the REALIFE Practice Podcast

Reflecting on your current circumstances is a way to step back and get perspective that may help bring clarity, direction -- and more importantly a way to pause to let God get a word in edgewise. Consider your lingering question as a question you might pose to God about your life right now.

Listen in as Sharon Swing and Joan Kelley talk thru the 'My Life Now' visual map, which is the first of eight in the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' portfolio.

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.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

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Listen as Sharon Swing and Joan Kelley talk thru the 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' portfolio.

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.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

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Self-awareness comes in many packages. In this case, self-awareness comes in the form of a children's book.

Joy Bork joins Sharon Swing and Joan Kelley for a conversation around Scaredy Squirrel, by Mélanie Watt. Joy was gifted this book by a friend, who shares similar ways of being in the world, while Joy was in the midst of a job transition. Joy shares a bit of her inner world, and how she is learning to recognize patterns of thought and behavior and make choices about how to respond. I think you'll enjoy the ride.

We highly recommend that you see the pictures in the book, which can be found on " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amazon as a physical book or eBook.

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.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th, 2019.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

*We earn a minuscule commission on your purchase if you use the link above to purchase the books mentioned.

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"Listening is the art of creating space, so God can do His work in the heart of another." Sharon Swing

This idea of listening to another in service to them is not how we normally listen. What might it look like? What kind of potential is there in taking this posture, and what might we also experience as we get a front-row seat to the transforming power of God's love in another.

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.

Join us for an upcoming Virtual Coaching Group starting January 28th or 29th, and the Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

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LISTEN TO MY LIFE is a unique visual tool that becomes an on-ramp to conversations with yourself, God, and trusted others in reviewing your past, assessing your present and continuing to joyfully and courageously walk with God into your future. The goal is to help you recognize and respond to God in the midst of your story.

As you invite God into the process and document your story, desires, observations and plans in words, phrases, and pictures, you may sense God providing fresh insights, questions or specific direction by helping you to:

• CLARIFY your desires

• DISCERN how your life story impacts the way you live today and your choices for tomorrow
• UNDERSTAND yourself and your part in God’s larger story

• DECIDE what you might do to live a life that is a more full expression of who God created you to be
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THIS ADVENTURE IS BEST SHARED with a friend, coach, counselor, small group, class mates, spiritual director or mentor to help you respond to God as you pay attention to what your life story can tell you.

LISTEN TO MY LIFE may be self-guided, or facilitated; used in a workshop, retreat, class, as a part of a larger curriculum, as a helpful tool in counseling, coaching or spiritual direction.

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.

Join us for an upcoming Virtual Coaching Group starting January 28th or 29th, and the Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

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Who are you, really? Can you take in the reality that you are a treasured child of the Most High God? What if your identity was solidly rooted in this truth? Would it make a difference? How can you begin to take in the mystery of your true identity?

Sharon Swing, Co-Author of 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' life-mapping materials and Executive Director of oneLife Maps, along with Joan Kelley, Director of Facilitator Development discuss this topic in a way that invites you to consider this perspective that may just change your life.

Find out more about life-mapping with 'Listen to My Life' at www.onelifemaps.com and be sure to download your free introduction booklet while you are there.

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Sharon Swing, Co-Author of 'Listen to My Life' and Executive Director of oneLife Maps and Joan Kelley, Director of Facilitator Development discuss how you might know you are ready for life-mapping using 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story.'

Might you resonate with any of these statements?

• you are seeking God in a deeper way and desire to rediscover who you are through His eyes.
• you have thought, “I don’t know myself anymore.”
• you wonder, “Is there something more?”
• you stand at a crossroads in life and ask, “Which way will lead me toward more of who I am made to be?
• you are looking for a way to understand the restlessness that you feel inside.
• you are relationally at odds with yourself or others in ways that have ties to your past.

Please find out more by exploring our website at www.onelifemaps.com. You can download the 'Listen to My Life' Introduction booklet there.

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Sibyl Towner shares her story and how she traces the activity of God in her every day In ways that are influenced by her unique design and the spiritual practice of reviewing her life story. Accompanied by Sharon Swing and Joan Kelley.

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.

Join us for the 'Listen to My Life' Facilitator Certification Workshop a live event in the Chicago suburbs April 8, 9 and half-day on the 10th.

Sharon Swing and others on our team offer one-on-one coaching or spiritual direction as guidance thru the 'Listen to My Life' experience in addition to virtual coaching groups that happen several times a year.

If we can serve you, please let us know by emailing us here.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If God is interacting with you, would you notice? Can you learn to recognize and respond to God in your story — in your everyday, ordinary life? We’ll talk to people who have recognized what God is up to in the midst of the mundane, joyful, painful and profound moments of life, and sensed God with them, in them, and for them. Some found encouragement, healing, hope, redemption, restoration, new perspectives or direction at life’s crossroads — sometimes in surprising ways. Others are still sorting it all out — just like every one of us at different points in our story — but are willing to talk with us about their questions along the way.

Listen in as podcast Host, me, Sharon Swing and my friends, Co-Hosts Joan Kelley, and Sibyl Towner have conversations and interview people who have learned to listened to their lives as a spiritual practice and some who have mapped their life stories using a portfolio of visual maps found in ‘Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story.’ We’ll talk with authors, pastors, artists or anyone with an interesting story to tell about God’s intervention or still small voice stirring their souls. The conversation will convene at the intersection of life story and Christian spiritual formation. If you want to find out more about the ‘Listen to My Life’ maps or submit your story for a potential future episode, go to www.onelifemaps.com/podcast to learn more.

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Sharon Swing, Joan Kelley and Sibyl Towner discuss how we got interested in life story, helping others map their life stories and why you might want to get map your life, too!

If you want to find out more about the ‘Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story’ visual life-mapping materials or submit your story for a potential future episode, go to www.onelifemaps.com or www.onelifemaps.com/podcast to learn more.

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