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Chapters:

0:00 Welcome & Sacred Space Invitation

1:18 Week 8 Theme: Awakening To Life

2:16 Observations of Seasonal Living

4:07 Prompts To Pray & Process

5:12 Season of Now

5:59 Natural Observation

6:56 Sacred Awareness

7:54 90 Days of Intention — Week 8

8:19 The God Who Designed and Formed You

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Spring | Week 8 — Awakening to Life

What if the thing you thought was dead... wasn't?

In this week's journal reflection, we're sitting with one of the most tender and powerful invitations of the spring season — the call to awaken to life. Not a cautious, tiptoeing kind of life. A bold, resurrection-fueled, childlike-wonder kind of life.

Romans 8:15 (The Message) reminds us that the life we've been given through God isn't about grave-tending. It's about running toward Him with a wide-open, "What's next, Papa?"

In this episode, I'm gently asking you to lay down the weight of tired hoping — tired of waiting for things to change in your relationships, your work, your world — and instead open your hands to the One who specializes in bringing dead things back to life.

This week we explore:

• Why growth requires both light and shadow
• How surrender opens pathways to peace that striving never could
• What it looks like to live with holy expectancy instead of quiet resignation
• The questions worth sitting with: What is dead in you that God wants to breathe new life into?

Reflection Prompts for Your Journal:

• Are you living a resurrected life — or are you still bound up in fear?
• What has the season around you been trying to teach your soul?
• Where are you sensing awakening stirring within you?

This isn't about perfection. It's about presence. Come as you are. Let's awaken together.

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Chapters:

0:00 Welcome & Sacred Space Invitation

1:16 Week 7 Theme: Faith + Trust

2:12 Observations of Seasonal Living

4:27 Prompts To Pray & Process

5:41 Season of Now

6:20 Natural Observation

7:31 Sacred Awareness

8:31 90 Days of Intention — Week 7

8:59 The God Who Designed and Formed You

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Show Notes | Week 7: Faith & Trust

Season: Spring  |  Theme: Navigating the unseen with trust and faith

In this week’s reflection, we’re sitting with one of the most tender invitations of the spiritual journey — learning to trust what we cannot yet see. Drawing from Hebrews 11:1 and the sacred imagery of seeds hidden in dark soil, this episode gently guides you into a deeper place of faith: the kind that doesn’t require evidence before it believes.

Susan shares a deeply personal reflection on pregnancy and the miracle of unseen life — and how those quiet, hidden seasons mirror our own spiritual growth. Sometimes the most significant things God is doing in us begin long before we have any visible proof.

• Why growth begins before visibility — and why that’s okay

• The parallel between carrying a child and carrying a dream

• How trust must come before tangible evidence

• Releasing comparison — tending your own garden

• The invitation to co-labor with the God who formed you

“Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.”

— Hebrews 11:1

• Do you find it hard to accept that growth is happening even when you can’t see it?

• Are you living by faith, or only by what your eyes can confirm?

• What area of your life is calling you to trust the unseen?

• Where do you notice underground stirrings of hope?

• How will you celebrate growth — both seen and unseen — this week?

Find a quiet moment. Light a candle if you wish. Take three slow, deep breaths. And in that sacred pause — let yourself simply be. You don’t have to strive for growth today. You only have to trust the One who planted the seeds.

Episode OverviewWhat We Explore This WeekScripture FocusJournal Prompts to Carry With YouThis Week’s Invitation

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Chapters:

0:00 Welcome & Sacred Space Invitation

1:18 Week 6 Theme: Watering + Waiting

2:14 Observations of Seasonal Living

4:33 Prompts To Pray & Process

5:34 Season of Now

6:21 Natural Observation

7:34 Sacred Awareness

8:34 90 Days of Intention — Week 6

9:01 The God Who Designed and Formed You

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She Is Awakening Seasonal Journal Series | SPRING | Week 6

Watering + Waiting

What if the waiting is the work?

This week we're sitting with one of the most countercultural invitations of the spiritual life — the call to keep showing up faithfully, even when nothing visible is growing yet. Week 6 of the Spring journal brings us into the quiet, sacred practice of watering and waiting: tending what God has planted in us, even when we can't see it breaking through the soil.

I share something personal in this episode — a lesson I wish I'd learned earlier. There were seasons where I allowed the opinions and expectations of others to pull me away from the seeds God had placed inside me. Instead of nurturing them, I let them wither. Instead of trusting what I knew deep down was true, I reached for fruit that was more accessible, more immediate — and it never quite satisfied.

Galatians 6:9 has become an anchor for me: "Do not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."

That promise is for you, too.

In this episode:

• Why transformation happens in hidden spaces — and why that's actually good news
• The difference between passive waiting and active faithfulness
• How to recognize when you're rushing what actually needs more time
• Reflective prompts to help you notice where patience is being cultivated in you right now

Journal prompts from this week:

• Where am I rushing what needs more time?
• How long am I willing to water and wait to see the growth I was created for?
• Where is patience being cultivated in me?

The God who designed and formed you knows you better than you know yourself. He planted the seeds of His image uniquely in you — and He is faithful to complete what He started.

Don't give up on what He's growing.

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Chapters:

0:00 Welcome & Sacred Space Invitation

1:22 Week 5 Theme: Seeds + Planting

2:30 Observations of Seasonal Living

4:28 Prompts To Pray & Process

5:47 Season of Now

6:25 Natural Observation

7:16 Sacred Awareness

8:25 90 Days of Intention — Week 5

8:53 The God Who Designed and Formed You

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Episode intro

What if the quiet season you're in right now isn't a sign that something's wrong — but evidence that something sacred is happening beneath the surface? In this week's journal reflection, we're sitting with the tender wisdom of seeds and planting: the divine invitation to rest, be nourished, and trust the underground work of God in your life.

In this episode

Week 5 of the She is Awakening Seasonal Journal Series explores what it looks like to surrender to a dormant season — and why the hidden places are often where God does His most transformative work. Susan shares her personal journey of releasing the illusion of control and finding freedom in trusting the rhythm of her life to the One who holds the seasons.

"For everything there is a season." — Ecclesiastes 3:1

Key themes

• Why dormant seasons are not wasted seasons

• God's timing is about deep preparation, not speed

• The freedom that comes from surrendering control

• Sowing with intention and trusting the harvest to God

• How underground growth produces richer fruit

Journal prompts from this episode

• Are you frustrated with the season you find yourself in?

• Where are you being invited to rest and absorb?

• How can you honor sacred pause right now?

• If this season were speaking to your soul, what might it be trying to teach you?

• Where can you practice non-anxious waiting?

• What subtle shifts or underground stirrings do you sense in your life?

90-day intention check-in (week 5)

• Growth: Where did I stretch myself this week?

• Reflection: Where am I seeing the parallel between natural and spiritual growth?

• Celebration: How will I celebrate the growth?

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Chapters:

0:00 Welcome & Sacred Space Invitation

1:13 Week 4 Theme: Beauty + Goodness

2:26 Observations of Seasonal Living

4:43 Prompts To Pray & Process

6:02 Season of Now

6:44 Natural Observation

7:41 Sacred Awareness

8:40 90 Days of Intention — Week 4

9:06 The God Who Designed and Formed You

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Beauty & Goodness: Learning to See What's Already There

What if the life you've been longing for is already surrounding you — and you've simply forgotten how to see it?

In this week's Journey Reflection, we slow down to explore one of the most quietly transformative practices of seasonal living: the discipline of noticing. When we become too familiar with our surroundings, we can grow blind to the wonders unfolding right before us. Week Four invites you to open your heart and eyes again — to the curve of a loved one's smile, the laughter of children, the faithfulness of a friend, the golden light of a spring morning.

This isn't about manufacturing gratitude. It's about expanding your capacity to receive what God has already placed in your path.

In this episode, you'll be invited to:

• Practice the profound difference between seeing and truly perceiving
• Explore sensory awareness as a spiritual practice — light, sound, texture, scent
• Reflect on where you may be overlooking God's goodness in your everyday life
• Develop a more attentive, receiving heart
• Consider how you can extend beauty and goodness to someone else this week

Reflective prompts to carry with you:

• Where are you overlooking the goodness of God in your life?
• How can you develop a more attentive heart?
• In what way can you extend beauty and goodness to someone this week?
• What stopped you in wonder this week?
• Where do you sense a holy invitation in what you see?

This week's practice: Photograph or sketch one moment of unexpected beauty. Let it be a sacred act of witnessing.

"Life is so abundant, even with all its imperfections. There's always so much goodness waiting to be seen — if we just slow down and let it in."

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Chapters:

0:00 Welcome & Sacred Space Invitation

1:22 Week 3 Theme: Recognizing Change

2:13 Observations of Seasonal Living

4:26 Prompts To Pray & Process

5:51 Season of Now

7:24 Natural Observation

7:43 Sacred Awareness

8:38 90 Days of Intention — Week 3

9:07 The God Who Designed and Formed You

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Recognizing Change | Spring Journal Series · Week 3

Change is all around us — in the shifting light of a spring morning, in the tender green buds pushing through bare branches, and quietly, in us. But how often do we actually stop to notice it?

In this week's journal reflection, we're exploring what it means to recognize change — not the kind we plan and initiate ourselves, but the kind that arrives unbidden, asking us to stay present and pay attention. Because the truth is, we can love the idea of change and still resist the reality of it.

