Eden Rest

What does it really mean to be in the world but not of it? In this episode of the Eden Rest Podcast, Sane joins Tsakani for a candid conversation about the clash between culture and Christianity. Together they wrestle with the pressure to perform, the pull of pride, and the expectations society places on how we should show up in the world. This is a conversation about identity, authenticity, and o...

In this deeply honest episode of the Eden Rest Podcast, Portia opens up about her journey through widowhood and how navigating the weight of loss has reshaped her life, faith, and motherhood. She reflects on the pain, lamenting to God, and the raw moments that threatened to break her, sharing how those seasons cultivated a compassion that now shapes the way she works, leads, and comforts others. W...

There are seasons when life feels like one long hallway of waiting. God has spoken, He has promised, yet the unfolding feels painfully slow. In this episode we sit in that tension. We talk about what it means to navigate transitions that shake your sense of stability, to carry titles that the world uses to define you, and to resist the temptation of letting those titles become your identity. We un...

Insecurity has a way of making you feel like the ground beneath you is never solid. You can be surrounded by people, doing all the right things, and still feel unsafe in your own skin. In this episode we strip away the filters and talk honestly about the kind of insecurity no one admits to. The kind that compares your life, your pain, and your worth to everyone else’s. We explore why safety and se...

We throw the word around in church like it’s some poetic metaphor. But have you ever really sat with what it means to be adopted? To be chosen when you weren’t born into it? To be loved with full rights even when you’ve done nothing to earn it? In this episode, we talk to Mo, a beautiful woman who lost her baby and her womb through a hysterectomy, and then chose to love a little boy who didn’t com...

What do you do when God does not come through the way you hoped? When prayers go unanswered, doors stay shut, and obedience leads to disappointment instead of reward? In this episode, we have an honest and vulnerable conversation about disappointment with God. We talk about how that disappointment can shake your identity, your faith, and your relationship with the Church. This is not a surface-lev...

There is a name God gave you before the world ever touched you. But somewhere along the way, you stopped believing it. Life hurt. People failed you. Survival became the goal and not purpose. So you adjusted. You started answering to names that felt safer. Strong, because you had no room to fall apart. Independent, because trusting others kept costing you. Invisible, too much, not enough, a burden,...

In this episode, Luke shares openly about losing both his parents, choosing to keep his virginity, and being vulnerable about watching porn in Christian spaces that didn’t know how to hold his truth. It’s a raw conversation about the cost of honesty, the silence that often follows vulnerability in faith spaces, and the tension of carrying truths that many would rather not hear. This episode holds...

This episode is your warning and your welcome. We’re laying the foundation for what this podcast is really about... raw, unfiltered, and done pretending. It’s not about being perfect, it’s about being real. We’re kicking things off by setting the record straight. This isn’t your polished, quiet-time podcast. We are going to talk about the real cost of following Jesus and what it actually looks lik...