House of Joy- Christian Life Coaching

Are you the one everybody calls?

The one who figures it out, makes sure everybody has what they need, keeps all the balls in the air, and says, "I'm fine. I've got it. I'll figure it out."

Because SAME.

For so much of my life, being capable and independent was such a huge part of my identity. And the truth is, I usually could figure it out. I could handle it. I could make it work.

But somewhere along the way I started realizing that just because I can do everything myself doesn't mean that's how I want to live.

And it definitely doesn't mean that's how God designed us to live.

In this episode, we're talking about the hidden cost of being the woman who can handle everything—and what can happen when we finally let ourselves receive the support we've been so willing to give everybody else.

I've learned this in such a deep way over the last few months. I've had to let my team carry things. I've let friends love me. I've let my clients support me. I've asked for help. I've received coaching. And instead of making me less capable, all of that support has given me the energy to come back to my life and my work with so much more to give.

Maybe your next season doesn't require more discipline or more effort.

Maybe it requires more receiving.

So I want you to ask yourself: Where are you currently under-supported?

Maybe it's in your marriage or motherhood. Maybe it's your health, your home, your business, your spiritual life, or your emotional life.

What are you carrying alone simply because you've decided you should be able to?

You don't have to do this alone—even if you can.

In this episode:

The hidden cost of always being the capable one

Why independence can quietly become part of our identity

What I've learned about asking for and receiving help

Why women are made for connection and collaboration

The difference between competition and truly celebrating another woman

How we create belonging instead of waiting to feel like we belong

Why receiving support doesn't make you less capable

How being supported has changed the way I lead my business and my life

The question to ask yourself when you're feeling depleted

Why your next level might require more receiving—not more doing

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Dear ones, today we're talking about one of the sneakiest habits that steals our energy, our creativity, and our sense of enchantment: arguing with reality.

But underneath all that resistance is often an emotion we're simply afraid or unwilling to feel.

In this episode, I'm sharing what I've learned about dropping resistance, processing our emotions instead of carrying them around with us, and recovering so much faster when life doesn't go according to plan.

Because an enchanted life isn't a life without disappointment, grief, fear, or hard things. It's a life where we're willing to experience all of it—and still notice the coffee, the breeze off the lake, the grandbabies, the hint of fall in the air, and the beautiful sweater we're knitting.

Maybe the goal isn't to create a life where nothing hard happens.

Maybe it's becoming a woman who can hold a bigger, richer, more beautiful life.

In this episode, we talk about:

The hidden cost of resisting your reality

How to recognize when you're arguing with what is

Why "should" is often a clue that you're stuck in resistance

How unprocessed emotions drain your energy

The difference between survival mode and creation mode

Why feeling an emotion doesn't mean something has gone wrong

How emotional capacity allows you to hold a bigger life

Why resisting the painful parts can make us miss the beautiful parts, too

How to recover faster when things don't go according to plan

The simple question: What do I want to create from here?

My invitation for you today is simple: notice where you're resisting your life. Ask yourself what emotion is underneath that resistance. Let yourself feel what's actually there—and then decide what you want to create from here.

There's so much beauty waiting for us when we stop arguing with the life we have long enough to actually receive it.

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I had my grandbaby boys, Eli and Noah, this weekend, and watching them, I got reminded of something. Little kids are either completely enchanted with everything or completely disenchanted with everything — there's no in-between. We rode bikes in the rain, ran through mud puddles, played way too many downs of flag football with rules that kept changing, and read Green Eggs and Ham to a five-year-old who could not understand why this man kept getting asked the same question over and over.

It made me realize something about why it's so much harder for us as adults to be that easily delighted.

