Podcast appearances and mentions of esther emery

On this edition of Dialogue, Marcia Franklin talks with Idahoan Esther Emery, who wrote a book about her year off the internet called “What Falls From the Sky.” Emery talks about the crisis in her life that made her decide to unplug from the web, the challenges she encountered, and how the experience grounded and connected her in new ways to herself and her family. The two also talk about Emery's current life living off the electric grid with her husband and three children in the mountains above Robie Creek, about 30 miles from Boise. Emery homeschools her children, and the family raises goats and chickens, along with growing some of their food. Her mother, Carla Emery, was a leader in the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s, and the author of the popular “Encyclopedia of Country Living.” Originally aired: 02/10/2017

Esther Emery was lost: her marriage was a mess, her career had stalled out, and she didn't know what to do. So she decided to go off of the internet for a year. A YEAR.  Then she wrote a book about that experience, and it's gorgeous, thoughtful, and challenging. Her book is called What Falls from the Sky: How I Disconnected from the Internet and Reconnected with the God Who Made the Clouds. It's so good.  Here's what Sarah Bessey has to say about Esther's book: "You've never read a book like this one: frankly self-deprecating, boldly complex, intense, joyfully honest, devastatingly beautiful, heartbreakingly funny. What Falls From the Sky is about so much more than one woman's year without the internet, it's about marriage and choices, faith and rest, community and family, grief and hope, food and dirt, all the thigns that make our lives worth living. It is impossible to live an unexamined life with Esther as your friend. She is completely herself and so her story sings of freedom within the silence and even within the noise." I loved my conversation with Esther, and I think you will, too. Get in touch with Esther and all she does by visiting her website.  The music on today's episode is from Nichole Nordeman (Beautiful Day). 

I believe that each best choice that I make will add up to the best life that I can live. ~ Esther Emery Esther is an off-grid homestead wife, mama, and author. She lives with her husband and three children in a yurt (!!) in the forest (!!!) where they maintain a blog and You Tube channel about the simple life. They raise goats, and bake bread, among many other amazing things. She just released her first book, What Falls From the Sky: How I Disconnected from the Internet and Reconnected with the God Who Made the Clouds, in December.  I love talking with Esther because she makes me think big about God and people and change.  I’m excited for you to get to meet her today. Here’s the interview on Dear Daughters Episode 29. All the show notes are right here.  

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On the 100th (!) episode of the Mama Bear Dares Podcast, Tesi and Leslie talk to Esther Emery, author of the beautiful memoir What Falls From the Sky, about motherhood, womanhood, and engaging the Mama Bear in summoning the courage to do what is right for us as individuals. The women discuss what life is like without digital distraction, where personal validation comes from, and recognizing and overcoming the obstacles that keep us from being our very best selves. Leslie and Tesi adore the book and the conversation and think listeners will be fascinated by Esther's story and her wisdom. Listen in as the women unpack What Falls From the Sky and revel in a fantastic episode 100! For full Show Notes, visit the Mama Bear website!

