Hello, beautiful!

Quick body scan: are your shoulders up around your ears and tight right now? Mine too.

Here's the truth none of us like to say out loud: we walk around all day with a backpack full of rocks.

The worry. The mental to-do list that never stops scrolling. Other people's opinions. The need to keep every plate spinning. And old hurts we've been hauling around for years.

But my sweet, God never asked you to carry any of it.

So, this week we're doing a "release day," the holy, chosen kind of letting go that finally lets you exhale, because you simply cannot radiate anything when your arms are this full.

You’ll Learn:

👣 Why we carry "rocks" we were never meant to pick up, and how to actually set them down

👣 What Jesus means by the "unforced rhythms of grace" and living freely and lightly

👣 A gentle, 10-minute way to decompress, open your palms, and hand the heavy thing back to Him

✨ Plus, a tender word on why "let it go" is a gift you give yourself, never a stick anyone gets to use on a grieving heart, and a prayer to help you finally exhale.

📖 Grab your tea and your copy of My Beloved: A 30-Day Devotional to Receive, Release, & Radiate available at: https://riselovelive.com/MyBelovedAmazon

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And until next time…

Ignite inspiration, spread hope, and dance with faith.

With love,

💛 Heidi

Hello, beautiful!

Well, here we are at the end of our little Sundays Are Simple journey; the last one in this series, at least for now.

We opened with peace, we walked through mercy, and today we land on the one that ties it all together: compassion, and her companion, kindness.

Because compassion isn't pity sitting in the corner feeling sorry from across the room. Compassion is love that gets up out of its chair and moves toward the person who's hurting.

And it starts with a well that never runs dry:

His compassion for you, brand new every single morning, whether you've earned it or not.

And as we know all too well, we can't pour from an empty cup, so first we must receive, and then we get to overflow it onto the overlooked, the lonely, and the forgotten, with one small act of kindness at a time.

(And remember: those ten minutes were never just for Sundays. They're yours to keep forever.)

You’ll Learn:

👣 The real difference between pity and compassion, and why kindness is "compassion with its shoes on"

👣 Why we can't give what we haven't first received, and where the well that never runs dry actually is

👣 A simple ten-minute challenge: one overlooked person, one small act of compassion this week

✨ Plus, you’ll hear a beautiful prayer to be reminded how to become the hands and feet of Jesus, with soft eyes for the ones the world walks right past.

📖 Grab your tea and your copy of My Beloved: A 30-Day Devotional to Receive, Release, & Radiate available at: https://riselovelive.com/MyBelovedAmazon

🌟 Know someone who needs a little light?

Share this episode with a friend —it might be the gentle nudge they’ve been waiting for.

🌿 Please Stay in Touch:

🦋And if you want to bring my message to your women's group, church, retreat, or team, I’d be honored. Please go to HeidiSpeaks.com to start the conversation!

🦋 Follow along on Instagram @riselovelive

🦋 Subscribe & leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review!

And until next time…

Ignite inspiration, spread hope, and dance with faith.

With love,

💛 Heidi

Hello, beautiful!

Last week we started filling our cup with ten quiet minutes. This week, we use some of that quiet time to set down one of the heaviest things we carry: a weight that was never really ours to begin with.

Let's talk about mercy and forgiveness.

Mercy is simply kindness given to someone who perhaps doesn't deserve it. But before we hand anyone else a single ounce of it, we go slow and acknowledge: you were hurt, and that hurt was real.

Then comes the part that changed everything for me, the thing a sermon taught me years ago. Forgiveness isn't for them; it's for you, it’s for me, it’s for us, because the bitterness was never hurting them; it was only ever poisoning you.

So this week, we practice setting it down.

You’ll Learn:

👣 What mercy really is, and why acknowledging the hurt has to come first (no "just forgive and forget")

👣 Why forgiveness is for you, not them, and how unforgiveness is a weight only you carry

👣 A simple ten-minute ritual to release one name you've been carrying around in your chest

✨ Plus, a prayer for the woman who's carried a pain for far too long, and a gentle way to finally let that name go into the wind.

📖 Grab your tea and your copy of My Beloved: A 30-Day Devotional to Receive, Release, & Radiate available at: https://riselovelive.com/MyBelovedAmazon

🌟 Know someone who needs a little light?

Share this episode with a friend —it might be the gentle nudge they’ve been waiting for.

🌿 Please Stay in Touch:

🦋And if you want to bring my message to your women's group, church, retreat, or team, I’d be honored. Please go to HeidiSpeaks.com to start the conversation!

🦋 Follow along on Instagram @riselovelive

🦋 Subscribe & leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review!

And until next time…

Ignite inspiration, spread hope, and dance with faith.

With love,

💛 Heidi