Rare Faith Blog

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...

Meet Kimee Whipple:

I'm excited and pleased to introduce you to Mindset Mastery Graduate, Kimee Whipple. Kimee courageously faced her fears in the Guided Mindset Mastery class, and met the requiremen...

By Jennifer Davis

Five months ago, my daughter Lizzy underwent major surgery on her legs. Since then, I’ve been working to gather my thoughts, come to terms with everything, and keep my mindset stead...

By Natalie Earl

In the fall of 2019, I felt impressed to start getting up when I naturally woke up in the mornings to study my scriptures and talk with God. I committed to honoring that prompting—and...

By Jennifer Davis

In November 2023, my daughter Lizzy underwent major surgery on both of her legs. Her recovery has been slow and painful. Four months later, I’m doing my best to stay positive and re...

By Marcianne Stewart

Every three to four months, I’d feel “off.” And when that feeling came, my thoughts would spiral:

“Something is wrong.”
“I don’t like when this happens.”
“Life sucks.”
“I’ll nev...

By Jennifer Davis

I want to share something with you—not because I want to dwell on it (honestly, I don’t)—but because if I’m feeling this way, I know others might be too. And I want those people to ...

By Barb Bergman

At the end of 2017, my husband and I had just become empty nesters after spending nearly a decade in Kennewick, Washington. Scott was offered a new position at a rural hospital in Ida...

By Barb Bergman

Erica started at BYU in Provo in Fall 2017. After her freshman year, she went on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Philippines. During that freshman...

By Andrea Mabey

There’s real power in optimism. I feel it every time I hear hope in a song—it energizes my whole heart. And I feel the opposite when I hear lyrics soaked in despair—my heart sinks. I ...

By Andrea Mabey

Dr. Gawande’s boundless energy powered his busy urology practice, his Rotary Club service, and his thrice-weekly tennis games. He also poured his heart into a rural college in India, ...

By Andrea Mabey

Healthy thin people and I have a lot in common.
I used to be one.

Then stress and age happened, and somewhere along the line, a silent little flag went up:
“Welcome to Overweight-lan...

By Amanda Permann

A while back, our GMC Suburban started acting up. We knew something was off but hadn’t gotten it checked yet. One day, my daughter forgot her backpack at home, so I had to make a qu...

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...

Meet Mindset Mastery graduate, Roseanne Dawes.

Roseanne is a successful alignment coach, and is on track to becoming one of our Certified Rare Faith Facilitators. She has been intuitively and instinc...

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...

Please join me in congratulating Mindset Mastery Graduate, Denise Calton!

Denise took her program study seriously and did the work to apply what she was learning. One thing that stood out to me about...