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October 06 412. The Art of Tending - What if your life isn't a problem to fix, but a creation to tend?
I've been thinking a lot lately about the difference between trying to fix your life and learning how to tend to it.
Especially if you're a high-capacity woman, it can be so easy to look at yourself like another project.
Fix the hormones. Lose the weight. Get stronger. Declutter the house. Get more disciplined. Set the goal. Do the thing.
And listen, I love a good 90-day goal. 😂
But what if we approached it differently?
What if your life isn't a problem to solve, but something beautiful you've been given to tend?
That's what we're talking about today.
As I've been thinking about my own next 90 days, I realized that after everything our family has walked through this year, there are some parts of me that I just haven't tended to very well. Not because I've done anything wrong. My attention needed to be somewhere else for a while.
But now I feel myself being called back.
Back to physical books. Back to nourishing my body. Back to slower mornings and paying attention and taking good care of the instrument through which I get to do my life's work.
So my big, exciting 90-day plan? A smoothie and East of Eden. 😂
And I am genuinely so excited about it.
Because maybe creativity isn't only painting or writing or making music. Maybe it's the way you make dinner. The way you dress. The way you tend your home. The way you love your people. The way you care for your body. The way you decide what kind of woman you want to become in this next season.
What would change if you became the artist of your own life?
Instead of asking, "What do I need to fix?"
Maybe ask:
"What in my life is asking to be tended to?"
Your body? Your mind? Your home? Your marriage? Your spiritual life? Your imagination? Your attention?
Notice what's calling to you.
And then tend to it with some care and imagination and delight.
That's what I'm doing for these next 90 days, and maybe you want to join me. ❤️

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24 min
September 29411. The Hidden Cost of Being the Woman Who Can Handle Everything!
Are you the one everybody calls?
The one who figures it out, makes sure everybody has what they need, keeps all the balls in the air, and says, "I'm fine. I've got it. I'll figure it out."
Because SAME.
For so much of my life, being capable and independent was such a huge part of my identity. And the truth is, I usually could figure it out. I could handle it. I could make it work.
But somewhere along the way I started realizing that just because I can do everything myself doesn't mean that's how I want to live.
And it definitely doesn't mean that's how God designed us to live.
In this episode, we're talking about the hidden cost of being the woman who can handle everything—and what can happen when we finally let ourselves receive the support we've been so willing to give everybody else.
I've learned this in such a deep way over the last few months. I've had to let my team carry things. I've let friends love me. I've let my clients support me. I've asked for help. I've received coaching. And instead of making me less capable, all of that support has given me the energy to come back to my life and my work with so much more to give.
Maybe your next season doesn't require more discipline or more effort.
Maybe it requires more receiving.
So I want you to ask yourself: Where are you currently under-supported?
Maybe it's in your marriage or motherhood. Maybe it's your health, your home, your business, your spiritual life, or your emotional life.
What are you carrying alone simply because you've decided you should be able to?
You don't have to do this alone—even if you can.
In this episode:
The hidden cost of always being the capable one

Why independence can quietly become part of our identity

What I've learned about asking for and receiving help

Why women are made for connection and collaboration

The difference between competition and truly celebrating another woman

How we create belonging instead of waiting to feel like we belong

Why receiving support doesn't make you less capable

How being supported has changed the way I lead my business and my life

The question to ask yourself when you're feeling depleted

Why your next level might require more receiving—not more doing
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24 min
September 22410. How to Stop Resisting Your Life & Start Enjoying It!
Dear ones, today we're talking about one of the sneakiest habits that steals our energy, our creativity, and our sense of enchantment: arguing with reality.
But underneath all that resistance is often an emotion we're simply afraid or unwilling to feel.
In this episode, I'm sharing what I've learned about dropping resistance, processing our emotions instead of carrying them around with us, and recovering so much faster when life doesn't go according to plan.
Because an enchanted life isn't a life without disappointment, grief, fear, or hard things. It's a life where we're willing to experience all of it—and still notice the coffee, the breeze off the lake, the grandbabies, the hint of fall in the air, and the beautiful sweater we're knitting.
Maybe the goal isn't to create a life where nothing hard happens.
Maybe it's becoming a woman who can hold a bigger, richer, more beautiful life.
In this episode, we talk about:
The hidden cost of resisting your reality

