Restless to Renewed

Send us Fan Mail Embark on a transformational journey with Leslie Matthews, a 77-year-old beacon of wisdom in the yoga community who's defying age with grace and agility. This episode promises to enlighten you on how yoga's adaptability transcends physical limitations, bringing vitality and balance to life's silver years. Leslie, with her dance background and now an yoga instructor, shares her story and her curriculum designed to make yoga accessible to all, regardless of age or mobility.&nbs...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Janice and Robin speak with Janet Clazzy, a local musician whose very last name is a combination of the idea of both classical and jazz music! After a career of playing music across the country in symphonies and churches, at 70, Janet felt that her performing days were over. Writing for a small-town newspaper, Janet recently worked through The Artist’s Way creativity course and found herself being drawn to create and perform a Christmas symphony to be performed t...

Send us Fan Mail Janice and Robin talk to Bishop Gloria Watson about how she was called to ministry as a young girl, how she pursued that calling through the years, and how she is following it now at age 63. Gloria started a nonprofit called Kid Savers of America, Inc., which includes afterschool tutoring as well as ministry to the whole family and community. She is not stopping with this dream but also has a passion for ministry with the homeless. We also talk about How to handle obstacles t...

Send us Fan Mail Have you heard the term “spiritual direction” and wondered what it means? In this podcast we talk to spiritual director Mary Louise McCullough about her journey to become a pastor, her retirement from pastoring, moving to a new part of the country, and beginning to offer spiritual direction in a new place and new season of her life. Janice interviews both Mary Louise and Robin to answer these questions: What is spiritual direction? And what is it NOT? What actually happ...

Send us Fan Mail Bestselling author Missy Buchanan joins us for a rich conversation about the work of this season of life—learning to adapt to the many changes—not always happily, but joyfully. Missy talks honestly about: The recent loss of her husband of many years and how grief is like an accordion, expanding and contracting, depending on the day. The mentoring, love, and support she has experienced from older women who have been widowed. Our “special assignment” as older ad...

Send us Fan Mail Join Janice and Robin as they talk with author and speaker Pat Wilson--an honest and vulnerable conversation about aging—the good, the bad, and the ugly! We talk about the losses and gains of aging (sometimes literal pounds!) as well as the gift of naps, knocking on some new doors, and the richness of spiritual life in this time of life. Thank you for listening. Be sure to visit the Restless to Renewed website for more information at https://www.facebook.com/RestlesstoRene...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Restless to Renewed channel! We are Robin and Janice, and like other women in our silver years, we want to live a happy, fulfilled life. We have both raised families and retired from our original careers, where we worked as friends and colleagues. One day we were enjoying a lovely lunch together, and our conversation led us to realize that we were both restless and shared a need for something more in our lives. We wanted to continue to use our skills an...