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  • Welcoming a New Season + a New Year | The SHE IS Awakening Seasonal Journal | WINTER - Week 2
    It’s the last Sunday of the year.
     
    “Welcome Winter” is the weekly focus for week 2 in the Winter Journal.
     
    This week has us simultaneously saying goodbye to a calendar year and saying hello to a new year.
     
    For some of you, you have been eager to close the door on 2023 and are excited about the fresh perspective and start that welcoming a new year brings to our lives.
     
    The season of Winter is a mysterious mix of Solitude and Wonder.
     
    The darkness and chill of a winter day can cause us to question and doubt God’s faithfulness and goodness. Yet these words found in Psalm 23:6 are a beautiful reminder that  no matter how dark and alone we might feel “God’s beauty and love chase after me every day of my life.”
     
    How wonderful is that? No matter how dark things seem no matter the season or circumstances God’s beauty and love pursue us every day of our life.
     
    The stillness of a Winter is an invitation to be still with God and with ourselves. It is in the space of solitude and stillness that we are transformed. 
     
    Spiritual transformation is full of mystery. We surrender ourselves to the invitation and say yes to the participation yet it’s something we can’t accomplish for ourselves.
     
    Here are some prompts for you to think, pray, and journal about this week…
     
    What are you expecting this season?
     
    Do you struggle with getting still?
     
    Do you find it difficult to trust God’s faithfulness and goodness?
    I’d love to offer up a prayer for us as we head into a new week as well as a new year.
     
    Spirit of God we welcome you into this moment and into this new year and season.
     
    May I have an open heart and hands to surrender my agenda, expectations, and plans in exchange for total trust that your ways are not my ways and surrender and trust in your faithfulness and goodness towards me!
     
    Thank you for pursuing me with your love and may I receive that love in the quiet stillness that winter can bring. 
     
    I choose to surrender to the wonder that is to be discovered and developed in me during this season.
     
    We love you and we are looking to you…
    always.
     
     
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    6 min
  • Life Is Seasons - Winter
    Merry Christmas friend.
     
    This Sunday is full… not only is it the first Sunday in walking through the Season of Winter together. But it’s Christmas Eve!
     
    Christmas Eve is my fav. I don’t know if it’s because growing up with most extended family being out of town, we always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve. It’s something I continued with my kids. So yeah I’m looking forward to gathering with my crew around the table tonight and lighting the last Advent candle together. Taking in all the wonder, joy, and peace this season is such a beautiful reminder.
    We officially welcomed the winter season a few days ago and I’m looking forward to all that this season will hold for each of us.
     
    The weekly focus in the Seasonal Journal this week is Life is Seasons.
    I pray that wherever you find yourself today, whether that be in the midst of a crowded room of people or you are the only person in the room you feel God near.
     
    I love the truth of God with us that is thought about more in this season but it’s a powerful truth and reality that we can live in every day and every moment.  We focus on and celebrate our savior's birth during this time and are reminded that through all that his arrival accomplished and provided for us we are never left on our own, we have access to a constant helper comforter, and teacher to lead us and strengthen us.
     
    So I thought it would be good to end this episode with a deep breath and a prayer.
     
    Father, I thank you that you are with us...
    Even now in the midst of the busyness, this season can bring to our lives the loneliness and loss it can so brutally remind us of in these moments.
     
    So we choose to stop and take a deep breath and breathe in the love and goodness of all that you are. And exhale any heaviness that is weighing us down during this time.
     
    You never promised we wouldn’t have troubles in this world but you have promised we would never face anything alone.
     
    Thank you for the power and peace of your spirit that even in this moment brings life to weary hearts and minds. Brings peace to worried or anxious thoughts.
     
    We are choosing to look to you as our ever-present guide as we enter this new season before us. You are our God and we place our hope and trust in you.
     
    We love you and we are looking to you always!
     
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    14 min
  • Welcome Winter | The SHE IS Awakening Seasonal Journal | WINTER - Week 1
    Happy First Day of Winter friends!
     
