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On today's episode we're going to talk about why forgiveness is important, how you can do it in a simple way, and the impact it can have on your life if you do it regularly. “Holding on to grudges is like holding hot coal in your hand, thinking it's hurting someone else, but it's only burning yourself.” 0:48 We discuss how to start on the path of forgiveness by first creating a list and visualizing yourself forgiving the person you want to forgive. Forgiveness isn't just a mental thing, but it's also a physical thing, which is why we need to practice it out loud and use external assistance to help us forgive others. Who forgiveness is for 0:47A story about having baggage in your life 2:01How to start 4:40When you start practicing this 9:33If forgiveness is harder for you 15:43“It's more effective if you say it out loud because the spoken word is very powerful. The words we speak are more powerful than our thoughts. If you're practicing and you're in bed, there's someone beside you and you don't wanna say it out loud, just practice it in your head if that's the starting point for you.” 7:41https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/https://www.theirishmummy.com

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In this episode we have with us Arvigo Therapist and Health Coach, Tara Ghosh, who is going to help us understand women's cycles and how they can reduce period problems, and also help us know that it is normal to feel different at various times during the month. She tells us her story of when she didn't have a period for 2 years and finally got into Arvigo massage, which caused her menstrual cycle to come back within a week. Tara provides a way women can track themselves through their cycles and what point they're at by taking notes and comparing it to seasons. We also discuss the pill and how it affects your health, and then things you can do to improve your chances of getting pregnant. Tara's story 1:12Her tip on recording your cycle 4:05Your period doesn't have to be awful 9:20The pill 12:33If you don't have a cycle but want to get pregnant 16:56Her 5 week course 25:57“My big takeaway for clients are, ‘What are the 3 things that we can do to transform our health straight away?' I talked about eating and nutrition and things, but it's how can we prioritize our sleep? How can we get more sunshine? Because vitamin D is so important for your cycle, and how can we have fun? We need more fun in our lives. Life is so serious. We need more laughter.” 24:56Tara's Instagram:@_taraghosh_https://www.facebook.com/theirishmummy/https://www.instagram.com/the_irish_mummy/https://www.theirishmummy.comhttps://www.theirishmummy.com/ebook

Danielle Schaffer is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to her business and her family, but not even this determined, dynamic Italian "momshell" who hails from New York City could save her baby brother from the grip of addiction. As founder of the insanely popular blog and Instagram account, City Girl Gone Mom, and host of The Mom Confidential podcast, Danielle puts her mind to something and then makes it happen. But sadly, when it comes to addiction, even when you love someone to the ends of the earth, you can't always save them. This episode is the second in my pursuit of telling the siblings' stories around families, addiction and coping - a side of the opioid crisis and addiction in general, that doesn't get told nearly enough. Danielle generously shares her family's story and gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to grow up in a family riddled with addiction and how she attempted to save her brother Scott, who ultimately lost his battle to an overdose in 2018.Listen in to this vulnerable and heart-wrenching episode as Danielle shares;what she aspired to be when she was a little girl and how that's so relevant nowher life as a child growing up with a mom who was an addictwhat it was like dealing with her brother while having a growing family and business empireher relationship with her brother Scott and how her role as "sissy" also blurred with being a mother figure to himhow well her brother hid the extent of his use from everyone close to himthe constant lies her brother used to cover up his drug use and overdosesthe disturbing combination of drugs that showed up in Scott's toxicology reportthe agony of telling her kids their uncle had died of an overdose and how her family dealt with the blow of their lossthe good and bad sides of sibling support groups some of her COVID coping skills and how she's staying healthy right nowwhy she's so open about her brother's death and how he diedthe questions she asks herself about her brother's struggle with drugsand how she recently honored her brother's life Settle in for this one, it's so real and so honest. You can learn more about Danielle, her family, and business in the show notes at www.brendazane.com/hopestream/33If you're a mom who needs strength, hope, and support while your child is experimenting with or addicted to drugs or recovering from addiction, please join our private, positive online community, The Stream, at www.brendazane.com/thestream.Download my free ebook “HINDSIGHT: 3 Things I Wish I Knew When My Son Was Addicted to Drugs

In this episode, we launch "Spoiler Alert," an offshoot of our Vintage Celebrity Gossip series focused on 90s and 2000s movies. We are starting with My Best Friend's Wedding because 1) Jessica has strong feelings about Julia Roberts and 2) Alexis had never seen it! We are reviewing the plot, characters, and how the film has aged over the last generation. Bonus conversation on why America's Sweetheart is... really not. For episode links (and some corrections to Jessica's recollection of A LOW VERA) and bonus content on how the movie was received at the time, visit futureregretspodcast.com/33If you liked this episode, please rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Instagram@futureregretspod@alexis_catherine@jessmf119 Twitter@future_regrets

