To Help You Heal

After more than 150 episodes of To Help You Heal, I’m taking a pause for the summer. This wasn’t a decision I made overnight. In fact, I’ve been thinking about it for a couple of months. As I’ve spent the last several weeks talking about not pushing harder, questioning the voice that puts pressure on us, and examining where our expectations come from, I realized I needed to listen to my own advice...

In this week’s episode of To Help You Heal, I’m continuing our series on confidence by talking about something many of us experience every day without even realizing it—negative self-talk. The truth is, the way we speak to ourselves didn’t just appear out of nowhere. That inner voice came from somewhere. It was shaped by experiences, environments, expectations, pressure, comparison, survival mode,...

This week on the podcast, I want to talk about something I think so many of us experience without even realizing it: the internal dialogue we carry every single day. Sometimes the loudest voice in our lives is the one nobody else can hear. In this episode, I’m sharing some personal stories about feeling unseen, how experiences from childhood followed me into adulthood, and the ways negative self-t...

Have you ever found yourself feeling like you just need to try harder? Push more. Figure it out. Force clarity.  In this week’s episode of To Help You Heal, we're talking about the exhaustion that comes from living in constant “go mode” and the pressure many of us place on ourselves to keep everything together. When life feels uncertain, unresolved, or overwhelming, our instinct is often to push h...

In this week’s episode of To Help You Heal, I’m wrapping up this series by talking about something many of us need: a reset. Sometimes what we need most is not a dramatic life change or a total reinvention. We simply need space to pause, notice what feels off, and take one intentional step forward. Often the signs that we need a reset are subtle. We may feel disconnected, emotionally tired, mental...

In this week’s episode of To Help You Heal, I’m talking about why fun matters more than we often realize. So many of us treat fun like something we’ll get to later—after the to-do list is done, after everyone else is cared for, after life feels less busy. But fun isn’t frivolous or something we have to earn. It’s restorative, healing, and an important part of living well. When life feels heavy, fu...

Last week we talked about the reality that life has been a lot lately. And I walked you through three simple things that help me navigate those heavy seasons. This week we're going deeper into the first one: seeing the good. I actually have those words on the wall behind my desk. See the good. I love that reminder every time I sit down to work because the truth is that our perspective is everythin...

Maybe you've noticed it too. Life feels like a lot lately. It might be something specific like a health concern, a relationship that's hard, or a financial stress. Or maybe it's not one big thing at all. It's just the accumulation. Six or seven little things that stack up. The news cycle. The uncertainty. The mental load of trying to keep up with everything while also trying to show up well for th...

Have you ever come back from a vacation, a long weekend, or a meaningful season and felt the jarring reality of re-entry? One minute you're cruising down the highway — rested, inspired, full of perspective. And then out of nowhere — pothole. You weren't expecting it. You weren't prepared for it. And it is jarring. That's what the Monday after Easter can feel like. We plan for the big moments. The...

Thank you for journeying through this series with me. The messages and feedback you've shared have meant so much — knowing it's landed in a meaningful way has been such a gift. And we're ending with what might be the truth I love most: resurrection is a pattern. Not just a moment. Not just something that happened on one Sunday morning two thousand years ago. But something God does — over and over...

Pain changes us. But it doesn't have to change our hearts. That's the truth I want to sit with today — because I think a lot of us have experienced a moment where something hurt us deeply and without even realizing it, we started to shut down. The walls went up. We became more guarded. Less open. And we told ourselves it was necessary. And maybe it was, for a season. But here's what I've learned:...

  Have you ever noticed that fear gets louder at night? During the day we stay busy — moving from one task to the next, staying distracted. But at night, when the house gets quiet and the distractions fade, our thoughts get louder. The what ifs start to surface. What if something goes wrong? What if this never changes? What if I can't handle what's ahead? I think the disciples knew that feeling to...

In this week’s episode of To Help You Heal, we continue our Easter series by exploring a powerful truth: surrender is not the same thing as defeat.   Last week we talked about the reminder that our circumstances do not tell the whole story. Just as the story of Easter looked very different on Friday than it did on Sunday, our lives can hold chapters that feel final but are not the end of the story...

