Podcasts about Ache

John Starke preaches from Romans 1, continuing in our sermon series “The Ache of Being Human".

There's a kind of loneliness that doesn't just live in your thoughts — it lives in your body...It's the ache in your chest when you see another couple holding hands.The quiet in the house that feels too loud.The impulse to pour a glass of wine or take something to help you not feel so much.In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, Dawn, Joy, and Tiff guide you through a custom EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tapping practice designed to help you release the nervous system pain of being single in a couple's world — and remember that belonging starts within.Before the guided sequence, you'll learn how EFT actually works:Why we tap on certain meridian points, what each one helps release (grief, shame, resentment, fear), and how those points help regulate your nervous system when loneliness hits hard.Then, together, they lead you through a real-time tapping meditation to help your body feel safe again — safe to feel, safe to rest, and safe to belong to yourself.✨ In this episodeWhat EFT really does to calm the post-divorce nervous systemThe nine meridian points and the emotions they help releaseA step-by-step guided tapping sequence for the ache of being single in a couple's worldA nervous system reframe that turns “alone” into “at home in myself”

Can you relate to Nicole's story...her authenticity, her courage as she shares her story with you SO THAT you can break free and experience the JOY Jesus dies to give us.Nicole shares how in the past she was "basically a workaholic. Thinking, if I just try harder, I'll finally get this thing together. you know? She as living on that hamster wheel - incessant activity, no rest, no abiding. She describes this silent secret place so many believers live in. And today she has a process she walks women through so they can experience the freedom to become and receive all that God has for us.Nicole has a special invitation right here for you:https://nicoleroth.com Don't miss checking it out!

John Starke preaches from Matthew 19:3-12, continuing in our sermon series “The Ache of Being Human".

Shame isolates, but grace restores the sacred connection were made for. Pastor Josh Hotsenpiller shares how grace breaks the cycle of hiding and draws us back to God.

"I have my own history. I was evicted from Kashmir like many thousands of others. But when I went to Bastar and when I looked at other conflicts and what it was doing to other people, my own misery faded in comparison; because even in the worst of my situation, I had not touched the kind of pain and marginalisation I touched while travelling in the hinterland of India"- Rahul Pandita, author, Our Friends In Good Houses, talks to Manjula Narayan about drawing from his journalistic work in his first novel, points of similarity with Neel, the book's protagonist, the vibrance of his female characters including the Maoist guerilla Gurupriya, who stays with the reader long after the book is put away, and how, besides being a study of one man's search for home, this is also a snapshot of contemporary India with its great dreams and unfulfilled yearnings.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Few things hurt more quietly than being misunderstood, especially by the people you love most. In this episode, we talk about why being truly seen matters so much, how misunderstanding can shape the way we see ourselves, and how to find peace in knowing that not everyone will understand your story the way you wish. Let's Calm it Down in 3…2…1.

Send us a textWe live in a culture that numbs pain instead of naming it. When life unravels through loss, trauma, or burnout, we're often told to “move on,” “stay positive,” or “just have more faith.” But what if the way forward isn't denial—it's lament?In this episode, pastor and writer Allyce Fogle-Logue joins us to talk about her new book Heaven's Ache—a forty-day journey through the Psalms that reclaims lament as a sacred rhythm for the soul. Born out of her own season of grief, Allyce invites us to rediscover the language of honest sorrow, where we can bring our pain before God without pretending everything's okay.Together, we explore why lament isn't weakness but worship, how it helps us process loss with hope, and why the Church needs to recover this forgotten practice. Whether your wounds are fresh or long-hidden, this conversation will help you lament like you mean it—and encounter the God who meets you in the ache.Support the show

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On today's episode we discussed the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Barbados with Minister Leslie Bruzon who will be in the studio, as well as CPA Honorary Secretary of the Branch, Philip Borge McCarthy.There's growing concern among parents of Gibraltar's youth rugby players over a sharp reduction in training time. Tom Tunbridge and Chris Lugnani, representing the parents of Gibraltar's youth rugby community, spoke to us in the studio.A charity five-a-side football tournament was taking place from the stadium, raising money for the GBC Open Day, organised by the Peter J. Isola Foundation. We heard from Albert Isola from the Foundation, as well as our sports reporter Jose Mari Ruiz, who was there playing football himself!And, Journalist and writer Priya Gulraj reflects on “the millennial ache” - reminiscing about cassette tapes, beach days, and long phone calls on landlines. She joined us in the studio with fellow Millennials and GBC journalists Christina Cortes and Michael Beltran. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we explore Urdu word Ranj, sorrow, grief, and the small heartbreaks that shape our lives. From Sahir to Dagh, Shakeel, and Irfan, each poet has experienced, expressed, and understood Ranj in their own way. Sometimes it becomes empathy, sometimes resilience, and sometimes a quiet irony.We unpack these layers through poetry and reflection, showing how Ranj is not just about pain but also about how we feel, endure, and even find meaning in it. Tune in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Starke preaches from Genesis 1:26-28 and Genesis 2:18-25, continuing in our sermon series "The Ache of Being Human".

A sermon by Phil Shimer based on Ecclesiastes 3 preached on October 12th for our West congregation as part of our sermon series called "Fully Alive: Wisdom and the Way of Jesus in Ecclesiastes"

Dr. Tom Curran shares highlights from a conversation with a FOCUS Missionary, on issues during adolescence: the ache, the urge and the yearning. Tom talks about his recent trip to Fort Collins, CO, and shares insights on experiencing loneliness.

What does it take to grow as a healthcare leader in today's complex environment?  In this episode, host Janet Schulz, Chief Administrative Officer at MyPath, sits down with Sherrie Dorow of Aurora Healthcare and Andy Hillig of LAK Group to explore how ACHE-WI's Leadership Development Program shaped their professional paths.  Hear firsthand how this experience … Continue reading Episode 44: Leadership Development at ACHE-WI →

