In this episode, I share a quiet but powerful reset for the year ahead, what it truly means to place God first in our plans, our goals, and our daily lives.

As we step into a new year filled with vision boards, aspirations, and pressure to “get it right,” I talk about surrendering our own plans and learning to trust God’s direction instead. Not from a place of fear or obligation, but from a place of peace, focus, and faith.

We talk about:

1. Releasing control and offering our plans back to God
2. Choosing purpose and service over selfish ambition
3. Living with “blinkers on” focusing on God and your own path without distraction
4. Stepping away from constant noise and comparison
5. Investing time into meaningful skills, simple habits, and quiet growth

if you’re wanting to make God a priority this year, followed by developing old fashioned skills, and letting go of the habits of our current world like social media addiction then this episode is for you

Episode 2 is here

and in this one, we’re setting the tone for the home.

Because The Dock Diaries isn’t just a podcast, it’s a little harbour house we’re building together.

A home with the same old-fashioned heart our grandparents’ homes used to have the kind built on respect, gentleness, and treating people with dignity.

Welcome to this home. And since this is a home, I want to speak to the hearts walking through the door:

If you’ve been craving a place that feels steady…If you’ve been longing for community that doesn’t judge…If the noisy world has never felt like the right crowd for you…

this is for you.

Episode 2 is an invitation to settle in, to take a breath, to feel seen, and to know you’re safe here.

Welcome to this home.

In this special Welcome Episode of The Dock Diaries, Vanessa opens the door to the world behind the show. The heart, the heritage, and the longing that sparked this entire journey. Raised on a small island near Labrador and shaped by the old rhythms of the Atlantic coast, she shares how modern life has drifted far from the values, traditions, and faith that once held families and communities together.

This episode is an invitation.

An exhale.

A remembering of what truly matters.

If your heart has been aching for a simpler way of living, One rooted in family, faith, old-fashioned community, and the steady rhythms of a peaceful home, then you will feel right at home here.

Welcome to The Dock Diaries… where weary hearts rest, old ways are revived, and the quiet beauty of a Christ-centered life takes its rightful place again.