Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast . I’m going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you’re taking good care of you. There is so much going on in the world right now. There are so many questions. And there are no real answers … because we don’t have any. Only God holds all the answers. And he holds all our days, too. I pray that you take care of your soul and protect your spirit from getting sucked into a spiral of worry and despair t...
Jun 30, 2020•9 min
Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast . I’m going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you’re taking good care of you. “The smallest and gentlest acts keep us grounded as we husband our lives with care.” – Julia Cameron Staying grounded in your life is a way to care for your soul. It gives us space to listen to God and listen to ourselves. Tending to small things in our everyday lives help us to feel grounded. How can you tend to your r...
Jun 24, 2020•9 min
Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast . I’m going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you’re taking good care of you. Have you read any good stories lately? Stories are good for your soul. They help you take care of you. So I want to encourage you to find a good book that leaves you believing that God is in charge of the world. You’re in the middle of your story, but God is writing your story. SHOW NOTES Pick up a good book like Heidi ...
Jun 16, 2020•9 min
I hope you’re taking good care of yourself. This summer, I want to encourage you to experience soul care in a very practical, everyday way. Welcome to the Dear Daughters Summer Soul Care Series . I’m going to spend the next few weeks on the podcast helping you take good care of you. One way you can take good care of yourself is to make sure you have wise teachers in place in your life, especially during times of crisis and chaos. Your number one teacher is God, and you can always count on him an...
Jun 10, 2020•9 min
Well this is a first! It’s a Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. But before we dive into new music, a few things you might not know about Sara: “My family nickname is Aunt Sardie Pants.” “I love trail running.” “I do things I love until I break.” “I am deathly scared of roaches … and splinters.” Need more, listen in to DD Episode ‘Questions to Deepen the Mother-Daughter Relationship’ with Sara. And here we are in Round Top, where we lo...
Apr 29, 2020•43 min
One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves. In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life , I am featuring four of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes. In this final episode, I am featuring Chrystal Evans Hurst. In DD Episode 96 , Chrystal offers so much truth about how to end the cycle of unhealthy thoughts and bring our thoughts into the light of God’s truth. Listen...
Apr 21, 2020•6 min•Season 5Ep. 125
We are made to hold the presence of God … the God who holds all things together holds us. K.J. has been reckoning with an autoimmune disease, ankylosing spondylitis (AS), for 11 years. It’s been an “unpredictable companion” in her life that not only propelled her into her counseling career but also propelled her to experience and hold the presence of God. K.J. Ramsey (BA, Covenant College, MA, Denver Seminary) is a licensed professional counselor, writer, and recovering idealist who believes sor...
Apr 15, 2020•50 min•Season 5Ep. 124
One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves. In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life , I am featuring five of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes, and this time I am featuring Rebekah Lyons. In DD Episode 103 , Rebekah revealed some of her own battles to overcome fear and anxiety, and talked about how her pain can become purpose … all of ours can. Listen to the k...
Apr 07, 2020•7 min•Season 5Ep. 123
YOU can do big, hard, and scary things. Jennifer has found freedom in her business, her time, her finances, and most importantly, her faith, through years of releasing more and more over to God. What started as a desire to help pull her family out of financial desperation became a calling to help other women find the courage to do the same. Jennifer Allwood is a business owner, business mentor and coach, speaker, author and podcast host for The Jennifer Allwood Show . Jennifer uses her self-star...
Apr 02, 2020•41 min•Season 5Ep. 122
One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves. In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life , I am featuring five of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes, and my next guest is Liz Carter. In DD Episode 80 , Liz and I talked about finding contentment in all of life’s messy, painful, joyous reality. Listen to Liz’s tender, compassionate, comforting words she speaks to her ...
Mar 31, 2020•6 min•Season 5Ep. 121
Understanding that we don’t need as much stuff as we think we need is freeing. God has given us what we need and more than we know. Kathi used to be buried in clutter. She wouldn’t let friends into her home, she wasn’t doing the things she needed to do … she was living half a life. But she began to live in a new way and found freedom in a clutter-free life. Through that journey, she also learned that God has given her everything she needs. Kathi Lipp is a speaker, a podcast host, the coordinator...
Mar 26, 2020•32 min
One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves. In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life , I am featuring five of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes starting with the one and only, Pam Tebow. In DD Episode 93 , Pam Tebow and I talked about the value of looking back and writing a younger self letter. Listen in to this woman of wisdom and amazing spiritual mama as she...
