Embracing Change

Ambition can be good, but it can also be very bad.  When does it come into play in your life?  Join us as we discuss how this can wreck your world. Recorded 4/15/2024 Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

What does surrender look like to you?  In this episode, we discuss what surrender can look like and how God can use it.   Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

"...To everything, turn, turn, turn" Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Change is in the air.  We let you in some updates.  We are so glad to be back with you. Recorded April 15, 2024 Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Lessons are all around us, and if we lean into them we can learn much. If we don't, we can be stuck in complacency and stunted growth.   Recorded September 18, 2023 Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Have you ever had someone you are speaking to not make eye contact or acknowledge what you are saying?  Do you feel heard?  Do they feel like they are listening?  Our bodies reveal how we are listening to someone.   Recorded on September 18, 2023 Podcast Copyright 2023: Lucretia Bowman Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com Podcast edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn

Sometimes suffering is optional.  Sometimes it is not.  Whatever the case, how we process suffering can set us on different paths.   Produced by Jennifer Osborn Copyright 2023 by Lucretia Bowman Recorded on 9/11/2023 Questions or comments: embracingchange2023@gmail.com

How do you talk to yourself?  Is it positive?  Negative?  Riddled with self-doubt?  Join us as we discuss how self-forgiveness and compassion will radically change your life. Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com Recorded on: 8/30/2023 Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn

Part 3 - We continue our discussion on how racism and trauma create division, and how Undivided is bridging that gap.   More information on Undivided: https://undivided.us/ Recorded July 14, 2023 Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Part 2 - We minimize.  We shrink.  We become something other than what God created us to be.  In this episode, we discuss just how trauma divides us and makes us twist and conform to the expectations of others. Recorded July 14, 2023 Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

We minimize.  We shrink.  We become something other than what God created us to be.  In this episode, we discuss just how trauma divides us and makes us twist and conform to the expectations of others. Recorded July 14, 2023 Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Part 1 of our interview with Courtney Walton.  Join us as she shares about epigenetics and the deep wound of pain.  This is part 1, and part 2 will continue next week.   Recorded 7/5/2023 Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Did you know that healing and a cure are two different things?  When we have deep pain in our lives we have to unravel what that means to heal and to know that the ultimate cure is death, either death to self or death to a situation.   Recorded on June 26, 2023 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn

Pastor Deborah Merritt once again joins us for a discussion on Embracing Peace.  This is our final episode of this season. Recorded on 3/13/2023 Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn for Embracing Change, LLC Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com "Having the Courage to Change" written and performed by De'Era Merritt, from the album Voices of Change, Copyright 2007 by Lucretia Bowma...

We invited Pastor Deborah Merritt on the latest episode to discuss "Loving Others as a Shepard versus a Shepard."  Deborah was the first mentor Lucretia had coming into the faith and she adds wonderful insights to the 30 year journey Lucretia has been on.  Recorded 3/13/2023 Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn for Embracing Change Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Seeing my purpose as my pulpit: Lucretia continues to share about her 30 years in ministry.  In this episode she shares details of the "marriage" of Having the Courage to Change and City Gospel Mission.   Recorded  3/6/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Do you live your life performing for those around you, even God?  Do you know what it is to produce for God?  Lucretia asked these same questions as she continues to walk us through her journey in the building of her pulpit.  Recorded March 6, 2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Finding her mother meant a new wave of things to work through.  It could have push or pull her back to places she didn't want to go, but God kept her through it.   Recorded: 2/27/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Lucretia talks about the many ways in which power was taken from her and how it was restored through her taking it back.   Recorded 2/27/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

When Lucretia left the halfway house she found herself at Mary Louise Inn trying to put her life together.  After an invitation to church she found the clear pathway to prepare herself and made a plan with God at the helm.   Recorded 2/13/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or Comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Continuing our journey through the beginning steps of healing, Lucretia takes you through the letter to the little girl her and how that impacted her healing. Recorded: 2/6/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or Comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com 

Pressure can either destroy us or it can make us.  In this episode, Lucretia talks about how the pressure helped make her a diamond.   Recorded: February 6, 2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

While we may not have control of the trauma we endure, we do have a choice in how to respond and pursue avenues of healing.  Lucretia share her letter to her abuser and how she moved forward enough to say good-bye to him.   Recorded: January 23, 2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

According to Oxford Languages Dictionary on Google, Persevere is to continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success.  Such was what Lucretia was facing when she was fresh out of prison and ready to try to navigate her own healing.  In this episode, we'll hear about that and a letter that she wrote to her mother.   Recorded 1/16/2023 Produced b...

Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: the 30 year journey Episode 1 - Facing the pain 30 years ago Lucretia was faced with writing a letter to the judges who were considering her for shock probation.  She dared to do it and eventually found herself on the outside with the possibility that things could be different.  However, she first had to face her pain to get to the path of healing. Recorded: Janua...

On December 28, 2021 Lucretia Bowman spoke at Unbound at Landmark Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.  This is part 2 of 2.    Produced by Jennifer Osborn  Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com