Called and Curious

Racing thoughts? Tight shoulders? Clenched jaw? Shallow breathing? That buzzy, wound-up feeling you just can’t seem to shake?

Save this episode for moments when your stress response is getting loud. We’ll try a quick tapping practice together—using gentle, rhythmic touch to help your body begin to settle while intentionally turning your attention toward God and what is true.

There’s no spiritual power in the tapping itself, and you don’t have to get it “right.” It’s simply a practical body-based tool that may help reduce feelings of stress and anxiety while we refocus our attention on the One who is already with us.

Note: This practice is best experienced when you’re safely able to use both hands—not while driving. Feel free to listen now, then save it for when you need it.

START HERE IF YOU WANT MORE PEACE →

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

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• 💌 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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• 🔗 Explore more at Called & Curious

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

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You prayed. You tried to obey. You asked God for help. So…why isn’t this working?

Sometimes without realizing it, we can start treating prayer, obedience—even the things that remind us of God—like a quiet little transaction: I did the right thing. Now this should go the way I hoped.

In this episode, we’re looking at the Ark of the Covenant, an idol that just can’t stay standing 😂, and the difference between trusting God and trying to make God part of our strategy.

We’ll also discover how physical reminders—from an Ebenezer stone to a cross necklace to a tiny spoon—can help us remember and return to the One who actually holds the power.

A prayer for today:
Jesus, help me trust You, not the things that remind me of You. When I try to make You part of my strategy, help me return. Use the little things around me to turn my attention back to You. You are my help, my rescue, and my life. Amen.

P.S. The Love Moves Awareness Spoons have officially started making their way out into the community, and I would LOVE to know—which set is your favorite: Gorgeous Gold, Sparkly Silver, or Magical Mermaid? 😍

No lucky charms here 😉—just simple (and ridiculously cute) little reminders to turn your attention back to God as you begin your day.

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

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

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What if you didn't have to try harder to become more loving—you could begin by remembering that you are already loved?

Love Moves is an interactive morning practice to help you notice what's happening inside you, return your attention to Jesus, receive what's true, and let His love shape what happens next. Because transformation doesn't always look like blooming. Sometimes it looks like quietly returning to Love, again and again.

Press play, put a hand over your heart, and let's practice letting love move in us and through us today.

Today's prayer:

Jesus, Your love is moving.
Let Your love shape how I think, feel, and live today.
Thank You that You are always with me.

Love moving in. Love moving through. Let's begin.

P.S. If a tangible reminder would help you practice, I have a little engraved Love Moves Awareness Spoon that says “Love Moves” and comes with this same simple prayer. Send me a little note if you'd like to buy one. (And if they're between batches, I'll happily save you a spot for the next one.)

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 your cup is already fuller than you think?

Notice Your Cup of Blessings is a short, interactive morning practice to help you slow down, look at what God has already given you, and fill your cup to the brim with the blessings already there—so you can receive your life before rushing toward what’s next.

 We’ll practice contentment, notice a few blessings together, and possibly enlist the help of a highly caffeinated fictional gnome. 😂

Grab your coffee—or whatever happens to be in your cup—and let’s begin the day with Jesus.

Today’s prayer:

Thank You, Jesus, for this day.
Help me see what You’ve already given me.
Thank You for the blessings in my life.

Pick up your cup. Look again. And let’s fill it with what God has already given us.

P.S. If a tangible reminder would help you practice, I have a little engraved Love Moves Awareness Spoon that says “Cup of Blessings” and comes with this same simple prayer. Send me a little note if you'd like to buy one. (And if they're currently between batches, I'll happily save you a spot for the next one.)

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]

You don't have to wait for everything to go right before you experience joy today.

Choose Joy is a short, interactive morning practice for the days when life feels heavy, ordinary, or a little too serious. Together, we'll move our bodies, loosen our shoulders, laugh a little (possibly like a villain 😂), and practice noticing the joy that's already right in front of us.

Because joy isn't the same thing as pretending everything is okay. And it doesn't require perfect circumstances. Joy is something we can receive from God—and sometimes we might need to shake our shoulders, dance in the kitchen, and become a little more available to it.

Press play while you make your coffee, get ready, drive to work—or whenever you need a few minutes with Jesus and permission to delight in the life you're living today.

Today's prayer:

Jesus, I choose joy today.
Help me see it right in front of me.
Thank You for the joy You give.

Come as you are. Drop your shoulders. Maybe dance a little. And let's choose joy together. 💛

P.S. If a tangible reminder would help you practice, I have a little engraved Love Moves Awareness Spoon that says “Choose Joy” and comes with this same simple prayer. Send me a little note if you’d like to buy one. (And if they’re currently between batches, I’ll happily save you a spot for the next one.)

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]

You don't have to prove you're enough before you begin today. You are already loved.

Stir in Grace is a short, interactive morning practice for the days when comparison, criticism, or that familiar I'm not enough feeling starts getting loud. Take a few minutes to open your hands, receive God's grace, and remember: you don't have to hold everything together. God is enough, and you are already held in His love.

Press play while you make your coffee, get ready, drive to work, or whenever you need to stop striving and begin again with Jesus.

