Dear Daughters

Do you have a hobby? Do you ever take the time to just play? Having a hobby can be really good for your soul. Welcome to the Fall Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I want to see how you’re doing and share some new ways for you to take good care of you. Today I am encouraging you to build time for a hobby in your life. Because when you’re walking with God, a hobby can be a spiritual practice that brings you closer to God. SHOW NOTES Get a copy of The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. Download the Understanding Your Soul PDF. Get encouragement in your inbox each week: Sign up for my newsletter! Order your copy of The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life! Get Unexpected Connections by Matthew Peacock, Founder and Executive Director of Partners in Hope. Learn more about donating to or volunteering with Partners in Hope here. Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to more of Sara

Are you looking for ways to calm your soul? To find real rest inside and out? Welcome to the Fall Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I want to see how you’re doing and share some new ways for you to take good care of you. SHOW NOTES Get a copy of Thomas Watson’s book, The Art of Divine Contentment. Download the Understanding Your Soul PDF. Get encouragement in your inbox each week: Sign up for my newsletter! Get Unexpected Connections by Matthew Peacock, Founder and Executive Director of Partners in Hope. Learn more about donating to or volunteering with Partners in Hope here. Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to more of Sara Davis Regan’s music. Listen to my Home playlist on Spotify! Find deep contentment right where you live. Pick up The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life My book, Dear Daughters, is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you’re craving

What do you do when your heart is broken in two? What do you do when your mind is consumed with negative news? How do you soothe your weary self? Welcome to the Fall Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I want to see how you’re doing, revisit some of the things we talked about during the Summer Soul Care Series, and share some new ways for you to take good care of you. There is a difference between self-care practices and self-soothing practices. Self-soothing can be healthy or unhealthy … and it’s important to understand which you are choosing when you’re hurting. Healthy soul care is the thing that helps long term. SHOW NOTES Get a copy of John Baillie’s book, A Diary of Private Prayer. Download the Understanding Your Soul PDF. Get encouragement in your inbox each week: Sign up for my newsletter! Get Unexpected Connections by Matthew Peacock, Founder and Executive Director of Partners in Hope. Learn more about donating to or volunteering with Partners in Hope here. Join my home church, Austin Ch

How can you give yourself grace … the kind of grace that God has for you? It starts by learning to be kind and generous to yourself.  Welcome to the Fall Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I want to see how you’re doing, revisit some of the things we talked about during the Summer Soul Care Series, and share some new ways for you to take good care of you. So I have found one of the best ways to start being kind to yourself is by becoming a compassionate observer of your own life. Try to see yourself the way God sees you … as a beloved daughter … and live each day with that outlook and that grace. SHOW NOTES Download the Understanding Your Soul PDF. Get encouragement in your inbox each week: Sign up for my newsletter! Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online. Listen to more of Sara Davis Regan‘s music on Spotify! If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Order your copy! The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life My book, Dear Daughters, is a templ

Welcome to the first episode of the Fall Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I’m going to take eight weeks (God willing) to see how you’re doing, revisit some of the things we talked about during the Summer Soul Care Series, and share some new ways for you to take good care of you. I want to remind you of a few things. First, your soul is where God dwells. What a lovely thing that He chooses to live inside of us. Second, your body is the house of your soul. Your soul is made up of four components: Mind … how you think and understand the Word of God. Heart … the seat of your emotions and feelings. Will … what enables you to make decisions and take action. Personality … the unique and beautiful way God made you. The really great news is that when you submit your soul to the Holy Spirit of God, something miraculous happens. You’re made new. SHOW NOTES Download the PDF of the diagram of your soul. Purchase your own copy of A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie. Get encouragement in your inbox e

Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I’m going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you’re taking good care of you. There is so much going on in the world right now. There are so many questions. And there are no real answers … because we don’t have any. Only God holds all the answers. And he holds all our days, too. I pray that you take care of your soul and protect your spirit from getting sucked into a spiral of worry and despair trying to get all the answers. I’ll help you. Start with five minutes. SHOW NOTES Get your own five-minute hourglass in my online shop. Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter! Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to Sara Davis Regan’s dreamy new album, Riverland! Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. Visit Sara Davis Regan’s website and sign up for h

Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I’m going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you’re taking good care of you. “The smallest and gentlest acts keep us grounded as we husband our lives with care.” – Julia Cameron Staying grounded in your life is a way to care for your soul. It gives us space to listen to God and listen to ourselves. Tending to small things in our everyday lives help us to feel grounded. How can you tend to your real life? SHOW NOTES Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter! Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to Sara Davis Regan’s dreamy new album, Riverland! Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. Visit Sara Davis Regan’s website and sign up for her newsletter list. Order your copy! The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life My book, Dear Daughters, is a

