A Heart for Truth

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!It takes a team.  It takes patience.  It takes showing up kind. Then anything is possible. Music by Scott Holmes - A Wee Tipple Non Copyright Music

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!When we allow grief do its work, we might be surprised by what we find.Music by Scott Holmes - A Wee Tipple Non Copyright Music

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!May the heart and will of everything good, on earth and in heaven, be set on making things right for this one. Music by Scott Holmes - A Wee Tipple Non Copyright Music

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!You never know where you find sacred spaces.  Ordinary places become holding places when in transition, when reflecting on life and when longing for a future. Music by Scott Holmes - A Wee Tipple Non Copyright Music

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!A follow up episode to the story written in the episode "Aim High, Young Man." Regrettable events can lead one to change never thought possible. Music by Scott Holmes - A Wee Tipple Non Copyright Music

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Heartfelt requests can lead to surprising places.  And sometimes, what matters to your own heart gets to be first. Music by Scott Holmes - A Wee Tipple Non Copyright Music

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!There is always a story.  Always more than meets the eye.  But if we discover what's really behind the way someone engages or doesn't, you never know what is possible.  Maybe even change.  Music by Scott Holmes - A Wee Tipple Non Copyright Music

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!True gratitude cannot be forced.  It grows at its own pace making its appearance when its time. And working right alongside of grief, gratitude allow us to experience life in a deeper way and love well.  Music by Scott Holmes - A Wee Tipple Non Copyright Music

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Unforced gratitude makes a surprising appearance right alongside of grief. While grief can become the only story, gratitude writes its own, bringing the color back into our world and breathing hope. Gratitude is not reciting a list in an attempt to be positive.  But a deeply felt experience that helps our hearts stay open when closing down would be much easier. Music by Scott Holmes - A Wee Tipple Non Copyright MusicFollow us on InstagramFor questions, comments, or inquiries, please email [email protected] or DM us on Instagram. 

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!In the podcast's first Q&A (Part 3), Cheyenne reads your questions, submitted via Instagram, to our host, Erma, who listens and answers with a heart for truth. Questions answered in Part 3 include: "How do I have tough conversations with people while still building them up?""How can I identify whether or not the parts of me that aggravate others/cause distance are parts I need to work on or just accept?"Erma's answers leads into what makes a work environment healthy or unhealthy, how our authenticity can trigger others, and more. Follow us on Instagram for your own opportunity to submit a question and keep up to date with the podcast. For questions, comments, or inquiries, please email [email protected] or DM us on Instagram. 

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!In the show's first Q&A (Part 2) , Cheyenne reads your questions, submitted via  Instagram, to our host, Erma, who listens and answers with a heart for truth. Questions answered in Part 2 include:"How do I know when to let go of someone or something?" "Is there a way to know whether I'm just insecure or if I'm actually not performing well at work?""How do you know when the amount of bickering has gone too far in a relationship?"Thanks for joining us! Follow us on Instagram for your own opportunity to submit a question and keep up to date with the podcast.For questions, comments, or inquiries, please email [email protected].

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!In the show's first Q&A (Part 1) , Cheyenne reads your questions, submitted via  Instagram, to our host, Erma, who listens and answers with a heart for truth.  Questions in Part 1 include: "How do I learn to not let my emotions drive the car but not put them in the trunk?" "How can we navigate being present to a friend's emotions while making space for ours as well?", and more. Follow us on Instagram for your own opportunity to submit a question and keep up to date with the podcast.For questions, comments, or inquiries, please email [email protected]

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!In the third and final episode of the Mother Daughter Special, Cheyenne and Erma discuss Erma's experience as a teenager and how it laid the foundation for her love of working with teenagers.  They also discuss the skills that can be learned through play and wit.  And how those skills impact relationships and conflict. For questions, comments, or inquiries, please email [email protected]

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Cheyenne continues the conversation with her mother.  They discuss how Cheyenne navigated dynamics at school, the difference between niceness and kindness and what makes a conversation gossip or an authentic expression of one's experience.

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Cheyenne Summer talks with her mother, the host of A Heart For Truth, about their relationship and asks what fostered their special connection. "The failure is not in making mistakes.  The failure is in not showing up when we make mistakes. 

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Have you encountered surrender?  And what has that looked like?  What event brought you to surrender?Join me as I read a letter written to surrender. And consider writing your own.  

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!We, all, have had experiences involving trust and betrayal which leave us deeply wounded or powerfully healed. This is a letter to betrayal.

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!From little on up, we learn what parts of us are acceptable and unacceptable.  While this is one of the ways socialization takes place, we often lose integral parts of who we that do not fit inside society's box.This episode is a letter from one of those parts I am having to re-integrate at a deeper level, reminding me that without it, I will walk through life with a limp.

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!A conversation led to thoughts of the power of mamas.  But we often do not realize that power and miss opportunities too deeply impact our daughters and sons long after they turn 20, 30 and 40.  No matter how old we are, we all still need healthy mamas.  

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!During our 1st episode, “The Life of a Leader in Education,” Adam shares how realizing his desire to be a teacher at the age of 14 sent him on a journey where he gained experience in a wide range of schools, both in Japan & the U.S. He became not only a teacher but also an administrator in education, serving and developing those he led.  In our 2nd episode “Building a Team,” Adam shared the difference between team building and building a team and describes who the Creative Innovator, the Data Analyzer, the Worker Bee and the Social Regulator and how they contribute to an effective team.  And now we have come to our 3rd episode, “How a Growth Mindset Impacts the Way We Both Follow and Lead.”  Adam Fraser will share how the idea of growing ourselves helps us transition from passive followers to active participants.  

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Adam Fraser, who joined us in the first episode of our Leadership series titled "The Life of a Leader in Education" is back.  Together, we take a look at the dynamics of building a team and he walks us through four roles he has found to be crucial to building a "superhuman" type of team.

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Rob Miller continues his journey. From walking the Appalachian Trail to living on the streets of San Diego, too discovering a relationship with his father just might be possible, Rob takes one step at a time to find the healing he has been looking for.    

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Grab a cup of coffee and listen in as Rob and I sit at the kitchen table while he shares a bit of his life story.  From football to living on a native reservation in Ontario to joining the Marines, Rob is on a journey of finding the answers to questions regarding masculinity, the difference between being put on a pedestal and being loved and what family really is.   

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Finding ourselves in the dark, in the middle of the ruins of what used to be a life is disorienting and painful.  What we don't know is that darkness is where new life often begins.As Sue Monk Kidd points out in her book "When the Heart Waits," life is incubated in the dark. You're welcome to join me as we take a look at how the return of spring and the story of Easter are signs of what comes next in the life of the heart.

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!How does the heart doctor, ice cream, sticky fingers and stomping our feet relate to our need for belonging and our need to be real? And how do these connect to the way we parent our children?Join me as we take a look at attachment and authenticity as described by Dr. Gabor Maté and at a few examples of what it might look like to meet both of those needs within our children and the work it takes as a parent to do so.  

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!Adam Fraser. Husband, father, coach & educator.  You're welcome to pull up a chair and listen in as Adam shares his life story and how his faith both informs and inspires him to carry out his purpose and impact the lives of those around him.

Send a text message to A Heart For Truth!You know, sometimes life doesn’t make sense.  It feels random and leaves us with more questions than answers.                                                          But I’ve learned that’s often when deep transformation takes place.  If I allow it, it opens my heart to learning some amazing thingsI’d love to have you come along and together, take a look at the dynamics of things like leadership, relationships, parenting. And my very favorite…listening to the stories of others with a heart for truth.