Brenda Yoder: Unlock Resilience with Simple Forgotten Principles
Summer Reading Series! Is the modern lifestyle running you a little ragged? For all of our modern conveniences, life doesn’t seem to be any easier. The number of mental health issues has skyrocketed in the last several years causing us to wonder what has happened. Maybe there are some principles that our forefathers knew that we can learn from. Brenda Yoder has lived in Amish country for years and noticed some things about the community and living on a farm that we can learn for a more peaceful life. She shares what she has learned from her latest book Uncomplicated: Secret Skills for a Compelling Life and her own experiences in life and her career in the schools.
Brenda L. Yoder is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, school counselor, speaker, and author. She’s authored Fledge: Launching Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind, Balance, Busyness & Not Doing It All, and most recently Uncomplicated: Secret Skills for a Compelling Life. She’s the co-host of the Midlife Mom Podcast and Midlife Mom Facebook Community.
She is a wife, mom of four adult children and 2 daughters-in-law, and three beautiful grandsons. She loves gardening and creating beautiful spaces. Brenda specializes in faith, life, and family beyond the storybook image.
Connect with Brenda: www.brendayoder.com
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The 10 Secrets: 1. Contentment 2. Resourcefulness 3. Prudence 4. Practicality 5. Fidelity 6. Forbearance and Equanimity 7. Stewardship 8. Interdependence 9. Groundedness and Humility 10. Foresight, Heritage, and Legacy
Quotes:
*“these sustainable principles that don’t change over time are embedded in God’s Word, are embedded in nature, …we need to just really re-introduce them to our modern culture.”
“Forbearance and equanimity, it really is this calm even-mindedness, in difficult situations.”
*“Life’s problems and the culture around us does not have to shipwreck us.”
“We think that we have to have a certain type of lifestyle in order to have what we really desire”
*“We as a culture have completely removed the practical, physical and mental skill of problem solving.”
*“God’s created you with a really super-computer brain, so don’t be afraid to use it.”
“God has given all of us these very specific bents, skills, talents, passions in our own spheres of influence.”
“each of us has a circle of influence and God has given us the opportunity to color in that circle of influence.”
“when you do that thing that God has placed in your heart…it has more impact…than ever before, because our culture is so hungry.”