Before my wife traveled to Zimbabwe recently, we sat at the dinner table one night chatting, and she said she felt some type of way about going home. Not dread exactly. Not simple excitement either. Something more tangled. Love and distance sitting next to each other, both equally true, both equally present.I understood exactly what she meant. That mix of longing and apprehension. Wanting to go and wanting to have already left. Missing home while wanting to keep the distance.We talked for a long time that evening, circling around something we both knew but struggled to name. The conversation kept returning to the same uncomfortable truth: home doesn't feel the same anymore. Not really. Not in the way we used to fit there, effortlessly, without thinking about it.We love the place we come from: Bulawayo. I miss it in ways that surprise me, in the middle of ordinary days when I'm doing something completely unrelated and suddenly the longing hits like a physical thing in my chest. But loving a place and fitting in it aren't the same thing. We're learning that the hard way.Maybe you know this feeling too. That pull toward home that sits alongside a quiet dread. The way you count down to a visit with genuine excitement and genuine anxiety living in the same breath. The strange guilt of missing a place while simultaneously knowing you can't stay there long. If you've felt this, if you've tried to explain it to someone and watched your words fail to capture the complexity, this is for you. Not to fix the tension but to name it. To give you language for what you already know inside but can't quite say out loud.I love reading fantasy. Right now I'm working through The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. It's a long series. Fourteen books. Epic in every sense of the word. While on a walk yesterday, I finished Book Five (I was listening to the audiobook) and as I was reflecting on what I had just experienced, that conversation with my wife came back to me and wouldn't leave because I'd found something that explains the feelings we were having.The story of the Wheel of Time follows a group of young people from a farming region called the Two Rivers. Small, quiet place. Everyone knows everyone. But they're forced to leave the Two Rivers to go on an epic adventure. One of them, Rand, discovers he's the prophesied Dragon Reborn. By Book Five, he's learned to channel immense power that could level cities if he loses control. He's seen wonders and horrors that no one from the Two Rivers could imagine. He's made choices that ripple across nations, decisions that affect the lives of thousands of people he'll never meet. He carries the weight of the world now. Literally.As I reflected on the ending of book five, the thought that was stuck on my mind is that there's no way Rand could go back to the Two Rivers and fit in anymore. He's become too big for it. The shape of his life has changed so fundamentally that the old mould can't hold him anymore.While I haven't quite gone on an epic adventure of world-changing proportions, I know that feeling. I live in it.There's a saying in isiNdebele. ‘Ukuhamba kuzal' inkosi,' which translates to ‘Traveling gives birth to kings.' When I was a boy, I thought it meant wealth and status. Kings as men with big houses and German cars that never break down and people who never stand in line at the bank. Now I know it means something quieter and heavier and harder to explain to someone who hasn't felt it. Travel enlarges you. It stretches the borders of who you are and what you can see and how you understand the world. And once you expand like that, you can't shrink back to your old size. Not without incurring a cost, anyway. The box that used to hold you comfortably now feels too small.Bulawayo raised me well. The city gave me a lot I needed to become who I am. It was a good childhood. A happy one. I have many fond memories.During the week after school, I rode bikes with friends. We were a small gang of boys, and we ruled our little corner of the world with the absolute certainty of children who don't know yet how small their kingdom is. We wandered the suburbs exploring. Down streets we weren't supposed to go down. Into yards we weren't supposed to enter. We walked kilometers and kilometers without thinking about it, without getting tired, just moving for the sake of moving and seeing what was around the next corner. Then we had to rush back to be home by six. That was the rule. Six o'clock before parents returned from work. We came back with dust up to our knees. Thick white dust that got into everything. You had to wash your legs before getting into the house. Rinse off all that evidence of your adventures before you were allowed to sit on the sofas or walk on the clean floors.If I was hanging out at a friend's house around mealtime, I'd be counted in automatically. No one asked if you'd eaten or if you were hungry. You were there so you were fed. The same isitshwala and mbida at every table, part of the shared life.Back then, every adult was your parent. In theory and in practice. If you were doing something you shouldn't be doing, any adult could correct you, and you accepted it because that was just how things worked. You knew all your neighbors. Not just their names but their business, their struggles, their joys.It was a small world. Homogeneous in ways I didn't realise then. We were all black. Almost all Ndebele. We all went to the same types of schools and the same types of churches. Our parents were teachers or nurses or clerks or government workers. Solid middle class or aspiring to it. We had the same references, the same jokes, the same understanding of how the world worked. Everyone fit the same basic mold with only minor variations.But it was the whole world. It was all I knew, and all I needed to know. The edges of that world felt far away, theoretical, not something I'd ever actually reach.Then I left.School finished. I worked for a few years. Opportunities appeared. I went to South Africa first. Then eventually moved to London. Each move feeling necessary at the time, practical, the obvious next step.But those moves weren't just geographic. They weren't just about changing addresses or learning new streets. They changed something fundamental to how I saw the world and my place in it.South Africa was the first crack in the homogeneity. Suddenly I was surrounded by people who weren't like me. They spoke different languages, practiced different religions, came from different economic realities entirely. I met some who grew up so poor that my middle-class Bulawayo childhood looked like luxury to them. I met others who grew up so wealthy they genuinely didn't understand what it meant to worry about money.I remember the first time I met someone who'd never been to church, who hadn't grown up with any religion at all. It broke something in my brain in a necessary way. In Bulawayo, you could assume everyone was Christian. Even people who didn't go to church regularly, even people who weren't particularly devout, still operated within a Christian framework. They knew the stories, the references, the basic moral architecture. But here was someone who didn't. Who saw the world through a completely different lens. Who'd built their ethics and their understanding of meaning from completely different materials.And there were people. A whole community of people who became our people for that season. We found a group of friends in South Africa who felt like our tribe. Like the kind of connection that happens once in a lifetime and surely lasts forever. We took trips together. Long road trips filled with singing and food and getting lost, but it didn't matter because getting lost was part of the adventure. We sang together at different churches, our voices finding harmonies that felt like something bigger than any of us individually. Sunday afternoons that stretched into evenings, having a braai at someone's house, talking about everything and nothing.It felt permanent. That's something you come to discover about these seasons. They feel permanent while you're in them. You can't imagine a version of your life where these people aren't central to it. This is our community. These are our people. This beautiful thing we've built together, it's going to last.It didn't. When we visit South Africa now, we sometimes see them. The friends from that season. We meet for coffee or dinner, and the warmth is real. The love is still there. But something has shifted. They've moved on to new things, new communities, new versions of themselves. We have too. We talk about the old days with affection and nostalgia, but we can't recreate them. Those people still exist, but that community doesn't. It served its purpose for that time and then it dissolved, the way morning mist dissolves when the sun gets high enough.That dissolution used to hurt more than it does now. The first time I really felt a community come apart, I fought it. I thought if we just tried harder, stayed more connected, made more effort, we could keep it alive. But communities aren't just about effort. They're about season and proximity and shared purpose and a thousand other factors that shift whether you want them to or not. Some relationships endure beyond the community. Those ones you carry with you, fold into the next chapter, hold on to across distance and time. But the community itself, that specific configuration of people in that specific place at that specific time, it has a lifespan.Then London. London has been something else entirely. A city so large and so diverse that you could live here for years and still only scratch the surface of it. On the Tube, you could hear ten different languages from five different countries between Baker Street and Paddington. At work, I collaborate with people from every continent, every background you can imagine. People who pray five times a day. People who have never prayed in their lives. People whose parents own businesses that span countries. People whose childhoods included winters that got to -40 degrees Celsius.Each of these encounters did something to me. Stretched me. Challenged assumptions I didn't know I was making. Showed me that the way I grew up wasn't the only way, wasn't the default, was just one option among infinite possibilities.And once you see that, once you really internalize it, you can't go back to thinking your small corner is the whole world. The box expands. The borders move. You become larger than you were.And here too, in London, we found people. Different people. A new community. We're part of something now that feels good and right and like it might last forever. Except we've been here before. We know how this goes. We can feel it already, the subtle shift. Not everyone at the same pace. Some people moving toward different things. The community is still beautiful, still real, but we're not at the apex anymore. We're on the other side of the hill. The slow, inevitable drift has begun. Now I'm learning to hold these dissolutions with more grace. To honor what was without demanding it last forever. To let the community be beautiful for its season and then let it go when the season ends. To trust that the next place will have its own people, its own version of belonging, its own sweet spot before it too shifts into something else.When I visit Bulawayo now, I aim for a sweet spot. Two weeks maximum. Week one is pure delight. Landing at the airport and stepping out into that heat that hits you like a wall. The heat in London is never like that. It's never this specific, this thick, this full of dust and sun and something else I can't name but would recognize anywhere. The air smells different. Feels different on your skin.People light up when they see you. Literally, like you're returning from war. Someone will say you look darker or lighter depending on their mood and the light. Someone will inspect you closely and declare you've gained weight or lost weight, both said with the same mix of concern and approval.You greet everyone. That's important. You have to get it right, or the elders will talk about how you've lost your manners overseas.The first morning you wake up early. Not because you set an alarm but because your body hasn't adjusted to the time and also because the sounds are different. Birds are singing in the trees at five in the morning. A rooster somewhere in the distance, because even in the city people rear their own chickens. The neighborhood waking up with its own particular rhythm.You take the long way to buy bread. You don't need to, but you do it anyway because you want to pass that corner where you used to meet up. You want to see if the tree's still there, if the wall still has that crack in it, if the world has stayed the same in your absence. Mostly it has.Friends come by. Friends you haven't seen in years but who fall back into conversation with you like no time has passed. You laugh from the belly about stupid things you did as kids. Remember that time when. Remember when we. The stories get better each time you tell them, embellished with time and distance and affection.For those first few days, it's all warmth. All belonging. You fit into the spaces you left behind like a hand sliding into a familiar glove. You belong to this place, and this place belongs to you. You could live here again. Of course, you could. How did you ever leave?Week two rolls in. There's no clear boundary, no moment when you can point and say here, this is where it shifted. It creeps in at the edges.At first, it's just a small tug. A quiet discomfort you can't quite name. The streets feel narrower somehow. Conversations start to loop back on themselves. The government, and