By Teresa McCloy & Lindsay Sterchi
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Welcome to the REALIFE Practice Podcast, Season 1: Solitude. In this episode, we'll introduce the theme of solitude and explore the concept of finding quiet spaces amidst the noise of everyday life. How can we identify sources of noise that keep us from quiet, both internal and external? You'll also hear practical guidance on incorporating solitude into daily routines to foster a deeper connection with God. Even a few minutes of solitude in your day can have a big impact, so we hope this episode inspires you to incorporate this practice into your life.
Check out our FREE PDF quiz download: Quiet the Noise at www.therealifeprocess.com/solitude.
TIME STAMPS:
00:00 Welcome to the REALIFE Practice Podcast
00:33 Exploring the Practice of Solitude
01:02 Identifying Sources of Noise
04:32 Understanding Solitude Beyond Alone Time
11:44 Connecting Solitude with Community
14:53 Practical Steps to Practice Solitude
18:37 Invitation to Practice and Connect
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About Teresa McCloy:
Teresa McCloy is the founder and creator of the REALIFE Process®, a framework designed to empower individuals and groups with the tools, training, and community needed for personal and professional growth. Through the REALIFE Process®, Teresa is on a mission to help others grow in self-awareness, establish sustainable rhythms, and enhance their influence and impact by integrating faith and work into their everyday lives.
She lives with her husband of 42 years on their 5th generation family farm in central Illinois and enjoys great coffee, growing beautiful flower gardens, and spending time with her daughter, son-in-law, and first grandson. Connect with Teresa on Facebook or Instagram.
About Lindsay Sterchi:
Lindsay Sterchi is the REALIFE Practice Executive Director at the REALIFE Process®, where she leads and guides our REALIFE Practice Membership and Community. She also writes about habits and rhythms for the Mind, Body, and Soul for a holistic approach to spiritual growth and formation at lindsaysterchi.substack.com.
She lives with her husband Tyler and elementary-aged twin daughters. She has an M.A. in Transformational Leadership from Bethel Seminary, and her background is in church ministry.
When she’s not working or spending time with her family, you’re most likely to find her reading a good book. Connect with Lindsay on Facebook or Instagram.
Join hosts Teresa McCloy and Lindsay Sterchi in the premiere episode of the Real Life Practice Podcast as they reintroduce the former One Life Maps podcast under a new name. This season focuses on the practice of solitude and how to find quiet spaces in our busy lives to connect with God. The hosts share their personal experiences and insights on spiritual growth, exploring life stories, and paying attention to God in both ordinary and extraordinary moments. You'll also learn about the tools and resources they offer for integrating faith into everyday life and how to connect with their free online community.
TIME STAMP:
00:00 Welcome to the Real Life Practice Podcast
00:37 Introduction to the New Season
00:58 Reintroducing the Podcast
01:50 Exploring Spiritual Practices
03:01 Meet Your Hosts
05:24 Connecting with Us
06:10 Join Us on This Journey
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Teresa's Book Link
My new book, Do What Matters, is available NOW! Banish busyness and discover a new way of being productive around what truly matters. Learn more at DoWhatMattersBook.com.
LifeMapping Tools
Would you life to discover Life Mapping tools to help you recognize and respond to God in your Story. Check out these tools here https://www.onelifemaps.com/
JOIN OUR COMMUNITY & CONNECT WITH ME:
Become part of the FREE REALIFE Process® Community! Connect with Teresa and other podcast listeners, plus find additional content to help you discover your best REALIFE.
About Teresa McCloy:
Teresa McCloy is the founder and creator of the REALIFE Process®, a framework designed to empower individuals and groups with the tools, training, and community needed for personal and professional growth. Through the REALIFE Process®, Teresa is on a mission to help others grow in self-awareness, establish sustainable rhythms, and enhance their influence and impact by integrating faith and work into their everyday lives. She lives with her husband of 42 years on their 5th generation family farm in central Illinois and enjoys great coffee, growing beautiful flower gardens and her
About Lindsay Sterchi
Lindsay Sterchi is the REALIFE Practice Executive Director at the REALIFE Prcess® where she leads and guides our REALIFE Practice Membership and Community. She also shares her life story on the substack platform at https://lindsaysterchi.substack.com/. Years ago, she began to experience the power of spiritual practices. Things like solitude and silence, journaling, and exploring my inner life with God.
As an introvert who felt most alive when I spent time alone, I thought I needed lots of time and space for reflection in order to grow spiritually.
But as I got older and life got fuller–with the addition of kids and work and the normal, everyday stress of life–I found that I couldn’t just rely on quiet times to sustain me. I had to discover how to grow in the chaos too.
We are excited to let you know that oneLife Maps will have a new home with the REALIFE Process® and Teresa McCloy’s stellar team.
Our teams have had both personal and professional connections for years and we want to share what this move means for you, and why the REALIFE Process® is something we think you’ll be intrigued by, both for yourself and for those whom you serve.
Listen in to this conversation Sibyl and Sharon recently had with Teresa McCloy, founder of the REALIFE Process®, and Lindsay Sterchi from the REALIFE Process® team.
In this conversation, you’ll learn:
Whether you start with the maps or the components of the REALIFE Process®, these tools work well together and complement one another in helping one to discover and live out what truly matters to them. We are thrilled to see how this partnership continues to develop, so stay tuned for what’s to come!
We’d love for you to learn more about the REALIFE Process®. You can visit their website HERE. You can also check out their 15-minute documentary film where you’ll hear Teresa’s story, how the REALIFE Process® began and developed, plus how their Certified Facilitators are using the Process in the work that they do.
As always, you can continue to find everything you need for oneLife Maps at our website.
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oneLife Maps is, at its core, interested in helping people to recognize and respond to God in their stories. There is so much to be said on the topic of life story as a spiritual practice that we recorded a second episode on the topic that moves in a different direction. I hope you enjoy this one, too.
If you have engaged in 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual life mapping, you'll see that this conversation relates directly to the bottom line on the 'My Life Story' map, where you are asked to consider how you have noticed God, or viewed who God is over the course of your life. This conversation is a great way to help you sort out what stories you have been handed about who you are and who God is -- and prayerfully decide what to take with you, and what to leave behind.
Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.
Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support
We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?
Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.
Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.
We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.
If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.
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Sharon Swing hosts a conversation with Jodi Niznik about the life of Moses and her new study, Choose.
Jodie Niznik is Adult Ministries Pastor at Irving Bible Church in Irving, Texas. She holds a master’s degree in Christian education with an emphasis in women’s ministry from Dallas Theological Seminary and has served in various pastoral roles in the church. Jodie is the author of Choose: A Study of Moses for a Life That Matters, and coauthor with Sue Edwards of Galatians: Discovering Freedom in Christ Through Daily Practice.
Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.
Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support
We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?
Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.
Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.
We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.
If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.
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Jim Brule is a Maggid, a trainer of story-tellers from the Jewish tradition and an End-of-Life Dula. His passion is transformational storytelling -- the art of thought-provoking wisdom-sharing. Listen in as Sharon Swing talks to Jim about how stories connect, transform and heal us.
You can learn more about Jim at http://www.transformationalstorytelling.org and listen to stories from many tellers on his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/PowerfulStorytelling
Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.
Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support
We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?
Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.
Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.
We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.
If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.
Equipment
We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:
Recorder
Microphones
Microphone Stands
Headset
Microphone Wind Screens
Headset Extension Cords
Headset Cable Splitter
The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.
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Thomas A'Kempis wisely stated that 'an unexamined life is destined to repeat itself.' What does that mean and what can we learn from the act of examining ourselves and our life stories? Join Host Sharon Swing as she talks it thru with Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley.
If you have engaged in 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual life mapping, you'll see that this conversation relates directly to the bottom line on the 'My Life Story' map, where you are asked to consider how you have noticed God, or viewed who God is over the course of your life. This conversation is a great way to help you sort out what stories you have been handed about who you are and who God is -- and prayerfully decide what to take with you, and what to leave behind.
Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.
Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support
We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?
Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.
Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.
We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.
If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.
Equipment
We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:
Recorder
Microphones
Microphone Stands
Headset
Microphone Wind Screens
Headset Extension Cords
Headset Cable Splitter
The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Self-Awareness proceeds God-Awareness in the spiritual life. We may have picked up the idea that self-awareness is somehow not considered spiritual. Listen in as Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley join host, Sharon Swing to discuss the importance of self-awareness in the spiritual life.
If you have engaged in 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual life mapping, you'll see that this conversation relates directly to the bottom line on the 'My Life Story' map, where you are asked to consider how you have noticed God, or viewed who God is over the course of your life. This conversation is a great way to help you sort out what stories you have been handed about who you are and who God is -- and prayerfully decide what to take with you, and what to leave behind.
Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.
Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support
We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?
Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.
Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.
We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.
If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.
Equipment
We've had some questions about our podcasting equipment. Here is what we use:
Recorder
Microphones
Microphone Stands
Headset
Microphone Wind Screens
Headset Extension Cords
Headset Cable Splitter
The links in this episode may give us a minuscule amount of affiliate revenue from Amazon, but they won't cost you anything at all. Thanks for the support.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
oneLife Maps is, at its core, interested in helping people to recognize and respond to God in their stories.
If you have engaged in 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual life mapping, you'll see that this conversation relates directly to the bottom line on the 'My Life Story' map, where you are asked to consider how you have noticed God, or viewed who God is over the course of your life. This conversation is a great way to help you sort out what stories you have been handed about who you are and who God is -- and prayerfully decide what to take with you, and what to leave behind.
Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.
Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support
We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?
Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.
Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.
We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.
If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Host, Sharon Swing, welcomes Keith Anderson to the podcast to discuss his book:
Reading Your Life’s Story: An Invitation to Spiritual Mentoring:
Spiritual mentoring is a particular kind of friendship in which, according to Keith R. Anderson, "two or more people walk together in heightened awareness of the presence of yet Another"―the Holy Spirit. "Spiritual mentoring is not a complicated process that requires technical training and complex protocol," Anderson continues. "It is essential, authentic, and maybe even natural human speech that is focused, disciplined and nurtured by training for one of the hardest natural things we do: listening reflectively to another. It is sacred companionship as life is lived and story told. Available to almost all, it requires deliberate recruitment, preparation and practice." These pages unfold a vision for mentoring that invites us to read our own lives as narrative and to learn how to enter the narrative of another life. The book covers the scope of the mentoring relationship through various seasons, offering helpful and inspiring metaphors for mentoring. All are invited to enter the mentoring story.
oneLife Maps is, at its core, interested in helping people to recognize and respond to God in their stories. The seven lies Darrell talks about invitations to consider how a few shifts in perspective on how we think about God and faith effect our ways of being in the world. You don't have to agree with everything he says to appreciate the deep thinking that has led Darrell and others to a healthy spirituality that prioritizes love as its highest value.
If you have engaged in 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual life mapping, you'll see that this conversation relates directly to the bottom line on the 'My Life Story' map, where you are asked to consider how you have noticed God, or viewed who God is over the course of your life. This conversation is a great way to help you sort out what stories you have been handed about who you are and who God is -- and prayerfully decide what to take with you, and what to leave behind.
Please explore www.onelifemaps.com to download a free introduction booklet to 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story,' that contains the artwork we refer to in this episode. You can purchase your 'Listen to My Life' portfolio on that website, too.
Audio Meditations as a Thank You for Your Support
We're on a mission to help people recognize and respond to God in their story. Will you help?
Our Patreon subscription, at http://www.patreon.com/onelifemaps offers you access to recorded audio meditations that are created to assist you in becoming self-aware and God-aware.
Sibyl Towner and I (Sharon Swing), co-authored the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual maps, and we produce the oneLifemaps podcast along with our friend and Director of Facilitator Development, Joan Kelley.
We are offering you the opportunity to support the continuation of the oneLifemaps podcast and the publishing of 'Listen to My Life' in and weekly audio meditations as a token of our appreciation.
If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The podcast currently has 86 episodes available.