A roundup of everything published this summer, what’s waiting for paid subscribers in the Toolbox, and a first look at what’s coming in August.
Nine weeks.
That is how long we have been in this together this summer (so far). And I want to make sure all the pieces and resources are in one place for you because vacations and different schedules can through us off 😵💫. And then there is something coming in August I want to make sure you know about!
EVERYTHING PUBLISHED THIS SUMMER
LIVING LIKE YOU HAVE TO EARN IT
On the underground exhaustion of performing your way into God’s love. The tallying, the bracing, the constant pending approval. And what it looks like to finally stop earning what was freely given.
Why So Many Christians Feel Stuck in Their Spiritual Growth
The subtle difference between self-improvement with a Christian filter and actual transformation. Are you fixing yourself, or are you being formed? The answer changes everything about your posture.
The Interior Life No One Is Building Anymore — Paid
“I have everything I asked for and I cannot find myself in any of it.” A conversation that stopped her cold — and what it revealed about the one thing most of us have forgotten to build. Paywalled, and exactly why the paywall exists.
The Restlessness That Has No Name
On the difference between holy waiting and fear wearing a very convincing costume — and how to tell which one you’re actually in.
What I Learned About Calling From the Years Nobody Clapped
The years before anyone was watching. What they cost and what they built. This one made a 64-year-old man named Bud convert to an annual subscription and leave the comment that made me cry in my car.
What If Your Distraction Isn’t an Accident
You’ve been blaming yourself for a scattered mind. What if the scattering isn’t a discipline problem — it’s a target? On the spiritual battle for your attention and why stillness is the ground worth defending.
The Life You Can Feel Coming But Cannot Yet Name
For the person who has been explaining away the pull for years. The ache of sensing a life that hasn’t arrived yet — what it is, why it isn’t a problem to solve, and why your life needs margin to actually meet what God is forming in you.
Before You Build Anything, Take the Night Ride
Nehemiah prayed for months and then rode out alone in the dark to inspect the rubble gate by gate before he said a word about rebuilding. Most of us skip that ride. This piece is about why you can’t.
Finding Your Rhythm for this Season of Life
The Margin & Rhythm Planner — built for the person who keeps saying they don’t have time for the thing they’re called to. The honest audit of where your week is actually leaking, and the structure to rebuild it.
Everyone Is Performing Their Life. Almost No One Is Living It.
On the neuroscience of self-presentation, why your brain is performing even when no one is watching, and what it costs spiritually to perform for God. One of the most personal things written this summer.
The World Is Changing Faster Than You’re Moving. That’s Not an Accident.
On the Genesis mandate to create, what AI is actually doing to the landscape for called people, and why the window is more open right now than most people realize. Read this one twice.
What I Do on the Days God Feels Silent
Faithfulness does not begin when the clarity comes. Sometimes it begins when it does not. On Abraham walking without a map, Elijah hearing the whisper after the fire, and what to do when God goes quiet.
Why Feeling Called Is Not the Same as Building
The gap between sensing a calling and actually doing something with it — what lives in that gap, why it keeps widening, and what finally crosses it.
FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS — WHAT’S IN THE TOOLBOX
If you are a paid subscriber and you haven’t bookmarked the Toolbox yet, now is the time. Everything built this summer is in one place and it keeps growing.
📚 The Breakthrough Readiness Journal
For the person who keeps circling the calling and calling it readiness. This journal asks the questions that interrupt the loop.
🧐 The From Achieve to Receive Decision Guide
For the person who keeps earning what they’re supposed to receive. A framework for the posture shift that changes how you build.
🪶 The Quiet Practice Guide
The interior life no one is building anymore. A simple daily practice for the person whose quiet time feels like reading words on a page instead of meeting someone.
🗓️ The Margin and Rhythm Planner
The planning tool built for the person who is disciplined enough to fill a planner and still feels behind. Protects your stillness. Structures your week around what actually matters.
🎧 Hearing God in the Noise — Workshop Replay
The full June workshop. On the interior posture that makes it possible to actually hear God when everything around you profits from your distraction.
Access your Toolbox here: CHECK IT OUT
🌅 COMING IN AUGUST — THE 5-DAY BOLD RESET
Free for Paid Subscribers
Five days. Five lessons dropped daily. And every single day a live session on Substack just for paid subscribers. We go through the work together, in real time, before the school year starts.
A daily lesson in your inbox. A daily live on Substack where we go deeper together. Five days of the AWAKE framework, built for the person who knows what they’re called to and keeps getting stuck before they can get there. Completely free if you are a paid subscriber.
You are the reason I kept writing, and I want to spend August giving something back.
The Reset is going to be an epic resource. Five days. The inner work and the practical steps, held together. Before the school year starts, before the next season sets in.
Completely free if you are a paid subscriber.
NOT YET A PAID SUBSCRIBER?
Here’s what you’re missing right now:
✓ The Bold Life Toolbox — the Breakthrough Readiness Journal, the From Achieve to Receive Decision Guide, the Quiet Practice Guide, the Margin & Rhythm Planner, the Hearing God in the Noise workshop replay, and more
✓ The Bold Life Collective — private Skool community where the real conversation happens
✓ Paywalled articles and resource drops, including the Interior Life and Finding Your Rhythm pieces above
✓ Free Workshops and Workshop discounts
✓ The Book Club — restarting in August
✓ The 5-Day Bold Reset in August — completely free for paid subscribers
→ Join now
More on The Reset coming, but I wanted you to have the full summer picture first.
Go into the rest of your week knowing the table is set. It’s time to sit down.
💛 Emily
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