Have you ever climbed into bed completely exhausted... and still wondered if you did enough?

Enough for your kids.
Enough at work.
Enough around the house.
Enough for everyone else.

If you've ever carried that invisible weight, this conversation is for you.

In this heartfelt conversation, I'm joined by Stacy Goldstein, host of the Golden Spark Podcast, to explore what's really happening beneath mom guilt, overwhelm, and the mental load so many women quietly carry every day.

Together, we unpack the hidden questions that shape our thoughts, the stories we unknowingly believe, and why understanding the root of our stress is often the first step toward lasting peace.

We also talk about the surprising research behind motherhood—including the invisible mental load many women carry—and why so many moms feel like they're failing when they're actually carrying far more than they were ever meant to.

If you've been longing to stop surviving your days and start experiencing them more peacefully and beautifully, I think you'll find hope in this conversation.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why mom guilt is often a symptom—not the real problem
• The hidden emotional weight women carry every day
• The invisible mental load of motherhood
• Why so many women quietly wonder, "Am I enough?"
• How childhood patterns can continue shaping adult life
• Why naming the root of a struggle begins to loosen its power
• Practical ways to move from survival mode toward greater peace and presence
• How faith and awareness work together to create lasting change

Connect with Stacy 💛 

I know you're going to love Stacy's heart and her work. Here are a few places to connect with her:

🌿 Golden Spark Podcast

🌿 Renewed Mom Community (Facebook Group)

🌿 Free Motherhood Truth Worksheet & Email Community

🌿 Substack

🌿 Instagram

🌿 Freebies, coaching program, book a call and more!

🎁 A Gift for You

If today's conversation made you "feel things", I'd love to invite you to experience one of my favorite Love Moves.

The Latte of Love is a guided 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover designed to help you calm your body, refocus your thoughts, and gently shift your attention from fear toward love.

Think of it as our next coffee chat together!

☕ I've opened 10 coffee tabs for this episode! Use code COFFEECHAT and I'll cover part of your Latte of Love, so you can enjoy a 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover for about the price of a cup of coffee (while tabs last).

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

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• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

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• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

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Have you ever been completely convinced you knew what someone else was thinking… only to find out you were completely wrong?

Maybe it was an unanswered text. A short conversation. Your spouse's tone. A medical test result. Before you knew it, your brain had filled in the blanks and written an entire story.

In this episode, we're talking about why your brain naturally creates stories, why those stories feel so believable, and—most importantly—how to begin rewiring the pattern.

Together we'll explore:

• Why awareness is one of the greatest gifts God has given us
• The surprising neuroscience behind "intentional activity"
• Why fear brain gets certain while love brain gets curious
• A simple three-step practice (NOR) you can use this week!
• Practical ways to interrupt spirals and retrain your attention
• How tiny acts of faithfulness create lasting transformation

If you've ever found yourself overthinking, catastrophizing, assuming the worst, or replaying conversations in your head, this episode is for you.

💚 Keep Growing:

If today's conversation helped you recognize some of the stories your brain has been writing, Love Moves was written for exactly that journey.

It's not a book to race through—it's a tool to return to.

Through faith, neuroscience, everyday stories, reflection questions, and practical exercises, Love Moves will help you grow awareness, practice intention, and begin rewiring the patterns that shape how you experience your life.

Grab your copy, or the audio version, here: Love Moves...the book

Remember:

Awareness turns the lights on.

Intention helps us choose a different path.

And tiny things, repeated faithfully, create a beautiful life.

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

Get the Monthly Pour

• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

Join The Brim

• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

Visit Called and Curious

• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

Email me at [email protected]

We all want a map. God keeps handing us a lamp.

Have you ever wished God would just hand you the plan already?

Not a hint.
Not a nudge.
Not a lamp.

A map.

A five-year plan. Clear directions. Confirmation that you're making the right decision and not accidentally wandering into the wilderness with a coffee and a dream.

In this episode, we're talking about the pressure to figure everything out—and why so many of us struggle to move forward without certainty.

As I've been reading through Genesis, I keep noticing a surprising pattern: God rarely gives people the whole map. Instead, He gives them enough light for the next faithful step.

Together we'll explore:

✨ Why perfectionists often struggle to follow a calling

✨ The difference between building a tower and following God's invitation

✨ What Noah, Abram, and the Tower of Babel reveal about control, trust, and uncertainty

✨ Why your nervous system craves certainty (and what to do when it doesn't get it)

✨ The four layers God often provides when He calls us forward:

• Instruction
• Provision
• Protection
• Timing

If you've been overthinking your future, questioning your purpose, feeling behind, or carrying the weight of trying to get everything right, this episode is for you.

