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Build a simple, life-giving practice of daily gratitude and writing out Scripture, and unpack what the Bible teaches about being transformed by the renewal of your mind.

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On sale from next Wednesday 17th June, Holy & Whole will help you build a daily habit of writing out God’s Word and see it take root in your heart. You will learn what Scripture says about renewing your mind and be equipped to grow in emotional and spiritual wholeness; mind, body and soul.

This 28-day journal covers four topics that are close to my heart:

• Practising gratitude

• Surrendering anxiety

• Disarming fear

• The Power of Biblical Meditation

By using it every day, you will explore each of these topics in more detail as you write out a daily Bible passage and respond to a question which has been designed to help you reflect on and unpack what Scripture says.

We’ve included four weekly practices that complement each topic, combining neuroscience and Scripture and teaching you practical ways to help shift your perspective and transform how you see life.

This journal has been a labour of love and I cannot wait to get it into your hands!

Find out more over at Rooted Daily Journal Co and keep an eye on your inbox early next week for an exclusive subscriber launch discount!

Love and hope, always.

Jo

Jo will guide the group through a slower time of pause, journaling, breath prayer, and biblical…

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Dr Steve Smith is a family doctor, sleep coach, and specialist in addiction psychiatry with decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, and insomnia.

Drawing on both clinical expertise and his personal journey with chronic sleeplessness, Steve combines neuroscience, psychology, and Christian faith to help people move from exhaustion and overwhelm to deeper rest, peace, and emotional well-being.

During this webinar, we’ll explore:

• The science and importance of sleep

• Why so many people struggle with rest today

• The impact sleep has on emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being

• Insomnia and common sleep difficulties

• Practical steps to improve sleep and regulate stress and anxiety

• Creating healthier rhythms of rest and restoration in everyday life

If you would like to book in for this webinar, you can do so using the button below! If you can’t make it live, don’t worry at all, the replay will be sent to your inbox before the weekend.

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If you are a member of The Faith Filled Collective, you already have a space on this webinar!

We would love to see you there!

Love and Hope

Jo

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Hi everyone,

This webinar explores what it means to renew our minds, based on Romans 12:2, and how God designed our brains for transformation. We look at the connection between Scripture, neuroplasticity, and spiritual growth, and how renewed thinking impacts our emotions, behaviour, and discipleship.

Thank you for joining the webinar. If you’d like to go through it again, the recording is now available below. Feel free to rewatch, take notes, or share it with others who may find it helpful. If you weren’t able to join the webinar, you can now watch the recording below.

Love & Hope

Jo

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And in amongst all of the things that I have, perhaps somewhat smugly, ticked off my never-ending list…

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I have sat with this tension for years, professionally and personally. I’ve worked with women who love Jesus deeply, who understand grace, who can articulate the faithfulness of God with clarity and conviction, and yet whose bodies still brace, who still hypervigilantly scan their environment for any sense of threat and who hold their breath and relinquish their peace at any sign of tension.

The dissonance of believing you are held, while your nervous system prepares for disconnection or overwhelm.

That tension does not mean your theology is weak; it means that your precious, God-designed nervous system has a history. Security in Christ is a covenant reality, grounded in His finished work and unchanging character (Amen). It is objective. It is settled. But your body does not respond to covenant language; it responds to lived and embodied experience.

If your early experiences taught you that connection could be withdrawn, that love could feel unpredictable and at times scary, or that safety could disappear without warning, your nervous system learned to brace. It learned to anticipate rupture and to scan (hello, hypervigilance) for subtle signs of distance and disconnection.

This is why you can know, with deep conviction, that nothing can separate you from the love of God and still feel a surge of anxiety when someone goes quiet. Why can you teach trust and still feel your chest tighten in conflict…why you can preach grace and still feel shame rise before you have time to challenge it.

The body holds what the mind has already reframed.

Belief sits in the part of you that can think, reason, and hold onto truth. It’s the part that knows the verses, that can remind itself what is real, that can say, “God is faithful,” even on a hard day. But feeling safe is different. Feeling safe is something your body recognises, or indeed doesn’t. It shows up in whether your shoulders are tight, whether your breathing is shallow, that sense of impending doom that sometimes shows up in our very guts. And those two parts of you, what you know and what you feel, do not always move at the same speed.

Following Christ deeply, with every part of ourselves, is about allowing that truth to become embodied, to travel from doctrine into wiring, from declaration into felt experience, it’s that journey from head to heart and spirit to soma. When you bring your anxious body to Him, not just your well-constructed theology, you are allowing His steadiness to meet your history and his co-regulation to meet your chaos-don’t you just love Him.

And over time, through repetition and relationship, something begins to shift. The nervous system slowly registers what your spirit already believes:

He does not leave. He does not withdraw. He does not change.

