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The Unstressed Soul

Chad L. McGriffwww.chadmcgriff.com
Join Chad McGriff for condensed soul-filling lessons; designed to help the restless believer learn faith-centered ways to destress their lives, pack on peace-of-mind, and get good at taking care of their soul.
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038: How to get things done, even when you don’t feel like it.

The important things in life may require different demands from us that we are not used to giving, but we know that because we want better, we have to do better. In this session, I want to help you learn to get the important things done in life even when you don’t feel like doing them.

Jun 07, 20218 minEp. 38

037: Managing Life Roles

You have multiple roles you play in life. They could be an employee/employer, parent, spouse, volunteer, friend, sibling, or any other role you have. With us wearing so many hats it's easy to become overwhelmed by all that we need to do and accomplish in life as we shift from role to role on a daily basis. In this session, we discuss how to stay managing every life role and hold on to your wholeness at the same time.

May 21, 20217 minEp. 37

036: Being a Peacemaker in your Marriage

How you manage yourself in your marriage plays a big part in the health and experience of the relationship. In marriage, we get a choice to be a peacemaker or a peacebreaker. In this episode, we hit on 3 ways to keep in mind when creating peace in your marriage.

May 14, 202111 minEp. 34

035: Finding What Really Restores You

What have you done in the past or what could you do that after you did it would cause you to feel refilled, refreshed, and refueled. In this session, we take a look at what I do to get my soul restored and how you should take advantage of every opportunity to restore your soul.

Apr 19, 20219 minEp. 34

034: Find Joy In The Journey

Growth can stretch you and be uncomfortable at times, but it's a part of reaching any goal in life. People who have accomplished their desires had to find a way to fall in love with the journey that leads them to the outcome. They found a way to make the process of getting there a place of joy in spite of the discomfort. In this session, you'll learn how you can find joy in your journey.

Apr 02, 20215 minEp. 34

033: 4 Reasons Why You Should Take A Break, Now!

It's good for us to break away from the constant demand of doing "life stuff" and take a minute or more to relax. Taking regular breaks from going, going, going, helped us in so many ways. In this session, we will hit on 4 reasons why you need to make it a must for you to take more breaks now.

Mar 31, 20217 minEp. 33

032: How to Avoid Bitterness

We have all been on the receiving end of hurt and offense at the hands of others. These are easy times to slip into feeling bitter towards others, but this really won't help us at all. In today's session, we learn 3 ways to avoid bitterness.

Mar 29, 20214 min

031: Don’t do parenting stressed. 5 ways to rescue your peace.

If you are a parent, you absolutely love your kid(s), but there are sometimes when they can be a handful. Or, maybe you find yourself venting frustration towards them from a bad day you may have had or the challenges in life you face. Its time for us to rescue our peace as a parent and build a healthy bond with our kids. I'll share with you 5 ways we can parent our ever-evolving kids while maintaining a high level of personal peace.

Mar 23, 20217 min

030: Figuring Out What You Really Want

Getting clear about your life brings clarity to your focus and actions and also removes anxiety and uncertainty about the future. In today's session, we discuss 3 ways to get clear about what you really want in life.

Mar 19, 20218 min

029: When you’re feeling like you’re not good enough?

The feeling of inadequacy tries to convince you that you are lacking ins some way or that you are not good enough to have the best in life. Any feelings of inadequacy hold zero weight when you know who you are and you only know who you are by knowing what God says about you.

Mar 17, 20218 minEp. 29

028: Control The Controllables

Do you ever feel like you want to control every single aspect of your life and the more you realize that you can't control things, the more frustrated it seems life is? No worries. In this video, I share with you why it's important for you to control the controllables.

Mar 15, 20216 minEp. 31

026: Uncommon Comfort

Sometimes life gets a little uncomfortable and discouraging. When we experience times like this, it's the perfect chance for us to tap into God’s uncommon comfort. In today’s session, we unpack what uncommon comfort is and how you can live in it today.

Mar 10, 20214 minEp. 6

025: Avoid Negative Self-Criticism

Self-critiquing can be helpful when done in a healthy way, but it can be damaging if we create a habit of negative self-criticism. In this session, we expose and learn how to avoid the dangers of negative self-criticism.

Mar 08, 20216 minEp. 25

024: "Undo": The Reverse Mentality

Bringing real positive and productive change into our lives means that we must commit to undoing the beliefs and ideas that have held us in our current struggles. In this episode and our first session in the "UN" series, we discuss how to make that happen.

Feb 08, 20216 minEp. 24

023: The Goods. The Growth. The Gratitude.

Have you ever been at a point where you really want something, any goal or accomplishment, but you really didn’t feel like doing anything to get it? It’s like I want to eat, but I don’t want to cook or even drive to a restaurant. I want the amazing body, I hate going to the gym. I want a great relationship but I’m too busy to give any attention to anyone else. We want to stop stress in our lives, but don’t want to initiate new habits and choices to discipline ourselves. It’s like sometimes we wa...

Nov 16, 202010 minEp. 23

Micropod: "Strength Is Within You"

The power of God's strength within you is greater than anything that comes at you. Release God's strength and experience unshakable peace.

