It’s bonus episode time!

Today Carla takes a conversation she had recently with one of her 1:1 coaching clients and brings the question to you - What do you believe about God? Who do you think he is?

What you believe about God will shape the way you approach him, what you believe about yourself and how you go about Christian living.

Welcome to Season 7!!!

We are diving right in as Carla shares a truth she’s been clinging to after receiving some bad news last week. In the pain, struggle, grief, challenge - God is still Sovereign. And He has good plans that cannot be thwarted. Be encouraged as you listen to today’s episode.

In this episode, Carla Arges discusses a common struggle many women face during the summer: body image issues. Carla emphasizes the importance of dealing with these challenges through the lens of God's Truth. She provides four practical tips to help reduce the impact of seasonal body image struggles.

You’ve heard the expression before - you reap what you sow. But have you actually considered it when looking at your life? Do you struggle in your relationships? Are you often discontent? Do you constantly feel unfilled and at odds with life?  There is a chance you are the creator of your own reality based on what you're sowing in your life - the way you spend your time, the mindsets you cling to and more.

Be challenged and encouraged in today’s episode.

Carla sees this all the time. Even in herself sometimes.

The focus on everything we CAN’T do - so we do nothing.  This mindset is preventing you from flourishing and thriving in life. Looking at what we CAN do regardless of our circumstances or situations is what propels us forward and allows us to grow, heal and overcome

Today Carla is continuing a conversation that started over on her Instagram - boundaries.

Many Christian women have been led to believe that being a good Chrisitan means enduring all sorts of poor behaviour.  Here, Carla reminds you that not only are boundaries Biblical, but essential to your well-being - even Jesus practiced boundaries!

Here’s the thing though - boundaries are not something you place on someone else - they are a protective hedge you place around yourself.

Often we think of Bible Study as simply a spiritual assignment. Something that develops us spiritually and stops there. But Bible Study does much more then that - it impacts every facet of our lives, from money to relationships and so much more.

Listen in as Carla shares 8 incredible ways Bible study improves our whole life.

Struggle with Bible Study? Feel overwhelmed or intimidated - or simply don’t know where to start? Check out Carla’s How to Study the Bible course!

So many of you helped make Caleb’s first missions trip to Guatemala possible - through your generous giving and prayer covering.

So Carla thought what better way to thank you than to get Caleb on the podcast and share his takeaways as well as encourage any of you who feel like God’s plan is going sideways.

God is at work in this generation!

Forgiveness is hard. Especially when we never get an apology.

But as hard as that is, Carla’s personal experience and what she sees working with her client - shows forgiving ONESELF to be the hardest act of forgiveness of all.

Resentment is a prison and the key out of it is forgiveness. Be encouraged to see yourself with compassion - and the love of Christ - in this episode.

Waiting is hard.  And sometimes we think waiting is useless. Pointless.  A waste.

But God uses our waiting to produce good things in us. Waiting is productive in our sanctification process to grow.  He uses waiting to prepare us to where he wants to take us next.

Be encouraged in your waiting as you listen to this episode.

Today Carla sits down with Melissa Rohlfs, author of Finding Freedom, and talks about how trauma can show up in our bodies.  Melissa shares her experience with trauma and the steps she shared to find freedom from it.

This is an important conversation you don’t want to miss.

The cross has set us free from shame!

Join Carla as she shares 5 steps to overcoming shame - all rooted in our freedom in Christ. She has struggled with shame in many areas of her life - for many reasons. She knows the weight and self hatred that comes with shame.  

She also knows that shame is a tool of the enemy used to isolate us from God and real community. 

Carla shares her journey in the personal development world from her time in network marketing - and how the Holy Spirit prompted her to really look at the subtle message of the self help world.

This is a shorty but a goodie!

Join Carla today as she breaks down the popular verse Proverbs 3:5-6.

Be encouraged to trust God, move forward in faith and rest in peace.

This time of year inevitably brings on new challenges in our body image struggles. Sundresses, shorts, bathing suits have so many women feeling down on themselves.

Carla encourages us to not allow our bodies to have authority over us - which ultimately is a form of idolatry. When we allow our bodies to dictate our value, worth, loveability and more - we have given our bodies authority over us.

Listen in to these God truth reminders - and the 4 step challenge Carla gives to help break the bondage to body image.

Carla came out of a meeting recently deeply grieved by the spiritual deception she witnessed.

Friends, in order to protect yourself from spiritual deception you HAVE to know the word of God. The enemy comes dressed as an angel of light. In subtle twistings of God’s word that ultimately lead you off course and off the real message of the gospel.

Today, Carla pours her heart out on this topic.

In this episode Carla shares a story of something that happened recently - how she had to lean in and discern the voice of God before moving forward.

Based on her experience, she shares 4 things to look for when discerning the voice of God in your own life.