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finding grace through the mud

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MS 090 Anger, Adjusting Our Expectations, and Extending Grace

by Jacque Watkins

Welcome to episode 090 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone.  Coaching with Jacque: Sign up HERE   http://www.jacquewatkins.com/coaching “Like” The Mud Stories Facebook Page: Click HERE  http://www.facebook.com/jacquewatkins This week we’re […]

MS 086 Kaitlyn Bouchillon: Broken Friendship, Health Crisis and Trusting in the in Between

by Jacque Watkins

Welcome to episode 086 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. NEW ANNOUNCEMENT!! I will be accepting a limited number of COACHING clients, for anyone interested! If you are: finding […]

MS 082 Handling Comparison, Jealousy and Discontentment

by Jacque Watkins

Welcome to episode 082 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. 1. Join our gathering place: The Mud Stories Gathering, a closed group on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/groups/mudstoriesgathering) This week we’re […]

Day 27: You Need The Perspective of a Friend

by Jacque Watkins

 This is Day 27 in the series “31 Days: What You Should Know Before An Affair“ Day 27 I sat at PF Chang’s last week with two of my dearest friends—the kind of friends you could call at 2 AM, and with few questions asked, would get in their car and drive straight to you […]

MS 056 Emily P. Freeman: Embracing Smallness, Simply Tuesday, and A Place For Our Souls to Breathe

by Jacque Watkins

Welcome to episode 056 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. In today’s episode I’m talking with Emily P. Freeman, blogger, writer, and author, who believes the soul is often […]

If You’re Facing Loneliness and Need a Friend

by Jacque Watkins

I yearn to sit with a friend—to rehash my day, laugh about the silly things, and delve into deep connection about the weighty things, but I haven’t had a best friend for a long time and it’s no one’s fault but my own. When my life fell apart in my late twenties, all my friendships […]

MS 041 Natalie Snapp: Conflict, Friendship and Heart Sisters

by Jacque Watkins

Welcome to episode 041 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. In today’s episode we’re talking all about the messy mud of friendship with my friend,  Natalie Snapp—a follower […]

MS 038 Shauna Niequist: Walking Through Mud and Learning to Savor Along the Way

by Jacque Watkins

Shauna Niequist Savor Bittersweet

Welcome to episode 038 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. Today I’m talking with Shauna Niequist, writer, author, and speaker, who resides in Chicago with her husband Aaron, and […]

MS 037 Remembering Kara Tippetts: Mundane Faithfulness and Big Love with Kindness and Grace

by Jacque Watkins

Kara Tippetts Mundane Faithfulness Cancer

Welcome to episode 037 of Mud Stories! Mud Stories is a podcast dedicated to bringing you inspiration in your muddiest moments, hope to make it through your mud, and encouragement for you to know, you are not alone. Today I have a special episode for you. A time of reflection and remembering. A time to refocus […]

When You Long to Gather and Be Included

by Jacque Watkins

I want to gather with the important people and tour the important places and feel like I belong. And it makes me feel so small to even admit it. I think the longing comes from the way I’ve come to know them as close friends through their writing. They’ve chosen to put themselves out there […]

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