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Your Hope-Filled Perspective with Dr. Michelle Bengtson podcast

Your Hope-Filled Perspective with Dr. Michelle Bengtson podcast

Dr. Michelle Bengtson

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Your Hope-Filled Perspective draws on Dr. Michelle Bengtson’s almost 3 decades of clinical expertise as a neuropsychologist to help her listeners regain hope, renew their minds, and transform their lives. With a perfect balance of clinical expertise, compassion, and vulnerability, Dr. Bengtson and her guests purpose to share Biblically-based hope-filled perspectives for real-life issues, struggles, and concerns. Voted #2 in 2022's Podcast Magazine's Top 50 Moms in Podcasting.
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292 How a Mother Helped Her Child Find Healing from Depression, Anxiety, and Suicidal Thoughts

Episode 292

jeudi 14 novembre 2024 • Duration 25:01

Episode Summary: 

In this Sacred Scar Story, we hear from Lori Wildenberg who faced the unimaginable pain of nearly losing her daughter to depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. She shares how her faith and God’s presence guided her through this dark journey, ultimately bringing healing to both her daughter and herself. This story of resilience and hope offers encouragement for anyone navigating similar struggles.


Quotables from the episode:

  • Wounds have to be uncovered and cleaned out before real healing can take place.
  • With great pain often comes fear, which can paralyze us and keep us from moving forward.
  • Even when God healed my loved one, I had to come to the realization that I, too, had wounds that needed healing.
  • It sounds counterintuitive but helping others helped heal me.
  • God sets us up to have interdependent relationships.
  • God is our helper.
  • Even those parts of our lives that are messy and embarrassing can be used by God to help others.
  • If you suspect your child is suffering from anxiety, depression, or suicidal ideation, ask them if they are thinking of hurting themselves, so you don’t have to ask, ‘Why didn’t they tell me?’ 


Scripture References:

  • Hebrews 6:19 (NIV) We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. 
  • John 16:33 (NIV) I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. 

 

Recommended Resources: 

 

Social Media Links for Guest and Host:

Connect with Lori Wildenberg:

Website / Facebook / FB Community / FB Group / Instagram Lori / Instagram Moms / Podcast

For more hope, stay connected with Dr. Bengtson at:

Order Book Breaking Anxiety’s Grip / Order Book Hope Prevails  /  Website  /  Blog  /  Facebook / Twitter (@DrMBengtson)  /  LinkedIn  /  Instagram / Pinterest / YouTube

Guest:

Helping families create connections that last a lifetime is Lori Wildenberg’s passion. Lori, wife to Tom, mom of 4, and Mimi to 1, shares her stories of failures and successes, in her books and talks, to encourage and equip parents. As a licensed parent and family educator, she leads the Moms Together Facebook group and page and co-hosts the Moms Together Podcast. The Wildenberg home is nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. www.loriwildenberg.com 

 

Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

 

291 How to Find Freedom from Anger and Build Healthier Family Relationships Through Faith

Episode 291

jeudi 7 novembre 2024 • Duration 31:32

Episode Summary:

Our guest on this episode, Kathy Collard Miller, was raised by a very angry mother. The more Kathy tried to suppress her anger, the more it surfaced. Over time, Kathy found herself expressing her anger toward her husband and her daughter, and in her own words, abusing her daughter. Kathy shares her painful wounds in this episode, as well as the story of redemption and the beautiful sacred scars God has given her.


Quotables from the episode:

