Creating Our Own Light

10/10/2026

✨ NEW EPISODE TONIGHT — Somatic Healing & Releasing Stored Distortion with Jesse Goldman✨

What if healing isn’t really about fixing yourself?

What if underneath the fear, trauma, conditioning, expectations, and stories you’ve accumulated throughout your life… the person God created has been there all along?
That question became the heart of my conversation with intuitive healer Jesse Goldman on this week’s Unlocking the Miracles Within.

Jesse and I explore somatic healing, compassion, trauma, loving-kindness, spiritual connection, and what happens when we stop constantly trying to “fix” ourselves and instead create enough safety and stillness to reconnect with our true essence.

One of my favorite insights from our conversation:
❤️ Compassion creates safety.
🙏 Safety creates space.
✨ And within that space, we have the freedom to choose again.

Jesse also shares simple practices for those moments when life knocks us out of alignment—and near the end of our conversation, she leads us through a beautiful spontaneous guided prayer and meditation to help us soften, breathe, and rest in the presence and grace of God.

This conversation touched me deeply and even helped me see my own experience with Jesus—and the message “God loves you as you are today; there is nothing you need to change”—from a new perspective.

🎙️ Episode 27: Somatic Healing & Releasing Stored Distortion with Jesse Goldman
📅 Saturday, October 10
⏰ 7:00 PM Central

Come join us. ❤️
🌐 MindBodySpirit.fm
🌐 UnlockingTheMiraclesWithin.com

09/27/2026

✨ NEW EPISODE — What if your body is asking you to slow down? ✨

Have you ever felt overwhelmed, stressed, or simply “off” — and realized your body knew it before your mind did?

In Episode 26 of Unlocking the Miracles Within, I sit down with Tommy Diependaal for a fascinating conversation about Nervous System Regulation & Spiritual Safety.

Tommy introduced me to a concept he calls Biological Sovereignty — becoming more aware of the relationship between our body, mind, and spirit so we can recognize what our system is telling us and respond rather than simply react.

One of my favorite parts of our conversation was incredibly simple:

Slow down. Breathe. Become present.

Tommy shares a practical breathing exercise you can do in just a couple of minutes, along with ways meditation, movement, Qi Gong, visualization, nature, sleep, gratitude, and even forgiveness can help us return to ourselves.

We also talk about something I practice in my own life that I call “the catch.”

It’s that moment when I recognize: Something is off.

Instead of judging it, fighting it, or shaming myself, I try to become curious about it. What am I feeling? What is my body telling me? What might God be showing me?

Tommy beautifully summed up the invitation near the end of our conversation:

Give yourself time to get quiet. Give yourself time to learn to feel safe in your own body.

🙏 That may be where remembering who we truly are begins.
🎙️ Episode 26 — Nervous System Regulation & Spiritual Safety with Tommy Diependaal

Listen at unlockingthemiracleswithin.com or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.

I’m also grateful that Unlocking the Miracles Within is now part of the MindBodySpirit.fm Network. 💙

Connect with Tommy:
🌐 twinfit-lifestyle-fitness-coaching.mailchimpsites.com
📘 Facebook: TommyDiependaal.Lifestyle.Fitness.Coach

Breathe. Become present. Listen within. 🙏

09/13/2026

✨ Season 2 Begins — Episode 25 is Here! ✨

The Body as a Temple of the Divine

What if your body isn’t something you need to fix?

What if, instead, it is something God has entrusted to you—a sacred vessel to listen to, care for, and honor with compassion?

In this solo episode of Unlocking the Miracles Within, I explore what it means to see the body as part of God’s perfect design rather than through the lens of judgment, comparison, shame, or fear.

We’ll talk about learning to listen when the body asks us to rest, move, breathe, change course, or simply slow down. We’ll also explore how prayer can help us become more aware of what our bodies are communicating—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

One of the invitations I share in this episode is simple:

🙏 Ask your body, “What do you need from me today?”

Then listen without judgment.

You don’t have to become someone different before you are worthy of love. You don’t have to achieve the “perfect” body before God sees you as whole.

God already sees you through love.

🎧 Episode 25 — The Body as a Temple of the Divine

🎧 Watch / Listen to the Episode:

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Follow and learn more at:
unlockingthemiracleswithin.com

I’m also grateful to begin Season 2 as part of the .fm network, alongside an incredible community of teachers, authors, healers, and spiritual voices.

Many blessings,
Jeffrey

09/07/2026

Just received another 5-star review for "My Rose-Colored Glasses" on Amazon! 💕

This story is pretty special, focusing on empathy, resilience, and how a small shift in perspective can change everything. 😎

If you would also like to read and review my book, you can download it for free at
https://download.goodnightreads.co/myrosecoloredglasses

09/01/2026

I've been so excited to finally share this! 💙

For quite a while, I've been sharing messages here about protecting your peace, reconnecting with yourself, shifting the stories that keep you stuck, honoring your worth, and creating a life that feels more aligned with who you truly are.

