Your Connection Guide This Week in the Connection Codes Reader, I’ve spent a lot of my life waiting. Waiting to feel ready.Waiting to know for sure.Waiting until I had every answer, every resource, every “green light.” But the truth? Clarity never came from waiting. It came from doing. And this week’s podcast hit me right in the gut- because Chris Cruz puts words to something I felt previously but didn’t know how to say:“Clarity is found in motion.” Chris joins Dr. Glenn and Phyllis to talk...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Your Connection Guide This Week in the Connection Codes Reader, I’ve spent so much of my life ignoring my body. Pushing past the fatigue. Dismissing the tension. Treating it like a machine that just needed to keep going. I never thought of my body as something to listen to- let alone honor or thank. It was just… there. Dragged along for the ride. But one thing Bridgett Blood shares in this week’s episode has stuck with me:“My body knows before my brain does.” She talks about how she’s learned...
21 days ago • 1 min read
Your Connection Guide This Week in the Connection Codes Reader, I found it an hour before going on stage.A lump. I was about to speak at a dream event, with another two full days of back-to-back events ahead of me, including two presentations.And I made the split-second decision…Just ignore it. There was nothing I could do about it in that moment, right? But the fear sat heavy in my chest like a weight.And I told no one. (Sorry, Mom! You found out this way 🙈) The first day, I was able to talk...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Your Connection Guide This Week in the Connection Codes Reader, Have you ever wondered if change is really possible—deep, lasting change? This week on the podcast, you’ll meet Tanja and James, a Canadian couple who’ve been married for 35 years, raised two kids, worked in ministry, healthcare, and education—and still found themselves disconnected, burned out, and in chronic pain. Until one night, James couldn’t sleep. He stumbled across a podcast interview with Glenn & Phyllis, ordered The...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Your Connection Guide This Week in the Connection Codes Reader, This week’s podcast is a BIG one. Because I got to sit down with someone I’ve admired for years—Vanessa Marin, licensed sex therapist, New York Times bestselling author, and co-host of the hit podcast Pillow Talks. I have admired her boldness in sharing on a topic that has long been considered "taboo." She is busting the box wide open and leaves no topic off limits. She and her husband, Xander, have been showing up on Instagram...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Your Connection Guide This Week in the Connection Codes Reader, This week’s podcast is really special to me.Because Wes joins me in the studio to celebrate our wedding anniversary—and to talk about the love you see between us. You might have seen the surprise Wes planned for me—it’s a video that’s now been viewed almost 12 million times on Instagram.(We’re reposting it today on the Connection Codes Instagram if you haven't seen it yet! Click here to watch) One of the top comments we keep...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Your Connection Guide This Week in the Connection Codes Reader, Lately, I’ve been experiencing moments of intense fear—and I have a feeling I’m not alone. There’s so much happening in our country, in the world… it’s overwhelming. I try to balance how much news I consume, because I want to stay informed—but I also don’t want to drown in the sadness I feel for humans across the globe. We weren’t built for this level of exposure. We’re consuming news at a rate that our brains—and our bodies—were...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Your Connection Guide This Week in the Connection Codes Reader, There was a season in my life where I was in a really dark place. The kind of dark where I couldn’t get out of bed. Where I would lock my bedroom door, crying on the other side, while my kids knocked and called for me. But no one knew how bad it really was. I was okay showing that life was hard—but only in the way that made it palatable for other people. I laughed about it. I made jokes. I posted about the chaos of motherhood in...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Your Connection Guide This Week in the Connection Codes Reader, For years, I didn’t realize that Wes and I were codependent. If I had a bad day with the kids, he felt guilty for not being home to help. That guilt turned into frustration, which led to him snapping at me. And suddenly—because I was struggling, now he was struggling too. And we lived in that cycle for years. If either of us had a bad day, we both had a bad day. We weren’t giving each other space to be human. Instead, we were...
4 months ago • 2 min read