Nichole J Suvar's Blog, page 6

Combating Anxiety in the Power of Small Intentional Moments

A lesson from Moses in Psalm 90[image error]Pexels.com","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"landscape photography of mountains covered in snow","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="pexels-photo-691668" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="

Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger on Pexels.com

" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/livewithintent.org/..." data-large-file="https...

Do not lose heart.

3 steps to help with daily renewal

In the last 3 years, the reported cases of diagnosed anxiety disorders worldwide has increased by 25%. 

The world gives us more and more reasons to divide ourselves from other groups who don’t think like us and there continues to be media sources that use fear instead of facts to inform, and our mental health is paying the price.

It can become so easy to focus on what is going wrong in the world and begin to worry and fear for the here-and-now and for ...

Settling in and putting down roots

When choosing to settle is good for the soul

In Genesis, after God had completed all of Creation, the Bible tells us that God placed Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.

More specifically, it uses the Hebrew word “nuakh” to describe how He placed them there.

Nuakh is one of the words for rest that is used in the Hebrew scriptures. It means to “dwell” or “settle.” This kind of rest isn’t like clocking out of work on a Friday afternoon or going to bed at night. This type of rest is like ...

New year, new you?

choosing to ditch the goals and move forward with intention instead[image error]Pexels.com","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"man with fireworks","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="pexels-photo-769525" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="

Photo by Rakicevic Nenad on Pexels.com

" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/livewithintent.org/..." data-large-file="https://i...

When the celebration is over

what we can learn from those who were there[image error]Pexels.com","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"mountain beside body of water with aurora borealis","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="pexels-photo-2113566" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="

Photo by Tobias Bjørkli on Pexels.com

" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/livewithintent.org/..." data-large-file="...

For the times when life feels weary

An invitation in song

Every Christmas season it seems that a different song ministers to my heart. And each year it’s something I hang on to for the Christmas season, using it to help me keep focus and even learn a different perspective on this season that we think we all know so well by now.

[image error]Pexels.com","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"a person in gray sweater and gray pants standing beside christmas tree","orientation":"0"}"...

Hope anchors the soul – a thought on Advent

When the pressures of life are crushing, where do we go?

Nine more days until Christmas. Did that just speed your heart up with the thought that there is still too many things that need to get done before then? Or did it speed up your heart in excitement of the anticipation of celebration?

[image error]Pexels.com","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"photo of christmas tree during night","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="pexels-photo-93670...

A dinner of hope and celebration – a Slavic Christmas tradition

Sauerkraut, peas, cream of wheat, and evergreen stems on the table – not the first thing you think of when someone is referring to a Christmas dinner. But, in my husband’s family, it’s a yearly tradition.

Passed down through generations

Twenty years ago I married into the Suvar family. I knew that they had family roots from the Czech Republic and Slovakia but didn’t know how much of that had carried forward from the move to America. But, like many traditions that get passed along throu...

When there is one less this Christmas season

[image error]Pexels.com","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"silhouette of trees under starry night","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="pexels-photo-3801516" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="

Photo by Martin Mariani on Pexels.com

" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/livewithintent.org/..." data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/livewithintent.org/......

What to do in the waiting

[image error]Pexels.com","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"pexels-photo-90639.jpeg","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="pexels-photo-90639" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="

Photo by Serkan Göktay on Pexels.com

" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/livewithintent.org/..." data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/livewithintent.org/......