The Light In Us

Chelsea Frost shares her story of burning out (in the true and complete sense, meaning she could no longer keep working), and how she got her life and energy back. She talks about the importance of boundaries, of removing addictive habits with healthy behaviors, and how a calling to serve in the nursery at her church helped her grow into a healthier place.

She is now an executive coach and specializes in helping people avoid burnout. She shares those principles in the temporal sense, but also the spiritual truths that are the core of what she teaches and shares.

She explains the importance and power of claiming our agency, of knowing our true identity, and of the second great commandment: love they neighbor as thyself, with an emphasis on self-compassion.

In the flow of the conversation, she spoke to burnout related to motherhood and walked Erin through a beautiful process about the parenting difficulty of nurturing kids with dietary challenges (ARFID - avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder).

To learn more about Chelsea's work, visit her website:

www.stopburnout.co

In this conversation, Erin and Mike talk about recent experiences of surrender – when we felt completely unable to control circumstances. Whether that's tending to a sick child and canceling all plans, or being trapped at a ski lodge without any idea of when you'll be able to drive back home.

We also discuss how important it is to surrender our sense of worth that is attached to any part of our identity that is temporary or transient, but that our worth can be anchored in our identity as children of God and everything that encompasses.

In this episode, we have a conversation with Jen Lambert, @dandelionrunner, who we've known since our newly-wed years.

Jen has an incredible story and has gleaned insights from hard-earned experience. She has had peaks in her career, her faith, motherhood, and in physical fitness (ultrarunner, marathoner), and has experienced lows with navigating divorce, doubt, single motherhood, and financial struggles.

In this open and honest conversation, Jen demonstrates the power of vulnerability and the importance of surrender – of accepting the hard things, of turning and returning to God for deeper wisdom, connection, and grace.

Happy New Year! It's a time to reflect on the year that has passed and look forward to the new.

In this episode we discuss our recent experience singing with the Millennial Choirs & Orchestras (MCO), and the beauty of music and joining together in song as a embodiment of unity.

We then delve into how we approach the new year, and what has helped and not helped in the realm of setting goals.

Erin shares her word for 2025 and what that practice has looked like for her. Mike shares his desires to set goals and intentions from a place of connection and gratitude rather than lack, ego, or pride – which have all been familiar territories.

We would love to hear from you how you approach the new year or any thoughts or feedback on the ideas shared. Feel free to comment or reach out.

In this episode, we talk about gratitude for the unexpected, the strain we sometimes feel and its purpose, weakness, the natural and physical man, and accessing God's love that in turns helps us to feel it for ourselves – inclusive of our weakness.

Erin shares a recent experience of feeling disconnected and doing the important work of discovering where she was needing to be heard, seen, and understood. In addition, she was able to identify the incredible gifts that came as a result of some of her wounds, and beautifully demonstrates how Christ makes weak things become strong.

Please note, in this episode two sacred stories are shared: one involves the suicide of a family member and the other is an experience with abuse. Specific or graphic details are not discussed, and both are shared with Christ at the center and demonstrate his healing and transcendent power.

In this powerful and vulnerable episode, Corey shares his conversion story, his recent focus on stillness, and how Christ experienced all of our suffering and overwhelming joy.

Erin recounts the sacred experience she and her family went through after her oldest sister passed due to mental illness and suicide.

Corey then shares an account of a healing experience he had which took him back to his childhood where he was the victim of an act of abuse.

We talk of the power of God that heals, the importance of sharing our sacred experiences, and the ways we move toward Zion.

See artwork by Corey Strange here:

https://www.instagram.com/corey_strange_fine_art/

@Corey_Strange_Fine_Art

In this conversation with Laura Farr, we discuss the sacredness of creativity, the creative cycle, the joy of creativity as well as the loneliness, doubt and discouragement that can emerge in the process.

Laura shares insights about the "pit" where we can get stuck or give up, and how to become gently and compassionately more aware of our own thoughts and limiting beliefs. We can utilize prayer, bridge thoughts, visualizations, and even petitioning God for help in our sleep and dreams to help us connect, create, and progress.

She reminds us that we are all creators as children of the Supreme Creator, and that we get the opportunity to connect and collaborate with God in our creative work, which in reality permeates all aspects of our lives.

To learn more about Laura and her creative coaching: https://www.laurafarrcreates.com/

In this episode, Mandy Smith shares her story from falling in love with weight training in her youth to feeling like she had to become thin based on societal and cultural expectations. She transitioned into powerlifting and became more aware of our relationship with, our judgments about, and the language we use about our bodies.

Learning how to love her body and strengths, she felt impressed to open a gym with a culture and community that is welcoming, inclusive, and counter to the undesirable norms of gym culture.

On this path, she has developed a deeper love for people in any body, to embrace the marginalized, to help others learn how to love themselves.

We continue to discuss with Joseph Brickey and Niki Covington themes of the inner child and what it means to become as a little child, rebirth and becoming new creatures, references to Joseph's and Niki's religious artwork for temples, and ideas on worship and temples.

Here is Joseph Brickey's website:

https://www.josephbrickey.com/

And Niki Covington's website:

https://nikicovington.com/

We were blessed to be joined by Joseph Brickey and Niki Covington who are each accomplished artists and have created many pieces individually and in collaboration for temples all over the world.

In our conversation, we discuss the symbolism of art and expression, the exoteric and esoteric, and Joseph shares the idea of the "mesoteric," or the bridge between them, and that Christ is the Mediator who brings all things together in one.

Insights and ideas are shared on doing the deep internal and the external work, creating sacred and safe spaces, stillness in being focused on Christ, the symbolism of the navel as related to our center and concentric growth, emptiness or nothing as representing all possibility, drawing nearer to the Lord, and more.

Here is Joseph Brickey's website:

https://www.josephbrickey.com/

And Niki Covington's website:

https://nikicovington.com/