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Today's episode is dedicated to the late, great, Bob Weir. Thank you for the music. We're still here enjoying the ride. 

*Today's prompt is at 10:43

Today, enjoy the audio release of my memoir, Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal, Chapter 15, with somatic meditative journaling: stretching, taking some cleansing relaxing breaths, reflecting on God's subtle and sometimes blaring reminder, to lovingly listen. Settle into the page with our new meditative music, "Balance of Self," to set the margins for your pen, discovery, and appreciation.

Chapter 15 is titled, "You are Inspiration," (2012-2022) and details the power of pausing to catch the chords God is trying to play when we care enough to listen.

It is also a tale of a strange cocktail of bourbon, banjos, and Bob Weir, and how leaning into each authentically set the vibration for a new song in my life's collection: falling in love with my Englishman in Colorado, my soon to be second husband.

Today's chapter focuses on making every small and subtle choice surrendered to and surrounded by Divine inspiration.

Today's Sacred Word is from Isaiah 55:3.

A playful chapter in my journey restoring hope in love again.

No, our love will not fade away...

The Winter Sojourn series will lead up to the re-release of my memoir, complete with a revised title, new cover, and three new stories. Coming Spring 2026! 

*Catch up on recent season 6 episodes and chapters 1-14 in previous podcast seasons!

*Chapter 13 we had some audio issues but thankfully these are resolved! Microphone issue is fixed!

Ready to Journal Up toward the best in you? Journaling together can help! 

Join us here weekly for guided stories of the power of journaling and prompts to lead your pen, resolve, and imagination.

My goal in 2026 is to get a journal in the hands of 100 women over the age of forty who want to feel better by journaling every single day. Have you committed to my challenge?

Works referenced in today's episode:

Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal-A Memoir for Body, Mind, & Spirit Health (Amazon 2023).https://www.amazon.com/Embodying-Joy-Journal-Memoir-Spirit-ebook/dp/B0BRVTBD4B/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

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*GREAT news! We have fixed our microphone issue! 

*Today's prompt is at 11:06

Today, enjoy the audio release of my memoir, Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal, Chapter 14, with somatic meditative journaling: stretching, taking some cleansing relaxing breaths, reflecting on the anchor of Faith, and finally settling into the page with our new meditative music, "Balance of Self," to set the margins for your pen, discovery, and appreciation.

Chapter 14 is titled, "Just a Phone Call Away," (2013-2015) and details the memory of feeling the world shift as I felt a tug from the Universe to leave the past and New York State behind. In starting a new life in the High Rockies with my beau (who I married in 2016), I also left parts of my heart half way across the country. 

It is also a tale of Cross Country Cancer-being just a phone call away proved to be especially tricky when my younger sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. 

Today's chapter focuses on the possibilities God creates when we open ourselves to what Martha Beck loves to call "the way of integrity."

Today's Sacred Word is from Luke 1:37 (ESV).

Today's research is from The National Cancer Institute.

A beautiful, bittersweet chapter and prompt of gratitude for your heart to remember to never entertain the "impossible" when it comes to God's loving and sovereign Hand.

The Winter Sojourn series will lead up to the re-release of my memoir, complete with a revised title, new cover, and three new stories. Coming Spring 2026! 

*Catch up on recent season 6 episodes and chapters 1-13 in previous podcast seasons!

*Chapter 13 we had some audio issues but thankfully these are resolved!

Ready to Journal Up toward the best in you? Journaling together can help! 

Join us here weekly for guided stories of the power of journaling and prompts to lead your pen, resolve, and imagination.

My goal in 2026 is to get a journal in the hands of 100 women over the age of forty who want to feel better by journaling every single day.

Works referenced in today's episode:

Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal-A Memoir for Body, Mind, & Spirit Health (Amazon 2023).https://www.amazon.com/Embodying-Joy-Journal-Memoir-Spirit-ebook/dp/B0BRVTBD4B/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

*Complete Research in the Notes section for Chapter 14 in the book.

