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Keeping Your Heart Right when Someone Wrongs You with Charia Rush


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Charaia Rush is a mama of two, a non-profit manager in Colorado Springs, and a writer who felt led to engage in conversations of race, healing, the Church and, most importantly, the fight to remain soft. She is passionate about keeping a soft heart in a tough world, making sense of the hard and holy seasons, and laughing deep and long.

In this episode, Charaia and host Mindi Linscombe Mindi discuss:

🔸Charaia's journey of preparing well for marriage but sadly experiencing divorce due to her husband's choices.
🔸Keeping your heart tender, even when someone wrongs you.
🔸How Charaia is helping women who are experiencing unfaithfulness from their partner or husband.   
🔸Mirages in life. Being honest about the load and burden you are carrying in certain seasons.
🔸Softness & not being a pushover. What is means to have a soft heart.
🔸How she continues to create a safe space for her son and daughter.
🔸Speaking our truth while still honoring others.
🔸The power of asking: What does wisdom look like for me in this situation? 
🔸The beauty she experiences by being a comforting voice and perspective for women going through hard times in divorce.
🔸Mindi shares Dr. Henry Cloud's principles on "Necessary Endings".
🔸Charaia's take on the human desire to wager with God and the story of The Prodigal Son.
🔸 How we are responsible to take action but ultimately not fully in control of many things in life.
🔸How your tender heart is a blessing & not a curse!
🔸How Charaia embraces conversations on race but have focused more recently on the importance of keeping a tender heart.
🔸How there are more people in the middle than the extremes on value systems and politics. How the extremes often hold the platforms.
🔸How you can order Charais's new book "Courageously Soft: Daring to Keep a Tender Heart in a Tough World".  


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 Connect with Charaia Rush:
📸Instagram: @charaiarush
🌐Website:https://www.charaiarush.com/
📖Substack: https://substack.com/@charaia

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🌐Website: www.mindilinscombe.com
📸Instagram: @mindilinscombe
📹 YouTube: @thesomethingnewshow
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