How to recognize when you're arguing with what is

Why "should" is often a clue that you're stuck in resistance

How unprocessed emotions drain your energy

The difference between survival mode and creation mode

Why feeling an emotion doesn't mean something has gone wrong

How emotional capacity allows you to hold a bigger life

Why resisting the painful parts can make us miss the beautiful parts, too

How to recover faster when things don't go according to plan

The simple question: What do I want to create from here?
My invitation for you today is simple: notice where you're resisting your life. Ask yourself what emotion is underneath that resistance. Let yourself feel what's actually there—and then decide what you want to create from here.
There's so much beauty waiting for us when we stop arguing with the life we have long enough to actually receive it.
Follow me on Instagram to watch the “Enchanted Diaries” @ediewadsworth

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39 min
September 15409. The Real Reason You're Disenchanted With Your Life (And How to Break the Spell)
I had my grandbaby boys, Eli and Noah, this weekend, and watching them, I got reminded of something. Little kids are either completely enchanted with everything or completely disenchanted with everything — there's no in-between. We rode bikes in the rain, ran through mud puddles, played way too many downs of flag football with rules that kept changing, and read Green Eggs and Ham to a five-year-old who could not understand why this man kept getting asked the same question over and over.
It made me realize something about why it's so much harder for us as adults to be that easily delighted.
It's not because we're broken. It's because our brains are wired for it, and so is the device in our pocket, and so is the culture we're swimming in. Here's what we get into:
Why your brain's primary job was never to make you feel enchanted — it's scanning for threats, and it will always give more weight to what's wrong than what's right

How the "false self" or ego chimes in on top of that, adding its own list of things to worry about and be afraid of

Why the phone in your pocket supercharges all of it, telling you the same story your brain already wants to tell you

A practical tool for breaking the spell in the moment — asking what your future, wisest self would say looking back on this

Why real enchantment isn't pretending everything is fine or denying real suffering — it's the capacity to stay open and alive to your life even when the hard thing is real
You don't have to wait for your circumstances to change to start practicing this. You can start today, just by noticing how often your brain goes looking for the problem instead of the gift.
Links Mentioned:
Register for The Art of Enchantment workshop (starts next week): https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/enchantment
Join The Art of Enchantment Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theartofenchantment
Follow along with the Enchanted series on Instagram: @ediewadsworth
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/

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23 min
September 10408. How to Become Enchanted With Your Life (10 Things Enchanting Me Right Now)
We're kicking off a whole series on the art of enchantment today, and I'm starting with the word itself. It comes from Latin, and at its root, it actually means to sing. That's exactly what I want to be: a woman who still hears the song, who notices the change in the September air, who gets a little obsessed with baby cheeks and poetry and the yarn in her hands.
This has been such a hard year for us. And I've learned something true in the middle of it: you can be devastated and still enchanted with your life at the same time. That's not denial. That's emotional wealth.
So today, ten things enchanting me right now:
My brand new kitchen journal — recipes, handwritten notes, and tiny printed photos of the grandbabies eating whatever I just made

My current knitting obsession, a squishy red sweater called the Lakes Jacket by Ozetta

Tom's middle school football games, knitting in the stands and hunting down his number for video

A new diffuser blend I'm creating, appropriately called Enchanted

Reading poetry again — Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, after Wendell Berry's passing last week

Baby cheeks. All six grandbabies' baby cheeks. No further explanation needed

The first whisper of fall in the air

Being a total beginner at English horseback riding, and loving what that humility teaches me

Something brand new I'm creating for the program that I can't fully reveal yet, but that feels like a dream come true

My actual, ordinary, everyday life — my porch, my kitchen light in the morning, watching Stevie get stronger
If you want to keep being enchanted with me this month, I'm doing Enchantment Diaries on Instagram, documenting all of it in real time. And if this resonates, I'd love for you to join us for our upcoming workshop, The Art of Enchantment: How to Make the Last 90 Days of the Year Matter, September 23–25 at noon Eastern.
Links Mentioned:
Register for The Art of Enchantment workshop (September 23–25): https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/enchantment
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
Follow along with Enchantment Diaries on Instagram: @ediewadsworth
The Lakes Jacket pattern by Ozetta: https://www.ozettaknitwear.com/patterns/p/lakes-jacket

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38 min
September 03407. Your Enchanted Life (How to Turn the Raw Materials of Your Life into a Masterpiece)
Today's episode is a masterclass I taught live, and I recorded it the day after we lost Dolly Parton. If you hear extra emotion in my voice, that's why. She was the queen of my heart, and it turns out her whole life was the perfect example of everything I wanted to teach that day.
Dolly took the raw materials she was born with — poverty, a huge family, a mountain nobody thought much of — and turned them into the most gorgeous, generous life anybody's ever lived. And I think most of us are waiting for better materials before we start creating ours.
Here's what we get into:
Why so many of us are waiting for different circumstances — more money, a different body, a more supportive spouse — before we let ourselves start creating a beautiful life

The shift from a life of consumption to a life of creation, and the one powerful question that makes that shift: what can I make from this?