    I know many of you probably won’t be listening to this episode on the official first day of Winter as most are in full Christmas preparations and celebration mode! But whenever things settle down a bit I’m hoping you’ll join me in welcoming this new season that is upon us.
     
    Today's episode I feel might have a different tone to it maybe a little more reflective and I think it’s because I’ve been deep in the season of all things WINTER.
     
    Now I’m well aware that some of you are repelled by the darkness of a winter season and prefer flowery words and thoughts and brighter colors and that’s ok I’ll connect with you in a greater way in a few months as Spring comes back around. Ha! But for all my Enneagram 4s and deep feelers like me who grew up longing to watch sad movies that would make me bawl my eyes out!! You’re going to love walking through this winter season together. And as a heads up if you haven’t already received your winter journal the artwork for the weekly focuses are darker hues…purposefully. 
    And if that’s not you …I would love to remind you that I've had several of you let me know that you have actually enjoyed your not-so-favorite seasons more this year because of how you chose to intentionally walk through it. And that couldn’t make me any happier to hear!!
     
     Looking back…I was always a reflective person
    A deep feeler 
     
    That feels like a liability when your feelings appear too much and you are frequently told you are too sensitive
     
    over time I began to try and contain and cram all the thoughts and feelings running strong in my heart and mind
    In a similar way, we try to contain and cram our bodies into too small or a tight pair of jeans.
     
    It’s uncomfortable 
     
    That process alone is uncomfortable
    And sadly it doesn’t end there.
     
    We proceed to live out our day contained and crammed into something we were never meant to fit in or be confined by
     
    We show up uncomfortable in our homes
    In our workplaces
    In our relationship with our Creator….
     
    We are agitated from the start with everything and everyone because of the discomfort we are walking around inside.
     
    What I can see is clearly now is it wasn’t in the easy seasons of life where I found freedom and growth but it was out of the discomfort of walking through dark winter seasons.
     
    We tend to think if only I wasn’t dealing with this then life would feel easy and good. And one day we realize that Winter is this mysterious mix of solitude and wonder.
     
    The darkness of the season brings an initiation to solitude and stillness. An invitation to being still with God and ourselves.
     
    It takes courage to get still and be seen.
     
    Seen NOT in the way we desire and hope to be seen
    But seen and know 
    FULLY know by the one who knows us better than we know ourselves.
     
    I think there can be a disconnect and struggle within us in our relationship with God if we aren’t honest in looking into how we are showing up and connecting with God.
    God is GOD and he is all-knowing YET we aren’t fully experiencing connection with him when we aren’t allowing all of who we are to be seen and loved and strengthened in his presence.
     
    When we show us wearing a mask and trying to appear presentable before God we are holding onto the places and spaces within us that need to be seen and healed.
     
    Real honest connection requires vulnerability and radical honesty with God and with ourselves.
     
    And that can feel scary 
    We don’t want to go there and feel all the feelings
     
    But God will meet you right there 
    Where you honestly are
    In the midst of all of your fears and insecurities and shame.
     
    And I get that it can feel easier to stay busy and distracted and tell ourselves we don’t have time to stop and get still/
     
    It feels easier and safer to cling to narratives we have created in our hearts and minds around situations, circumstances, and relationships in our lives INSTEAD of getting still and honest and allowing the spirit of God to shine light in t
    13 min
  • Preparing for the Next Season | SHE IS Awakening Seasonal Journal | AUTUMN - Week 13
    Happy Sunday friend!
     
    Well, here we are …walking out our last week in Autumn and into Winter.
     
    As I’ve mentioned recently, I’m feeling this transition.
     
    Maybe it’s because it’s the time of year when we’re given lots of opportunities to feel… or maybe it’s just that in-between space that we feel during transitions…
    Whatever the reason I’m ready for the new season!
     
    And one of the things about seasons that I love is that even though we are continuously cycling through the different seasons we always experience them differently because we are always changing.
     
