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Freedom Camp PodcastAre You Planning Your Day With God… or Just Planning Your Day?Send a textIn today’s Freedom Camp Podcast episode, we’re talking about movement, not just physical movement, but spiritual movement too: obedience, integration, and learning how to know your body well enough to move with God instead of staying stuck (or sprinting ahead on autopilot).I share two common patterns I see in myself and in many of us:Then we bring it into the body. Because your body often reveals your patterns: what you avoid, what you rush into, what you numb, and what you overthink. When you learn your “tells...
2026-02-1916 min
Freedom Camp PodcastNutrition: What Are You Really Hungry For?Send a textWhat if your body isn’t broken… but your partner and helper instead?In this episode, we explore one of the core Freedom Camp shifts: moving from fighting your body to partnering with it.You’ll hear:A personal story of frustration, symptoms, and eliminationThe surprising connection between cravings and emotional needsWhy awareness changes more than willpower ever couldHow a regulated nervous system improves digestion and discernmentAnd the question that stopped the room:“Jesus, what am I really hungry for?”No one said food.Instead, w...
2026-02-1120 min
Freedom Camp PodcastIdentity: Truth vs ExperienceSend us a textWhat if knowing who God says you are… and living from that truth are two very different things?In this episode of the Freedom Camp Podcast, we explore the tension between spiritual truth and lived experience when it comes to identity. God has already called us, redeemed us, forgiven us, and made us whole. Our work isn’t to earn our identity, but to learn how to receive the identity we already have.Together, we'll unpack:• Why experience often feels louder than God’s truth• The gap betwee...
2026-01-3018 min
Freedom Camp PodcastIs That You, God? It’s Me… (Intuition + Discernment Made Practical)Send us a textHave you ever felt a gut nudge and immediately wondered, “Is that God… or is that me?” In this episode of the Freedom Camp Podcast, we explore intuition as one of the ways God speaks and how discernment helps us respond with wisdom, not emotional urgency.You’ll learn:A simple framework: intuition = noticing, discernment = respondingWhy “filters” matter (roles, personality wiring, trauma responses, family dynamics, expectations, people-pleasing)Three grounding checks to help you discern what you’re hearing:Fruit Check (Phi...
2026-01-2221 min
Freedom Camp PodcastDiscernment Learning to See Clearly When It's LoudSend us a textIn today’s episode, we’re talking about discernment, presence, and peace and what it really means to be at peace in your spirit even when your mind, body, and circumstances haven’t caught up yet.Sometimes when we’re in a season that requires discernment, we may feel spiritually anchored, yet our nervous system is activated, our thoughts are racing, and our emotions are trying to make decisions for us just to get relief from discomfort.In this episode, we explore how:• Discernment doesn’t begin with answers, it...
2026-01-1518 min
Freedom Camp PodcastIs This Really Who I Am… Or Just Who I Learned to Be?Send us a textIn this episode of the Freedom Camp Podcast, we explore the quiet, inherited roles many of us grew up carrying… and how they’ve shaped the way we see ourselves, respond to others, and move through the world.Not from blame or shameBut from compassion, clarity, and freedom.We look at roles like fixer, peacemaker, eldest daughter, achiever, caretaker, invisible one, and explore how they may have once protected us… but now subconsciously limit who we believe we’re allowed to become.This episode invites you to a...
2026-01-0718 min
Freedom Camp PodcastWhat Freedom Looks Like in Real Time: A Story of How Freedom Camp has Impacted my lifeSend us a textIn this episode I share a real-life story the last couple weeks, that I'm still in, that is showing me, in real time, what growing in freedom is actually doing in me.Helping one of our Great Pyrenees deliver and care for a litter of puppies has been a perfect example of the value and benefit of Freedom Camp in real time - in the middle of life. There were heat lamps, whelping box improvements, prayer, tears, and a hundred moments of “I don’t know what happens next.”And so...
2026-01-0324 min
Freedom Camp PodcastWhen Favored Doesn't Feel RealSend us a textWhat do you do when God speaks identity over you… but your lived experience doesn’t match it yet?This Christmas reflection looks at Mary not as a stained-glass figure, but as a real young woman receiving a calling she didn’t feel ready for — confused, human, yet still deeply favored.In this episode, we explore:• When “favored” doesn’t feel believable• Why God-sized assignments expose our limits (and anchor us to Him)• How honest questions don’t disqualify us• The internal shift of “Let it be to me as You hav...
