Embrace Your Everyday podcast
by Leah Simpson
Although life is full of highs and lows, more time is spent in those in-between moments. Determining how to spend your time on any day takes intentionality. This podcast is about doing the small everyday things which enable you to do the grand things in your marriage, home and family. Live a life you will remember. Invest your days in things that will last longer than you. Remember, your life is not a dress rehearsal. If you delay doing what is important, you might never have the chance to really do what you want to do.
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Ep. 176 Holy Listening With Breath, Body and the Spirit
In the silence there is a small quiet voice inviting listening with our whole being. The reality of listening to God is embodied in our breath, our body and the spirit of God. He is the giver of our life and our breath. While we live in a physical sense we are equally moving in a spiritual world....
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Ep. 175 Filling My Thoughts With Heavenly Realities
Spiritual wisdom often comes from daily reading of God's Word. How do you read God's Word? Is it hard to understand? Does the Bible have anything practical that applies to me? How can God speak directly to me? What do I need to take out of my life? What needs to be put into my life? Does God care...
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Ep. 174 Homemade High Protein Bars
Creating your own protein bars is an excellent idea for so many reasons. My primary motivation is that these bars are high in protein. This grab and go item fits perfectly into a workout morning. Knowing that ingredients in your bar creates confidence in nutritional density. The no bake feature…
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Ep. 173 13 Ideas for Organizing Your Homeschool Day
Organization is a means of functioning effectively and efficiently. Finding what works for you and your home when homeschooling directs how your days can be planned. If you have chosen the homeschool lifestyle, establishing some order will jumpstart success in your everyday. Check out these 13...
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Ep. 172 50 Self-Care Ideas
Taking care of ourselves is a lifetime journey. Invite yourself to practice many of these ideas to care for yourself. If you are a responsible person, you may struggle with the concept of doing these kind gestures for yourself, but it is clear that the scripture reminds of kindness to ourselves....
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Ep. 171 What I have Learned in YogaFaith
While pursuing my training to be a yoga instructor, I have gained so much spiritual inspiration. My goal is to intimately connect people to Christ; mind, body, spirit and soul by providing a safe and nurturing environment. Here are some of the best things that I have learned so far. More...
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Ep. 170 Vertical Living with Ronnie Stevens
Part 2 of 2. Ronnie Stevens, Pastoral Care Specialist with 46 years experience, recently returned to the United States after spending decades overseas in mission work. He currently serves at an Associate Pastor of Harvest Church in Memphis, TN. While greatly loved for his shepherding skills, he…
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Ep. 169 Musings with Ronnie Stevens
Ronnie Stevens is a Pastoral Care Specialist with 46 years experience, 24 of those years spent in pastoral work in a missions context overseas. Since recently returning to the United States, Ronnie serves as an Associate Pastor of Harvest Church in Memphis, TN. While Ronnie is deeply loved for…
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Ep. 168 Finding Your People
Finding your people is serious business. Sometimes our people find us. Sometimes we have to say goodbye to a season and the people that we have loved. Sometimes we have to find new people. Sometimes we don't know what we are looking for in friendships. Sometimes we know that we need people to...
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Ep. 167 Nibble Boards
Nibble boards are for sharing? Nibble boards invite a party! Nibble boards are easy! So, what is a nibble board? Who likes nibble boards? How do you build a nibble board? Simply put, a nibble board is just a clever way of creating shareable appetizers. Building a nibble board is easy with these...
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Ep. 166 WHY Homeschool? - FREE eBook
The true answer to this question is that all kinds of people choose to homeschool for a wide variety of reasons. Everyone from lawyers to plumbers to teachers to doctors to pilots select home education for their child. While the reasons are varied, here are a few of the most popular reasons. If…
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Ep. 165 Tips for Food Management
Kitchen management, bulk cooking and grocery shopping are just a few of the critical ways to create efficiency with food management at home. All of us are eager to eat every day. As we navigate through the phases of relating to food in our home, we must fetch our food, process our food, organize...
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Ep. 164 HOW and WHAT to Purge
Are you feeling crowded in your space? Do you have to move? Has stuff been coming into your house while stuff is not going out? It might be time to ruthlessly purge. Purging may take pockets of time or you may have a window of time to devote to processing. Deciding HOW and WHAT to purge can give...
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Ep. 163 BEST Cleaning Helps: Organization and Efficiency
Keeping a manageable living space contributes to basic happy living. Chaos invites stress and wasted time. Taking the time to create routines and rhythms in your home promises to improve your everyday by freeing up your time for more of what you want to do. One of the best resources available is...
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Ep. 162 Thoughtful Steps to a Healthy You - Being a Whole Person
It is critical to access your personal health on multiple levels to ensure that you are a healthy, whole person. Several times a year it is key to take inventory of yourself physically, mentally, relationally, emotionally and spiritually. Allow time to marinate, to dream and create specific steps...
