339. Creating From Wonder: The Secret to a Beautiful Life

House of Joy- Christian Life Coaching

Dr. Edie Wadsworth

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Christianity, Mental Health

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In today’s episode, I’m cozied up in my office, cranberry sauce simmering, pie crusts chilling — and my heart is full. I’m sharing how I’ve been living in this creative flow lately and what it really means to create from wonder instead of pressure, perfectionism, or performance. How to notice the miracle of just being alive today Why the state of your heart while you create matters more than the finished product Turning holiday tasks into holy invitations to presence Letting old rooms (and old seasons) be resurrected into new callings Creating space for joy, beauty, memories, and connection this Thanksgiving I’m so deeply grateful for you — for every listen, every share, every kind word. You are part of the House of Joy, and I don’t take that lightly. Happy Thanksgiving week, dear ones.Go create beautiful, meaningful things from the overflow of a grateful heart. 💛 Cozy Earth — My favorite temperature-regulating bamboo* sheets. Try them risk-free with a 100-night trial + 10-year warranty. Use code HOJ for 40% off at https://tinyurl.com/HOJCozyEarth Check out the NIV Application Bible here https://tinyurl.com/HOJNIVAppBible and use code HOJ at checkout for an additional 10% off!! Interested in advertising on this show? Learn more here! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16V_c91F1iIYNZOVvrEinrB9h2dsZq-kZFqYYEDQ4A60/edit In this episode, you’ll hear about: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the podcast where you are invited for lighthearted conversations
0:05.5	about things that matter as you seek to live your most meaningful, beautiful, and joyful life.
0:10.8	I'm your host, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here at the House of Joy.
0:17.1	Hi, dear ones. Welcome back to the podcast. Welcome back to House of Joy. Listen, if you never come over
0:23.3	to YouTube to watch, you should come today. I'm cozyed up in my office. It's the week of Thanksgiving.
0:31.0	I love it this week so much. I've got my brown Toccova's sweater on. I think my favorite sweater of the season. It's cold in here. So I'm like, I'm just all cozyed up. I'm so excited to be sharing with you today because number one, I love this week so much. Number two, I'm in creation mode. And we're going to talk
0:56.3	about that today, creating from wonder, the secret to a beautiful life. So probably for most
1:03.9	of you, when this episode will come out, you will have started all of your festivities. You're
1:08.4	probably like me. You're probably hosting. I can't remember what year
1:11.9	this is for me hosting, but it's like 20-something, I don't know, a lot of years that I've been hosting
1:17.4	Thanksgiving. I love this week. I love hosting. Actually, yesterday, I got my cranberry sauce made.
1:23.7	I make this recipe from Martha Stewart from years ago. And this year I added, it's like got
1:31.3	chopped apples, apple cider vinegar, sugar, fresh squeezed orange juice. And this year I added some
1:38.3	sour cherry jelly, my favorite sour cherry jelly to it. It's so good. I made my homemade sourdough bread
1:48.2	crumbs to put in my stuffing from my fecotchia bread that I made on Friday. What else did I do?
1:55.3	I roasted some veggies this weekend. I made my pie crust this weekend. So I got a great start. I also had one of those
2:02.9	Saturdays, y'all, where I was in the zone. I was planning for the new year. I am just in,
2:11.1	I've been in this kind of like creative flow for a while now. And I just had the best weekend I went to the crossfit
2:20.9	this morning had a great workout um it's just been a great day so I'm excited to talk to you
2:26.6	about this because here's the thing all the things that you're doing well first of all let me
2:31.5	just tell you I started a new book this weekend by Rick Rubin called, what's the book called? The Creative Act. I love, I've only read the first
2:39.9	chapter maybe, but I love this book. And it was like the perfect time to read the book because
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