Unleash Mind&Heart Transformation

It's no secret that our habits and routines shape our lives, and yet what we do with our time each day can slip away with insufficient awareness on our part to just how powerfully our daily routines shape how we live and who we become. Join us for today's episode as we consider the insights around our usual routines, and also when something happens to interrupt our normal patterns. Have you intent...

Emotions have enormous potential to shape our lives. We all experience lots of emotions every day, and the negative emotions are the ones we most often struggle to process in healthy ways. Even as small children we learn and employ a wide variety of coping strategies to help us manage our emotions. Negative emotions are like an indicator light, signaling something needs our attention.  If we...

Some of us can actually be terrible taskmasters to ourselves. What might happen if you gave yourself just a few minutes each day to enjoy something like watching how the wind blows clouds in a beautiful sort of dancing transformation? We all face challenges of things not done, but do we give ourselves the same amount of grace that we would to someone else?

In this second installment in our series on mental & emotional wrestling we consider that sense of dread that make life painful and difficult. If that sense of agonizing, fear and anxious thoughts plagues you or someone you love, I hope you will join me.

Most of us just live our lives however we've learned to do in the past, that is until we hit some sort of a roadblock. A season of pain, confusion that feels like a dead end with no way out. We feel the pain and don't know how to effect any real change. These season feel an awful lot like a wrestling match. We work so hard, drawing on every ounce of strength, skill, wisdom and insight seeking to o...

There are times in life where we feel justified in holding onto unforgiveness. We hold it thinking we're holding that person accountable for what they've done. What we don't realize is the impact it can have on us and how it can grow into bitterness.

This episode delves into the intricate relationship between fear, the future, and faith, and how our past shapes our perceptions of the future, and considers how our past regrets or future anxieties detract from our ability to live fully in the present. Drawing from ancient wisdom and truth held in the book of Isaiah, highlighting the transformative power of faith in overcoming fear and finding pe...

Even the most confident people struggle with insecurity though they may be good at masking it. We hate when we act out of insecurity, and yet it seems to be such an integral part of ur personalities. These emotions and reactions seemed to just spring up as though they have a life of their own. As we consider some of the ways we are shaped, today we're talking about insecurity, the roots, and how d...

In today's discussion, we delve into the intricate nature of control, exploring its promises, illusions, and the inherent desires it triggers within us. There's a widespread belief that controlling our circumstances leads to comfort and happiness, yet this notion is often met with the chaotic reality of life. We're tempted to believe that controlling situations and people will fulfill our desires,...

We've all fallen for lies, and they always promise something they actually can't deliver. But once we've believed them and begin to build thoughts and choices around them, they become an integral aspect of our habits and choices. Many things in life have beginnings and endings, but in various ways we struggle to know when to end things. This struggle usually ties to a deep wound and various fears....

We know our world is engulfed in a myriad of lies and deceptions, and no one likes be taken for a fool. This episode begins by taking a look at what is real for us, then moves into the sources of wisdom & counsel. We wrap up by looking at the outcomes of the two main trajectories of counsel because wherever I believe deceptions or lies, I will be held in some sort of bondage or slavery. The on...

Join us as we look as the difference between our brain and our minds, what is the difference and what is the role in our habits. It's been said that a person's habits are the number one determiner of a person's quality of life. And yet habits are something we've learned to do without thinking. We know that good habits help us and bad habits keep us stuck repeating what we hate. So where are those...

As we consider the ways we are shaped, today we consider the stories we tell ourselves, and how powerfully they shape our lives. Do the stories you tell yourself keep you stuck in ways that feel enslaving? Stories based on your past or your own understanding, stories that lead to anxiety, fear, worry & doubt? We get to choose the stories we tell ourselves. What if you chose to tell yourself st...

In spite of our best efforts to exert control over our lives, we all experience circumstances and seasons where life feels terribly out of control. Anger, fear, anxiety, depression and more are often accompanied by an acute sense of overwhelm. So where do you go in these times? What do you turn to? I've tried lots of the typical remedies and found they only temporarily numb or distract, but they d...

As we continue looking at the ways we're being shaped and who we are becoming, today's episode considers how the real you is physically embodied, embedded in relationships which, let's face it, can be so messy. And that we also considered our greatest struggle is that since birth we very naturally worked to create a mental map that has ourselves in the center. Which is exactly why we need help out...

As we continue to explore the concept of your unique mental map, today we consider those painful repeating patterns, things we do but hate that we do them and feel like we have no hope of changing.  How does this factor in to the idea of a mental map and what's the solution? If you can relate, we invite you to join us for our continuing conversations around ways we are being shaped every day.

As we explore the ways we are shaped, today we're beginning to look at a new series around our unique, individual minds, discussing our mental maps, how they are shaped, and how profoundly they influence the ways we act and react.  Our maps are messy, unique, and have incomplete and inaccurate parts that impact how we engage in life whether intellectually, relationally, emotionally or spiritu...

Part 4 is the final installment in the series about how we are shaped by judgment. When we've been wronged, it's natural for us to hunger for justice. We long for it in a deep and profound way. And yet when we're the one who did wrong, ever noticed how quick we are to hope for mercy? This episode depicts two very real courtroom scenarios to help us recognize the reality of what we face and what is...

We hear a great deal about low self-esteem and the impacts and solutions proposed to improve a person's self-esteem. For as much has been written and discussed, the problem is growing worse, not better.  Join us today as we consider the ways we are shaped by the ways we judge ourselves, and what is solution actually works to deliver us from the dangerous cycle of the damaging aspects of self-...

There seem to be no end to conflicts and relational messes that flows from the ways humans can easily criticize and judge one another. Whether via news outlets or social media sources, we're all faced with overwhelming evidence that none of us are able to know and fully comprehend everything there is to be know in order to judge accurately and fairly. And while we've all hear the phrase "Don't jud...

Judgment is a word that has many tentacles of implication and a devastating sting. Join us for the first in a series as we look at the various aspects and implications of how we judge others and what happens when others judge us.  These issues impact our relationships and the way we act and react. Join the conversation in Part 1 of this series.

Times of waiting are a reality of life we can't avoid. But how we wait powerfully shapes who we become and how we act in a season of waiting. Rather than be overcome by the churning of worries and what-if's that weaken us, we can choose to wait in a way that enables us to gain strength, confidence and hope as we wait.

In this episode we consider hope and despair and how we are shaped by them. Those who've devoted their lives to studying the human condition tell us that hope is essential to human life. In the context of a true story, we examine how whatever you attach your hope to, that will direct your life. This true story unfolds one woman's struggle with her biggest hope crashing her into despair. And h...

Everyday life is filled with so many decisions, and fear of making the wrong decision makes making decisions challenging. In today's episode we discuss two practical ideas around making decisions and a third of building wisdom over time. There are things we can do to make the load lighter of the many decisions that lay before us that enable us to live with greater joy and less fear.

This episode asks a big question. To answer it we will discuss three topics: 1) Intolerance, people & Christians; 2) Being made in the image of God; and 3) The Garden and Jesus' Invitation. We've all received invitations that we've declined because there was something else we believed was of greater value. Perhaps there's an invitation  that's been sent and you haven't opened it yet...it...