Kindness Answered the Phone
You know that moment when your "check engine" light goes on during a 3,000 mile trek across the country and you are in the middle of...
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Esther Goetz
- Jun 11, 2022
- 1 min
Much-Needed Hope
What matters is that HOPE is stirred and gifted and received, multiplying over and over and sent out into the world one flicker at a time.
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Esther Goetz
- Jun 9, 2022
- 2 min
Holding Space for Grief
Nothing is more sacred than to share another's pain.
It brings both great sorrow and surprising healing.
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Esther Goetz
- Jun 7, 2022
- 2 min
Feel Stuck Choosing Sides?
Wisdom is the way of Jesus.
He’s all about it.
He doesn’t get caught up in the ALWAYS this or ALWAYS that.
He’s all about the SOMETIMES.
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Esther Goetz
- Jun 5, 2022
- 2 min
Letting Something Die
I don't always make the best decisions in the middle of the night because of all the weird things that go on in my brain when I can't sleep.
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Esther Goetz
- Jun 4, 2022
- 1 min
What Happens on Saturday Night
Saturday night at 6 pm begins something I call Celebration Sunday, a 24-hour period of un"doing."
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Esther Goetz
- Jun 3, 2022
- 1 min
If You Knew...
I hide.
I keep secrets.
I stay in my cage.
I show you a false version of me.
I protect my self at all costs.
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Esther Goetz
- May 23, 2022
- 2 min
Connecting to Your True Self - Liz Milani (Season 1, Episode 13)
"Life is always moving. You have permission to move with it, to leave behind the things that do not serve you, and become someone new,...
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Esther Goetz
- May 22, 2022
- 3 min
Lessons from the Desert
Deserts are bizarre. They are sandy. They are stark. They are sun-baked. Last week, for our anniversary trip, we traveled to Arizona. I...
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Esther Goetz
- May 17, 2022
- 4 min
The Tale of Three Marriages
I've had three marriages so far. [Don't freak out just yet. Read until the end.] My first marriage was characterized by HIDING. It lasted...
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Esther Goetz
- May 16, 2022
- 1 min
The Relief Grief Sandwich - Cindy Wang Brandt (Season 1, Episode 12)
"Parenting may be less about raising our children and more about raising ourselves. It compels us to break our own cycles of shame and...
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Esther Goetz
- May 15, 2022
- 2 min
Twisty Windy Faith
The journey of faith is a strange one. I thought it would be a straight and definitive path to the known. Do this and this and I will...
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Esther Goetz
- May 11, 2022
- 2 min
For the Mom Whose Kid Wants to Quit
There once was a nine-year-old who asked her mom for a lacrosse stick. And goggles. And to join a cute team of other nine-year-olds....
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Esther Goetz
- May 9, 2022
- 2 min
Love Matters More - Jared Byas (Season 1, Episode 11)
"You can't love and control at the same time." In this episode on the Deconstructing Mamas podcast, Jared Byas, author of that quote,...
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Esther Goetz
- May 6, 2022
- 3 min
Fighting the Mean Monster of Anxiety
Being in a battle with the mean monster of anxiety can be paralyzing. Like stand-there-and stare paralyzing. Like I-need-to-lay-down...
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Esther Goetz
- May 2, 2022
- 2 min
Trust Myself - Sarah Meassick (Season 1, Episode 10)
"I sink beneath the swirling surf of words, fears, expectations, conditioning, and advice—and feel for the Knowing." (Glennon Doyle) In...
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Esther Goetz
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
Saving My Life?
If you invited me over for tea and you asked me what's killing me right now, I would have a litany of answers for you. They range from...
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Esther Goetz
- Apr 24, 2022
- 3 min
Church?
It finally happened after two long years. My husband and I darkened the door of a church for Easter Sunday. We were away for the weekend...