Dec 6, 2020 | Ambition, Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Stress
Some years ago, we attended a conference with dear friends. The four of us were already sitting in the cheap seats when I (David) started talking with the keynote speaker for the event, someone I greatly admired and wanted to get to know better. In the course of the...
Sep 2, 2020 | Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Personal Development, Relationships
The other day I (David) really offended someone. I said something that appalled them and they let me have it. We all like to think we’re grace-giving people. Then someone crosses an undeveloped part of our ego and, instantly, we’re personally insulted. We get...
Jun 11, 2020 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Relationships
For years I (Caron) tried to get David to understand me. At times, I ached for him to comprehend the trauma and sadness of my childhood and how it affected me as an adult. I told him my stories. And he listened attentively with as much empathy as he was capable of...
Apr 20, 2020 | Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Pain/Suffering
If there’s one word that encapsulates the times we’re living in now, it’s uncertainty. And there’s nothing like uncertainty to make us question who we are, what we’re supposed to be doing and pretty much the whole point of our existence. The two of us know a bit about...
Feb 26, 2020 | Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Relationships
We’ve had this happen. You probably have, too. You’re in the middle of a disagreement and both you and your spouse have shut down. Everyone’s made their case but no one’s budging. Maybe, someone has even left the room. Now what? Some couples pretend nothing happened....
Dec 18, 2019 | Ambition, Career/Work, Church Leadership, Church/Religion, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Marriage/Family
Don’t you love top 10 lists? We do. They are intended to simplify our busy lives by identifying what are the essentials of something you don’t want to miss. Well, we have a top 10 list, comprised of our Top 5 blogs and Top 5 podcasts of 2019. These represent some of...
Nov 5, 2019 | Ambition, Church Leadership, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Pastors
15 years into being ministry leaders, we crashed. The elders of our church sat us down and said you need to sit on the sidelines for a season. We were worn out. exhausted. stressed. discouraged. Our souls felt numb. We went away to a friend’s mountain house and argued...
Sep 10, 2019 | Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Relationships
Recently, we were away at the beach to celebrate our anniversary (yeah!!!) and we got to talking about some of the things we wish we had known a lot sooner when it comes to marriage. You really can’t learn something until you’re ready. But if you’re feeling open,...
Sep 3, 2019 | Breakthrough, Church/Religion, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Spiritual Formation
A while back, David Loveless talked with Paul Young. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Shack, Cross Roads, and Eve, and the Lies we Believe about God. His books have sold more than 24 million copies worldwide. A major motion picture of The Shack...
Jun 18, 2019 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Leadership, Life storms, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
Wouldn’t you like to know how to make better sense of the confusing things of life, love, leadership, and the church? You can. There’s actually a blueprint! If you’re like us, so often what we think of life, God, and others, is based upon what our circumstances...
May 29, 2019 | Career/Work, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
Are you interested in moving from relentless weariness to a more rested soul? One of the things we’ve noticed about almost all leaders that we work with is that the constant demands of life, leadership, and relationships, that causes them to lose their joy in what...
May 21, 2019 | Ambition, Breakthrough, Career/Work, Emotional Health/Healing, Stress
“I’m not okay. I’m tired. I’m broken and exhausted. I just need some rest.” Those are the words of the former megachurch pastor, Pete Wilson as he resigned from his church. I get where Pete was coming from. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve said something like that....
May 6, 2019 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
Have you struggled this past year with a relationship that needed a boost? One of the primary things that prevent any relationship from getting a boost is the picture you have in your head of how it is supposed to be. We all want relationships that are happy and...
Mar 26, 2019 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss 6 ways you benefit from accepting feedback. “When you hear the same negative comment about you from several sources, it’s probably time to stop saying, “they just don’t get me” and time to investigate why...
Feb 11, 2019 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Relationships
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to resolve almost any argument. Most couples argue. Many are taught what to say during those arguments… & that doesn’t seem to work more than 1 week. This week we’re releasing...
Feb 5, 2019 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Relationships
Years ago, someone gave David and me tickets to a hockey game. And I always think part of the fun of going to any live game is making a visit to the concession stand. So about halfway through all the slap sticking and body checking, I told David I wanted a drink. And...
