EP. 69: Finding Inner Peace (with Kay Wills Wyma)

11/29/21 • 33 min

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How often do you feel stressed? Frustrated? Overwhelmed? Do you feel those ways more often than you feel at peace? This world is filled with events and people that can make us feel far from peaceful. On this episode of God Hears Her, Eryn and Elisa talk to Kay Wills Wyma about feeling the real, full peace that God grants us when we lean into Him.

About Our Guest:

Kay Wills Wyma is a blogger, speaker, video podcaster, and mother of five. Kay writes on cultural and societal issues that impact family and friends. She is an author of four books, including The Peace Project: A 30-Day Experiment Practicing Thankfulness, Kindness, and Mercy where she leads readers through 30-days of finding and feeling peace. She’s also a former White House aide, International Capital Markets banker, and entrepreneur.

Notes and Quotes:

“To just slow down for a second and really enjoy the people that walk beside you is such a gift.”
“Friendships are giving relationships also.”
“I grew up in the South, so there became this strange relationship with Jesus because I had to ‘do and be’ to be okay.”
“It’s easier in the hard times than the good times. In the hard times you’ve got nothing.”
Soul30: Practice finding moments of peace every day for 30 days.
“Why does being thankful feel good? Because it is literally firing parts of your brain that deliver dopamine and endorphins.”
“You have neural pathways in your brain that are highly traveled pathways, and they tend to go along the lines of fear, anxiety, worry. What if you can change the routes?”
“You can actually change the pathways in your brain so that peace is where you are going instead of anxiety.”
“He says: ‘I keep in perfect peace those whose minds are fixed on me.’”

Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show:

God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.
Check out Kay Wills Wyma’s blog: http://www.themoatblog.com/
Purchase The Peace Project: A 30-Day Experiment Practicing Thankfulness, Kindness, and Mercy https://amzn.to/3mvkK4p
Elisa’s Instagram: @elisamorganauthor
Eryn’s Instagram: @eryneddy

About Our Guest:

Notes and Quotes:

“To just slow down for a second and really enjoy the people that walk beside you is such a gift.”
“Friendships are giving relationships also.”
“I grew up in the South, so there became this strange relationship with Jesus because I had to ‘do and be’ to be okay.”
“It’s easier in the hard times than the good times. In the hard times you’ve got nothing.”
Soul30: Practice finding moments of peace every day for 30 days.
“Why does being thankful feel good? Because it is literally firing parts of your brain that deliver dopamine and endorphins.”
“You have neural pathways in your brain that are highly traveled pathways, and they tend to go along the lines of fear, anxiety, worry. What if you can change the routes?”
“You can actually change the pathways in your brain so that peace is where you are going instead of anxiety.”
“He says: ‘I keep in perfect peace those whose minds are fixed on me.’”

Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show:

God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.
Check out Kay Wills Wyma’s blog: http://www.themoatblog.com/
Purchase The Peace Project: A 30-Day Experiment Practicing Thankfulness, Kindness, and Mercy https://amzn.to/3mvkK4p
Elisa’s Instagram: @elisamorganauthor
Eryn’s Instagram: @eryneddy

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EP. 68: Hope that Overcomes (with Joyce Dinkins)

How do you experience hope? Maybe you’re hopeful for something? Or you have a strong hope in who God says He is? Or maybe you feel hopeless and are starting to wonder what hope even is! On this episode of God Hears Her, Eryn and Elisa talk to Joyce Dinkins, a woman that comes from a generation of people hoping for better circumstances. Joyce exemplifies this godly attribute of hope and talks about it with a wisdom that comes from God’s Spirit.

About Our Guest:

Joyce Dinkins is the executive editor for the Our Daily Bread Voices Collection. She has an incredible passion for inclusion and equity. Her career emphasis is amplifying the voices of diverse authors, African American and others, in the literary world. She has invested several decades as an editor serving at several Christian publishers across the United States.

Notes and Quotes:

“My dad’s dad was born a slave, and that affected everything.”
“I had access to freedom in my home; but I never forgot, and I still don’t forget where my parents came from, where my grandparents came from.”
“People seeing me weren’t necessarily seeing what they were looking at.”
“Hope to me is the truth.”
“My parents taught me at an early age to not take abuse from anyone.”
“They were capable, after all they had been through, to love their enemies.”
“Love will allow us to overcome.”
“Literacy is the right to vote, fair housing, the right to pursue education, etcetera.”
“See us, hear us, express our stories.”
“Go open that book [the Bible].”
“Cry out to God.”

Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show:

God Hears Her website: https://www.godhearsher.org/
Subscribe on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-hears-her-podcast/id1511046507?utm_source=applemusic&utm_medium=godhearsher&utm_campaign=podcast
Order God Sees Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women on Amazon.
Visit the Our Daily Bread Voices Collection
Elisa’s Instagram: elisamorganauthor
Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy

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EP. 70: Awkward Joy (with Mary Jo Clark)

We often talk about the topic of joy with an emphasis that we “choose joy” or “find joy.” But what does that actually mean? Are those phrases true? Or do phrases like “choose joy” put pressure on people to somehow become happy in the midst of rather unjoyful circumstances? On this episode of God Hears Her, Elisa and Eryn talk with Mary Jo Clark about what life looks like when “choosing joy” feels impossible.

About Our Guest:

After years of working in bakeries, coffee shops, and food trucks, Mary Jo Clark returned to her love of audio production and sharing stories. She is now a podcast producer and engineer for Our Daily Bread Ministries. Outside of her passion for creating podcasts to encourage women, she is a talented baker. Her cookies and cupcakes are described by many as “legendary.” She and her husband, Russ, are expecting their first child.

Notes and Quotes:

“As someone that struggles with depression and anxiety, I am not someone who is an innately happy person.”
“What if I struggle with depression . . . am I supposed to suppress those feelings down and pretend I am happy?”
“It wasn’t a pity party. You were grieving very real things.”
“I couldn’t find a way out of it until I was broken enough to find the point of being done. It’s time to be okay.”
“Our job or status are not our identity.”
“I can’t feel it [joy] because it’s down in my heart and I’ve buried it because I’m not content and I’m not focusing on the gifts I know God has given me, but I know it’s there.”
“I was discovering this feeling of joy while I was crying.”
“Through every single one of those trials, God grew me and He developed the joy that was growing already.”

Links/Books/Resources Mentioned in Show: