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...
Aug 14, 2019 | Ambition, Clarity, Leadership, Spiritual Formation, Stress
Here’s a part of how I reduce my stress, at the beginning of my day, that you could possibly use to reduce your own. I woke up this morning and knew that I had a full day in front of me. I had strategy meetings, earlier in the day, with my peers at First Baptist...
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....
Oct 16, 2018 | Career/Work, Identity, Imperfection, Leadership, Personal Development, Spiritual Formation, Stress
Here’s a part of how I reduce my stress, at the beginning of my day, that you could possibly use to reduce your own. I woke up this morning and knew that I had a full day in front of me. I had strategy meetings, earlier in the day, with my peers at First Baptist...
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!...
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...
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...
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...
Sep 28, 2016 | Leadership, Personal Development, Relationships, Stress
By Caron Loveless I’m a can-do person and, in years past, I hated saying “no” to people. If you asked me to lead something, be somewhere or care for someone my automatic response was often, “Sure, I can probably make that happen.” It...
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...
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...
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...
Feb 17, 2016 | Assets, Breakthrough, Clarity, Personal Development, Relationships, Spiritual Formation, Stress
In this podcast Episode, we discuss how to observe both your true and false self in action. In our new book, Nothing To Prove, we unpack a framework of 3 steps, that we use daily in order to see progressive levels of growth and transformation in our lives....
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 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 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,...
Jan 12, 2016 | Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Leadership, Personal Development, Stress
In the aftermath of last nights National Championship football game, it’s easy to get caught up in the celebration of winning. The celebration of accomplishment. We celebrate the sacrifices of hard work by individuals given to reaching their goal of being called...
Dec 10, 2015 | Holiday stress, Marriage/Family, Post Shows & More, Relationships, Spiritual Formation, Stress
In this podcast Episode 11, David & Caron Loveless discuss how you can curb the Christmas crazy in your life with 10 simple guidelines. Here is a brief summary of today’s episode of “The Live True Podcast.” You can use this as a reference or reminder of...
Dec 7, 2015 | Assets, Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Failure, Inspiration, Intimacy, Leadership, Life storms, Loss, Marriage/Family, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Recovery, Spiritual Formation, Stress
The following is an excerpt from our new ebook that is available beginning today. This book is a a very candid, behind the scenes look, at the journey of transformation that we’ve been on the last several years, and the things we’ve learned that can help...
Nov 2, 2015 | Assets, Devotional, Inspiration, Loss, Personal Development, Recovery, Spiritual Formation, Stress
Things seem to go empty just when you need them most. Like, you’re making a turkey sandwich, you reach in the frig and the mayonnaise jar is empty. Or, you’re twenty minutes late for an appointment across town and you look down and your fuel gauge reads “empty.” Or...
Oct 21, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Post Shows & More, Spiritual Formation, Stress
To listen to today’s podcast, simply click on the “play” button on the podcast player above OR if you’ve already subscribed to “The Live True Podcast” then the episode can be accessed through either your Apple or Android device, in your podcast app. Here is a brief...
Sep 10, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Stress
Like a lot of people, I’ve been detoxing my life. More and more I’m “going green” in my food, cosmetics & cleaning supplies. And, I was just starting to feel proud of myself until I learned there’s one thing that could totally wipe out even the best...
Jul 27, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Relationships, Stress
This week we want to repost a blog we’ve gotten a lot of emails and comments on. Stress is a HUGE issue for so many of us and I wish someone had told me years ago about these three hidden stressors. Let us know what you think....
Jun 22, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Emotional Health/Healing, Personal Development, Stress
Recently I read a great blog post, by Michael Hyatt, on one of my favorite subjects & I think, one of yours… Especially since it’s summertime. We hope, like us, you’re doing all you can to get outdoors, even more. Hopefully this will further...
Apr 30, 2015 | Breakthrough, Clarity, Life storms, Pain/Suffering, Personal Development, Relationships, Stress
I’m coming to see that a great deal of my stress is not caused by circumstances beyond my control – but by my own need to control my circumstances. I could give you a ton of examples of this ( and so could those brave, intrepid souls who have worked and...
