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Meaning Management & Emotional Fitness - Part 3 | Sitting with Discomfort | When Identity Resists Healing

Awareness is important — but it’s not the end of the work. In Part 3 of the Meaning Management & Emotional Fitness series, Erica explores what comes after insight: sitting with discomfort, loosening identity-based resistance, and creating space for real healing to take root.
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Bible Rx | Matthew 6:22–23 | The Lens You’re Looking Through | The Words in Red

How you see a situation shapes how you experience it.
In this Bible Rx, Erica reads Matthew 6:22–23 (NLT) and reflects on Jesus’ words about vision, light, and perspective. And how the “lens” we look through can quietly shape emotions like stress, shame, fear, anxiety, and discouragement.
This episode isn’t about fixing yourself.It’s an invitation to slow down, listen, and gently notice the meaning you’ve been assigning — and how a shift in perspective can bring clarity and light.
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Meaning Management & Emotional Fitness – Part 2 | Change the Label, Change the Outcome

Your feelings don’t come first — your meaning does.Change the label, and you change the outcome.
Part 2 add-on to the Meaning Management & Emotional Fitness mini-workshop: why your feelings follow your meaning, how the labels you attach shape your emotions and actions, and the simple practice to reframe in real time. Full mini-workshop linked in the episode notes.
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Mini-Workshop | Meaning Management & Emotional Fitness 101 | Stop Letting Your Feelings Lead

Bible Rx | Simon to Peter… Back to Simon | Breaking Patterns Under Pressure | Luke 22

In Luke 22, Jesus tells Simon that the enemy has asked to sift him — and then reminds him that his faith won’t fail because Jesus is already praying. This Bible Rx explores what pressure reveals, why the “old you” shows up under stress, and how God uses sifting to strengthen you and prepare you to help others.
 
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Mini-Workshop | Meaning Management & Emotional Fitness 101 | Stop Letting Your Feelings Lead

Stop letting your feelings lead.Meaning Management & Emotional Fitness 101 — reframe the story before offense becomes a prison.
Your feelings are real — but they’re not qualified to lead.In this mini-workshop, Erica teaches Meaning Management & Emotional Fitness 101: how to pause, breathe, take thoughts captive, and reframe the story before offense turns into a prison.
This is the work that creates real, sustainable growth, healing, and peace — and you’re not meant to do it alone.
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A Journal Entry | 15 Years Later | Love, Loss, and Fear Disguised as Standards

In today’s episode, I’m reading a journal entry out loud — raw, real, and unedited.
This story is private… and it shaped more of my life than I realized at the time.
I’m sharing how grief impacted my beliefs, my fears, and the way I tried to control outcomes — and how fear can disguise itself as “standards” when you’ve been through enough to protect your heart.
This isn’t a lesson. It’s a real story… and an invitation to reflect.
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Psalm 141 (NIV) | Scripture Reading | Guard My Mouth

A Sunday Scripture Reading from Psalm 141 (NIV) — a prayer for a guarded mouth and a clean heart. This Bible Rx is a response to gossip and slander, asking God to protect our speech, our motives, and our peace

Biblical Standards | The Socially Acceptable Sin You Didn't Know Was a Sin

If you’ve ever called gossip “venting,” “concern,” or “just being honest”… this episode will change how you hear your own words.
Gossip and slander are so normalized that many believers don’t even recognize them as sin — but Scripture is clear about what our mouths are meant to build… and what they’re never meant to destroy.
In this episode, Erica exposes the subtle ways gossip shows up, why it grieves the Holy Spirit, and how to protect your peace when everyone else calls it normal.
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Scripture references:
Acts 4:29–30
Ephesians 4:31
Proverbs 26:20; 16:27–28; 12:18; 13:3; 18:21; 10:17; 3:11–12 (NLT)
Mark 7:20–23
Psalm 119:11

Mini Workshop: Weight Loss Without Shame | Sustainable Habits, Nervous System Support, and Lasting Results

Sustainable weight loss doesn’t come from trying harder — it comes from building support, not shame.
In this mini workshop, Erica breaks down why most weight loss attempts fail, what your body is actually doing when it “pushes back,” and how to build lasting progress through sustainable habits, nervous system regulation, and systems that work in real life.
You’ll learn why your “why” shapes your “how,” why sleep and energy matter more than most people realize, and how supporting this one thing can be a major key to steady, long-term results — without pressure, extremes, or starting over again
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Silent Seeds | Humble Beginnings | No Noise, Just Growth

Bonus episode.
A journal entry I wrote on 1/9/26 and felt led to share. Job 8:7 (NIV).Silent growth is still growth — and in due season, it will show.
 
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