TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Are expectations piling up and bogging you down? Are you running low on energy? Feeling quickly frustrated and lacking initiative? Often times rest is as simple as unplugging and restarting. We all have limits but how do we recognize the sign of burn out and lack of rest before it's too late? How can we learn to live from a place of fullness instead of lack? Join us as we continue our series about REST. In this four part series we will …
Grace > Grind, Heart > Hustle
Can I tell you something? I’m tired. Really tired. Not just ‘need a quick power nap tired’ but soul-level tired. I’ve run myself empty, irritable and burnt out. I’ve lost my margin. I’ve lost a place for people to land. My creativity is dried up, my content is bled out and my silver lining enthusiast is ‘out of office’. Anyone else? We’ve created a culture where rest is overrated and the rat race trumps all. Less sleep, more doing. Less being, more preforming. We wear productivity like a …
REST Series: Recognizing Your Need for Reset
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER How do you know when you are operating from a place of lack? What signs and triggers can you find in your life that speak to your need for reset? What are you holding on to that's holding you back? If we don't slow down, name what we are feeling and let it go we will always be running, always be hiding, always be tired. But what if it could be different? What if we could know ourselves and what we need so we can undo our …
REST Series: What is Rest?
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Are you tired, worn out, feeling run down? Do you feel like you are so focused on doing that you've lost sight of being? Have your days started to feel like you're operating on a hamster wheel where nothing is changing? Join us as we embark on a series about REST. In this four part series we will learn how to reset our capacity and not just find temporary rest but live from a lasting place of it. This four part series …
Never Have I Ever
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Have you ever found yourself in a place or experience that you never could have predicted? Can you look back on moments in your life and laugh about the irony or be grateful that your story continued on? Perhaps there's been places of heartbreak and hardship but also moments of joy you never anticipated? There are so many things that have happened in my short time on this earth that I never ever thought I'd experience. These surprises …
Battling Addiction
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Addiction is something many of us quietly struggle with. It can show up in different forms, for different reasons and at any stage of life. It's a quiet struggle, until it's not. Three years ago, life was feeling overwhelming for Dave Baumgarten and he found himself in a place he never imagined. His anxiety grew as he experienced loss and grief and so did his drinking habits. He tried to hide his growing addiction …
30,000 Feet
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER Have you ever experienced an ‘emotional check point’? A déjà vu moment of sorts that totally catches you off guard? Something triggers a memory from your past and it all comes flooding back? I was traveling home recently and I had an emotional check point hit me like a brick wall. The old feelings, stress, anxiety, heaviness and weight of life in that season came flooding back. It took everything I had to breathe and pray through the …
Feeling Your Feelings
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER How do we know if a feeling is good or bad? Are feelings good or bad? How to match our feelings to our reality? What feeling do you spend the most time feeling? Or the least? What emotional rules have you given yourself? Join my 7 year old daughter, Lainey, and I as we discuss the 'feeling wheel' as we gain a better understanding on what feelings make up our daily input and output and how we can be mindful of letting ourself feel but also …
The Hardest Thing
TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER What dream have you hidden? You know, the one that you’ve tried to forget about? The one you’ve stopped telling others or maybe even yourself because it hurts too much to have it realized but not met? That dream that no matter the doing, distractions and best efforts to ignore, it remains, buried but still alive? It’s so easy to hide the desires of our heart but we can’t from our Creator. He already knows. So what would …
‘Be Careful, Have Fun, Good Luck’
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 …