power cuts, and the same stories about the same old people making the same choices. You've heard these stories before. You'll hear them again tomorrow. You still love the food. The braai meat, isitshwala, the texture of it in your fingers, the way it fills you differently than anything you eat in London. Smoke in your eyes. It's perfect. It's home.But by midweek, something else is present too. You can feel the box. The box has walls. The walls are closer than they used to be. Topics you can't discuss because they're too far outside the shared frame of reference. Questions you don't ask because you know the answer will just confirm the gap. You start to notice all the ways you've changed and they haven't, or they've changed and you haven't, or you've both changed but in different directions and now you're standing on opposite sides of a distance that love can't fully bridge.You start counting days. Six more. Five more. By the weekend, the sweetness is gone entirely. If you stay longer, nostalgia curdles into something else. Ache. Then impatience. Then a version of yourself you don't like. Complaining about everything. Feeling trapped in a place you're choosing to be.I've learned to leave before I sour. Before I start resenting the place I love. Before the people who love me start to see that restless part of me that can't settle.This is the pattern we've learned. Most times when that longing for home hits us, we go as far as South Africa instead of all the way to Zimbabwe. Not to meet family necessarily. That's not the main driver. We go to satisfy the ache without fully committing. To dip our toes in the water of home without diving all the way in.Because South Africa occupies this interesting middle space for us. It was the first place that loosened the homogeneity we grew up with. The first place where difference sat next to you on the taxi without anyone making a scene about it. People from everywhere. Accents from all over the continent and beyond stacking on top of each other. The people at the mall looking like a map of the world. Languages switching mid-sentence. Different ways of being existing side by side.It's bigger than Bulawayo. It breathes. It has room for multiplicity, for variation, for people who don't fit the standard mold. We can taste home there, catch the flavor of it in the accents and the food and the mannerisms, without feeling the walls close in quite as fast. We can last longer. Three weeks. Sometimes a month. Before the sweet spot ends and the confinement begins again.This is the part I struggle to explain to people back home. From their perspective, it can look like pride. Like we think we're better because we live overseas now. You think you're too good for us. That's the unspoken accusation, sometimes the spoken one.But it's not that. I wish it were that simple because then I could just correct my attitude and everything would be fine. It's not about better or worse. It's about geometry. About shape and fit. The shape of my life has changed. The container that used to hold it comfortably can't hold it anymore. Not because the container is bad or small or insufficient. Because I'm different. I've been poured into a larger mold and set there, and now I've hardened into a new shape.How do you explain that to someone who hasn't experienced it? There's a song by Sara Groves called “Painting Pictures of Egypt.” She sings: “And the places I long for the most are the places where I've been. They are calling out to me like a long-lost friend.”I feel that deeply. The places I long for most are the places where I've been. Bulawayo calls to me. South Africa calls to me. Not as they are now but as they were when I fit in them, when I belonged without question. Not just the places but the people. The communities that formed and felt permanent and then dissolved like they were never supposed to last at all.The song goes on: “And I want to go back, but the places they used to fit me cannot hold the things I've learned.”And there it is. The whole ache in two lines. I want to go back. The longing is real and deep and constant. But the places that used to fit me can't hold the things I've learned. Can't contain what I've seen. Can't accommodate who I've become. And the communities that once held me can't reform because we've all become different shapes, traveling different roads, even if we still carry affection for what we once had together.And then this line, the one that really gets me: “I am caught between the promise and the things I know.”Between the past and what's coming. Between what was and what might be. Between the comfort of the known and the pull of the unknown. Between the place I came from and the person I'm becoming. Between the communities that were and the ones that might yet be.That's where I live now. In that caught-between space.London is not home. Not yet. Maybe not ever in the way Bulawayo was home when I was a boy, and home meant the place where you belonged without having to think about it.Some days it feels like it might become home. Days when the city reveals some new corner, some unexpected beauty. Other days, it feels completely foreign. Like you're an actor playing a role, always slightly outside yourself.I have small rituals that stitch a sense of belonging in it. A particular bench in a park where the light falls a certain way in the afternoon and I sit and listen to my book. The Turkish restaurant where I order the same thing every time. A church where the singing rises in a way that feels like worship, even if it's not the four-part harmony I'm used to.So, I pack Bulawayo into my pockets and carry it with me. A proverb that surfaces when I need it. A recipe I recreate in a kitchen thousands of miles away that never quite tastes right, but it's close enough. The cadence that returns to my voice when I'm tired, the way I spoke when I was young, slipping through. I carry South Africa in my stride. That wider breath, that willingness to occupy space without apologizing. And I carry the people from there who still reach across distance, who check in, who remember. Not the whole community, but the threads that endured.I'm learning to be in many places at once without being torn apart by it. To hold multiple identities without having them collapse. To accept that communities form and dissolve and that's not failure, that's just the rhythm of a life lived across many places. It's exhausting. The constant negotiation, the code-switching, always standing at the border between worlds. Always saying goodbye to communities that felt permanent, always starting over with new people, always carrying the grief of what dissolved and the hope that this next thing might last. But it's also rich. I see things people who've only lived in one place can't see. I understand multiplicity in a way that only comes from living it.Frodo saves the Shire in The Lord of the Rings. He endures everything to protect it, to make it possible for hobbits to keep living their simple comfortable lives. He succeeds. He returns. The Shire is saved.But he can't live there anymore. The hearth is warm, but he feels cold in a way that no fire can touch. His friends celebrate and feast and marry and settle into peace, and he can't join them. Not really. He can be physically present, but he's not there the way he used to be there. The journey has marked him too deeply. It has changed him in ways that can't be undone.So eventually he leaves. Gets on a ship and sails away to a place where the changed and the marked and the unbelonging go. It's not defeat exactly. It's just honesty. An acknowledgment that some transformations are irreversible.I think about that a lot. About irreversible transformations. About the ways we save the places we love by becoming people who can no longer fully inhabit them. About how we form communities that feel eternal and then watch them dissolve, not because anyone did anything wrong but because that's what communities do when the season changes.This hits especially close to home for so many people I know. My friends who left Zimbabwe. My friends here in London. Most of us didn't leave for adventure or curiosity. We left for survival. For opportunity. To earn enough to support families back home. To pay the black tax. The responsibility to send money home.But here's the cruel irony: the places that pay you enough to save home are the same places that change you so fundamentally you can't fit back home anymore. You see different ways of life, meet people with different values, and form new reference points. Your frame of reference expands. Your assumptions shift. The way you think about time, about work, about what's possible - it all changes. Until one day you go back and realise you can no longer inhabit the place you're saving.The tax isn't just the money you send back. It's the piece of belonging you trade away to earn that money. You can't have both. If traveling makes kings, it also makes exiles. That's the part the proverb doesn't say out loud, but it's there in the subtext if you know how to look.The crown is vision. The ability to see farther, to connect dots across greater distances, to understand complexity and multiplicity and nuance. That's the gift. That's what you gain.The exile is the cost. You belong less easily. Home becomes complicated. The borders that used to feel solid and protecting now feel like walls that are too close, too rigid, too confining. Communities that felt permanent reveal themselves to be temporary. Relationships that seemed unshakeable shift when distance enters the equation. You can't unknow what you know. You can't unsee what you've seen. You can't shrink back down to fit in the space that used to hold you perfectly.That's freedom in one sense. You're not limited to one way of being, one way of seeing. The world is larger for you than it is for people who never left. It's also grief. Deep and ongoing grief for the simpler version of yourself who fit so neatly, for the belonging you can never quite reclaim, for the communities that dissolved, leaving only the sweetness of memory.I'm learning to let the freedom expand me and let the grief soften me and somehow keep both happening at the same time. It's not easy. Some days I do it better than others.I don't aim to fit perfectly anywhere now. I think I'm done with that as a goal.Could I go back if I had to? Yes. Humans are adaptable. Some people I know found middle grounds I didn't - stayed closer to home while still expanding, or settled in nearer countries where the distance isn't quite so far. Given enough time and necessity, I could reform myself to fit the old mould. But I'd have to make myself smaller. I'd have to let go of all those other places I've seen, those other ways of being or carry them silently, never speaking about them, living in permanent longing. Before circumstances force me to shrink back down, I'm choosing to honor the new shape I've become. To carry multiple homes instead of fitting completely in one.Perfection was an illusion anyway. It only felt perfect because my world was small enough that I couldn't see beyond its edges.Now I want something different. I want to carry this expanded world faithfully. To let it make me kinder because I've met people unlike me and learned they're still deserving of dignity. To make me more curious because every person might have a completely different map of reality. To make me less certain that my way is the only road. I want to keep space at my table for someone whose map looks nothing like mine, whose journey led them to conclusions I don't understand. To listen more than I defend.I want to honor the communities that form without demanding they last forever. To leave before I sour and return before I forget. To know my limits and respect them.Home is not a single address for me anymore. It's not a dot on a map. It's a constellation. Multiple points spread across distance, all connected by invisible lines, all part of the same larger map.Bulawayo lives in me, the dust on my legs after a long walk, kombis rattling past with bass thumping from speakers bigger than they should have, that comfortable embrace of familiarity. South Africa taught me difference doesn't have to mean distance, that multiplicity is just reality when you zoom out far enough, that beautiful communities can form and then end and that's fine. London is teaching me to be many things at once without apologizing, to build home from scratch in a place that doesn't know my childhood and forces me to be myself in the present tense. To start over again, with new people in a new place, knowing it might not last but showing up anyway.The constellation moves when I move. I carry it with me. Every place where I've stopped long enough to become a slightly different version of myself. Every person who walked alongside me for a time. Places and people. Enduring connections rather than permanent communities. Many ways of belonging rather than one.The work is simple in concept, difficult in execution. One star at a time. One small ritual. One phone call. One visit before I sour. One return before I forget. One season with people who matter. One graceful goodbye when the season ends.That's the work I'm learning. And if you're reading this, maybe it's your work too. Find your sweet spot. Honor it. Respect it. Return before you forget. Leave before you sour.And know that you're not alone in this strange expanded world. Some of us are walking this too. Carrying constellations. Learning to belong partially in many places rather than completely in one. Building homes that move when we move.Thanks for reading Just Reflections! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justreflections.bhekani.com

