Making Room for Personal Peace

The Better Part - Intentional Living for Christian Moms with a Bible-Loving Catholic Mama

Where are you in your personal peace? Do you find yourself as a peaceful person? Or do you feel like you're constantly plagued by worries and stress? Or are you somewhere in between?

As said in the last episode, God is the source of all peace, but we can sometimes place barriers that keep us from receiving His peace. In this episode we discuss common barries ones of:

1. Health (Poor health or making health an idol)
2. Inputs (news, media, social media, etc.)
3. Fear (catastrophic thinking or woundedness)

Practical ideas for your life that are shared are:

• Writing down the catastrophes you imagine (maybe in a note in your phone) and checking back on them to see how true they were
• Evaluating your worries for patterns
• Asking yourself questions to find the roots of your major stresses
• Memorizing scripture to combat lies you tell yourself and posting that around your house/memorizing it
• In a stressful time, physically slow down your movements

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
• Gregory Popcak: Catholic psychologist

To yourself after this episode, pray this nine more times:

"Oh Jesus, I surrender myself to you. Take care of everything."