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Escaping the Trap of Pornography

Escaping the Trap of Pornography

Pornography. It’s a topic we don’t want to talk about. Something we think will never happen to our children or in our relationships. So how can we stop pornography addiction before it starts? Dr. Tim Hollingshead has created a program called “Free in 13” that […]

Job Loss and Mental Health in the Workplace

Job Loss and Mental Health in the Workplace

I lost my job four years ago. It was the first time I had ever been let go. I thought it was one of those things that would never happen to me until it did. All of my self-esteem was locked up in that job. […]

From Teenage Pregnancy to The Brady Bunch

From Teenage Pregnancy to The Brady Bunch

No one ever plans to get pregnant as a teenager, but it happened to my cousin Meghann Brimhall. A mom at 17, divorced by 25, with two kids to raise. Meghann finally found true love after finding herself. Meghann says she never expected to have […]

A Terminal Diagnosis and Facing Death

A Terminal Diagnosis and Facing Death

Imagine being told your child has a terminal diagnosis. This the courageous battle of Beckham Hoagland-Bice of Melba, Idaho. Beckham received a cancer diagnosis of DIPG in November of 2017. He was given four to nine months to live. Beckham passed away on Saturday, August […]

Finding Happiness After Infertility and Betrayal

Finding Happiness After Infertility and Betrayal

This episode of “Not The Way I Planned,” is a story of finding happiness after infertility and betrayal. Boise mother, Theresa Mills shares her journey of trying to have a baby for 8 years. She opens up about her struggles along the often difficult path […]

Survive, Thrive, Connect, & Inspire

Survive, Thrive, Connect, & Inspire

Looking back on anything tough that I’ve ever gone through, I’ve come to realize these four elements on the path. Obviously, the first goal is to just survive. It’s getting out of bed in the morning when all you want to do is stay under […]

Becoming Unfrozen – The Nathan Ogden Story

Becoming Unfrozen – The Nathan Ogden Story

Nathan Ogden has been paralyzed twice! Today he lives as a quadriplegic, but he hasn’t let his inability to move his body stop him from driving his truck, skydiving, or biking 1200 miles to raise money to buy wheelchairs for people in third-world countries through […]

Learning To Love Where You Land

Learning To Love Where You Land

I’ve been dealing with some discontent lately with approaching 40 and not living up to the dreams I set out for myself as a young girl. This mental journey has led me to find great value in learning to love where I’ve landed. I grew […]

Finding Happy Even Without a Happy Ending

Finding Happy Even Without a Happy Ending

When I first met Jenny Steinmetz, she was the type of person that I saw as “perfect.” Perfect marriage, perfect home, perfect kids, going to church kind of girl. As I got to know Jenny a little better I discovered that she had painful struggles […]

Learning to Deal with Lonely

Learning to Deal with Lonely

Lonely is something I never anticipated dealing with as an adult. Lonely comes in many different forms and none of it is fun, but it’s taught me a lot of lessons about life. I dealt with a fair amount of lonely growing up. I felt […]