In this deeply personal and thought-provoking solo episode, Kelsey explores faith as a foundational pillar of life, not as religion, doctrine, or behavior, but as relationship and lived experience.She unpacks faith as the bridge between the natural and the supernatural. Faith is not about rules or church attendance. It is not performance-based or forced. Instead, it is the sacred connection to the “I Am,” the presence of God within and around us.Kelsey shares her personal faith journey as a Christian who does not associate with a specific denomination, emphasizing that faith is deeply personal, relational, and sacred. She reflects on scripture from Ephesians, Hebrews, Matthew, and James to illuminate how faith is not passive belief but active engagement. Faith without action is dormant. Faith is meant to move us, shape us, and guide us.Throughout the episode, Kelsey discusses:• Faith as belief and foundation• Faith as activation and action• Faith as co-creation with God• Faith as a filter that shapes how we see life• Faith as rest, trust, and surrender• Faith in seasons of waiting and wilderness• Faith in tragedy and unanswered questions• Faith as wellness for the soul, mind, and bodyWith powerful personal stories, including conversations with her son about eternal value and reflections on the hymn “It Is Well,” Kelsey reminds listeners that faith is not about being right. It is about being rooted.• Faith gives confidence to act and humility to surrender.• Faith builds resilience.• Faith anchors peace.• Faith allows us to rest in the assurance that God is God, and we are not.This episode invites listeners to examine their own faith journey with grace and curiosity, and to rediscover faith not as religion, but as relationship.Learn more about Kelsey Mercer and Kelsey's courses, challenges and membership site at https://kelseymercer.com #kelseymercer #Faith #StrongFaith #InnerCircle #wellnessjourney

In this powerful and deeply honest episode, Kelsey sits down with Dr. Christina Hibbert, licensed clinical psychologist, author, speaker, mother of six, and breast cancer survivor, to redefine what strength really looks like when life breaks you open.

Dr. Hibbert shares her raw journey through devastating loss, chronic illness, and a cancer diagnosis that required multiple surgeries, while navigating motherhood, marriage, and faith in the middle of it all. Together, Kelsey and Dr. Hibbert talk about resilience fatigue, why “trying softer” is sometimes the bravest thing we can do, and how healing cannot be rushed.

This conversation is for women who are tired of pushing, tired of pretending, and longing for a more compassionate, faith-rooted approach to healing, motherhood, and purpose.

• Why traditional ideas of resilience often lead to burnout

• What it means to “try softer” instead of always pushing through

• How grief and illness reshape identity, faith, and motherhood

• Why families heal better when they feel together

• How vulnerability strengthens relationships with our children

• How purpose can emerge from life’s hardest seasons

Notable Quotes:

“You can’t rush healing. Healing has its own timeline.”
“Families that feel together can heal together.”
“Strength doesn’t always look like pushing forward. Sometimes it looks like resting.”

Dr. Christina Hibbert is a licensed clinical psychologist, author of This Is How We Grow, and the upcoming book Reluctant Warrior. Her work centers on emotional health, grief, resilience, and helping women find hope and meaning through life’s most difficult experiences.

Previously known as OUR FIRESIDES, Walk The Line has a similar mission of inspiring and empowering people to lead with unwavering conviction authentically committed to principle based living.

Preston introduces his vision of sharing real life stories, struggles and successes of walking the line as a wild land firefighter for 30 years, Arizona/Mexico hunting guide for 25 years, father for 20+ years and husband for 25 years.

Kelsey shares how she will bring her experience as a healer, Pilates Instructor, Life Coach and business owner as well as mother of 6, wife and survivor or trauma, trials and triumphs that have formed a mindset of connecting our mind, body and spirit to all that we are and do daily.

Together they will bring real life experience from their professional and personal backgrounds to share how they have raised a family of 6 children; including 3 young men who themselves have become successful entrepreneurs while thriving in life by living intentionally every day to create the legacy you want to be remembered by and most of all the makes an impact!

On this week's podcast we are joined by our 3 teenage boys to share some real life experiences during a recent adventure guiding coues deer hunts for 3 weeks in Mexico with their dad, Preston Mercer and guide, Jay Scott Outdoors.  They share some insight into what life looks and feels like as they learn to function as young men when put to a variety of tests in challenging situations.  They discuss real life scenarios and situations that reveal what and how life functions in the ordinary and extraordinary.  

Did you ever consider the very fact that our reliability on God for everything including our next breath proves EGO is bogus?

Have you ever thought about how God can rely on you- are you consistently reliable to replicate the same results of good or bad functioning in life, work, relationships?

How do people rely on your abilities to improve their life, function and prosperity? Who and what are YOU relying on?

If 2020 revealed the roots of our reliability we must ask what will the days of 2021 look like moment to moment… day to day? Are we going to rely on the government, people, ourselves or GOD to keep us healthy, happy and functioning at our best everyday?

All of life is training ground for what's ahead and 2020 was no different!  The difference is…. same training different results.  So, we must ask ourselves,  Does what I rely on today look different than yesterday? How can I be more reliable for the things that truly matter and make a difference in a well lived and loved life.

God formed us and brought us forth from our mothers womb completely reliant on Him and in truth not much changes to the day we die other than the temptation to falsely hope and rely on anything but God for the sustaining power and strength we need for this world!

Join us as we dig deeper into 3 areas of reliability in a well functioning and purposeful life.

The choice is ours… To stay in the shame of regret and guilt or ask for wisdom to design and define our life from the lessons learned.  The mindset that transforms regret and guilt into action and accountability comes from acknowledging where we are on the journey with a commitment to where we are going. In this podcast I share practical ways I’ve learned how to use regret as a reset to learn and grow from disappointment rather than allow the enemy to destroy future work.  When we understand the opportunity we have to redeem what was meant to be stolen in regret and guilt, we can gain deeper insight into the direction God has for us in restoration, reconciliation and renewal.

The sacred space of regret and or guilt can be a healing place of humility and malleability, where God refines and defines our purpose and His plan.

It’s January and the familiar, sometimes rote and most often times sincere wishes of a  “Happy New Year”  are exchanged.  Yet after our epic 2020, when we are honest many of us are wondering will it be a Happy or A Happy Crappy New Year?  Can I really feel happy?  If I felt “happy” would everything be better? 

Preston and I jump right in and share why we are convinced it is not just the “happy” we really want and long for, but the fulfilled life.  Happy is an emotional state of “high” that comes and goes, but a fulfilled life is the measure of it ALL taken into account.  It's the perspective of the ups and down, rather than the steady linear line that we think we want and need in order to experience the “good life” everyone else portrays to have, if I choose to see the down as an opportunity to move up and in the up I enjoy the moments of celebration and grace God has given,  then that is the fulfilled life I want. 

So though we know the new normal and uncomfortable state of reality does not quite feel like "happy" we move on with the passing smile or grin covering over the brokenness within, a time when the masks leave the unanswered questions ok.  

We have 2 Focus Mindsets to choose: 

1) Disappointed it's not the "happy" life I imagined I would live.  Everything, everyone and everyday is a repeat of yesterday, just worse. 

2) Each day is a gift scattered with moments of happiness and disappointment.  I choose to maintain a position of hope that I can put my trust in God, learn more of who I am, whose I am, who He is and my purpose in this world.  This is the journey of the fulfilled life even when.....