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Today, enjoy the audio release of my memoir, Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal, Chapter 13, with somatic meditative journaling: stretching, taking some cleansing relaxing breaths, reflecting on the anchor of Faith, and finally settling into the page with our new meditative music, "Balance of Self," to set the margins for your pen, discovery, and appreciation.

Chapter 13 is titled, "One Red Request," (2006) and details the memory of the Christmas we faced news of our son's diagnosis with Autism. It was also the year we discovered we could face this diagnosis with hope and with heart, especially when we reached for the music and magic inspired by our son's one request from Santa, a red acoustic guitar.

Follow our questions, inspiration, and hope today from diagnosis to how proud we are of our son today. Please keep him in your prayers as at this current time his Crohn's Disease is strongly impacting and challenging him. We hold onto hope for God to deliver him and guide him in this chapter too.

We couldn't have done any of this without the help of God, family, friends, and especially the brave and caring educators, therapists, and specialists on our son's team from CPSE advocates to ACCESS-VR services today. 

A beautiful chapter and prompt of gratitude toward the last ten minutes of the episode, your heart will remember to never question miracles in unlikely and often questioned places today.

The Winter Sojourn series will lead up to the re-release of my memoir, complete with a revised title, new cover, and three new stories. Coming Spring 2026! 

*Catch up on recent season 6 episodes and chapters 1-12 in previous podcast seasons!

Ready to Journal Up toward the best in you? Journaling together can help! 

Join us here weekly for guided stories of the power of journaling and prompts to lead your pen, resolve, and imagination.

My goal in 2026 is to get a journal in the hands of 100 women over the age of forty who want to feel better by journaling every single day.

Works referenced in today's episode:

Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal-A Memoir for Body, Mind, & Spirit Health (Amazon 2023).https://www.amazon.com/Embodying-Joy-Journal-Memoir-Spirit-ebook/dp/B0BRVTBD4B/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

*Complete Research in the Notes section for Chapter 13 in the book.

*Photo credit for the Christmas picture of our son with his treasured red guitar goes to Michelle Neumayer Photography.

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 ***Today's prompt is located at:  13:21

Today, enjoy the audio release of my memoir, Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal, Chapter 12 today, with somatic meditative journaling: stretching, taking some cleansing relaxing breaths, reflecting on the anchoring Word, and finally settling into the page with our new meditative music, "Balance of Self," to set the margins for your pen, discovery, and appreciation.

Chapter 12 is titled, "Collapsing Eternity," (2002-2003) and details the memory of collapsing space and time, recalling the love of my late grandfather and how in the eyes of my newborn named after him, I collapsed eternity, connecting with him, my late birth mother, and my home within myself, a prayer that continues today as I pray continually without ceasing, ever thankful for who I came from and the gift my son continues to be.

A tale of two Raymonds, my adoptive grandfather, Papa Raymond S. Wilson, and my son, Raymond P. Burroughs, connected through me, thanks to the late Theresa N. Drake, the birth mother who released me for adoption, who I only met in my newborn son's eyes.

A beautiful chapter and prompt of gratitude, the bittersweet song of love beyond eternity.

The Winter Sojourn series will lead up to the re-release of my memoir, complete with a revised title, new cover, and three new stories. Coming Spring 2026! 

*Catch up on recent season 6 episodes and chapters 1-11 in previous podcast seasons!

Ready to Journal Up toward the best in you? Journaling together can help! 

Join us here weekly for guided stories of the power of journaling and prompts to lead your pen, resolve, and imagination.

My goal in 2026 is to get a journal in the hands of 100 women over the age of forty who want to feel better by journaling every single day.

Works referenced in today's episode:

The Holy Bible:

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV

Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal-A Memoir for Body, Mind, & Spirit Health (Amazon 2023).https://tinyurl.com/embodyingjoyaheartjournal 

*Complete Research in the Notes section for Chapter 12 in my book 

"What is Epigenetics," Genomics & Precision Health Center for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC.gov (2022).

"The importance of early bonding on the long-term mental health and resilience of children," London Journal of Primary Care (2016).

