Breathing Room with Caroline Schandel

What does it mean to run your race? How can you stay focused to run where you are with all you have? On this episode, Caroline dives into the topic of comparison and offers you 3 practical tools for overcoming the trap of comparing yourself to who or what is around you. You can show up to where you and fully sink yourself into what God has for you there — and this episode will teach you how!

What do you do when you find yourself offended? And how can you resist becoming offended to begin with? In this episode, Caroline teaches you what offense does, where you find it, and how to work through it. Listen and learn the powerful key for resisting offense's bait and staying free from its negative impact in your life and relationships.

What does it mean to live with resolve and determination? On this episode, Caroline discusses how Jesus set his face and lived his days in line with God's calling. No matter what others are doing or saying around you, God has uniquely purposed your story and your season. So where are you to set your face and commit to the path that yours to walk?

Feeling discouraged? Whether it's due to reasons you're aware of or not, you know what it's like to wake up some days and feel discouraged. In this episode, Caroline discusses 1 verse, 2 questions, and 3 practices that will help you to strengthen yourself on those extra difficult days. Listen and get ready to be inspired!

What if one thought changed your life? In this week's episode, Caroline invites you to reconsider what thoughts are determining how you show up to your days. Digging into Mark 5, she challenges you to think differently about where you are and who you are there. An ordinary day is all God needs to do an extraordinary work in your life. So what is the one thought that shifts how you show up and live today?

What is the identity you are sitting into and where are you resting? This week Caroline discusses when Jesus declared who he was as God's anointed one and then took his seat there. He rested into what he knew to be true. On this episode you'll learn where you sit, why it matters, and what it means to take a seat with God into the words he is speaking over your life.

What does it mean that God is renewing you day by day? This week, Caroline digs into 2 Corinthians 4:16 to discuss this daily renewal by God—and the answer may surprise you! It's an episode sure to encourage you to dig into the hard and stretching areas of life today because you're reminded how purposeful God is growing you wherever you are.

Where is there chaos in your life? Where do you feel empty or out of sorts? Right there is where God hovers. In this week's episode, Caroline unpacks the first two verses of Scripture, Genesis 1:1-2, and teaches how God is present over your chaos. Even more, where God hovers is where he promises that life and beauty will come forth by his power at work in you.

At times God will call you to charge forth with boldness and strength, and at times God will call you to draw back in quietness and trust. On this week's episode, Caroline talks about when you find yourself tucked away by God. There you must trust what God is saying more than what you see him doing. While your seasons of hiddenness do not define your story, your story with God will require seasons of hiddenness—which lead you toward his goodness ahead.

In continuing the discussion on hearing God speak, this episode is for when you find yourself in the desert—where all feels dry, fruitless, and rugged. Caroline unpacks a portion of Psalm 23 and teaches how the desert is where you really hear God. You don't need to get out of there; you just need to learn how (and where) to pause within it. Because in the desert of your life God is speaking and you can hear him.