Welcome to the Summer Soul Care Series on the Dear Daughters Podcast. I’m going to take a few weeks on the podcast to spend some time making sure you’re taking good care of you. Have you read any good stories lately? Stories are good for your soul. They help you take care of you. So I want to encourage you to find a good book that leaves you believing that God is in charge of the world. You’re in the middle of your story, but God is writing your story. SHOW NOTES Pick up a good book like Heidi by Johanna Spyri or Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery – both are included in this beautiful box set by Rifle Papers. Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter! Join my home church, Austin Christian Fellowship, online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to Sara Davis Regan’s dreamy new album, Riverland! Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. Visit Sara Davis Regan’s website and sign up for her news

I hope you’re taking good care of yourself. This summer, I want to encourage you to experience soul care in a very practical, everyday way. Welcome to the Dear Daughters Summer Soul Care Series. I’m going to spend the next few weeks on the podcast helping you take good care of you. One way you can take good care of yourself is to make sure you have wise teachers in place in your life, especially during times of crisis and chaos. Your number one teacher is God, and you can always count on him and his Word to help you walk in wisdom. But there are other teachers too. Listen in to discover more. SHOW NOTES Keep in the know: Sign up for my newsletter! Join my home church Austin Christian Fellowship online. If you need rest, click here to get a FREE Soul Care Kit just for you! Listen to Sara Davis Regan’s dreamy new album, Riverland! Watch the Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. Visit Sara Davis Regan’s website and sign up for her newsletter list. Find

Well this is a first! It’s a Tiny Desk Style Concert via Zoom with Sara Davis Regan featuring her brand new album, Riverland. But before we dive into new music, a few things you might not know about Sara: “My family nickname is Aunt Sardie Pants.” “I love trail running.” “I do things I love until I break.” “I am deathly scared of roaches … and splinters.” Need more, listen in to DD Episode ‘Questions to Deepen the Mother-Daughter Relationship’ with Sara. And here we are in Round Top, where we love to shop til we drop. Can’t wait til next Fall when we go back to the Round Top Antiques Fest. SHOW NOTES Visit Sara Davis Regan site here and sign up for her newsletter list! Follow her on Instagram. Join her newsletter here. Sara’s first interview, DD Episode 3 Banjo Ben Clark Also, you might want to listen to this episode (with my other daughter) too! On Mother Daughter Relationships with Emily DD Episode 18 If your heart feels weary, get a FREE Soul Care Kit from me to you! Keep in the know: Sign up for my ne

One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves. In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, I am featuring four of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes. In this final episode, I am featuring Chrystal Evans Hurst. In DD Episode 96, Chrystal offers so much truth about how to end the cycle of unhealthy thoughts and bring our thoughts into the light of God’s truth. Listen to Chrystal as she speaks tender words of wisdom to her younger self and encourages her to show up for her life starting now. So a question for you: What would you like to say to your younger self? That God loves you. To love the woman you are becoming. To not be so hard on yourself and others. My new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, is a book designed to help to experience the grace upon grace God has for you by reflecting on your life and your memories. I hope you’ll pick up a copy. SHOW NOTES R

We are made to hold the presence of God … the God who holds all things together holds us. K.J. has been reckoning with an autoimmune disease, ankylosing spondylitis (AS), for 11 years. It’s been an “unpredictable companion” in her life that not only propelled her into her counseling career but also propelled her to experience and hold the presence of God. K.J. Ramsey (BA, Covenant College, MA, Denver Seminary) is a licensed professional counselor, writer, and recovering idealist who believes sorrow and joy coexist. Her writing on the integration of theology, psychology, and spiritual formation can be found in publications including Christianity Today, RELEVANT, and The Huffington Post. She and her husband live in Denver, Colorado. K.J.’s first book, This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers, invites us to the wonder that before God ever rescues us, he stands in solidarity with us. It’s the book that she wished she could’ve had as a 20-year-old who’s suffering never went away. K.J. says these f

One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves. In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, I am featuring five of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes, and this time I am featuring Rebekah Lyons. In DD Episode 103, Rebekah revealed some of her own battles to overcome fear and anxiety, and talked about how her pain can become purpose … all of ours can. Listen to the kind and gentle words she speaks to her younger self, as well as the tender promises she believes God would speak to her now. So a question for you: What would you like to say to your younger self? That God loves you. To love the woman you are becoming. To not be so hard on yourself and others. My new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, is a book designed to help to experience the grace upon grace God has for you by reflecting on your life and your memories. I hope you’ll pick up a copy. SHOW NOTES Rea

YOU can do big, hard, and scary things. Jennifer has found freedom in her business, her time, her finances, and most importantly, her faith, through years of releasing more and more over to God. What started as a desire to help pull her family out of financial desperation became a calling to help other women find the courage to do the same. Jennifer Allwood is a business owner, business mentor and coach, speaker, author and podcast host for The Jennifer Allwood Show. Jennifer uses her self-started business to inspire women to believe that they are enough, motivate them, and give them permission to lean into their calling. Her new book, Fear Is Not the Boss of You, is all about getting unstuck, move past overwhelm, and taking action in spite of fear. Jennifer lives in Kansas City with her husband and three kiddos, and she stands firm in the idea of using her business as a way to serve God and her family. Jennifer says these four things about herself: “My kryptonite is raw chocolate chip cookie dough, that is