Mar 24, 2020•6 min•Season 5Ep. 119
Where is God when things go terribly wrong? John Ray has been my friend for a very long time. He is the pastor of Grace Church of Northwest Arkansas in Fayetteville, a missionary and a spiritual director … and he knows firsthand about suffering. John says these four things about himself: “I’m adopted, which has been one of the forming experiences of my life.” “I am married to a phenomenal introvert. Jane Ray is a fantastic woman.” “I’m the dad of four daughters who are all radically different, o...
Mar 19, 2020•58 min•Season 5Ep. 118
What happens when you take the time to take care of yourself? What happens when you give yourself grace? This week, I interviewed five women to talk about what happens when you take time for soul care. Are you ready for their stories? Melissa Tate is a food writer who lives with her husband on their family horse and cattle ranch in Rockwall, TX. Her primary life roles include: mother, step-mom, daughter, sister, and friend. Melissa came to Soul Care Saturday because she longs for rest in her lif...
Mar 10, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 117
Have you given all your dreams and desires to God? He wants to do more than you can imagine. In December of 2010, Whitney Runyon felt a stirring in her spirit that began an amazing journey for her and her husband … and for so many orphans and adoptive families. Whitney Runyon was a wedding photographer. And her husband, Nick, was an airline pilot. But after seeing the impact of photos she took of an adoption in 2011, they formed a orphan care advocacy 501c-3 and named it after the little Bulgari...
Mar 04, 2020•59 min•Season 5Ep. 116
There is so much more good in the world than there is bad. Let’s find the bright side. Melanie Shankle thought she was too far gone. She wasn’t shown the grace and mercy aspect of being a Christian, so by the time she got to college she felt like there was no hope and no going back. Then God met her in a bar in a bathroom, and he pursued her patiently and faithfully and showed her that no daughter of his has ever too far gone…and how to look on the bright side. Melanie is a speaker, the author o...
Feb 26, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 115
We want to leave our kids with more than just memories, we want to leave them with a legacy. Rodney and Michelle Gage have always been all about family. When their oldest was 6 or 7 years old, they had a family pow-wow to decide what their family would be all about…and they want you to know it’s never too late to do that with your family, too. Rodney and Michelle are the founding and lead pastors of ReThink Life Church in Orlando, FL. They have been married for over 28 years and have devoted mor...
Feb 19, 2020•40 min•Season 5Ep. 114
What if our eyes shifted from what we need to what we already hold in our hands? Meredith McDaniel is all about experiencing the hope and peace of God here and now by looking for the manna in her life and being a “manna maker” for others. Meredith is a licensed professional counselor in Davidson, NC, and owner of her private practice Milk + Honey. She just wrote her first book, In Want + Plenty: Waking Up to God’s Provision in a Land of Longing. Inside the pages, she takes us alongside God’s peo...
Feb 11, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 113
You have been given a gift and it’s up to you to decide how you use it. And if you decide to use it to love on others and to be present with others, that matters. Morgan Harper Nichols has loved making art since she was five-years-old. From an early age, her parents encouraged her that she was created to create, but it took much longer to feel like she had permission to share her art with the world … and now she uses it to bring encouragement and extend grace to others. Morgan is a writer, artis...
Feb 05, 2020•54 min•Season 5Ep. 112
The start of healing is embracing it is a process and experiencing God through that process. We get to participate with God in writing a new story. He is the author of all our healing. Aundi Kolber grew up walking on eggshells and white-knuckling her way through life. She never imagined as a twenty-year-old that she would be the person she is now … free, healthy, healing. Aundi is a new author and seasoned licensed professional counselor (MA, LPC) in Castle Rock, CO. She specializes in trauma an...
Jan 29, 2020•53 min•Season 5Ep. 111
Your God-given identity is the truest thing about you. No matter your past, God has a new name for you. It’s deeply personal and it’s beautiful, better than any name you could choose for yourself. What is it? Esther Fleece Allen hid a deep, dark, painful past and lived out so much trauma. God was the only constant in her life…so she hung on to Him and lives out her new name. Esther is an author, speaker, millennial leader, and Founder & CEO of L&L Consulting, Inc., where she helps Christ...
