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09/19/2025

✨Created for Connection Marriage Workshop – Coming in 3 Weeks!✨

We are thrilled to be hosting this powerful workshop designed to help couples grow closer, strengthen communication, and deepen connection.

A little about us, your hosts:

We’re Justin and Kati!

Our story began back in 2004 on a week-long backpacking trip—complete with hiking, rappelling, rock climbing, and canoeing. By the end of that adventure, we were inseparable.

We married in 2010 and since then have built a life full of adventure, growth, and (lots of) projects together.

🏡 We’ve renovated several homes (surviving remodels really is a test of teamwork!)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 We’re raising three amazing kids—two boys (13 & almost 12) and a girl (9½).

🌱 We homestead with goats, hogs, chickens, ducks, and a big garden.

🔨 Justin runs a construction business, and I (Kati) own a Christian counseling group practice.

Did we mention we homeschool??

We’re passionate about walking alongside couples as they grow stronger together, and we can’t wait to share this workshop with you.

👉 Save your spot today!

https://fccunion.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/3138886

08/27/2025

I wonder if sometimes I don’t have the things I’m longing for yet because I’m still needing to learn to cultivate joy in the circumstances I’m still currently in… ouch.

I was on my daily walk last week and was praying for the things my heart longs for and aches from.

Really the requests were all for great things… the healing of bodies, minds, and relationships; and for further funds to keep living within our means and to still be able to give big. I prayed to be better at serve others.

The prayers weren’t bad and I really do believe God loves when I (and you) talk to him.

That wasn’t the problem, but rather that day God wanted to teach me something rather than just give me something.

Midway through my walk I plopped down on my trail to try and get centered (I was working myself up lol) and it hit me hard….

At one point you prayed for this trail.

You prayed for a place of peace that you can share with others.

You prayed for moms to befriend and pour into. Now you host a weekly mom’s play date where you get to grow closer with them and encourage each other.

I felt God telling me that He still have great plans for me, and He loves to hear my heart, but what He really needs from in this season is for me to really be serious about cultivating my joy and being a better keeper of my joy.

“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
‭‭1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬-‭18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

I can’t argue with that.

So now I’m digging deep into a journey of cultivating joy!

Here’s my plan:

1. Start my day with God. It’s so nice if it’s quiet and calm, but I’m doing it even if it’s chaotic.

2. Write out 5 things I’m grateful for and add pictures. I’m using a Google document, but anything could work.

3. I’m telling others about it too. When I share gratitude with others it waters my seeds of joy further and helps me refocus.

So I’ve added pics of the pretty things I was able to notice on the last half of my walk that brought me joy!

08/25/2025

I just love art.

I love it even more in our offices!

Here are some of my favorites.

Which one do you like best??

08/21/2025

DO NOT HOLD SO TIGHT TO YOUR PERSPECTIVE THAT YOU LOOSE WHAT THE OTHER PERSON IS DESPERATELY TRYING TO TELL YOU!

As a person who has my own relationships and also as a therapist, I have worked with many couples and families to reach attachment break throughs by learning to really see the other person and get clarity on what they really are seeking to communicate.

I believe people struggle in relationships because we (I will include myself) are too often fixated on OUR OWN perspective.

When we do this, we can miss people’s reasons for their words and actions, their back story, their message, and why they are the way they are.

Let’s use our sand tray figures as an object lesson:

I present to you anxious/frantic dragon and chill momma bear and cub.

From the perspective of chill momma bear and cub, all she sees is this overwhelming and intensely emotional dragon. She is not quite sure what’s up and doesn’t understand the urgency. Momma bear wants to be in relationship with anxious/frantic dragon , but she’s not seeing what the big deal is so she pulls away from anxious/frantic dragon. Momma bear feels anxious/frantic dragon is being a bit overly emotional and isn’t acting rational. Maybe she should try to be more joyful and peaceful. It works for her, right??

Next, let’s go to the perspective of anxious/frantic dragon as she looks at momma bear and her cub. She is getting so upset because she knows momma bear can’t see the rattle snake about to pounce on her cub! She keeps reaching out, she tries to communicate louder with more intensity because she believes then momma bear will finally understand her intentions and the cub will get to safety.

Sound like any of your relationships?

I’ve been both the momma bear and anxious/frantic dragon. Really neither one is more right than the other! Both perspectives make perfect sense to the holder.

Thank God for relationships! Healthy relational attachment is seeking to understand other people and then letting them understand you. You feel closer, and it may even keep you from a snake bite!

Take turns sharing why you’re doing/saying what you’re doing. Listen, share, listen more. I promise it helps!

08/15/2025

Life can be a complete mess sometimes.