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You are so loved,

Becca Rae

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Snowflakes on Sunflowers Journaling Sanctuary wishes you the best beginnings to your 2026!

We hope that you are entering the new year relaxed and ready to greet each day with a posture of receiving delight.

Our word of the year at Journal Up! is Delight!

Our posture for the day is to receive exuberant delight from 2026!

May God bless you each day along this present unfolding journey!

As our gift to you again today, here is a preview of what paid subscribers are receiving on my Substack, every day, for six dollars a month this year.

Yesterday, I had some unexpected technical difficulties with the quality of my audio. My mic was acting act but I think I have her under control again.

To make it up to you, I'm offering one more free day to try out my daily somatic meditative journal offering recordings.

For the next 6 days, on my Instagram and Substack, we also have a New Year's gift to you! I'll be posting the prompts embedded in my daily somatic meditative journaling experience.

https://www.instagram.com/beccaraeeagle/

Start small. Take five minutes to open your notebook, pick up your favourite pen, and pour your heart out.

No editing. No questions about what pours out Don't even think about it until the ink is dry.

Then, go back and reflect, not as an editor but as an act of grace and appreciation.

Thank yourself for what came through.

Leave it there.
Go freer about your day.

Do you want to feel better EVERY day?
Journal every day in 2026.

Build your joy muscles with this daily discipline.

Dip in. Delight. Discover.
Journaling.

You are so loved.
I'll be resting in the Margins,
Becca Rae

~Psalm 55:22~Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you. 

If you find them helpful, or want to receive the daily audio with somatic meditative journaling inspiration, become a paid subscriber on my Substack for only $6 a month in 2026.

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Happy New Year from Snowflakes on Sunflowers Journaling Sanctuary!

We hope that you are entering the new year relaxed and ready to greet each day with a posture of receiving delight.

Our word of the year at Journal Up! is Delight!

Our posture for the day is to receive exuberant delight from 2026!

May God bless you each day along this present unfolding journey!

As our gift to you today, here is a preview of what paid subscribers are receiving on my Substack, every day, for six dollars a month this year.

For the next 6 days, on my Instagram and Substack, we also have a New Year's gift to you! I'll be posting the prompts embedded in my daily somatic meditative journaling experience.

https://www.instagram.com/beccaraeeagle/

Start small. Take five minutes to open your notebook, pick up your favourite pen, and pour your heart out.

No editing. No questions about what pours out Don't even think about it until the ink is dry.

Then, go back and reflect, not as an editor but as an act of grace and appreciation.

Thank yourself for what came through.

Leave it there.
Go freer about your day.

Do you want to feel better EVERY day?
Journal every day in 2026.

Build your joy muscles with this daily discipline.

Dip in. Delight. Discover.
Journaling.

You are so loved.
I'll be resting in the Margins,
Becca Rae

~Psalm 55:22~Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you. 

If you find them helpful, or want to receive the daily audio with somatic meditative journaling inspiration, become a paid subscriber on my Substack for only $6 a month in 2026.

https://substack.com/@beccaraeeagle

#Journaling #MentalHealthMatters #TherapeuticJournaling #SomaticMeditativeJournaling #LetLoveLeadYourPen #YouAreSoLoved

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***Today's journal prompt 14:49. 

Today's episode marks the end of a nine year journey devoted to the welcoming love held within my journal. From tragedy to triumph, the margins hold it all. 

Today's episode is a testimony to the commitment I've made to journaling and leaning on Divine acceptance within the pages. 

Dedicate yourself to this practice and witness the miracles delighting your way.

Dabbling in journaling is wonderful but if you're looking for lifelong transformation, day to day habits will light each day.

Can you make a commitment to miracles in 2026? 

Can you show up every day and journal?

If not every day, can you show up for yourself once a week to journal?

You'll thank me in 2027.

Discipline yourself to delight in the embers as well as the raging flame. There is celebration in store either way.

Dip in, delight, and discover what journaling pulled me through, particularly since 2016.

Release, reset, and witness what delights you today. Our sacred penning prompt today can be used for one session or for many days. The choice is up to you.