2025-12-2516 min
Freedom Camp PodcastChoosing Your Ripple: Protecting Your Holy Moments in a Noisy SeasonSend us a textWhat kind of ripple are you sending into your home, your family, your holidays… your own heart?In this episode of the Freedom Camp Podcast, we explore the quiet power of your inner atmosphere and how it creates a ripple effect everywhere you go.I share a real-life “Wookiee cookie” story (yes, really 🍪) where a simple baking fail became a moment of decision: Will I ripple stress and frustration through my house… or pause, reset, and choose a different atmosphere?Together, in this episode we walk through:~H...
2025-12-1220 min
Freedom Camp PodcastHoliness, what does it mean to you?Send us a textIn this episode, we explore the deeply personal question: What is holy to YOU?So many of us enter December carrying pressure instead of presence. We try to create a meaningful season, but somewhere along the way, we confuse sacredness with stress. Jesus modeled something different — a life where holiness wasn’t performed but carried, where presence mattered more than presentation.We’ll gently untangle pressure from holiness, explore what God is inviting you into this season, and help you choose your own holy anchor for December.In thi...
2025-12-1216 min
Freedom Camp PodcastHosting Yourself Well - How to create the atmosphere you wantSend us a textToday, we’re exploring something deeply needed in this season:+ identifying the atmosphere you carry+ how to host yourself well+ and how your internal world/atmosphere shapes every room you walk into.Whether it’s Thanksgiving, Christmas gatherings, family events, daily life, or even any kind of project — like the truth is: wherever you go, there you are.So the most important atmosphere you can cultivate… is within you!In this episode, we talk about:~ What it means to be the thermostat, not the thermometer~ Ho...
2025-11-1424 min
Freedom Camp PodcastForgiveness & The Nervous System: Self-Forgiveness, Faith, and a Forgiveness PracticeSend us a textI share a spontaneous “bathtub prayer” that revealed a missing layer in my forgiveness journey—forgiving myself—and why that choice can free your energy, soothe your nervous system, and reopen connection with God, your body, and others.Episode Highlights:The onion-layers of forgiveness: why issues return at deeper levelsAutoimmune insight: moving from body-attack to body-partnershipCoaching threads: resistance to movement and old narratives in the bodyFaith lens: Joshua’s “stones of remembrance” to anchor your decision3-step practice: name it → visualize it → leave it at Gods’ feetClai...
2025-11-0625 min
Freedom Camp PodcastFrom Reggae to Rest: Discover Your Right TempoSend us a textThis time of year — darker days, busy schedules, holiday expectations — our bodies start whispering… sometimes yelling, and it doesn’t always feel good.In this episode of the Freedom Camp Podcast, Gretchen invites you to slow down and discover your right tempo. Instead of pushing harder or striving for perfection, learn to listen, partner, and cooperate with the rhythms your body already knows.Through reflective questions, faith-filled encouragement, and a story inspired by Jamaica’s heartbeat rhythm — reggae — you’ll explore how peace, prayer, and movement can flow together when you align w...
2025-10-3018 min
Freedom Camp PodcastFinding Your Frequency: The Energy of Sustainable ChangeSend us a textFinding Your Frequency: The Energy of Sustainable ChangeEver start strong with a new habit only to run out of steam?Want to sustain the new pace? First check if it is YOUR rhythm, or someone else's.In this episode of the Freedom Camp Podcast, we’ll explore what it really takes to make change that lasts. Using the My Frequency for Freedom framework, you’ll learn how to tune into your personal rhythm, align your energy with your goals, and build habits that feel like a gi...
2025-10-2121 min
Freedom Camp PodcastThe Silent Story Shaping Your Life, How to Rewrite the Words You Speak Over YourselfSend us a textWhat if the words you speak to yourself appeared on your skin — would you still see yourself as beautiful? Most of us are living under the influence of a silent story we don’t even realize we’re telling — a constant background narrative made up of beliefs, labels, expectations, and lies we’ve absorbed over a lifetime.In this episode of the Freedom Camp Podcast, we’re pulling that story into the light. You’ll discover how subconscious self-talk shapes your worth, your choices, and your future — and how to re...
2025-10-0117 min
Freedom Camp PodcastRewriting Your Story in the Darker DaysSend us a textDo you dread the shorter days, darker mornings, and long nights that come with fall and winter? You’re not alone. Millions of people experience seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and the emotional weight that comes with this time of year.But what if — like Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit — you could rewrite your story before the hard season even begins?In this episode, I share how I took one of my biggest seasonal struggles — gloomy, dark mornings that derail my workouts — and connect with Bilbo by completely rewriting the narrative...
