Spiritual Habits That Actually Change You (Without Burning You Out) | Hanna Seymour | Episode 409
The Speakeasy
The Girl Named Blake
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with author and Bible teacher Hanna Seymour to talk about what it really looks like to grow spiritually in the middle of real life with busy schedules, motherhood, exhaustion, and all.
We unpack Hanna's book Everyday Spiritual Habits and tackle one of the most common questions believers wrestle with: How do I actually stay consistent in my faith without feeling overwhelmed or burnt out? This conversation blends practical wisdom, biblical truth, and even habit science to help you build rhythms that truly last.
Throughout our chat, we share our personal journeys from checkbox Christianity and inconsistent routines to discovering life-giving rhythms with God that are flexible, sustainable, and deeply transformative. After this conversation, I hope you'll walk away encouraged that spiritual growth isn't about perfection, it's about connection.
In this episode, we cover:
- why spiritual "discipline" can feel overwhelming and how to reframe it as life-giving habits
- how to build habits that stick using simple, realistic steps
- the power of starting small (even 30 seconds counts)
- how to connect with God in everyday moments (laundry, dishes, driving, etc.)
- habit stacking and identity-based growth (who you're becoming vs. what you're doing)
- how different life seasons require different rhythms and that's okay
- lesser-talked-about disciplines like gratitude, celebration, silence, and solitude
- practical ways to memorize Scripture and stay rooted in truth
- why shame has no place in your spiritual journey
If you've ever felt like you're failing at reading your Bible, praying consistently, or "doing enough," this episode is a breath of fresh air. It's not about adding pressure, it's about discovering a better way to walk with Jesus in your everyday life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friends, welcome back to the Speakeasy podcast. Today I have my friend Hannah Seymour on a show to talk about her book, Everyday Spiritual Habits. |
| 0:08.7 | And I have been looking forward to recording this with her because what I love about this podcast is being able to have it as a resource for the very real things that people are asking about on Instagram that a lot of the time are just |
| 0:21.2 | too meaty and long form to fit on that platform. And this is that to a T. I have been having so |
| 0:29.9 | many conversations and comments and in DMs about growing in discipline, about being able to |
| 0:36.9 | get in your Bible, grow in prayer, fasting, |
| 0:40.6 | all of these different options. |
| 0:42.2 | What are they? |
| 0:43.0 | Where do I start? |
| 0:44.0 | Why do I do them? |
| 0:45.1 | How do I keep them going? |
| 0:47.2 | And so once I knew that I had Hannah coming on the show, I was like, this is it. |
| 0:52.3 | This is going to be able to be kind of a one-stop shop. |
| 0:54.9 | And of course, because Hannah always delivers, it is absolutely that. We shared our stories of, |
| 1:01.6 | we've very different stories of coming to a place of habit and discipline. But what I love about |
| 1:07.0 | Hannah is that she has a bit of a science brain. And so she talks a lot about |
| 1:11.2 | habit forming and how we do this and how we can kind of pull from the scientific and the |
| 1:16.7 | practical and infuse it into the spiritual to really bring these things to life. But then also we |
| 1:22.0 | have the Holy Spirit at our back breathing on and helping us grow in these areas. So if reading your Bible, praying, |
| 1:32.2 | gratitude, celebration, if you have been desiring, growing in those areas, you are going to love |
| 1:38.2 | this episode. You might want a notepad or a place to jot down some thoughts because there's |
| 1:42.7 | lots of like little tips and ideas woven |
| 1:46.1 | into it as well as both of us just kind of being like look well this is where we started this is |
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