Are you heading into Thanksgiving feeling emotionally blah — tired, unmotivated, or just flat inside?
You’re not alone. So many women enter the holidays carrying the weight of logistics, expectations, and caring for everyone else… while their own soul quietly runs on empty.

Bonnie shares her personal moment of unexpected emotional flatness — and the gentle way God invited her back into peace. It’s a reminder that even our “blah” moments can become invitations to shift our bodies out of exhaustion and stress.

Discover how God meets you with tenderness, how to understand the science behind emotional “shutdown,” and how one small, life-giving soul care practice can help you feel peace and spark again — just in time for Thanksgiving.

This episode will help you breathe deeper, slow down, and find your own quiet moment of restoration in the midst of a busy holiday week. 

Key Takeaways:
 Why emotional flatness is normal during high-stress seasons — and why it’s not a spiritual failure
 How God restores your soul when you feel numb, tired, or “blah”
 The Science: How holiday stress triggers emotional shutdown in the brain One soul care practice to help you feel calm, grounded, and reconnected to yourself — in just 10 minutes
 Simple ways to bring your heart a moment of peace this Thanksgiving weekend (not just everyone else’s!)

 Breath PrayerInhale: You lead me beside quiet waters
Exhale: You restore my soul

 Scripture
“He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul.” Psalm 23:2–3
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