Nov 14, 2018 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Pain/Suffering, Post Shows & More, Relationships, setbacks
In this podcast Episode 68, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to forgive the one who has hurt you. Listen to the Audio Here is a brief summary of today’s episode of “The Live True Podcast.” You can use this as a reference or reminder of key things you feel like...
Oct 9, 2018 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts
As I write this we’re waiting on test results for two precious women in our family who are having health issues. The symptoms appear serious for both. Waiting to learn what’s going on is excruciating. And all the possibilities of what could be wrong have kept me...
Sep 24, 2018 | Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to forgive life for what it hands us. The reason why we have to learn to forgive life for what it hands us is that so much of it is beyond our control. We have accidents, health issues, discouragement,...
Sep 11, 2018 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Spiritual Formation
“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour, increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human...
Aug 14, 2018 | Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Imperfection, Pain/Suffering, setbacks
How do you forgive the unforgivable when you’ve done something that has been destructive either to yourself and/or to others? One winter a father asked his son to help shovel the snow in their driveway. The son refused and went to hang out with his friends instead....
Aug 7, 2018 | Emotional Health/Healing, Pain/Suffering, setbacks, Spiritual Formation
Written by Caron Loveless In the news today, a man in our area, an expert swimmer, was out in a lake and called for help. The jet skis and boat that tried to rescue him couldn’t reach him in time. They are still looking for his body. His wife was there when it...
May 16, 2018 | Emotional Health/Healing, Intimacy, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering
Most married people employ “strategies” for getting their spouse to do what they want them to do, whether they are aware of them or not. Often these are losing strategies that don’t bring us the kind of satisfaction we really want. Here are five winning strategies...
May 2, 2018 | Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Personal Development
Caron and I, come from two completely different backgrounds, a fact, even as 20 and 21-year-old newlyweds, we fully anticipated might cause a little friction –now and then. We expected to fuss a time or two over how to spend money or Christmas or vacations. But, what...
Apr 16, 2018 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Marriage/Family, Relationships, Spiritual Formation, Stress
Last year we threw a big bash for my dad’s 90th birthday. As you can imagine there was a lot of excitement and anticipation. But just before the three-day event started, I tripped over something on our back porch and tore a calf muscle. All I could think was “Noooooo!...
Apr 11, 2018 | Breakthrough, Devotional, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to live in freedom and joy, even when life doesn’t go your way. Jesus continues to teach us much about how to live each day with a YES toward life, instead of a NO. Listen to the Audio Here is a brief...
Mar 19, 2018 | Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Spiritual Formation
“No good can come from watering last years crops.” Francis Anfuso We do it all the time. We tend phantom crops in the non-existent fields of our past. That awful moment, that loss, that person who slighted us or rejected us or abandoned us- we can’t get it out of our...
Feb 19, 2018 | Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Imperfection, Leadership, Pain/Suffering, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss why all of us have heard about good spiritual people who have failed in some way. Often when we hear of it, we’re appalled or astounded or discouraged because we somehow believed they were superhuman...
Jan 16, 2018 | Breakthrough, Career/Work, Church/Religion, Emotional Health/Healing, Identity, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
-Do you ever get anxious, stressed or depressed? -Do you procrastinate or repeat habits you know aren’t good for you? -Has anyone ever said, “you’re in denial?” -Has an important relationship gotten stuck even after everything you’ve done to fix it? -Has...
Dec 22, 2017 | Christmas, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
That magical, meaning-filled day is almost here and we didn’t want it to pass without telling you how much you mean to us. We are so grateful for the opportunities you’ve given us this year to make, what we hope has been, a number of worthwhile contributions to your...
Nov 14, 2017 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast episode, David & Caron Loveless continue their interview with Ian Cron, the co-author of the best-selling book: “The Road Back To You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery.” What you don’t know about yourself can hurt you and your...
Nov 7, 2017 | Breakthrough, Church/Religion, Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation, Wisdom
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless interview Ian Cron, the co-author of the best-selling book: “The Road Back To You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery.” What you don’t know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships―and even keeps...
Oct 17, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to grow receptive when you feel most resistant, to what is happening to you, to others, or in your circumstances. Someone has said, “What we resist persists.” Resistance is a pretty good sign...