Through sensory observation, honest reflection, and prayerful prompts, this episode invites you to pause in the in-between — that sacred threshold where winter hasn't fully released and spring hasn't fully arrived — and ask yourself what God might be doing in the seasons of your own life.

• How clinging to the past creates longing — and how those same memories can ignite hope

• Why we sometimes equate change with loss, even when it isn't

• The difference between change we control and change that calls us to surrender

• Sensory journaling prompts rooted in the sights, sounds, and textures of spring

• Sacred awareness practices: noticing wonder, divine detail, and the Spirit's quiet movement

• A closing reflection on God's faithfulness to complete what He started in you

• Where do I notice subtle shifts happening around and within me?

• Where am I resisting change in my life?

• Where did I witness change without needing to control it?

• If this season were speaking to my soul right now, what might it be trying to teach me?

• How will I celebrate the growth happening in me?

"The God who designed and formed you knows you better than you know yourself. Your Creator planted the seeds of His image uniquely in you and does co-labor with you in revealing the beauty of His goodness and mercy in the world. He desires to walk with you through every season and is faithful to complete what He started in you."

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In This Episode
Journal Prompts From This Episode
This Week's Reflection

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Chapters:

0:00 Welcome & Sacred Space Invitation

1:22 Week 2 Theme: Welcome Spring

2:42 Observations of Sacred Clearing

3:00 Sensory Notes

3:19 Holding On To Things

5:23 Prompts to Prayerfully Process

6:43 Season of Now

7:24 Natural Observation

8:17 Sacred Awareness

9:04 90 Days of Intention — Week 2

9:25 The God Who Designed and Formed You

Podcast Show Notes

Episode Title: Week 2 — Welcome Spring

Series: Spring Journal Reflections | She Is Awakening Seasonal Journal

Spring is calling — and it's not just an invitation to open the windows and rearrange the furniture. In this week's journal reflection, we step into the sacred art of clearing: releasing the old thoughts, worn-out habits, and hidden fears that have quietly gathered in the corners of our hearts. Just as a garden must be tended before it can bloom, so must we. This episode gently guides you to create space — physically, spiritually, and emotionally — so that something truly beautiful can take root in this new season.

• The spiritual significance of spring as a season of sacred clearing

• Why letting go can feel so scary — and what it reveals about our inner world

• How our physical spaces mirror what's happening inside us

• Decluttering beyond the closet — including our digital spaces and mental energy

• Making space as an act of faith and co-creation with God

• What needs decluttering in my life right now?

• Which weeds am I holding onto out of fear?

• How can I create space for new growth in this season?

• What stopped me in wonder this week?

• What small moment this week felt like a love note from God?

• Growth: Where did I stretch myself this week?

• Reflection: What am I learning to be in this season?

• Celebration: How will I honor the growth I've experienced?

The God who designed and formed you knows you better than you know yourself. He planted the seeds of His image uniquely in you and desires to co-labor with you in revealing His goodness to the world. He is faithful to complete what He started in you — in every season.

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Week 1 | Life Is Seasons

Welcome to Week 1 of our Spring Journal Reflection Series. In this opening episode, we step into one of the most foundational truths woven throughout the She Is Awakening seasonal journey — life is seasons.

Whether you're listening on a walk, tucked into your favorite corner, or stealing a quiet moment between the busyness of your day, this space is yours. Come as you are.

What We Explore in This Episode

This week's reflection invites you to consider the rhythms of your own life through the lens of seasonal living. Just as nature moves through spring, summer, autumn, and winter without resistance, we are invited to do the same — to stop fighting our current season and begin finding the sacred gifts hidden within it.

Susan shares her own evolving relationship with the seasons — her love of autumn's cozy exhale, spring's fresh awakening, and the honest struggle of navigating the heat of summer. Through her personal reflection, she points us to the deeper truth: the more we resist where we are, the more we amplify unnecessary pain. But when we surrender our seasons to the One who holds them all, something supernatural happens.

Key Truths from This Week

• Growth requires both light and shadow

• Resistance amplifies difficulty — surrender opens pathways to peace

• Each season carries hidden gifts, even the hard ones

• The barren tree doesn't fear its emptiness — it trusts the awakening that lies within winter's rest

• Your personal seasons don't always align with the natural world, and that is okay

This Week's Journal Prompts

Prayerfully sit with these questions as you open your journal this week:

• What season do you find yourself in right now?

• Is your heart and mind focused on a past season, or fixed on a future one?

• Where might you find beauty if you stopped resisting and surrendered to the season you're in?

• What does the natural world outside your window reflect about where you are spiritually?

