Journal Gently: Helping Introverted Women Find Healing After Grief, Hurt, and Trauma

We are on day 4 of our 5-Day Courageous Care Challenge. This challenge is going to help you replace fear and uncertainty with courage and compassion. We are going to be looking at the top five obstac…

We are on day 3 of our 5-Day Courageous Care Challenge. This challenge is going to help you replace fear and uncertainty with courage and compassion. We are going to be looking at the top five obstac…

We are in the middle of the 5-Day Courageous Care Challenge. This challenge is going to help you replace fear and uncertainty with courage and compassion.

We are going to be looking at the top five o…

I am so excited for you to join me today as we kick off the Courageous Care Challenge. This is going to be a power-packed week that can completely transform the way you reach out to your friends and …

I don’t know about you, but there have been several seasons in my life when I struggled to find and experience joy. And whether you are grieving or struggling with depression or medical issues, I wan…

We are wrapping up our series about how to respond in different situations when it comes to encouragement and care. Some have been from the perspective of the helper, such as how to respond when some…

Has there ever been a moment in your life when everything just changed? One phone call that radically altered your world? One comment that impacted how you saw everything around you? One experience t…

I can’t wait to dive into today’s guided Scripture reading with you. As I prepared it, God spoke some really powerful truths to me, and I’m sure He will do the same for you.

I encourage you to take a…

Have you ever had someone offer some sort of support or help to you that you didn’t necessarily want? But you didn’t know how to say no without hurting their feelings?

Today, we’re talking about how …

What do you do when you offer help to a friend who is going through a difficult time, and they say “no”? How do you handle that?

I know it is so incredibly easy to take it personally when a friend tu…

We are starting a kind of mini-series where we are going to talk about how to respond in different situations. You know, some of those awkward situations that happen when we’re trying to encourage an…

How many of you serve with the kids at your church in some way? How many of you at least smile and wave to the kids when you see them on Sunday?

What you may not realize is how many of those kids are…

Welcome to our third bonus episode. In our bonus episodes, we engage with some different spiritual practices together. This is a chance for us to explore some practices we may not be familiar with, a…

Today, we are going to address the question of how to ask for help when you need it. Because, let’s be honest: we all need help. Can we just admit that right off the bat? Yet asking for help can be s…

Last week, we began a really important conversation with Karen Altizer about grief, so if you haven’t listened to episode 9 yet, I invite you to do that. In the first part of our conversation, Karen …

We are going to start a conversation about supporting a friend through grief. And I invited Karen Altizer to help me with this. Karen will introduce herself as we begin our chat, but I want you to kn…

We say we want to encourage others, and I completely believe that desire is within us. Yet I think one of the things that trips us up the most is that we simply aren’t paying much attention to those …

Guided Scripture reading has been powerful for me because it helps me engage with the story in a deeper way. It’s often combined with a practice called imaginative prayer, where you use all of your s…

Today I want to share with you a conversation I had with Laura Howe, founder of an organization called Hope Made Strong. I met Laura online and, when I saw what her mission was, I immediately asked t…

Today, I want to share something incredibly special with you. You see, I gave a message back in 2016. A message that ignited all this we call Love Does That. A message that my husband Mike, before we…