John Starke preaches from Matthew 26:36-46, continuing in our sermon series “The Ache of Being Human”.

Introduction Pastor Torry Sheppard begins Ever Ancient, Ever New by celebrating the enduring strength and beauty of the Church. Through a humorous story about a pastor describing his “multinational company” on a flight, he reframes how people perceive the Church—not as an outdated or oppressive institution, but as the greatest movement in human history. From hospitals and schools to justice and family care, the Church has shaped civilization and carried the hope of Christ for over two millennia. Despite scandals and shifting cultures, it endures—not by human strength, but because it is built on the rock of Christ Himself.The Ache of Our Age Acknowledging the growing cynicism toward organized religion, Pastor Torry notes that modern culture rewards criticism of the Church. While he affirms the need for accountability where there has been real harm, he also exposes the deeper spiritual current behind this distrust—a postmodern, hyper-individualistic worldview that rejects absolute truth and views authority as oppression. This isn't new, he reminds us—it's the same lie from Eden: “You will be like God.” In a world disoriented by self-made truth and moral relativism, people are hungry for something solid. The Church, he insists, offers that anchor: a tested, ancient, and enduring truth. Instead of apologizing for the Church to make room for Jesus, believers must recover a holy pride in her beauty, legacy, and mission.Our Inheritance and Stewardship The message shifts to inheritance. The faith we hold didn't begin with us—it was handed down through apostles, martyrs, and reformers who preserved the gospel at great cost. This is our inheritance, but it also makes us stewards. We are called to guard this truth, live it out faithfully in our time, and hand it intact to the next generation. As Jude 3 says, we must “contend for the faith once entrusted to God's holy people.” The Church doesn't stand on shifting ideas but on eternal truths—truths that, as Augustine said, are “ever ancient, ever new.” This series, Pastor Torry explains, will reawaken pride in belonging to the Body of Christ and rekindle passion for passing the torch forward.The Confession that Built the Church Turning to Matthew 16:13–18, Pastor Torry examines Jesus' question to the disciples: “Who do you say that I am?” Peter's reply—“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God”—becomes the confession on which Jesus builds His Church. The rock is not Peter the man, but the truth he proclaimed. The Church is founded on that confession, and every believer who declares it becomes another living stone in God's house. Confession, Pastor Torry explains, is not just intellectual agreement but heart surrender. What we confess shapes how we live. Doctrine is the foundation of discipleship and the doorway into God's family. The early Church captured these essentials in creeds—“the theological carry-on” of the Christian faith. Pastor Torry reads the Apostles' Creed, describing it as the timeless summary of what Christians everywhere have believed: one God, the Father Almighty; Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Son; the Holy Spirit; the united Church; and the hope of resurrection and eternal life.Three Reasons We Can Trust the Church As the message closes, Pastor Torry offers three compelling reasons believers can trust the Church and its message.The Historical Case – Christianity has withstood two thousand years of scrutiny. The manuscript evidence for Scripture is unparalleled, far exceeding that of any ancient work. The doctrines of the faith were prayerfully preserved through councils and scribes who safeguarded orthodoxy long before printing presses existed. The endurance of Scripture and doctrine testifies to divine preservation.The Reason Case – Logic itself supports the credibility of Christianity. Considering the disciples' testimony, one must conclude they were either lying, hallucinating, or telling the truth. Given that they gained no earthly reward and suffered martyrdom for their claims, the most reasonable conclusion is that they spoke truthfully about the risen Christ.The Relational Case – Beyond logic and history, Christianity invites encounter. Pastor Torry shares the story of Thomas Aquinas, who ceased writing after a profound encounter with Christ, declaring that everything he had written was “straw” compared to knowing Jesus Himself. Arguments can point us to Christ, but only an encounter with His presence can anchor us in Him.Closing Challenge Pastor Torry concludes by reminding the church that confession and doctrine are not dry relics but living realities meant to draw us closer to Christ. The gospel we inherit is ancient and enduring, yet it remains new every time a heart confesses, “You are the Christ.” In an age of confusion, the Church must hold fast to that confession—ever ancient, ever new.

