Intentional Living
The Podcast
What makes a person lovable? Is it their charisma? Their kindness? Their willingness to serve? Actually, it isn't any of those things. Those things might make it easier to love someone, but wheth...
When we struggle to show up our best selves, it can be really frustrating, even disheartening. And when we have a tendency to get on our case and even beat ourselves up for our mistakes and short-com...
Communication can be the source of our greatest connections to other people, or it can be the source of some of our greatest disconnections to other people. When communication is not happening or whe...
Have you ever said something like, 'I just wish I could take their agency away and make them do what I know is best for them!'? I think probably most of us have at some point, especially if we have a...
Learning to advocate for ourselves is a skill that many of us haven't acquired yet, and until we do, we will struggle with self-respect and with having the equal relationships that we desire. When we...
Gaslighting is a term that has really gained some traction in the past 12 years, and some of us may still be a little sketchy on what exactly it means. In today's podcast, I reference two articles tha...
All of us have felt resentment at one time or another. Resentment is one of those emotions that we call 'indulgent emotions' because it may feel good and justified, and even feel like it's productive...
Do you ever struggle with motivation? I think it's just part of the human condition to have to figure out how to get things done. And although there are a lot of quick tricks and tips we can use to ...
All of us have fear in our lives, it's part of being a human. If we let it, this fear will hold us back from experiencing life to its fullest and growing into the person we have the capacity to becom...
What if we could learn how to keep out of contention more often and instead create greater connection? Contention really is a choice, and so is connection. Learning to set aside our fear-based respon...
It can be so easy to allow ourselves to slip into victim thinking. Being able to recognize when we get there and understand how to move ourselves out of it is a powerful tool that puts us back in cha...
In our lives that are often filled with so much stuff and stress and busyness, it can sometimes seem improbable that we will be able to find rest. And yet, we are promised that if we will turn to Chr...