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Ep. 161 Things in Your Home an Organizer Would Toss
If the weather is making you feel like refreshing your space, clear the clutter first. So often unnecessary items are crowding our living areas. When doing daily, weekly or seasonal cleaning it is best to begin by identifying trash. Identify the things you do not use, things you don't love…
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Ep. 160 Leah's Orange Cranberry Bread Pudding
Looking for a dish to add for a special breakfast or a yummy dessert, try Leah's Orange Cranberry Bread Pudding!! Create it from scratch or let it be the serious yum created by leftovers like French toast and biscuits. As you might expect, the secret is in the sauce!! You might want to double the...
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Ep. 159 Easy Ideas for Putting Up Your Christmas Tree
Do you love putting up your Christmas tree? Do you have a rhythm that works well for you? Would you like to know what the professionals know? Early in my working life I worked as an interior decorator beside a designer who put up Christmas decorations. Along the way, I picked up a few tips...
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Ep. 158 Gift Ideas with Expert Katie McLeod
Looking for unique gift ideas? Fun thoughts for experience gifts and physical gifts that demonstrate thoughtfulness communicate value to the receiver. Choose gifts that show the receiver is known and celebrated. Listen for needs. Develop an intuition for experience gifts that encourage more...
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Ep. 157 Doing the Work of Losing 165 Pounds: Paul Becker's Health Journey
At age 34 when facing a spinal cord injury and the limitations of weighing 400 pounds, Paul decided that he had to do better. Without a tradition of nutritious eating, Paul made the choice to change his everyday normal. Motivated to grasp the vitality of living, he embarked on a purposeful…
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Ep. 156 Affirming Grows Gratitude
What is affirming? How does affirming naturally grow gratitude? The big idea is that gratitude toward others leads to affirming them which is followed by positive emotions for all. Increased social skills and an expansion in your community add greatly to your emotional well being as well as…
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Ep. 155 Fall Into More Coziness
How can you fall into more coziness? Can you be too cozy? Since it is fall by all indications here, it might be the right time to lean into what is spectacular about this season...coziness. As the late warm summer teases with cooler, crisp temperatures, the glories of the promised transition to...
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Ep. 154 5 Things I Know About Heaven
"I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find til' death, I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that country and to help others to do the same." - C.S Lewis Perhaps you have felt like you…
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Ep. 153 Is Heaven Real?
Heaven is REAL! It exists today. Little is discussed about our eternal destination, but the truths expressed in God's holy word offer glorious glimpses of the potential future for those who trust God. An understanding about the true teaching of heaven can change our daily reality. Join this...
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Ep. 152 Snowflake Babies - Embryo Adoption with Leslie Hollowell
Now in its fifth decade, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other reproduction technology have been the answer to many people's prayers for a family. However, this success has led to an excess of frozen embryos. Nearly 1.5 million babies are in a frozen orphanage. Many biological parents store...
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Ep. 151 Weeds and Seeds: A Conversation With Leslie Hollowell
Join this conversation with Leslie Hollowell. Hear how intentional living and the pattern of discipleship has shaped her life. Only God could have known that Leslie's road of singleness of 37 years along with working as an elementary school teacher for 10 of these years, would be the building...
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Ep. 150 Celebrating 150 Podcast Episodes and Blogs
Thank you, to you our listener, for joining us in this journey of 150 podcast episodes with companion blogs. This celebration invites us to hear Tim's favorite five episodes, my favorite five episodes and most importantly, YOUR favorites! What is your personal favorite? What would you like to…
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Ep. 149 15 Compliments That Are NOT About Physical Appearance
Recently a friend shared this encouragement on communication that focuses on the inner qualities of a person instead of their outer appearance. This is so important when practicing social skills, emotional intelligence and friendship development. Consider memorizing a few of these compliments. Or...
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Ep. 148 Prepping for Preschool
While preparing for preschool seems optional for the summer or the school year, it is vitally important. Don't waste the preschool years by limiting your little one to entertainment options. Maximize the season of learning that those early years bring. Preschool years are ripe learning years....
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Ep. 147 You Can't Make Me, But I Can Be Persuaded
Speaking as a parent of a strong-willed child (SWC), I can communicate as one has been in the trenches. The wonderful part of this is that I can confirm that this child is likely intelligent and full of potential. While parenting this personality can be altogether demanding, frustrating and...
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Ep. 146 10 Things TO DO When Visiting Your Parents
My hope is that you have a wonderful relationship with your parents. My hope is that you are visiting them as frequently as you hope your own children will visit you when they are grown. We can agree that relationships take work. Our interaction with our parents or our children is no exception....
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Ep. 145 When Grown Children Use Their Parent's Home for Long-Term Storage
Today's thoughts center around what to do with the stuff that represents life that has been lived, but is no longer used daily or on a regular basis. Life is a series of transitions. One of the inevitable changes is moving out of the home where you lived with your parents. Consider how many…
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Ep. 144 The Heart of ANGER: Practical Help for the Prevention and Cure of Anger in Children
Since I was a young woman, I have worked with children. As I dearly love these young hearts, I am particularly attuned to the anger evident in so many of them. Sometimes the anger comes from a wounded place or a response to bullying. Other times it is the response to neglect or even an head…
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Ep. 143 25 Ways that Parents Provoke Their Children to Anger
Anger in a child is a real response. While God holds each of us, even a child, responsible for his or her sin, God does hold parents 100% responsible for their actions which provoke a child to anger. Check out these 25 ways that a parent might provoke their child to anger. Loving my children well...