10-5-2025 An Ache for Eden - Andrew Fulton by Oneida Gospel Church

A breakthrough discovery in the 1970s was the determination of alpha-fetoprotein levels in the serum of pregnant women to detect fetuses with neural tube defects. In the case of high AFP values in maternal serum, amniocentesis was performed to determine the levels of AFP and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the amniotic fluid to confirm the diagnosis. Currently, the ACOG states that high-quality, second-trimester fetal anatomy ultrasonography is an appropriate screening test for NTDs where routinely performed for fetal anatomic survey at 18 to 22 weeks. If optimal images of the fetal spine, intracranial anatomy, or anterior abdominal wall are not obtained (eg, fetal position or maternal obesity), MSAFP should be performed to improve detection of NTDs (ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 187: Neural Tube Defects. Committee on Practice Bulletins Obstet Gynecol. 2017). Some clinicians (as we do in our practice) order both fetal anatomy ultrasound and msAFP concurrently. What are the implications when the msAFP is elevated with a normal fetal anatomical survey? Where is this msAFP coming from? Listen in for details.1. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 187: Neural Tube Defects. Committee on Practice Bulletins Obstet Gynecol. 20172. Pregnancy Outcomes Regarding Maternal Serum AFP Value in Second Trimester Screening. Bartkute K, Balsyte D, Wisser J, Kurmanavicius J. Journal of Perinatal Medicine. 2017;45(7):817-820. doi:10.1515/jpm-2016-0101.3. Głowska-Ciemny J, Szmyt K, Kuszerska A, Rzepka R, von Kaisenberg C, Kocyłowski R. Fetal and Placental Causes of Elevated Serum Alpha-Fetoprotein Levels in Pregnant Women. J Clin Med. 2024 Jan 14;13(2):466. doi: 10.3390/jcm13020466. PMID: 38256600; PMCID: PMC10816536.STRONG COFFEE PROMO: 20% Off Strong Coffee Company https://strongcoffeecompany.com/discount/CHAPANOSPINOBG

Approach to Pain in Children Ouch! Overwhelmed by a serious boo boo? In this episode, pediatric anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist Dr. Emmanuel Alalade (Children's Hospital of Atlanta) teaches us what to do when Tylenol just won't cut it. Learn about opioid dosing, procedural nerve blocks, and multimodal approaches to pain from infancy to adolescence. 

Jamie Leahey preaches from John 2:13-22, continuing in our sermon series "The Ache of Being Human".

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You've earned the applause — so why does it still feel off? In this episode, we explore why affirmation can't anchor your identity, and how obedience, not approval, is the path to real peace.You've said yes when everything in you whispered no.You've chased the next achievement, the next “well done,” hoping it would finally feel like enough.And yet… something inside still aches.This episode of The Recalibration is for the high-capacity human who's done everything right — but quietly wonders why applause still feels hollow.Julie Holly brings emotional clarity, biblical insight, and deep identity wisdom as she explores why social validation can't hold what only obedience can anchor. You'll hear a vulnerable personal story, a powerful contrast between Peter and Jonah, and the deeper reason so many high performers struggle with approval addiction — even after success.Inside this episode:Why people-pleasing often begins as a safety strategyHow Peter's denial and Jonah's resistance both stem from identity misalignmentThe nervous system's role in approval-seekingWhy performance drains but presence restoresWhy obedience — not applause — is the only secure anchorToday's Micro Recalibration: Obedience isn't just about saying yes — it's about choosing alignment even when it costs you something socially. That could look like disappointing others, releasing an image you've curated, or following God's whisper instead of the crowd's cheer.Where am I saying yes to people but no to God?Write down one place you're called to obey — even if it costs approval.If this episode gave you language you've been missing, please rate and review the show so more high-capacity humans can find it. Explore Identity-Level Recalibration→ Follow Julie Holly on LinkedIn for more recalibration insights → Schedule a conversation with Julie to see if The Recalibration is a fit for you → Download the Misalignment Audit → Subscribe to the weekly newsletter → Join the waitlist for the next Recalibration cohort This isn't therapy. This isn't coaching. This is identity recalibration — and it changes everything.

