Girl On A Hill

We continue our series on our emotions by talking about disgust - the emotion that makes us say, “eww.” It’s all well and good when we’re talking about worms and rotten milk - but what do we do with our disgust when it’s directed towards other people? We confront the truth of our disgust - the pride and fear underneath it and the way disgust hurts, separates, and divides. We get real about loving...

Today we begin our new series- where each week we’ll take a closer look at one of our emotions. Today we dive headfirst into sadness. We push our sadness away - doing our best to stuff it, hide it, and distract ourselves from feeling it- but today we look at the role of sadness in our lives and the importance of working through our sadness instead of pretending it isn’t there. We talk about the th...

This week we look back on our Spring Cleaning of the Heart and Mind Series. I take some time to briefly review each of the 8 topics covered, share some of the commonalities between each of these struggles, and share a few tips universal to the challenge of working towards personal growth. We wrap it up with a few wise words from Paul about refocusing our thoughts to the good and the true.

Today we wrap up our Spring Cleaning of the Heart and Mind series by getting real about the negative habit of taking things personally. We talk about the truth of our self-centeredness and the way our negative self-talk leads us to make hurtful assumptions. We acknowledge the importance of recognizing that like us, everyone else is hurting and healing - and everyone’s pain affects their mindset an...

We continue our Spring Cleaning of the Heart and Mind series by diving into the destructive habit of future predicting. While we’re not pulling out a crystal ball, many of us escape our present and actively anticipate future worries - most of which will never happen. We’re afraid, desperately want control, and are wildly comfortable with uncertainty. We confront all of this today with some powerfu...

We continue our Spring Cleaning of the Heart and Mind series today by getting honest about blame-shifting. Why do we avoid owning up to our mistakes? What makes accepting responsibility so hard? We confront these questions head on as we get honest about our fears and insecurities. We talk about the inevitability of making mistakes and share how owning them allows us to grow. We’re sharing tips, tr...

Why does everything always happen to me? Life isn’t fair! Everything is terrible! We all have these thoughts from time to time, but when we allow them to persist, our pity parties become life-long events that steal our energy, rob us of joy, and keep us focused on our problems. We’re getting real about the dangers of self-pity and talk openly about how our habits of complaint and negativity feed i...

We continue our Spring Cleaning of the Heart and Mind Series by facing avoidance head on. We spend our limited energy avoiding people, situations, and feelings that make us uncomfortable - all the while avoiding necessary growth, change, and the truth that we CAN do hard things. We’re staring down truth, soaking in the tips, and admitting out loud that we must face what we’re running from and that...

We continue our Spring Cleaning series by taking an honest look at some of the many ways we self-sabotage Some of the behaviors and mindsets that have become second-nature are holding us back - keeping us in negative thought loops and preventing us from not only taking steps towards growth but from walking in obedience. We confront the truth, share tips, and wrap it up with an encouragement to wal...

We continue our Spring Cleaning of the Heart and Mind 3.0 series by taking an honest look at Codependency. Codependency often begins from a place of good intentions but can quickly develop into lasting and destructive patterns of people-pleasing, living without boundaries, and bearing burdens far beyond your responsibility. Our own issues of fear, avoidance, and a need for approval lead us to code...

Today we kick off our Spring Cleaning 3.0 series by digging into one of the ugliest and most harmful emotions we all experience - jealousy. We talk about what jealousy is, what it looks like, and how fear, discontent, comparison, and a lack of trust in God fuel our feelings. We’re afraid to lose and afraid we’re not as good as someone else. We confront these lies and encourage rooting out our trig...

Things have a way of not going to plan. In fact, more often than not, our plans fall apart - requiring us to adapt and yes, even become semi-comfortable with change. When plans to record a new podcast didn’t work out this week, I decided to re-mix our episode on Disappointment. Today we wrestle with the gap between expectation and reality, get real about our lack of control, and discuss the beauti...