Welcome to The Shaun Tabatt Show! Today I speak with Esther Emery about her recent book What Falls from the Sky: How I Disconnected from the Internet and Reconnected with the God Who Made the Clouds (Zondervan, 2016). Here's what you'll learn in today's interview: The Esther Emery origin story. (01:25 - 02:48) How a phone call led to an impulse idea to spend a year off the internet and write a book about the experience. (02:49 - 05:06) Identity crisis and withdrawal symptoms that quickly emerged after disconnecting from the web. (05:07 - 07:56) New experiences and routines that began to fill in the gaps that were previously consumed by time online?(07:57 - 10:07) Shifts in Esther's marriage during this season. (10:08 - 13:16) Changes in motherhood and parenting. (13:17 - 15:09) Rediscovering God and a “surprise” missions trip to Nicaragua.  (15:10 - 18:24) The importance of seasons in the year-long journey without internet. (18:25 - 20:37) What Esther would like to see every reader do after finishing the book. (20:38 - 22:22) Esther is back on the web these days, but she'll never go back to how she was before. (22:23 - 24:31) Moving from Boston back to Idaho and how her family ended up living in a yurt. (24:32 - 26:03) Unique challenges and surprises living off the grid in a yurt. (26:04 - 28:29) What has it been like to essentially live out your mother's dream and vision for the back to the land movement? (28:30 - 31:00) Where to connect with Esther and find her book online. (31:01 - 31:42) About the Book:  Esther Emery was a successful playwright and theater director, wife and mother, and loving it all - until, suddenly, she wasn't. When a personal and professional crisis of spectacular extent leaves her reeling, Esther is left empty, alone in her marriage, and grasping for identity that does not define itself by busyness and a breakneck pace of life. Something had to be done. What Falls from the Sky is Esther's fiercely honest, piercingly poetic account of a year without Internet - 365 days away from the good, the bad, and the ugly of our digital lives - in one woman's desperate attempt at a reset. Esther faces her addiction to electronica, her illusion of self-importance, and her longing to return to simpler days, but then the unexpected happens. Her experiment in analog is hijacked by a spiritual awakening, and Esther finds herself suddenly, inexplicably drawn to the faith she had rejected for so long. Ultimately, Esther's unplugged pilgrimage brings her to a place where she finally finds the peace - and the God who created it - she has been searching for all along. What Falls from the Sky offers a path for you to do the same. For all the ways the Internet makes you feel enriched and depleted, genuinely connected and wildly insufficient, What Falls from the Sky reveals a new way to look up from your screens and live with palms wide open in a world brimming with the good gifts of God. About the Author:  Esther Emery used to direct stage plays in Southern California. But that was a long time ago. Now she lives with her husband and three children off the grid in a yurt, tending to three acres in the foothills of Idaho's Rocky Mountains. She writes about faith and trying to live a fearless, free life at www.estheremery.com. Connect with Esther: EstherEmery.com Facebook Twitter (@EstherEmery) YouTube Instagram For additional show notes, visit ShaunTabatt.com/111.    

In this episode of Keep Moving Forward I interview Christian author and vlogger Esther Emery.   If you guys are inspired by the stories that my interviewees and I share with you each week, please consider becoming a patron of my podcast at https://www.patreon.com/keepmovingforward. Of course, all episodes will still be free both on iTunes and at http://keepmovingforward.us/, however, if you would like to ensure my future success, your support would be much appreciated.   “I exist even when no one is looking at me.” This is one of the many enlightening conclusions Esther Emery came to in her year living without the internet. Determined to find rest in her tumultuous world, Esther decided the way to begin would be to detach from her online self. No internet, no social media, no credit cards. She would live in a world without the readily available GPS, without a cell phone, without any of the online contact that our generation seems unable to live without. Esther believed that the only chance she might have at discovering true rest, something she didn’t even think was really possible to attain, was to go to the opposite extreme of the world she resided within to find the balance. So, she cut herself off from a world dependent upon technology for one full year, not knowing exactly what she would find or truly what she was looking for. With this lack of understanding at the start, though, by the end, she ultimately found everything she needed.   How did she do it you might be asking? Or even why did she do it? Well, I guess you will just have to listen to find out. I hope that you enjoy my discussion with Esther Emery.   If you would like to learn more about Esther, you can visit http://estheremery.com/, follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all @EstherEmery, and you can subscribe to her YouTube channel @EstherEmery. Furthermore, you can read her new book, recounting her entire journey, called What Falls from the Sky. Don’t forget, if you enjoy my podcast and the content that I give to you each week, please consider becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/keepmovingforward. Always remember, you can beat the odds and go the distance, if only you keep moving forward.

Esther Emery and her family just moved...from a yurt to a cabin she and her husband built from scratch with trees from their property. She is a homesteader, working on the skills of homemaking and sharing her experiences and knowledge with her followers. It is an intentional, alternative lifestyle. And one she wasn't planning on. Until life got difficult a few years ago and things needed to change. In this episode we talk with Esther about the heartache that caused some external changes (like going off of the internet for a year), which led to internal reflections and work (her own coming to faith and reconciliation with her husband). We talk through what it means to choose to love your spouse and choose to trust when that very trust has been broken, the benefit of stopping and slowing down as a family, and the determination to make the ordinary count. From homeschooling to canning Esther's life is filled with connection to God's creation.