You know those moments where everything's technically fine…but your soul is like: absolutely not?That was Julie Stephan.A pharmacist. A mom. A stable, "should-be-happy" life.But something deep inside her was getting louder by the day.Until one night, she woke up to a voice that said: “You have to do this now.”No logic. No plan. No podcast binge. Just a whisper that became undeniable.She applied to QCA the next day and said yes to a future that hadn't fully revealed itself yet.In this episode, Ashley and Julie are talking about that moment: the soul ache that won't let you stay the same and what happens when you finally listen.Inside this honest AF conversation: The midnight wake-up call that hit harder than any Instagram quote How she left pharmacy and said yes to coaching, with a newborn on one hip and a toddler on the other. How she booked her first clients without a funnel, niche or 12-week marketing plan How to tell if it's fear or your intuition saying “this is it” Why she didn't wait to feel “ready”, and refused to ghost her next levelIf you've been sitting in the “I know I'm meant for more” ache… this episode is your sign. Press play and meet the version of you on the other side of the decision.JULIE ON THE WEBJULIE ON INSTAGRAMJULIE'S PODCASTASHLEY ON THE WEBASHLEY ON INSTAGRAMDOWNLOAD THE BIG COACH ENERGY TOOLKITJOIN QUANTUM COACH CATALYSTAPPLY TO THE QUANTUM COACHING ACADEMYLISTEN TO ASHLEY'S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST SERIES, BECOME THE BEST COACHVISIT THE BIG COACH ENERGY SHOP

John Starke preaches from Ecclesiastes 4, continuing in our sermon series “The Ache of Being Human”. 

John Starke preaches from Psalm 63, continuing our sermon series "The Ache of Being Human".

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  In the United States, there are more than 3 million women widowed! But, of that number, only 12% are under the age of 50. Let that sink in for a minute. That means that 360,000 women in the U.S. are widowed before they ever hit 50 years old. You know what else it means? It means 3 million of us loved and loved fearlessly! When your partner dies, you ache- you ache because you loved them. It means you are human. It might sound like a depressing number, but the reality is, there are more of us out there than we know. We are not alone. Our guest today, Erica Jane Cheatham-Ormeno, knows this all to well. But the way she has  approached grieving, and how she is handling being single is a viewpoint I think we can all learn from.   Listen now.   Episode Sponsors: GammaTile (gammatile.com) Imvax (Imvax.com) Plus Therapeutics

Does your life feel out of control? Do you find yourself feeling stuck, angry, and resentful, and no matter how hard you try to be nice, or kind, or considerate, you only end up feeling worse? Dear One, that is no accident, as you will learn in this incredible breakthrough episode podcast.  Before Lisa A. Romano was diagnosed with codependency, she lived her life prioritizing others' needs, unaware that her lack of self-awareness, her inability to put herself first, or even to have her needs recognized, was rooted in trauma and missing information. Once Lisa was diagnosed with codependency and learned from an intuitive therapist that she was the adult child of unrecovered adult children of alcoholics, and possibly even dry alcoholics, the wheels in her mind started to turn. From there, Lisa hit the books and the ground running, consuming every book and mentor she could to help her unwind her mind from self-loathing, hypervigilance, negative self-talk, insecurity, and deep feelings of shame and inadequacy. By adding new data into her data bank of self-understanding, through a ferocious and tenacious will, slowly Lisa's entire inner self-perception began to shift, and like a Rubik's cube, her life started reorganizing itself.  Lisa A. Romano is the first to tell you that healing is ugly, terrifying, and lonesome, and she will also ask that you accept the quest despite this, because it is the only way to break through the thick matrix caused by generational trauma. If you are the adult child of an alcoholic, or if you were raised by toxic, narcissistic, wounded, immature, or codependent parents, or if you grew up in what seemed like a normal family but felt emotionally neglected, this podcast episode will resonate with you.  This episode is a must-listen if you: Grew up with a parent who struggle with alcoholic parents. You are the grandchild of an alcoholic. You feel stuck, angry and like your life is out of control. Ache to understand yourself, and how your subconsicous mind controls your emotions, reactions, thinking, and your expectation all outside of conscious awareness.  ✨ Pro tip: Understanding how your childhood has impacted how you 'think' today, how you 'react', and what you expect to occur in your life is you activating metacognition. Childhood trauma resides at the subconscious. Lisa's methods help you breakthrough! Begin Your Healing Journey: Lisa introduces her signature 12 Week Breakthrough Method—a trauma-informed, psychologist approaved, neuroscience-based coaching program designed for adult children of narcissistic, neglectful, or emotionally immature parents. Inside the program, you'll discover: Brain retraining techniques rooted in neuroscience. Inner child healing and self-concept reorganization. Journaling prompts and assessments to increase self-awareness. Tools to stop subconscious self-abandonment and live authentically. How to integrate shadow work and break toxic generational patterns. Thousands have transformed their lives with this method—learning to step out of survival mode and into authentic, empowered living.

John Starke preaches from Hebrews 2, beginning our new sermon series “The Ache of Being Human".