This week on To Help You Heal, we begin a new series leading up to Easter by exploring one powerful truth: your circumstance isn’t the whole story.   Easter reminds us that what looks final often isn’t. Good Friday was real. The cross was brutal. It was public, humiliating, devastating. From every human perspective, it appeared finished. If the story had ended there, it would have looked like defe...

In this final episode of our series on fun, we explore what happens when joy becomes intentional—not occasional. The goal was never just to add something light to your schedule. It was to help you remember something about yourself.   Fun isn’t extra. It’s fuel.   When joy is present consistently, you become less reactive. You recover from stress faster. You build emotional flexibility and resilien...

In this week’s episode of To Help You Heal, we continue our series on fun by moving beyond the question of why fun faded and into something more personal: What actually feels fun to you now?   Because here’s the truth—fun can’t be forced.   We can schedule time on the calendar. We can tell ourselves we’re going to “have fun.” But we can’t pressure ourselves into joy. And sometimes, before we can a...

In this week’s episode of To Help You Heal, we continue our series on fun by asking an important and often overlooked question: Why did fun disappear in the first place?   Most of us don’t intentionally decide to stop having fun. It doesn’t leave suddenly or dramatically. Instead, it gets crowded out—by responsibility, grief, caregiving, stress, survival seasons, or the quiet pressure to be seriou...

We’re kicking off a brand-new series, and for the next four weeks, we’re talking about something that often gets pushed to the bottom of the list as adults: fun.   In this episode, we start with an important question—why does fun matter so much, especially when life feels full, heavy, or serious? Many of us treat fun like a reward we earn after everything else is done. But healing isn’t only about...

In this final episode of our series on starting the new year more gently, we bring everything together—not to create more plans or pressure, but to talk about how we live differently because of what we’ve already noticed.   Over the past few weeks, we’ve slowed down. We’ve paid attention to what doesn’t fit anymore. We’ve listened to the questions and ideas that keep coming back. And now the invit...

In week three of our New Year series on To Help You Heal, we’re talking about the thoughts, questions, and nudges that keep resurfacing—and why they matter more than we often realize.   Last week, we explored letting go of what no longer fits. This week builds on that by turning our attention to what remains: the ideas you keep circling back to, the questions that won’t quite leave you alone, the...

In week two of our New Year series on To Help You Heal, we’re talking about what you may have outgrown—and why recognizing that is an important (and healthy) part of moving forward.   As we begin a new year, it’s easy to focus on what we want to add: new goals, new habits, new plans. But just as important is asking a quieter question: Is there anything I need to set down before I move ahead?   In...

This week on To Help You Heal, we’re stepping into 2026—and talking about what to do when January feels… quiet, weird, or unsettling.   If you’ve ever started a new year with big resolutions—only to feel discouraged a few weeks later—this episode is for you. I share why I’m not a fan of forcing clarity on January 1, and why so many of us set goals based on cultural pressure instead of asking a mor...

In this final week of our Advent series The Light Has Come, we’re talking about what happens after we receive the light — how we carry it forward into real, ordinary life.   Throughout this series, we’ve explored waiting for the light, trusting God in the dark, and noticing light in ordinary places. This week, the invitation shifts: The light isn’t just something we look for — it’s something we li...

This week on To Help You Heal, we’re continuing our Advent series The Light Has Come with episode three, where we talk about finding God in the small, quiet, ordinary moments of everyday life.   When we think about God showing up, we often imagine dramatic, unmistakable signs — angels in the sky, stars leading the way. But most of the time, God doesn’t shout. He whispers. And if we’re not paying a...

This week on To Help You Heal, we continue our Advent series The Light Has Come by talking about something many of us feel deeply this time of year: weariness. December often looks peaceful from the outside, but inside it can feel loud, full, or heavy. If you’re feeling emotionally, mentally, or spiritually tired, this episode is a reminder that weariness is not failure — it’s a signal that you’ve...