Oct 12, 2017 | Ambition, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Imperfection, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
The other day someone on Twitter put out this question, “What do you think are the most common self-inflicted wounds?” They were targeting leaders but I think it’s a great question for all of us to ponder. Here were some of the replies: –...
Oct 5, 2017 | Ambition, Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Identity, Imperfection, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David Loveless interviews Chris Heuertz concerning his book: The Sacred Enneagram- Finding your unique path to spiritual growth. Chris is the author of multiple books, a speaker, Enneagram coach, non-profit consultant, and anti-human...
Sep 20, 2017 | Ambition, Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Identity, Leadership, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless continue with a Part 2 discussion around how to be happier with WHO you are and WHAT you have by relaxing the comparison and competition games of your compulsive mind. To obtain a FREE copy of our newest Ebook “8...
Sep 6, 2017 | Ambition, Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation, Stress
Have you ever said something like this? “I don’t know how much longer I can go on like this?” If you have, then we want to share with you 8 simple rhythms to replenish your life. Years ago, whenever I (David) felt tired, my mind would push my body...
Aug 30, 2017 | Ambition, Assets, Career/Work, Emotional Health/Healing, Identity, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Stress
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to be happier with WHO you are and WHAT you have by relaxing the comparison and competition games of your compulsive mind. Listen to the Audio Here is a brief summary of today’s episode of “The Live True...
Aug 8, 2017 | Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
We most often expect to find personal spiritual transformation, in moments of peace, love, and joy. While that is true- it is also true that God is present and at work, in the times we feel most resistant. Someone has said, “What we resist persists.”...
Aug 1, 2017 | Ambition, Breakthrough, Career/Work, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
How many times have you said something like: “I don’t know how much longer I can go on like this. ” How many times have you felt like the load of family or work were about to collapse your life? I’ve said that countless times in the past … but not anymore. In recent...
Jul 24, 2017 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life Plan, Painful thoughts, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to live in the happiest time zone each day, and how it can free you from the stress and resentments of life. There are only 3 time zones that you can live in. Find out which zone you spend most of your...
Jul 18, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Holiday stress, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Relationships
“In the madness, you have to stay calm.” Lupita Nyong’o Life has a way of amping our stress and stealing our peace. Here are a few of the ways we reclaim calm and work from our rest. 1) Tame the inner critic A good portion of our stress comes...
Jun 15, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
The other day I was heading into a public restroom, and I glanced down the hall to see a woman having one of those moments we pray never happen to us. Apparently, during the goings on of her visit to the ladies room she had inadvertently tucked the back of her dress...
Jun 8, 2017 | Ambition, Emotional Health/Healing, Identity, Leadership, Marriage/Family, Parenting, Personal Development
“They can’t do it without me.” “If I’m not in there to keep an eye on things it probably won’t go well.” These are statements we said to ourselves at various times in our leadership lives. We believed in taking ownership of our responsibilities. But, sometimes,...
May 30, 2017 | Assets, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
Some years ago, I found myself working crazy hard, making what felt like near blood sacrifices in all my relationships and responsibilities but getting little appreciation or reward for my effort. After a long season of feeling underappreciated a subtle attitude of...
May 24, 2017 | Breakthrough, Church/Religion, Emotional Health/Healing, Identity, Imperfection, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In our interview today, David Loveless continues his conversation with Paul Young. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Shack, Cross Roads, and Eve, and the Lies we Believe about God. His books have sold more than 24 million copies worldwide. A...
May 3, 2017 | Breakthrough, Church/Religion, Devotional, Emotional Health/Healing, Identity, Imperfection, Pain/Suffering, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In our interview today, David Loveless talks with Paul Young. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Shack, Cross Roads, and Eve, and the Lies we Believe about God. His books have sold more than 24 million copies worldwide. A major motion picture of...
Apr 17, 2017 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In today’s Podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless talk about how self-awareness is one of the key attributes of highly successful people. Having self-awareness allows us to grow in the ability to identify what’s working and what isn’t in our...
Apr 13, 2017 | Devotional, Easter, Emotional Health/Healing, Spiritual Formation
The scripture says, two men, that “gleamed like lightning” questioned the women who arrived early in the morning at the tomb of Jesus. (Luke 24) The women had gone to pay homage to the dead and they stumbled upon a grave robbery as the men asked them,...
