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Jodi
Aug 31, 20223 min read
Mental Health Struggles - Let's be vulnerable and share
A fast scroll and quick glance at this square and all you see is a happy-in-love couple. (Keep reading). What you don’t see: fear, shame,...
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Jodi
Jul 26, 20222 min read
Waves of Feelings
Like waves, our feelings can often overwhelm us. They can come so quickly, so unexpectedly that we are washed under in seconds flat-...
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Jodi
Mar 11, 20222 min read
Surrender the Need for Control
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” (Romans 12:12 NIV). When chaos comes, when it surrounds and consumes us,...
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Jodi
Jan 24, 20222 min read
Bravely Embracing 2022
I’ve never been one to set resolutions for the New Year or pick a word for the year. But, I do always find myself feeling energized,...
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Jodi
Dec 6, 20212 min read
Advent. The Season of Waiting. The Season of Hope.
Advent. The Season of Waiting. The Season of HOPE, Peace, Joy, and Love. *** In recent years, I have not been attracted to the idea of...
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Jodi
Nov 3, 20213 min read
Tough Love
Love doesn’t always look pretty, romantic, or endearing. *** Love is often difficult, uncomfortable, and messy. *** When we enforce...
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Jodi
Oct 20, 20212 min read
Be Curious, Not Judgmental
I am 99.9% certain that I am not the only Ted Lasso lover in this community. I quoted him last week on an IGTV where I continued to speak...
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Jodi
Sep 22, 20213 min read
Ask. Seek. Knock
Matthew 7:7-11 (NIV) “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who...
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Jodi
Aug 29, 20213 min read
A House Built on His Word, His Wisdom
Proverbs 24:3-4- By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with...
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Jodi
Aug 18, 20212 min read
Rotting Roots
My Mandevilla plant is not thriving like the one I had last summer. I’ve watered more, I’ve watered less, I’ve dead-headed, pruned,...
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Jodi
Jul 22, 20212 min read
Rooted in God's Love
“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out...
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Jodi
Jun 23, 20212 min read
Beautiful Blooms Come in Patience, Persistence, and His Perfect Timing
I am proud to say that I have been patiently waiting for these beauties to burst. Why am I proud? Well, first off, I’m not a patient...
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Jodi
May 24, 20215 min read
May's Mental Health Monday- Healthy Routines and Boundaries
Today is week 4 of my Mental Health Monday posts. *** The survey I did in February (all female participants) showed that 66.7% of those...
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Jodi
May 17, 20215 min read
Mental Health Monday- Anxiety and/or Depression
Today is week 3 of my Mental Health Monday posts. *** Struggles with mental illness can often feel like swimming in the ocean, making no...
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Jodi
May 10, 20214 min read
Mental Health Monday- Permission to Prioritize Yourself
Today is week 2 of my Mental Health Monday posts *** The second highest rated area from the survey I did in February was “Permission to...
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Jodi
May 3, 20214 min read
Mental Health Monday- Ditch Performing, Pleasing and Perfecting
In late February, I surveyed a small sample of females all of whom I consider to be doing the good, hard work of living life to the...
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Jodi
Apr 7, 20214 min read
Identify your Idols
Idols consume us. They eat away our time, our thoughts, our hearts, our imaginations. Very stealthily, idols tempt us, attract us, draw...
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Jodi
Mar 31, 20213 min read
Holy Week
We are slowly but steadily walking away from a year of loss, devastation, lament, and fear of the unknown. And now, we are embracing a...
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Jodi
Mar 2, 20214 min read
Do it at Your Desk
Desk /Chair Yoga- Postures for Relieving Work Related Stress Unfortunate as it may be, we all have times where we experience work related...
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Jodi
Feb 14, 20212 min read
No Greater Love
I have been fortunate enough in this life to have been gifted an abundance of love. I have loved and been loved so hard and so deeply by...
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