Messages inspiring women to take hope to heart.

 Each session is 45 to 60 minutes in length.  Topics are adaptable to fit your group’s needs, whether a single session, a day of workshops, or a weekend retreat.  Sessions targeted to previously married singles, divorce recovery groups, and single parents are also available. Click for Speaker Request Form, Testimonials, Women's Ministry Resources, Uplifting Scripture and/or Inspiring Quotes About Hope for your event.  

Heart Matters: Choosing to Fully Live  Created with a garden theme in mind, these four sessions remind us that our heart is the only part we take with us when we leave the rest behind.             Digging My Roots Deep Into  God     Cultivating New Starts From Compost of My Past Releasing What Weighs Me Down    Maintaining My Focus To Go the Distance

Heart Work: Facing Life's Hard Work

 Being Faithful—whatever happens

Entrusting our lives to the sovereignty of God is a lifelong process and no easy task. Kari discusses how our invisible mysterious God shines His glory through our faithfulness. The book of Job shows us how a man determined to live out what he believed was not afraid or ashamed to wonder as we do, When life is unfair, is God still good?

 Better or Bitter?

Betrayal, rejection, and abandonment shatter a woman’s worth. Verbal and emotional abuse bruises the spirit, crushes our heart, and can render us helpless. Let’s talk about these taboo topics and our dark side—the unresolved anger that can escalate into bitterness or revenge—then look at what forgiveness is and is not.

 Good Grief!

Living means you risk losing. During losses like death, divorce, chronic disease, or disability, sadness does a job. This presentation discusses the hard work of heartwork and how the cultural slogans we are taught and the spiritual cliches we’re told often get in the way of our healing.

 Life is What It Is

This session examines how unrealistic and unrealized expectations weigh us down, stress us out, and keep us stuck.  We discover the timeless wisdom of King Solomon, a man with everything, who realized that his possessions meant nothing and life was meaningless without God.

Heart Seasons: Embracing the Inner Riches of Getting Older Spring Dreams Summer Expectations Fall Reflections Winter Clarity

 Letting Go Without Giving Up

Women are the keepers of memories, traditions, and treasures. Letting go is against our nature. Just look at our closets!  This session discusses our struggle to physically cart off past possessions and to emotionally disengage from a relationship without losing ourselves in the process.

Kari greets bookstore owners and autographs copies of Dare to Trust, Dare to Hope Again at the Christian Booksellers Convention.

Writing Workshops Writing Out of A Broken Heart Choosing Words That Sing Your Voice Article Writing for Beginners Marketing Yourself As A Writer From Mulling It Over to Making It Happen Telling Your Story

 Asking: What Does God Want to Do In My Life

. . . three months, six months, a year, five years from now.  This talk explores what it means to align our sight with the God-who-sees and then, to take the next step.  Let’s look at women and men in the Bible who lived with vision and explore how vision enhances our own resiliency.

Heart to Heart: Special Requests

Targeted to previously married singles, divorce recovery groups, and single parents.

• Workshops specifically targeted to divorce recovery groups, single parent events, and singles' conferences
  
• Seasonal talks for Christmas, Mother's Day, and remembering 9/11