In the first episode of our four-part mini-series Grief & Grace, Erica opens up about the date that brought her to her knees, February 25, 2025 and the complicated mix of grief, gratitude, and guilt that followed her mom’s death.

Through the tender memory of blueberry muffins, blankets, and sitting at her mom’s grave, Erica explores how scent, touch, and ordinary rituals carry love long after someone is gone. This is a raw, honest, and compassionate conversation about missing a loved one, holding grief in your body, and choosing grace for yourself along the way.

Stay to the end for the “Takeaway Ride” a simple, embodied practice to help you move with grief, not around it.

Pedals, Purpose & Prayer where we ride through real life together. One pedal at a time!

A quiet reflection on time, presence, and staying steady.
If you’ve found yourself watching the days move by and wondering how to hold them without fixing, rushing, or dwelling, this episode is for you.

This conversation invites you to pause, notice, and trust that change doesn’t always need to be chased. Sometimes it arrives when we simply hold on for one more day.

✨ If this reflection speaks to you, you’re invited to continue the conversation.
Visit thrivebloominsights.glossgenius.com to explore reflection sessions, or reach out to connect through ThriveBloom.

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What Kind of Woman Are You?

Have you ever asked yourself which woman of the Bible you relate to most?

In this episode of Pedals, Purpose & Prayer, we explore a deeper and more meaningful question. Not who you are supposed to be, but who you are becoming.

Through the stories of Deborah, Esther, Ruth, Hannah, Hagar, and Mary, this episode invites gentle reflection on leadership, faith, endurance, influence, prayer, survival, and surrender. These women are not presented as labels to choose from, but as mirrors that help us recognize the season we are walking through right now.

This is not a quiz. Even though your social media is blowing up with reels asking you to take one.
It is not about comparison.
It is an invitation to listen, reflect, and notice where God may be shaping you.

Whether you are leading, waiting, healing, questioning, or growing, there is space for you here.

If this episode resonated with you, you are invited to join an online Bible study using the book Women of the Bible Speak by Shannon Bream.

This study is designed for women balancing full lives, faith, leadership, and becoming. Together, we will reflect on the stories of women in Scripture and explore how their lives still speak into our own today.

• Start Date: February 1, 2026
• Schedule: Every other Sunday afternoon
• Format: Live Zoom sessions with replay available
• Duration: 6 sessions over 12 weeks

All sessions are recorded. Materials, notes, and replays are available for those who are unable to attend live.

Participants will purchase their own copy of Women of the Bible Speak by Shannon Bream. You may choose the physical book or audiobook.

An optional workbook is available for those who enjoy journaling, guided prompts, and deeper reflection. The workbook is not required.

The study is hosted through a private Facebook group connected to Pedals, Purpose & Prayer. This group serves as our space for discussion, encouragement, and shared reflection between sessions.

To join the Bible study and receive full details, visit the link below:

👉 Join the private Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1FArqLjTyN/

Once approved, you will receive access to Zoom details, materials, and the study schedule.

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Not every season requires more effort. Some invite trust.

In this episode, Erica explores overthinking, emotional vigilance, and what it means to loosen your grip after a long climb. Through a cycling metaphor, she reflects on learning when to stop pushing and start trusting the descent.

Sometimes belief doesn’t come as confidence.
Sometimes it comes through the people who stay.

In this short, reflective episode, Erica shares honestly about grief, doubt, and the weight of walking through a heavy season, while learning to notice the people who are quietly carrying her along the way.

This episode is a reminder that:

• You don’t have to fix the heaviness

• You don’t have to rush yourself out of grief

• And you’re not meant to ride through every season alone

Whether you’re walking through loss, transition, or simply feeling tired this one’s for you.

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In this deeply honest and heartfelt episode, Erica invites you into a real moment from her own journey. This is the drive to work where a simple teaching on mindfulness opened a doorway into presence, faith, and healing.

Together, we explore the difference between mindset and mindfulness, how doubt shows up even when we trust God, and why slowing down long enough to feel the moment you’re living in might be the most powerful transformation you can make.

Erica shares her personal “stop thought” practice, a devotional God used to redirect her heart, and the reminder that even one life changed is enough. With warmth, vulnerability, and truth, this episode speaks to the women who are healing, leading, mothering, loving, and trying to show up fully in their own lives.

If you’re tired of rushing through your days…
If life feels like a blur…
If you're longing for clarity, peace, and presence…

This episode will meet you right where you are.

In this episode, we cover:
• Mindset work vs. true mindful presence
• How doubt appears even in deep faith
• Why presence is a gift to yourself and those around you
• The story of a missionary whose calling mattered, even when it didn’t look big
• How to create your own “stop thought”
• How to reclaim memories by slowing down
• A new-year invitation to presence, peace, and intentional living

Connect, breathe, and pedal into presence ~one breath, one moment, one pedal at a time.

Shoutout to Sean Fargo for sharing his journey in mindfulness and mediation in the Mindfulness Exercises Podcast and Pamela Crim the host of Big Life Devotional on Episode 2007 "Cart Before the Horse", where she mentions Adoniram Judson who sailed to Burma to share the gospel. He seen 12-18 conversions but now there are somewhere between 700,000 and 1 million.

On today’s episode, Erica gets real about the “off days”. The days when your motivation is low, your heart feels heavy, and your emotional legs just don’t show up. Through biking metaphors, personal honesty, and gentle encouragement, she reminds you that grace and grit belong together. This is your reminder that recovery rides matter too… and you don’t have to push hard to keep moving forward.Contact Erica for more ideas and guided support while you root, rise, renew and bloom in this chaos we call life. Email her at [email protected] or schedule an appointment at [email protected]. Right now Erica is by appointment only.

Shifting Gears in Friendship: Episode 4

In this heartfelt episode, Erica opens up about the seasons when friendships shift, not from conflict, but from growth, timing, distance, and the rhythms of real life.

She reflects on her own journey with friendship:
the times she questioned where she fit,
the blessing of soul sisters who have loved her well,
the grief of losing her best friend to cancer,
and watching her daughter navigate the ache of missing someone miles away.

This episode explores the quiet spaces of friendship: the empty tables, the slow fade, the misunderstood distance, and how God gently rearranges relationships as we grow.

Featuring the quote:
“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, you will lose one. But if two strangers ask, accept, you will gain one.”

Today’s takeaway is The Friendship Cadence Ride, inviting listeners to reflect on the changing pace of connection and the sacred shifts in sisterhood.

A tender, reflective ride about love, loss, growth, and the spaces God creates for new connection.

When the shutdown ended, the overwhelm didn’t. In this episode, Erica shares the honest truth about juggling early mornings, commutes, kids, work, and the invisible mental load so many moms carry. If you’re exhausted before the day begins, this one’s for you. A reminder that even in life’s headwinds, God pedals beside us, and we don’t have to hold it all together alone.

Sometimes God’s plan feels like headwinds.

In this voice note, recorded one year after my first 100-mile cycling event, I look back on the hardest year of my life . Losing my mom, fearing job loss, and walking back through doors that carried both trauma and triumph.

This is a story about grit, grace, grief, and growth. About learning to love yourself again, trusting God’s timing, and pedaling through the storm one prayer at a time.

💛 Whether you’re facing loss, change, or just trying to keep moving forward, this one’s for you.

Let’s ride this together. Keep on pedaling!