In this week's episode we discuss eight strategies to help you resist temptation:Recall what tempts youInterject and redirect yourself before you engage with the temptation Plan to have healthy alternatives in placeIntroduce and welcome accountability partnersChallenge yourself for a set period of timeKeep the temptation out of reach Set your intention Create a rewards systemYou'll find in depth explanations and examples throughout the episode.
May 29, 2024
31 min
In this week's episode we speak to Angela Duckworth's book Grit. She outlines three different views of work - job, career, and calling. In her book, she speaks to the degree of grit involved at each level. I paralleled job, career, and calling to dating, relationships, and life partnership. We zoom out and take a look at what our expectations and investments look like at each level of romantic relationship.
May 21, 2024
30 min
I'm going to keep it straight with you - uncovering your true identity is going to take a lot of humility because it'll be a game of trial and error. This lifelong journey allows us to sift through all the filth that life, hurt, rejection, misunderstanding, and everything else that has covered up the beauty of who we really are.I intentionally titled this UNcovering your true Identity rather than DIScovering your true identity because it's already inside of you. We don't need to find it, we n...
May 14, 2024
30 min
In this week's episode we talk about our role in choosing not only who is in our lives, but how much access they have to us. I share my own framework for choosing people to do life with as a means to encourage others to understand their own relational needs.I mentioned a sermon from Pastor Travis Greene of Forward City Church that references what it means to have "diggers" in your life. Diggers are the people that will get down and dirty with you, the ones that will fight, work, push forward ...
May 7, 2024
30 min
In this week's episode we speak to both sides of pride (the good and the bad) and what it means to live a life of authentic humility.Pride is on a spectrum, there's healthy pride like self-respect, and there's unhealthy pride like arrogance. I don't know about you, but often when I hear people speak about pride, the negative side is the one being highlighted and I want to challenge that narrative. Can we really have humility without pride?
Apr 30, 2024
30 min
In this week's episode we discuss the ways in which we may welcome frustrations into our lives. From small nuisances to larger-scale frustrations, it's important for us to take note of the role we may play. We discussed three primary strategies for reducing these sorts of frustrations:1. Seek first to understand2. Take accountability 3. Be flexibleThese three strategies work together to lead us to a more peaceful life. Tune in to learn more about how to apply these strategies to your lif...
Apr 24, 2024
30 min
After reflecting on a chaotic few weeks I recognized that I stopped engaging in one my most important practices - brain dumps. In this week's episode I share how brain dumps impacted my life, what they are, and how we can all start making use of them.Brain dumps allow you to clear out the toxins that have entered your mind and hold on to the nutrient rich information that you've consumed throughout the day. I look at it much like digestion - the only difference is that we have to be very acti...
Apr 16, 2024
30 min
Last week we discussed 3 things I had to learn to do in order to change my life:1. Learn to step outside of myself2. Learn to identify my problem beliefs (not my problem behaviors)3. Learn how to do things differentlyIn this week's episode I recount my experience as a recovering people pleaser and how I used those three steps to move from people pleasing to honoring myself while simultaneously loving others. We'll uncover the problem belief underlying my people pleasing behaviors and strategi...
Apr 10, 2024
30 min
Hey tribe! I took a quarter off but I'm BACK! Apologies for not communicating this sabbatical in advance, I'll most certainly do better next time. During some recent quiet time with the Lord, I reflected on how vastly differently I'm experiencing life now in comparison to before I committed to this relationship with Jesus. I wish I could say I committed my life to Christ and everything was suddenly better but that wasn't the case. When you come into an intimate relationship with the Lord, it ...
Apr 2, 2024
33 min
In this week's episode we review different ways our level of confidence in ourselves and our abilities has the potential to impact our experience in life. We discuss warning signs that indicate we're battling issues related to our confidence and strategies to slowly, but surely build it back up.
Dec 19, 2023
40 min
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