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Ep. 142 Friendship Recession
How is loneliness as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day? For the last few years the topic of a loneliness epidemic has dominated much of the chatter in interpersonal news. This conversation has focused on healthy friendships. In life we often have to walk through the exploration of meeting a...
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Ep. 141 When Shame is a Bully
Emotional health is vital to our physical and spiritual health. If shame is a reoccuring theme in my thoughts, it might be identified as a bully. Sometimes shame is a response to guilt, but recycling this toxic emotion once the situation has been dealt with is like an insistent bully. The four...
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Ep. 140 Talking to Your Children About Dating
Parenting is hard work. The stages of childhood change rapidly. Before you realize it, it will be time to talk about dating. Approaching this subject with your child can be downright intimidating. Before you begin, know that today's dating culture is radically different from when you were a teen...
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Ep. 139 Dehumanizing Our Daughters - Choose Beauty
As the mom of two beautiful daughters the topic of beauty materializes often. This conversation is intended to validate the beauty in your daughter and mine. It is imperative that we speak to the dehumanizing of our daughters by the culture that they live in daily. What are the messages that they...
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Ep. 138 When the Game is Over
As a rough water lifeguard and an eager health enthusiast, I completely support physical exercise being part of raising a whole child. However, I struggle with the emphasis on sports in today's youth culture. While sports is about fun and exercise, it's benefit can be much greater. More...
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Ep. 137 Saving Without Scissors - Saving on Food
Due to the financial strain people feel in the current economy, discussions about food cost occur more frequently than ever. Many rising costs offer us little options for keeping our funds in line with our earnings. However, food is one of those more flexible categories. Discover…
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Ep. 136 Need More Time?
Need more time? Looking for ideas to boost efficiency in your daily routines? Scrutinizing your everyday with the goal of more play time, more learning time or just more rest? Would you like less housework? Less time in the kitchen? Consider a few of these 10 hacks to gain more time in your...
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Ep. 135 Women's Refuge of Vero Beach
If you're looking to be restored, renewed or refreshed the Women's Refuge at Vero Beach is a place of hope and healing. This refuge offers solutions for those desparate with emotional, physical, mental and spiritual woundedness through Biblical counseling and a live-in environment where hurting...
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Ep. 134 A Passionate Advocate for Women's Mental Health: Donna Robart
Psychiatric nurse Donna Robart responded to the overwhelming invitation to be God's daughter. For over 25 years her experience as a registered psychiatric nurse exposed her to the great need for the spiritual component of mental health healing. As a co-founder of the Women's Refuge in Vero Beach,...
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Ep. 133 Team Cleaning as a Couple
Let's be honest, keeping a clean living space is hard. It is just plain work. Some of us love the process of cleaning just as much as the results. Others struggle to create the routines and rhythms to maintain their space daily and weekly and seasonally. In order to live this life well, we must...
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Ep. 132 Nurturing My Nest book
This book offers inspiration for intentional homebuilding and custom built education. Discover easy, practical hacks for saving time and money in domestic ways. Identify the uniqueness in your child and create a custom plan that maximizes his or her potential. If you are in the trenches of...
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Ep. 131 The Strength of Influence
Who will be influenced by my life? Who will be influenced by your life? Who will be influenced by those you influence? Consider the roles that you play. Are you living as a strong influence in these roles? What might be preventing you from having the influence you desire? Woundedness? Fear?...
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Ep. 130 Lies Women Believe
Women are inundated with lies about God, about ourselves, about our marriage and about children. What are some of these lies? What are the truths needed to combat some of these lies? My beliefs represent my worldview. It is critical that I renew my mind with the truths that God reveals in His…
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Ep. 129 Identity Amnesia
Because I know God as my Father, I am confident in who I am in Him. His fondness of me is unfathomable, reliable and true. On any day when the vortex of the world threatens to vomit fear, despondency and panic, I still. Grabbing a front row somewhere in nature allows me to breathe deeply and...
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Ep. 128 The Audible Voice of God
The audible word of God is available for you and me anytime we desire to hear it. Truthfully, I read my Bible out loud even when I am by myself so that I can use more of my senses to fully take in His truths. So often when I read I am overwhelmed by God's love for me as well as His power as…
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Ep. 127 No Resolutions - Just Sweet Intentions
As I thought of the renewing season at the beginning of the year, I thought it best to consider sweet intentions. Considering areas of physical, spiritual and relational health offered delightful ways to practice gratitude and motivate new habits. Live the life you dream. More on this topic in…
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About this show
Although life is full of highs and lows, more time is spent in those in-between moments. Determining how to spend your time on any day takes intentionality. This podcast is about doing the small everyday things which enable you to do the grand things in your marriage, home and family. Live a life you will remember. Invest your days in things that will last longer than you. Remember, your life is not a dress rehearsal. If you delay doing what is important, you might never have the chance to really do what you want to do.
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