The Honest Pod

Season 2, Episode 12: Growing Goodness and Gratitude From Within - with Tanya Godsey

The Honest Pod

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Growing Goodness and Gratitude From Within - with Tanya Godsey

Karrie welcomes Freedom Movement Director of Spiritual Formation, writer and artist, Tanya Godsey to continue the discussion of goodness and gratitude. Tanya shares some of her personal journey with grief and how her relationship with God was key to her regaining hope during a time of despair.

Tanya explains that we have a choice of how deeply we step into our relationship with God and our commitment to that relationship is the foundation for cultivating goodness and gratitude. Tanya gives practical advice for how to continue to keep goodness growing and a few questions to ask yourself when you are feeling overwhelmed by the world we live in.

-Is my time and attention moving further from God? -Am I feeling an unhealthy longing or hyper-vigilance about having more information? -Where am I being too easily tempted to fall into unhealthy patterns?

Tanya and Karrie end the episode with two simple things anyone can do to begin building intimacy with God and ultimately bring goodness and gratitude to the heart:

Set aside 10 minutes of stillness If you had ten minutes with God what would you want to tell him?

Befriending God by Tanya Godsey https://a.co/d/9bCtj0Z

To learn more about Tanya visit https://tanyagodsey.com/home

Tanya’s music can be found on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/4h3MTNgpLd9G3Yly2HJtnO?si=eRG3Ka-qQvKQ8X4wId8Jmw

Karrie's Instagram: @karriescottgarcia Karrie’s Website: karriegarcia.com Freedom Movement Instagram: @freedom_movement Freedom Movement Website: wearefm.org

Sign up for Freedom Movement Trainings: https://www.wearefm.org/trainings

Find Story Work Retreat info & sign-ups: https://www.karriegarcia.com/work-with-karrie

Purchase Karrie's book Free & Fully Alive! https://www.amazon.com/dp/0310366445?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_A6200T1AKD7FS2PZ8VA1

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Music by Tanya Godsey

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