As we enter February a month of love and focus on the health of the heart host Mia shares insights on love and how we can better love our creator and His creation.

Content note: strong language, mentions of sexual assault, rape, statutory rape, child molesting, and suicide.

On today’s episode host Mia speaks with Kiersten McGrath, author of “Let it Happen, He said.” Mia and Kiersten speak openly and candidly about Kiersten’s many encounters with sexual assault from childhood into her young adult years. Kiersten’s raw honesty creates space for other victims and offers a story of hope amidst brokenness that will be a guide to others seeking their own restoration.

RAINN’s national sexual assault hot line: call 800.656.HOPE or text HOPE to 64673 or live chat at National Sexual Assault Hotline - RAINN

(https://rainn.org/help-and-healing/hotline/)

Eating disorders support: Home - National Eating Disorders Association (https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/)

Buy Kiersten’s book: Let It Happen, He Said - Filibuster Press (https://www.filibusterpress.com/let-it-happen-he-said.html) or https://www.amazon.com/Let-Happen-Said-Kiersten-McGrath-ebook/dp/B0FW91KC1R or https://www.fablesbooks.com/item/Q6WqcXzw1hKcrVKyo8OvGg

Suicide hotline: call or text 988

Listen in to this conversation between host Mia Albert and Louise Gaghan, author of Stolen Identity. Louise shares the way that negative words shaped and stole her identity from a young age and how an encounter with Jesus allowed her to root and ground her identity in God seeing herself as He does; holy, flawless, and restored.

https://www.amazon.com/Stolen-Identity-Womans-Story-Redemption/dp/B0DZ749XCF

Home - Stolen Identity (https://stolenidentitybook.net/)

God doesn’t just love us, He is love and when He sent Himself to dwell among us in the flesh He sent love to dwell among us. In the final installment of this advent series we reflect on how life changing an encounter with love incarnate can be.

On the 4th installment of our advent series we reflect on how an encounter with Christ brings joy and how walking closely with Him completes our joy. You will be encouraged to take joy, not in your circumstances, but in the witness of Christ.

On the second installment of our advent series we reflect on the unrest Jesus was born into and look forward to the peace that His coming promises; a peace that isn’t dependent on our circumstance, but rather on our encounter and proximity to Christ.

Listen to part 1 of our advent series, where we will explore the prophecies of the promised Messiah, looking to Him for our hope. Not a hope that is dependent on our circumstances, but rather a hope that rests in the faithfulness of God. A faithfulness we see throughout generations of human unfaithfulness and one we can experience for ourselves today!

On this solo episode of the podcast host Mia shares an encouraging word from Judges 4 about allowing God to use the ordinary things in our hand to do extraordinary things.