Mar 28, 2017 | Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Stress
We feel stressed, most often, by our need to control our circumstances, not by circumstances getting beyond our control. For much of my life, I believed my work, my kids, the traffic, my calendar, my husband, my relatives, my neighbors, my house, or my friends caused...
Mar 22, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
In our story, David and I both had seasons when we refused to accept circumstances that were beyond our control. The result of our inability to surrender to “necessary suffering” brought even greater suffering at a level we never thought possible. Our...
Mar 13, 2017 | Ambition, Breakthrough, Church/Religion, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Identity, Pain/Suffering, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
If religion or others have put a “beat down” on you, then listen to part 2 of our interview with Richard Rohr. If you’ve been taught or believed that God still needs you to keep improving and He’ll never be fully satisfied with you, then listen...
Feb 22, 2017 | Ambition, Career/Work, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Stress
Your work is important but it isn’t who you are. “You’re not having a heart attack. It’s stress.” A doctor said this to me at least once every decade of my life starting in my twenties. Lying there in the hospital after multiple tests I...
Feb 15, 2017 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More
David Loveless & Caron Loveless share today a very simple pattern that can help YOU immediately pinpoint where you are on your spiritual path. It can also help you understand what’s up in from of your life journey. This pattern can also help YOU find...
Feb 14, 2017 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Personal Development, Recovery, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
The fullness of life comes through many small deaths. Richard Rohr For much of my life, I had this unspoken belief that the older you get the easier your life will be. I walked around thinking the hard times like grad school, hands-on parenting, keeping the family and...
Feb 9, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Relationships
” People who can’t control themselves control the people around them.” Dr. David Schnarch I used to joke about having “control issues.” I was aware that I was a perfectionist in some areas and I liked things to look a particular way....
Jan 12, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Identity, Marriage/Family, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
There is a ‘power dance’ that happens in most relationships: within a marriage, family, church, and at work. In this podcast episode, we talk about how to claim your own sacred sense of worth in every relationship, and on every occasion. The ‘power...
Jan 10, 2017 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Identity, Intimacy, Marriage/Family, Personal Development, Relationships
Along with being the firstborn in my family came a few perks and many responsibilities, one of which was babysitting my younger sisters. I got pretty good at being in charge. I liked being the boss, telling my siblings what to do. From my perch on the family tree, I...
Dec 8, 2016 | Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
The loss of someone close brings us so many wake up calls. This week marks the second year without my sister, Leslie Chandler Robinson. Her passing has left an unthinkable void in my life and, along with this new reality, has come a number of valuable realignments in...
Nov 28, 2016 | Christmas, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Holiday stress, Life Plan, Personal Development
Reinvent Your Holiday, Reinvent Your Life: Four Powerful Questions to Ask Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Guest Post by Will Mancini For too many people the joy of the holiday is as hollow as your neighbor’s snowman lawn inflatable. Take your pick of the holiday...
Nov 21, 2016 | Assets, Devotional, Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
It’s always a bit challenging to inspire honest gratefulness when it’s officially assigned on the calendar. Still, some of us need prodding to acknowledge the goodness in our lives, especially when we’re feeling stressed, depressed or distracted. As...
Nov 8, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Personal Development, Relationships
One of the big issues we regularly see with leaders and couples who come to us for coaching is how challenged most of us are at actually feeling and expressing our emotions in a healthy way. I’m not talking about mismanaged emotions like rage but the inability to...
Nov 2, 2016 | Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Parenting, Personal Development, Post Shows & More
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how our family of origin affects marriage and what systems they create, that you need to know. Each of our family systems significantly impacts the way we learn to relate. They set up our relational patterns...
Nov 1, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Relationships
In a few weeks, I get the honor of officiating at the wedding of a couple Caron and I have been counseling. It has me reflecting on countless ceremonies I’ve conducted over almost four decades and on all the love-struck couples everywhere who get impacted by one...
Oct 26, 2016 | Ambition, Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Personal Development, Post Shows & More
In this podcast Episode 38, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to engage in healthy ambition, that enhances everyone VS unhealthy ambition that steals and destroys various parts of people’s lives. George Baker has said: “I am one of those people who is so...