  • Sometimes when we talk about pain or wounds, that pain comes at the hand of another. Sometimes we have no explanation for why it happens (like a medical diagnosis), and sometimes we participate in choices that end up hurting us in the long run.
  • Frequently our greatest areas of ministry come out of our greatest areas of pain.
  • I have a unique story because not only was I wounded, but I wounded others in turn.
  • As a child, I didn’t know I had anger building up inside of me until in third grade I hit my best friend in the nose. To this day, I have no recollection what I was so angry about that would prompt me to be aggressive. As my friend ran away sobbing, I thought to myself, “See what happens when you get angry, Kathy? You’d better never get angry again!”
  • Buried anger doesn’t go anywhere except making a volcano.
  • Also in the third grade, I was sexually harmed, although I didn’t know that that was what it was called, but I thought it was my fault and that I should have prevented it. So the anger toward myself began to build.
  • My mother was orphaned at the age of ten, resulting in her own anger issues toward me that built up inside of me. I didn’t know it would be detrimental toward others later, but I’ve also found it to be something that God has used in amazing ways.
  • I was never taught how to appropriately deal with my anger. As a little girl who tried to be perfect to prevent me from overreacting in anger, I then thought that God must be disappointed in me and that he was expecting me to be angry.
  • Because of the messages I was taught when I was growing up, I pictured God in heaven with his arms crossed saying, “Kathy, when are you going to be perfect so I can love you?”
  • After I became a Christian at 17, I married my husband, Larry. But all the anger that had built up in me started coming out toward him because his promise of being my perfect, Godly, prince charming didn’t come true and left me totally disappointed. I interpreted that as there was something wrong with me.
  • I began to believe I wasn’t loved or cared for and that came out in bitterness, anger, criticism, never being happy, or never being thankful for what my husband did do.
  • I began to displace my anger toward my husband on to my two-year-old daughter because when she misbehaved, I interpreted that as “I am a horrible mother.” In the end, I began to physically abuse her.
  • I kept praying for an instantaneous deliverance of my anger and when God didn’t do that, I believed God had given up on me, and I almost took my life. But God intervened.
  • We have to feel it to heal it, meaning we have to acknowledge the pain. Then we have to choose to engage in the healing process. When we don’t choose the path of healing, other things will happen and there will be consequences of that, until one day it comes out at a less opportune time and a less opportune way.
  • Scripture talks about the importance of getting wise counsel. There is no shame in needing help. Seek out a trusted friend, a mentor, a counselor, a coach, or a pastor and get help.  Do not try to handle your pain alone.
  • When people didn’t follow through with what they said they were going to do, I concluded that I was worthless.
  • My healing began when I got the courage to share my sin with the women in my Bible study that I led in my neighborhood. They began to hold me accountable, and they prayed for me. I started taking parenting classes and reading books and I read in the Bible Ephesians 4:26, “In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.”
  • I can be angry, but surrender whatever it is that I think I deserve that’s causing my anger.
  • God showed me that I was making my husband an idol because I was expecting him to be responsible for my happiness and contentment. That brought me to the place where I could acknowledge God was the only one who could fully meet my needs. And whether or not my husband ever changed, that was up to God.
  • As God began to have me share my story, other women would come up to tell me that they struggled with the same thing but had never told anyone else.
  • My relationship with my daughter and our family is healed. She has always supported my ministry sharing with others how I treated her. She loves God. I thought I had destroyed her, but God has redeemed us and brought about a sacred scar. There is always hope with the Lord.
  • What the enemy intended for evil, God is using for good.
  • There is healing when we share our story in safe places. We need to get wise, safe counsel so that we don’t go back into the hiding. Satan loves secrets and he loves to cause us to hide and isolate.
  • My journey of healing came little by little by little.
  • When we have thoughts, we need to stop and ask, “Is this the truth according to scripture?” If it is, we allow it in. But if it is not, we need to reject it, and recite God’s truth.
  • If God can deliver a child abuser on the verge of suicide, God can help you!
  • I was more concerned about Jesus’s reputation than my own. 


Scripture References:

  • Ephesians 4:26 NIV “In your anger do not sin: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.”
  • Genesis 50:20 NIV “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
  • Revelation 12:11 NIV “They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.”
  • 2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
  • James 5:16 NIV “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”

 

Recommended Resources: 

 

Social Media Links for Guest and Host:

Connect with Kathy Collard Miller:

Website / Facebook / Instagram / X

 

For more hope, stay connected with Dr. Bengtson at:

Order Book Breaking Anxiety’s Grip / Order Book Hope Prevails  /  Website  /  Blog  /  Facebook / Twitter (@DrMBengtson)  /  LinkedIn  /  Instagram / Pinterest / YouTube

Guest:

Kathy Collard Miller (www.KathyCollardMiller.com) is the author of over 60 books including women’s Bible studies, a memoir, Christian living books and Bible commentaries. She is also a popular women’s conference speaker who has shared in over 30 US states and 9 foreign countries. She has been married to Larry for 55 years, is the mother of two and grandmother of two and lives in Boise, Idaho.