JOIN MY MAILING LIST for special gifts and opportunities during this four part series.For full show notes, including the written blogpost, visit: www.amandastarkingsley.com/speaking-light-into-abortion/33If you are someone who chose abortion and find yourself struggling, hiding, or wishing you could move beyond your experience, you can book a free discover coaching call with me. We’ll talk about how you can start living the life you made your choice for. https://calendly.com/amandastarkingsley/free-consult-session

In today’s gospel reading, we are invited into a story, a story that simply did not just take place a long time ago, but a story that is truly our story, here and now.  Because of the nature of this gospel passage, I am going to do something different.  Before we hear the reading, I would like to share just a few insights with you.  The community to which the Gospel of John is addressed may very well have been expelled from the synagogue for confessing Jesus as Messiah.  They may well have felt isolated and abandoned.  So, as you experience hearing today’s reading about the isolated blind man, ask yourself how this passage might address the isolated and the abandoned, not only within John’s community, but also the isolated and abandoned among us today.  How does this story address us as we face a whole new form of living in isolation? Not only does this reading address the nature of this early Christian community, it also works to undermine a simplistic understanding of sin.  When the disciples voice a common view of the day that disability or hardship is the result of sin, a view some people today even continue to suggest, Jesus sharply disagrees.  Also, when the Pharisees assume that knowledge of the law automatically grants righteousness, Jesus counters their thinking by saying that precisely because they feel so certain regarding their understanding, because they deny their sin and claim to “see,” they are in fact sinning because they do not recognize and trust God’s very saving presence to them in the person of Jesus. So, are they really the blind ones? With these insights in mind, I invite you to listen or follow along and enter into this story.  John 9:1-41 As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. 5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, 7saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. 8The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9Some were saying, “It is he.” Others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” 10But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” 12They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.” 13They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 14Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15Then the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see.” 16Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not observe the sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And they were divided. 17So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” He said, “He is a prophet.” 18The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight 19and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” 20His parents answered, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21but we do not know how it is that now he sees, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” 22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.” 24So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.” 25He answered, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” 26They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” 27He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” 28Then they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.” 30The man answered, “Here is an astonishing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will. 32Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. 33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” 34They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you trying to teach us?” And they drove him out. 35Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36He answered, “And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him.” 37Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he.” 38He said, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshiped him. 39Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind.” 40Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?” 41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.   Friends, to follow Jesus is to see differently.  Sometimes, to follow Jesus is to be brought into a messy situation, maybe even a crisis.  But, in the mess, we are called to trust that God is present and at work doing a new thing.  Sometimes, this newness means discovering that we are actually the blind ones when we think we see perfectly.  My friend, Pastor Bill Uetricht, quoted theologian John Petty on Thursday and then added some thoughts of his own. He wrote: “John Petty speaks of Lutheran irony, the notion that ‘it is precisely when we are most spiritually confident that we are in greatest spiritual danger, that it is precisely when we feel strong in faith, precisely when we are feeling the most committed, precisely when we are the most religious, that sin lies closest at hand.’”  My friend Bill then said, “I suspect that in the craziness of these current times, this wisdom is worth clinging to. Who knows for sure what it is all about? The call in the midst of it is not certainty, but trust. That isn't coming easy for me these days.” I agree with my dear friend, Bill.  That trust is not coming easy for me these days.  Yet, I do continue to trust God’s word to us.  That blind man was made new.  Theologian, Nadia Bolz Weber, writes, “New is often messy.  New looks like recovering alcoholics.  New looks like reconciliation between family members who don’t actually deserve it.  New looks like every time I manage to admit I was wrong and every time I manage to not mention when I’m right.  New looks like a very fresh start and every act of forgiveness.  New is the thing we never saw coming – never even hoped for – like our blind guy here.  But new ends up being what I needed all along.”  And, I would add, new is discovering the new ministries and new ways we are able to be together as people of Faith in the midst of the craziness of our present existence. Such newness is also what we call grace, it is what we call love.  Nadia Bolz-Weber continues by saying, “God simply keeps reaching down…reaching down into the dirt of your humanity and resurrecting you from the graves you dig for yourself through your violence, your lies, your selfishness, your arrogance, and your addictions.  And God keeps loving you back to life over and over….There are times when faith feels like a friendship with God.  But there are other times when it feels….I don’t know….more vacant.  Yet none of that matters in the end.  How you feel about Jesus or how close you feel to God is meaningless next to how God acts upon you.  How God indeed enters into your messy life and loves you through it, maybe whether you want God’s help or not.” In today’s story, one of the most remarkable things is the fact that the blind man didn’t seek out Jesus or ask his help.  Yet, he was healed and made whole.  And the powerful, life-giving truth of the gospel is that our suffering, our grief, the challenges we are currently facing, and even our sin will not have the last word. As our souls and bodies desperately cry out for relief, we hear the faint yet clear voice of the Christ calling us; reminding us that, through the cross, death and all its trappings have been swallowed up in victory. The final word rests not with suffering, not with blindness, not with this coronavirus and everything that we are currently facing and experiencing, but with the newness, life and peace that come through Christ. These days, we hear people reminding us to wash our hands over and over and over again, and it is a necessary reminder.  But, this story reminds us that the most sublime words imaginable are, “Go, wash.” And, I don’t mean just go wash your hands yet again.  I mean wash in the waters of your baptism and the water of life in which God daily bathes each one of us, whatever our circumstances.  We may not always sense this, but we trust God’s promise to us.  And, as the cool and refreshing waters of life wash over all of us – those baptismal waters in which we daily live – our eyes and our hearts are opened to behold the living Christ, standing as the chains of death and hell lay broken at his feet.  There is no other response than to simply trust, raise our voices and cry out at last, “Lord! I believe!”  

