Thriving In Christ
with Dr. Ioana Popa
What if your exhaustion isn’t just from your workload - but from your screen time? This week, Dr. Randa Anderson joins me, and together we explore digital fasting and digital discernment - a Christ-ce...
I pray you are well! This month, we revisit some important past episodes following the theme of FAITH, as we walk with God during this Lenten season.
In this episode, I share some important concepts...
Restoration IS possible! And here is a quick Christian restorative practice to help you reset as you enter into the weekend.
This guided contemplation, inspired by Psalm 139:10, helps you listen for ...
If you are already burned out - or close to it - you may feel a quiet urgency to “get back to yourself,” to recover, to feel alive again. At the same time, the idea of doing one more thing can feel ov...
*Do NOT drive or operate machinery during this Contemplative practice*
RESTORATIVE PRACTICE:
If you are longing for a moment of silence with God, I invite you to listen to this episode, with a guide...
*Do NOT drive or operate machinery during this Contemplative practice*
Here is a quick Christian restorative contemplative practice to help you reset as you enter into the weekend.
Rooted in Matthew...
In this episode of Thriving in Christ Show, I sit down with chiropractor and functional health practitioner, Dr. Brook Sheehan, for a powerful conversation about the body - an area many Christian wome...
Most likely, you are deeply familiar with doing hard things. At work, at home, in your church. And you are probably rewarded to push through exhaustion, complexity, and responsibility more times than ...
So much of your day is probably spent responding to emails, making decisions, managing crises, and people’s needs. By the time you reach the end of the day to care for your own habits or spiritual pra...
As Christian women professionals, your days are busy. And building in routines and healthy habits can be a challenge.
In this Renewal Conversation, I spoke with Erica Jones, creator and founder of El...
Many Christian women professionals and servant leaders live with a quiet, constant tension → “I know what would help me… but I don’t have the bandwidth.” You long for prayer rhythms, movement, rest, o...
As Christian professional women, we work really hard to build our careers. Then, after some time, something tells us to switch careers or pivot in our direction of life. This could be to stay at home ...
As we step into January, I want to pause with you - not to add more goals, but to ask some deeper questions:
- How can you implement successfully rhythms and habits that sustain you so that you can k...
In this Thriving in Christ episode, I had the joy of interviewing Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and Hashimoto’s specialist, on how chronic stress can quietly lead to burnout and autoimmune issues ...
As a new year approaches, many Christian professional women feel called to set intentions, yet traditional resolutions often lead to frustration and burnout (by as early as February or March), rather ...
In this Renewal Conversation, I speak with Lissa Figgins about moving beyond burnout by learning to steward time as a gift from God. Lissa shares how her own journey - from striving and exhaustion to ...
You make hard calls all day — decisions that shape people’s futures, teams, organizations, and your family. Everyone looks to you for clarity, composure, and care.
Yet sometimes, when the meetings en...
Christian women professionals and leaders often measure worth by productivity, titles, or impact — even spiritual service becomes performance.
Beneath excellence lies quiet exhaustion and fear: “Am I...
Even the strongest Christian women professionals and servant leaders carry stories of hard seasons—moments that stretched them, humbled them, or left them quietly wondering how God could bring renewal...
Are you feeling tired at the end of the week? Are there a lot of things going on in your life? Do you need to take a pause and regenerate with Christ at the center?
Wrapping up the year while we prep...
How do we handle thoughts and emotions so we can stay centered in God? And are there simple steps we can take to access the peace that surpasses all understanding?
Thoughts and emotions come and go, ...
Today, we are bringing to a close the MINI SERIES on Internal Family Systems (IFS), by discussing the Steps for the HEALING JOURNEY, with Christ at the helm.
Through the might of the IFS psychologica...
Oftentimes, whether at work or at home, as a parent, a spouse, friend or co-worker, we feel like we need to perform a certain way, to please others, or perhaps, be perfect.
Thoughts like these consta...
I hope you are well! Here is Part 6 (out of 7) of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Christianity series, which addresses polarities.
This is relevant in our lives as it is common to feel that the...
What does it take to move past doubt - doubt in ourselves, in others, or situations we are in? Is there a different mindset that can help us overcome this doubt?
And what does it mean to see beauty a...
As we keep growing both professionally and personally in Christ, we become better versions of ourselves and we see the transformation.
Nonetheless, life happens, and we might get triggered, respond i...
In this week's Renewal Conversation, I had the joy of talking with Debbie Caudle, who is a marriage therapist and relationship coach with a passion for helping Christian couples repair what’s broken, ...
Have you wondered what it truly means to trust God? It can actually look like many different things, such as co-creating with God, taking steps in faith, being comfortable with the unknown, following ...
