LDS Hope Notes Podcast

It has been a lovely journey. Tune in for 7 minutes to find out where I'm headed. I will still be podcasting!

This episode brings listeners up to speed from the last episode after my emergency surgeries, shares new projects and ways to connect with me, and finally offers a tool for making life better with adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Raw words about my latest adversity and why my podcast is off schedule.

Today I’m asking you to think of a role model in your life and discern on a deeper level why he/she makes the cut. I also propose for you a role model you may have never before considered. Enjoy!

Have you ever wanted to make a change in your life, but you feel stuck? You know there are reasons you haven’t made the change yet, but you don’t know how to handle them. You also know that making a change may upset key people in your life. How are you going to handle that? In today’s episode, we address this and more. Come see what’s keeping you from either loving where you are at in life OR making that drastic change and facing what comes in the aftermath.

Blow your mind with ideas on anger, stress, and illness. Go ahead, be intrigued!! Take a listen. Show notes: Referenced in this episode “Finding Freedom in Illness” by Peter Fernando

Kill the guilt via budgeting time and energy! These and other insights will help you rid yourself of more of that destructive guilt. Tune in!

The dreaded guilt mentioned in last episode has anatomy we can discover and manipulate to suit our greater potential. Let’s dive into triaging self-sabotaging guilt so we can use our energies elsewhere. Show notes: none

Did you there know there exists dreaded guilt and blessed guilt? Well, there does. Dreaded guilt will be addressed later, but today's podcast is on the guilt we choose to have on purpose.  Show notes: Mentioned in this podcast:  Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

This episode is a brief nod to my humanness in the form of a light apology and an experience processing emotions. I am always learning and growing, and it is my privilege to share some of that repenting and “becoming” in real time with you wonderful people. Thank you for listening!

You have so many reasons why you haven’t formed that habit yet—you know, the one you wanted to make a New Year’s Resolution nine months ago. It’s time. Listen in and get it done before New Year’s rolls around again!

When something happens to us or doesn’t happen to us, we INTERPRET that to mean something. From the seat of our interpretation, we make choices that have consequences. Listen to this episode to find out how to make the most helpful kind of meaning out of feedback you receive.

Want the cliff notes version of why we do what we do—even when it hurts us in the long run? Tune in to hear about it. It’s so simple but so insightful!

Show notes: Elder Robbins' talk I referenced Also, I read Alma 41: 10, 12-13 And last, I referenced this insightful talk by Boyd K. Packer called "The Instrument of Your Mind and the Foundation of Your Character" Show description:  So, really, does the Lord care about whether or not we treat our bodies well in matters of health, weight, appetites, and addictions? Listen to this episode for some provocative questions and thoughts that are sure to get your wheels turning. Remember, these are my opinions, so you can disagree! Send any feedback on this topic to ldshnp@gmail.com. I’d love to hear your theories!

Show notes:None Episode description: The act of BECOMING never happened through ease. Join me today for a conversation about why we leave behind discomfort and risk after childhood and how to start embracing “hard” on purpose.

Show Notes: Referenced in this episode-- Reflections on Silver River by Ken McLeod Super-parenting for ADD by Edward Hallowell, M.D.  Brene Brown’s Gifts of Imperfect Parenting audio CD Episode description: Every tenth episode will be 3 insights or tools or quotes to assist you in thriving! Enjoy this first Three to Thrive!

It turns out joy is a stuffed suitcase. Listen to find out what contents are found inside. Hint: it’s not all jolly.

Ready to give the obsession with blame a break? Listen to this episode and find out what can be done to increase your freedoms moving forward, even if someone has done you wrong. Show notes:  From her book Light in the Wilderness, page 350, M. Catherine Thomas writes, “…God had put in place many compensations for the lapses He knew I’d suffer; I have come to accept what cannot be changed as somehow right.  I have also come to recognize that in the Lord’s ecosystem, everything, noble and ignoble, serves a purpose…I now know that with the Atonement, things really are all right and that everything in the past can take its proper place." She also quotes President Spencer W. Kimball: “…Sometime we’ll understand fully, and when we see back from the vantage point of the future, we shall be satisfied with many of the happenings of this life that are so difficult for us to comprehend.”  

Show notes: Sister Reeves' talk Beth Luthy's BYU devotional Episode description: Sarah’s four phases of processing adversity are discussed as well as the idea that our Savior has the ability to take the byproducts of our most horrendous trials and use them to our eternal advantage.

mentioned in the podcast:  Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown and Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff Episode description: This episode attempts to bring our brains to the middle ground of two extremes. Many of us tend to resist accepting ourselves as we are right now, and others of us resist stretching ourselves to evolve. Where are you in this process?

Putting under a microscope our hope for others, this episode reveals the difference between hopes and expectations. There is a brief mention of the subtle underlying motivations for each.

What if we intercept the gospel or scriptures or church meetings and only feel darkness? What is happening? And what does it have to do with our “inner eye?” Join me in this episode to discuss hope and darkness and the meaning we make of things that happen to us. 

This episode explains why I made the podcast and some of the burdens I see around us that make resilience and hopefulness such a relevant topic. Also, I share why breaking spiritual concepts down into learn-able parts with tools and “how-to” commentary gives us a leg up on our journey to become more like God. Show notes: “Brother Widtsoe reaffirmed that ‘those who give themselves with all their might and mind to this [family history] work receive help from the other side. Whoever seeks to help those in the other side receives help in return in all the affairs of life’” (Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple, 252). “Remember that the names which will be so difficult to find are of real people to whom you owe your existence in this world and whom you will meet again in the spirit world. … Their hearts are bound to you. Their hope is in your hands. You will have more than your own strength as you choose to labor on to find them” (Henry B. Eyring, “Hearts Bound Together,” April 2005 general conference).

Today on the podcast I discuss how hope is a bridge between looking at our circumstances with despair and looking at them in a “blessed” light. It’s all about Christ, our Hope with a capital H, and how to be more of a grown up when it comes to waiting for His deliverance from our pain, despair, and other burdens. Show notes:  This talk on miracles by Elder Hallstrom is beautiful.

This episode introduces the LDS HopeNotes podcast. I discuss how learning information and tools can help us access hope. The teaching I focus on in this episode is dismantling regret: how to pull the best out of your past and use it to your advantage. Enjoy. Show Notes:  Reference to Lynn G. Robbins General Conference talk: