Minisodes //
hear from Carrie on her journey
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Actual Progress When you’re in Chronic Pain
For a life in chronic pain and illness, celebrating mini victories is absolutely necessary. Along my walk with chronic pain and illness, despite attempting every treatment…
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Choosing Community When You’re Suffering.
If I’ve learned anything about community…it’s that it aint easy. Isolation and disconnect are incredibly common in our culture today, and throwing in a chronic illness…
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lessons from Lourdes // a whole new therapy practice
Some of you know this, and some may not (because it’s maybe been a bit since I’ve been here)– but apparently if you send a girl…
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One Month as a European.
I’ve been living in Europe for one month. I’ve been living in Europe for one month? Time is flying and I don’t even know how that’s…
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Changes.
The last 13 months in a nutshell: 1) saying yes to a (part-time) middle-school counseling job after a long season off to focus on my health,…
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real life chronic illness: why I said yes to a JOB…and some grief.
It’s not often that you confidently say yes to a (part-time) job when you have a chronic illness, but this week (after much time & discernment…&…
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Minisode: a real life chronic illness update: work + exercise
5 months in to my job being regaining strength, I am now just beginning to wade into the world of cardio exercise. So far: the naturally…
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A Global Pandemic & Podcast Season TWO.
Despite our lives being completely. INSANE, Summer 2020 was an oddly sacred time to me in the midst of all the chaos. One of the greatest…
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Christmas….and PODCAST!
Christmas for me in a nutshell: Jesus, puzzles, Little Women, burning cookies, fixing my broken car, basketball, catching up with friends from home, and…….PODCAST. What a…
Gritty Stories //
Carrie interviews gritty humans on ways they’ve chosen grit in their lives.
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That Lonely Feeling.
Loneliness. It’s such a universal feeling, and one that, unfortunately, going through hard things tends to bring to the surface. My friend and nursing major, Kendal Lee, & I, both having experiences of chronic pain, are no stranger to this…
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Steven + Griffin: Missionaries of the Real Presence.
FINALLY sharing an interview from a couple months back with two solid Milwaukee missionaries: Steven Kehoe + Griffin Rain. I originally reached out to these two to hear more about their life of intentional community, but much of our conversation…
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Intentional Community: The Ladies.
The latest podcast is on something I never set out to become quite SO passionate about, but I’m pretty ok with it….that is: intentional community. A few good ladies and I (Sam Vosters, Amanda Fahrendorf, & Sophie Collins), sat down…
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Berta Hawley: One Well-Earned Diploma.,
So, so glad that all get to hear from my friend, Berta Hawley in the latest podcast episode. To put it simply: this girl is my hero. Berta was born with holes in her heart & entered the foster care…
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Bri: Poked + Prodded 5x a Day
This week’s episode features a conversation my friend, Bri Mueller & I had this fall (on our loud street) about living years of her life with Type 1 Diabetes. To be honest, I had no idea *quite* how demanding of…
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An MLK Day Special.
This week’s podcast episode is unique, featuring the majority of a talk my neighbor, Aaron McCoy, gave via zoom to a group of my friends & I this summer surrounding the topic of racism. We reached out Aaron when feeling…