Your Great Adventure
Lifting the Lifters
Do you ever feel like life is one big test and you're worried you're not getting the answers right? Or worse, you might "fail?" This week we are exploring a perspective that has the power to change the way we experience our daily lives. Inspired by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf's talk Your Great Adventure, we'll discuss what it means to see life not simply as a test to pass, but as an adventure designed to help us grow. Adventures aren't meant to be easy. They include unexpected detours, setbacks, mistakes, and moments of uncertainty. But those experiences don't mean we're failing! They're often...
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The Scarcity Trap: When "Not Enough" Steals Our Joy
Lifting the Lifters
As summer comes to a close, many of us feel pressure to squeeze in one more trip, one more activity, or one more memory. But what if that pressure isn't really about summer at all? In this episode, we explore the mindset of scarcity: the belief that there isn't enough time, opportunity, or life. This scarcity quietly steals our peace and joy. We'll discuss how scarcity fuels stress and comparison, why our nervous system reacts this way, and how faith invites us into a life of abundance, presence, and trust. We'll discuss how fear and scarcity live in the future and how abundance and joy...
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Becoming a Sharp Tool
Lifting the Lifters
Abraham Lincoln is often credited with saying: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." A simple phrase my husband told our missionary daughter that has stayed with me: "Do what you can to be a sharp tool." It led me to ask : Am I working harder, or am I becoming sharper? In Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, we'll explore the principle of "Sharpen the Saw" and how renewing ourselves physically, mentally, spiritually, and socially allows us to better serve God, our families, and those around us....
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Don't Delete the Strikeouts ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lifting the Lifters
Have you ever noticed how we tend to keep only the highlights? Whether it's the pictures on our phones, videos of our kids, a scorecard on the golf course, or even the stories we tell ourselves, it's easy to celebrate the wins while trying to erase the moments that didn't go as planned. In this episode, I share a few personal experiences that made me stop and ask, Why am I so quick to delete the hard parts? We'll talk about how joy and sorrow can exist together, why we don't have to wait for life to be perfect to experience joy, and how God sees so much more than our highlight reel. Maybe the...
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The Joy Hunt
Lifting the Lifters
Many of us spend our lives mentally living somewhere else: Thinking about what happened yesterday. Worrying about tomorrow. Planning the next thing. Scrolling. Multitasking But the only place joy can actually be experienced is right now. Joy is a present-moment emotion. And how often are we truly present? I find my mind wandering to the future, worrying about the "next" thing, anticipating, problem-solving, and overthinking about things of the past. These are JOY KILLERS! Join with me as we learn more about JOY! How it lives in ordinary moments, not big fancy vacations or places...
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The Revolutionary Act of Kindness
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With the 250th celebration of the United States being this year, what better way to honor America's past than by shaping its future through service? In this episode, we talk about why kindness is more than simply being nice, how small acts of service create lasting change, and why the greatest legacy we can leave is the way we love and lift those around us. We discuss how ordinary people, through everyday kindness, can make an extraordinary difference! How kindness and service benefit the give AND the reciever, and how we can try to do a little better to be KIND rather than just nice!...
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When the Load Feels Too Heavy
Lifting the Lifters
Does your load feel too heavy right now? While responsibilities like work, parenting, relationships, and service can fill our plates, often it's the other things that add the most weight. In today's podcast, we discuss 5 things that add weight to our loads. Responsibilities Worries Expectations Emotional Backpacks Other people's "stuff" We will discuss each of these and how they can all add up to the weight that we feel. We will also discuss how to help manage that weight and load. We will talk about making two lists: My responsiblities Things I'm worried about but can't contol. Most...
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Parenting Ourselves
Lifting the Lifters
As Mother's Day has come and gone and Father's Day approaches, I've been thinking about the ways our parents continue to shape us long after childhood. Many of us can still hear their voices in our minds, the "one liners" they repeated, the lessons they taught, and the encouragement they offered when we needed it most. When people say, "I miss my mom" or "I miss my dad," they often miss more than the person. They miss the comfort, guidance, protection, encouragement, and love that person provided. What happens when we need those things as adults? In this episode, we'll explore how the...
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State the FACTS
Lifting the Lifters
Fear has a way of pulling us into imagined futures. What if I fail? What if I get hurt? What if I let someone down? In this episode, we talk about lessons from by baseball, missionary goodbyes, and everyday life: when fear starts telling stories, it's time to come back to the facts. Using a simple framework called FACTS, you'll learn how to recognize what you're feeling, reconnect with what you know to be true, identify your support system, and take the next small step forward, even when fear is along for the ride. Whether you're facing a difficult conversation, a big decision, a challenge at...
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I Just Wanna Go Home
Lifting the Lifters
"There's no place like home." This is something we've heard and felt our whole lives. It's that feeling when you walk through the door after a long day or a long vacation. That feeling after you cross home plate on the baseball field. And that feeling after a long stressful day. HOME Our bodies do all that they can to maintain "homeostasis." We sweat, release chemicals, shiver, and get defensive all in an effort to maintain or get back to a state of peace and rest. Sometimes our bodies just do their thing, and it works, and sometimes we use unhealthy coping mechanisms that can get...
info_outlineMy husband Jarred and I were having a discussion one morning in December and he mentioned his word for the year was intentional. I said, "That's funny! Mine is deliberate!" They mean basically the same thing! Doing things on purpose! Although most of us are intentional with some things, maybe there are some areas we could do a little better. Maybe it's with our relationships, maybe our health, maybe our scripture study or spirituality. At any rate, whether we choose to work on goals or pick words for the year, we've got to be intentional about them if we want to get the results we want. Listen in to this podcast as Jarred and I discuss being intentional and what that looks like for the two of us and our family!