Rare Faith Blog

By Natalie Earl

I started working at a residential treatment center for teens struggling with anxiety, depression, and addiction. I took the job shortly after beginning my bachelor’s degree in Marria...

By Jennifer Davis

In September 2023, I started taking a class called Guided Mindset Mastery. One of the first assignments was to set inconsequential goals—a way of imagining and feeling something we ...

By Marcianne Stewart

When I first heard Eleanor Roosevelt’s quote, “Comparison is the thief of joy,” it really resonated with me!  Naturally, I found myself using comparison three different ways—whic...

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 Jennifer Davis

I’ve changed so much within myself since starting the Guided Mindset Mastery class. It’s the final week of class and the last day of November 2023, and I’m still in awe of how simpl...

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?

By Barb Bergman

It was the last week of September, and our family had been planning for over a month—a four-day work trip to my in-laws’ cabin in Star Valley, Wyoming, nestled near the mountains outs...

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

Joseph, age 17, was visibly upset. He saw his little sister eating cold cereal on a Saturday night and immediately felt threatened. In our home, cold cereal is usually reserved for Su...

By Barb Bergman

My daughter Erica graduated from BYU in 2023 and landed a job at a charter school in her field of Communication Disorders. As a speech pathologist, she worked one-on-one with young ki...

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

Have you ever imagined a hot, gooey cinnamon roll—just dripping with icing—and suddenly realized you needed one? My son John says that imagining delicious food is 85% of cooking. And ...

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 Barb Bergman

In 2008, our family made a big move—from Memphis, Tennessee to Hermiston, Oregon. It was early July, and my husband, Scott (a CRNA—nurse anesthetist), had just accepted a job at a sma...

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...

By Amanda Permann

I have a daughter with Down Syndrome who is an absolute joy. Like anyone else, she has her own unique gifts, talents, strengths, and desires. She embraces life fully. She is happy. ...