No More Running:

Send us Fan Mail Ever felt stuck in a cycle of disappointment, hurt, and struggle? This episode will have you finding companionship in the story of an anonymous woman, who, for twelve agonizing years, wrestled with an incurable illness. As we navigate the paths of her journey through scripture in Luke 8:42-48 and Mark 5:21-24, we will connect with her pain, her persistence, and ultimately, her unw...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode our guest is Sandra Jones from Commerce, Texas. Sandra is the owner operator of J Designs in Brashear, Texas. Sandra and I met through our friend Jackie Hayden. Sandra is a busy women, she is involved in so many ministries; jail ministry, prison ministry, street ministry, speaking events sharing her story of sexual abuse, failed marriages and wanted her lif...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode we welcome Maggie McNally Executive Director of Safe Harbor of the Smokies Child Advocacy Center. Safe Harbor was founded in 2005. Safe Harbor serves 4 counties in the Smoky Mountain area, and they include Sevier, Jefferson, Cocke and Granger counties. They work with children that have experienced severe child abuse, sexual abuse, severe physical abuse, sev...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode we welcome back our guest Jackie Hayden. We continue our open and honest, heartfelt conversation about our hurt while in the ministry. We start out at looking at Jer. 20:5 and feeling like the Lord had deceived us. We knew we were called in the ministry but didn't sign up for the hurt. Ministry has a way of giving us many surprise some good and some ba...

Send us Fan Mail Part-1, On today's episode our guest is Jackie Hayden from Gladewater Texas. We meet through Mary R Snyder in the Facebook group Take the Stage Speakers. When we shared our stories within the group on the same day, we knew our hurts where a lot alike and connected right away. Jackie shares her story of hurt in the ministry as a pastor's wife. She shares how she overcame...

Send us Fan Mail This is part two of Jonah the runner. If you haven't listened to episode #8, I encourage you to go back and listen to it as well. On today's episode we are going to look again at Jonah, the perfect example as a runner. We know that Jonah has run, and that he put his running shoes on and took off in the opposite direction of what the Lord has instructed him. Then we look...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode we are going to look at a runner, an example from the bible. Satan was telling me that I’m the only runner, nobody else does this, nobody has ran mentally, emotionally, or spiritually like you, but the truth is we all have ran from something or other, and I wanted to tell you that if you are a runner like me that you are not alone. Let’s look at our example...

Send us Fan Mail Thank you for joining me today I'm your host Crystal Loyd. I wanted to share some things that I have learned and the mistakes that I have made over the years being a mom. There are several stages and we wear many hats in each stage of motherhood. I love to hear from other moms and learn from what they have experienced and went through as well.  I share my mistakes in hopes to...

Send us Fan Mail Rachel struggled with depression, anxiety, self harming (cutting), eating disorder, and suicide thoughts. The struggles started at a very young age. She notices these things got worse and her eating disorder evolved into something more. She felt as if her life was out of control. The eating disorder was something she could control and then it lead to wanting more control of her li...

Send us Fan Mail Hello, I am Crystal Loyd your host of Gather around the table with a spiritual purpose. I have announced that there was a change coming to the podcast and now I want to share with you that the new name will be NO MORE RUNNING the podcast for woman who find themselves running mentally, emotionally, spiritually, or even running physically from things in this life. I’m here to help y...

Send us Fan Mail Spilled Perfume, GREAT, now I'm going to be delayed.  This was supposed to be an easy Friday morning, an easy kind of day. Now I'm running late but not to late to stop and get breakfast. I drive like a mad crazy women-who loves Jesus I might add. I end up running over the curb in the drive through. Normally I like to think that I'm a good driver.  But I was struggli...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever struggled with depression and anxiety? Robin our guest today grew up in an unstable home and struggled a lot with depression and anxiety as a child, as a teenage and into adulthood. At an early age she shut down emotionally didn't talk about how she was feeling which led her into a life of turmoil. Robin tried so hard to be good enough, good enough for God, good...

Send us Fan Mail Join Crystal Loyd on this episode as she shares apart of her story.  She talks about how she has been stuck in the hurt of her past, her childhood sexual abuse and not being believe in that and later in life being hurt in the ministry as a pastor wife. For years she has been stuck in the hurt and listening to the lies of Satan. While stuck in the hurt she has been asleep and was o...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode Melissa (Missy) Harris shares a heartbreaking story of when life does not treat you fair. She had a plan in life, but as always things do not go as planned. Listen to how Missy lost both her son's, yet she kept her faith in Jesus Christ. As a result, she has started a support group on Facebook called Parents with Purpose; to help other parents who have...