2025-09-2620 min
Freedom Camp PodcastEmotions Are Energy: How to Choose How You Want to Feel this SeasonSend us a textEmotions are not good or bad — they’re energy. They fuel us, drain us, or steady us. And the same emotion can shift depending on the season you’re in.In this episode of the Freedom Camp Podcast, Gretchen Knode explores:+Why emotions are better understood as energy, not labels+The continuum of draining, neutral, and energizing emotions+How sadness, anger, and calm can show up differently depending on context+A reflection practice to map how you want to feel in the next 4 months+How noticing emotion...
2025-09-1715 min
Freedom Camp PodcastFrom Panic to Prepared: Your 2-for-1 First Aid & Immune Support GuideSend a textEver had that moment where you or someone in your house gets sick — and you realize you’re totally unprepared?That happened to me last week. I woke up with a scratchy throat and by afternoon it felt like I’d been hit by a Mack truck. All I wanted to do was rest, but instead I had to scramble. I was doing more work before I could even begin to heal.That’s why I’m sharing this simple but powerful tool: a 2-for-1 system that serves as:1. A q...
2025-09-1620 min
Freedom Camp PodcastWhy is it so hard to love ourselves through grief?Send us a textIn this episode, I reflect on a recent Freedom Camp session where the hardest part wasn’t naming our losses — it was turning toward love. Why does self-love feel so foreign when we’re grieving? Why do the simplest acts of kindness toward ourselves feel impossible?We’ll explore:Childhood messages that taught us to minimize grief.Why grief without love becomes despair — but grief wrapped in love becomes healing.Reflection questions you can carry with you:• When have I minimized my own grief because I thought it was “not a b...
2025-09-0320 min
Freedom Camp PodcastFinish Strong: 120 Days to Clarity, Focus & FreedomSend us a textEver feel like the last stretch of the year sneaks up on you? School starts, the holidays loom, family expectations pile up, sugar and chaos are everywhere, and suddenly the year feels overwhelming.In this episode of the Freedom Camp Podcast, Gretchen invites you to pause, reset, and choose how you want to finish the year.Here’s what you’ll discover: ✅ Why September–December is such a stressful season for many women ✅ The Mind–Body–Soul–Spirit framework to anchor yourself (Clarity, Movement, Relation...
2025-08-2817 minFreedom Camp PodcastEat the FrogSend us a text“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning.” – Mark TwainThis episode explores the surprising connection between soul care and “eating the frog” — tackling the hard, emotionally resistant things that drain us. Too often, we either push through without tending to our inner life (burnout) or we rest without moving forward (stagnation). Freedom comes when we do both.What you’ll hear in this episode:- What soul care really means (and why it’s not just...
2025-08-2218 minFreedom Camp PodcastWalking off your map - How to trust when you can't see it?Send us a textWhat do you do when the plan runs out, the money’s not there, and the next step feels like walking into the unknown?In this honest, soul-rooted episode of The Freedom Camp Podcast, I share a real-life story about waiting on provision and choosing to trust when there’s no visible way forward. You’ll be invited to reflect on your own “faith tension” and build a simple, sustaining plan to help you stay grounded in truth — even when you can’t see what’s next.Anchor Verse:Hebrews 11:1...
2025-08-0621 minFreedom Camp PodcastLighten Your LoadSend us a textEver feel like your soul is just… tired? Like no matter how much you rest, something invisible still weighs you down?In this episode, we’re unpacking the emotional backpack most of us carry every day — filled with guilt, people-pleasing, resentment, and responsibilities that were never ours to begin with. We do it thinking it will keep the peace… but really, it just keeps us exhausted.in this podcast, we’ll explore:What emotional “stones” we carry without realizing itHow to recognize when you’re holding what’s not yours...
2025-07-3114 minFreedom Camp PodcastTake a BreakSend us a textThis week on the Freedom Camp Podcast, we explore the subtle, often invisible ways we perform, control, and people-please — not for power, but for protection.💭 What if control isn’t about dominance...but about feeling safe?You’ll hear about how even “I’m fine” can be a mask, how shape-shifting to avoid conflict becomes second nature, and how the survival self can quietly run the show — even when your heart longs to rest.✨ In this episode, we reflect on:Why control is sometimes a trauma response...
2025-07-2518 min