But if I slow down, I get sad. Because when I slow down, I have to feel everything.I have to process the dark places that busyness lets me rush right past. Oh dang. Yep. That’s it, isn’t it? Why do we work so much—volunteer, caregive, exercise, shop, stay endlessly productive?Because stillness is uncomfortable. And slowing down makes us vulnerable. I’m 24 hours into my two-week Christmas “break,” and honestly? I feel awful. Now, in my defense, part of this is hormonal (my est

Hubby & I out in the first sleet of the season on the Rehobeth Bay “I can’t do another winter.” That was my husband on FaceTime, sitting in our little boathouse by the bay on the coldest day of the season so far. “That’s my line,” I laughed back—coffee in hand, fire crackling, still in last year’s Christmas pajamas at our home in Pennsylvania. When we moved here for a job at QVC, we never imagined that fourteen years later we’d still be shoveling snow, slipping on ice, deali

The Last 12 Days of Advent: Twelve Questions to Slow Your Soul & Surrender to God As we enter the final stretch of Advent, our culture tends to speed up. More rushing. More noise. More doing. But Advent is not about more .It’s about waiting , watching , and welcoming  the Presence of God with a still and surrendered heart. Its about the darkest days of the year, and allowing that darkness to push us to those parts of our life where me might have been hiding from the Lord. So

this year is a little different One Year Ago… I announced I was leaving QVC. I launched a brand-new podcast— StRest —with my daughter interviewing me for our first episode. I made hard, holy decisions to follow the Lord instead of the world. I jumped without a safety net, with no idea where I would land. Today… We celebrate one unbelievable year of StRest ! 1.4 million views   100,000 downloads 80 episodes - 1 purpose: to teach health science and biblical truth. This month,