 

Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

282 How to Find Hope and Healing When Life and Parenthood Don’t Go as Expected

jeudi 5 septembre 2024 • Duration 22:00

Episode Summary: 

It’s human to have a picture, an expectation, in our mind of how life is going to go. But what do we do when our experience doesn’t match our expectations? My guest today, Julie Sunne, shares from her painful wounds of when life and parenthood didn’t go as she expected, having gone through five miscarriages and two children born with significant disabilities. But Julie also shares about the faithfulness of God and how she has seen Him redeem her pain and bring beautiful sacred scars from it.

 

Quotables from the episode:

  • As a young wife, I experienced four miscarriages, and gave birth to four children, two of whom had disabilities: my oldest son was born with a disabled arm, our daughter was born with significant intellectual disabilities, and another son was born with learning disabilities.
  • I expected my pregnancies and parenthood being textbook, and my view of God, since I viewed myself as a “good person,” I expected to have a “good life” so to speak.
  • We often have this naïve expectation that if we do good, God will bless us. It’s not that he doesn’t bless us, but too often, we are expecting him to bless us in a certain way and it doesn’t always look like that.
  • My wounds caused me to turn away from the source of all freedom. I was very angry and had a lot of bitterness which captured me and took me to a very dark place. I didn’t have peace, I didn’t have joy, and I didn’t know the freedom that Christ would give.
  • My anger was largely toward God, although also toward my husband because we were grieving differently. We both needed to grow in our faith but were growing at different rates.
  • I also had some guilt that I couldn’t save my baby, and that I had perhaps done something wrong.
  • In my deepest depression, after a miscarriage, I didn’t want anything to do with God, and I didn’t want to get out of bed, I didn’t want people talking to me, and I didn’t want to hear from God.
  • God exercises His sovereignty not based on what makes us comfortable but on what will edify and refine us.
  • Looking back, I so clearly see how he used the most devastating things in my life to bring about such beauty and hope. I couldn’t be the parent I am now, I couldn’t be the caregiver I am now, without the trials I went through.
  • One of the things I had to learn with my daughter was to accept the whole of who she is and not to separate her out from her disabilities.
  • Looking to the future is a scary thing for us with our daughter, but I would be in a panic all the time if I didn’t know and had seen his faithfulness through all these years in the struggles and the valleys.
  • God has allowed me to share my story to help others feel less alone in what they are experiencing. Since he has healed me, I’ve been able to draw strength from what I’ve gone through.
  • I’ve been able to accept my daughter, draw strength from my daughter, and love her for who she is, and even learn from her. She has taught me so much like how to love and have compassion and empathy. Those are not that were inherent in me.
  • The Lord used those wounds to make me a more beautiful person on the inside. I wouldn’t want to walk through what I walked through again but I can see so much beauty in what he’s done through it. He allows me to comfort others and reach out to others to make a difference and point them toward Him.
  • Because He has created beauty on the inside, that is what spills over onto others when we get bumped and pressed.
  • Whatever difficult situation we face, the God of the universe is in charge of it. Whether large issues or seemingly small ones, He knows what’s going on, and He has a plan.
  • As the Sovereign, He is allowing the hardship in this season for a reason. We may not understand, but when we accept the mystery of the Divine Supreme Being, believing He has control over all and is never caught off guard, we can choose trust over worry.
  • When something difficult happens in my life, God has to keep reminding me that it took me by surprise, but it didn’t take Him by surprise, and He already knows how He’s going to get me through it.
  • What flipped the switch for me was taking my attention off my anger and putting it on the needs of my daughter; it gave me purpose and realizing apart from Him, I didn’t have the strength for that either.
  • God showed me that I couldn’t fix my daughter the way I wanted to, and it made me put my eyes on Him. He created her, He knows her. When that realization came, that I had to surrender my strength to Him, surrender her, and surrender all my expectations to Him, I could begin to see that He was there all along.
  • God is trustworthy. We can trust Him even when we can’t understand Him. He’s going to be there for you; He loves you. Just take it one minute at a time. He’ll meet you in that minute. You’ll look back and see that He was faithful and He’s not going to leave you.
  • We all have wounds. But in the hands of a sovereign God, we can trust that He really will use it all for good.

