This past week was the first episode of season 3. It was the first in the "What's Your Story?" series where the focus is on YOU and your personal story. I'll share a bit of what I have learned about why it's important we take time to reflect on how we've been shaped over the years and how to move forward with or without some of the anchors that have been holding us in place.

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Friends, isn’t it nice in these shorter days to see all the beautiful Christmas lights lit up? They add a sense of beauty rather compared to when they are taken down at the beginning of the year. Have you ever thought about how you can be like those shining Christmas lights to others in a world that seems dark to many? Today I’m sharing how people in our community have been the light to us this season and how they have given us the gift of Christmas spirit to carry with us into the year ahead.

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Today I'm joined with Johnny and Christina Cison who are behind the social media account @ourcorrnerofcurrituck, they have been featured on the Farmhouse Storyteller Journal in this past summer’s column “Take the Back Road." Having left an HOA community for old house life, Johnny and Christina share about their journey finding their old house, the fortitude found from living in their home while restoring it, and how they came to more of a homesteading life.  

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It's my hope to inspire others to discover their pursuit to happiness and live a more authentic and enriched life.

Get ready to be inspired by Oliver Asher, author of Invincible Joy! Listen in today to learn more about how over time he was transformed by the Lord. "I spent my childhood in poverty, my house burned down (twice), I've spent days wondering where my next meal would come from. I once dreamed that I was going to lose my job, then found out the next day that dream was coming true. In the midst of it all, God was there with me. Through those experiences I learned the secret to joy that doesn’t fade and doesn’t depend on circumstances. That’s Invincible Joy." -Oliver Asher 

Ways to connect with Oliver + purchase Invisible Joy: 

https://www.oliverasher.com

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Hello there! Thank you for joining me today out here in the middle!

This morning I asked my children in carline what I should share about on the podcast and my son belted out from the back seat, “why don’t you write about all the unfinished projects around the house, like the bathroom upstairs. “He then went on to list the other things that need to be addressed around our 184-year-old house. I’ll be honest with you. I was a little peeved that he brought up the to-do-list that early in the morning and the way he said it felt like it was jab at the season of life we are in- trying to raise three young children as well as restore an old house that at times declares major attention sometimes. I took my son’s suggestion as a challenge and began to reflect on who we were when we first stepped into this old house and how this house has been restoring us into who we needed to be for today.

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It's my hope to inspire others to discover their pursuit to happiness and live a more authentic and enriched life.

I know the holidays are branded as the happiest time of the year, but for many people, it’s one of the most difficult. For some, holidays serve as permeant place cards within their year found on every wall calendar to phone calendar making it nearly impossible to completely avoid. Not to mention how stores these days seem to have the next holiday retail items up for sale before the current holiday has even arrived. These written and visual benchmarks of where we are within the year can be bittersweet, but what if we started taking note of the guideposts that have occurred and how they have propelled us through the year?

Today, I’ll be discussing how it has taken the last five years to see how the guideposts which have helped us find our "fortune" today.

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It's my hope to inspire others to discover their pursuit to happiness and live a more authentic and enriched life.

Rose Ann was a successful C-Suite executive and ministry leader in the church. She was a working mom

of four and a social drinker. Over the years, life’s stresses and a difficult marriage created an

environment where her alcohol usage increased significantly. After the collapse of her marriage, her

drinking further escalated and she felt like a fraud with God and the Church. AA was not an option in her

mind. She had already submitted to God and didn’t want to call herself an alcoholic. When COVID-19

hit, she enrolled in a coaching program to put alcohol to the side for three months. Her experience was

extremely transformational, and she recognized God’s instruction embedded in the entire process. She

became free of the psychological slavery of this habit through this process. She identified what alcohol

had stolen from her life and understood that God had a better plan for her. Rose Ann felt called to

document what she learned with a daily devotional so others can experience God’s promises through

scriptural instruction with hope and a better plan for the future.

Rose Ann is an Alcohol-Free Coach, a Positive Intelligence Coach and Best-Selling author of a book called

The Plans He Has For Me, A 12-week Daily Devotional for Freedom From Alcohol.

Visit www.theplanshehasforme.com and you can download for Free Rose Ann's Kickstart Method for Alcohol Freedom.

You can purchase the book on the website or on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Plans-He-Has-Me-Devotional/dp/B0BBJRJDWG/

Say hello and follow Rose Ann Forte on Instagram and Tiktok  @roseannforteplans

Would you consider yourself a pretty positive person? Or do you feel like there is room for some improvement? In today's episode, I'm going to be sharing the benefits of being positive and things you can incorporate into your day that may just lead you to more positive thinking each day! 

{Let's Connect} Find me on Instagram @farmhousestoryteller Visit my website www.farmhousestoryteller.com {Let's collaborate} Email Danielle Foulk at [email protected] "While the middle is not always the most comfortable place to linger in, it can sometimes create the most memorable pivot in life. The pivot that had to happen for everything else to fall in place." Danielle Foulk