    We are moving into the Winter season of 2023/24 and the person you are today is not the person that experienced last Winter.
     
    We lived another full year of life which means we have experienced another year of both beautiful and hard moments and hopefully we are allowing all of our moments to grow us. But our life experiences and what is developed within us change our perspective. 
     
    This week's focus is called “preparing for the next season” and it could easily be overlooked as it’s much more exciting to move on to what’s next. But one of the core desires in creating this seasonal journal was to invite us to live more intentionally.
     
    And we can think about living our lives more intentionally and even say we want to live intentionally. And yet if we don’t INTENTIONALLY prepare and take steps towards this desire nothing changes.
     
    We are so bombarded with voices and opinions. And it’s so common to how our culture lives that we are almost unaware of how distracted we live.
     
    At any time we can see images that evoke different emotions and thoughts within us. At any given moment we can hear a talk to a teaching.  A bazillion distractions fill our heart and mind easily accessed from the touch of our fingers.
     
    We must be intentional in what is filling our hearts and minds. 
     
    As we are walking out of one season and into the next I’m inviting you to take some time to think about ways you can walk through this season more intentionally.
     
    For those of you in the US the season of winter has us closing out a calendar year as well as welcoming a new year.  It’s a season that holds a lot for us, in a multitude of ways.
     
    let’s prepare our hearts for all that God wants for us this season.
     
    Obviously, I would love to have you walk through this winter with the WINTER seasonal journal. I know some of you have already ordered yours and I will have ordering info in the show notes for those of you who would like to grab one. 
     
    And for those of you who aren’t sure what this journal is, I’ll give a little background and explain. At the start of 2023, I released the first She Is Awakening seasonal journal which was the Spring Volume. And have released one each season since.  Journaling and seasons have been a passion of mine for a long time as well as creating abstract art.
     
    The seasonal journal is all of those things meshed together. It comes in a hardcover as well as a softcover version. The journal is laid out with a weekly focus that includes journal prompts that walk you through the 13 weeks of the season. There is artwork and scancodes that are available for only those who have a journal. The journal is an intentional rhythm and practice that has been so life-giving to me that I wanted to invite all of you on the journey as well.
     
    This weekly episode that you are listening to that comes out every Sunday follows along with the seasonal journal.  The Thursday podcast episodes cover other topics and conversations with different women. 
    The She Is Podcast wasn’t started over 8 years ago because of a journal but because of a desire I had and still have to encourage women to live the life they were designed and created for. But I really love that we have this Sunday episode that drops as we are heading into a new week to help us focus and bring some intention on how we want to live our days.
     
    I pray this week is filled with peace and love for you as you intentionally liv
    9 min
  • Lisa Young | A Path Through Pain | Susan Beth
    Today's episode is a conversation I had with Lisa Young and the timing is perfect as we are heading into the winter season here in the US and many of you listening will be walking through the season with the She Is Awakening seasonal journal.
     
    Lisa and I talked about the book she wrote with her husband Ed “A Path Through Pain,” which came out of experiencing the sudden passing of their oldest daughter Lee Beth a few years ago. 
     
    The subtitle says How faith deepens and joy grows through what you would never choose. And we talk about that in this conversation and it’s actually the journey through the Winter journal.  None of us would choose the hard path of a winter season yet the deepening of our faith as we surrender our season to God is sometimes hard to explain.
     
    Whether or not you find yourself today walking through a hard winter season… we all face them …and even though we wouldn’t choose them we can prepare for them. The winter journal is available this week and you can find the ordering information in the show notes.  
     
    I’m excited about you hearing my conversation with Lisa and know it will be helpful and encouraging to so many of you.
     
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    Winter Journal:  https://amzn.to/48baCCC
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    48 min
  • Love | SHE IS Awakening Seasonal Journal | AUTUMN - Week 12
    Have you ever struggled with loving someone? Maybe it’s someone you work with or maybe it’s someone you live with.
    I am pretty sure we can all answer yes to having had this struggle and maybe you’re in the middle of the struggle now.
     
