What do you need to hear?  What do you need to remember? Whatever we repeat to ourselves will become fact in our lives.  If we repeat lies, those lies will wreak havoc in our lives. If we repeat love and encouragement, then we will live from that place and experience a positive shift in our thinking and feeling. In today's episode we talk about the power of a word, a phrase, a quote, a song, even an image to help us remember  and stay grounded in truth and hope.

What does it mean to be in exile?  To be in exile means to be away from one’s home, to be in foreign territory.  Have you ever felt "far from home" in your life, in your relationships? We feel our exiles much more keenly during the Christmas season.  When your “Christmas Card” doesn’t look like everyone else’s or doesn't look like you expected it to, it can feel like nails screeching down the chalkboard of your heart, and we can certainly feel in exile.  Join us for today's episode as we discuss two things to remember if we are feeling in exile this Christmas season.

Every expert, every book will tell you that gratitude is the gateway to joy.  And that is true.  But what happens when you don't feel grateful?  What happens when you know there is goodness around you, but you struggle to access gratitude because you are struggling so much under the weight of the things you are not grateful for.  In today's episode, Mazi will discuss how we navigate feeling simultaneously grateful and ungrateful and learn to hold both of those realities in the palm of our hand.

The holidays are festive but they can also trigger our sadness and grief for what has been lost or hasn't come to fruition.  At Cultivate's November Gathering, Miriam Ryan shared wise words on how to find the brightness of the season by holding onto the promise of Immanuel, God with us, even when we feel like we are walking in the darkness.

How do we thrive through the holidays when we are faced with the festive, stressful, and unexpected?  Enjoy this live recording from the November Cultivate Gathering of our panel discussion with Mazi Robinson, Monica DiCristina, Meghan Toups, and Susan Negri as they share insights and tips on how to not just survive the holidays but truly thrive!

How do we heal? We hear a lot about healing, but what does that actually mean? How do we heal an anxious heart, broken trust, a depressed mind, a ruptured relationship? What does that process look like? Is it quick? Is it easy? Why does it sometimes feel like things get worse before they get better? And why do we have to experience pain and hurt in the first place?