DON'T LOOK BACK - Jan. 5, 2020“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?" Isaiah 43:18-20Lot’s Wife - Genesis 1915At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. “Hurry,” they said to Lot. “Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out right now, or you will be swept away in the destruction of the city!”...17When they were safely out of the city, one of the angels ordered, “Run for your lives! And don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”23Lot reached the village just as the sun was rising over the horizon. 24Then the LORD rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. 25He utterly destroyed them, along with the other cities and villages of the plain, wiping out all the people and every bit of vegetation. 26But Lot’s wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt.Abraham’s Death - Joshua 1 1After the death of Moses the LORD’s servant, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant. He said, 2“Moses my servant is dead. Therefore, the time has come for you to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan River into the land I am giving them. 3I promise you what I promised Moses: ‘Wherever you set foot, you will be on land I have given you— 4from the Negev wilderness in the south to the Lebanon mountains in the north, from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the land of the Hittites.’ 5No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. For I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you.Jesus: Your Plow, Not Your Past - Luke 951As the time drew near for him to ascend to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. 52He sent messengers ahead to a Samaritan village to prepare for his arrival. 53But the people of the village did not welcome Jesus because he was on his way to Jerusalem. 54When James and John saw this, they said to Jesus, “Lord, should we call down fire from heaven to burn them up?” 55But Jesus turned and rebuked them. 56So they went on to another village. 57As they were walking along, someone said to Jesus, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58But Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place even to lay his head.”59He said to another person, “Come, follow me.” The man agreed, but he said, “Lord, first let me return home and bury my father.”60But Jesus told him, “Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead! Your duty is to go and preach about the Kingdom of God.”61Another said, “Yes, Lord, I will follow you, but first let me say good-bye to my family.” 62But Jesus told him, “Anyone who puts a hand to the plow and then looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God.” The Plan: Joshua 1 6“Be strong and courageous, for you are the one who will lead these people to possess all the land I swore to their ancestors I would give them. 7Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do. 8Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. 9This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”Jesus’s Words 32Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! 33If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it. Luke 17:32, 33

Series: N/AService: Gospel MeetingType: SermonSpeaker: Wilson AdamsText:  2 Corinthians 5:7, Matthew 14:22-33If you're going to walk by faith:1.  Make the decision to get out of your boat (comfort zone).2.  Understand that the storm (challenges) may not immediately go away.3.  The challenges have to be accepted as the price of growth.4.  You're going to connect with The Living God.

