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“Your greatest strength is how you love your people well, but it’s also your biggest weakness.” Someone said that to me, and I held every tear in while he was speaking. I knew exactly what he meant.
I love my people. My family. My team. My clients. My community. But I have to tell you the truth about what happens when that love gets tangled up with fear and the belief that I have to keep holding everything together.
Welcome to The Dr. Danielle Difference.
If you’ve been here since Crying in My Cheesecake, welcome back. If you’re new, you’re coming in at a really interesting time. In this relaunch episode, I’m taking you through the last three years: a professional relationship I was afraid to leave, the consequences of staying, the burnout I couldn’t keep pushing through, and a week of conversations with God and people that brought things into focus.
I’m also telling you where we’re going. Food, movement, symptoms, health questions, scripture, stewardship, obedience, and actually living out what we’re learning. You’re going to get me—how I talk, how I think, and what I believe.
In this episode- Why I stayed in a professional relationship that wasn’t working, even when my team could see it.
- The impact on my family, my business, and the people already in my care.
- Loving people well without taking responsibility for everything I can see.
- What I mean when I discuss Jezebel and Ahab patterns, and why I have to examine my own part.
- Holy agitation, exhaustion, early morning prayer, and learning to receive peace.
- My burden for real discipleship and how we treat students with hard questions.
- Why taking care of myself includes prayer, food, exercise, doctor’s visits, and admitting when I need help.
- What to expect from the podcast each month.
What you can expect each month
- Week one: The conversations from Wilderness of Wellness I want to take further—the things we didn’t get to or didn’t have time for.
- Week two: The health questions people are asking, searching for, and bringing into our community.
- Week three: Faith, discipleship, scripture, stewardship, obedience, and the hard questions about following Jesus in this world.
- Week four: Ways to put what we’re discussing into practice with support, including invitations into our work and occasional useful guest conversations.
One episode a week is what you can plan on, with room for something I need to get on the microphone and say in between.
Scripture discussed- 1 Kings 21
- Revelation 2, particularly the passage concerning Jezebel
- Ephesians 6:12 and the surrounding discussion of the armor of God
- 1 Thessalonians 5, concerning testing what we hear and holding onto what is good
- Mark 6:31
Take your next step
Share this episode with someone who needs it. The woman who keeps saying she’s so tired. The person who has tried everything and still doesn’t know where to go. Someone who wants to take their health seriously and follow Jesus with their actual life.
If you know it is time to take care of your health, join Wilderness of Wellness.
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Music credit
New intro and outro music written, recorded, and performed by my son, Dietrich Hofer. Produced by Dr. Danielle Hofer.