Security in Christ is immediate in status, but felt security is often gradual in experience. The space between those two realities is not evidence of hypocrisy; it is the arena of healing and a constant somatic reminder of our deep need for Christ, spirit, soul and body.

You are not less spiritual because your body still braces. You are a human being whose nervous system learned something once, and is now, by grace, learning something new.

If you want to know more about attachment theory and how it impacts all of our relationships, I would love you to join me on this upcoming webinar.

https://stan.store/FaithFilledTherapy

If you are a member of The Faith Filled Collective, all info is below.

Love and hope, always.

Jo

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There is a reason you overthink after conversations.

A reason you pull away or obsessively lean in when you feel misunderstood.

A reason you cling when connection feels uncertain.

It’s attachment.

Attachment theory helps us understand how early relational experiences shape the way our nervous system responds to closeness, conflict, distance and belonging. It explains why some of us move towards connection when distressed, while others withdraw. It explains why reassurance calms one person but overwhelms another.

And here is the oh-so-beautiful part: none of this sits outside Scripture.

Attachment theory tells us that what a child needs most in early life is simple, though not easy: to be safe, to be seen, to be known, to be attuned to, and to be responded to. Secure attachment forms when a caregiver consistently says, with their presence and nervous system, You matter. I see you. I will come towards you. You are not alone.

And is that not the story of God?

From the very beginning, Scripture reveals a God who sees. Hagar names Him El Roi, the God who sees me (Genesis 16:13). Not a distant observer. Not a detached evaluator. A God who sees the distressed woman in the wilderness and meets her there.

Attachment is about being known beneath the surface. Beneath words, performance. self-protection and all the ways we try to guard our precious, tender and human hearts that long for connection and attunement to experience “deep calling to deep” (Psalm 42:7). There is a depth in you that responds to the depth in Him. A place beneath language where you are already known.

Secure attachment requires safety, consistency, and reliability. A caregiver who does not shift with mood or withdraw with inconvenience. And we are told that God “is not a man, that He should lie” (Numbers 23:19). James writes that He “does not change like shifting shadows” (James 1:17). He is steady. He is consistent. He is not volatile. Slow to anger, abounding in love and full of compassion towards us.

The psalmist declares that God is “a refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble” (Psalm 46:1). Not occasionally present. Ever-present.

What if the ache in your attachment system is not a flaw, but a homing signal? A longing to be safe, seen, soothed and secure because you were created with all that in mind.

The God of Scripture does not bypass your attachment system. He ministers to it. He reveals Himself as One who sees, knows, responds, remains and does not change.

I’m doing a whole load of study, prayer and reflection on how our early attachment styles deeply impact the way we relate to God, to ourselves and to others.

It’s a worldly theory but can be a really helpful roadmap to help us navigate and understand our reactions, responses and relationships and as with all great roadmaps for the soul, they lead us straight to our need for a saviour. Thank you, Jesus.

I’ll be posting prayers all this week and leading a webinar next month to explore this further. I also have a Faith Filled Guide for those wanting to go deeper still.

If you are a member of the Faith Filled Collective, you can access the guide and the webinar details below. There is no need to sign up or purchase anything; it is all included in your membership.

For those wanting to explore the webinar and the Faith Filled Guide you can do so here

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Firstly…

This month’s webinar with

The Quiet Idol: When Coping Mechanisms Compete with Christ

Christy Osborne is a Christian sobriety coach, author of Love Life Sober: A 40-Day Alcohol Fast to Rediscover Your Joy, Improve Your Health, and Renew Your Mind, leader of the Love Life Sober Community, and host of the Love Life Sober podcast. Through a powerful blend of faith, neuroscience, and practical tools, Christy has helped thousands of women reevaluate their relationship with alcohol and step into lives of greater freedom and purpose. She guides women through the 40-day transformational fast outlined in her book within the Love Life Sober Community, where the next fast begins on February 25 for Lent.

Remember, if you are a member of TFFC then your space is already saved!

SAVE YOUR SEAT HERE

Booking gets you lifetime access to the recording

Next up….

With the start of Lent tomorrow I would love to introduce you to these beautiful journals that you can access online. I love the Rooted Journals and I am looking forward to using mine to guide me through Lent this year.

You can have a look here

Lastly…

The waitlist to Grow and Go Cohorts is now open.

The first cohort will be two months (March and April), going through the book of Proverbs with weekly Zoom calls following 31 Days of Pursuing Wisdom (but giving ourselves two months so we’re not rushed or ‘behind’). Plus a masterclass from a top guest that is being finalised.

Pay-as-you-feel model starting at $1.

UK Book Here

US Book Here

If you are a member of The Faith Filled Collective, I have uploaded all three of my most recent e-books that you may not have been able to access from your welcome email-I hope and pray they are helpful.

Love and hope

Jo

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Maybe, like most people, I talk to you assume you’re bad at meditation

I hear things like, “My mind just won’t switch off,” or “I can’t sit s…

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