Because maybe faith isn't having the whole map.

Maybe it's trusting the lamp.

📖 Want to keep exploring this journey?

My book, Love Moves, isn't a map for your life—but I hope it feels like a lamp.

 Through faith, neuroscience, practical tools, and simple daily practices, it will help you notice your patterns, renew your mind, calm the noise, and build from connection instead of fear.

Grab a copy on Amazon, request it from your local library, or grab the book, ebook, or audiobook here: LOVE MOVES 💛 

If this episode encouraged you, would you leave a review or share it with a friend? It helps more women find the show and reminds the algorithm that thoughtful conversations still matter. Let's remind em!

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

Get the Monthly Pour

• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

Join The Brim

• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

Visit Called and Curious

• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

Email me at [email protected]

Be confident... but not intimidating.

Take up space... but not too much.

Shine your light... but don't make it about yourself.

Care about beauty... but not too much.

After a while, it's no wonder so many women feel confused.

We're surrounded by competing messages about who we're supposed to be, how we're supposed to show up, and what we're allowed to enjoy. Somewhere in the middle of all that noise, many of us have stopped asking a simple question:

Am I allowed to live beautifully?

And maybe more importantly: What does God think about that question?

In this episode, we're exploring a surprising lesson hidden in the wilderness. While the Israelites were still wandering, still becoming, and still waiting for the Promised Land, God asked them to build something beautiful.

Not later.

Not when everything was fixed.

Not when they finally arrived.

Right there in the middle of the mess.

Together we'll explore:

• ✨ Why beauty sometimes feels suspicious
• ✨ The whispers that convince us to shrink ourselves
• ✨ Why living beautifully has less to do with vanity and more to do with worth
• ✨ How identity and behavior begin to match
• ✨ Why God cared about beauty in the wilderness
• ✨ How to stop postponing joy, peace, and becoming
• ✨ Why beauty is at its best when it points us toward God

Because maybe the beautiful life isn't waiting somewhere in the future.

Maybe God is inviting us to notice it, build it, and live it right here.

To recognize instead of apologize.

To celebrate instead of diminish.

To let beauty point us toward God.

Not from the outside in. But from the inside out.

It's a beauty manifesto... and it's time to live beautifully!

The 3 Resources Mentioned:

💜 Wonderfully Made to Live Beautifully 6-minute inside-out makeover video

&

📖 Get YOUR copy: If you're learning how to stop apologizing for beauty and start living from your God-given worth, Love Moves is the guidebook I wrote for that journey. (Snag a fresh copy, the audiobook, or the ebook! Which is your fav?)

&

☕ The Brim (Before the Rebrand) This is my imperfect invitation.

The Brim is currently in its own becoming season. As Love Moves and Called & Curious continue to grow, this community will eventually be refreshed and renamed to better reflect where we're headed.

But if you'd like to join us before the rebrand, I'd love to have you.

Inside you'll find:

• ✨ The Wonderfully Made to Live Beautifully experience
• ✨ 18 additional Love Moves designed to help you makeover stressful moments again and again
• ✨ A portable gym for your nervous system
• ✨ Practical tools to help you experience more peace, joy, confidence, and connection with God in everyday life

Use code: ALLOWED for 50% off of The Brim while we're still in the messy middle.

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

Get the Monthly Pour

• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

Join The Brim

• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

Visit Called and Curious

• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

Email me at [email protected]

Sometimes life hands us a moment we never would have chosen.

A diagnosis.
A phone call.
A loss.
A season of uncertainty.

And suddenly the things that felt manageable yesterday don't feel manageable anymore.

In this deeply personal episode, Ash talks about how to carry questions we can't answer, and wrestling with what it means to trust God when life feels too heavy to take a step forward.

If you've ever found yourself wondering:

• How do I walk with Jesus when I can barely breathe?
• How do I trust God when I don't know what's going to happen?
• What do I do when I don't have the strength to keep going?
• How do I find comfort when grief, fear, or uncertainty take over?

This conversation is for you.

Together, we'll explore three simple anchoring truths:

✨ Compassion — Jesus moves toward people who are hurting.
✨ Trust — We can trust His character even when we don't understand the outcome.
✨ Rest — We were never meant to carry everything on our own.