 

Recommended Resources: 

 

Social Media Links for Guest and Host:

Connect with Julie Sunne:

Website / Facebook / Instagram / X / Pinterest / LinkedIn

For more hope, stay connected with Dr. Bengtson at:

Order Book Breaking Anxiety’s Grip / Order Book Hope Prevails  /  Website  /  Blog  /  Facebook / Twitter (@DrMBengtson)  /  LinkedIn  /  Instagram / Pinterest / YouTube

Guest:

Julie Sunne writes about finding real hope amid life’s real struggles. Her own struggles include enduring multiple miscarriages and caregiving for her adult daughter who has significant intellectual disabilities. Julie’s writing has been featured in print devotionals for several online sites. Julie and her husband, David, are parents to three grown sons and a daughter and reside with their daughter in rural northeast Iowa.

Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

 

192 Partnering with God in the Nitty, Gritty Details of Business and Life

Episode 192

jeudi 15 décembre 2022 • Duration 38:36

Episode Summary: 

Have you ever thought about the fact that God doesn’t need us to accomplish things in this world, but that he offers the opportunity for us to partner with him? Have you ever pondered what partnering with God means, or how to go about it? In this episode, I chat with Kim Avery about partnering with God in the nitty, gritty details of business and life.

Quotables from the episode:

  • I took a long, hard and honest look at my business and my client’s businesses and had to ask myself these questions: if our business partner is the Almighty, all-knowing, all-providing God why don’t our businesses look any different than the businesses of those who don’t know God?
  • More than that, we don’t we look any different than entrepreneurs who don’t know God? We are just as hurried, worried, and stressed as they are.
  • We try to do things for God, but the invitation is to have God with us. That’s a totally different game when we make God our CEO.
  • I’m so thankful to be learning that God really does care about all the details of my life and that He is available and waiting to help me with it.
  • As Christ-centered entrepreneurs, God wants us to be bold, humble, joyful, peace-filled, so that what overflows out of us onto others will be consistent with His character.
  • Partnering with God in prayer doesn’t have to be complicated, fancy, or heroic. Instead it can be BRIEF:
  • Business-Related: Abandoning our default mindset of if it’s going to be, it’s up to me, we invite God into our daily work, seeking his supernatural presence, purposes, and power.
  • Relevant: Exchanging our typical global requests, “Bless this business, Lord,” for our granular reality, such as “Help me to be humble and self-forgetful in today’s meeting with Bob,” we ask God to work in and through every specific attitude, activity, and engagement of each particular day.
  • Inside out: Shifting our prayer focus from a results-only orientation, we pray in cooperation with the way God most likes to work—from the inside out:
    • In us
    • In our relationship with him
    • In our relationships with others
    • In our relationship with our business
    • The results our work has in the world

 

  • Expectant: Acknowledging that God is always at work, even when things are not what we’d hoped, each day we watch for his moment-by-moment movement, trust his promises, and celebrate his answers.
  • Frequent: No longer compartmentalizing our relationship with him to discrete times of the day, we practice the presence of God throughout each day, ceaselessly interacting with him as we partner with him to change the world.
  • We all have a head knowledge that God is for me, but we need to take God’s grand principles into our small, granular reality.
  • The failure rate in small business is so high because we need to shift our focus to what God is doing in us rather than because of us.
  • Failure comes when our contribution outpaces our character.
  • We live in a largely unchurched world, so as entrepreneurs, God gives us the opportunity to reach those who might not otherwise be reached because they don’t set foot in a church.
  • When we are not trusting God with every aspect of our business, and instead default to worry and hurry, we are essentially being a functional atheist, because we are believing God will not provide.
  • Start super small with very specific requests that you know God also wants for you, then walk expectantly through your day watching for how He is at work. It’s a treasure hunt and a grand adventure.

