Welcome to Resilient & Called | Why We’re Walking Through the Bible This Way

Welcome to Resilient & Called with Eleanor Haack-Finney.

This is more than a podcast—it’s a journey.

In this episode, Eleanor shares the heart behind the series, the calling that led her here, and why studying the Bible has often felt difficult, overwhelming, and even… boring. With honesty and vulnerability, she opens up about navigating faith with an ADHD mind, seasons of silence, identity loss, and the tension of feeling called but not ready.

This podcast is for the person who:

•  Struggles to stay consistent in Scripture 
•  Feels disconnected or lost in their faith 
•  Has experienced seasons where God felt silent 
•  Wants to understand the Bible in a real, practical way 

Together, we will walk through all 66 books of the Bible—not as experts, but as people learning, growing, and being transformed in real time.

This is a journey of identity, obedience, and discovery.

You don’t have to have it all figured out.

You just have to be willing to walk.

Transcript

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You're listening to Resilient and Called, hosted by Eleanor Hawk Finney. Eleanor is a pastoral counselor, author, and faith-based communicator who is deeply committed to helping people understand who they are, why they're here, and how to walk confidently in their calling. Through teaching that is both practical and spirit-led, she bridges the gap between scripture and everyday life. Walking through the Bible in a real, honest, and transformative way. Let's get into it.

