The Best of You

Sometimes the hardest limits we face are not external—they’re the expectations we’ve quietly learned to live within.

In Acts 3, we meet a man who has spent years sitting at the temple gate, asking for what he believes is possible. When Peter and John encounter him, they offer something entirely different—something he wasn’t even expecting to receive.

In this episode, Dr. Alison reflects on how limiting beliefs shape what we ask for, what we notice, and what we believe is available to us—and how God often meets us beyond those expectations.

Today’s Scripture is: Acts 3:1–10

Go Deeper:

Episode 10: What are Limiting Beliefs?

Episode 106: Transform Limiting Beliefs

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There are moments when we find ourselves looping—replaying conversations, trying to make sense of what happened, analyzing every detail.

We stay in our heads, searching for clarity

This episode explores what it means to get stuck in our thoughts—and how, often, what we most need is not more analysis, but a return to presence, to relationship, and to the love already with us.

Today’s Scripture is: Luke 24:13–35

Go Deeper:

Episode 51: The 12 Common Thinking Traps

Episode 158: The Hidden Pain Behind Distressing Thoughts

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Today’s Scripture is: Psalm 118

There are seasons in life when we are simply trying to get through.

Holding it together.

Managing what’s hard.

Surviving.

And then there comes a moment when something begins to shift.

In this episode, Dr. Alison reflects on what it means to relearn joy after survival—and how joy can return, gently and gradually, as we begin to feel safe again.

Go Deeper:

Episode 172: Daring Joy & Breaking Free From Toxic Positivity with Nicole Zasowski

Episode 188: Tiny Joys, Big Healing : Retraining the Brain for Hope with Dr. MaryCatherine Mcdonald

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He is risen!

After walking through this Holy Week together—from safety, to betrayal, to suffering, to loss—we arrive at the moment that changes everything.

Resurrection.

New Life.

In this short Easter bonus episode, Dr. Alison reflects on John 20 and the deeply personal nature of resurrection—how Love meets us, finds us, and calls us by name.

This is the hope that allows us to face the hard places in our lives.

This is the reason we can walk through grief without losing ourselves.

Because what feels like an ending

is not the end of the story.

Today’s Scripture is: John 20

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This week, we’ve been walking through a special Easter devotional journey—following the story of Jesus as it unfolds from safety, to rupture, to suffering.

Today, we arrive at Good Friday.

This is the day everything seems to fall apart.

The day marked by loss, grief, and deep disorientation.

In John 19, we witness the final moments of Jesus’ life—where hope appears to give way to death, and nothing makes sense in the way it once did.

This episode creates space to sit in that reality—to acknowledge the weight of what is lost, and the very human experience of not yet knowing what comes next.

Today’s Scripture is: John 19

**Join me for a special Easter devotional on Sunday.

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