Find Your Calm

Have you ever struggled with unmet expectations? Do you have high expectations for yourself or for others? Then listen in for a few tips on how to manage your expectations so they don’t manage you. 

It’s one thing to find your calm in the holidays - I did an episode on that last year. It’s another team up - with your partner, your kids or your extended family - and find calm together. For this episode, my husband joined me for a conversation on how to teamwork the holidays so you can enjoy the season together.

Sometimes our inner voice is the calm in our chaos. And sometimes it’s the critic that causes the most chaos. As I’ve learned to respond to my inner critic with calm, she’s become a calmer voice in my head. Listen in for a few faithful steps forward towards calming your inner critic just in case yours is here to stay, as well.

Wrestling with your faith is holy and even faithful, but it’s also disorienting. And in the wrestling, our faith can get… complicated. How do we find our calm as we untangle a complicated faith?  This is a question I’m still struggling with so I invited my Spiritual Director to join me for this episode so we could learn and navigate this chaos together. 

Have you ever felt the shifts of change inside of you, and suddenly found yourself completely disoriented? I think over the last few years we’ve all encountered change and had to make a decision - will I buckle down and hold rigidly to my routines, my beliefs, or my priorities, or will I bend like a reed and lean into the winds of change, allowing it to change even me? So if you’ve changed, if you’re changing, if you’re open to change, let me share a few next faithful steps forward through this open sea...

Do you ever worry if your kids will be ok? Or hustle to protect them from difficulty or pain? For many of us, we didn’t receive the tools to navigate hard things in healthy ways and we want something more for our kids So today we’re going to talk about raising children to be resilient so that when they face hard things - hurts, trauma or every day chaos - they’ll be able to adapt and even flourish.

As we continue the conversation about healing or recovery journeys, we’re going to look closer at what it looks like to support a loved who is on this journey. Doing our own work is hard. But supporting people we love who are doing their recovery work is hard too, and it can be difficult to find your calm and even know what a faithful step forward might be. In this episode we share a few truth bombs as well as a few practical and grounding faithful steps forward. 

Throughout life we all experience hurts, develop unhealthy habits, and get stuck on hang ups that fragment parts of us that God longs to heal. The road to recovery from these things is messy and even painful, and it often begins at the rock bottom moment we become desperate for change. Listen in to a conversation with Matt and Todd from The Recovery Guys Podcast as they have an authentic conversation about what recovery is like and how to find your calm in the throes of the recovery journey. 

If you are married, the reality is that you’ve either weathered a crisis or you will at some point. Sometimes in life, your marriage is the calm in the story. But other times, it is the storm. In this episode I share honestly and vulnerably what it was like to weather our own marriage crisis and the story of how we took broken trust and rebuilt it so that it didn’t lead to a broken marriage. 

If you're feeling the anxiety or stress building as you’re counting down to Christmas, listen in for a few last minute tips to manage the chaos and find your calm through the holidays.