Jodi
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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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