Missionary Life
A podcast about how helpers can thrive in their mission. Whether you are a missionary living overseas, in ministry, or a missional mother, this podcast will offer practical tools on how to remain spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy while living missionally. The missionary life is lonely and full of loss, trauma, heartbreak, disappointment, and life not turning out how we expected. I want you to be able to heal from these experiences and build resilience. Learn to prevent and heal trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout in in-depth interviews with mental health professionals and other missionaries. I will bring my many years of experience in missions and wisdom to the table to help you live your life on purpose while thriving at the same time. A must-listen for all missionaries and those who support them.
I would love to hear from you and answer your questions! Please leave me a voicemail with your question or feedback and I may choose it to be answered on air! https://www.speakpipe.com/MissionaryLife
Episodes
15 episodes
Healthy Body Image: Loving Yourself with Amy Stern
What if you could love your body no matter your size? We are often so self-critical of our bodies, we make our body the enemy instead of our friend. When we live overseas, we might gain weight because of lack of access to proper nutrition or ex...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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42:36
Re-Entry A Trauma Informed Approach with Shonna Ingram
Re-entry is one of the most difficult experiences a missionary can go through and we are often unprepared for the grief and trauma associated with it. It is like navigating the world underwater, everything disorienting and muted. Shonna and I d...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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42:53
Building a Thriving Marriage in Missions with Stephanie Gutierrez
What if your marriage could thrive on the field? Marriages on the mission field face complex suffering, stressors, ministry demands, and isolation. They are constantly being tested by grief, hardship, power and water outages, exhaustion, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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56:40
Grit to Stay, Grace to Go with Eva Burkholder and Sue Eenigenburg
Have you ever wondered how to develop grit on the mission field, the kind of resiliency that gets you through hard times? Or maybe you're wondering when is it time to leave and how will I know? Eva and Sue wrote the book Grit to Stay, Grace to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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48:13
Burnout: Rediscovering Joy & Creativity with Merideth Hite Estevez
Burnout is an occupational hazard for missionaries, ministers, and those in helping professions. Merideth Hite Estevez is the host of the beloved Artists for Joy podcast. She speaks with beauty and wisdom on how rediscovering creativity helped ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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42:20
Loving Missionary Kids Well with Michele Phoenix
Missionary Kids and their parents can often face adversity on the field, and have a special identity that makes them who they are. Mk’s are amazingly adaptable, thoughtful, cross-culturally wise, and yet many suffer from perfectionism, sh...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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47:35
Leaving Well with Naomi Hattaway
How do you know when it's time to leave the mission field? How do you do it well for yourself and your kids? On this podcast I interview Naomi Hattaway about her life overseas and her work with expats. We discuss what it means to be a triangle,...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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48:33
Caring for Your Physical Health in Missions with Talia Alanis
As missionaries, caring for our bodies can be difficult and feel like an after-thought. Self-care on the field sometimes seems impossible so many of us stop taking care of our physical bodies, and the results are disastrous, resulting in everyt...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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46:24
Spiritual and Sexual Abuse in Missions with Rebecca Hopkins
Sadly, spiritual and sexual abuse is very prevalent in missions, with those living overseas being three times more likely to experience some kind of abuse, and almost 30% experience some kind of sexual harm. Rebecca is a journalist for
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Episode 7
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39:26
Between Worlds: Third Culture Kids with Marilyn Gardner
Marilyn Gardner spent the majority of her childhood living in Pakistan and attended boarding school there, and later raised her own 5 children in Egypt. She describes the beauty, joy, and heartbreak of living as a TCK, and being a mother to TCK...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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45:50
Facing Danger and Risk with Courage with Anna Hampton
Wow! This is a significant and nuanced episode where I speak with Anna Hampton, author of Facing Danger, A Guide Through Risk, and Facing Fear, about her life in Af...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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51:09
Expat Faith, Mystery and Culture Shock with Rachel Pieh Jones
I'm delighted to have Rachel Pieh Jones with me as we talk about her new book Pillars, How My Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus, and what it means to navigate the mystery of faith when we are co...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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52:24
Millennials, Failure, and Knowledge Transfer with Seth Barnes
Why do we need millennials in missions even though they make mistakes? How can we learn from the failures and experience of older-generation missionaries who have gone before us? Seth Barnes knows a lot about failure, but he parlayed that...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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43:17
Grief, Rituals, and Allowing Joy with Amanda Held Opelt
This is my favorite episode so far as I'm honored to have Amanda Held Opelt, sister of Rachel Held Evans, and author of A Hole in the World, sharing about the excruciating grief she went through with the loss of her sister and how thro...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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42:57
Emotional Health in Missions with Jonathan Trotter
In this very first episode of Missionary Life, I speak with Pastoral Counselor Jonathan Trotter about his life on the field in Cambodia, and his new book, Digging in the Dirt. We dive deep into maintaining your emotional health in mini...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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