Dear Daughters

Welcome to the first episode of the Fall Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I'm going to take eight weeks (God willing) to see how you're doing, revisit some of the things we talked about during the Summer Soul Care Series, and share some new ways for you to take good care of you.

I want to remind you of a few things. First, your soul is where God dwells. What a lovely thing that He chooses to live inside of us. Second, your body is the house of your soul. Your soul is made up of four components:

• Mind … how you think and understand the Word of God.
• Heart … the seat of your emotions and feelings.
• Will … what enables you to make decisions and take action.
• Personality … the unique and beautiful way God made you.

The really great news is that when you submit your soul to the Holy Spirit of God, something miraculous happens. You're made new.

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My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you're craving.

Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I'm going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you're taking good care of you.

There is so much going on in the world right now. There are so many questions. And there are no real answers … because we don't have any. Only God holds all the answers. And he holds all our days, too. I pray that you take care of your soul and protect your spirit from getting sucked into a spiral of worry and despair trying to get all the answers. I'll help you. Start with five minutes.

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• Listen to Sara Davis Regan's dreamy new album, Riverland!
• Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland.
• Visit Sara Davis Regan's website and sign up for her newsletter list.

Order your copy! The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life

My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you're craving.

Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I'm going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you're taking good care of you.

"The smallest and gentlest acts keep us grounded as we husband our lives with care." – Julia Cameron

Staying grounded in your life is a way to care for your soul. It gives us space to listen to God and listen to ourselves. Tending to small things in our everyday lives help us to feel grounded. How can you tend to your real life?

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• If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you!
• Listen to Sara Davis Regan's dreamy new album, Riverland!
• Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland.
• Visit Sara Davis Regan's website and sign up for her newsletter list.

Order your copy! The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life

My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you're craving.

Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I'm going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you're taking good care of you.

Have you read any good stories lately? Stories are good for your soul. They help you take care of you. So I want to encourage you to find a good book that leaves you believing that God is in charge of the world. You're in the middle of your story, but God is writing your story.

• Pick up a good book like Heidi by Johanna Spyri or Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery – both are included in this beautiful box set by Rifle Papers.
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• Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online.
• If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you!
• Listen to Sara Davis Regan's dreamy new album, Riverland!
• Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland.
• Visit Sara Davis Regan's website and sign up for her newsletter list.

Order your copy! The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life

My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you're craving.

I hope you're taking good care of yourself. This summer, I want to encourage you to experience soul care in a very practical, everyday way.

Welcome to the Dear Daughters Summer Soul Care Series. I'm going to spend the next few weeks on the podcast helping you take good care of you.

One way you can take good care of yourself is to make sure you have wise teachers in place in your life, especially during times of crisis and chaos. Your number one teacher is God, and you can always count on him and his Word to help you walk in wisdom. But there are other teachers too. Listen in to discover more.

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• Join my home church Austin Christian Fellowship online.
• If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you!
• Listen to Sara Davis Regan's dreamy new album, Riverland!
• Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland.
• Visit Sara Davis Regan's website and sign up for her newsletter list.

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My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you're craving.

Well this is a first! It's a Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland.

But before we dive into new music, a few things you might not know about Sara:

1. "My family nickname is Aunt Sardie Pants."
2. "I love trail running."
3. "I do things I love until I break."
4. "I am deathly scared of roaches … and splinters."

Need more, listen in to DD Episode 'Questions to Deepen the Mother-Daughter Relationship' with Sara. And here we are in Round Top, where we love to shop til we drop. Can't wait til next Fall when we go back to the Round Top Antiques Fest.

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• Sara's first interview, DD Episode 3
• Banjo Ben Clark
• Also, you might want to listen to this episode (with my other daughter) too! On Mother Daughter Relationships with Emily DD Episode 18
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One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves.

In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, I am featuring four of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes. In this final episode, I am featuring Chrystal Evans Hurst.

In DD Episode 96, Chrystal offers so much truth about how to end the cycle of unhealthy thoughts and bring our thoughts into the light of God's truth. Listen to Chrystal as she speaks tender words of wisdom to her younger self and encourages her to show up for her life starting now.

So a question for you: What would you like to say to your younger self?

• That God loves you.
• To love the woman you are becoming.
• To not be so hard on yourself and others.

My new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, is a book designed to help to experience the grace upon grace God has for you by reflecting on your life and your memories. I hope you'll pick up a copy.

• Read Chrystal's book, She's Still There: Rescuing the Girl in You
• If your heart feels weary, get a FREE Soul Care Kit from me to you!
• Deeply grateful for Sara Davis Regan for providing her music.
• Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter here!
• Get a Book & Bandana Bundle! It includes a signed copy of Dear Daughters and one of my favorites, Jenni Earle's 'Chin Up Buttercup' Bandana.
• Order now to get the Grace Gift Bundle! It's a signed copy of The Grace Guide plus my favorite lavender lotion from Hummingbird Farms!

We are made to hold the presence of God … the God who holds all things together holds us.

K.J. has been reckoning with an autoimmune disease, ankylosing spondylitis (AS), for 11 years. It's been an "unpredictable companion" in her life that not only propelled her into her counseling career but also propelled her to experience and hold the presence of God.