Why even the hardest color you've ever been handed (for me, this year, that was cancer) can become raw material for something beautiful

The seven skills I believe every woman needs to build a genuine masterpiece of her life — including how to create possibility in your mind, how to build emotional wealth, how to stay with yourself in the messy middle, and how to live enchanted right now instead of waiting for someday

Why good intentions were never going to be enough for Dolly, or for you — these are skills you learn and practice, not just things some women are naturally born with
You don't have to know what the whole blanket is going to look like before you learn how to knit. You just have to be willing to learn the skills.
Links Mentioned:
If you're catching this in the first day or two it's out: we're doing a 72-hour flash opening of Life Mentoring School — join here: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/join
The Alpenglow Blanket pattern mentioned in this episode (Purl Soho): https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2024/08/22/alpenglow-blanket/
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack:⁠ https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/⁠

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58 min
August 27406. Real Coaches, Real Stories: A Coach Panel from the Next Level Life Summit
Today's episode is a little different. We're sharing a coach panel recorded during our Next Level Life Summit, where several of our House of Joy certified coaches got completely honest about what it actually looked like to say yes to certification.
You'll meet Angela, Michelle, Becky, Susan, Shannon, and Jamie — a teacher, a hairstylist and salon owner, a homeschool mom, an author and podcaster, and more. Every one of them said yes in a season that looked nothing like the "right time."
Here's what we get into:
The real fears almost every one of them named before signing up — money, timing, whether their husband would be on board

The seasons of life they were actually walking through when they said yes — cancer and remission, empty nesting, the loss of a child, menopause, financial strain

Why this was never really about becoming a coach — it's about becoming the woman your next season is asking you to become

The "go first" principle, and why you can't hand someone a tool you haven't used on yourself

Specific transformation stories — Angela's relationship with her teenage son, Michelle learning to actually feel her emotions instead of just thinking about them, Susan's breakthrough with true self vs. false self, and Shannon's healing in her marriage after the loss of her son Ethan

Why so many of them now see the investment differently — not as an expense, but as something that keeps paying them back

What makes this community different from anything else they've been part of

What they're each doing with their certification now — one-on-one coaching, group programs, a paid counseling role at a church, books, blogs, even a podcast
If you've ever wondered whether it's too late, too expensive, or too much to invest in yourself, I think this conversation is going to be such an encouragement to you.
Links Mentioned:
Learn more about House of Joy Life Coach Certification: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/certification
Learn more about our Next Level Life Summit: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
Meet the Panelists:
Angela Box —
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/daring2reconnect
Instagram: @coachangelabox
Michelle Diercks —
Coaching: https://michellediercks.com/coaching
Substack: https://michellediercks.substack.com/
Becky Cincebox —
Website: https://www.beckycinceboxlifecoach.com/
Instagram: @BeckyCinceboxLifeCoach
Email: [email protected]
Shannon Wallace —
Rooted and Rising: https://rootedandrising.shannonwallacelifecoaching.com/rooted-and-rising
Website (Ashes to Beauty): https://www.shannonwallacelifecoaching.com/
Email: [email protected]
Susan (A Vintage Farmwife) —
Instagram: https://instagram.com/avintagefarmwife
Website: http://avintagefarmwife.com/
Clean Heart Club Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1C6gMG4yVb/
Clean Heart Club Podcast: Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clean-heart-club/id1734446957)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/36PrAkJ37EK6shGSRaNHBz?si=bc051ec809754ba5)
Book: Hello, You! Being Yourself in a World That Wants You to Be Everyone Else: https://amzn.to/4scY9cC

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1 hr 6 min
August 25405. Stop Postponing Your Life: 5 Things I Learned From the Hardest—and Richest—Season of My Life
We just came back from a weekend that didn't look impressive on paper. No trip, no big event. Just a porch, a sleeping baby upstairs, and Stevie back up on the wake surf board for the first time since his surgery, already trying a 360 within 45 seconds of getting up.
And sitting there, I kept thinking: this is the life.
This year handed us something we never would have ordered. But I've learned so much these last few months about what it means to stop waiting for the hard part to be over before you let yourself actually live. Here's what this season taught me:
Stop waiting for certainty to feel alive — uncertainty and a full, beautiful life are allowed to coexist

Stop letting the hardest thing become the whole thing — ask yourself, what else is here besides this?