Snowflakes on Sunflowers Journaling Sanctuary podcast ministry is dedicated to the power of a personal journaling pause to receive loving downloads and insights to brighten your day, helping you feel better.

To God be the Glory; Great things He has done!

Ready to Journal Up toward the best in you? Journaling together can help! 

Join us here weekly for guided stories of the power of journaling and prompts to lead your pen, resolve, and imagination.

My goal in 2026 is to get a journal in the hands of 100 women over the age of forty who want to feel better by journaling every single day.

Works referenced in today's episode:

Delight:

m-w.com

dictionary.cambridge.org 

Martha Beck: 

The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self (2021)

Sarah Young:

Jesus Always (2016)

The Holy Bible:

Psalm 95:8

Psalm 37:3,4

Hebrews 12:2

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Happy New Year! 2026!

God bless you!

You are so loved,

Becca Rae

#MentalHealthMatters #Journaling #SacredPenning #HappyNewYear2026 #SnowflakesOnSunflowers #JournalUpPodcastWithBeccaRae #Delight #SomaticMeditativeJournaling #FeelBetterJournalUp

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 ***Today's journal prompt 18:53. 

Today's episode marks the beginning of Snowflakes on Sunflowers Journaling Sanctuary podcast ministry. To God be the Glory; Great things He has done!

Welcome to Season 6! It may have had a different title but it's always had the same host and the same mission: level up your life through journaling; journal up!

Merry Christmastime!

Since last Christmas, Praise the Lord, my father, Michael, received a new liver! Thank you for sparing my liver (as I was a donor) and praise you, God, for the selfless donation of a young person who died to save many lives, including my father's in early March, 2025. Thank You, Adonai! Don't believe in miracles? Talk to my father. Cancer free! Donate LIFE! #OrganDonation 

Ready to Journal Up toward the best in you? Journaling together can help! Join us here weekly for guided stories of the power of journaling and prompts to light your way.

Interested in supporting igniting Faith? Purchase the book I became in international bestseller with, Ignite Your Faith! Here's the Kindle link! https://mybook.to/igniteyourfaithbook

Interested in reading my other book, Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal-currently available in e-book format (as it is being reformatted for future printing). Come journal with us with egregious, heartfelt tenacity! Here's the Kindle link!  https://tinyurl.com/embodyingjoyaheartjournal

Merry Christmas 2025!

God bless you and yours this holiday season!

Works referenced in today's episode:

Vanessa Marie Dewsbury (Canada):

Living a Quiet Life: Reflections for Peace, Purpose, and Personal Growth (2025): https://www.amazon.com/Living-Quiet-Life-Reflections-Personal/dp/177519499X

Martha Beck: 

Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose (2025)

Julia Cameron:

366 Meditations for Creative Living: The Daily Artist's Way (2025)

Write for Life:Creative Tools for Every Writer (2022)

Gabrielle Bernstein: 

Judgement Detox (2018)

The Holy Bible:

Hebrews 12:2 (NIV)*John 8:12 NIV-misquoted but not intentionally. God understands. His Word never returns void. Perfectly imperfect in HIM. #Grace

Song of Solomon 6:3 (KJV)

Ephesians 3:20 (NKJV)

Interested in daily journal prompts for 2026?

Join my Substack for $6 a month in 2026!

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Today's episode marks the end of our Joyful Journaling ministry. We close our season of The Sacred Penning Podcast and the podcast itself with a testimony to God for the miracles in Grace He has done.

Merry Christmastime!

Here is the story that made me an International Bestselling Author in a compilation book that helped build a school back in 2023 titled, Ignite Your Faith.

Enjoy updates and praise for God's loving blessings and momentum in our lives, an update on my father, Michael's liver donor campaign, and listen in to hear my Christmas story, "Anchored by a Star," and a concluding journal prompt.

To contact my Father's liver transplant coordinator at the University of Rochester Medicine, please call 585-275-5875 for a confidential discussion. Mention patient's name: Michael Van Scoyk.

