In this lighter, reflective solo episode, we talk about closing out the year with intention, margin, and rest. I share what it looks like to choose joy, presence, and simple rhythms as we transition into a new season.

This episode reframes “new year, new everything” through a Kingdom lens. Instead of striving, overworking, or survival-based productivity, we explore how Jesus invites us into rest, alignment, and becoming. Using the image of new wine and new wineskins, we reflect on how stepping into the new often requires releasing old patterns and ways of functioning that no longer serve us.

We talk about how growth can feel uncomfortable, how not everyone is ready for the new God is doing in us, and why that does not mean we stop moving forward. This conversation is about living with Jesus, not just for Him, and allowing joy and peace to become the rhythm of our lives.

We close by moving into the second She’s Rooted Life resource, created to help you reflect, release, and dream with God as you enter the new year rooted, grounded, and open to the new He is already doing.

Resources:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Jsg3l9EXggHqZahu3X2XLbc8TrgOL4V/view?usp=sharing

In this tender, end-of-year episode released on Christmas Eve, Talia reflects on loss, healing, and the sacred invitation to pause before moving forward. She shares vulnerably about how this time last year she was coming out of a season marked by depression, health crisis, and relational loss, and how the Lord used community, attachment healing, and deep inner work to restore joy, peace, and rootedness.

This episode explores Pete Scazzero’s Going Back to Go Forward pathway from Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, examining why unresolved pain often shows up in our present until it is brought into the light with compassion rather than shame. Talia unpacks generational patterns, attachment wounds, and the importance of processing pain with safe, mature support, what Life Model Works calls a “bigger brain.”

You will also hear how somatic awareness, therapy, and EMDR played a role in healing her nervous system and reshaping everyday responses, along with a powerful reminder that healing is not about perfection, but about noticing sooner and returning to joy more quickly.

The episode introduces A Rooted Reflection, the first She’s Rooted Life resource, designed to help you reflect on your story, losses, wins, and rhythms with intention and hope as you move toward the new year.

This conversation is an invitation to slow down, grieve honestly, receive healing deeply, and partner with Jesus as you move forward more free, more whole, and more rooted.

Resources mentioned:

A Rooted Reflection:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P5xlZ_rbEbEZWEPBcYMfnJHId_cK7b_T/view?usp=sharing

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Genogram Workbook: https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GENOGRAM-WORKBOOK.pdf

As we continue the countdown to 10 episodes, Advent, and the transition into a new year, this episode holds a deeply personal and sacred reflection. I share how this podcast has stretched me after a long season of self doubt, fear, and a lack of joyful belonging, and why this message feels especially timely. We explore God’s original design for belonging beginning in the Garden of Eden and how that belonging was fractured by the fall. Through the story of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, we see how belonging with Jesus transforms us slowly and honestly, from secrecy to courage. Belonging with Jesus does not demand perfection or immediate boldness, but offers steady presence and secure attachment. This episode unpacks how fear based attachment shapes our relationships and how Jesus invites us into a deep knowing that we are safe, seen, and wanted. Belonging always changes us, either toward fear or toward freedom. Immanuel, God with us, meets us in the process and gently leads us from night, to questions, to courageous love.

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