Category: Mental Health
Overfunctioning: Doing for Others What They Can Do For Themselves
Are you an overfunctioner? How many times have you found yourself doing for others what they can and should do for themselves? We all too often carry burdens that aren’t ours to carry. Instead, they’re ours to manage, navigate, and equip others to carry for themselves. In this episode, Jamie and Heather admit their overfunctioning…
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Finding Joy When the Struggle is Real
Let's be honest, life can be messy! In this episode, Jamie and Heather talk about how they respond to the hard parts of life (spoiler alert: they're very different)and how they rebound back to joy. Looking back on their lives, they see how their response to the hard parts of life have changed over the…
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Conquering Lies With Truth
Did you know you have over 6,000 thoughts a day? (healthline.com). Your mind is constantly interpreting the world around you and within you in search of truth. To illustrate, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” In short, your thoughts construct the reality you live in. So that…
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All the Lonely People
Have you ever been lonely? If you’re a human being, then the answer is more than likely yes. Loneliness is an epidemic. The Beatles once wondered of lonely people, “where do they all come from?” And we've wondered that too. Loneliness is isolating and all-encompassing. It can come as a tide, pushing in and just…
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We All Want to Be Seen and Heard
We can so quickly judge and reject people we don’t understand. This week, Jamie completed her homework assignment (well, mostly), so Jamie and Heather talk about the book Everything Sad is Untrue. The book opened their eyes to consider how many times we overlook people and revealed a universal truth: We all just want to be…
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Did We Change at All?
What's the test of true change in your life? Whether you like it or not, your best self and your worst self are on full display in front of your family and closest friends. It’s in these relationships where it’s easy to slip back into your ingrained behaviors and habits. So, the test for true…
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Why Asking For Help Honors God
Faithfully following God involves having clear and honest communication with the people in our lives. Trying to go it alone puts us into an exhausting cycle: we don’t ask for help, so then we become resentful of others, which leads to making our work harder and our relationships less fruitful. Jamie and Heather have learned…
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Are You Too Busy for God?
We live in a culture that wears busyness like a badge of honor. How do we practice the presence of the Lord in a season where there doesn’t seem to be any margin for more of God? We want to show up for all the people in our life, but it feels like there’s just…
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Recognizing Dysfunction & Redefining Normal
Being healthy spiritually, physically, and mentally doesn’t just happen by accident. It takes intentionality in every aspect of life. But sometimes we get so comfortable in unhealth and dysfunction, we don’t even realize that what has become normal to us is not in fact normal. It takes a lot of internal work, but also a…
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"I Think It's Time to Walk Out in Freedom."
It can be harder than we realize to truly walk in freedom, to let go of the safety nets we’ve built around ourselves and our emotions; it takes a lot of courage. There is so much fear attached because our normal reactions and coping mechanisms are how we self-protect. Last season, Heather and Jamie were…
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