the REALIFE Practice Podcast

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The Real Life Practice Podcast is a space where hosts Teresa McCloy and Lindsay Sterchi explore the rhythms of life through the lens of spiritual growth. Together, they provide practical insights on how to integrate faith into everyday moments, offering tools and resources for deepening yourrecognizing and responding to God in your everyday life story. Through personal stories and reflections, the podcast encourages you to pay attention to God’s presence in both the ordinary and extraordinary. Whether you’re seeking spiritual renewal or simply want to practice living with intention, this podcast is your guide to nurturing your faith in daily life and your deeper life story.

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Welcome to the REALIFE Practice Podcast

Sep 15 2024 6 mins

Join hosts Teresa McCloy and Lindsay Sterchi in the premiere episode of the Real Life Practice Podcast as they reintroduce the former One Life Maps podcast under a new name. This season focuses on the practice of solitude and how to find quiet spaces in our busy lives to connect with God. The hosts share their personal experiences and insights on spiritual growth, exploring life st

Celebrating a Great Transition for oneLife Maps!

Mar 01 2023 29 mins

We are excited to let you know that oneLife Maps will have a new home with the REALIFE Process® and Teresa McCloy’s stellar team.Our teams have had both personal and professional connections for years and we want to share what this move means for you, and why the REALIFE Process® is something we think you’ll be intrigued by, both for yourself and for those whom you serve.List

More On Life Story as a Spiritual Practice

Apr 12 2021 28 mins

oneLife Maps is, at its core, interested in helping people to recognize and respond to God in their stories. There is so much to be said on the topic of life story as a spiritual practice that we recorded a second episode on the topic that moves in a different direction. I hope you enjoy this one, too.If you have engaged in 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to

81. Choose

Jan 31 2021 35 mins

Sharon Swing hosts a conversation with Jodi Niznik about the life of Moses and her new study, Choose.Jodie Niznik is Adult Ministries Pastor at Irving Bible Church in Irving, Texas. She holds a master’s degree in Christian education with an emphasis in women’s ministry from Dallas Theological Seminary and has served in various pastoral roles in the church. Jodie is the author o

80. Tell the Story That Pursues You

Jan 03 2021 51 mins

Jim Brule is a Maggid, a trainer of story-tellers from the Jewish tradition and an End-of-Life Dula. His passion is transformational storytelling -- the art of thought-provoking wisdom-sharing. Listen in as Sharon Swing talks to Jim about how stories connect, transform and heal us.You can learn more about Jim at http://www.transformationalstorytelling.org and listen to stories from

79. An Unexamined Life is Destined to Repeat Itself

Dec 27 2020 31 mins

Thomas A'Kempis wisely stated that 'an unexamined life is destined to repeat itself.' What does that mean and what can we learn from the act of examining ourselves and our life stories? Join Host Sharon Swing as she talks it thru with Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley.If you have engaged in 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual life mapping,

78. Self-Aware and God-Aware

Dec 20 2020 31 mins

Self-Awareness proceeds God-Awareness in the spiritual life. We may have picked up the idea that self-awareness is somehow not considered spiritual. Listen in as Sibyl Towner and Joan Kelley join host, Sharon Swing to discuss the importance of self-awareness in the spiritual life.If you have engaged in 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visu

77. Life Story as Spiritual Practice

Dec 13 2020 35 mins

oneLife Maps is, at its core, interested in helping people to recognize and respond to God in their stories.If you have engaged in 'Listen to My Life: Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story' visual life mapping, you'll see that this conversation relates directly to the bottom line on the 'My Life Story' map, where you are asked to consider how you have noticed God,

76. Reading Your Life Story

Dec 07 2020 51 mins

Host, Sharon Swing, welcomes Keith Anderson to the podcast to discuss his book:Reading Your Life’s Story: An Invitation to Spiritual Mentoring:Spiritual mentoring is a particular kind of friendship in which, according to Keith R. Anderson, "two or more people walk together in heightened awareness of the presence of yet Another"―the Holy Spirit. "Spiritual mentoring is not a com

75. Prison Saved My Life: I Recommend it for Everyone

Nov 01 2020 38 mins

Louis Dooley was a young man who found himself imprisoned with a life sentence for theft and attempted murder. Through a miraculous turn of events, Louis received Jesus Christ in prison and recognized he had new life in Christ. Today, Louis is a free man providing pastoral counsel to current inmates, in hopes of the gospel setting them free.He is the Author of 'Prison Saved My Life