Listen to a powerful message of hope from Ps Joel Milgate (LIFE Team), as we celebrate Father's Day. Ps Joel takes us through Genesis 15, showing how Abraham ached to be a father and pass on his legacy to others. _To find out more about LIFE, visit us at lifenz.org

Click here for the DRB Daily Sign Up form! TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 25-28; Revelation 10 Click HERE to give! Get Free App Here! One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on 'The Daily Radio Bible' for a daily 20-minute spiritual journey. Engage with scripture readings, heartfelt devotionals, and collective prayers that draw you into the heart of God's love. Embark on this year-long voyage through the Bible, and let each day's passage uplift and inspire you. TODAY'S EPISODE: Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible podcast! In today's episode, host Hunter guides us through a transformative journey in scripture as we read Ezekiel chapters 25-28 and Revelation chapter 10. As Hunter thoughtfully unpacks these passages, we hear powerful prophecies of judgment and restoration, reflections on the bittersweet nature of God's promises, and encouragement to trust in the Lord's ultimate redemption. The episode wraps up with heartfelt prayers and reminders of God's love, while inviting listeners to stay connected and support the Daily Radio Bible community. Whether you're starting your day or seeking a moment of peace, this episode offers hope, wisdom, and a reminder that you are deeply loved. TODAY'S DEVOTION: Food can go from sweet to sour. When time has its effect on food, it begins to ferment. And the fermenting in the stomach can create an ache within. The scroll that John is given to eat is sweet. But the promises that are sweet can take time to be fulfilled. More time than we want. And this waiting can create an ache within. We are pained with the desire for fulfillment of the sweet promise of God. We are sick with desire for an end to evil, pain, war, abuse, injustice, and all that's wrong with this broken world. We are aching for deliverance. Like a mother who's delivering a child, the excruciating pain will give way to something new and beautiful. The sweet taste in our mouth is a reminder of the sweet promise of life. But there will be a long ache before it breaks forth into completion. This is not the last time we see God giving food to his servants. There is a feast in store. Revelation 19:7 tells us, Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honor to him. For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb. Waiting will be over and we will ache no more. The sweetness of God's promise will prove to be true. We will see with clarity like never before that his life is a sweet gift. And we will be honored to come and sit at his table. See the sweet promises of God. Taste and see that they are good even though the ache for our deliverance comes. And the prayer of my own heart today is that I will take and eat, that I will wait with expectant and joyful hope for that day to come. That's the prayer that I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters, my son. And that's the prayer that I have for you. May it be so. TODAY'S PRAYERS: Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose  through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.   Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.   And now Lord,  make me an instrument of your peace.  Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.  Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope.  Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness,  Joy.  Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.  For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life.  Amen And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray... Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ.  Amen.  OUR WEBSITE: www.dailyradiobible.com We are reading through the New Living Translation.   Leave us a voicemail HERE: https://www.speakpipe.com/dailyradiobible Subscribe to us at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dailyradiobible/featured OTHER PODCASTS: Listen with Apple Podcast DAILY BIBLE FOR KIDS DAILY PSALMS DAILY PROVERBS DAILY LECTIONARY DAILY CHRONOLOGICAL  

John Gaspar sits down with 11x NHC qualifier Matt Ache who won his NHC and BCBC seats on Labor Day this year.

Dealing with pain? It's something we all go through as we age, but with these tips for boosting your body's healing, you'll find yourself recovering faster and feeling stronger. To support more content like this, become an AARP member at aarp.org. And don't forget to subscribe for more tips and tricks to help make your life a little easier — and happier! 

The AcheThere can be an ache that doesn't seem to go away and in this week's episode of driving with Jev series she addresses this. God can meet you in this place. God has a promise that he is close to those who feel crushed or shattered. What would it look like to stop avoiding the ache and let God meet you there? Once again, Let this episode minister to your heart. Grab a copy of Jevanna's In the Waiting Devotional on Amazon:https://a.co/d/3gahbyA

In this sermon pastor Joel considers the tragic death of Absalom at the hands of Joab, reminding us that we need to be careful how we treat the Son of David. Though we are all like Absalom, in our rebellion against God, the good news is that God has not send us a Joab but Jesus.

Content Note: This episode contains conversations about the loss of a child. It may be triggering for some listeners.In this episode three mothers Clotea, Kendra and myself open up about the unimaginable: losing our children. Together we share what grief has looked like and what it has felt like- the tears that come at times without warning, the moments of laughter that keeps us alive, and the quiet spaces in between. We are hoping our stories help others feel less alone and for others to understand.

If the waiting feels heavy right now, you're not the only one. I know what it's like to carry a longing that hasn't been met yet — to wonder how to keep living fully when the ache is still here.In this mini episode, I'm sharing a practice that's helped me again and again: making room for beauty in the waiting. Because beauty has a way of reviving our hearts when we least expect it. Not as a way to distract yourself, but as a way to breathe, open your heart, and let God meet you here.I'll talk about why beauty can draw you outside of yourself, soften the ache, and even make you more receptive to the gifts He's giving right now. My hope is that you'll leave with encouragement, fresh perspective, and a renewed permission to move slower, look up, and allow beauty to revive you in your waiting.P.S. For the first time ever, we're sharing a few of our most-loved TIS workshops in a special 48-hour flash sale next week. Are you on our email list? Hop on [here➜]—you won't want to miss it. P.P.S. If this episode stirs something in you—a desire to live with more peace, confidence, and hope in the middle of your own “space between”—that's exactly what we walk through together in The Intentional Single's 6-month program. Our next cohort opens September 16–23—join the waitlist [here ➜] to be the first to hear about the Early Bird.P.P.P.S. And mark your calendar—we're hosting a free live event on Thursday, September 18 at 7pm CT. Consider this your official invite! Stay in the know on all things TIS! Subscribe to our Wednesday Wellness & Wisdom FREE biweekly Newsletter! You can look forward to book recs, cycle syncing, workouts, ways to grow spiritually, literally all the things! Subscribe if you want to join club-i-look-forward-to-wednesdays. Learn more about The Intentional Single: https://www.theintentionalsingle.com/ Contact Maria & Meghan: hello@theintentionalsingle.com

Welcome back to another First Friday episode of the Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod! On today's episode Carol tackles loneliness, a problem faced by so many in our increasingly isolating culture. Through life experience and biblical wisdom Carol delivers a powerful encouragement to both embrace the gifts of solitude and proactively counter the despair of loneliness. Order ‘Significant: Becoming a Woman of Unique Purpose, True Identity, and Irrepressible Hope' at https://a.co/d/bj1uqwW Have a prayer request or feedback?Email Carol at: carol@carolmcleodministries.comShe and her team would love to pray for you. Stay Connected:Subscribe to the Significant Women Podcast and share this episode with a friend who needs to be reminded of her worth today.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carolmcleodministriesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolmcleodministriesYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@CarolMcLeodMinistries The Significant Women Podcast with Carol McLeod is edited and produced by WileyCraft Productions. Visit https://wileycraftproductions.com/ to learn more.

Rebekah's WebsiteIf we're honest, we've all had times (or years) that we've felt cut off, invisible, or like no one really knows us.In this first episode of the Belonging series, Rebekah shares a personal journal entry about her recent move and the quiet ache of feeling unknown in a new place. That ache, she's realizing, is something many of us carry whether we're the new girl at school, the tired mom feeling out of sync with her friends, or the long-time churchgoer who still wonders if anyone sees her.This firs episode in our new series explores:The universal longing to be seen, known, and connectedThe difference between situational and spiritual disconnectionWhy so many people feel lonely even in crowded roomsAnd the beginning of a bigger question: What really creates belonging?Whether you're in a new season or have felt this way your whole life, this conversation will help you name the ache and begin to move beyond it. Let's journey together...

