Lifting the Lifter's Podcast

Don't Just List It. Feel It. | The Power of Gratitude Have you ever noticed how easy it is to turn gratitude into another item on your to-do list? As we head into this season of Thanksgiving, I'm exploring the difference between simply listing what we're grateful for and actually experiencing gratitude. In this episode of Lifting the Lifters , we'll look at the research behind gratitude and a conc...

Have you ever noticed how the weather affects your mood, energy, or motivation? There's actually some fascinating science behind how sunlight, temperature, and changing seasons influence us physically, mentally, and emotionally. In this episode of Lifting the Lifters , we're exploring how our environment can affect the way we feel and why it's important to get curious before jumping to conclusions...

Have you ever made a mistake, disappointed someone, or fallen short of your own expectations and immediately started beating yourself up? So many of us are good women doing good things, trying our best to care for our families, serve others, and manage the demands of everyday life. Yet somehow, we still find ourselves feeling like we're not enough. That's where shame can creep in. In this episode...

If you have a smartphone, you need this podcast.  More importantly, if you are trying to navigate smartphones with your family, you need this podcast. This week, I have a special guest, Andrea Davis of Better Screen Time, with us.  I am so excited she was so gracious to come on and share her wisdom and knowledge with us. In the interview, we talk about how Andrea got started with Better Screen Tim...

Making a decision is one thing. Following through is another! Have you ever decided to do something, only to talk yourself out of it when the time comes to actually do it? That's resistance! In this episode of Lifting the Lifters , we're talking about the pushback we feel when it's time to follow through on our decisions and how we can use resistance and rewards to our advantage. You'll learn what...

Have you ever felt completely worn out from making decisions or found yourself going back and forth long after you already made one?! In this episode, we're talking about three kinds of decision fatigue: making too many decisions, avoiding a decision, and second-guessing a decision you've already made. We'll also look at the fear and perfectionism that can keep us stuck searching for the "right" c...

Why do you sometimes snap over the smallest things? In this episode, you'll learn what stress is doing inside your body, why little things can suddenly feel huge, and how to recognize when you're getting close to your limit. We'll also talk about simple ways to calm your body down so you can react less and respond more intentionally.  

What happens when we wait until we're tired, overwhelmed, emotional, or dysregulated to make important decisions? In this episode, I share a vulnerable piece of my own journey with food, emotional eating, and my longtime goal to "make peace with food." Using the story of Odysseus and the Sirens, we'll talk about why it can be so powerful to make a plan while your thinking brain is online, before y...

What do you want? For years, my answer to that question was usually, "Nothing." I didn't want to be high maintenance. I didn't want to ask for too much. And honestly, there were seasons when I had spent so much time taking care of everyone else that I didn't even know what I wanted anymore. In this episode, I'm talking about why we can lose touch with our desires—through stress, self-sacrifice, fe...

What if you could stand back and pick a theme for the life you've lived thus far.  What would it be? Exhuasted Busy Overwhelmed Anxious Have these just happened? Or have we chosen this? If I were to guess, most of us have a theme for our lives that has just kind of chosen us! But what if from this point forward, you decided that JOY is the theme for your life? What would that look like? It wouldn'...

What's the Theme? A good theme can make everything more fun! And it can also give us direction! After spending some time coming up with themes for golf prizes, I realized how much easier it was to create, plan, and make decisions once I knew the theme. What if we did the same thing in our everyday lives? Whether it's a new school year, a busy week, a difficult season, or just an ordinary Tuesday,...

Back-to-school season can bring excitement, fresh starts…and a whole lot of anxiety. One phrase I've heard over and over from my kids and clients is, "I don't know anyone in my class." When we feel uncertain or like we don't belong, our natural response is often to close in.  That looks like looking down, staying quiet, pulling away, and waiting for someone else to make the first move. But sometim...

