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What if spiritual growth looked more like a syllabus than a checklist?

A yearlong curriculum for sitting with big ideas (through books, Scripture, art, and prayer) rather than rushing to mastery

Jan 12 • Valerie Woerner

Jan 10 • Valerie Woerner

What to Read in 2026

40 books on faith, relationships, health, creativity and more

Jan 7 • Valerie Woerner

My surprising (even to me) goal plan for 2026

Trying something new and you can too (free PDF)

Jan 6 • Valerie Woerner

My Word for the Year

The deep dive that kept getting deeper

Jan 5 • Valerie Woerner

Most Popular

What was my biggest VMP fail of 2023?

Mar 11, 2024 • Valerie Woerner

My 2025 Word for the Year

Jan 1, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

2024 Goals Recap

Dec 28, 2024 • Valerie Woerner

2024 Life-Changers

Dec 30, 2024 • Valerie Woerner

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What if spiritual growth looked more like a syllabus than a checklist?

A yearlong curriculum for sitting with big ideas (through books, Scripture, art, and prayer) rather than rushing to mastery

Jan 12 • Valerie Woerner

Can I sneak in a post before Christmas?

Pick your own adventure and find a question that hits the spot tonight

Dec 24, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Are we keeping with tradition?

Creating core memories while commercialism takes a holiday...and brings 8 Christmas tupperwares with it

Nov 19, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

What kind of grandmother will I be?

My grandma passed away last night.

Nov 11, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

What peace does God promise for anxiety?

Navigating the "what ifs" faithfully

Nov 4, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

What is God asking me to do?

Redrawing the line—what's mine and what's not

Oct 31, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Should I stop using my Oura ring?

ROI, H-Bombs and Reddit tell all

Oct 21, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Is goal-setting a form of control?

When preparation becomes overreach

Oct 15, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Where practice meets prayer

control series

What is God asking me to do?

Redrawing the line—what's mine and what's not

Oct 31, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

The worst year ever

A random bonus post before we wrap up our Control Issues series.

Oct 22, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Should I stop using my Oura ring?

ROI, H-Bombs and Reddit tell all

Oct 21, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Is goal-setting a form of control?

When preparation becomes overreach

Oct 15, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

When is ignorance bliss?

Re-evaluate our relationship with information and uncertainty

Oct 1, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

spiritual warfare series

What's my strategy?

How to gear up and pray strategically + a 11-page PDF guide

Jul 9, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Where is the battleground?

Let's name your top 3 spiritual battlegrounds this season

Jul 1, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Is this fallout actually from me?

The overlap between spiritual warfare and the flesh

Jun 25, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Am I cooperating with the enemy?

An outline of Satan's strategy against you

Jun 17, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Am I spiritually alert?

Our spiritual warfare series, part 1

Jun 10, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

hypochondria series

How do we handle hypochondria as a Christian? (Part 5: The Physical Life)

How to respond to physical symptoms

Jun 19, 2024 • Valerie Woerner

How do we handle hypochondria as a Christian? (Part 4: The Intellectual Life)

Trying to find rational thoughts again

Jun 17, 2024 • Valerie Woerner

How do we handle hypochondria as a Christian? (Part 3: The Outer Life)

The much forgotten area of service and healthy distractions

Jun 10, 2024 • Valerie Woerner

How do we handle hypochondria as a Christian? (Part 2: The Inner Life)

Where we need to start

Jun 10, 2024 • Valerie Woerner

How do we handle hypochondria as a Christian?

What's helped me have episodes that were less intense, less often and shorter duration

Jun 3, 2024 • Valerie Woerner

goal series

What to Read in 2026

40 books on faith, relationships, health, creativity and more

Jan 7 • Valerie Woerner

My surprising (even to me) goal plan for 2026

Trying something new and you can too (free PDF)

Jan 6 • Valerie Woerner

My Word for the Year

The deep dive that kept getting deeper

Jan 5 • Valerie Woerner

An admittedly bougie list of what changed my life in '25

The 22 big and small things

Dec 31, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

2025 Goals Recap

Some of the most impactful things are never planned

Dec 30, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

bonus post

Can I sneak in a post before Christmas?

Pick your own adventure and find a question that hits the spot tonight

Dec 24, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

The worst year ever

A random bonus post before we wrap up our Control Issues series.

Oct 22, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Maybe you should go do a puzzle

The ROI on puzzling in higher than you think

Oct 8, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

On needing permission to mourn death

And how our screens drove us here

Sep 15, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Odd reminders I'm getting older

On my 41st birthday

Aug 28, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Propaganda I’m not falling for

From the small stuff to the sacred cows 😮—18 of my most opinionated opinions

Jul 22, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

Here's the title and topic of the book I’d write next

I’ll get asked often if I’m still writing or working on another book, and although I don’t have any specific project in the works, this idea has been…

Jul 17, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

The right tool matters

Recently, I was cutting my shrubs, and—gardeners, you may want to avert your eyes—normally, this process involves the nearest pair of beat-up kitchen…

Jun 26, 2025 • Valerie Woerner

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