You’re tired, your weight is changing, and you don’t feel like yourself. Is it hormones? Your thyroid? Stress? And how does your faith fit into caring for your health?

In this episode of Faith Fueled Living, I’m joined by nurse practitioner Courtney Garner, author of Where Faith Meets Medicine: A Woman’s Guide to Health, Hormones, and Longevity. We talk about bringing faith and medical care together and asking better questions when something feels off in your body.

Courtney shares her approach to exploring possible causes of fatigue, weight gain, and hormonal changes. We discuss thyroid health, stress, lab results, and why your symptoms deserve a thoughtful conversation with your healthcare provider.

We also talk about the everyday foundations of health: sleep, nutrition, movement, meaningful relationships, and making room for rest. Our conversation explores forgiveness, emotional burdens, and caring for our spiritual lives alongside our physical health.

If you want to feel better and be more present for the people and work you love, this episode offers encouragement to take your health seriously, seek support, and start with changes you can sustain.

Takeaways

• Faith and medical care can work together as you seek answers and care for your whole self.

• Fatigue, weight changes, and feeling unlike yourself deserve attention and a conversation with your healthcare provider.

• Courtney explains how she explores possible underlying causes through a detailed health history and appropriate testing.

• Thyroid function, hormonal changes, stress, and sleep are worth discussing when your energy and wellbeing change.

• Consistent habits around food, movement, sleep, and rest provide a practical place to begin.

• Emotional and spiritual wellbeing deserve care alongside your physical symptoms.

• Meaningful connection and support matter. You don’t have to navigate your health alone.

Check out Where Faith Meets Medicine Book. Connect with Courtney here.

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When life feels heavy, it can be hard to see where God is working. You may be praying, trying to stay hopeful, and still wondering how you’re going to get through what’s in front of you.

In this solo episode of Faith Fueled Living, I share how the stories of people who have walked through deep pain have strengthened my own faith. Again and again, I’ve heard guests describe finding God’s presence in places they never expected. Their stories remind me that we don’t have to have everything figured out to turn to Him.

We talk about trusting God in difficult seasons, bringing Him our burdens, and making room for His presence through prayer, Scripture, and quiet time. I also share why telling someone what you’re carrying matters, and how your own story can encourage another woman who feels alone.

If you need a little hope today, join me for encouragement and simple ways to notice God at work in your everyday life. I also share my free Joy Rising workbook to help you practice gratitude and recognize His presence, even while you’re still walking through something hard.

Takeaways

• You can bring your honest questions and heavy burdens to God before you know what comes next.

• Hearing how others have experienced God in difficult seasons can strengthen your faith and remind you that you’re not alone.

• Prayer, Scripture, and quiet time create space to draw near to God in the middle of real life.

• Sharing what you’re carrying with a trusted person gives you an opportunity to receive prayer and support.

• Your story doesn’t need a perfect ending to offer someone else encouragement.

• Start small: write down a burden, ask someone to pray with you, and notice one thing you’re grateful for today.

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Grab the Rewire Your Mind: From Negativity to Joy- download here.

Grab the Joy Rising- Daily Gratitude & Joy Journal here.

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Ready to take your first step towards a more joyful, faith-filled life? Download our Reignite Your Passion Workbook and start living with purpose today!

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Have you ever put your health at the bottom of the list because everyone and everything else needs you? Or tried to make healthier choices, only to feel like you’re falling short of yet another standard?

In this conversation, I talk with Justin Roethlingshoefer, author of Holy Health, about God’s design for our health and what it means to honor Him with our bodies. Justin shares how his experiences with weight, eating disorders, burnout, and chronic illness and striving to be perfect changed his understanding of health. We talk about why caring for your body is about more than appearance or performance. It can help you be present and show up well for the people and work God has placed in your life.

We also get practical about sleep, food, Sabbath rest, and the priorities we put on our calendars. If you want to feel better and care for your health without making it another source of pressure, I hope this conversation helps you take a fresh look at what’s possible.

• What it means to honor God with your body without making health an idol.
• Why your physical, mental, and spiritual health belong in the same conversation.
• How sleep, food, rest, and daily rhythms affect your ability to be present for what matters.
• Why the priorities on your calendar can shape your health more than good intentions alone.
• How Justin’s own health struggles changed the way he approaches lasting change.
• Why support and community can make healthy habits easier to sustain.

Connect with Justin at Own It Coaching here.

Learn about Holy Health for yourself or your church here.

Check out Justin's book, Holy Health.

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What do you do when you believe God heals, but you are still carrying pain that has not gone away?

In this honest conversation, Kristin talks with Pastor Ike Miller, author of Theology That Heals, about emotional healing, buried wounds, and the ways God restores our minds, bodies, and spirits.

Healing is not always a single breakthrough moment. Sometimes it is a slow and layered journey that requires prayer, reflection, counseling, honest questions, and the courage to face what we have tried to bury. That does not mean God is absent. He may be working through every part of the process.

