Grief comes to us for different reasons. Burying someone we love. Sending our firstborn to kindergarten. Signing the divorce papers. Packing our child’s room for college. Returning to work after years of staying at home. Try-hard girls, we all experience loss and grief, yet so many of us push it away. Grief is found at […]
#107: Skill Set: Practicing vulnerability in a world that tells you to power through with Nicole Zasowski
We try-hard girls are notorious for sacrificing our emotions on the altar of performance and productivity. We don’t have to look very far to see examples of powering through and soldiering on in order to get the job done. Try-hard girls have an inexplicable need to be perceived as strong. Showing any feeling seems to […]
#106: Skill Set: Holding space for the mystery of God with Reverend Summer Joy Gross
So many of us struggle with our inability to quantify or measure God. While we appreciate His infinite nature and His lavish love and do not want to worship a God we can fully understand, we are far more accustomed to swimming in the sea of: Transactional relationships If this then that statements Of linear […]
#105: Skill Set: Embracing your whole self with Sarah E. Westfall
Have you ever felt like you are both too much and not enough at the same time? That maybe you got the raw end of the personality deal? Do you feel afraid to be who you most fully are? Sweet friend, if you can only see the downsides of your personality, take heart. If you […]
#104: Skill Set: Practicing faith + building trust in the Lord with Carrie Rogers
We want to grow our faith and trust in the Lord, but we aren’t sure exactly how to go about doing it. This isn’t an episode filled with platitudes and shoulds; it’s an episode about Christ meeting us in the hardest, most excruciating moments and in our daily, walking-around life. This is an episode full […]
#103: Living in hope when you feel like you’re not meeting your own standards with Kristina Ward
If you’ve ever felt like “lowering your standards” was a four-letter word, you simply could not fail, or if you’ve felt resentful when your parenting/work/marriage isn’t progressing as you planned, listen in to writer Kristina Ward point you back to Christ. Writer Kristina Ward tackles the frustration we feel when we aren’t meeting our own […]
#102: Skill Set: Accepting your enough-ness in Christ with Rachael Gilbert
Why do we battle against receiving our enough-ness in Christ? What’s going on when we turn “shining our light” into a call to be Super-Jesus? What’s one simple way to receive our belovedness? Listen in to this episode with counselor and author Rachael Gilbert as we tackle how not feeling enough leads us to shame […]
#101: Spiritual Health: Hearing from God for freedom with Jennifer Barnett
How do we hear from the Lord? How do we know that it’s Him we hear and not just our own wishful thinking? What’s going on when we hear silence? Author Jennifer Barnett shares the answers to these questions and more in the fifth and final episode of our Spiritual Health series. Through this series, […]
#100: Spiritual Health: Imitating Christ as we suffer with author K.J. Ramsey
How do we encounter our suffering without rushing ourselves through to God’s goodness? What is self-sufficiency really? How can we show our “honest sadness” to others? Author K.J. Ramsey answers these questions and more in the fourth episode of our Spiritual Health series. Through this series, we’ll walk through 5 spiritual disciplines: Studying the Bible with […]
#99: Spiritual Health: Celebrating Sabbath with Mark Buchanan
How do you keep Sabbath when you’re a mom and constantly needed? What does Sabbath look like when you love working and taking a break sounds like The Worst? What do you do when kids’ activities interfere with Sabbath rest? Author Mark Buchanan addresses these questions and so much more in the third episode of […]