God designed the infrastructure of our brains to run on relational joy. What does this mean for our daily life?

In our first series of 2025, we're diving back into the B.U.I.L.D. Maturity Model from Breakthrough! and covering the important emotional engine of Increase Your Joy Bonds.

If our brains run on relational joy, it's probably a good idea to know more about our relational attachments, our joy bonds. How can we increase our joy bonds and retrain our brains from defaulting to fearful attachments?

In this week's episode, we're covering the Joy Elevator of the brain.

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P.S. If you're reading along with us in Breakthrough!, check out chapter eight.

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Your true self is the person God designed to live on the fuel of relational joy.

In our final episode of 2024, we are here to have a jolly R.A.R.E. time as we consider what it looks like to be our true selves during the holidays. We've got strategies to keep in mind for remaining relational and living with joy, we're going to pray for you, and there may be a surprise Santa Hat appearance.

📣 📣 📣 On the Trail will be taking a break over the upcoming weeks for the holidays, and we'll be back with you in 2025.

In the meantime, come have fun On the Trail with us as we put a bow on 2024.

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What does it look like to be me when the holidays are difficult?

This two-part holiday series strategizes how to "act like myself" during the press and potential triggers of the holiday season.

In part one, we're specifically addressing two common reasons for why this can be difficult and making some plans for how to remain ourselves despite relational pain or pecking order issues.

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Does it ever feel like you have a powder keg inside you?

Hit the wrong button, and negative emotions erupt inside. Or perhaps you've seen this in a loved one and find yourself in a "button dance" to avoid pressing each other's buttons.

In this episode, we're looking at the relationship between beliefs and wounds. When our hearts are wounded, it's easy to believe lies that take root and shape our values and behaviors.

Oftentimes those wounds aren't pervasive but are like pockets of pain that can be ignited like powder kegs in our heart.

No matter the size of the wound or the frequency of the trigger, we want to identify and uproot those false beliefs and replace them with God's truth in order to find breakthrough.

If you’re following along in the book, check out chapter seven in Breakthrough!.

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My true identity is who I am in relationship to God.

God is the definer of my identity. Because of this, any hole in my sense of identity is also a hole in my view of God, and any hole in my view of God is going to affect how I see myself.

When we need a breakthrough in the area of beliefs, it's probably related to a lie we're believing. So, this week, we're also looking at two kinds of deception: bold lies and hiding elements of truth.

Sometimes deception is an outright lie that needs to be identified and replaced. Sometimes we believe lies because we know some facts but not others.

If you’re following along in the book, check out chapter seven in Breakthrough!.

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Our emotions can't tell the difference between a truth and a lie.

Many breakthrough strategies have to deal with beliefs at one level or another. For the next three episodes, we'll be looking at this engine of the Breakthrough Model.

This week is all about the power of beliefs to drive our emotions and behavior. Sometimes we can't even picture what doing something looks like, and that keeps us stuck from moving forward. Sometimes our thought life is plagued by negative thinking, and that keeps us stuck.

How we think and what we believe shapes how we interact with others in many ways.

If you’re following along in the book, check out chapter seven in Breakthrough!.

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Part of being aware of our body is knowing how to quiet.

We quiet our minds by replacing toxic thinking with good thinking. We quiet our bodies by changing our body chemistry and calming our amygdala.

In this week's episode, we're looking at four practices that can help us quiet our body when we feel stressed.

We can remember these as B.E.S.T. practices for quieting:

• Breathe in a box [inhale, hold, exhale, hold - repeat].
• Exaggerate emotions.
• Soothe the senses.
• Tense your muscles, and then relax them.

If you’re following along in the book, check out chapter six in Breakthrough!.

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P.S. Most of you are still joining via audio-only (which is great!). But this could be a fun one to watch on YouTube, as we'll be making many funny facial expressions. 👀

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How can the BODY affect our breakthrough journey?

In this series, we are exploring five areas where we often need a breakthrough. The first of these five engines that drive our emotions is the body.

This engine functions like a two-way street. Sometimes emotions affect our body. Sometimes our body affects our emotions.

If we have a physical issue, we probably need a physical solution. Maybe this involves diet and exercise, maybe medication, maybe surgery, and more.

In today's episode, we begin our look at Engine One and the importance of being aware of our body.

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P.S. If you’re following along in the book, check out chapter six in Breakthrough!.

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