Jan 21, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 110
Who are you comparing yourself to and what kind of heartache is it creating in your life? Richella Parham is a spiritual mama with all kinds of hard-earned wisdom on learning how to be free from the comparison trap that wrecks so many lives. Richella is an author, on the Board of Directors at Renovaré and is a member of Redbud Writers Guild. In her own words, she had these four things to say about herself: “I am one of three sisters. And I have three sons.” “I am a military trivia/history nerd.”...
Jan 15, 2020•53 min•Season 5Ep. 109
“I’ve done something terrible.” Becky Powell faced the unthinkable on May 16, 2013, when her husband Mark called and confessed he’d done something awful. Within hours, she learned that he had taken his own life and, over a period of several years, millions of dollars from friends and colleagues. Everything she believed to be true, the very fiber of her marriage, was called into question. Within a week, rather than planning carpool runs and volunteer fundraisers, she owed almost one hundred credi...
Oct 31, 2019•53 min•Season 4Ep. 108
Do you need some rest for your weary soul? Taking time for yourself, even a few days, can make a big difference in your life. Find the clarity you’re looking for and the rest your soul craves. Reclaim your God-given vision and live your one beautiful life! Last weekend, I hosted a dozen women in my home for the very first Soul Care Weekend . You might think, “Yes, I need rest for my soul … but what exactly does Soul Care Weekend look like?” Good news, Maddie Dyess is here today to talk about wh...
Oct 22, 2019•32 min•Season 4Ep. 107
Throughout our busy and distracted days we hear so many different voices. What would happen if we slowed down, and listened to what God is saying to us? Leighton Ford describes himself as an “artist of the soul and a friend on the journey.” Leighton is an author, evangelist, mentor to emerging Christian leaders across the world, President of Leighton Ford Ministries, and in his own words, these four things: “I have a very long name.” “I have very long legs.” “I’ve lived a very long life.” “We ha...
Oct 16, 2019•39 min•Season 4Ep. 106
Are there wounds or losses from your past that seem too big or too complicated to be healed? Are there difficult people in your life that continue to create drama and pain? What if healing could be possible? Sarah Mae’s passion is to encourage women to walk in healing and freedom, even when the wounds are still open. Sarah Mae is a mom, teacher, author, podcaster, and in her own words, these four things: “I can tie my hair in a knot with one hand.” “I have a motorcycle license.” “I was never the...
Oct 09, 2019•53 min•Season 4Ep. 105
Do you feel like it’s a struggle sometimes to see God in the everyday, ordinary moments? How could we be transformed if we took a breath of fresh air and lingered a little longer in the Scriptures? Ruth Chou Simons shares her journey of God’s grace intersecting daily life with word and paintbrush. Ruth and her husband, Troy, are grateful parents to six boys—their greatest adventure. Ruth is a mom, artist, author, speaker, and entrepreneur and in her own words, these four things: “I was born in T...
Oct 02, 2019•43 min•Season 4Ep. 104
What do you do when fatigue or discouragement creeps in your life? Or what about when anxiety hits? How do you find and sustain emotional, relational and spiritual health? An old soul with a contemporary, honest voice, Rebekah Lyons revealed some of her own battles to overcome anxiety and depression—and invites us to discover and boldly pursue own God-given purpose from a place of freedom. Rebekah Lyons is a mom, teacher, author and in her own words, these four things: “I LOVE starting the day w...
Sep 25, 2019•41 min•Season 4Ep. 103
We are called to do everything to the glory of Christ, including friendship. Meet Kelly Needham. She’s a mom, author and in her own words, these four things: “I’m a classically trained violinist and that’s how my husband and I met.” “I love jigsaw puzzles.” “We had a jigsaw puzzle table growing up – and I have one in my home today.” “I love making Indian food.” Her short online bio reads like this: Kelly Needham is an author, speaker, and blogger and hopes to convince as many people as possible ...
Sep 19, 2019•51 min•Season 4Ep. 102
Never for a moment think that God has forgotten you. Meet Lisa-Jo Baker. She’s a mom, author and in her own words, these four things: “I am a motherless daughter. I am always on the lookout for mother nourishment.” “God who loved me through the dark seasons and filled the motherly role.” “I swore I would never have children and yet I am a mother to three children.” “I’m originally from South Africa which explains the accent.” Regarding this interview she also said, “ Scooch up a little closer fr...
Sep 11, 2019•49 min•Season 4Ep. 101