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Have you ever felt like your life didn't make sense? Like you were in a season you didn't choose. And no matter how hard you tried to understand it, you just couldn't. Like things didn't line up, they didn't feel clear, they didn't feel purposeful. They were just heavy. And you kept asking questions like, God, what are you doing? Why am I here? And how did I even get to this place? And maybe if you're really honest, it's not just your life that feels confusing. It's your faith too. Because you've tried. You've opened your Bible, you've started reading, you've wanted to connect. But somewhere along the way, it started to feel hard, hard to focus, hard to understand, hard to stay engaged. And maybe no one ever said this out loud. But I will. Sometimes it even felt boring. And the moment that that crossed your mind, you shut down. Because you thought I shouldn't feel that way. And then came the guilt. And then the distance. And then the quiet question, what's wrong with me? Let's not brush past that. Because that question, that question has kept more people stuck than we realized. Hey, I'm Eleanor. And before anything else, before titles, before credentials, before what I do, I want you to know this. I am someone who has sat in that exact place, confused, disconnected, trying, but not experiencing what I thought was supposed to be experienced. Now, yes, I'm a board-certified pastoral counselor. I'm a Christian life coach. And for over a decade, I've walked alongside women and military families and couples and crises. People that are navigating trauma, burnout, identity loss, life transitions that they didn't choose. I've sat in the middle of real stories, not surface level struggles, but the kind of pain that reshapes how you see yourself. The kind of seasons that make you question everything. And here's what I've learned: not from a stage, but from sitting across from people in it. Most people are not struggling because they don't love God. They're struggling because they don't understand who they are or where they fit and what he's doing. And if I can be honest, that wasn't just something I saw in others. That was something I lived. You see, friends, I didn't start this podcast because I had everything figured out. I didn't start it because I had the perfect system. I started it because I was called to. Yes, I was called to do this. But also because I was tired. Tired of seeing people feel disconnected from something that was meant to bring life. I was tired of watching people love God but feel like they were failing at faith. Tired of sitting in that tension myself. Because if I'm being completely honest with you, studying the Bible felt hard for me too. And not just occasionally, consistently. I would sit down, I would open my Bible, and my mind would drift. I would try to focus, but my thoughts would scatter. I'd reread the same passage again and again and again. And nothing would stick. And over time I started to dread it. Not because I didn't care, but because I felt like I was failing. And maybe that's something you've never said out loud, but you felt it. That quiet frustration, the internal disconnect, that sense of I want this to matter more than it feels like it does. And eventually, I had to ask a different question. What if the problem isn't me? What if the problem is how I have been taught to approach it? Because somewhere along the way, many of us were taught to read scripture, but not how to engage with it. We were taught to move quickly instead of sitting deeply. We were taught to gather information instead of allowing transformation. We were taught to check the box instead of actually being changed. And that shift, it changed everything for me because I stopped asking, how much can I read? And I started asking, what is this actually saying? Who is this written to? And what is God revealing about Himself here? And really, what does that mean for me right now? So this podcast, it's not just a podcast. It's a journey. We are walking through the entire Bible, all the sixty-six books, but not to rush through it. Not to say we completed it, but to actually experience it, to understand it, to let it speak into our real lives. So we are going to walk through scripture verse by verse, chapter by chapter, but through a lens that most people were never taught to use. We're going to look at it through mental health, identity, healing, and real life. Because the Bible is not disconnected from your story. It meets you in it, in your anxiety, in your identity struggles, in your questions, in your I don't know what I'm doing seasons. And this is where I want you to really lean in. Because this is what's going to anchor you in this journey. We are not doing this randomly. There is structure to this, I promise, a rhythm, a system, and that system matters because it creates clarity, and clarity creates trust. And according to that, we're building from a journey that unfolds in three layers. Each season of this podcast is gonna mirror a season of your life. It has a theme, a focus, a purpose. In this first season, it's all about identity, calling, and hidden seasons and pressure and purpose. Because before anything else, we have to understand who we are. We're not gonna rush into verses. We're gonna understand who wrote this. When was it written? What was happening? And who was it written to? Because scripture had meaning then, before it has meaning for us now. And if we skip that, we're gonna miss it. And then in every single episode, we're gonna bring it into your life. We're gonna read it. We're gonna break it down and we're going to process it. We're gonna ask, where do I see myself in this? Because this is not about information overload. It's about transformation. So now let's talk about something really important. We're not gonna be going through the Bible in a traditional order. And that's intentional because most people don't struggle with scripture because it's inaccessible. They struggle because it feels irrelevant to what they're going through. So we're gonna do something really different. We are gonna walk through scripture in a way that meets you where you are. Like I said, we're starting with identity. Because if you don't know who you are, nothing else will land. So we're gonna begin with books like Esther and Ruth, then Genesis and Exodus. And we're gonna wrestle with things like, who am I? Why am I here? And what is God doing in my life? And then we're gonna move into the emotional and mental health core of our series, like Psalms and Job and Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, where we learn how to process anxiety, how to sit in grief, and how to navigate our thoughts and how to wrestle with meaning. And then we're gonna move into the prophets, where things are gonna get uncomfortable. We're gonna deal with obedience and correction and hearing God in hard seasons and identity and chaos. And then we come to Jesus. And when we get there, we're not just gonna see theology. We're gonna see healing and restoration and what it actually looks like to live rooted. And what this does is it creates a journey, not just through scripture, but through your life. Because right now, so many people are surviving, but they don't know who they are. They're just functioning. But internally, they're disconnected. They believe in God, but they don't feel close to him. They're trying, but they're tired. And no one taught them how scripture actually meets them there. So I want you to hear this clearly. There have been seasons in my life that I did not choose. Seasons that didn't make sense, seasons where God felt quiet, not absent, but not obvious. And those seasons, they will shake your identity if you don't know where to anchor it. And maybe that's where you are right now. So this space, it's not about rushing. It's not about perfection, it's not about performance, it's about walking slowly, honestly, together. So sit with this. Where in your life right now do you feel disconnected? And what if this journey is where that starts to change? You're not behind. You are not disqualified. You are not too far gone. You are not bad at faith. You are being formed. Even here. Pray with me. God, meet us here. In the questions, in the silence, in the frustration, help us slow down. Help us see you again. Not just in Scripture, but in our lives. In your heavenly name. Amen. So, friend, if something is stirring inside of you right now, if you don't want to walk this alone, I want you to know that I have a space just for that. I created the resilience room. And it's where we go deeper. It's where we're going to process this, where we're actually going to live it out. And if you want to learn more about the resilience room, you can at www.elinorfinny.com. And remember, I would truly love to walk this out with you. I can't wait to do this. I'll see you in the next episode.

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