TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Have you lost a parent at a young age? Or perhaps you've struggled with grief and isolation? How does someone overcome the mental battles that comes during hard times? How can we support others through loss and struggle? How can a parent help a child through trauma and difficulties? Four an a half years ago, it was a normal, fall day for 15 year old Dakota Leuzinger. Little did he know that day would be his last time hunting with his dad. Life …
Someday
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Have you let life get in the way of your dreams? What’s the one thing you wish to experience in this lifetime? What’s your ‘someday’? How can you create your ‘someday’ today? We can’t know the sand that’s left in our hourglass. We don’t know what tomorrow holds or how the rest of our days will unfold. So let's allow joy, build in room for adventure, leave space for spontaneity. Don’t let your ‘someday’ never arrive. We can ‘someday’ our …
Set Free
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Have you ever felt like something was missing either within yourself or in your life-as if there's a void that you can't define and yet can't escape? You've been trying to find your purpose, and sometimes you even question whether you have one? Author Jill Allen has faced those questions and has discovered the way to show up as the woman she wants to be-the woman God designed and created her to be. Anxiety and busyness can keep us from walking …
Before Me vs. After Me
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Have you lost yourself, or even your joy, after a hard season? It's so easy for this to happen, and even part of the process of becoming a new creation. When you lose yourself after something hard, how can you rediscover who you've now become? Hard things change you. We gain a new perspective and new parts of us. Old parts die, new parts come to life. How do we let go of 'before me' while making space for 'after me'? How do you celebrate …
Confessions of a Special Needs Mama
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Has your life ever taken an unexpected turn? If so, how did you handle the gap of where you thought you'd be and where you actually found yourself? Were you able to still find joy? How do you rest in that unknown space? 6 years ago Jenny and her husband Brandon found themselves pregnant with their second child but this pregnancy felt different. Even though the world said otherwise, mother's intuition kicked in as God spoke to her about …
It Won’t Always Feel Like This
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER What do you say to yourself on hard days to shift your persepective? Do you have a mantra, a battle cry, you use for a pep talk? I do. And I've shared it with many friends going through hard times: a cancer diagnosis, grief, loss, becoming a young widow, waiting for a baby, to be a mom, sick kids and divorce. And now I'm going to share it with you... It won't always feel like this. Listen now to hear Becky talk about how this mantra …
The Gift of Hard Things
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER What do I really want out of life? What are the things that are most important to me? What have I not done that I’ve always wanted to do? Postpartum, mom guilt, a cancer diagnosis and working as a therapist all in the middle of a global pandemic. Kelly Sisson, mom, therapist, podcast host of 'Kelly and the Encouragers' and eternal optimist, is opening up about her journey through hard things and how it's shaped her perspective. Hard …
Surrendered Expectations
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER **Michael and Tasha are still pursuing and holding on to hope of adoption for their family. Do you know a birth mother that is looking to adoption for her child? If so, please email me at becky@winthedaypro.com so we can connect.** Michael and Tasha have felt called to adopt for 5 years but the expectations of their calling have played out much differently than they could have ever known. Busted plans, broken hearts, failed …
When God Is Quiet
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Do you feel like God has been quiet in your life? Does there seem to be no answers to the questions you've been asking God? Do you feel like you are talking it and walking it out but still....nothing? Is quiet needed? Are we being punished? I had felt God's quiet for a while. Not just weeks or months but the better part of two years...until recently. Listen now to hear how God has started moving in my life …
How to Listen When Your Body Speaks
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER What happens when we try to deny and outrun our emotions? What happens when we are too busy doing and too distracted to be feeling? Symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, loss of ambition, bloating, trouble sleeping, digestive issues start to feel like our new normal but that's now how we were meant to live! I've been on a long journey the last few years and part of that journey most recently has been slowing down and befriending my body and giving …