Today's prayer:

Jesus, I receive Your grace.
 Help me release the lie that I’m not enough.
 Thank You that I’m already loved.

Come as you are. Open your hands. And let's stir in a little grace together.

P.S. If a tangible reminder would help you practice, I have a little engraved Love Moves Awareness Spoon that says “Stir in Grace” and comes with this same simple prayer. Just message me if you'd like one.

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]

Start your morning looking for what is already good—and remembering the God who is always good.

Notice Goodness is a short, interactive morning practice you can save and return to whenever you want to begin your day with Jesus. We'll slow down, look again, actually notice what's in front of us, and practice receiving God's goodness instead of rushing right past it.

Use this while you make your coffee, drive to work, get ready, or simply take a few quiet minutes before the day gets loud.

Today's prayer:

Jesus, open my eyes.
 Help me see Your goodness today.
 Thank You that You are always good.

Press play. Look again. And let's notice goodness together.

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]

How we start our mornings matters.

Before the emails, the to-do lists, the school drop-offs, and all the other voices and whispers start telling us who we need to be today, what if we intentionally started with Jesus?

Not perfectly. Not peacefully. Just honestly.

Some mornings we wake up joyful. Some mornings we're exhausted. And some mornings, before our feet even hit the floor, our brains are already rehearsing the worries, what-ifs, people we love, and things we can't control.

So we begin with one simple question:

Jesus, what do I need from You today?

For a Good Morning: Carry Peace is a short morning practice for the days when the answer is...peace.

Save this episode and press play while you make your coffee, drive to work, walk the dog, or get ready for your day. We'll slow down, breathe, pray, quiet some of the noise, and practice beginning the day differently—not by pretending the worries aren't there, but by remembering we don't carry them alone.

Because every morning, our brains rehearse something.

Today, we're practicing peace.

Carry Peace Prayer

Jesus, You are my peace.
Help me release my worry to You.
Thank You that You are holding me.
Amen.

This is one of six short For a Good Morning practices designed to be saved and returned to. Each morning can begin differently, but imagine if each one began with Jesus.

So wherever you are today, start here.

Jesus, what do I need from You today?

And if a tangible reminder would help you return to this practice, I have a little engraved Love Moves Awareness Spoon that says Carry Peace and comes with this same prayer. Send me a message or email if you'd like one of your own.

Today, friend...carry peace.

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]

Have you ever wondered if you finally messed up one too many times?

Maybe you lost your patience with your kids. Maybe you snapped at your spouse. Maybe you keep falling into the same old habit you promised yourself you'd break. Maybe you're carrying shame from something that happened years ago and quietly wondering...

• Did I finally cross the line?
• Can God still love me after this?
• Do I have to earn my way back?

If you've ever felt like love is something you have to perform for—or like one mistake could disqualify you from God's affection—this episode is for you.

Today, we're talking about a powerful concept called secure attachment and how it changes not only the way we understand our relationships, but also the way we experience the heart of God.

And believe it or not... the teacher for today's lesson is my seven-pound rescue poodle, Izzy.

Through toilet paper rolls, Nerf darts, carpet stains, and one very unexpected morning, she reminded me of something I think many of us desperately need to hear:

Correction isn't rejection.

Your mistakes don't cancel God's delight in you.

And maybe the goal isn't to become someone who never makes a mess.

Maybe it's to become someone who knows exactly where home is when they do.

So pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee, and let's talk about secure attachment, brain science, Scripture, and the kind of love that never asks you to earn your way back into the family.

In this episode, we'll explore:

• Why so many of us live as though love is always on probation.
• What secure attachment is—and why it matters.
• How secure attachment changes the way our brains respond to failure.
• Why correction and rejection are not the same thing.
• What Psalm 18:19 reveals about the heart of God.
• The surprising lesson a 7-pound rescue poodle taught me about grace, belonging, and coming home.

✨ If this conversation encouraged you, I'd love to invite you to Good Morning, Friend, my Saturday morning email where we digitally caffeinate together, breathe a little, pray a little, and remember what's true before the day gets away from us. You can join us through the link below.

Remember, friend: You don't have to earn your way back into the family. You're invited to grow there.

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]

The biggest divide between us isn't always our beliefs. Sometimes it's forgetting to see the person before the problem.

Why can two kind, intelligent people look at the exact same situation... and walk away with completely different conclusions?

Whether it's politics, theology, AI, parenting, or a difficult conversation, our brains naturally become certain that we're seeing reality exactly as it is. But what if that certainty is keeping us from seeing the person in front of us?

In this episode, we'll explore the neuroscience behind why good people disagree, what the Bible teaches about leading with people before problems, and one simple framework that can help you hold open hands and strong convictions at the same time.

You'll learn:

•  Why our brains naturally become certain 
•  What "naive realism" is (and why almost all of us experience it) 
•  How Jesus consistently put people before problems 
•  A practical way to have more compassionate conversations without compromising your convictions 

If you've ever wondered why someone else sees the world so differently—or you've found yourself stuck in an argument you never wanted to have—this conversation is for you.

🤍 Want to keep the conversation going? Start 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]