Common-sense grace for the try-hard girl
Your body is pretty incredible, but what about when your body feels like it doesn’t like you or is actively working against you? How do you give your body grace when it feels like it’s betraying you? How can you be a grace-giver to your flesh, blood, marrow, tendons, and cells when you feel as […]
We’re talking about viewing our bodies through the lens of grace. In this episode, I’ll share my body’s story What trips us up from treating our bodies with grace And what God says is true. Six mindsets we hold about our bodies: Our bodies are machines designed to produce without getting sick, having feelings about anything, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]