• Where do you feel resistance — and where might God be inviting you into deeper trust?

Sensory Practice

Begin with a quiet moment. Light a candle if you wish. Take three slow, deep breaths — and with each exhale, release the busyness around you and within you. Let your whole being settle into this sacred space.

Then ask: What season surrounds you right now? What do you see? What do you feel? What do you hear? If this season were speaking to your soul, what might it be trying to teach you?

90-Day Intention Check-In — Week 1

• Growth: Where did I stretch myself this week?

• Reflection: Where am I seeing the parallel between natural and spiritual growth?

• Celebration: How will I honor and celebrate what I'm discovering?

The God who designed and formed you knows you better than you know yourself. He planted the seeds of His image uniquely in you — and He desires to walk with you through every season, faithful to complete what He started in you.

This is your sacred collaboration.

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In This Video

• 00:00 – Welcome & Sacred Space

• 01:32 – Week 13: The Next Season

• 03:04 – Observations of Seasonal Living

• 04:00 – Personal Reflection on Thirteen Weeks Together

• 05:25 – Prompts to Prayerfully Process

• 06:50 – Season of Now (Guided Meditation)

• 08:19 – Natural Observation

• 09:52 – Sacred Awareness & Journal Prompts

• 11:02 – 90 Days of Intention: Week 13

PODCAST SHOW NOTES
Episode Description

We’ve arrived at the threshold. After thirteen weeks of wintering together — of learning to rest in the dark, discover identity in stillness, and trust God’s hidden work — we now stand at the tender edge between one season and the next.

This final Winter Journal Reflection is an invitation to carry what you’ve gathered. Not to rush toward spring, but to move with the patient rhythm of seasons, trusting that everything winter has worked in you is exactly what you’ll need for what comes next.

• Honoring the sacred threshold between winter’s rest and spring’s renewal

• What preparation really looks like — both practically and spiritually

• How nature teaches us to transition with patience and confidence

• Carrying forward the gifts of this season: stillness, identity, and trust

• A closing prayer and guided reflection for stepping into what’s next

This week’s journal prompts invite you to pause and prayerfully process the transition:

What are the most important gifts winter has given you that you want to carry into the next season?

How do you sense God preparing your heart for what lies ahead, even if you can’t see it clearly yet?

What would it look like to transition from winter to the next season with both gratitude and hope?

You are not walking into your next season alone. Not even a little bit. The God who met you in winter’s darkness will be with you in every season ahead — He’s already there, preparing the way.

Here’s to what’s coming, dear friend — new growth, unexpected beauty, and all that God has for you. I’m cheering you on every step of the way.

• She Is Awakening Winter Seasonal Journal

• Weekly winter reflection audio series (Weeks 1–13)

• Coming soon: Spring Companion Journal

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Chapters:

0:00 Welcome & Sacred Space Invitation

1:32 Week 12 Theme: Reflections

3:19 Observations of Seasonal Living

3:45 Sensory Notes

4:15 A Spark of Light in the Dark

5:50 Prompts to Prayerfully Process

7:18 Season of Now — Stillness Practice

8:40 Natural Observation

10:12 Sacred Awareness

11:27 90 Days of Intention — Week 12 Growth

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Week 12 | Reflections — Looking Back with Honest Eyes and a Grateful Heart

As we arrive at Week 12 of the Winter Journal Reflection series, we step into one of the most sacred invitations of this season: the practice of holy reflection. Not striving, not analyzing — but pausing with courageous honesty and gentle grace to ask, "Where have I seen God's hand in this journey?"

Winter is the perfect mirror. Still water. Bare trees. Crystalline light. In this episode, we slow down and allow the quiet of the season to create space for your soul to reflect — on the lessons learned, the growth that happened in hidden places, and the faithfulness of a God who is always, always at work within you.

Some reflections will bring gratitude. Some will bring grief. Many will bring both. And all of them are sacred when held in the context of divine love.

This week, we'll walk through reflective prompts, a guided stillness practice, natural observation, and journal questions — all designed to help you harvest the wisdom of this winter season and carry it forward into what comes next.

✦  Why winter is the ideal season for holy reflection

✦  The difference between reflection as striving vs. reflection as spiritual practice

✦  A guided still-water meditation to quiet your heart and see clearly

✦  Prompts to help you prayerfully process the lessons of your winter season

✦  How to see God's faithfulness woven into even the hard and hidden seasons

✦  A closing reminder that the One who designed you is faithful to complete what He started

This episode pairs with Week 12 of the She Is Awakening Winter Pages Journal. Grab your copy to go deeper with the prompts, sensory reflections, and 90-Day Intention section featured in today's episode. [Link to journal]

"Reflection transforms experience into wisdom and memory into Thanksgiving."