Kristin and Ike discuss why unhealed pain often resurfaces, how to uncover the deeper roots beneath our reactions, and why faith and therapy do not have to compete. They also explore how the church can better care for hurting people by listening with compassion instead of rushing to offer easy answers.

You will hear why true freedom is not simply doing whatever you want. It is becoming free to choose what reflects God’s good design for your life.

If you have wondered why healing is taking so long, felt guilty for still struggling, or questioned whether God can use the painful parts of your story, this conversation will remind you that your wounds do not disqualify you. God can meet you in them, heal what is broken, and eventually use your story to help someone else find hope.

• Why healing is often a gradual journey rather than one dramatic moment

• How God can work through prayer, counseling, reflection, journaling, and supportive relationships

• Why ignoring or burying painful emotions does not make them disappear

• How asking deeper questions can reveal the wounds beneath our reactions and patterns

• Why needing therapy or practical support does not mean your faith is weak

• How the church can care for hurting people without offering quick answers or spiritual clichés

• What true freedom looks like from a Christian perspective

• How God can redeem painful experiences without calling the pain itself good

• Why your wounds do not disqualify you from serving or helping others

• How your healing story can become a source of hope for someone who feels alone

Connect with Pastor Ike Miller here

Check out Theology that Heals Book

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Ready to take your first step towards a more joyful, faith-filled life? Download our Reignite Your Passion Workbook and start living with purpose today!

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Do your days feel full, yet the things that matter most keep getting pushed aside? Do you ever reach the end of a busy day and wonder why you accomplished so much, yet still feel like you missed what mattered most?

In this episode of Faith Fueled Living, Kristin shares how to create a sustainable daily and weekly rhythm that reflects your faith, priorities, family, and the life you truly want to live. This is not about squeezing more into your schedule or becoming more productive. It is about becoming more intentional with your time.

You will learn why rest is fuel, not a reward, and how Sabbath rest can strengthen your resilience, energy, and ability to be present. Kristin also explores family first scheduling, healthy boundaries, gratitude practices, and the value of taking an honest look at how you are currently spending your days.

If you feel rushed, distracted, exhausted, or disconnected from the people and priorities you care about, this episode will help you rethink your routines and begin creating days filled with greater peace, purpose, and joy.

• Why a full schedule does not always reflect a meaningful life

• How to design your days around your faith, family, health, and priorities

• Why rest should be built into your routine instead of earned through productivity

• How Sabbath rest supports emotional, spiritual, and physical endurance

• The difference between a rigid schedule and a sustainable life rhythm

• How boundaries protect what matters most

• Why presence matters more than trying to do everything perfectly

• How gratitude can shift the way you experience ordinary days

• Simple questions to help you audit your time and identify what needs to change

• How small, intentional choices can help you create a life you genuinely enjoy living

Start with Rest Workbook- download here

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When was the last time you felt truly delighted by your life?

Responsibilities, routines, disappointment, and constant busyness can slowly dull our sense of joy. We stop noticing beauty. We expect less. We forget what it feels like to approach life with curiosity, enthusiasm, and childlike wonder.

In this episode of Faith Fueled Living, Kristin explores how childlike faith can help us find joy again, recognize God’s presence in ordinary moments, and become more fully alive. You will discover why wonder is not childish or frivolous. It is a meaningful part of a vibrant life with God.

This conversation will encourage you to slow down, notice the beauty in God’s creation, and approach each day with greater expectation. If life has felt predictable, heavy, or uninspiring lately, this episode will help you begin seeing it with fresh eyes.

• Why busyness and responsibility can gradually steal our sense of wonder

• What childlike faith looks like in everyday life

• How wonder can deepen your connection with God

• Why noticing simple pleasures can help you rediscover joy

• How to recognize God’s presence in ordinary moments

• Why enthusiasm and expectation matter at every age

• Simple ways to become more curious, joyful, and fully alive

Grab the Rewire Your Mind: From Negativity to Joy- download here.

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Think Better, Feel Better: How to Renew Your Mind and Speak Life

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Books I mentioned*

When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate, MD

Revealing the Healer by Yvon Attia

Studies referenced

Mindset Matters - Exercise Study

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51389729_Mind-Set_Matters_Exercise_and_the_Placebo_Effect

Placebo as powerful as surgery

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020712075415.htm

In this episode, you will learn:

In this episode, you will learn:

• How your thoughts, words, and beliefs can influence your emotions, stress, habits, and physical well being

• Why the words you speak about yourself, your health, and your future matter

• How repeated thoughts can create patterns that shape the way you experience life

• What neuroplasticity teaches us about the brain’s ability to change

• How stress, expectations, and beliefs can affect the mind and body connection

• What research into epigenetics and the placebo effect may teach us about the relationship between beliefs and health

• What Scripture says about renewing your mind and speaking life

• Why biblical hope is different from denying pain or pretending everything is fine

• How gratitude can shift your focus without dismissing difficult circumstances

• Practical ways to recognize negative patterns and replace them with truthful, hopeful, and life giving thoughts and words

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