Oct 12, 2016 | Ambition, Career/Work, Church/Religion, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Marriage/Family, Personal Development, Post Shows & More
In this Podcast Episode 37, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to discern whether the ambition that you have and those around you, is healthy or not. While ambition has become one of the most prized characteristics of our western culture the dictionary still...
Oct 11, 2016 | Ambition, Career/Work, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Marriage/Family, Personal Development, Quotes
In our quest to grow healthier souls we realized we needed to take a hard look at the role “ambition” has played in our lives. We were surprised to learn that the word “ambition” comes from the Latin word ambitio that literally means “to...
Oct 4, 2016 | Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to respond to the question: “How are you doing?” We believe that a part of spiritual and emotional health begins when we’re able to name which cycle of life we are in… and that the categories of winning...
Sep 22, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to overcome the one thing that hijacks our peace and is the single greatest destroyer of relationships. Listen to the Audio Here is a brief summary of today’s episode of “The Live True Podcast.” You can...
Sep 19, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
“An expectation is a resentment under construction.” Anne Lamott People don’t treat us like they should. Circumstances don’t turn out like we plan. Co-workers don’t come through like they promise. Friends aren’t there when we need...
Sep 8, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Identity, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
“From the moment we wake up to the time our heads hit the pillow, we live out of a story we’ve come to believe about ourselves. This storyline thrives in our minds subconscious which is why we’re often unaware of many of our own self-defeating patterns of behavior....
Aug 31, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation, Stress
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to benefit from becoming more aware and getting a better handle on the types of undesirable thinking that plague us regularly. Probably one of THE most helpful insights we’ve been given in recent...
Aug 29, 2016 | Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
By David & Caron Loveless Even though you have thousands of them every day you are not your thoughts. And the more you can learn to observe and question your thoughts the healthier and more successful you will become. Here are ten negative thinking patterns we...
Aug 17, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this new podcast episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how seeing resistance in life, is your pathway to growth. Right at the point of our most resistance, to what life seems to be bringing us, is a beautiful place to see God. It is there God is inviting us...
Aug 15, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
By David & Caron Loveless We most often expect to find God in moments of peace, love, and joy. While that is true- it is also true that God is present and at work, in the times we feel most resistant. Someone has said, “What we resist persists.”...
Aug 8, 2016 | Assets, Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
Written by David & Caron Loveless “A humble self-knowledge is a surer way to God than deep learning.” Thomas A Kempis At first glance, this advice seems all wrong-headed. How can knowing ourselves be a truer way to God than deep, investigative study of...
Jun 15, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Loss, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
Once again we’re all asking what in the world can be done about the atrocity of terrorism? And now I’m asking myself what can I, an average, middle- aged, American woman possibly do about the horrendous murder of innocent people that suddenly put my...
Jun 14, 2016 | Assets, Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Inspiration, Leadership, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Recovery
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Jun 1, 2016 | Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Post Shows & More, Stress, Unity
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to move the needle on the fun meter in your marriage. We know that every personality needs to have their own version of fun. While some are natural at this and others need to work at it more, apparently,...
May 25, 2016 | Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Relationships, Stress
One of the first things that drew me to my husband was his sense of humor. The guy was a blast to be with. I never laughed so much in my life. But the longer we were married, the more kids we had and the more pressures we experienced leading a large church, the more...
May 18, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Personal Development, Post Shows & More
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to identify and address the ONE issue most marriages stay stuck that often brings great disillusionment. Identifying the attachment styles operating in your marriage and learning how to accept and grow...
May 17, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Relationships
Almost every day we coach leadership couples who are just like we were. They really want a great marriage, they work hard at making it the best they can but something mysterious and unforeseen keeps tripping them up. They think the mystery lies somewhere in their...
May 4, 2016 | Emotional Health/Healing, Intimacy, Marriage/Family, Personal Development, Post Shows & More
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss one of the ways to Master Marriage through The Comfort Clue. Because having a mutually satisfying and long-term marriage seems to remain such a mystery for most people, we thought this month that we’d...
Apr 19, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Spiritual Formation
Not long ago, I was asked to speak at a church and just before I brought the message the worship team led us in a song that featured a violin. Later, I learned that violin was being played by a girl named Mariana, who was one of the top young violinists in Romania. As...
