Episode: The Taker

Some people don't just need love… they pull on it.

And if we're honest— sometimes that person is us.

This week, Theresa and Candis sit down and get real about "the taker"—the relationships that stretch us, drain us, and invite us to love differently.

Not surface love. Not convenient love. But Christ-like love.

As we walk through A New Way to Love Your Neighbor by Jada Edwards, this conversation will challenge your heart, your boundaries, and your understanding of what it really means to give… without losing yourself.

And this is just the beginning.

We're inviting you into our 60-Day Love Challenge—because we're not just talking about love… we're learning how to live it.

☕ Come sit with us.

Cup of Soul Podcast — Season 10, Episode 178 Settling for the Wrong Definitions

What if the reason we struggle to love well… is because we've been living from the wrong definition of love?

In this episode, Theresa and Candis open an honest and needed conversation about how culture, experiences, and comparison have shaped the way we understand love—often without us realizing it.

From friendships to family to our relationship with God, we can find ourselves calling things "love" that were never meant to define it.

Together, we unpack: • How comparison quietly distorts the way we love • Why we often define love based on what we've experienced • The difference between natural love and Spirit-led love • What it looks like to accept, encourage, and love without competing or trying to change people

Because the truth is— You cannot love people well while measuring yourself against them.

This episode creates space to pause and reflect: Who or what has been shaping your definition of love? And where might God be inviting you to see it differently?

Love isn't something we perform. It's something we receive… and then release.

✨ Next week: We go deeper into how to love in your hardest relationships—starting with The Taker.

We're back… and this one is different.

Pastor Theresa & Candis are stepping into a deeper conversation with a bold question: 👉🏽 Do you really love people well?

This season, we're walking through A New Way to Love Your Neighbor — and it's not about surface love… it's about transformation.

Because the truth is… We don't have a people problem— we have a love problem.

📌This isn't just a podcast. It's a journey. A challenge. A new way of living.

👉🏽 12 Episodes 👉🏽 60 Day Love Challenge 👉🏽 Real conversations that will stretch you

Pull up a chair… Your cup is waiting.

We're closing the book—but not the work.

In this final conversation on The Garden Within, we lean into Chapter 15: Tending Your Embodied Garden with Theresa and Candis- the real question is —what does it actually look like to care for your heart, your emotions, and your body as part of your walk with God?

We talk about emotional honesty, spiritual bypassing, the connection between faith and physical well-being, and how true growth happens when we stop ignoring what's inside.

Your heart is soil. What you tend will grow.

This episode is your invitation to slow down, pay attention, and let God meet you in the middle of your healing.

Welcome back to Cup of Soul, Sisterfriend.

Last week we sat in grief. And this week "Freeing the Angry Heart" … Candis and Theresa discuss what is sitting in what often hides underneath it — anger.

"I'm angry at my husband." "I'm angry at my parents." "I'm angry at God."

Let's tell the truth.

Anger is not a sin. But when wounds aren't dealt with God's way, they smolder. And smoldering pain becomes bitterness.

In this episode, we talk about righteous anger, wounded pride, the nervous system, and what Jesus shows us about love that is not easily angered.

Sisterfriend, anger does not disqualify you. It reveals where healing is needed.

Pull up a chair. Let's free the angry heart.

Grief comes as a natural part of life.

But when you lose someone you love, navigating grief can feel heavy, confusing, and isolating.

This week's episode of Cup of Soul, Candis and Theresa step into Chapter 12: Healing the Broken Heart from The Garden Within.

This is a tender, honest conversation about grieving well— holding faith and feelings together, making room for sadness, and finding healing through connection and presence.

If grief is close to your heart right now, this episode is for you. 🎧 Listen, breathe, and know—you're not alone.

The Garden Within: Caring for the Temple God Intentionally Designed

God was intentional when He designed you.

Your body. Your emotions. Your nervous system. Your inner world.

Nothing about you was assembled casually.

In this episode of Cup of Soul- Theresa and Candis are back into the book - The Garden Within, "Chapter 11 we explore what it means to tend the inner garden God intentionally designed — not occasionally, but faithfully.

Together, we reflect on: • Why ongoing care is part of God's original design • How boundaries protect what is sacred • Why pruning is preparation, not punishment • How emotions function as signals, not enemies • The patience of growth through the image of the walnut tree • The body as both garden and temple

Drawing from Scripture, embodiment theology, and insights inspired by The Garden Within, this conversation invites you to slow down and examine how you are caring for what God entrusted to you.

If you've been feeling overgrown, depleted, disconnected, or overly critical of yourself — this episode is a gentle call back to design.

"What feels overgrown is still owned by God."

What if the waiting isn't a setback — but a strategy?

In this episode of Cup of Soul, Theresa and Candis slow down and sit with a powerful truth from Chapter 10: The Wisdom of Trees — God knows the end before the beginning, and the Creator is way ahead of you.

If you've been feeling rushed, weary, or unsure why things haven't moved yet, this conversation is for you. Together, we reflect on how trees grow without panic, how seasons shape strength, and why God often deepens roots before producing fruit.

We also weave in insights from God Isn't in a Hurry by Warren Wiersbe (Chapters 1–3), reminding us that God's pace is intentional, never careless. Winter seasons don't cancel growth — they concentrate it.

This episode invites you to pause, listen, and reflect as we ask: Where are you rushing an outcome God is still growing underground?

Pull up a chair, take a deep breath, and let this conversation anchor your soul in trust, patience, and hope.

The wilderness is familiar territory for many of us.

It's not always loud suffering. Sometimes it's quiet waiting. Sometimes it's confusion, fatigue, or the feeling that life moved forward—without you.

In this week's episode of A Cup of Soul, Theresa and Candis continue their journey through The Garden Within with an honest, hope-filled conversation about the wilderness seasons of life—what they are, why we get stuck there, and how God meets us in the middle of them.

The wilderness is not a punishment. And it's not meant to be home.

We talk about: • Why women get stuck in survival mode • How God uses waiting to form us • Why faith and mental health support belong together • How to trust God's timing when it feels painfully slow

If you're in a wilderness right now, this conversation is for you. Pull up a chair, Sisterfriend—hope still grows here.