    Another thing I’m pretty sure about is…it feels yucky!!
     
    Sometimes when we are in the moment of aggravation we feel good thinking about how superior we are and how aggravating their personality or way of doing something is to us.
     
    But for most of us …this feeling soon fades to the yucky feeling…
     
    The one we feel when we judge someone else
     
    Or talk about someone or the bottom line 
     
    We aren’t being loving.
     
    The reason we feel bad is that we ultimately want to be loving kind and generous. I mean our flesh will fight us every day on this but at the end of the day, we want to love and be loved.
     
    This week's scripture from the weekly focus is 1 John 4:7,8  says
    1st line…Let us continue to love each other since love comes from God
    If there's a secret for us to be more loving friends here it is…
    Love comes from God. so if we are struggling with being loving in our lives 
    Then maybe we are struggling in our receiving love from God.
    When we spend time connecting with God it strengthens our spirits. We experience his never-ending love for us and this patience and goodness towards us even when he has to convict us and course correct in our lives…we feel his love and faithfulness over our lives.
     
    Which when we receive this love we love him more and the overflow is that we can’t help but love others more.
     
    But when we are running around staying too busy and distracted not taking the time to be still we aren’t feeling peaceful. Our minds are frazzled and our nerves are constantly on edge so it doesn't take much for someone to irritate and be on our last nerve.
     
    When you experience love and you feel loved loving others comes a lot easier.
    It’s easier for us to appreciate differences in each other. And give grace when others aren’t living up to our expectations.
     
    So in this season where gift-giving is an expression of love may we recognize that we have been given the greatest gift of Love we could ever ask for.
     
    I’ll leave you today with one of the journal prompts from this week's focus 
    I love you and I”m 
     
    I pray you have a beautiful week friend
     
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    7 min
  • Holiday Chat
    Today's episode might feel a little different. It’s more of a few things on my heart rather than one particular subject episode.
     
    But it’s that time of the year right?!? We all start feeling pulled in different directions. And the panic of “feeling behind” can hit at any moment but I’m reminding you as I remind myself… we are good. We are going to walk intentionally through this season appreciating the things that matter and letting go of the weight of all the things that ultimately don’t matter.
     
    So maybe this episode is me processing aloud with you ha!
     
    I’m starting to have some feelings about finishing up the last few weeks in the Autumn journal and walking into Winter.
     
    Maybe it’s because it is the final seasonal journal to be released as I released the She is Awakening Spring journal at the beginning of this year then we walked through summer and spring together welcomed Autumn and are getting ready to welcome Winter.
     
    I look back at how the seasonal journal all came together and it feels like such a God thing.  It’s been such a labor of love on my end and I have to say it would have never happened if I hadn’t had my husband Ron on this project with me.  He’s always been my greatest support and he saw the vision I had and helped me run with it I’m forever grateful for his never-ending love and belief in me.
     
    I touched a little in I believe last Thursday's episode about how it’s been quite the experience for me to share with all of you something that has been such a sacred practice in my life. Even though I’ve talked and shared for years about walking through the different seasons it felt like things moved to another level knowing we were walking through them more “ on the same page” didn’t plan for that to come out worded like that so perfectly haha
     
    I’m really excited for you to have your hands on the winter journal and will be sending out the ordering info for those of you on my email list in the next few days!   Eeeek I can't wait!!
     
    I feel like I’m not doing a good job of letting you know about all of the things happening that feel like are happening all at the same time.
     
    The holiday print JOY which many of you have already purchased. And I couldn’t be happier with how they turned out. For those that have asked I am still offering last year's print a thrill of hope as well. You can find both of these on my website.
     
    ALONG WITH the winter abstract collection!!
     
    YOu guys!! Some of you had your pieces picked out immediately and they are on the way I cannot wait to see them displayed in your home or offices or wherever you choose. You know I have a thing for abstract black and white so I love them all!! Can I say that?!? Well, I said it and it’s true that I love them all.
     