Apr 13, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation, Stress, Wisdom
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to Rethink The Glorification of Busy. The busyness of our lives has led to unprecedented levels of exhaustion, stress, and vulnerability. Conventional wisdom tells us to the key to sanity is changing or...
Apr 6, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
Over the course of my life, things have happened to me, people have done things to me that have frightened me, angered me and broken my heart. I had legitimate hurt worthy of comfort and understanding. Replaying the tapes of the wrongs that were done became my...
Mar 23, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Devotional, Easter, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Good Friday, Life storms, Loss, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Recovery, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to live through and actually cooperate with both little and big deaths or losses throughout our lives, so something even larger and more fulfilling can emerge from it all… and how the resurrection shows...
Mar 22, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Easter, Emotional Health/Healing, Imperfection, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
There is always one question that most compels and convicts me whenever I read about the resurrection of Jesus, and it’s this: “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” The scripture says two men that “gleamed like lightning”...
Mar 9, 2016 | Assets, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life Plan, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David Loveless interviews Dave Rhodes about how to discover the unique purpose that God has wired into your story. We’re are going to talk about how God intersects our: Name; Narrative; and Nine to five lives to show the world around us the...
Mar 8, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Imperfection, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation
When the abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock were first introduced people said, that’s not art. It’s too weird, too chaotic. Everyone hated his work. No one would buy it. “What a mess,” they said. “My two year old could do that.”...
Mar 1, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Parenting, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Recovery
In this very emotional podcast episode, David Loveless interviews Francis Anfuso on how we can see further healing from wounds that initially came from our parents. Francis grew up in an extremely difficult home that people throughout the country thought would have...
Feb 24, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Leadership, Marriage/Family, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless interview the counselors, whom they met with for more than a year, and who helped get them through their worst nightmare. What does it look like to engage in the vital soul care that every person yearns for? What...
Feb 22, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Inspiration, Leadership, Life storms, Loss, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Relationships
What I’m about to share with you is deeply personal. This is the first time I’ve shared it publicly. And I’m a little anxious because once it’s out there, it’s out there. But I’m motivated. I believe what could come from it is...
Feb 15, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation, Stress, Wisdom
We have always been the kind of people who were zealous to grow and gain mastery in our attitudes, actions and relationships. We kept the latest books on our nightstand, in our brief case and on our Kindle. You could find us perched on the front row at cutting-edge...
Feb 10, 2016 | Assets, Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation, Wisdom
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to use a specific tool that can bring personal clarity and see quantum internal shifts that give you the ability to dramatically improve your emotional, spiritual, professional and relational life. ...
Feb 9, 2016 | Assets, Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Pain/Suffering, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation, Wisdom
It’s hard to imagine what life was like before X-rays, MRI’s and brain scans. Thanks to these incredible detection devices we can now know what ails us with pinpoint accuracy. Wouldn’t it be great to have a similar tool for our souls? A tool that can...
Feb 3, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation, Stress
In this podcast Episode 17, David & Caron Loveless discuss how to discover a primary root of your stress is not ‘out there’ but ‘in here.’ Most of us think that our stress comes from somewhere outside ourselves, and sometimes that’s true. But more often than not,...
Feb 1, 2016 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Relationships, Stress
Everyone likes to feel approved, get praised for a job well done or be on the receiving end of a sincere compliment. Where approval goes wrong is when we do or say things, often unconsciously, to gain admiration or applause in order to cover some sense of unworthiness...
Jan 18, 2016 | Emotional Health/Healing, Intimacy, Marriage/Family, Personal Development, Relationships
My husband, David, has always been a strong, confident guy who didn’t get easily rattled when things went wrong or difficulties popped up. He was good at tackling huge, complicated situations and moving on. But, this was not always the case when certain...
Jan 14, 2016 | Breakthrough, Emotional Health/Healing, Leadership, Painful thoughts, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation, Stress, Wisdom
In this podcast Episode, David & Caron Loveless discuss “When Enough Is Never Enough.” Many of us are always trying to achieve and accomplish more. There is great value in this and then there can emerge a dark side to it. To listen to the audio of this podcast,...