This episode is about the minimum online tools you'll need to effectively run your coaching business. It's part of my Mindsets & Habits series.I'm going to share my 3 all time favorite online tools. The kind of apps that save brain cells, time and money.We'll also talk about pitfalls new coaches fall into when they grab up lots of tools with monthly costs.For every tool I mention I'll share the link on my Show Notes for today, which you can find at prosperouscoach.com/33If you're totally tech savvy, this might be remedial for you.But most coaches I meet are a little tech shy. They don't love learning how to use online tools. They just want to coach so every additional thing they need to use to find, attract and enroll their clients feels heavy.I've heard many a sigh and fear in the voices of my clients who worry about how tech will impact their time.If that's you, I get it. When I started as a coach I was a total luddite — the last to know anything tech related. Now, on the tech savvy scale I'm somewhere in the middle. I know how to use a few things extremely well and most things at a small percentage of their capabilities and that's okay.This may be a relief to you ... you don't have to be a techno geek to leverage a few choice tools well and have them help you attract and enroll clients. I like tools that I can wade slowly into. I want to learn what I need to know now, then learn more later once I've mastered the basics.So let's get this rolling ...First, I'll cover a set of applications that all coaches need to run a smart business.1. An Email Marketing Service2. A Client-Winning Website3. An Online SchedulerLet's talk about each of these and I'll share my favorite tools for each.1. Email Marketing Service Sometimes called an Email Blast Company or Email Campaign Company, this service is all about getting your messages out to people who have trusted you by opting in on your website for a free offer. It's also called a leads list but what I like to call your community.This type of service helps you:· manage email addresses of people who have opted in for your free offer· get your emails delivered in a way that meets regulations· automates everything so you save time· build trusting relationships with followers No doubt you've heard of Mail Chimp and Constant Contact, there are dozens more that get more and more technical and costly up the scale. For a startup coach I suggest a relatively inexpensive and easy to use service. my hands down favorite is Aweber (affiliate link). It's been around a lot longer than most Email Marketing Services. Here's why I LOVE them:· Customer Service· Customer Service· Customer ServiceI'm the kind of person who wants a person I can talk to in real time if I need help. Most tech companies don't share their phone number or at best only have an online chat. If they do let you speak with someone you reach an overseas call center. And your problem takes 3x longer to fix than it should.Whenever you call Aweber you get to a highly trained person within a minute or two who will help you or find someone to help you in one phone call.They'll patiently teach you how to use their systems so it's easy peasy. And no one says anything like: "I understand your needs, Miss Rhonda."The other reasons I like Aweber is:· They are highly respected by ISP

Do we sound a little verklempt this week? Our show is full of fond farewells, from Paul Simon's goodbye tour to our own producer Aaron Scott's departure for green Field Guide pastures. But it's not all tears. Before Aaron goes, he'll tell what he’s learned reporting on arts for the better part of a decade. We also chirp with the writer who followed Paul Simon’s life story, and mix it up with one of the top practitioners of pop criticism working today.Reconsidered: Johnny Cash's "At Folsom Prison" Album at 50 - 1:08In May 1968, Johnny Cash made a record that opened America’s eyes to life behind bars. But are those songs still relevant today? A group of Oregon musicians and artists, under the name Luther’s Boots, are re-staging the concert at prisons around the state to find out.To help fund their Folsom50 tour, they’re putting on a concert for those on the outside at Portland’s Polaris Hall May 20.Pop Culture Talk with Chuck Klosterman - 8:33If the first eighteen years of the century have left you gasping for breath, take heart. The post-Avengers, post-Kapernick, post-#MeToo, post-Beyonce era is not just an amazing time for pop culture; it's also a golden age of pop culture critics. Chuck Klosterman is one of the best. His bracing essays on music and sports in the "New York Times," the "Washington Post," "Esquire," and "Grantland."Klosterman will read from his latest book, “Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century,” at Powell's in Portland next week.Paul Simon’s Farewell Tour - 19:17This summer concert season is rife with acts doing farewell tours — Joan Baez, Elton John, Yassiin Bey (Mos Def) — but one of the most significant is legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon. His "Homeward Bound Tour" hits the Moda Center May 19. To send him off, we listen back to our interview with Peter Ames Carlin, author of the biography “Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon,” at Wordstock 2016.Aaron Scott’s Greatest Hits - 30:32It’s our bittersweet duty to inform you that this is State of Wonder producer Aaron Scott’s last week on the show. He is moving on to report and produce stories for "Oregon Field Guide." We're totally excited for him and couldn't resist the chance to pull him in front of the mic one more time to talk about some of his favorite moments, and trends he's observed in the regional arts ecosystem as he's reported on it for the better part of a decade.

Matthew 10-:24-33If you pray to be like Jesus, you might end up like him.1. Expectation v24-25 Shame on you if you pray to be like Christ and expect the world to treat you different.2. Illumination v 26-27 The truth must emerge3. Persecution v28 The fear of God is the fear that cancels all fear.