We've probably all embarked on a diet, workout schedule, or other new habit only to land in previous negative patterns. We might beat ourselves up, thinking we simply lack self-control. But what if there's something else going on--something related to our brain's wiring? And what if our choices today have the power to rewire our brain off self-destructive and self-defeating thoughts and actions and onto those that are life-giving? In this episode, host Jennifer Slattery talks with Dr. Alan Weissenbacher on our brains' capacity to rewire itself, replacing maladaptive programming with that which helps us thrive?

Resource Referenced: The Brain Change: 6 Steps to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life by Dr. Alan Weissenbacher

Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What most resonated with you in this episode?
2. How have you seen the things mentioned in today's podcast revealed in your life?
3. When you consider your typical day, what do you most invest in: the neural pathways you don't want or those that lead to increased peace and life?
4. What is one win you experienced in the past couple weeks you can celebrate and thus reinforce?
5. How might or could you apply our understanding of our brain's ability to change help you in your current goals?
6. What is one action step God might be inviting you to take having listened to this episode?

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There are few experiences more painful than relational betrayal. But what happens when that betrayal becomes public and costs you your home and faith community? That was precisely what Toni Collier experienced when she not only experienced betrayal in her marriage but the people in her church, those she heavily invested in, ghosted her during her time of pain. But despite the pain she experienced, she also encountered the grace of God through the loving support of those who knew her, saw her, and stood beside her in her season of intense pain. This experience reiterated to her the importance of finding safe and support community upon whom one can depend. This episode is for everyone who feels alone in their pain and finds themselves in desperate need of a friend.

Resource referenced: Don't Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain

Discussion/reflective questions:

1. What most resonated with you in this episode?
2. How easy or difficult do you find it to share your pain and struggles with others, and why is this so?
3. When have you experienced strength and comfort through others?
4. How might, or how has, allowing others to see our struggle helped you feel less alone?
5. Why might it be important to process our pain with the understanding that redemption is always on the way?
6. When and how have you seen God bring redemption from or through your pain?
7. What is one action step God might be inviting you to take having listened to this episode?

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If you experience chronic depression, anxiety, and pain, you likely dream of what life might look like, were you to find effective treatment and ongoing symptom relief. You may even fear your current challenge will last forever. But what if there was a drug-free way to experience significant and lasting relief? Is that even possible? According to Tom Kerber, founder and president of SunPowerLED, for many people, the answer is yes. Listen to learn about a powerful technology he believes God led him to develop, how this has helped him and his wife personally, along with examples of others who are experiencing flourishing life for the first time in years, if not decades.

Find out more, read about the science behind the product and research conducted:

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SunPowerLED's YouTube Channel

Watch testimonial videos HERE.

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Discussion/Reflective Questions:

1. What most resonated with you in this episode?
2. What is your experience of or knowledge related to infared or near infared technology?
3. When are you most apt to project today's challenge onto your future?
4. Why might it be important to hold tight to hope?
5. What would you day and life look like, were you to experience healing?
6. What is one action step God might be inviting you to take having listened to this episode?

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