But please do not wait to start your life and be productive for when everything is organized and perfect.

Because even when you start just the right way and put in all your best efforts, I promise at some point things WILL go sideways and it all get messy!

Sometimes it’s messy because you got it wrong. But sometimes it will get so messy at no fault of your own.

Either way…

DO NOT STOP.

DO NOT GIVE UP AND GIVE IN.

God can redeem your mess and often times seeks to refine you in the mess.

My garden below is a perfect object lesson. In the past we have had perfectly groomed gardens. But this summer life happened and it went bonkers.

But you know what? This messy garden still produces a ton of veggies and fruit.

How can we get that much of a harvest from that much of a mess?

Because we haven’t stopped working on it.

We didn’t get discouraged when it felt like too much to handle.

Because we know what fruit looks like.

Because we know the work is worth the harvest.

Because I wasn’t afraid to pick veggies surrounded my weeds (although the ticks I could do without).

The garden won’t always be this messy. It will soon be groomed back and posted to socials so everyone can drool over how magical it looks.

But today… it’s a whole hot mess.

And that’s ok. Because I know what it has been and what it soon will be.

Your current mess doesn’t define you.

I see you. I know it’s hard. Keep going. I’ve never regretted staying the course.

06/20/2025

God is always teaching me cool stuff when I’m out doing life in nature!

The first 3 pics are of flowers that I picked that wilted after I waited too long to put in water. I became distracted by my chickens and goats 🥴 I was so sad they had wilted because they had just been so vibrant and pretty only an hour before!

But I then had a thought, “I wonder if they’d perk back up like new once I soak them water for the evening…”

And perk up they did! Pics 4 and 5 are of them the very next morning!

So here’s my question:

What is feeding you???

What are the distractions that are keeping you from plugging into your source of energy and fulfillment?

Are you plugging into things that are for your soul with food that lasts, or are you choosing things that are part of why you have feelings of being wilted??

Lastly, the last 3 pics are of the chickens and goats that were distracting me lol!!!

06/05/2025

How many times in life do we keep trying to go to what’s dead inside?

I was walking on my land today and I was having a pretty heated discussion with God about what next steps He wanted me to take in life.

When suddenly, at the end of me asking my bold question of God, I heard a crazy loud crack and a shake of the ground near me, and this massive tree started to fall and crashed to the ground.

Talk about bold answers to bold prayers 😆!

I then snapped a pic to show my husband and noticed the sign that says, “DANGER NO TRESPASSING”

I was hit with how many times I keep trying to go to what’s dead inside. Sometimes it a relationship that needs to end, or things of the flesh I’m feeding that should die. Other times I seek situations that are not for me and will be missing what IS for me. And if I’m honest, I have been known to seek things that are at times dangerous to me, all the while with signs all around!

I am guilty of often thinking I am so capable of MY skills and how I want to make it work, when God is telling me to let it go and walk towards the path HE has for me.

This was a humbling reminder for me to always be taking inventory of who is directing my steps in life.

Lastly, be aware of praying outside because trees may fall near you!!!!

05/11/2025

It’s such a privilege and honor to collaborate with moms at Full Bloom.

You teach us all the time when we get to witness you being brave and doing all the hard things that moms do.

It means more than you’ll ever know.

Thanks for trusting us with your stories and your hearts.

❤️ Happy Mother’s Day ❤️

01/13/2025

We have new figures in the office!!!

Which ones are your favorite??

I’ll go first:

Obviously I’m drawn to the Sasquatch and Abominable Snowman! I think they appear hard and scary but if you just sit with them for a bit you’d find out they are just seeking to protect something vulnerable inside… at least that’s what I tell myself when hiking alone 😝

Next is the birthday cake. I have had a lifelong love/hate relationship with my birthday. I’ve worked to make peace with that old insecurity. I now stand firm in knowing that my value IS NOT dependent on if others celebrate me or not.

❤️❤️❤️Psalms 139 has been a foundational chapter in the Bible in helping me reset my mindset on who God says I am ❤️❤️❤️

12/30/2024

Today I want to tell the story of how I learned a valuable lesson by burning the skin off my hand while baking sourdough. I’m currently all in on my sourdough/homesteading era so I guess it’s how God has to teach me what He needs me to know 😝

A couple of weeks ago I picked up a 15 lb Dutch oven that had been heated to 500 degrees with my bare hand. I instantly realized my error and was gripped with pain that was so intense and indescribable that I found it hard to even breathe.

I immediately ran my hand under cold water and got a wet rag and an ice pack to hold to help ease the pain. When holding the icepack, it was pretty bearable. However; as soon as I removed the icepack for any reason, the pain returned in full force (and then some) and the pain felt so overwhelming.

