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A Lovely Place
by Corrie and Tess
A podcast where we hope to invite Jesus into the midst of our life, learning, and laughter. We'd love for you to join us as we share conversations about things we've learned, stories we've lived or heard, and a lot of us laughing at ourselves! When we invite Jesus to walk with us, everywhere we go becomes "A Lovely Place!"
Episodes
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070 - Life Update (now in motion picture!)
Today we'll give you a little bit of a life update while we talk about what we've been doing and where we're thinking about going in the future! Join us in our first video podcast!
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069 - Atomic Habits (Part 5)
Thanks for listening to our last episode about James Clear’s book, Atomic Habits. This book has really helped us learn new tools to make new habits “Atomic.” One tool is to make the new habit super small and desirable using the 4th law, making new habits satisfying. If its fun and satisfying we…
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068 - Atomic Habits (Part 4)
Hello friends! We are glad you have joined us again today to continue chatting about the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Today’s episode we chat about making a new habit easy as James maps out in the 3rd section of his book, making desired habits easy and bad habits extra hard. What habit can...
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067 - Atomic Habits (Part 3)
Today we are talking about making new habits attractive as we continue to share what we are learning from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits. If you want to create new habits, make them attractive to you so you choose to do it by combining a need to a want such as the need to do the dishes and I…
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066 - Atomic Habits (Part 2)
Hello Friends! Thanks for joining us in our conversation of Atomic Habits by James Clear. The first part of making a new Atomic Habit is to make it obvious and specific. We are discussing some new habits we are making as small as we can so they are small and achievable to actually make some new...
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065 - Atomic Habits (Part 1)
Today is our first conversation about James Clear’s book Atomic Habits! We are excited to share what Jesus is teaching us in this season of our lives and glad that we are ready to make habits in a new way that focus on our core beliefs about the person we would like to be. Mentioned Resources:...
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064 - Building a Resilient Life (Part 7)
Hello friends! Thanks for joining us again today to discuss our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons. Community is the word! We sure have enjoyed reading and discussing this book, so good to see how God is teaching us about community in his word, and in our lives and with the...
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063 - Building a Resilient Life (Part 6)
Hello friends! Thanks for joining us again today to discuss our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons. The focus today is all about Making Meaning in our lives! Mentioned Resources: Rebekah Lyons website with lots of information on her newest book Building a Resilient Life....
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062 - Building a Resilient Life (Part 5)
Hello friends! Thanks for joining us again today to discuss our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons. The focus today is all about training with resistance and choosing to grow step by step. We get to run our own race. We don't need to compare what we are doing to any other...
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061 - Building a Resilient Life (Part 4)
Welcome friends! Today we are jumping back into our conversation about our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons. Let’s get crazy and call anxiety a friend! What? Don’t we need to run away from anxiety, not towards it? Today we discuss this huge perspective shift that anxiety...
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060 - Building a Resilient Life (Part 3)
Welcome back to another episode friends! We are continuing our conversation about our featured book "Building a Resilient Life" by Rebekah Lyons. We sure do appreciate Rebekah’s transparent and authentic way she writes. It feels like we are sitting down with a cup of coffee and chatting about the...
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059 - Building a Resilient Life (Part 2)
Hello! So glad you are here to join us in our continued conversation and discussion of Rebekah Lyons’ book “Building a Resilient Life.” This episode is full of different Bible verses that keep coming to our minds as we both share about what we are learning in this season. We are happy that God…
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058 - Corrie and Stephan’s Identity in Christ (a one-off)
Hello Friends! Today Corrie and Stephan are sharing about what God is doing in their lives. They share what they have been learning from God and what He is speaking over them and into their true identity. The featured book they are reading right now is by Jamie Winship, Living Fearless exchanging...
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057 - Building a Resilient Life (Part 1)
Today is the start of our new featured book. “Building a Resilient Life - how adversity awakens strength, hope and meaning” Written by Rebekah Lyons In today’s episode we chat about different seasons of adversity in our life that made us stronger even though the situations were challenging. We…
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056 - Let's Talk About “Find Your People” (Part 9)
Hello Friends! We are wrapping up our featured book, Find Your People, By Jennie Allen, with this question she asks the readers “What if God wants to shake up our perceptions and expectations of what community and family should look like? We share our stories of when we were feeling at the end of...
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055 - Let's Talk About “Find Your People” (Part 8)
Hello Friends! We are in Chapter 8, Deep -Illustration: shovel Goal: Shared purpose, Barrier: Shallow/small talk. Our lives can become fractured and compartmentalized when we only see people in single spheres of our lives. This can lead us to loneliness and isolation. The depth of relationship...
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054 - Let's Talk About “Find Your People” (Part 7)
Hello Friends! We are now talking about Chapter 7 of Find Your People, By Jennie Allen, Protected, with the illustration of an anvil. Goal: Accountability and the Barrier: Pride Who is keeping you accountable? We all need friends to keep us accountable but many of us are lacking the deep...