Welcome to Episode 18!  So, if you’re the daughter of a famous homesteader, you’re destined to live off the land yourself, right? Today, you’ll find out what falls from the sky when a teenager rebels against the mother of modern homesteading. Listen Now! Subscribe to Self-Sufficient Life on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play or TuneIn So, imagine your mother wrote the book on Country Living. I mean—literally. In addition to bearing seven children in the 70s, Carla Emery also found time to write The Encyclopedia of Country Living. That’s the first book that many wannabe homesteaders place on their mantles. It’s a million word tome that’s on my bookshelf, and I’ve thumbed the pages of my copy until they’ve frayed. But this isn't a story about Carla. It's the story of Esther Emery, Carla's youngest daughter. Carla was 30 when her first child was born in 1970, 40 by the time Esther, her seventh, arrived. In a “back-to-the-land” era when it seemed everyone wanted to know how to make it in the country,The Encyclopedia of Country Living began selling like hotcakes. But Esther grew up on the latter side of that trend, as the go-go 80s and 90s saw Silicon Valley capitalistic values render the idea of homesteading as quaint and archaic. When tragedy struck Carla's family and resulted in her losing her homestead, Carla, the mother of modern homesteading, was forced to move to the city to homeschool her children. As a result, Esther knew nothing of the life of open spaces and farm chores that her mother wrote about, and took a long and winding path through life to where she is today. That path included battling bulimia, enrolling in a far away college at the age of 15, a career in theater in southern California and even a full year of self-imposed exile from the Internet, a story she chronicled in her new book, What Falls From the Sky. After that year of exile she and her husband, Nick, felt a calling to return to their Idaho roots, where they have lived off-grid in a yurt for three years while Nick builds their cabin from timber he milled himself. Now that Esther is baking bread in a wood stove, doing laundry with the help of a bicycle and fighting off bears, she is finding that the circle of life is becoming complete. She is becoming like the mother she rebelled against as the land has summoned her home. It's a great story of renewal and redemption that you won't want to miss. Grab your coffee and listen in. Subscribe Make it easy on yourself and subscribe to the show, and you’ll never miss an episode of Self-Sufficient Life: Thanks for Listening! Thanks so much for joining me this week for Self-Sufficient Life. If you enjoyed this episode, please SHARE it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post. Also, PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and I greatly appreciate it!   Resources Relevant to This Episode Esther Emery's Site What Falls From the Sky by Esther Emery How to Make Money Homesteading by Tim Young The Accidental Farmers by Tim Young Start Prepping by Tim Young Production Credits Story written by Tim Young Music Credits Theme Song - Opting Out Today - Lyrics by Tim Young Other royalty-free music by www.bensound.com, Kevin MacLeod & Audionautix

Esther Emery is effervescent and fascinating. Not only is she a beautiful writer, but her subject matter hit me where it hurts. She disconnected from the internet for a whole year. In her book, What Falls From the Sky, she recounts what precipitated her disconnection and how the quiet space that opened... The post Episode 63-Esther Emery appeared first on Anita Lustrea.

Melanie talks with Esther Emery about her new book, What Falls from the Sky. After her husband had an affair with her best friend, Esther moved across the country with her family and embarked on a year without the internet. She currently lives off the grid in a yurt in the mountains.

Today we welcome author, blogger and YouTuber Esther Emery to the show! Esther comes to us from her homestead in the snowy woods of Idaho to chat about her new book, What Falls From The Sky: How I Disconnected From The Internet and Reconnected With The God Who Made The Clouds, and to share her unique insights on how to have a more intentional Christmas in which we can receive all the gifts we already have. Where can you find Esther You may Ask?Her main home online is right here at her website, but if you want to go straight to her family’s YouTube channel, click right here and please of course head to Amazon and preorder her new book by clicking right here. Let’s Talk About The Things We Can’t EvenJennie- Potty Training and Falling off this horrible wagon.Esther- Walls in her new cabin, built by her family!Leanne- A new-used mini van with heated seats after months with a heat-less ride to school each morning. Books, TV and Movies Mentioned in the ShowTeaching a Stone to Talk by Annie DillardWest World on HBOAs always we want to connect with you about this and all our shows, to join the conversation at the Mom Life Crisis Support Group, head here or follow us on Instagram right about... here.That's all for this show, number 18! We will see you next week.