It's not because we're broken. It's because our brains are wired for it, and so is the device in our pocket, and so is the culture we're swimming in. Here's what we get into:

Why your brain's primary job was never to make you feel enchanted — it's scanning for threats, and it will always give more weight to what's wrong than what's right

How the "false self" or ego chimes in on top of that, adding its own list of things to worry about and be afraid of

Why the phone in your pocket supercharges all of it, telling you the same story your brain already wants to tell you

A practical tool for breaking the spell in the moment — asking what your future, wisest self would say looking back on this

Why real enchantment isn't pretending everything is fine or denying real suffering — it's the capacity to stay open and alive to your life even when the hard thing is real

You don't have to wait for your circumstances to change to start practicing this. You can start today, just by noticing how often your brain goes looking for the problem instead of the gift.

Links Mentioned:

Register for The Art of Enchantment workshop (starts next week): https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/enchantment

Join The Art of Enchantment Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theartofenchantment

Follow along with the Enchanted series on Instagram: @ediewadsworth

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We're kicking off a whole series on the art of enchantment today, and I'm starting with the word itself. It comes from Latin, and at its root, it actually means to sing. That's exactly what I want to be: a woman who still hears the song, who notices the change in the September air, who gets a little obsessed with baby cheeks and poetry and the yarn in her hands.

This has been such a hard year for us. And I've learned something true in the middle of it: you can be devastated and still enchanted with your life at the same time. That's not denial. That's emotional wealth.

So today, ten things enchanting me right now:

My brand new kitchen journal — recipes, handwritten notes, and tiny printed photos of the grandbabies eating whatever I just made

My current knitting obsession, a squishy red sweater called the Lakes Jacket by Ozetta

Tom's middle school football games, knitting in the stands and hunting down his number for video

A new diffuser blend I'm creating, appropriately called Enchanted

Reading poetry again — Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, after Wendell Berry's passing last week

Baby cheeks. All six grandbabies' baby cheeks. No further explanation needed

The first whisper of fall in the air

Being a total beginner at English horseback riding, and loving what that humility teaches me

Something brand new I'm creating for the program that I can't fully reveal yet, but that feels like a dream come true

My actual, ordinary, everyday life — my porch, my kitchen light in the morning, watching Stevie get stronger

If you want to keep being enchanted with me this month, I'm doing Enchantment Diaries on Instagram, documenting all of it in real time. And if this resonates, I'd love for you to join us for our upcoming workshop, The Art of Enchantment: How to Make the Last 90 Days of the Year Matter, September 23–25 at noon Eastern.

Links Mentioned:

Register for The Art of Enchantment workshop (September 23–25): https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/enchantment

Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/

Follow along with Enchantment Diaries on Instagram: @ediewadsworth

The Lakes Jacket pattern by Ozetta: https://www.ozettaknitwear.com/patterns/p/lakes-jacket

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Today's episode is a masterclass I taught live, and I recorded it the day after we lost Dolly Parton. If you hear extra emotion in my voice, that's why. She was the queen of my heart, and it turns out her whole life was the perfect example of everything I wanted to teach that day.

Dolly took the raw materials she was born with — poverty, a huge family, a mountain nobody thought much of — and turned them into the most gorgeous, generous life anybody's ever lived. And I think most of us are waiting for better materials before we start creating ours.

Here's what we get into:

Why so many of us are waiting for different circumstances — more money, a different body, a more supportive spouse — before we let ourselves start creating a beautiful life

The shift from a life of consumption to a life of creation, and the one powerful question that makes that shift: what can I make from this?

Why even the hardest color you've ever been handed (for me, this year, that was cancer) can become raw material for something beautiful

The seven skills I believe every woman needs to build a genuine masterpiece of her life — including how to create possibility in your mind, how to build emotional wealth, how to stay with yourself in the messy middle, and how to live enchanted right now instead of waiting for someday

Why good intentions were never going to be enough for Dolly, or for you — these are skills you learn and practice, not just things some women are naturally born with

You don't have to know what the whole blanket is going to look like before you learn how to knit. You just have to be willing to learn the skills.

Links Mentioned:

If you're catching this in the first day or two it's out: we're doing a 72-hour flash opening of Life Mentoring School — join here: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/join

The Alpenglow Blanket pattern mentioned in this episode (Purl Soho): https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2024/08/22/alpenglow-blanket/

Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack:⁠ https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/⁠

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