Rising By Faith

05/20/2026

The Awaken Retreat was created for people who feel the pull to slow down, step away from the noise, and reconnect — with themselves, with nature, and with God.

It’s all about creating intentional space for:

* stillness
* reflection
* meaningful conversations
* connection
* nervous system rest
* time in nature
* and spiritual grounding

In a world that constantly pushes us to consume more, do more, and stay distracted, this weekend is an invitation to pause.

To breathe deeply again.
To reconnect with what’s real.
To remember what it feels like to simply be present.

June 26-28 ✨
Firefly Creek Lodge | Livonia, NY

If you’ve been craving a reset, deeper connection, and intentional community… this space was created for you.

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05/19/2026

Not every season is meant to be loud.

Some seasons are for reflection.
For listening. For slowing down enough to reconnect with what actually matters.

Taking space to reflect isn’t falling behind.
Sometimes it’s exactly where clarity is found.

05/18/2026

I know what it’s like to keep praying and feel like your prayers aren’t being answered.

To desperately want things to change, only to keep feeling stuck.

To seek resolution, clarity, or direction, and instead be met with setback after setback.

This is the place where a lot of people begin to lose faith.

But what I’ve discovered in my walk with God so far is that He is always communicating with us.

We just don’t always listen.
Or know how to listen.
Or we’re not fully open to receiving what He’s trying to show us.

I’ve noticed that it’s during the moments when I become the most intentional in my conversations with Him that I start to recognize His answers more clearly.

Sometimes it’s small things that feel deeply personal:

- seeing a cross naturally formed in a tree when I’m seeking guidance
- noticing the same type of car connected to someone important in my life
- repetitive number patterns that catch my attention at meaningful moments
- hearing or reading a verse that answers the exact question I’ve been wrestling with or confirms when I’m on the right path or gently redirects me when I’m not.

The more I slow down, seek Him intentionally, and stay open, the more I realize He was never silent.

I just had to learn how to recognize His voice.

05/17/2026

“Religion is about obedience to external authority; spirituality is about listening to your inner authority.”

I used to agree with this quote for a long time. I used to see it posted and would share it all the time, and when it came across my page yesterday, I actually cringed 😬

Because now I see how deceptive it can actually be and how it can be misinterpreted based on your personal feeling about “religion” as doctrine.

The world teaches that freedom is found by looking within, trusting yourself, and making your feelings your highest authority.

But scripture teaches something very different: our hearts are not meant to lead us - God is.

What many people call “spirituality” today often turns self into the compass.
“If it feels aligned, it must be true.”
“If my intuition says it, I should follow it.”

But not every inner voice is wisdom.

Sometimes “following yourself” is exactly what pulls you away from God.

True faith requires surrender. Trust. Obedience. Humility.
Not because God wants control, but because He sees what we cannot.

There’s a difference between religion rooted in dead ritual and a real relationship with God.

But rejecting all external authority in favor of the self is not freedom - it’s isolation from the One who created us. And this is where most people get it wrong.

I’ve learned that peace didn’t come from making myself my own authority.
It came from finally laying that authority down.

One thing I keep learning is that faith only works if you know how to apply it to your own life, not by comparing yourself to anyone else and not by thinking that you know better than Him

05/15/2026

There was a time when my entire identity was completely tied to my business.

I didn’t realize how deeply enmeshed I was in it until I stepped away from it completely.

My worth, my purpose, my sense of direction, all of it was connected to what I was building, how people saw me, and whether I felt “successful” in it.

And because of that, I was constantly carrying this internal pressure.

If the business felt good, I felt good.
If things slowed down, I questioned myself.
If people validated me, I felt secure.

I can see now that it wasn’t just about the business. It was about where my identity was rooted.

And honestly, walking away from something I had spent years building forced me to confront that in a way I never had before.

What’s different now is that my business is no longer where I get my identity from. It’s where I express it.

I’m no longer building from pressure, performance, or the need to prove myself.

I’m building from conviction.
From obedience.
From alignment with what I truly believe I’m called to do.

And because of that, I don’t feel consumed by my work anymore. I feel grounded within it. And fully available to guide my clients through this process as well.

05/13/2026

05/12/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about how leadership is less about what we say, and more about how we live and show up every day.

How we respond when life feels heavy.
How we treat people when we’re hurting.
How we stay grounded when everything around us feels uncertain.

Anyone can say the right things when life is easy. But the real testimony is who you become under pressure.

Not perfect, not polished. But anchored and authentic.

I think sometimes we underestimate how deeply people feel the way we carry ourselves.

The peace. The steadiness. The humility.
The faith.

People are watching that more than they’re listening for perfect words.

And that’s something I’ve become even more aware of in this season of my life.

Your life speaks before you do.

So the question I keep asking myself is:
Does the way I live reflect what I say I believe?

That matters more to me than performance or perfection ever will.

05/11/2026

There’s something about nature that quiets the noise.

The constant stimulation, the pressure, the overthinking, it all softens when you step away long enough to actually breathe again.

And I think that’s part of why so many people feel closer to God in nature.

Not because you’re trying harder to connect, but because there’s finally space to listen.

That’s a big part of the heart behind our Awaken Retreat

This retreat was created as an opportunity to step away from distraction and immerse yourself in a slower, more grounded rhythm through prayer, scripture discussion, nature, reflection, and genuine community connection.

Mornings spent in conversation and prayer.
Afternoons in nature—hiking, reflecting, resting.

Evenings around the fire sharing meals and meaningful connection.

No pressure.
No performance.
Just space to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with God.

If you’ve been craving something simpler, deeper, and more real, we would love to have you there.

June 26-28, at Firefly Creek Lodge, Livonia, NY

✨ Early bird pricing available until May 31st ✨

05/11/2026

I know it’s frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be anymore

You don’t have to keep staying in this loop

You need to learn how to surrender all the things you have no control over

05/10/2026

This Mother’s Day feels so different for me.

There’s something strange about being in the middle of a divorce — not fully in the life you once had, but not fully on the other side of it yet either.

It feels like living in limbo some days. There are so many things I want to be doing with my kids, so many ways I envision our future, but I’m still in the process of becoming untethered and rebuilding what life will look like.

And yet, today I feel incredibly grateful, to be able to spend time with the kids.

This morning I sat in church surrounded by the most loving and supportive church family, and I was reminded that even in seasons of uncertainty, God provides people who hold you up when your heart feels tired.

Motherhood in hard seasons carries a different kind of weight — but also a different kind of strength.

Today, I’m holding space for every mother who is grieving, rebuilding, carrying invisible burdens, navigating heartbreak, loneliness, uncertainty, or change.

I pray your day is filled with love, comfort, peace, and reminders that you are not alone.

Happy Mother’s Day 🤍

05/08/2026

I had something totally different planned to post today, but this felt more pressing to share

Really leaning into listening to God and doing what He guides me to do vs what I think I “should” be doing