Most of all, we'll talk about the hope found in a Savior who doesn't stand far away and tell us to try harder. He comes closer. He carries what we cannot. And He is remarkably good at holding people who can't take another step.

If you're walking through grief, fear, uncertainty, heartbreak, or one of those seasons where simply making it through the day feels hard, this episode is a reminder that you are not alone.

You don't need strength.
You don't need enthusiasm.
You don't need a plan.

You just need Jesus.

☕ Coffee Question:
What is one burden you've been trying to carry that you need to place in Jesus' hands today?

📖 Scripture: Matthew 8–11

🎙️ If this episode encouraged you, consider sharing it with someone who may need a little extra comfort and hope today.

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

Get the Monthly Pour

• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

Join The Brim

• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

Visit Called and Curious

• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

Email me at [email protected]

Most mornings, we wake up and immediately get pulled into the day.

The to-do list.

The schedule.

The worries.

The notifications.

Before we know it, our attention is everywhere.

But what if, before any of that, we spent a few minutes walking with Jesus?

In this episode, I'm sharing a simple morning rhythm that's helping me start my days with more peace, presence, and connection with God. We'll talk about the surprising neuroscience behind morning light, movement, and attention, why the first hour after waking matters, and how a simple six-minute walk can help you reset your mind, body, and spirit before the world gets loud.

If you've been craving a gentler way to begin your mornings—without pressure, perfection, or an elaborate routine—this episode is for you.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• 🌿 Why your attention is one of your most valuable resources
• ☀️ The science behind morning light and why it impacts your mood, focus, and energy
• 🚶‍♀️ How movement helps regulate your nervous system and prepare your brain for the day
• 🙏 Why walking with Jesus doesn't have to be complicated to be meaningful
• ✨ A simple 6•60•7 rhythm you can start using tomorrow morning

Most importantly, you'll be reminded that you don't need to fix your whole life before breakfast.

Sometimes all it takes is:

A little sunshine.

A little movement.

A little conversation with Jesus.

That's it.

Ready to try it?

I've created a free Walking With Jesus Collection to help you get started.

Inside you'll find:

1. ☀️ A 6-minute Walking With Jesus Love Move video
2. 📱 Four beautiful lock screens to encourage you throughout the day
3. 🌿 A simple visual guide to the 6•60•7 morning rhythm

👉 Grab the Walking With Jesus Collection HERE

No pressure.

No performance.

Just peace.

One step at a time.

One conversation at a time.

One beautiful morning at a time.

I'll meet you outside.

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

Get the Monthly Pour

• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

Join The Brim

• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

Visit Called and Curious

• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

Email me at [email protected]

Apparently my brain thinks my child and my dog belong in the same emotional category… because I recently called my kid the dog’s name. 😂

In this episode, we’re getting curious about the weird neuroscience behind why humans constantly mix up names—and what it reveals about stress, attention, relationships, emotional connection, and overloaded brains.

We’ll talk about:

•  why parents and teachers mix up names 
•  why kids call teachers “Mom” 
•  what “attention residue” does to the brain 
•  and why this may actually say more about connection than confusion 

And somewhere in the middle of all of this, we’ll also talk about Here Hearts—tiny physical reminders that help us slow down, transition more intentionally, and actually arrive in the moments we’re living.

✨ Get your copy of Love Moves  here

🎧 Prefer listening? Grab the Love Moves audiobook here

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

Get the Monthly Pour

• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

Join The Brim

• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

Visit Called and Curious

• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

Email me at [email protected]

Today’s episode is a little different. 💛

For my birthday this year, instead of just talking about peace, nervous system resets, overwhelm, or reconnecting with God…

I wanted to actually give you an experience.

So this episode includes a full guided Love Move — a simple 6-minute, body-first, inside-out makeover designed to help you interrupt spiraling thoughts, calm your nervous system, reconnect with truth, and come back inside.

And yes… there is also a very enthusiastic worship dance moment involved. 😂

This Love Move is centered around something we often skip:

✨ celebration.

Not performative celebration.
 Not fake positivity.

But actually pausing long enough to acknowledge:

👉 this mattered.

Because when we slow down and intentionally recognize goodness, growth, peace, connection, or even a tiny shift in how we feel, we help our brains and bodies integrate the experience instead of rushing past it.

That’s part of how lasting change happens.

So whether you’re overwhelmed, emotionally heavy, mentally stuck, exhausted, or simply needing a reset…

this episode is an invitation to pause for six minutes and reconnect your mind, body, and spirit.

