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What’s Your New Name?
Wherever you find yourself, consider sitting with God for a spell and ask Him if He has a new name for you.

How to Embrace instead of Brace for 2025.
1-13-15
Wondering how to get started? Here’s what works for me.

Three Thoughts on Waiting for a Repurposed Life
12-16-24
I believe we never stop repurposing, as we learn to live more and more authentically and richly into God’s plans for our lives. And much of this requires waiting. We never actually arrive.


Three Healing Practices that Changed My Life.
I was recently asked in an interview, “What self-help practices assisted in your recovery from abuse.”

No Such Thing as a Nobody
We’ve all heard the David and Goliath story, how many times? But wait … before you tune out, let me share the one line in the story that recently got my radar buzzing.

Discovering Buried Treasure.
8-8-24
I look back and see a repurposed pattern taking shape from my early days, woven together uniquely for me as a sign of God’s faithfulness to also repurpose my seemingly broken and discarded past.

What were you made for?
07-11-24
Turns out I was striving for so long to be Stereotypical Barbie when Weird Barbie, broken from “being played with too roughly,” was truer to me.

Let's talk vulnerability.
6-9-24
Joanne’s short version … I am comforted by God and will go out into the world and try to comfort others in the same way He has comforted me.