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053 - Let's Talk About “Find Your People” (Part 6)
Hello Friends! We are in Chapter 6, Safe today with the illustration of OPEN DOORS Goal: transparency Barrier: Pain/shame This was a challenging chapter to read and to record, putting ourselves out there to practice being vulnerable about past friendship hurts and the fear of trying again and...
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052 - Let's Talk About “Find Your People” (Part 5)
Hello Friends! Do you feel awkward at making friends? You are in good company. Today’s episode we shared how our friendship felt quite awkward at the beginning, but we kept pursuing each other and built a beautiful friendship. There is hope on the other side of awkward beginnings. Jennie Allen...
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051 - Let's Talk About “Find Your People” (Part 4)
Hello Friends! Welcome back to our conversation of our featured book “ “Find Your People.” Chapter 4, Find your People, is our topic of discussion. The necessary ingredients to build healthy friendships are A) availability- say yes friend, B) Humility- being able to say the hard things, and C)...
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050 - Let's Talk About “Find Your People” (Part 3)
Hello Friends! What if we believed we were a valued friend and we have something to bring to each friendship we have? What if we had a vision for something more? We talk about just that in this episode. What if we focused on building a village of friends instead of one best friend forever, to…
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049 - Let's Talk About “Find Your People” (Part 2)
Do you long for deeper friendships? Come with us on our journey learning more about friendship with today's conversation about our featured book, Find Your People by Jennie Allen. Today’s episode we are talking about Ch 2 The connection we crave. ( You will even hear the sweetest lil voice of…
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048 - Let's Talk About “Find Your People” (Part 1)
Hello Friends! We have a new featured book Find Your People by Jennie Allen. We need people to help us make a lovely place for friendships with a space for love, learning and laughter. Join us for this journey to Find Our People. God’s plan for people is community. Let’s try to continue to…
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047 - Let's Talk About “Famous at Home” (Part 12)
Hello Friends! This is our last episode on our featured book, Famous at Home! We close out our time together by talking about decision 7: Set Values. We also touch on family mission. If we go through life with no thought of our values, we can say yes to everything and live with no real purpose....
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046 - Let's Talk About “Famous at Home” (Part 11)
Hello Friends! We are reading Famous at Home, and today we are talking about decisions 5 and 6: Enter Your Child’s World and Establish Family Rhythms. Josh and Christi do such a great job in these chapters of encouraging us to be intentional about play, rest, and loving our families well.…
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045 - Let's Talk About “Famous at Home” (Part 10)
Hello Friends! Part 10 of our Famous at Home discussion. This episode is focusing on decision #3 - Talk about Emotions and decision #4 - Listen To Your Spouse's Heart. We are continuing our journey as mom friends, doing our best to offer our best self to our husbands and kiddos. We are talking...
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044 - Let's Talk About “Famous at Home” (Part 9)
Hello Friends! We are continuing our decision of Famous at Home, and today we’re talking about ways we can take action to create a lovely home. The first decision we are talking about today is Change Your Mindset - how to show up as the best version of you. We discuss what is the biggest pain…
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043 - Let's Talk About “Famous at Home” (Part 8)
Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 8 of Famous at Home, Who are you Becoming? Why parenting is the wrong term. Today we talk about becoming… a different perspective on how we can approach our kids and our spouse. Do we get stuck in the rut of parenting by changing the behaviors of others...
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042 - Let's Talk About “Famous at Home” (Part 7)
Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 7 of Famous at Home, “What are you fighting for? Why your spouse is not your Enemy.” We talk about how our spouse is our teammate, not a competitor. We’re building our marriage together (thinking of it like a wall). We need to build it as a team instead…
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041 - Let's Talk About “Famous at Home” (Part 6)
Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 6 of Famous at Home, Are You Willing? Fame chases those who act. We are continuing to chat about changes we are making with our own attitudes to build a stronger marriage relationship. We discuss the different ways we can dance to create more connection....
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040 - Let's Talk About “Famous at Home” (Part 5)
Today we are discussing Chapter 5 of Famous at Home, Your Significance: How is your identity guiding your family? Thanks for tuning into the podcast today and learning more about being famous at home with us. We are talking about the things we can do to put our family center stage, from putting…
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039 - Let's Talk About "Famous at Home" (Part 4)
Today we are chatting about Ch 4 of Famous at Home Your Biggest Adversary: What shadows keep you from showing up? This chapter is a good opportunity to check in with how your family is connecting and supporting each other. Are you fighting each other or fighting for each other in prayer? We have…
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038 - Let's Talk About "Famous at Home" (Part 3)
Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 3 of Famous at Home: What do your followers really see? How do we actually spend our time, money and mental energy? Does this reflect what we desire for our family? What skills do we need to gain in order to share our best self? We hope our conversation...
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037 - Let's Talk About "Famous at Home" (Part 2)
Hello Friends! Chapter 2 Almost Famous: What are you chasing? Today we chat about what we desire the most in our families, how are we shaping our family values and culture? Sometimes we need a minute to sit and check in with our own hearts so we don’t feel like we are flying around all the time…
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036 - Let's Talk About "Famous at Home" (Part 1)
Hello Friends! We are reading Famous at Home by Dr. Josh and Christi Straub. In this book they map out 7 decisions to put your family center stage in a world competing for your time, attention and identity. Let’s learn to show up for our family in love and care of the other family members… this...