One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves. In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, I am featuring five of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes, and my next guest is Liz Carter. In DD Episode 80, Liz and I talked about finding contentment in all of life’s messy, painful, joyous reality. Listen to Liz’s tender, compassionate, comforting words she speaks to her teenage self. So a question for you: What would you like to say to your younger self? That God loves you. To love the woman you are becoming. To not be so hard on yourself and others. My new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, is a book designed to help to experience the grace upon grace God has for you by reflecting on your life and your memories. I hope you’ll pick up a copy. SHOW NOTES Read Liz’s book, Catching Contentment: How to be Holy Satisfied If your heart feels weary, get a FREE Soul Care Ki

Understanding that we don’t need as much stuff as we think we need is freeing. God has given us what we need and more than we know. Kathi used to be buried in clutter. She wouldn’t let friends into her home, she wasn’t doing the things she needed to do … she was living half a life. But she began to live in a new way and found freedom in a clutter-free life. Through that journey, she also learned that God has given her everything she needs. Kathi Lipp is a speaker, a podcast host, the coordinator of The Clutter-Free Academy on Facebook, and the author of 20 books including her most recent, The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life, and coming soon, Ready for Anything: Preparing Your Heart and Home for Any Crisis Big or Small. Kathi says these four things about herself: “I absolutely adore my husband, Roger, like I have a deep crush on him it’s not even funny.” "We have a knock-off Puggle. We think she’s actually a Boxer Chiweenie. But we also say she’s part Velociraptor.” “My dad was a hoarder so this

One of my favorite things over the last year on the Dear Daughters Podcast was listening to my guests read a letter to their younger selves. In celebration of my new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, I am featuring five of my favorite letters in BONUS episodes starting with the one and only, Pam Tebow. In DD Episode 93 , Pam Tebow and I talked about the value of looking back and writing a younger self letter. Listen in to this woman of wisdom and amazing spiritual mama as she shares her letter to her younger self. So a question for you: What would you like to say to your younger self? That God loves you. To love the woman you are becoming. To not be so hard on yourself and others. My new book, The Grace Guide: Live Your One Beautiful Life, is a book designed to help to experience the grace upon grace God has for you by reflecting on your life and your memories. I hope you’ll pick up a copy. SHOW NOTES Read Pam’s book, Ripple Effects: Discover the Miraculous Motivating Power of a Woman’s

Where is God when things go terribly wrong? John Ray has been my friend for a very long time. He is the pastor of Grace Church of Northwest Arkansas in Fayetteville, a missionary and a spiritual director … and he knows firsthand about suffering. John says these four things about himself: “I’m adopted, which has been one of the forming experiences of my life.” “I am married to a phenomenal introvert. Jane Ray is a fantastic woman.”  “I’m the dad of four daughters who are all radically different, one of whom we lost when she was 10 years old.”  “I feel like I won the lottery and didn’t buy a ticket by getting to do what I do.” John was in the eighth-grade classroom with me when our classmate and friend walked in with a rifle and shot and killed our teacher. His mother attempted suicide not long after. He struggled with the reality of being adopted. And he lost his daughter, Olivia. But John says this: “If I really find the courage and grace to go into the deepest wounds that I have … God is there. He has neve

What happens when you take the time to take care of yourself? What happens when you give yourself grace? This week, I interviewed five women to talk about what happens when you take time for soul care. Are you ready for their stories? Melissa Tate is a food writer who lives with her husband on their family horse and cattle ranch in Rockwall, TX. Her primary life roles include: mother, step-mom, daughter, sister, and friend. Melissa came to Soul Care Saturday because she longs for rest in her life…and she learned that she deserves and needs soul care. Melissa says, “I can be confident in what I’m doing because I am where God wants me to be.“ Cheyenne Kizer is a dental hygienist and women’s leader at her church, Coryell Community Church in Gatesville, TX. She is married to her high school sweetheart and mother to two children, and she is also helping to build a mentor program as a member of the school board. She made the time in her busy schedule to come to Austin for Soul Care Saturday, where she realized a li

Have you given all your dreams and desires to God? He wants to do more than you can imagine.  In December of 2010, Whitney Runyon felt a stirring in her spirit that began an amazing journey for her and her husband … and for so many orphans and adoptive families. Whitney Runyon was a wedding photographer. And her husband, Nick, was an airline pilot. But after seeing the impact of photos she took of an adoption in 2011, they formed a orphan care advocacy 501c-3 and named it after the little Bulgarian boy who’s adoption started it all, Archibald. In 2014 they quit their jobs to run The Archibald Project full time. The Archibald Project produces stories that are helping to bring an end to the orphan crisis by inspiring new people to get involved in orphan care.  Whitney says these four things about herself: “I am obsessed with history…like kings and queens.” “Nick and I only watch TV together. We don’t really ever separate.”  “I love the color black. Way before it got popular these days. I used to want to be Wed