And now I get to take that work a little deeper.

This October, I'll be opening Authentic Creation, an 8-week coaching experience designed to help you come back to yourself, reconnect with what is true for you, and begin creating your life from a place of greater peace, intention, and alignment.

Enrollment for Authentic Creation is open now for our October 5 start. And if you'd like to experience some of this work with me first, I'm also inviting you to my FREE live masterclass, 4 Steps to Come Home to Yourself and Create a Life That Feels Like You.

I'm offering the same masterclass live on three different dates - September 13 at 6 PM Central US, September 15 at 2 PM Central US, and September 17 at 10 AM Central US - so you can simply choose the date that works best for you. ✨

I'm so excited to open this door and see who feels called to walk through it.

More details are coming over the next couple of weeks, but today I simply wanted to celebrate this moment and finally say...

Authentic Creation is here - and enrollment is open! 💙

Masterclass registration link:
https://juliemcdonnellcoach.com/masterclass/

Already ready to join the Authentic Creation Program? https://juliemcdonnellcoach.com/authentic-creation/

08/26/2026

This interview was a lot of fun! Thanks to TCT Network, Tom Nolan and the wonderful staff there for having me join them on The Today Show!

08/14/2026

08/06/2026

Had a fun evening at the Portland Pickles ballgame last night!

Alongside other wonderful authors, we shared our stories and had some great conversations! Looking forward to PR from the Heart’s Building a Culture of Reading in Your Classroom 2026 at the Barnes & Noble Clackamas Town Center in Portland beginning at 11AM. 😊❤️🙌

08/04/2026

Long before children understand life's biggest lessons, they're collecting thousands of little moments that quietly teach them how to respond when things don't go as planned. 👦🏿👦🏽👦🏻🛤️👧🏻👧🏽👧🏿

Those everyday moments plant the seeds of confidence, compassion, and resilience. 🌱🌟🌱

And so, one giving grandmother and storyteller is reminding families that sometimes the brightest outlook begins with seeing everyday moments in a brand-new light. 👪🏻💡👪🏽

Retired Educator & Award-Winning Children's Author, Dr. Julie McDonnell Author, joins our John Masiulionis and Little Forrest on Episode #279 of PR From The Heart's Children's Books Spotlight Series to share how a career devoted to encouraging young minds evolved into stories that continue inspiring children far beyond the classroom, the inspiration behind her Bailey and Buttons Series (The Flowers in Grandma's Garden and My Rose-Colored Glasses, published by Miriam Laundry Publishing), the importance of helping children reframe life's everyday disappointments with a spirit of possibility, the power of picture books in creating meaningful conversations about big feelings, the cherished creative partnership she shares with her beloved husband, Jeffrey McDonnell Author, Healer, & Intuitive Guide, and a sneak preview of her upcoming featured appearance at PR From The Heart's Building A Culture Of Reading In Your Classroom 2026 in Portland—plus much more. 👧🏼📖🧸

We encourage you to subscribe to our official YouTube channel and enjoy John's and Dr. Julie's heartfelt conversation—the final trolley stop of PR From The Heart's Summer Reading Season: https://bit.ly/4yVjDxI. 🌞🚋🌞

To our friends and neighbors in Portland: Join us at Barnes & Noble this Saturday, August 8th for Building A Culture Of Reading In Your Classroom 2026—presented in partnership with SMART Reading—featuring Dr. Julie, along with David Newell (the beloved Mr. McFeely on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), Tony Buttino Sr. (Daytime Emmys Award-Winning Co-Creator of Reading Rainbow), Aron Nels Steinke (Eisner Award-Winning Author & Creator of the Mr. Wolf's Class Graphic Novel Series | published by Scholastic), 12-Year-Old Philanthropist, Shelter Dog Advocate, & Children's Author, Amelie Anastasia, Dr. E. C. Sherman Author, Award-Winning Creator of the Friesian and Friends Series (published by Miriam Laundry), and Julia Kolouch Books, Award-Winning Educator & Children's Author. 📖📚

Seats are limited. Secure your spot now for this landmark children's literacy event, receive a free children’s book courtesy of PR From The Heart, and be entered into a drawing to win one of two $100 Barnes & Noble gift cards: https://bit.ly/4vyqTOv. ⏳

If you're a children's or middle-grade author interested in joining the PR From The Heart family and being featured on The Children's Books Spotlight Series to share your inspiring story and the release of your new book, contact us for more information: https://bit.ly/3qIsx0B. 📲📖💻

Thank you for helping us walk home the children of Portland and our little neighbors around the world. 👦🏿👦🏽👦🏻🙏🏻👧🏻👧🏽