    The Winter Collection will be available throughout the season so you can grab it as a gift now or to have to decorate after taking down all your holiday decor.
     
    It can feel a little odd for me at times to keep everyone up to date but then I have conversations with someone that has no idea about something and I realize I talked about it once or twice…oops ;)
     
    You think every email is read and every post and image seen and when I think about it I know that’s not the case… I open emails when I can’t fully focus on the info and intend to go back and read and then don’t as if it moves further and further down the email account. Same thing with social media and actually now everyone that follows you doesn’t even see all that you post. 
    So this is me catching you up hoping you appreciate it haha
    In all seriousness, I do want to give you a heads-up on the Winter Journal.
    I want you to have one. I want you to have one to move the WInter season intentionally. Eyes and heart wide open to discover all that God has for you in this season.
     
    Don’t use the “I’m not a journaler excuse” you don’t have to be an avid journaler or love to write to get something out of this seasonal journal.
     
    This journal is yours to use as you want. You can read
    10 min
  • Joy | SHE IS Awakening Seasonal Journal | AUTUMN - Week 11
    Happy New Week friends. I hope you are doing well. You might notice my voice sounds a little different as I have been fighting something the past several days and at times barely have a voice to speak. So hopefully it will hold up for me to get this recorded. 
     
    It’s our first Sunday episode in December and in a few short weeks, we will be officially welcoming the WINTER season. 
     
    But we still have a few weeks left in Autumn to walk out and the weekly focus from the Autumn Journal is JOY.
     
    I shared this past week this year's Holiday art print which just so happens to be called JOY. with the words 
     
    “Joy that isn’t defined by circumstances or a special moment but joy that is rising from a deep well of Perfect Love.”
     
    Many of you responded on how those words resonated with you. 
     
    Some of you I know your stories others I don’t but I do know that for all of us… we come to the realization at some point that true joy can’t be sustained by the circumstances of our lives.  But when the perfect love of the one who holds our stories and upholds us through every season flows within us we experience supernatural joy.
     
    I like to say it this way…
    Joy is God-inspired happiness.
    Read John 10:10
     
    Real joy is found in the goodness of God which gives us strength to walk and stand in joy no matter the circumstance.
     
    I’m praying we walk in that joy this week as we trust in his goodness and strength.
     
    Have a joyous week!
     
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  • Peace, Even When...
    I don’t know why it might hit me funny sometimes when I reach to use a journal that I created… it’s interesting.
     
    Reaching for the empty pages to pray and process is nothing new for me nor reading words to focus my mind and strengthen my spirit. Maybe it’s knowing that some of you are reaching for these same pages too.
     
    I’ve noticed these feelings come up when I’m reaching for it not out of daily practice or rhythm, but out of longing and need. 
    Autumn Journal - https://amzn.to/3LewEvj
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    The SHE IS Podcast - https://bit.ly/thesheispodcast
     
     
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    Background Music Credit: Alexander Bluhttps://www.facebook.com/AlexanderBluMusic/
    Again I don’t know why that should be odd when they say you create and teach what you need.
     
    It happened again this week…as I found myself over the hump of non-stop days of focused prep and work that needed to be done one of those things was preparing for our family Thanksgiving gathering.  
     
    You know those times when several things run together and you just put your head down and keep moving through things knowing you will come to the end and you will be able to take a deep exhale breath.
     
    So the final day before the deep exhale was a pretty big thing. Something that had been planned for a while and something I had done the work to prepare and at the end of the day, I realized there had been a tech issue and nothing had been saved.
     
    I could feel my brain refusing to take in the reality as I tried to distract myself. When I would start to take it in I literally felt like I was going to throw up. 
     
    The rest of the evening my mind was bombarded with thoughts of why and how did this happen. I knew it was pointless to dwell on it and being frustrated about it wasn’t going to change anything.
     
    I knew I was just tired but I definitely was fighting feeling sorry for myself after working and preparing to feel like it was all for nothing.
     