K.J. Ramsey (BA, Covenant College, MA, Denver Seminary) is a licensed professional counselor, writer, and recovering idealist who believes sorrow and joy coexist. Her writing on the integration of theology, psychology, and spiritual formation can be found in publications including Christianity Today, RELEVANT, and The Huffington Post. She and her husband live in Denver, Colorado. K.J.'s first book, This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers, invites us to the wonder that before God ever rescues us, he stands in solidarity with us. It's the book that she wished she could've had as a 20-year-old who's suffering never went away.

K.J. says these four things about herself:

1. "I ended up at Denver Seminary where I got my Masters in Counseling…after seeing my own counselor and realizing A, we all need space to process the suffering in our lives but B, that it could be a career that was a lot more flexible for what my body needs. And then I also needed a better climate and the more dry climate of Colorado is a lot better for my body."
2. "One time we saw someone with a German Shorthaired Pointer at a restaurant sitting outside, and it was the most beautiful dog we had ever seen and it was so sweet. We caught the bug and about 5 weeks later, we got one. His name, Merton, is after Thomas Merton, who is one of my favorite authors."
3. "I was a figure skater growing up."
4. "I am a total nerd."

Listen in to my timely conversation with K.J. In seasons like we're all in right now sheltering-in-place, we have the invitation to pay special attention to the hurt in our lives in a way that we can't when we're so hurried. We all have pain that persists … K.J. reminds us that our present pain is always experienced in the presence of God and the more we learn how to be present to our pain and to our hard circumstances, the more we get to experience unity with Jesus and the grace God gives us. I think she will comfort you with her heart and wisdom.

• K.J. Ramsey's website
• Get K.J.'s book, This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers
• Find K.J. on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter
• Snag your ticket for Cookies & Conversations via Zoom with Melanie Shankle and me!
• Get the free Soul Care Kit here!
• Click here for the free PDF of my prayer for you and your people.
• Big shout out and thank you to Austin Christian Fellowship who is sponsoring the podcast.
• ACF wants you to know about Community First! Village, a 51-acre master-planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness.
• Listen to the DD Podcast Episode with Alan Graham, founder of Community First! Village
• Deeply grateful for Sara Davis Regan for providing her music.
• Order the Grace Gift bundle! It includes a signed copy of The Grace Guide PLUS Lavender Lotion No. 145 from Hummingbird Farms.

One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves.

In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, I am featuring five of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes, and this time I am featuring Rebekah Lyons.

In DD Episode 103, Rebekah revealed some of her own battles to overcome fear and anxiety, and talked about how her pain can become purpose … all of ours can. Listen to the kind and gentle words she speaks to her younger self, as well as the tender promises she believes God would speak to her now.

So a question for you: What would you like to say to your younger self?

• That God loves you.
• To love the woman you are becoming.
• To not be so hard on yourself and others.

My new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, is a book designed to help to experience the grace upon grace God has for you by reflecting on your life and your memories. I hope you'll pick up a copy.

• Read Rebekah's book, Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose
• If your heart feels weary, get a FREE Soul Care Kit from me to you!
• Deeply grateful for Sara Davis Regan for providing her music.
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• Order now to get a special Grace Gift bundle! It includes a signed copy of The Grace Guide plus my favorite lavender lotion from Hummingbird Farms!

YOU can do big, hard, and scary things.

Jennifer has found freedom in her business, her time, her finances, and most importantly, her faith, through years of releasing more and more over to God. What started as a desire to help pull her family out of financial desperation became a calling to help other women find the courage to do the same.

Jennifer Allwood is a business owner, business mentor and coach, speaker, author and podcast host for The Jennifer Allwood Show. Jennifer uses her self-started business to inspire women to believe that they are enough, motivate them, and give them permission to lean into their calling. Her new book, Fear Is Not the Boss of You, is all about getting unstuck, move past overwhelm, and taking action in spite of fear. Jennifer lives in Kansas City with her husband and three kiddos, and she stands firm in the idea of using her business as a way to serve God and her family.

Jennifer says these four things about herself:

1. "My kryptonite is raw chocolate chip cookie dough, that is always always always my food of choice."
2. "I'm not a TV watcher, but I love movies and Netflix."
3. "Massage is my love language."
4. "I used to twirl batons in high school…I used to twirl two at a time and I used to twirl fire batons. My mom was a baton twirler as well. "

Jennifer is a firecracker! She talks about her new book and her passion for coaching women in business, how giving her life to God changed everything, and how "being stuck stinks." Listen in … I think she'll give you some confidence to take that next step you know you need to take as so many things around us are changing.

• Jennifer Allwood's website
• Get Jennifer's book, Fear is Not the Boss of You: How to Get Out of Your Head and Live the Life You Were Made For
• Find Jennifer on Facebook: @themagicbrushinc
• Follow Jennifer on Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest
• Order my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life!
• Click here for the free PDF of my prayer for you and your people.
• Big shout out and thank you to Austin Christian Fellowship who is sponsoring the podcast.
• ACF wants you to know about Community First! Village, a 51-acre master-planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness.
• Deeply grateful for Sara Davis Regan for providing her music.
• Get the free Soul Care Kit here!