Stop waiting for your life to calm down before you let it be good — hard and beautiful get to be the same season

Stop confusing your circumstances with your emotional power — your circumstances are the raw material, not the boss

Stop preparing for your life and start becoming the woman who can actually live it
Life gives you the raw material. You get to write the story. So decide today that you're going to stop postponing yours.
Links Mentioned:
Join Friday's training where I share the full story behind this season: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87553040644
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/

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21 min
August 20404. I Said Yes to Myself: An Interview with Skye Lamont
Today I'm sharing a conversation that stayed with me long after we hit stop recording.
Skye Lamont has been in Life Mentoring School for under a year, and before that she'd already been a certified life coach since 2002. She's also a fantasy novelist with seven completed books, and for years she believed she could only really pursue one calling at a time — the writer or the coach, never both. This conversation is about what happened when she stopped believing that.
Here they are:
How the creation cycle helped Skye uncover a decades-old, sneaky thought quietly running underneath her marriage — the belief that she'd picked the wrong husband

Why so many women, especially in midlife, live from an "either/or" belief about their gifts — and what changed when Skye started practicing "and" instead

The real story behind why she stayed off social media for eight years, and what it took for her to finally start a YouTube channel

Why the biggest surprise of coach certification wasn't learning to coach other people — it was learning to "go first" and do the work on herself

What made this community different from every other coaching certification she's done, and why she says you don't get the full benefit of the work without it

Her encouragement for any woman who feels made for more but hasn't taken the leap yet
"I said yes to becoming a coach and getting certified. But what I really said yes to was myself."
Links Mentioned:

• YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyeLamontCreative
• Website: https://skyelamont.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skyelamont
Learn more about our Next Level Life Summit: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life
Learn more about Life Mentoring School and coach certification: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/
https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/certificationwaitlist
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49 min
August 11403. 10 House Rules for Living Well (A Peek Into the House of Joy Week)
Did you know the House of Joy has actual house rules? A book landed in my mailbox this week called House Rules, and at the very same time we were gearing up for our Week in the House of Joy — and the two collided in this episode.
So here they are. Ten house rules that make life better, whether it's an ordinary Tuesday or something much harder. Here they are:
We don't wait for special occasions — use the china, buy the flowers, wear the good PJs, now

All feelings are allowed here — the goal isn't to feel good all the time, it's to feel anything without abandoning yourself

We tell good stories — the circumstance doesn't get the final say on the story you tell about it

We make things beautiful on purpose — even hospital rooms, even hard seasons

We're always making something — creating moves you out of survival mode and into a life you're actually building

We take care of the woman who lives here — sleep, movement, nourishment, friends, prayer, margin

We take our fun very seriously — dancing, boat rides, tiny ice cream cones on a regular Saturday

We ask ourselves, what would be amazing? — tapping into desire instead of just what needs to be done

Everybody who comes through the door gets to belong — even when they believe or live differently than you do

We leave the door open — because your house of joy was never meant to be just for you
Your house of joy was never meant to be just for you. So consider this your invitation in.
Links Mentioned
Join us for A Week in the House of Joy:
https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life
Get a ticket to the Next Level Life Summit: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life
The book House Rules mentioned in this episode: https://www.target.com/p/house-rules-by-myquillyn-smith-hardcover/-/A-89609027?sid=&TCID=PDS-22806998620&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22803281030&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfYyzK8sQi4BepTJ9_5cFL1wx&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7eXTBhDBARIsAKF-w478NNpbN04KkCwp5tKX0x_UWNWyFpNCb3iAlnTpyrUWDJ-TsgWGV7EaAukKEALw_wcB
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
Last week's episode, 402: Why You Feel Behind, Broke, or Stuck (And What To Do About It):
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/402-why-you-feel-behind-broke-or-stuck-and-what-to-do/id1472947590?i=1000778655014

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17 min

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Welcome to House of JOY, the Go-to podcast for personal growth tips for christian women over 40 (& their daughters), who want to live with a positive mindset, thriving relationships, &…