If we mistake stubbornness for faithfulness we can give ourselves permission to degrade and sabotage our relationships in the name of God.

Protecting our sense of gratitude perpetuates our capacity to love

🚨 Parents — your kids don’t need a perfect superhero. They need to see you mess up… and fix it. This IG post is pure gold: When you openly handle a small failure, you’re teaching resilience, emotional regulation, and that mistakes = growth. Not lectures. Real-life modeling. Brain science proves it: Kids mirror how we navigate setbacks, not what we preach. We don’t want to be parents who hide their struggles. Who’s showing their kids the real you this week? https://www.instagram.com/p/DROPB6lCU_9/?igsh=MWs2cm16aWJ2Y2lteQ==

There’s a doctor who uses MRIs to look at the fat around his patients’ hearts, then gives them a plan to remove it. What if we could look into our hearts, not for the fat that leaks toxins or restricts its ability to pump blood, but to show us how well we handle the emotions we’ve experienced? What if we could know if our heart’s emotional state is leaking toxic behaviors and thoughts, and restricting our ability to live a full life? Well now we can, and we don’t need an MRI to do it. We created a 3 minute Emotional Wholeness Assessment that does just that! Here's the assessment

I’ve been numbing out for too long. Hiding behind feel-good Christian worship songs, and church routines that made it look like everything was okay when, deep down, I was hurting and bleeding. The truth is, I was searching for validation from other believers. Hoping that doing all the “right” Christian things would somehow make me feel whole. But recently, a song by Eminem that he wrote for his daughter stopped me in my tracks. It reopened a wound I thought had healed and helped me see that so much of my pain comes from the emptiness left by an absent father. I’ve been looking for what only God could give me in people and in church. But I don’t need validation from the church anymore...that shipped has sailed. I’ve already been validated by God ...fully seen, fully known, and fully loved by my Heavenly Father. We can play church all day long, follow every tradition, and say all the right things, but what if church was never meant to be the man-made version we’ve built? What if “doing church” is really about living out love beyond the four walls!!!! Where real people, real pain, and real healing actually happen!!!! This isn’t me losing faith... I'M HAVING AN HONEST REALIZATION. It’s me learning to feel again, to stop pretending I’m okay WHEN I'M NOT!!! I'm not going to hell just because I don't fit the perfect Christian narrative. LETTING God’s love touch the deepest parts of my heart is the only way to true freedom... no religious garbage.