Scripture References:

  • Jeremiah 33:3 NASB ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
  • Isaiah 28:16 ESV “Whoever believes shall not be in haste.”
  • 2 Corinthians 9:8 NASB "And God is able to make all grace overflow to you, so that, always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;"

Recommended Resources: 

Social Media Links for Host and Guest:

Connect with Kim Avery:

Website / Facebook / Instagram / LinkedIn

For more hope, stay connected with Dr. Bengtson at:

Order Book Today is Going to be a Good Day / Order Book Breaking Anxiety’s Grip / Order Book Hope Prevails  /  Website  /  Blog  /  Facebook / Twitter (@DrMBengtson)  /  LinkedIn  /  Instagram / Pinterest / YouTube

 

Guest: 


After leaving her career as a counselor to become a Professional Life Coach, Kim also became an accidental entrepreneur. Coaching was in its infancy then, so it took her years of trial and error and training to create a path to success.

Since that time, she’s made it her goal to help other Christian coaches and entrepreneurs shorten and streamline the business building process. 

Kim is now a successful business coach, Vice-President of Marketing at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute, co-host of the Professional Christian Coaching Today podcast, author of The Prayer Powered Entrepreneur: 31 Days to Building Your Business with Less Stress and More Joy. 

Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

191 How to Experience Revival in our Hearts

Episode 191

jeudi 8 décembre 2022 • Duration 40:28

Episode Summary: 

Do you long to feel a closer connection to God? To discern His voice, experience His peace, and live in His joy? Erica Wiggenhorn and I talk about how to experience God’s faithfulness when surrounded by uncertainty, how to reignite our hope instead of losing heart, and how to realize the call of God, reawakening our purpose when we experience revival in our own hearts.

Quotables from the episode:

  • Revival is a personal heart cry before God, asking Him to meet us in our desperation and brokenness.
  • We tend to doubt our beliefs and believe our doubts because of distraction, and as a result, God feels far away.
  • Doubt can be the doorway to intimacy with God.
  • Revival brings us to God who can do anything and is always doing the best for us.
  • The enemy’s desire is to cause us to doubt God’s character.
  • There is no intimacy without first an investment of time.
  • Faith is always intermeshed with fear.
  • What we see as punishment, like God saying no to a request, may actually be God’s protection for us.

Scripture References:

  • Ezekiel 11:19-20 “I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from then their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.”
  • Ezekiel 20:42 “Then. You will know that I am the Lord, when I bring. You into the land of Israel, the land I had sworn with uplifted hand to give to your ancestors.”

Recommended Resources: 

Social Media Links for Host and Guest:

Connect with Erica Wiggenhorn:

Website / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter / YouTube

For more hope, stay connected with Dr. Bengtson at:

Order Book Today is Going to be a Good Day / Order Book Breaking Anxiety’s Grip / Order Book Hope Prevails  /  Website  /  Blog  /  Facebook / Twitter (@DrMBengtson)  /  LinkedIn  /  Instagram / Pinterest / YouTube

Guest:

Erica Wiggenhorn is an award-winning author and the founder of Every Life Ministries, bringing you the truths of Scripture to transform your life. By digging deeply into God’s Word, Every Life Ministries encourages you to discover your unique purpose, accept God’s promises, and live by His power. She loves to bring God's Word to anyone who’ll listen, whether it’s a large women’s conference, a church women’s retreat, her own kitchen table, or across your computer screen with her teaching series or YouTube Channel. 

Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

190 How to Enjoy Creative Bible Study

Episode 190

jeudi 1 décembre 2022 • Duration 36:43

Episode Summary: 

Do you ever get in a rut with your Bible study? Have you ever wondered “how can I make my Bible study more creative?” Or perhaps, “what’s the most effective way to study the Bible for me?” You won’t want to miss this week’s episode. My friend Pam Farrel and I will talk about how to make our Bible study time more creative! By the time the podcast is over, you’ll want to grab a copy of one of her Bible studies so you can start reaping the benefits!


Quotables from the episode:

  • Creative Bible study helped me memorize scripture better.
  • You can’t think of your problems while you’re in the midst of being creative.
  • Creative Bible study slowed me down to help me pause to ponder God’s word.
  • The most effective way to study the Bible is whatever method gets you engaged and consistent.
  • Hope is waiting expectantly for God to show up and show off for your good and for His glory.
  • The good news is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
  • Good=beautiful, best, bountiful, and blessed

Scripture References:

  • “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32
  • “…I [Jesus] came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]” John 10:10 AMP 

Recommended Resources: 

Social Media Links for Host and Guest:

Connect with Pam Farrel:

Website / Discovering the Bible Series / Facebook / Instagram / Pinterest / Twitter

For more hope, stay connected with Dr. Bengtson at:

Order Book Breaking Anxiety’s Grip / Order Book Hope Prevails  /  Website  /  Blog  /  Facebook / Twitter (@DrMBengtson)  /  LinkedIn  /  Instagram / Pinterest / YouTube

Guest:

Pam Farrel is an international speaker, author of 57 books including bestselling "Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti" translated into over 15 languages. Her newest creative bible study, co-authored with Jean E Jones and Karla Dornacher, is Discovering Good News In John: A Creative Bible Devotional Study Experience,  an Amazon #1 bestseller. 

Pam and her husband, Bill, together run Love-Wise, and Proverbs 19:8 ministries to equip, enrich and encourage people in their most vital relationships. Pam's favorite role is being Mom to 3 sons, 3 daughter-in-love’s and Nana to her 5 grands and two new grand babies soon to arrive. Pam and Bill make their home on a live aboard boat docked in Southern California so she also loves biking, a beach walk, kayaking or a paddleboard adventure.  


Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

189 How To Get Organized and Simplify Your Christmas Holidays

jeudi 24 novembre 2022 • Duration 43:48

Episode Summary: 

We're approaching that time of the year again where the stress and overwhelm of the holiday season can take our emphasis off the reason for the season. We're sharing a replay of a popular podcast episode with Marcia Ramsland, the Holiday Pro. She shares how we can get organized and simplify our Christmas holidays. And the good news is, we can start now!


Quotables from the episode:

  • Getting organized is something that can be learned and will save you time, give you focus, and mental clarity.
  • It’s always too early to start preparing until it’s too late to begin! So start your holiday preparations now.
  • Part of what makes our holidays stressful is the fact that we already fill our days 24x7, then have to add more to our schedules for the holidays.
  • Simplifying our holidays and our lives starts with decreasing our expectations.
  • The problem with the poverty in the world is not God’s provision but our distribution. 

 

Scripture References:

  • Proverbs 13:4 “The sluggish crave and have nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.”
  • Proverbs 14:1 “A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.”
  • Ephesians 2:10 “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

 

Recommended Resources: 

Social Media Links for Host and Guest:

Connect with Marcia Ramsland:

Website / Facebook / Instagram / LinkedIn

For more hope, stay connected with Dr. Bengtson at:

Order Book Breaking Anxiety’s Grip / Order Book Hope Prevails  /  Website  /  Blog  /  Facebook / Twitter (@DrMBengtson)  /  LinkedIn  /  Instagram / Pinterest / YouTube

Guest:

Marcia Ramsland is well known as The Leading Online Organizing Coach, a Business Productivity Expert, and author of the Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay that Way book series, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Marcia is a nationally recognized media guest appearing in Woman’s Day and Real Simple magazines, the Wall Street Journal, and Martha Stewart radio. Marcia believes anyone can become more organized – even you – with the Motivation, Momentum, and Mastery which she provides in her Online Courses and Fast Track Coaching! 

