Explore a collection of tools designed to inspire you as you navigate life's ups and downs.
From free resources and insightful podcast episodes to a fun quiz that helps you discover your inner strength—everything you need is here in one place!
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This is a guide designed to lead you through a transformative exploration of perfectionism and its impact on your life. Inside, you'll find 100 thought-provoking journal prompts carefully crafted to help you uncover the roots of your perfectionistic tendencies, embrace perfectionism, and cultivate self-acceptance.
You can expect to gain a deeper insight to your own thought patterns, behaviors, and emotions surrounding perfectionism.
By the end of this journey, you should feel more equipped to navigate life's challenges with resilience, set realistic goals, and cultivate a healthier relationship with yourself and others.
Letting Go of Perfect Guide
The Unseen Emotions Workbook is a guide designed to help you recognize, access, and understand your emotions in a healthy and constructive way. Emotions are an integral part of the human experience, and learning to engage with them rather than suppressing them can lead to greater emotional well-being and overall happiness.
In this guide, you'll find the definition of emotions and how to identify suppressed emotions. You'll learn techniques to access emotions, and exercises to increase emotional awareness. Also, you'll find steps for moving forward while you develop emotional resilience.
Unseen Emotions Guide
Journaling is something I've always turned to, especially during hard times. It was a simple place I could escape the chaos of life and turn to my trusted confidante (that black and white speckled composition notebook) and sacred space where my thoughts and dreams could unfold without judgement.
Journaling has helped me through all of the crazy teenage fiascos; you know the ones... friendship woes, break-ups, self-confidence (or lack thereof) and later helping me process my grief after losing my baby brother tragically and I lost both parents to cancer. Journaling has gotten me through it all. It sounds too simple, I know, but it really is so transformative.
Journaling 101 Guide
freebies
The Biblically Based Guide to Building a Solid Routine is designed to help you align your daily habits with God’s purpose for your life. By integrating biblical principles, understanding how habits are formed, and cultivating a growth mindset, you can create a routine that fosters transformation, consistency, and intentional living.
In this guide, you’ll explore the role of the brain and Scripture in forming habits, learn how to identify and overcome limiting beliefs, and discover 10 actionable steps to build a consistent routine. You'll also find practical tools, affirmations, and techniques to integrate prayer, mindfulness, and flexibility into your daily life.
Rooted in Routine
In this episode of The Resilient Podcast, Jessica explores the connection between control and resilience. Reflecting on her personal journey—particularly after her brother's passing and her mom’s cancer diagnosis—she discusses how the need for control can often mask deeper fears and hinder true strength. Jessica shares practical tips on letting go, trusting in faith or a support system, and shifting from managing every detail to embracing flexibility. Tune in to discover how resilience isn’t about control, but about trusting that you’ll be okay, even when life goes off-plan.
Let Go of Control:
Not Always Having a Plan
In this episode of The Resilient Podcast, host Jessica talks about the often-challenging topic of dealing with negative feedback. Sharing personal stories and insights, she reflects on her journey from equating strength with perfectionism to embracing feedback as a valuable tool for growth. Listeners will explore practical strategies for handling criticism, separating self-worth from external validation, and fostering a healthier mindset around feedback. Join Jessica for an empowering conversation that encourages you to see feedback as an opportunity for improvement rather than a personal setback.
Navigating Negative Feedback: A Journey of Growth
In this episode of Resilient, Jessica explores how to handle setbacks with grace and emotional balance. She shares personal stories and practical tools—like daily prayer, walks, music, and talking to others—that help us process emotions in a healthy way. Tune in for insights on how to embrace vulnerability, release control, and build true resilience in the face of life’s challenges.
Processing Emotions:
Turning Setbacks into Strength
In this episode of "Resilient," Jessica delves into the challenge of holding space for both hope and reality. Using her personal experience of navigating her mother’s cancer diagnosis, she explores how clinging to optimism and avoiding the worst-case scenario can impact emotional preparedness and relationships. Jessica breaks down the importance of balancing both extremes and embracing uncertainty as a key part of true strength. Tune in to learn how you can navigate life's toughest moments with both hope and resilience, making space for all possible outcomes.
Holding Space: Hope and Reality
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In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human.
by Brene Brown
In Chasing the Bright Side, Jess Ekstrom shares her own inspirational story of how optimism helped her overcome multiple challenges, and the dynamic ways her mindset propelled her as a young entrepreneur, international speaker, and philanthropist.
by Jess Ekstrom
Jessica's Favorite Books
In this inspirational book by the late world-renowned bestselling author and self-help pioneer Louise Hay, you’ll find profound insight into the relationship between the mind and the body.
by Louise Hay
Take a break from all the noise with The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, a fascinating roadmap to staying emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world.
by John Mark Comer
In this book you will learn that measuring your current self vs. your former self has enormous psychological benefits.
by Dan Sullivan
Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health.
by Peter Attia
Chasing the Bright Side
Atlas of the Heart
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
You Can Heal
Your Life
Outlive
The Gap and the Gain
Written as if Jesus Himself is speaking directly to you, Jesus Calling invites you to experience peace in the presence of the Savior who is always with you.
by Sarah Young
Built on Bob's trademark storytelling and unique way of helping us to see things in a new light, Live in Grace, Walk in Love weaves together personal stories with timeless scripture, taking you through an entire calendar year of meditations on stepping out in love and confidence in every aspect of your life.
by Bob Goff
Jessica's Favorite Devotionals
Live in Grace, Walk in Love
Jesus Calling
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