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035 - Let's Talk about End Emotional Eating Part 9 & 10
Hello friends we made it to the end of the book End Emotional Eating! Our tool belt is full from 10 chapters of helpful information. The last chapters “Tasting Values” and “Ending Well and Beginning Again” are what we are discussing in this episode. We sure do value you and are so glad you have...
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034 - Let's Talk about End Emotional Eating Part 8
Hello Friends! Today we’re chatting about the 8th chapter of End Emotional Eating: Cultivating Self-Compassion. Thank you for coming along with us on this journey to help us gain more tools to help us not eat for emotional reasons. Self-compassion, not self-condemnation, cultivates change. Let's…
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033- Let's Talk about End Emotional Eating Part 7
Hello Friends! Today we’re chatting about the 7th chapter of End Emotional Eating: Coping with difficult emotions without a second helping. It’s a good one but has reminded us that this is a journey full of lots of small steps. In this episode we talk about self-soothing vs. avoidance. And we…
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032 - Update with Tess and Corrie
Hello Friends! We will be taking our own advice to be a “Lazy Genius” and keep the pace of the podcast releasing every other week. We get real in this update and share our hearts and our struggles as we both feel like we are in the MIDDLE of a hard season. The season might feel hard and confusing...
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031 - Let's Talk about the Lazy Genius Kitchen Part B yet again!
Hello Friends! We’re back to the Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi! We’re discussing the areas of prep and the table. What matters the most to you about these areas of your kitchen and life? Let’s dig in and become Lazy Geniuses! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional...
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030 - Let's Talk about End Emotional Eating Part 6
Hello Friends! Today we are talking about the sixth chapter of End Emotional Eating. Join us as we approach the subject of our thoughts and some negative thinking patterns: comparisons, perfectionism, and rumination. Let’s learn how to treat ourselves with kindness as we battle negative thought...
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029 - Let's Talk about Lazy Genius Kitchen Part B again!
Hello Friends! Happy back to school season, we recorded this episode in the summer but this episode Tess and Corrie chat about meal planning, tips for shopping, and prep. Each season has its own rhythm so we hope this episode helps you decide what matters about meal planning right now to you....
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028 - Let's Talk about End Emotional Eating Part 5
Hello Friends! Happy Summer we are talking about surfing today. This chapter is not about a fun trip to the beach, it's about our urges to fall into temptation and eat whatever we want without thinking. So we are learning to take a pause for a minute to check in with our feelings and decide if…
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027 - Let's talk about Lazy Genius Kitchen Part B
Hello Friends! Part B – Have What You Need. This is all about knowing your own kitchen and making it work for you in this season. No matter how big or small the space actually is there is a way to decide what matters to you. Let’s take time this summer to clear out what is in the way of making…
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026 - End Emotional Eating Part 4
Today’s episode is all about learning more about our emotional intelligence. This is a skill we can continue to grow in as we become more aware of our feelings and what is going on around us each day. Romans 12:1-2 reminds us of God’s mercy for us as we continue to be transformed by the renewing…
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025 - Let's talk about Lazy Genius Kitchen Part A
Hello Friends! Today we are talking about the first section in Kendra Adachi’s book The Lazy Genius Kitchen. We are deciding what is important about our own kitchens, hopefully this episode will help you decide what's important to you too. Together we can find ways to personalize our kitchen…
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024 - Let’s Talk About “End Emotional Eating” - Part 3
Hello Friends! Today we are talking about Mindfulness. The illustration of driving keeps coming up in our conversation today. Let’s learn to “drive” through life a little more mindfully than we have before. Let’s take a pause and give space to think and be mindful especially about what we are...
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023 - Summer Reading: The lazy Genius Kitchen - Part 1
Genius Kitchen. Have what you need, use what you have, and enjoy it like never before!!! This is a fun and helpful book to help get your kitchen to a place that works for you and your family. Today Tess and I talk about the steps Kendra suggests to 1-Prioritize, 2- Essentialize, 3-organize,...
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022 - Let’s Talk About “End Emotional Eating” - Part 2
We’re continuing our journey through End Emotional Eating by Jennifer L. Taitz PsyD. Join us for a vulnerable conversation about acceptance and the struggle to be real honest in real life. We’d love to hear your feedback on our Facebook page! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End...
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021 - Let’s Talk About “End Emotional Eating” - Part 1
Hello Friends! Today we get more vulnerable and face our fears about sharing our struggle with emotional eating. You are invited to be a part of the conversation too, join us in reading End Emotional Eating, by Jennifer L. Taitz PsyD. This book has been waiting on our bookshelves for over 2…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast where we hope to invite Jesus into the midst of our life, learning, and laughter. We'd love for you to join us as we share conversations about things we've learned, stories we've lived or heard, and a lot of us laughing at ourselves! When we invite Jesus to walk with us, everywhere we go becomes "A Lovely Place!"
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