What if the thing you keep fighting against is actually something you could learn to work with? In this episode, we're talking about what it means to own what is and work with it . From hats left on the dresser, to unexpected changes in plans, to the Nephites becoming "exceedingly expert" at working with cement when timber wasn't available, sometimes the answer isn't wishing our circumstances were...

Have you ever dreaded going somewhere, only to get there and think it wasn't nearly as bad as you thought? Maybe you even ended up having a great time. In this episode, we're talking about anticipatory anxiety:  the worry, resistance, and sometimes full-blown dread that can show up before we do something. Inspired by my boys' recent experience going on trek (which they definitely did NOT want to d...

Do you ever feel like life is one big test and you're worried you're not getting the answers right? Or worse, you might "fail?" This week we are exploring a perspective that has the power to change the way we experience our daily lives. Inspired by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf's talk Your Great Adventure , we'll discuss what it means to see life not simply as a test to pass, but as an adventure design...

As summer comes to a close, many of us feel pressure to squeeze in one more trip, one more activity, or one more memory. But what if that pressure isn't really about summer at all? In this episode, we explore the mindset of scarcity: the belief that there isn't enough time, opportunity, or life.  This scarcity quietly steals our peace and joy. We'll discuss how scarcity fuels stress and comparison...

Abraham Lincoln is often credited with saying:  "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." A  simple phrase my husband told our missionary daughter that has stayed with me: "Do what you can to be a sharp tool." It led me to ask :  Am I working harder, or am I becoming sharper? In  Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , we'll e...

Have you ever noticed how we tend to keep only the highlights? Whether it's the pictures on our phones, videos of our kids, a scorecard on the golf course, or even the stories we tell ourselves, it's easy to celebrate the wins while trying to erase the moments that didn't go as planned. In this episode, I share a few personal experiences that made me stop and ask, Why am I so quick to delete the h...

Many of us spend our lives mentally living somewhere else: Thinking about what happened yesterday. Worrying about tomorrow. Planning the next thing. Scrolling. Multitasking But the only place joy can actually be experienced is right now. Joy is a present-moment emotion. And how often are we truly present? I find my mind wandering to the future, worrying about the "next" thing, anticipating, proble...

With the 250th celebration of the United States being this year,  what better way to honor America's past than by shaping its future through service? In this episode, we talk about why kindness is more than simply being nice, how small acts of service create lasting change, and why the greatest legacy we can leave is the way we love and lift those around us. We discuss how ordinary people, through...

Does your load feel too heavy right now? While responsibilities like work, parenting, relationships, and service can fill our plates, often it's the other things that add the most weight.  In today's podcast, we discuss 5 things that add weight to our loads. Responsibilities Worries Expectations Emotional Backpacks Other people's "stuff" We will discuss each of these and how they can all add up to...

As Mother's Day has come and gone and Father's Day approaches, I've been thinking about the ways our parents continue to shape us long after childhood. Many of us can still hear their voices in our minds, the "one liners" they repeated, the lessons they taught, and the encouragement they offered when we needed it most. When people say, "I miss my mom" or "I miss my dad," they often miss more than...

Fear has a way of pulling us into imagined futures. What if I fail? What if I get hurt? What if I let someone down? In this episode, we talk about lessons from by baseball, missionary goodbyes, and everyday life: when fear starts telling stories, it's time to come back to the facts. Using a simple framework called FACTS, you'll learn how to recognize what you're feeling, reconnect with what you kn...

"There's no place like home." This is something we've heard and felt our whole lives. It's that feeling when you walk through the door after a long day or a long vacation. That feeling after you cross home plate on the baseball field. And that feeling after a long stressful day. HOME Our bodies do all that they can to maintain "homeostasis." We sweat, release chemicals, shiver, and get defensive a...

In today's episode, we are going to discuss prayer, proximity, and a concept called the two-step drill.  This week my daughter Megan gave her farewell talk before she leaves on her mission to Louisville, Kentucky.  In her message, she talked about prayer and how prayer is a way for us to gain a closer proximity to our Father and Heaven and the Savior. She used some personal experiences about her d...