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20 min
What do you do when life falls apart, but God is calling you to build something beautiful from the broken pieces?
In this inspiring episode of The Golden Spark Podcast, Stacy sits down with Masika Meresi, founder and CEO of SPES for Community, a Christian nonprofit serving single mothers, teenage mothers, and vulnerable girls in Uganda.
After experiencing the pain of becoming a single mother, Masika found herself battling depression, uncertainty, and overwhelming circumstances. But instead of allowing hardship to define her future, she leaned into her faith, discovered hope through simple acts of service, and created an organization that is now transforming lives across her community.
Together, Stacy and Masika explore the universal challenges of motherhood, the power of faith during difficult seasons, and how our greatest struggles can become the foundation for serving others.
Whether you're navigating overwhelm, parenting alone, or simply wondering if God still has a purpose for your pain, this conversation will remind you that hope is never wasted.
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Jul 21, 2026
Jul 21, 2026
17 min
The back-to-school transition is coming. And for the overwhelmed mom whose nervous system has been running in mid-summer survival mode, September is not automatically a reset. It is a new set of demands landing on a system that never fully recovered from the last ones. In this episode Stacy talks about what the nervous system specifically needs in the final weeks of summer to go into the back-to-school transition regulated rather than depleted, and why the work done now carries compounding benefits into the fall season.
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Jul 14, 2026
Jul 14, 2026
21 min
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that arrives somewhere around week four or five of summer. It's not the same as tired. It's not fixed by a good night of sleep. It is the accumulated weight of weeks of continuous parenting without structure, without margin, without a single day where the invisible load lifted. In this episode Stacy names the invisible load of mid-summer, explains what it's doing to the nervous system physiologically, and introduces the concept of the body keeping score in ways that show up as reactivity, disconnection, and the specific depletion that feels like it has no end.
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Jul 7, 2026
Jul 7, 2026
16 min
It's July...and something in you is saying that it's too late to do anything about how this summer feels. This episode makes the case that July is not too late. In fact, July might be the most important month to do it. Stacy walks through the neuroscience of how quickly the nervous system can begin to shift, why mid-summer is actually an advantage for this kind of work, and what the weeks of summer still ahead of you could feel like with a regulation foundation underneath them.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_IS0sFuZPKLVOeS3my9NtdSLP28gOFHQwSBk3ikI1yU/edit?usp=sharing
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Jul 5, 2026
Jul 5, 2026
26 min
We've been talking about what goes wrong in the summer: the dread, the overstimulation spiral, the guilt loop. Today we talk about what goes right.
Not a perfect summer. Not a conflict-free one. But a regulated one. What it actually feels like from the inside when the nervous system has a baseline. What becomes possible when the threshold is higher, the recovery is faster, and the presence is genuine. The specific neuroscience of how the regulated version is built. And why the summer you have been hoping for is not as far away as it feels.
This is the vision episode. And the vision is grounded in biology, not aspiration.
Join the 7 Day Summer Peace Reset 🌴
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_IS0sFuZPKLVOeS3my9NtdSLP28gOFHQwSBk3ikI1yU/edit?usp=sharing
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Jul 4, 2026
Jul 4, 2026
25 min
The snap happened. The apology followed. The promise to do better was completely sincere. And then it happened again.
If you have been living inside the guilt loop, apologizing for the same reaction over and over with genuine intention and genuine failure to change it, this episode is about why. Not why you are failing. Why the loop itself is a neurological trap. Why guilt without root work does not produce the change it promises. Why the commitment made in the calm of the evening does not transfer to the dysregulated state of 4pm. And what it actually takes to break the cycle for good.
Join the 7 Day Summer Peace Reset 🌴
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Jun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026
33 min
What if peace is not a personality trait some women are born with and others are not? What if it is something you can actually train your nervous system to carry?
In this episode Stacy sits down with Ashriel Huber, author of Love Moves and host of the Called And Curious podcast, for a conversation that is equal parts neuroscience, faith, and practical tools. Ashriel helps overwhelmed women come back to themselves by blending faith, neuroscience, movement, and nervous system regulation so they can move from mental overload and emotional exhaustion toward peace, presence, and renewed hope.
