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Be Still and Live | Overcoming Overwhelm and Finding Peace in a Busy World Through Faith and Stillness
ARE YOU AN OVERWHELMED MOM CRAVING MORE INTENTIONAL LIVING, SIMPLICITY, AND JOY IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE?
Do you feel like you're constantly rushing from one thing to the next, yet never quite feel caught up?
Are you exhausted by the mental load of family life, digital overwhelm, and the pressure to keep doing more?
Do you miss feeling connected to yourself, your purpose, and God—but aren't sure how to slow down long enough to find your way back?
If that sounds like you, you're not alone.
The truth is, modern life is louder, faster, and more distracting than ever. Many women are carrying full schedules, full calendars, and full responsibilities—yet still feel disconnected, overwhelmed, and silently wondering why life looks full but doesn't always feel fulfilling.
But the answer isn't doing more.
It's creating space for what matters most.
Welcome to The Stillness Coach Podcast.
Each week, you'll discover practical ways to embrace intentional living, create more simplicity, strengthen your faith, and experience greater joy in midlife. Through encouraging conversations, personal stories, and practical tools, you'll learn how to slow down, reduce overwhelm, and build a life rooted in presence rather than pressure.
Hi, I'm Gillian Gabryluk—The Stillness Coach, Holistic Health Coach, and Faith-Based Intentional Living Mentor.
Like many women, I spent years believing the answer to a better life was found in doing more, achieving more, and trying harder. I chased productivity, checked all the boxes, and filled my days with good things—yet still felt disconnected from the peace and purpose I was searching for.
Everything changed when I discovered that stillness wasn't something to earn after life slowed down.
It was the path that helped life slow down.
Through simplifying, reconnecting with my faith, and intentionally creating space for what mattered most, I found more peace, clarity, purpose, and joy than I ever found through striving.
Now I help overwhelmed moms do the same, and then use that wisdom to bring peace to their homes.
Inside this podcast, you'll learn how to:
✨ Practice intentional living in a busy world
✨ Embrace simple living without sacrificing what matters most
✨ Strengthen your faith and deepen your relationship with God
✨ Navigate midlife with greater purpose, peace, and confidence
✨ Regulate your nervous system and reduce overwhelm
✨ Manage digital overwhelm and reclaim your attention
✨ Create healthier rhythms for family life and personal growth
✨ Find more joy in the ordinary moments of everyday life
Because this isn't about becoming more productive.
It's about becoming more present.
If you're ready to slow down, simplify, reconnect with God, and create a life that feels as meaningful as it looks, you're in the right place.
Hit play, subscribe, and let's rediscover what matters most—together.
New episodes every Tuesday.
NEXT STEPS
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Episodes
40 episodes
#39: Season One Final Reflection: What 39 Episodes Taught Me About Stillness with Gillian Gabryluk
Thirty-nine episodes ago, I hit record with more passion than skill and a lot more fear than confidence. Now, as we close season one of Be Still and Live, I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes story I’ve mostly kept to myself: the days that felt de...
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#38: How to Sleep Better: A Doctors Explanation of Insomnia, Faith, and Lasting Rest with Dr. Benjamin Long
If you've been wondering how to sleep better, you're not alone. Sleep problems and insomnia are more common than ever, leaving many people stuck in a frustrating cycle: you're exhausted, you try harder to sleep, your mind races, and bedt...
#37: Spiritual Awakening: Why Success Alone Will Never Fulfill You with Anna Robinson
Success. Achievement. A full calendar. From the outside, it can look like you've made it. But what happens when success alone still leaves you feeling empty?In this episode of Be Still and Live, I sit down with Anna Robin...
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#36: How Women Can Build Wealth, Overcome Money Anxiety & Invest with Confidence | Money Mindset with Roxanne Zalucky
Money stress rarely comes from numbers alone. It often comes from what money represents: safety, freedom, security, success, and the stories we carry from the past. In this episode of Money Mindset, we sit down with personal wealth strategist R...
#35: Youth Mental Health: Nervous System Regulation & Parenting in a Digital World with David Bidler
The moment you stop asking “What’s wrong with kids?” and start asking “What’s happening in their bodies?” everything changes.In this episode, we sit down with David Bidler, founder of Physiology First, to explore youth mental health thro...
#34: Purpose Beyond Your Job: How to Find Your Purpose in the Age of AI with Paul Marcellino
AI is changing the economy fast, but the bigger shift is what it’s forcing us to face: if your job disappeared tomorrow, would you still know who you are and what you’re here to do? That question sits underneath so much modern anxiety, burnout,...
#33: Your Body Isn't Broken: Trauma, Chronic Symptoms, and Nervous System Healing with Cindy Costley
Your body isn’t failing you, and it isn’t being dramatic. It might be trying to protect you the only way it knows how. In this powerful conversation, we talk with Cindy Costley, founder of The Underlying Answers and creator of the Electromagnet...
#32: Successful But Unfulfilled? Finding Authenticity and Clarity with Kathrine Parnell
Success can be loud, public, and impressive, and still leave you feeling strangely far from yourself. We sit down with Kathrine Parnell, founder of Stone and Sky Retreats and author of Authenticity, Keeping It Real, to name what so many people ...