We’re wrapping up our Wellness series today by taking a look at our occupational wellness. It’s an area of your life you might not be thinking about in connection with your whole body health - but finding meaning and joy in your work (no matter where you work) matters! We talk about our behaviors and mindsets that get in the way of our finding meaning in our work, share ways to cultivate our occup...

We all know the basics - drink water, eat a balanced diet, get enough rest - but many of us are choosing to ignore what we know our bodies need. Today we’re getting honest about why - digging into things like immediate gratification and confronting just how good we are at ignoring our body’s signs and signals. We talk about our misconceptions surrounding physical wellness, share the signs that we’...

Today we take a look at our home as we evaluate our environmental wellness. We talk about the importance of creating a peaceful home environment and dig into what that really means and looks like. We talk about the practical and tangible practices like ditching the clutter and the deeper issues affecting peace in our home like the way we interact with our family and handle the unrest inside our he...

In today’s podcast, we’re taking an honest look at the status of our spiritual health. Where are we struggling? How do we treat others? What do we believe and value - and does how we reflect those beliefs and values? We’re getting honest about our growth, our mindset, and the way our faith is or isn’t changing our life. We share what gets in the way, ways to cultivate our spiritual health, and wra...

Our lives are spent in relationship with others - but how does the health of those relationships impact our health? As we continue our current series, we take an honest look at our social wellness - exploring the benefits of connectivity and belonging while also getting real about loneliness and the truth about how hard it is to establish friendships as an adult. We share signs of social health, t...

Our emotions are a part of us - on purpose for a purpose, and are not to be feared or ignored - but how well do we cope with our emotions? How do we allow stress to affect us? Do challenges break or build us? As we take a look at our emotional wellness, we address these questions and talk about overcoming the barriers that keep us from feeling and healing. We share ways to cultivate our emotional...

We continue our series on the 8 Components of Wellness by looking at our financial health. It may not be something we’ve considered, but our relationship with money affects our mindset, our choices, and our overall wellness - so we need to talk about it! We get real about the barriers that stand in the way of a healthy relationship with money and wrap it up by sharing some practical ways to cultiv...

We kick off our new series on the 8 Components of Wellness by talking about our Intellectual Wellness. We’re digging into the importance of things like curiosity, commitment to life-long learning, and the bravery to take on new challenges. We get honest about the way our mindset and our aversion to change get in the way of intellectual growth - but share tons of practical (and pretty fun) ways to...

We’re wrapping up our Fruits of the Spirit series by getting honest about self-control, and our lack of it! We get real about the role our negative emotions (and our refusal to deal with them) plays in our inability to control ourselves and talk about how our lack of control is sabotaging our goals. We’re wrestling with our temptations, talking about our triggers, and getting to the root of the th...

Gentleness is a fruit of the Spirit that sounds easy enough - until you understand being gentle means dealing with your anger, living a life full of grace, and keeping your emotions in check for the benefit of others. We get honest about all of it and provide you with a few ways you can start to cultivate gentleness in your day-to-day life. We’re working to love others (even when they’re difficult...

We’re digging into the topic of faithfulness today, as we wrestle with our own reliability as well as our response to God when things get tough. We talk about what faithfulness looks like lived out and why we struggle with both our own dependability and our hesitancy to depend on the Lord. We share some challenging (but necessary!) ways to cultivate faithfulness in our everyday lives and wrap it u...

We continue our series on living out the Fruit of the Spirit in our everyday lives by discussing the concept of goodness. We hear the word “good” a lot - but do we really know what it means? We talk about what goodness looks like lived out and share why we struggle. We address our selfishness and get to the root of what our motivation needs to be to reflect true goodness. We wrap it up by sharing...

Kindness is a trendy word and something we all like to think we show, but do we truly understand biblical kindness? We talk about what a kind person looks like, share why we struggle to be kind (including a few reasons you may not have considered before), and share some difficult but doable ways to cultivate kindness in your daily life. We wrap it up by sharing some truths that challenge our motiv...