Rare Faith Blog

Want to know where your life is headed?

Pay attention to the things you think about when you don’t have to think about anything.

This thought hit me one day, and I started reflecting on the ideas an...

My husband and I have been through some really (really) hard things over the years. But underneath it all, there’s always been this shared understanding: we’d figure it out, and somehow, we’d make it ...

Every day it seems like someone is posting in local social media groups about their financial struggles—asking how anyone is managing to stay afloat in this economy. They talk about how no one’s hirin...

My Battle with Perfectionism / Am I Forgiven?

When I was barely more than a decade old, I came across a passage from President Spencer W. Kimball that pierced my soul. In an instant, my perspective s...

Bracing for impact?

Wondering when the other shoe is going to drop?

One of our ATI (Achieving the Impossible) students had a question, to which I know many can relate:

Leslie, I am struggling wi...

I'm celebrating the 1-year anniversary of the cancer diagnosis and softball-sized tumor removal, so I thought it would be a good time for an update. Picture is from my soon-to-be son-in-law's marathon...

Christ lives.

That’s the message of the Gospel: that He came into the world to save us from sin, and that through His grace and merits, we can return to the Father. We spend our lives trying to under...

It was time for Jodie to carry out her Phase 1 experiment in the Mindset Mastery course, but she had some questions about the "inconsequential" goal. First of all...

What is an Inconsequential Goal?

When it's time for a chick to hatch, the difficulty of breaking out of its shell is how it develops the strength needed to survive. Eliminate the struggle, and it will likely die.

In the pursuit of h...

Unexpected surprise…
First of all, the surgeon hadn’t really planned to remove the node—let alone three of them (I thought she said two yesterday, but I must’ve misheard)—because one was sitting right...

No real inspiring lessons here... just a really long (but eventful) update.

TLDR: Click to skip to the bottom if you don't want all the deets.

In August, my oncologist scheduled me for two more roun...

If you've experienced Genius Bootcamp, then you already know what it means to be stuck in a story. You know how easily the mind can spiral. And you’ve seen what happens when you let go of the drama an...

Quick Update!

Surprise! Just one day after my last update, I finally received the long-awaited results from my ctDNA test—the one that detects whether cancer cells are sloughing off into the bloodstr...

One of our students posted a really great question in our Facebook Community. She wrote:

Anyone know of an article that Leslie or someone has written about how to move beyond the imagining and feel

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One of our Guided Mindset Mastery students sent me a message years ago and asked me to keep it private.

But just recently, she gave me permission to share it after all.

She had been battling some pr...

The last three weeks have been a ride.

I wish every post could be full of uplifting news—encouraging, inspiring, and wrapped in a neat little bow. But to be honest, I’m not even sure what I’m going t...

Maybe you’re wondering why it’s taken me a while to share an update on my health journey.

Honestly, it’s probably because I haven’t really been living the "drama" of cancer lately. I’ve got things to...