Embracing the Unfinished Story: Finding Purpose and Perspective Through Doodling #103

How Curiousity Can Lead to Freedom

I'd love to hear from you! Text me [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999324/fan_mail/new] When you see you are not living your faith the way you want to do you judge and condemn yourself or do you get curious? Condemnation is never from the Lord. Listen to this week’s podcast about how curiosity can help you see what is really in your way. 00:00 Curiosity Or Condemnation 01:26 Why Shame Feels Normal 02:04 Curiosity Finds The Need 02:57 Example Sharing Your Faith 06:01 Conviction Not Condemnation 06:46 Tracing Fear Beneath Behavior 09:00 When Reactions Feel Childlike 11:12 Ask God What You Need 11:50 Compassion Leads To Change 12:20 Choose Curiosity And Heal  I'd love to connect with you! * Find community in Healing Generations [https://www.skool.com/heart-doodling-with-jesus] *  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times [https://mukkovejohnson.com/courses/transformational-quiet-times]

Make Room For More Of God - Episode 129

I'd love to hear from you! Text me [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999324/fan_mail/new] You can’t put 2 quarts of figs in a one quart jar. You can’t make much progress or expect much to happen when there are rocks in the way. God can’t occupy places that are filled by other things. It’s not about Him pouring out more but wanting to heal what’s in the way of you receiving. He’s not mad at you. He wants to heal you. Allow the Lord to move the rocks and fill the spaces they leave behind. As I thought about what he shared, the Lord spoke to my heart, too. 1. You don’t always know the rocks are there until you hit them. 2. Don’t go looking for all the rocks. 3. Follow Holy Spirit’s lead in removing the rocks God has shown you. I'd love to connect with you! * Find community in Healing Generations [https://www.skool.com/heart-doodling-with-jesus] *  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times [https://mukkovejohnson.com/courses/transformational-quiet-times]

Is It Even Worth It? - Episode 128

I'd love to hear from you! Text me [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999324/fan_mail/new] Do you doubt your worth? If you have been tying to convince yourself of a truth and it just doesn’t seem to be working it might be because you need to start with your heart instead of your head. Thoughts and emotions are closely connected. Unlike much of what I read on the internet I believe emotions create thoughts, not the other way around. An event happens and you automatically have emotions.  Then you create thoughts about your experience. This happens so fast and subconsciously that it seems like they are automatic, too. They aren’t. You choose what you think. If you didn’t believe that then you wouldn’t be trying to change your thinking. Listen to this week’s podcast to hear how this showed up in a client’s life in regards to pricing a new tool they were creating and how meeting the heart need quickly shifted her thought process. 00:00 Doubting Your Offer 01:12 A Heart Level Block 01:50 Gods Perspective Shift 02:36 Why Mindset Alone Fails 04:02 Heart Doodling Method 05:33 Tracing Doubt to Childhood 07:21 How Emotions Create Beliefs 10:53 Healing the Root Memory 12:59 What Makes My Work Different 13:54 Invitation and Closing I'd love to connect with you! * Find community in Healing Generations [https://www.skool.com/heart-doodling-with-jesus] *  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times [https://mukkovejohnson.com/courses/transformational-quiet-times]

You Won't Grow Spiritually Unless You Grow Emotionally - Ep 127

I'd love to hear from you! Text me [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999324/fan_mail/new] Emotional maturity is key to your spiritual growth. That’s why I start with the heart and the skills for emotional maturity when pursuing spiritual growth. It takes emotional maturity to carry out the spiritual instruction in the Bible. For example, when you read a passage like James 1:19, 20 about being slow to anger you might think or have been told that you need to be more spiritual to do that. You don’t need to be more spiritual you need to be emotionally mature. Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving]; for the [resentful, deep-seated] anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God [that standard of behavior which He requires from us]. James 1:19,20 Amplified Bible Being a careful listener when someone is confronting you or questioning a decision takes emotional maturity to listen without taking anything personally or without defending yourself. You need emotional maturity to listen and form a response rather than reacting to what is said. It also takes emotional maturity to see when you feel like reacting so you can bring that place in you that wants to react to the Lord for healing or correction. Seeing something from someone else’s point of view requires emotional maturity. "Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn" (Romans 12:15) "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you" (Ephesians 4:32). It requires emotional maturity to not need people to understand you or to not need people to be like you, to be able to love them. To not take it personally if they don't understand what you're saying. To be able to be curious and be able to stay in conversations until there can be understanding of why they think the way they do, to see whether that's because they haven't been in the kingdom very long or because they've been taught wrong or life experiences or whatever it is. Being able to have those conversations and sit with disagreements and differences requires emotional maturity as well as spiritual maturity. It also takes emotional maturity to understand when you're feeling your own emotions versus someone else's or when you're trying to manage something for someone else versus being mature and responsible for yourself. It takes that emotional maturity to let someone around you be sad or be angry to feel however they feel instead of needing them to feel a certain way for you to be okay. It takes emotional maturity to see what's yours and what someone else's. If you're feeling sad or overwhelmed or scared or whatever, having the emotional maturity to practice discernment to see is this mine? Is this current, or is it feeling what someone else is feeling? Is it a spirit? Is it something from the past? Having that emotional maturity then allows you to ask the Lord for spiritual insight of why you are responding the way you are. I talk about all this in more depth in this week’s podcast. 00:00 Why Emotions Matter 00:38 Slow to Anger Skills 02:15 Empathy in Romans 12 02:53 Compassionate Perspective 03:51 Safe Conversations 05:15 Discern Your Emotions 07:38 Faith Culture and Feelings 09:13 Childhood Roles Reversed 11:52 Unlearning Neglect Messages 14:46 Grace for Your Parents 1 I'd love to connect with you! * Find community in Healing Generations [https://www.skool.com/heart-doodling-with-jesus] *  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times [https://mukkovejohnson.com/courses/transformational-quiet-times]

Boundaries About What You Will Do - Ep 126

I'd love to hear from you! Text me [https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999324/fan_mail/new] Boundaries aren’t impatience.  They don’t mean you are not being loving. Boundaries are about what you will do, not getting someone else to do what you want them to do.  If you’re like me the idea of boundaries sounds freeing and empowering - right up to the point you try to put them in place. It took me years to understand how to state what I needed and what I was going to do rather than trying to control the outcome of someone else’s choices.  If you grew up without healthy boundaries it can be tricky to change your thinking and put them into practice. You’re right, though. They are empowering and create freedom. It is worth figuring out how to use them properly. To see how boundaries do and do not come into this situation listen to today’s episode. Podcast Chapters 00:00 Boundaries Defined 00:14 Facebook Post Example 01:28 Contract vs Ultimatum 02:43 Gods Loving Boundaries 03:59 Learning Healthy Boundaries 05:06 Scissors Stewardship Lesson 06:55 Car Borrowing Boundary 09:50 Freedom Fear and Control 11:39 Access Points and Limits 13:09 Self Worth and Creator 14:18 Invitation and Closing  I'd love to connect with you! * Find community in Healing Generations [https://www.skool.com/heart-doodling-with-jesus] *  Learn how God communicates with you in Transformational Quiet Times [https://mukkovejohnson.com/courses/transformational-quiet-times]