For a few hours, in an effort to avoid the intensity of the pain, I held the icepack. But when you have 3 kids who require attention, a bonus kid who was over to play, a dinner that was waiting to be made, and a shower that NEEDED to happen (I had cleaned our goat shed earlier and nothing will make you need a shower more than that lol), the icepack was becoming a problem.

Deep down, I knew I had to feel the pain. The pain made sense. I literally just burned my skin off after all! I also knew I couldn’t fully function or start to heal until I endured the hard parts.

So I put the icepack down.

For an hour I howled through the most intense pain. It was so tough. I was dizzy at points. I had to remember to I breathe. But soon, it started to ease. By the next hour it was just a little sore in spots. By the end of the night I forgot it happened. The parts that lost skin started to respond to care and were better the next day.

Moral of the story: sometimes our best efforts to avoid pain cause us more dysfunction. When we put down the things that we are using as a way to avoid feeling what’s valid, we delay true healing. Also, most of the time, true healing comes with an initial experience of pain.

What “icepacks” are you holding onto longer than you should?

Pics of my hand right after the burn for fun (I left out the one where my skin pealed… you’re welcome lol!)

Bonus was that the loaf was so tasty!!! Getting burned didn’t stop it was being a success 😆

08/05/2024

Stop what you're doing and watch the video in the comments. This hit me to the core and I hope it can encourage someone else too.

I have always wanted to be used by God but have struggled to understand when it seems I am not being used how I thought I would be, could be, wanted to be.

Because this has gone unchecked for so long, I spent too much of my life feeling overlooked and abandoned.

I felt overlooked as a friend who is desperate to be chosen and included but not the best friend or left out of things...

As an employee hoping to be recognized for my abilities...

As a member of churches I’ve attended because I have a heart for wanting to be used for building up the body of believers with my gifting but serving in ways I didn’t originally anticipate.

I could go on.

This last year has really thrown me into TRULY living in the understanding of how much God loves ME. Just me. It's not been easy most days, but the learned lessons have been so worth it.
I have always loved God but have honestly struggled to fully believe that He loves me. It's one of the reasons I go on in on serving and loving others. It became a form of deflection from the pain I usually feel.

This year I have learned that God loves me REGARDLESS of how I am used by Him; that I am loved by Him no matter how others feel about me or treat me.

Instead I’ve been seeking to sit with seeing God works it out, EVEN IF it is from what feels like the sidelines. God’s plans are always so much greater than what I know and can see. I have experienced in my short life that there is so much happening in the sidelines that I’m blind to because I am fixated on not being used here or chosen there.

And 💯 percent of the time, after I am given more of the bigger picture with the passing of time and with changing my perspective, I can then see how God was moving and using me all along.

So let’s start enjoying the sidelines and maybe even stop seeing it that way!!!!

Oh, and having chickens and goats has helped too.

06/28/2024

Have you ever stopped to think about how it is easy to give up when we feel broken? Sadly I tend to do this pretty quickly when I can no longer deny or hide that I’m broken. Like when I’m broken broken 🥴

I then slip into believing that I no longer have the ability to bloom and grow. Shame and hopelessness set in and I stop believing in what could still happen. I fixate on how I can’t do anything to make it different or stop the brokenness. I start to scramble wanting to quickly cut my losses and move on.

Yes. I can relate to Eeyore more than I’d like to admit 😬

It’s this mindset that keeps me from waiting to see what God can still do in my broken state. It’s in these moments when God shows up and renews what is so completely broken in me into something new and beautiful that truely takes my breath away.

Each year we have a sunflower that grows to over 8 feet tall. This year, just as it was starting to grow its much anticipated sunny bloom, the darn squirrels came and bent the top of the stalk.

I got mad and was about to chop the whole thing down (what a reflection of what I do in real life)! I was annoyed that I couldn’t fix this! I was so excited for the cool bloom coming that seemed to be doomed that I wanted to get rid of the entire plant. I didn’t want to be reminded of the brokenness of my sunflower. But (thankfully) the family, work, goats and life distracted me and lost track of it.

Today I stepped out and noticed how not only is it STILL growing and blooming, but now it has TWO buds blooming!

Moral of the story, don’t cut your losses too quickly. Do not fixate only on what seems to be broken.

Instead, ask God what He wants to do with you in your broken state AND THEN LET HIM DO HIS CREATIVE AND HEALING WORK IN YOU! (Bold letters used for my own self as this is such a hard lesson for me to get 😝)

I mean, if God can help a sunflower still bloom with a broken stalk, AND add another bloom, I’m sure he can do something cool in your brokenness.

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