These two are two peas in a pod when it comes to the science-meets-Scripture approach, and this conversation does not disappoint. If you have ever wondered why you cannot think your way out of a stressed state, why the self-help books are not sticking, or why peace feels like it works for everyone except you, this episode has the explanation you have been looking for.
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About Ashriel Huber:
Ashriel Huber is the author of Love Moves, host of the Called And Curious podcast, and a coach who helps overwhelmed women come back to themselves through the intersection of faith, neuroscience, movement, and practical nervous system tools. Her work blends body-first regulation practices with Scripture-anchored truth to help women move from mental overload and emotional exhaustion toward peace, presence, and a life they can actually experience beautifully.
Love Moves BookA faith-based, neuroscience-informed guide to helping overwhelmed women move from stress and survival mode toward more peace, presence, and emotional renewal.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GXCXXJYZ
Free 6-Minute “Inside-Out Makeover” Reset (SMRM Love Move)A simple guided reset to help women calm mental spirals, regulate stress, and reconnect with peace in mind, body, and spirit.
https://calledandcurious.myflodesk.com/q0lo7urr15
Called & Curious PodcastConversations exploring faith, neuroscience, attention, emotional health, and practical ways to live with more peace, curiosity, and connection with God.
https://www.calledandcurious.com/podcast
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Jun 9, 2026
Jun 9, 2026
23 min
You made it through the morning. You made it through lunch. And then 4pm arrived and everything unraveled. The noise, the snacks, the sibling conflict, the dinner that needs to happen, and the version of yourself you were holding together all day suddenly was not available anymore.
This episode is about what is actually happening in your body at 4pm. Not what is wrong with you. What is happening physiologically in a nervous system that has been accumulating a load since 7am without a single discharge point. Why the scissors question breaks a woman who survived everything that came before it. And what it actually takes to change the pattern, not manage it, change it.
Join the 7 Day Summer Peace Reset 🌴
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_IS0sFuZPKLVOeS3my9NtdSLP28gOFHQwSBk3ikI1yU/edit?usp=sharing
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Jun 2, 2026
Jun 2, 2026
22 min
Every year the end of the school year arrives and underneath all the excitement there is something else sitting quietly in the chest of the overwhelmed Christian mom: dread. Not because she does not love her kids. Because her nervous system has been here before and it remembers.
In this episode we get to the bottom of why summer feels threatening even when it is wanted, what the loss of routine is actually doing to the nervous system, and what it means that your body is already bracing before the first day of summer break even begins. If you have ever felt guilty for dreading a season you are supposed to love, this episode is going to give you something better than guilt: an explanation.
Join the 7 Day Summer Peace Reset 🌴
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_IS0sFuZPKLVOeS3my9NtdSLP28gOFHQwSBk3ikI1yU/edit?usp=sharing
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May 26, 2026
May 26, 2026
33 min
You have been told to pray more, try harder, and just be more consistent. But what if the patterns exhausting you in your motherhood are not a discipline problem, but actually a programming problem?
In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the subconscious mind: what it is, how it was formed, and what it has been running in the background of your motherhood without your permission. We dive deep into the science of the subconscious brain, the neuroscience of belief formation, and what God always knew about the need to renew the mind...long before modern science had language for it.
If you are a Christian mom who feels stuck in patterns of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and overwhelm despite praying, trying, and genuinely wanting to change, then this episode is for you. The gap between knowing truth and living truth is not a faith failure. It has a name. And today we are naming it.
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The Golden Spark Podcast
Today's overwhelmed mom has so much to face...and it does nothing but cause stress, overwhelm, and anxiety. Trust me, I've been to the bottom -- but after a journey in personal development, I was able to create a motherhood that I love. Using techniques based in neuroplasticity as well as techniques to tap into the physical power that lies within our own breath, healing and peace are born. Here we'll discuss all of that and more to help you create the motherhood of your dreams!