By Instructions for Living a Life
Podcast by Instructions for Living a Life
Musician Aaron Roche joins us to explore how a diagnosis of bipolar disorder has freed him into greater self-awareness. For Aaron, his music is his medicine, and how he has learned to balance his life is inspiring.
Sarah joins Adam and Chrisie to talk about the reality that the holiday season is hard for some people. Listen as Sarah describes the pain the holidays can bring, how the church has caused harm, the completeness of the body...
Claire joins Adam and Chrisie to talk about the holy practice of Sabbath and self-care. Claire speaks about the sacred process of sharing a meal with friends, taking a break, finding what makes your heart beat fast, and the concept...
srael Vasquez’s job offers him the privilege of hearing the pain and hope of other people, but he’s no pastor or therapist. Instead, Israel is a professional storyteller, someone whose preferred medium for storytelling is through movies. In his life...
Blossom Matthews shares about taking care of herself, raising a child with special needs and celebrating wins with a child on the autism spectrum.
Andrew Bohall is a software developer from Atlanta who has felt a call to ministry for the past 16 years. He lives with his wife, the Rev. Mary Bohall, in Illinois, where he served a small congregation as an interim...
Yvonne joins us to share the realities of loving and knowing someone who may be at risk for harming themselves or someone else.
When someone we love is killed, we find that death is not a wound, but an amputation. After a limb has been removed, one must learn to walk in new ways, hold things differently, and discover what life looks like...
Rev. Kiki Barnes shares with us how being a hospital chaplain is less about seeing God's miracles and more about seeing God's presence, especially with those who are dealing with death and dying.
Randy Evans of Walking Tall Wilmington joins us to discuss the stress and exhaustion of living and serving people on the margins.
Rev. Joe Cate joins us to talk about surviving, thriving, and learning from failure.
This week Sarah Heath joins us to talk about Imposter Syndrome or the fear that you aren't qualified to live your life or do your job. As a public persona, writer, and pastor, Sarah opens up about her journey to...
On this episode Jamie shares her stories of grief and loss, turning anger into love, surviving phantom limbs, and explains that grief has an ebb and flow.
Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault and Rape are discussed in this episode. Elizabeth Henry joins us to discuss sexual assault, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the difficulty with reporting and the purity culture, and bodies
In this special edition of Instructions for Living a Life, Chrisie talks with Rev. Hannah Terry about hurricane recovery, self-care, the body of Christ, and practical resources to survive the storm and its devastating aftermath.
In this episode, Steve Austin talks with us about vulnerability, self-care, suicidal ideation and attempts, living, thriving, and respecting others while under pressure, and more.
Ep. 5 "When a Christian Writer Can't Talk About God". Jonathan Merritt joins us for a discussion about feeling like a fraud, keeping the faith, losing sacred words, and the difference between suffering and physical pain.
In this episode, part #2 in a series about infertility, miscarriage, and infant and child loss, we speak with Jennifer, a pastor in the Missouri Conference of the United Methodist Church.
In this episode, we enjoy frank conversation with the Rev. Thomas Irby, a United Methodist pastor in Alabama, about being a whole person and pastor who lives with anxiety and depression.
In this, our first episode of Instructions For Living a Life, we have conversation with the Rev. Weston Pendergrass, a United Methodist pastor serving a church in Lexington, South Carolina. This episode of Part #1 of a two-part series on...