Maybe you found Authentic Pursuit while looking for support during a difficult season. Maybe a podcast conversation or a reflection felt familiar, and you wanted to know more about the person behind it. However you arrived, I want to welcome you and share a little about who I am, why I created this space, and what I hope you find here. You might be rebuilding after betrayal, feeling disconnected from yourself, or wondering what comes next in a life that looks different from t

You can talk all day and still feel far apart. You don’t need to have the whole answer today. You can start by hearing each other. Purchase A Little Closer: Couples Conversation Cards here. This is a digital download; no physical product will be shipped. These cards are reflection tools, not a substitute for couples counseling. Use them when both people feel safe and free to participate, pause, or pass There are the necessary conversations: who is picking up dinner, what ti

Download the resource: https://www.authenticpursuit.net/product-page/room-to-be-real-loneliness-reflection-guide ($5.00 DISCOUNT USE Code: PODCAST5) ------------------------------------ Some of the loneliest seasons in life are not the ones where no one is around. They are the seasons when people are nearby, conversations are happening, messages are being answered, tasks are getting done, and still, the truest parts of you have nowhere to go. You can be surrounded and still f

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A practical R.U.L.E. framework for noticing the invisible expectations that fuel people-pleasing, over-responsibility, guilt, and exhaustion—and replacing them with healthier truths. (Be sure to also check out R.U.L.E. Podcast) Have you ever caught yourself thinking, I should be doing more. I shouldn’t disappoint people. A good mom would handle this better. I should be able to fix this. I shouldn’t need help. Those thoughts can sound so normal that we rarely stop to question

Have you ever spent an entire conversation trying to find the exact words that would finally make someone understand? Maybe if you explain it differently, they will hear you. If you stay calm enough, they will not get defensive. If you love them well enough, they will stop doing the thing that keeps hurting you. And when none of that works, you wonder what you should have done differently. It is exhausting to live as though everyone else’s choices depend on how well you handl

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about expectations, but not just the expectations that other people put on us. There are already plenty of those. What I have really been reflecting on are the expectations we put on ourselves, especially the ones that seem to quietly run in the background of our lives without us even realizing they are there. For some of us, that invisible list might sound something like this: be a good wife, be a good mom, be a good friend, remember the bi

Want more on this topic- this topic is also available via the Podcast: What do you need to unsubcribe from? | Podcasts Recently, I found myself doing something incredibly ordinary... Going through my email and pressing unsubscribe. Again. ...And again. ........And again. Years of subscriptions had accumulated. Stores I bought something from once. Organizations I no longer followed. Newsletters I never opened. Companies I did not even remember giving my email address to. And a

There are seasons of life that feel like valleys. You cannot see very far ahead. The terrain is difficult. Everything seems heavier than it used to. And sometimes you begin wondering if this is simply your life now. I have had those seasons. There were times when I could not imagine how the circumstances around me could ever become something I would eventually look back on rather than something I was still living inside. Faith did not magically remove the valley. But it chang

One of the most painful things about betrayal and other major life disruptions is that they can change more than our circumstances. They can change the way we see ourselves. Suddenly we are asking questions we never used to ask. Was I not enough? How didn't I see this? What does this say about me? Was any of it real? Can I trust my judgment? Who am I now? This is where pain can slowly begin turning into shame. Something happened to us, and somewhere along the way we begin dec

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