Lent, Rooted & Raw: A New Chapter

What Lent revealed about time, attention, and the next season

Hi friends,

I wanted to share something from this Lent season and what God revealed to me about time, focus, and the next chapter of Rooted & Raw.

As some of you know this Lent season, I stepped away from Instagram. What I noticed was not surprising, but it was clarifying.

Taking that time made me aware of how scattered my attention had become. How often I was showing up in ways that did not really nourish me or anyone else. It made me look more closely at how I am spending my days and what is actually shaping them.

It really got me thinking about time. Not in a productivity sense, but in a stewardship sense.

What I give my time to is doing something in me. It is not neutral.

Connection, presence, reflection. Those things take time. They do not happen accidentally, and they are easy to crowd out without realizing it.

Rooted & Raw has always been an extension of my own life and work. It began in one-to-one counseling, centered on holistic care and listening well.

Over time, it has grown.

What I am doing now includes more teaching, more training, more discipleship. As that has developed, the shape of Rooted & Raw is changing too. It cannot stay the same if I am not.

Colossians 2:6–7 has always been at the core. Being rooted and built up in Christ, established in the faith. That kind of life is formed over time, in the way we live day to day.

Coming back to how I have been spending my time, I have felt the pull toward short, fast content more than I would like to admit. And while there is a place for it, it leaves me feeling rushed and thin, like I am moving past things that actually matter.

I do not want to keep showing up that way.

So I am being more purposeful with where I invest my time, especially when it comes to sharing and teaching.

Enter: Substack.

It gives space for longer writing, for slower thoughts, for the kind of reflection that does not fit into quick posts or short captions. It is where I want to focus more of my energy moving forward.

This next season of Rooted & Raw will look different. Less centered on one-on-one work as it has been, and more focused on teaching, training, and creating space for growth in a broader way. I will still offer one-on-one work, but it will take a different shape.

I do not have every detail figured out, but it is clear that something has shifted.

And I want to be intentional with what I have been given.

If you are here, maybe this is an invitation to consider that in your own life too.

How are you spending your time?

What is it shaping in you?

And does it reflect the life you want to be living?

I am grateful you are here, and I am expectant for what God will do in this next season.