Healthy Vibes Podcast

It is too easy to fall into the worldly trap of distractions, that keep us from all that can be good in our life. This week I want you to pay attention and get really honest with yourself about where you are spending your time. I empower you to own your time and choose to spend it where it matters most to you. Takeaway: Get honest and pay attention to where your time is going this week. **Challeng...

It is time to get honest and let go of stubbornness, excuses, blaming, and having an answer for everything. Let us open our minds, drop our walls, and be open to what is possible to help our relationships, health, and journey. **Takeaway: **What are you struggling with that maybe humbling yourself might help? Challenge: Work on humility in at least one area of your life.

Know your story and what matters to you. Don’t get distracted by other people’s stories and their opinion of your story. Walk your own path and make choices to help you feel confident in your own story. Takeaway: Get honest with yourself this week about where you might be distracted by other people's stories. Challenge: Pay attention to where you are getting distracting, and challenge yourself to...

Start each day with what matters most. Be intentional about filling your time and energy with what is most important in your life. Put these things at the top of your list each day before the world distracts you from them. Takeaway: Fill your bucket with the good stuff first. * Challenge: * Make a list of what matters most to you this week, and be sure that that is where your time goes first.

There are many celebrations this time of year for awards, accomplishments and more. There are also many kids who have had hard seasons, hard years, and have not had the year or season they expected. They are in the valley. So much growth can happen in the valley if we allow it. Is someone you know in the valley right now? Let us notice them, celebrate them, and encourage them. It takes a lot to sh...

What are you doing to take care of your soul? There are many ways to nurture your soul and get closer to God. We are all different in what ignites and stirs our soul. There are many choices each day that bring me closer to God and I truly feel a stirring in my soul. It is apparent in how I react, when I skip these choices when life gets hectic. Listen in and think about what you are doing each day...

Somer is deeply committed to empowering women to embrace their God-given gifts and callings with confidence. As the co-founder of She Works His Way, a nonprofit discipleship community for working women, she has coauthored She Works His Way: A Practical Guide for Doing What Matters Most in a Get Things Done World alongside her best friend and ministry partner, Michelle Myers. Additionally, Somer is...

With different seasons, comes many changes inside our home. When we pause and slow down, we can keep a peaceful and relaxed atmosphere inside our home, so that everyone connects better and wants to be home. We have to first actually spend time at home, slow down, and let go of the pressures to always be doing something. Challenge: What are some changes you can make in your home this week?

Parenting is different in all stages, but as our kids become teens, they are closer to being an adult. I am not an expert, but doing our best to let go, while also being there for them and guiding them makes all the difference in our relationship with them. We have to pay attention as to where we should be releasing our grip and just guiding, trusting, and supporting. Let us be the ones that alway...

How we start our day matters. Every season is different. Give yourself grace and take time to find what is best for you right now. Cater your time and choices to you and where you are now. Remember there are many things that are good for us that we can do anytime and anywhere, and even with our baby or toddler in tow. **Takeaway: **Give your grace and most importantly know that your morning is you...

Did you get distracted or knocked off of what you were chasing this year? I want you to pay attention and if you have been derailed from your goal or what you were trying to do this year, get back up and start again. Do not let the enemy derail you from choosing a better life. The Lord will fight for us. We just have to keep showing up. **Takeaway: **Getting back up is an absolute game changer for...

Melissa H. Gray is a dedicated attorney with a passion for empowering business owners to build and protect their ventures on a solid legal foundation. With a wealth of experience in business formations, contracts, trademarks, and other intellectual property matters, Melissa provides her clients with the tools they need to succeed in today's competitive landscape. Understanding that a strong legal...

We are all waiting for something, whether we are in a really hard season, or have something uncertain going on in our lives. How are you responding in the waiting? Are you filled with worry, or are you choosing to trust God and get closer to God during this hard, uncertain season? I want you to think about it. Are you showing up for what matters? These are important thoughts in order for us to get...

Lisa Whittle has a powerful way with words. I LOVED this book and you have to get it. I want to tell you why her message of wanting God most will change the way you live. No more people pleasing, overexplaining, or half-chasing your dreams. Challenge: Let’s not just say we want God most…let us live this way.

Quick encouragement to remind us that life can be hard, and you can find good, at the same time. I want you to let your guard down, soften up, and allow the joy and light to come through the cracks, little by little. Challenge : Pay attention and find the joy this week, and let it in.

Rachel Swanson is a best-selling Christian author turned real estate investor beginning in 2021, acquiring 20 doors in her first year. She traded her stressful 80+ hour per week author and online coaching business for a more flexible PART-time real estate investing business, gaining time and financial freedom, tripling her income in less than 12 months, all while balancing her marriage and motherh...

Mel Robbins talked about this recently in this video , and boy did it hit home. Let’s stop being bothered, mad, and upset at every bit of resistance these days. In order to feel more happiness, joy, and peace, we have to drop our sword when life pushes back, and allow the joy, and light, to come in. **Challenge: **Drop the sword this week.

When life throws the hard stuff at us, we can’t give up or stay down too long. We have to lean into God during the hardest of times, give unlimited grace out, and stop digging when we are down. **Challenge: **Don’t stay down too long. When you hit a bump this week, give yourself and others grace, do what you can, and do your best to let go and move on.

Ali Flynn, the creator of Hang in There, Mama and certified English and Special Education teacher is excited to share with you the joys and hardships of raising teens with an open heart, honesty, and some tears. She is a mom to four daughters who offers daily encouragement and support to moms while keeping it real and letting them know they are not alone on their motherhood journey. Ali has been f...

Maybe, maybe not, but I definitely feel that I have my own secret weapons that are my keys to a better life. I make these 6 simple choices every day and I can honestly say it has changed my life, my relationships, and my confidence in myself and my choices. Challenge: What small habit or choice could you add or change this week? Quote: Change your habits, change your life.

It is easy, and natural, to seek approval from this world. Let us make sure our priorities have us seeking approval from the right people in our life. Challenge: Pay attention to your priorities this week and where you are seeking approval from. **Quote: **Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.” Charm is...

So many of us continue to live with choices that aren’t giving us the life we want. We continue to complain and blame others. We spend time on things that are wasteful, that suck our energy, or just help us continue the negative cycle. When will you choose something else? You own the power to choose. Challenge: Repeat the mantra, "I get to choose" over and over. And, make a choice this week that y...

Are you just preaching and lecturing your kid, but not actually living your life that way? Get honest with yourself. We need to become aware, and grow as a person as well. Our kids need to see us learn from mistakes, make better choices, and own it when we are wrong. If you really want to influence your kids, pay attention to what you are giving them an example of. Challenge: Be the example you wa...

I do believe that every challenge, mishap, mistake, or resistance that we experience, its a test for us. We decide if we are going to grow and learn, or if we are going to react with negativity. Will you adapt, shift, solve the problem, and keep going? Or will you complain, blame, and remain in the circle of self-doubt, and wanting to give up? This is the point where life can completely begin to c...

Angela Chapman, founder of Age On Purpose , is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and a ReCODE 2.0-certified practitioner dedicated to helping others with the prevention, reversal or better management of Mild Cognitive Impairment and early Alzheimer's disease. Genetically at risk for Alzheimer’s herself, Angela opened her Direct Access community in 2020 to provide the education, peer s...