#31: Digital Detox For Real Life: How Families Reclaim Calm From Screen Overload with Alicia Collette
A child hands you your phone and suddenly you realize it is not just a tool, it is part of how your family sees you. That moment sits at the center of my conversation with Alicia, a mental health professional and digital detox coach with 14+ ye...
#30: Return to the Source: Finding Peace, Purpose, and God’s Presence in a Noisy World with Jolien Sterre
A busy schedule can look fine on the outside while your mind feels like it never stops. When that “fog” rolls in, the instinct is to push harder, scroll longer, or search for the next solution. We go the other way and it is surprisingly practic...
#29: Regulate Your Nervous System: Simple Practices to Calm Your Body and Mind with Dr. Rochelle Vogt, Ph.D.
Fear is loud, fast, and contagious and our bodies are paying the price. If you’ve been waking up anxious, feeling wired but exhausted, or wondering why you’re suddenly more reactive than you used to be, you’re not alone. I’m joined by Dr. Roche...
#28: What If Uncertainty Is Your Freedom? How Stillness Helps You Leave A Life That No Longer Fits with Chalene MacLeod
Your days can be full and still feel misaligned. That tension is what we’re naming out loud today: the quiet sense that the life you built no longer fits the person you’re becoming, and the fear that changing course means blowing everything up....
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#27: Rewire Your Stress: How to Regulate Your Nervous System with EFT with Sophia Torrini
Stress can look like productivity while your nervous system is quietly waving a red flag. If you’ve ever thought, “I’m functioning, so I should be fine,” yet you feel wired, exhausted, reactive, or stuck in a loop of scrolling and pushing throu...
#26: Not Broken, Just Depleted: 5 Human Needs That Restore Energy and Emotional Health with Dr. Matthew Campbell
If you’ve been telling yourself you’re failing, falling behind, or somehow “too much,” consider a different diagnosis: you might not be broken, you might be depleted. That one reframe changes everything, because depletion is fixable, and it doe...
#25: Executive Burnout & Chronic Stress: The Hidden Cost of a Dysregulated Nervous System with Simon Luthi
Your calendar can be packed and your life can still feel strangely thin. We’re surrounded by speed, noise, and nonstop inputs, yet our bodies are wired with a Stone Age nervous system that reads a tense email like a life-or-death threat. When t...
#24: Create More, Consume Less: Reclaim Creativity Through Stillness and Boredom with Devorah Brinckerhoff
Your days can be packed and still feel oddly empty. That’s the paradox we sit with today: we live in a world that constantly asks us to consume, but rarely invites us to create. When we lose our connection to creativity, we don’t just drop a ho...
#23: God Is Love in Action: Stillness, Faith, and the Courage to Say Yes with Ted Van der Zalm
A restless heart can be loud, but sometimes the clearest direction arrives in quiet. We sit down with Ted Van der Zalm, founder of Wells of Hope, to trace a lifelong journey from a Dutch greenhouse to drilling rigs in Tanzania to Camp Esperanza...
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#22: Beyond Willpower: Neuroscience, Faith, and the Foundations That Heal with Wendy Francis
In a world of constant input, your brain is always adapting — to noise, to stress, to what you repeatedly tell it is normal. In this conversation with board-certified health coach and adjunct professor Wendy Francis, we explore how real change ...
#21: Digital Detox & Stillness: Reclaiming Attention in an Overstimulated World with Mason Berube
Ever feel constantly “on” yet strangely absent from your own life? That quiet ache—of busyness without meaning—sets the stage for a candid conversation with Mason, who made a radical, practical choice at 25: he ditched his smartphone and rebuil...
#20: Redefining Enough: Stillness, Skincare, and a Life Reimagined with Rebecca Ogilvie
What if the turnaround you crave doesn’t come from doing more, but from pausing long enough to hear what your life is asking for? We sit down with Rebecca Ogilvie—traveler, mother, and founder of The Detour Co.—to explore how stillness, simplic...
#19: From Striving to Alignment: Returning to the Pace God Intended with Colt Charlebois
Ambition can build a beautiful life, and still leave the soul tired.In this episode of Be Still & Live, I sit down with kingdom-minded coach Colt to talk about burnout, the red line we don’t notice until we’ve crossed it, an...
#18: Less Stuff, More Peace: Making Space for Calm and Clarity with Amy Wopperer
The calm you’re craving isn’t hidden in another storage bin—it’s found in the space you create when you let go.In this episode of Be Still & Live, I’m joined by Amy from Simplify Buffalo, professional organizer and mo...
#17: Stoic Calm In A Noisy World: Simple Ways to Quiet the Mind and Ground the Nervous System with Frank Healy
Ever feel like life is full, yet something inside you feels thin or unsettled?In this episode of Be Still & Live, we sit with licensed counselor and author Frank Healy for a grounded conversation about memory, meaning, a...
#16: The Jewels Inside: Healing Through Stillness, Self-Care, and Community with Elvie Schooley
In this episode of Be Still & Live, we sit with movement artist and coach Elvie Schooley for a grounded, heart-centered conversation about what becomes possible when we slow down and listen inward.Elvie introduces the...
#15: The Breath Is the Bridge: Returning to Safety, Stillness, and Self with Steve Beattie
Feeling off doesn’t mean you’re broken. More often, it means your body has been living too long without safety, stillness, and breath in a noisy world.In this episode, we sit down with breathwork guide Steve Beattie, wh...
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