Minisodes //
hear from Carrie on her journey
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…&…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…