    When I woke up the next morning I went outside to watch the sun coming up and when I walked back into the house I knew I needed to focus my heart and head and found myself reaching for my autumn journal.
    I opened up to the weekly focus which I remembered was Peace, and had the thought, that it was just what I needed.
     
    I reread the words I had written many months before and allowed them to pour over my frustrated heart and emotions. I think I actually re-read the page several times just wanting to sit in scripture Philippians 4: from the message saying “don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. 
    Seemed like a good time to shape some worries into prayers…
     
    As I picked up my pen I started writing the word peace and then the words even when
     
    Peace, even when things don’t go as planned, 
     
    Peace, even when I am disappointed
     
    Peace, even when I make mistakes
     
    Peace, even when I don’t understand
     
    In no time I had filled the page with these declarations while simultaneously peace was filling my heart and mind.
     
    Nothing about my circumstances had changed…but I had.
    I had allowed into my spirit peace that passes over and supersedes my human understanding.
     
    Peace that had settled my emotions to be able to move forward with determining the next course of action I needed to take in finishing the project.
     
    I felt like I wanted to share this because I think it’s something we all face… quite frequently.
     
    And I’m pretty sure I know the thoughts like me that you are fighting in these times because for one the enemy of our souls isn’t real original in how he messes with us.  The battlefield is our mind.  And the war is replacing the lies that are flooding our minds like “this always happe
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  • Peace That Exceeds My Understanding | The SHE IS Awakening Seasonal Journal | AUTUMN - Week 10
    Happy new week! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving day, and weekend…
     
    Here we are closing out the final week in November. I don’t know about you but I’m looking forward to December and moving into the Winter season. Maybe it’s because we’ve had some chilly days and I've pulled out my sweaters that’s got me in the mood. Whatever it is I'm excited!
     
    This week's focus in the seasonal journal is PEACE.
     
    One of the prompts to think about as we move through this time is actually asking the question if you struggle with receiving peace in your life.
     
    We all walk through seasons of change and uncertainty and maybe that’s where you find yourself today as you are listening to this podcast episode. And seasons that are filled with uncertainty can CERTAINLY challenge our peace. It can feel very unsettling when life is shifting around us or we experience a loss in our lives.  Life around us keeps moving ahead as if everything is normal and we can feel like we are walking around holding it together. But there comes a point when we don’t have the ability to hold it together. It’s easy in these moments to look to something to numb the pain we are experiencing in the hopes of experiencing some kind of relief and peace. Some turn to alcohol or food or escape through binging on something on a device like shows or endless scrolling on social media…
     
    These things can distract us for a while but at the end of the day, we want to live healthy and whole.
    I love how Philippians chapter 4 from the message reads…
    6-7 Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
     
     
    There are moments when praying instead of worrying is so hard.  You don’t have the desire or the energy to shape your worries into prayers. And talk to God about what is heavy on your heart.
    But I want to encourage you if this is you to do it even when you don’t feel like it. And I’m not going to promise you that it will be instantaneously (even though it can be) but at some point, you will sense God breathing fresh life into you and hope that he is working all things for your good and your nervous system will settle down.
     
    And it’s hard to explain that haven't experienced this peace that passes our human understanding …
    Because it’s not something we can manufacture our positive think our way into
    It’s the presence of God manifested perfect peace in our spirits.
    True peace is available no matter what is happening around you.
     
    That is my hope and prayer for us as we close this month. We will get still and honest about any area we are not walking or living in peace. Areas where we are still expending mental and emotional energy trying to figure things out and it’s exhausting and it’s not getting you the peace you are so desperate for.
     
    So I want to leave you with the final journal prompt for this week.
     
    How can you be more intentional about shaping your worries into prayers?
    I pray you have a beautiful week trusting him with everything you aren’t meant to carry.
     
    Love you guys. Talk soon!
     
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Welcome friends! Are you struggling to discover your true meaning and purpose? Do you feel like there is more that you’ve been called to give but you don’t know what it could be or how to tap into it? Are you struggling with uncovering your gifts and your mission?