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This is StRest! In this episode, Kerstin Lindquist sits down with her 14-year-old daughter Georgia for an unfiltered mother–daughter conversation about stress, surrender, and what biblical peace actually looks like when life is messy, loud, and very human. Georgia opens the episode by wrestling with the difference between happiness and joy, and why she believes real peace is something only God can give in His presence—not something you manufacture by trying harder.
From there, Georgia interviews her mom about miscarriage, infertility, adoption, and the long “waiting periods” that stretched Kerstin’s faith while she was anchoring the news at ABC, moving to QVC, and walking through her mother’s 12-year battle with dementia. Kerstin shares how a neurologist’s words about stress-related damage in her mom’s brain pushed her back to school for nutrition, into health coaching, and ultimately into creating StRest—where health science meets biblical truth.
They also go deep on stress and the body: the four pillars of wellness (sleep, food, movement, relationships/spirituality), good stress vs bad stress, how perimenopause and menopause change a woman’s ability to metabolize stress, and why processed “fake food” is breaking our brains and bodies.
Georgia talks about teen stress, school pressure, and how rooting her identity in what Scripture says rather than peers’ opinions freed her from social anxiety. Together they unpack Sabbath as a real stress tool, what they learned on a three-and-a-half-month mission trip to Mexico about living slower, and why it’s better to bring your anger to God than to turn away from Him when life feels unfair.
If you’ve ever felt like a high-performing Christian who is still exhausted, controlling, and anxious in the dark, this first episode offers an honest look at what it means to collapse on Jesus, practice surrender, and slowly move from stress to rest.
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CHAPTERS
(00:00) Defining peace and launching StRest
(03:00) Miscarriage, adoption, and first books
(07:00) Learning to trust God with stress
(11:00) Surrender, peace, and God as Father
(15:00) Church, community, and loneliness
(19:00) Sleep, food, movement, and fake food
(23:00) Good stress vs bad stress
(27:00) Menopause, women, and overload
(31:00) Mission trip, Sabbath, slower living
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