music by ZakharValaha from Pixabay
To see videos and pictures of our trip, go to the Spittin at the Table Blog

Hello and welcome to Spittin at the Table, the show where we enjoy conversations about life from perspectives that are the same yet different. We are your hosts Jess and Gammy. Just sittin' here talkin.

In today's episode, We will discuss the importance of taking a break…a vacation. Gammy took a vacation to NYC with two grands.  Gammy is also a believer that when you die your are easily replaced. And need to take care of your body and take a break sometimes.  And Jess? and her two girls travelled to California.

Today, as usual we will also update our listeners on a few things:  The COVID Protocol in our home and exciting news about the 1950 census.  Did Gammy find any Secrets?  Then, as usual we ask our listeners to support one the our causes of the show. Please be sure to listen all the way to the end for the details!  Let’s get started…

Our Call to action

Dreams Come True of Jacksonville at https://www.dreamscometrue.org/ . @DCTJAX on Twitter. From their website:  "In 35 years, Dreams Come True has made the special desires of almost 4,000 children come true. Dreams provide our brave children and their families with a momentary reprieve from the rigors of medical treatment often associated with life-threatening illnesses. A dream temporarily removes the child from doctor visits, hospital stays, tests and needles and brings laughter, joy and childhood to the forefront. Dreams give the children and their families memories to carry them through the rough times and smiles to last a lifetime. Dreams bring hope and the promise of tomorrow. All children between the ages of two and a half and eighteen who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and either live or are treated in Northeast Florida or Southeast Georgia are eligible for a dream."  Please donate generously.

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Image by Dariusz Sankowski from Pixabay
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