💛 If you’re driving or seated while listening, simply do gentle shoulder rolls throughout the Love Move to stay engaged safely.

In this episode:

•  a guided Love Move experience 
•  nervous system regulation + faith 
•  body-first peace practices 
•  celebration as integration 
•  reconnecting instead of striving 
•  calming spiraling thoughts 
•  why small moments of peace matter 
•  how movement can help shift your state 

And most importantly:

👉 this mattered.

If this episode encouraged you, would you share it with someone you love?

And if you want to go deeper, my new book Love Moves is officially out now and available wherever books are sold.

💛 You don’t have to build peace.
 You’re invited to come home to it.

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

Get the Monthly Pour

• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

Join The Brim

• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

Visit Called and Curious

• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

Email me at [email protected]

Okay, I need to know if this is just me… or is May secretly the most busy, full, overwhelming month of the entire year?

Because somehow every human being decided:

let’s do graduations, field days, teacher appreciation week, Mother’s Day, performances, testing, schedule changes, summer planning, emotional breakdowns, and fourteen extra responsibilities… ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

And if your brain suddenly feels scattered, emotionally thinner than normal, overstimulated, exhausted, forgetful, or behind on everything right now…

there’s actually a reason for that.

In this episode, we’re getting curious about:

•  cognitive load 
•  attention fragmentation 
•  “attention residue” 
•  transition fatigue 
•  why overloaded seasons affect us so deeply 
•  and why overwhelm is not a character flaw 

Because maybe the question isn’t:

“What’s wrong with me?”

Maybe the better question is:

“What is my brain and body carrying right now?”

And honestly?
 That changes the conversation.

✨ Get your copy of Love Moves here

✨ Get encouragement, tools, and practical resets each month

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

Get the Monthly Pour

• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

Join The Brim

• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

Visit Called and Curious

• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

Email me at [email protected]

What if the problem isn’t your schedule…
but how you’re experiencing your time?

In today’s conversation, I’m joined by Lissa Figgins—and this one is going to meet you right where you are!

Because if you’ve ever felt:

•  constantly busy but still behind 
•  overwhelmed, reactive, or mentally exhausted 
•  like you’re doing all the right things… but it still feels hard 

You are not alone.

And you’re not doing it wrong.

In this episode, we unpack why so many high-capacity Christian women feel this way—and how to shift out of reactive, overwhelmed living into something steadier, more peaceful, and actually more effective.

Because redeeming your time doesn’t start with your planner…

It starts with your internal state.

💛 WHAT WE TALK ABOUT

•  Why growth and change can feel so exhausting (and why that’s not failure) 
•  The difference between “this is hard” and “this isn’t for me”
•  What it really means to “stop watching the dumpster fire” 
•  Why managing your nervous system matters more than managing your schedule 
•  How to move from overwhelmed and reactive → steady and clear 
•  What it actually looks like to redeem your time from the inside out 

🌿 CONNECT WITH LISSA

If you loved this conversation, you are going to love Lissa’s work!

She has such a powerful and practical way of helping women rethink their relationship with time—rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose.

Time Anchor Zone Guide https://redeemhertime.com/anchor
The REDEEM Her Time Podcast https://redeemhertime.com/podcast
The REDEEM Her Time Community https://redeemhertime.com/community

YOU. HAVE. TIME.
Lissa

✨ A SIMPLE NEXT STEP

My book Love Moves is now out in the world, and it was written for moments exactly like this. 

If you’ve ever felt the whispers:

•  “you’re not enough” 
•  “you’re too much” 
•  “try harder” 
•  “stay quiet” 

This book will help you break free from those lies and step into the peace, confidence, and identity you already have in Christ.

👉 Grab your copy here: Love Moves

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

• ✨ Love Moves (the book) — your starting point for the six-minute inside-out makeover

Start your inside-out makeover with Love Moves

• 💌 The Monthly Pour — pour a little peace into your inbox each month

Get the Monthly Pour

• 🌿 Try Love Moves: The 6-Minute Inside-Out Makeover — simple, guided practices to reset your nervous system and actually feel better in mind, body, and spirit

Try a 6-minute Love Move

• ✨ Join The Brim — where peace becomes a habit and you build your portable gym for your nervous system 

Join The Brim

• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

Visit Called and Curious

• Questions or hellos? I’d love to hear from you:

Email me at [email protected]