More information about the donation process can also be found at https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/transplant/live-donor.aspx

Please pray for my father, my family, and the possibility that I may be the live liver donor he is seeking. I just finished a most comprehensive and exhaustive round of testing in Rochester to see!

Please share the information above about my father's campaign and listen to our Father's Day episode from this year to hear my Dad's story.

Interested in supporting this book, building schools, and igniting Faith? Purchase the book, Ignite Your Faith! Here's the Kindle link! https://mybook.to/igniteyourfaithbook

Interested in reading my other book, Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal-currently available in e-book format (as it is being reformatted for future printing). Come journal with us with egregious, heartfelt tenacity! Here's the Kindle link!  https://tinyurl.com/embodyingjoyaheartjournal

Merry Christmas 2024!

God bless you and yours this holiday season!

God bless you, your mental health, and your peace in His Presence and Grace in 2025!

Thank you for supporting this podcast!

Joyful Journaling to you! May your pen find its Sacred Well!

We will see what podcasting and writing God lead us to next!

To God be the Glory; Great Things He has accomplished!

Jesus-King of Kings, yesterday, today, always! May He reign in your heart!

Peace be with you, yours, and our world in 2025!

#MentalHealthMatters #Christmas2024 #LiveDonor #Journaling #SacredPenning #Grateful #FinalEpisode #IgniteYourFaith #GodIsGood #GodHasAPlan #WomenWhoPodcast #YouMatter #AnchoredByAStar #GiftLife #OrganDonation 

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Today's episode highlights the joy I experienced upon acceptance and matriculation at Hertford College, Oxford University, during a study abroad program my Senior year of college.

Each of us is worthy of a "Hogwarts letter," and God is always ready to provide it. We simply have to believe, as the title of this chapter in my life suggests, that "U are Worthy of Magic."

Join us on an Oxford University/Travel semester abroad appreciation letter, complete with an inspiring journal prompt today!

You're invited to journal along to the track from my accompanying Spotify playlist: track 19 today (created just for this chapter). Hop over to listen!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1BKHHSFspfTqv7G7smvYVP?si=2c045ed4df6a443e

If you're interested in something a bit more traditional that you may be used to as a usual Joyful Journaling, The Sacred Penning Podcast listener, consider hopping over to this website and choose a track that I usually feature weekly (outside of this memoir series) Massood Taj @ http://www.massoodtaj.com/global-music-for-sacred-spaces.html  "Unconditional Love" is one of my personal favourites!

Interact with today's chapter, Chapter Ten, Embodying Joy: A Heart Journal-A Memoir for Body, Mind, & Spirit Health (Amazon 2023). https://tinyurl.com/embodyingjoyaheartjournal or venture on a standalone journey of self-expression by responding to today's journal prompt.

This episode is not just a Summer sojourn but an invitation to tap into the joy within you as you heal from any story that may have caused you harm. Join me in this self-care sojourn as we get gritty and journal our way to the other side-JOY.

If you or someone you know is interested in exploring this life-saving opportunity to save my Dad's life from Liver Cancer, or if you can assist by spreading the word, please contact our transplant coordinator at the University of Rochester Medicine at 585-275-5875 for a confidential discussion. More information about the donation process can also be found at https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/transplant/live-donor.aspx

Interested in attending the FREE Christian Women's Summit I mentioned in this episode, The Confident Godly Woman Summit? Are you longing for deeper confidence, lasting peace, and a life that aligns with God's purpose? Then, The Confident Godly Woman Summit is your FREE invitation to discover the power within you! The event runs August 5,6,7, and is your chance to:Break free from limitations and step into your God-given confidence; Experience a renewed sense of purpose and direction; and Discover the joy of living a life aligned with God's will! Join Annette Renee, Judith Kambia Obatusa, Rachael Arnold, and myself for a conference on cultivating mindset, physical health, and spiritual growth. I will speak on the importance of getting REAL with yourself in a REEL focused world via the self-care practice of somatic meditative journaling!  Join us for free at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-confident-godly-woman-summit-tickets-911807981217?aff=oddtdtcreator

Until next time, may your pen find its sacred well!

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