What do you do when you work hard on something for years of your life, you believe you're being faithful to your next right thing, and then you release your prayed for work into the world only to later learn new information that forces you to question what you worked so hard to offer? Author, pastor, and spiritual director, Jamin Goggin, had to wrestle with that very question and is here to tell the story. Listen in. Links + Resources From This Episode:

• The Way of the Dragon or The Way of the Lamb by Jamin Goggin and Kyle Strobel
• Jamin Goggin on Twitter and online
• Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a transcript of this, and every, episode at emilypfreeman.com.

Two days a year, the earth from pole to pole receives an equal distribution of light and dark, day and night. The equinox is always around this time of year — spring for those above the equator, autumn for those below. How can we be balanced on the inside even when we're in full shadow or full light? How can we bring peace to the world even in the midst of chaos? What does equanimity mean for me today? As we approach the Spring Equinox, here is a short reflection. Listen in. Links + Resources From This Episode:

• Garden Maker by Christie Purifoy
• Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a transcript of this, and every, episode at emilypfreeman.com.

We underline a quote because it mirrors, questions, or inspires something in us. But it does no good for us if we don't have a way of recording and organizing it for later use and reflection. Today I'll share my four bucket system for capturing and organizing my favorite quotes so that they might make a difference in my everyday life. Listen in. Links + Resources From This Episode:

• Say Yes by Scott Erickson
• When Everything's on Fire by Brian Zahnd
• Evernote
• The Three Battlegrounds by Francis Frangipane
• Episode 167: Spiritual Direction for Beginners
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a transcript of this and every episode at emilypfreeman.com.

As we begin the slow transition from one season to the next, let's revisit a familiar framework in another Soul Minimalist's Guide, this one specifically for spring. Listen in.

Links + Resources From This Episode:

• Episode 1: Become a Soul Minimalist
• Episode 34: Pick What You Like
• 10 Questions for Reflection & Discernment
• Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a transcript of this, and every, episode at emilypfreeman.com.

Sometimes you need someone to read to you words spoken by a sufferer in the midst of struggle, words without a filter or a reframe. Here is a simple reading of Psalm 22, a Psalm of individual lament that may perhaps be a strange kind of comfort for you if you're in the midst of your own struggle. Listen in.

Links + Resources From This Episode:

• Psalm 22, read from the Common English Bible
• Other episodes like this one: Psalm 139 and Read Psalm 23
• Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a copy of this, and every, transcript at emilypfreeman.com.

What do you do when you feel like your decisions are running counter to your bodily experience? How can you know when you are living a disembodied life? My guest today has asked (and answered) these questions and more in her years-long work as a psychologist, a researcher, an author and a teacher. Dr. Hillary McBride is the author of the new release The Wisdom of Your Body where she writes about what it means to find healing, wholeness, and connection through embodied living. Listen in. Links + Resources From This Episode:

• Dr. Hillary McBride on Instagram and online
• The Wisdom of Your Body by Dr. Hillary McBride
• Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a transcript of this, and every, episode at emilypfreeman.com.

Some rooms are not for us. Other rooms are not for us anymore. What do we do when a room we've walked into is no longer a room where we belong? Listen in. Links + Resources From This Episode:

• Episode 138: Leave It Behind
• Episode 161: Change Your Mind
• Episode 162: Is It Time To Move On?
• Episode 174: Is It Time To Quit My Job?
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• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a transcript of this, and every, episode at emilypfreeman.com.

What is the Daily Examen? How does it work? What is the purpose? And what does it have to do with discerning my next right thing? Today I'll share a spiritual practice that I've found to be personally transformative in my daily life. Listen in. Links + Resources From This Episode:

• Episode 93: Borrow Prayers
• Episode 160: The Welcoming Prayer
• Episode 207: The Prayer of St. Francis
• Episode 167: Spiritual Direction for Beginners
• Episode 178: How to Find a Spiritual Director
• Whistling in the Dark by Frederick Buechner
• Recapturing the Wonder by Mike Cosper
• The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast
• Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a transcript of this, and every, episode at emilypfreeman.com.

When I asked readers to send in their episode suggestions related to discernment and decision-making, one common thread ran through them all. Today we'll take a step back and imagine what we want even more than a right decision. Listen in.

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• Do you receive One Last Thing? If not, join the list here.
• Seasons of Your Heart by Macrina Wiederkehr
• Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a transcript of this, and every, episode at emilypfreeman.com.

What do you do when you feel like your life hasn't turned out the way you thought it would or the way you wanted it to? How do you keep going in the face of personal or vocational disappointment? My guest today has spent a lot of time not only thinking his way through the answer to that question, but he's lived his way through it and has brought us along through his own stories, questions, humor, compelling art and now, his brand new book, Say Yes. I'm delighted to sit down with Scott Erickson, an artist who is working to give us a new visual vocabulary for the spiritual journey we're all on. Listen in.

Links + Resources From This Episode:

• Say Yes by Scott Erickson (out January 25th!)
• Find Scott online and on Instagram
• Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
• Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing
• Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman
• Download a transcript of this, and every, episode at emilypfreeman.com.