For more information or a free consultation visit her website www.organizingpro.com.


Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

 

 

188 How To Have a Simple Christmas and Reconnect with the Real Reason We Celebrate

Episode 188

jeudi 17 novembre 2022 • Duration 28:10

Episode Summary: 

Christmas time can be so stressful. Would you like to experience calm in the midst of the holiday chaos? What if I told you that you could enjoy a more simple Christmas and, in doing so, reconnect with the real reason we celebrate the holiday? Join me with Tama Fortner as we talk about how to have a Simple Christmas.


Quotables from the episode:

  • “Simple Christmas” is the book I wish someone had written for me when my children were little, before I had all these life experiences under my belt. So many things about “how Christmas is supposed to be” just didn’t work for my family. I want to give moms permission to chart their own course, while also providing some thoughts to draw them closer to God and His Son. 
  • It’s important to learn to be more thoughtful and intentional about what we allow into our life and our family time, especially at the holidays. Just because we’ve always done this or everybody does that, doesn’t mean it’s right for us this year.
  • As you launch into this holiday season and start filling up calendars and to-do lists, ask yourself three questions: Does it make me smile? Does it make my loved ones smile? (Because aren’t those the things that makes us mamas smile?) And, most importantly, does it make God smile? When you filter everything through these three questions, the things that really matter quickly rise to the top. 
  • If a holiday tradition is no longer working for your family, kick it to the curb!
  • The need to keep up with what everyone else is doing is overwhelming. Give yourself permission to simplify, to let some things go to savor the most important things this holiday.
  • Recognize that as a child or daughter of God, you are loved regardless of what you do, how perfectly wrapped the gifts are, or how beautiful the holiday table is.
  • When you reach yours or others’ expectations for yourself, the bar moves, the level increases, and you’re under more stress to continually be doing even more.
  • Always start with reading the Bible! That is where God talks to us, where His will, His way, and His peace are found. Quiet time can be hard to carve out for moms, so I suggest that quiet time doesn’t have to look “perfect”—with a cozy chair, coffee, Bible, and an hour of uninterrupted silence.
  • Sometimes quiet time is a state of mind that we carry with us into the chaos. And sometimes it has to be snatched up in a moment here and there. So keep a Bible with you always. I love an actual paper Bible, but apps on the phone are so convenient to soak up a verse waiting in carpool or whenever you have a moment. 
  • When we start our day off in the word, and allow Him to set our intentions, we will get done what HE deems important for the day, and we will feel more at peace.
  • Jesus’s ministry was centered around interruptions. When we allow ourself to be interrupted and look for the possibility in those interruptions, we will find the people in need and what they need, so that we’re accomplishing God’s to-do list for the day.
  • Let other moms be good at what they are good at without the need to compare yourself to them. You’ll shine in the areas that you are good at.
  • Consider what it is that you want at the end of the holiday season, and then your to-do list will begin to reflect what you ultimately desire.

Scripture References:

  • Luke 2:19 (NIV) — Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
  • Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV) — You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
  • Luke 1:47–48 (NIV) — My spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant.
  • Acts 17:28 (NIV) -- For in him we live and move and have our being.

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Guest:

Tama is an ECPA award-winning author with more than forty titles to her credit. She is the writer behind the bestselling Indescribable for Kids series with Louie Giglio, as well as a number of books in the Jesus Calling children’s line, including the wildly successful Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Kids, which has sold more than 1,000,000 copies to date. Tama has collaborated with such well-known authors as Max Lucado, Rebekah Lyons, and Emily Ley to create inspirational books for all ages. 

Tama has been working as a freelance writer, ghostwriter, and editor for more than twenty-five years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from University of the Cumberlands and a master’s degree from Appalachian State University. Tama and her husband have two children who are growing up much too fast for their mama’s liking. They live on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, where they enjoy sampling new restaurants, watching old movies, and eating lots of popcorn with far too much butter and salt.


Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

 

 

187 How to Rest Effectively to Refill and Refuel when Life is Busy

Episode 187

jeudi 10 novembre 2022 • Duration 37:10

Episode Summary:

Life is busy. There always seems to be more to do than time to do it. We often miss the special moments because we rush through life. Resting allows us to savor those moments. If you struggle to rest effectively so that you can refill and refuel, this episode is for you! Marci Siether shares the art of how to rest effectively.


Quotables from the episode:

  • We often miss the special moments because we rush through life. Resting allows us to savor those moments.
  • Resting is often about pacing and prioritizing…like the difference between sprinting versus running a marathon—those runners don’t start off at the same pace. We need to pace ourselves, with moments of rest so we can make it through the things that must be done.
  • If we don’t take time to come to a full rest and refuel, we end up “bleeding out” on ourselves and those around us.
  • Too often we reserve rest and relaxation for vacation because we feel guilty for resting. But God offers us rest as a gift.
  • We need to give ourselves buffer in our lives to create margin, which reduces our stress when things don’t go as planned.
  • We need rest, we deserve rest, and we will be more productive for taking time to rest.
  • Rest is something God set as an example for us from the beginning. It isn’t something that we HAVE to do..it is something that refills and refuels us. When we don’t fully rest..it is like the lesson of the bell ringer.. that knows an unsilenced bell allows the sound to “bleed’.
  • Don’t wait. Put it on the calendar. Take time and MAKE time to set apart a moment to rest. Rest and peace are often interchangeable. In a world so desperate for peace..set the pace in your own heart, with your own family. Whether it is at the cabin on a lake or on the back porch with a cup of your favorite tea or coffee. Take time to rest in the Lord today.
  • Peace and patience go hand in hand.

Scripture References:

  • Psalm 62:1-2 NIV “My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.”  
  • Matthew 11:28-29 NIV “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give your rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
  • John 14:27 NIV “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”  

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Guest:

Marci Seither’s writing career began after her humor article was published in a small-town newspaper over twenty years ago. Since then, she has authored two books and hundreds of articles for local papers as well as Guideposts, Focus on the Family, and Clubhouse Magazine. Her biggest joy, besides being married to John for 37 years and raising six kiddos is spending time with her grandkids in the kitchen.

 
Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

 

186 Learning to Trust God with Our Decisions

Episode 186

jeudi 3 novembre 2022 • Duration 33:55

Episode Summary: 

Kristine Brown and I talk about learning to trust God, especially in our decisions. Making decisions is a process, and it can seem overwhelming at times. Kristine shares what she learned in order to move from decision fatigue to trusting God with her decisions.


Quotables from the episode:

  • So often we trust God with the big things in life, when it’s the little things that seem so hard to trust Him with.
  • When my pastor said, “You know God’s got this, right?” I realized I wasn’t so sure I did. That’s when I realized something needed to change.
  • I wanted to go from saying I trusted God to actively living it out in my life.
  • In order to fully trust God, we have to trade our “what ifs?” for “living as if!”
  • I came to the place where I prayed, “Lord, show me what you want me to learn through the hard stuff.”
  • We struggle to trust God because we want the assurance that everything will be okay.
  • We must make our decisions in good faith to trust that the Holy Spirit is guiding us.
  • The best thing we can do as we learn to trust God more with our decisions is to make a daily commitment to release control to God.

Scripture References:

  • Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” 
  • Psalm 73:24 ESV “You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.” 
  • Hebrews 10:23 ESV “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.” 

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Guest:

Kristine Brown is a ministry wife, mom, stepmom, and Mimi. A former chronic worrier, Kristine loves connecting women today with women of the Bible and sharing lessons learned through her website, freelance writing, and speaking to women’s groups. Any given day you can find her texting her young adult kids, taking a walk through her neighborhood, or ordering another new book to read. To connect with Kristine, visit kristinebrown.net.

Hosted By: Dr. Michelle Bengtson
Audio Technical Support: Bryce Bengtson

 

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