Today we’re talking about how to acknowledge your feelings but not stay stuck in them. Over the next 20 minutes, we’ll break down: how to honor our emotions without being overwhelmed by them so we can act in love I feel a tension between, and maybe you feel it too, the desire to feel what […]
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Episode #28: A back-to-school prayer for our kids
Our kids need prayer at the start of every school year. But this year, the need to pray feels a bit more urgent. We love our kids and know how worried, excited, nervous, and ready they are. So what we can do is pray. And while we’re praying for our children today, please remember to […]
Episode #27: The secret sauce for shaking off fear and living with grace, confidence, and a steadfast heart
You and I wrestle with what’s going on, how to process it, what to do next, how to get on board with what God is doing in the world, and how to make wise decisions for our people. We’re asking a lot of questions right now in our quest to understand our new reality: When […]
Episode #26: Ten truths about you this pandemic: Part Two
In this episode, we continue to give language to what’s been floating around in our brains. We are sitting together as a community of try-hard girls to process all that’s going on. So for the next 20 minutes, grab a cup of coffee and join me in talking about: What we’ve learned about ourselves during this […]
Episode #25: Ten truths about you this pandemic: Part One
We’re going to take a minute to process what we’re feeling and how God meets us right where we are. In this episode, we give language to what’s floating around in our brains. So for the next twenty minutes, we will imagine we are sitting at my kitchen table together, talking through: What we’ve learned […]
Episode #24: A prayer for the mom deciding what to do about school next year
Some of you have already made decisions about what to do for school next year. Some of you are currently making a choice. And some of you have second-guessed, triple-guessed, and quadruple-guessed the decision you submitted. Wherever you are in the school-decision process, this prayer is for you. Friend, if you’ve said to yourself: “I […]
Episode #23: Releasing yourself from guilt when you can’t solve the world’s problems
Can we be raw and real for a second? Sometimes caring for our people, managing our home, and working at the job that pays us money, feels like more than enough. Then we add on a never-ending pandemic, racial unrest, social injustice, Saharan dust clouds, murder hornets, and who-knows-what-else, and we want to scream, “Put a […]
Episode #22: Are you emotionally eating too?
Are you emotionally eating too? Yeah, I get it. I’m eating All The Skittles right now. So what is emotional eating? Why do we do it? What does our emotional eating point us toward? How do we stop? In this episode, the Grace In Real Life podcast welcomes integrative wellness speaker, author, and educator Rebekah […]
Episode #21: Decision-Making in Hard Seasons: Did I really hear from God or is that just me?
We conclude this decision-making series by walking through how to discern our voice from God’s voice and our enemy’s voice. Because — if you’re anything like me — you pray, believe you hear an answer and then wonder, “Was that God or me?” So if you’ve ever asked yourself, “Did I hear God right?” Or […]
Episode #20: Decision-Making in Hard Seasons: When you want certainty and your brain feels full
It feels increasingly hard to make decisions during this season, doesn’t it?!?! Two reasons we find it so hard to decide are that we are chasing certainty and suffering from brain fatigue. So if you’re struggling with decisions — big ones or small — you’re in the right place because today we break free from […]