Podcast Episodes

I’m sharing a book I just read—Whole Brain Living by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (of the My Stroke of Insight TED Talk)—and how it’s helping me. She explains we don’t just have a left and right brain, but four “characters”: the left thinking brain (my organized planner, “Monica”), the left emotional brain (my fear-based protector/inner

I’m sharing what I’ve learned from wearing a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) off and on for over a year, using Stelo (no prescription needed). Seeing my glucose responses has helped me treat food and movement like a personal science experiment—like comparing ice cream with and without a short walk afterward—and it’s been a strong motivator,

I’m learning to emotionally surrender my timeline and enjoy the present. I compare it to learning chess on Duolingo—when I make the wrong move, I get reset and shown the right one—and I feel like God has been doing that with this timing. During the sacrament I had a visual of giving Jesus all my

A simple tool I use when I get stuck in a worry spin: shifting from “what if” to “what is.” Because my nervous system reacts to imagined scenarios like they’re real, looping on worst-case what-ifs, keeps me activated. While focusing on present facts helps me regulate and get back to being present, calm, and flexible.

When it comes to talking to others about p*** , whether we are struggling with it, or we find out someone we love is struggling. It is helpful to have a new perspective. One that doesn’t go to shame. This is audio from an old video I created over 10 years ago, after teaching a

Today I share a lesson based on Elder Soares’s April talk about Jesus Christ as the true vine. I explain why vineyards appear so often in scripture and break down the roles—God as the vinedresser, Jesus as the vine, and us as the branches—focusing on pruning and how it can feel painful but is loving

Whitewater Rafting and Practicing 75% Good or Better I share my whitewater rafting adventure and how it became a real-life practice of aiming for “75% good or better.” Rivers are unpredictable, with calm stretches and turbulent rapids that can change with conditions, and the trip helped me practice being present through both. For me, the

My Whitewater Rafting Adventure (and the Poop Box) I share a story from a five-day, four-night whitewater rafting trip from Moab to Lake Powell where I had to tent camp and learn to use the “poop box” system because the company has to pack out waste in the desert. As the trip got closer, I

Today I share a tool that’s helped me move up the vibrational scale when I’m stuck in fear: shifting from fear to love. Gratitude is usually my go-to, but in two recent, very different situations, I couldn’t get there—and I realized I didn’t have to. In my weekly prayer group, a friend reminded me that

Today I share how I’ve seen God prepare me in advance for things I couldn’t predict. How being willing to follow my promptings has been a blessing in many surprising ways!