Nov 13, 20202 min

022: How Your Gratitude Can Change Everything

How often do you express appreciation in life? Out of the 60,000 thoughts that rush through your mind every day, how many of them are packed with an intense amount of gratitude, appreciation, praise, and thankfulness? For most people, their daily thoughts consist of what they have to do that day, complaints about what has gone wrong or what could go wrong, and little sprinkles of happy thoughts here and there. But what if we decided to become super intentional about how we think and prioritize g...

Nov 11, 202015 minEp. 22

021: 3 Steps to Breaking Toxic Thinking

Studies show that we have somewhere around 60,000 thoughts per day! That’s a lot of thinking. The problem that most of us run into is that we are rehearsing negative, defeating, destructive, and toxic thoughts over and over, day in and day out, in our minds. We think about how bad things are. Wonder why things are not going our way. We find ourselves complaining about our lives. And at times feeling negativity about other people. How can we break the cycle? How can we live every intentionally pl...

Oct 19, 202011 minEp. 21

020: 5 Enemies of a Healthy Soul

We have all been there. You know those times when we are not being the happiest, hopeful, life speaking person. Times when we could care less about how we make some feel by our words and actions. Times when we allow unchecked negative thoughts and feelings to take over our soul. One of the most important things we have to become aware of is that we have enemies that threaten the wellbeing of our souls. Now I’m not talking about people. These enemies are intangible and invisible tyrants of our mi...

Oct 14, 202010 minEp. 20

019: Self-Love vs. God's Love

Have you ever felt guilty for feeling love for yourself? Or have other people made it seem like self-love was negative? If we want to really free ourselves from the emotional struggles and trauma we experience in life, and begin to thrive in the love, joy, peace, and happiness God promises; then we must restructure our mindset about how love works in us and in our lives.

Sep 22, 202013 minEp. 19

018: Avoid Poisonous Perspectives

Sometimes we find ourselves in similar situations where we get paralyzed mentally and emotionally, by the poisonous perspectives we have about life. We find ourselves, believing the worse, thinking the worse, expecting the worse, and then wonder why we get the worst outcomes. It starts with something so simple but so important to how you handle life and avoid the negative inner attacks that set off stress. It's called PERSPECTIVE!

Sep 06, 20209 minEp. 18

Micropod: "Don't Be Troubled"

Our hearts can be disturbed by life, but Jesus gave us a promise of the kind of peace that blows the mind of this world. Let's unpack it in this very special first edition of The Unstressed Soul Micropods.

Aug 24, 20202 min

017: 3 Actions To Dominate Your Emotions

Our emotions can seem to be so wobbly at times. We can switch from calm to fear in a split second. We can shift from happiness to frustration from a simple scroll through our social media feed. We feel this mix of emotions daily and it causes us to build the habit of being pushed around by how we feel instead of harnessing our emotions and guiding them to help us in our lives. In this session, we learn 3 actions we can take to stay on top of our emotions and direct them to help us and not hurt u...

Aug 24, 20208 minEp. 17

016: How to Disrupt Family Stress

Sometimes it can seem like our family life is stuck on level 100. With the kids constantly arguing, chores that need to be done, marital misunderstandings, and the tons of other tasks and responsibilities we have in life; things can get overwhelming pretty fast. In this session I want to give you 4 simple and practical things that you can do as a family starting right now, to disrupt the patterns of stress that you all may experience in daily family life

Aug 11, 20206 minEp. 16

015: How to Reset Your Self-Image - Part 2

In part 1 we did a deep dive into what our self-image is and how it affects every part of our lives. We learned how it places a cap on our ability to accomplish what God places in our heart to do. In this session, we will get into what it will take to reset, renew, and reshape our self-image to align with God's plan for us.

Aug 04, 202011 minEp. 17

014: How to Reset Your Self-Image - Part 1

Imagine that you had a friend who treated you like you were worthless. What if they constantly told you everything they didn’t like about you and highlighted all of your mistakes? How long would you stay friends with that person? Not very long I’m guessing. But what if that person was yourself? In this part 1 session of How to reset your self-image, I want to share with you what your self-image is and how we can begin to adopt a healthier self-image and renew it to serve us instead of sabotage u...

Jul 27, 202016 min

013: The Pursuit of Wholeness

Does life seem broken? Has it seemed like if something could go wrong it will? Well, maybe its time for us to break the brokenness cycle and toss in a ton of wholeness. This episode is all about the "pursuit of wholeness", how it looks in your life, and what it actually means for you.

Jul 14, 20208 minEp. 13

012: How to Dump Fear & Build Faith

Fear tries to creep into our lives from so many different places; our own imaginations, opinions of others, media, and past experiences. It wants you to feel safe by feeling unsafe. Fear always like "You can do it, but you'll probably fail, so don't do it"! In this lesson, we discover how do we break fear and how we can dump fear and build faith to pursue and obtain the growth we really want in life.

Jun 29, 20209 min

011: Stress Damage & How to Avoid it

A lot of people think that “Stressing Out” is just some negative emotion that they are feeling, but the truth is that there’s a lot more going on that we aren’t even aware of. There is an entire world of chaos that’s taking place when we stay in constant stress mode. In this session, we take a look at what’s happening within us when stress is doing it’s worse.

Jun 22, 202012 minEp. 11
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