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What do you do when your joints hurt? Do you think this is only temporary because I did too much of something? What can you do when joints hurt, or at least ache? Are you thinking or told about knee replacement? If this is you, this is your episode!   My Guest:  Dr. Joshua Schacter, DO, FAAOS, America's Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, is redefining joint care with a commitment to providing actual solutions for his patients. Spending a decade as the Chief of Orthopedic Surgery and Director of the Advanced Orthopedic Center of Excellence, he saw the need for non-invasive, innovative solutions that address the root causes of pain and dysfunction rather than masking symptoms. When his wife was diagnosed with the “breast cancer gene”, the Schacter's became obsessed with wellness, health and how to accomplish true healing. Dr. Schacter dreamed of a more effective and patient-centered approach, the Pinnacle Method.   Questions We Answer in This Episode: [00:05:25] How did your personal experience cause you to shift your focus from traditional orthopedic care to a more holistic and integrative approach?  [00:21:18] What is orthobiologics?  [00:20:20] How does The Pinnacle Method address not just the symptoms but the root causes of joint pain? How does the Pinnacle Method help patients achieve long-term wellness? [00:21:30] How do the treatments you offer support the natural healing process? [00:37:00] Can you define PRP? The efficacy and timeline, cost and success rate?  [00:37:35] What do you find to be true today on surgery and non-surgical treatments? What evidence or success stories would you share to illustrate the effectiveness of the Pinnacle Method? [00:39:30] Your approach is optimizing overall health and longevity. How do you incorporate wellness and prevention into your care for patients?   Know What You Can Do When Joints Hurt   What is orthobiologics? Use of the body's own healing capacity. Includes PRP (platelet-rich plasma), stem cells from fat or bone marrow, cord blood.   What is PRP? Platelet-rich plasma: Draw blood → concentrate platelets → inject into affected joint Cost: $2,000–$6,000 per dose   What is The Pinnacle Method? Combines PRP, functional medicine, and BHRT Addresses the whole patient, not just symptoms   Key Takeaways Orthobiologics like PRP and stem cells are effective alternatives to surgery, especially when used early. Steroid injections can accelerate joint degeneration and should be used cautiously. The Pinnacle Method is a patient-centered approach combining regenerative orthopedics, functional medicine, and hormone therapy. Menopause-related hormonal changes significantly affect joint health, making hormone balance crucial. Connect with Dr. Joshua: Website - Pinnacle Sports Medicine Facebook - Dr. Joshua Schachter Instagram - @drjoshuaschacter Instagram - @pinnacleintegrativeorthopedics YouTube - @drknighthawk   Other Episodes You Might Like: Previous Episode - Extended Cardio and Low Protein Equal Short Term Weight Loss Next Episode - 5 Reasons You're Not Losing Weight or Gaining Muscle After 50 More Like This - Do You Have a Dominant Side? Joint Pain Solutions I'm Using Right Now More Like This - A Trek Up Mt Kilimanjaro with 3 Artificial Joints at 70   Resources: Join the Flipping50 Membership for evidence-based workout programs. Short & Easy Exercise videos in this 5 Day Flip Challenge.

Short term weight loss sounds great BUT it's not all fat – it's muscle! Muscle will be much harder to regain as we age because of anabolic resistance..  Clothes might feel loose and you get weight loss compliments. But short term weight loss is just giving a “false positive” honeymoon period. This might mean you divorced muscle, the love of your life.   1. Muscle Mass Loss (Sarcopenia) Protein Deficiency Protein is essential for building and maintaining muscle tissue. Insufficient protein intake exacerbates muscle atrophy and increases the risk of falls and injuries. Excessive Cardio Prolonged cardio can lead to a breakdown of muscle tissue for energy, particularly if glycogen stores are depleted. This can worsen age-related muscle loss and counteract maintaining strength and function. 2. Bone Health (Osteoporosis) Protein Deficiency Protein is needed for bone health and bone density. Inadequate protein intake, especially after menopause, increases the risk of osteoporosis and fractures. Osteoporosis Risks After menopause, risk of osteoporosis increases due to declining estrogen levels and can weaken bones prone to fracture. Sarcopenia and Osteoporosis Link Having both increases the risk of falls and fractures. Poor nutrition leads to sarcopenic obesity and increases the risk of osteoporosis. 3. Other Negative Effects Reduced Physical Function Since inadequate protein leads to muscle loss, this reduces strength, impaired balance, and decreased ability to perform daily activities. Slow-Healing Injuries Protein repairs tissues. Deficiency can slow wound healing and recovery from injuries. Weakened Immune Function Amino acids from protein build antibodies and maintain a healthy immune system. Low protein intake can lead to frequent illnesses and infections. Potential Cardiac Issues (Excessive Cardio) Associated with potential adverse cardiac effects, such as myocardial fibrosis and an increased risk of atrial fibrillation, in some individuals. Musculoskeletal Injuries (Excessive Cardio) Increases the risk of musculoskeletal issues like osteoarthritis and stress fractures.   What Can You Do Instead of A Short Term Weight Loss Recommendations: Prioritize protein intake with 30 grams each meal. Balance cardio and strength training to build and maintain muscle mass. Listen to your body and avoid pushing yourself too hard or engaging in prolonged, strenuous exercise if it causes excessive fatigue or pain.   References:  Chucherd O, Vallibhakara O, Vallibhakara SA, Sophonsritsuk A, Chattrakulchai K, Anantaburarana M. Association of Sarcopenic Obesity and Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women: Risk Factors and Protective Effects of Hormonal Therapy and Nutritional Status. Arch Osteoporos. 2025 Jun 26;20(1):83. doi: 10.1007/s11657-025-01573-w. PMID: 40569474; PMCID: PMC12202630. Filip Vuletić, Berte Bøe, Considerations in the Aging Female Athlete, Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine, Volume 32, Issue 2, 2024, 151091, ISSN 1060-1872, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.otsm.2024.151091.   Other Episodes You Might Like: Previous Episode - Simple Ways to Know if You're Following Protein Rules in Menopause Next Episode - What to Do When Joints Hurt, Ache or Need Replaced? A Doctor Viewpoint More Like This - Protein for Menopause Hormone Support   Resources:  Join the Flipping50 Membership for evidence-based workout programs. Short & Easy Exercise videos in this 5 Day Flip Challenge. Get the Flipping 50 Protein & Fiber supplements for women over 50 to support muscle health, enhance recovery, and meet daily nutritional needs.  

Join Cami to talk about the ways we fill our lives with noise — scrolling, staying busy, staying “on” — and how that keeps us from facing the ache God actually wants to meet.   https://linktr.ee/camireneejones