PRN: Pause, Renew, Next
Religion & Spirituality
About
Welcome to PRN: Pause, Renew, Next, a podcast about soul-care, Scripture, and stories of faith. Join Ginny Detweiler, licensed counselor and lover of authentic conversation, to talk about practical soul-care tips, mental health, inspiring stories, books, relationships, and more. If you are looking for encouragement in your walk with Jesus, then this podcast is for you.
Episodes
- Lectio Divina: Meditating on Isaiah 61
In today’s episode, you’re invited to meditate on an important prophetic passage, Isaiah 61, using a method called Lectio Divina, or “Divine Reading.” This method of engaging Scripture employs four movements: Reading, Reflecting, Respondin…
- Stress: Leading to Resilience
How might stress influence resilience? In today’s episode, we’re going to look at two important factors that help us combat stress, which also might help us build resilience. I hope you come away from this episode with a fresh perspective…
- Thank You: A Few Reflections on PRN
As Pause Renew Next approaches 200 episodes, I’m offering a few reflections as I look back on the journey of PRN. Today, I’m sharing a few fun PRN stats, talking about how podcasting has changed, and explaining how I’ve personally grown an…
- Freely Sober: A Conversation with Ericka Andersen
We haven’t talked a lot about addiction on the podcast, but I think it’s a topic that deserves some time and attention. So, I’m really thankful for today’s guest, Ericka Andersen, who shares about her journey from alcohol dependence to sob…
- Resilience: Finding Movement in Frozen Places
It’s a new year, and we’re pressing on in our resilience series! Welcome to 2026, friends. Today, we’re reflecting on how movement plays a role in building resilience, and I’m not just talking about exercise! We’ll start our time together…
- An Advent Scripture Meditation
Whether you’re prancing, limping, or crawling into Advent, this Scripture meditation episode is for you. We’re spending time together today in Luke 1, getting a peak into the miraculous and beautiful interaction between two amazing women o…
- Stories Our Scars Tell: A Conversation with Brittany Tinsley
Today we’re talking about a topic that often goes under the radar or gets misunderstood: self-harm. I’m really grateful for this week’s guest, Brittany Tinsley, who shares some of her story and experience with self-injury. We talk about th…
- The Reserve
If you were going to listen to just one episode about resilience this season, I would definitely recommend this one! Today, we’re reflecting on the reservoir that feeds our endurance, perseverance, and resilience. In order to persist throu…
- The Escape Hatch
In this 15 minute soul-care reflection episode, we’ll begin with a relaxing imaging exercise and then spend time talking about a phenomenon that happens when we hit our mental and emotional limit. When we feel overwhelmed, exhausted, griev…
- Expanding Our Definition of Resilience
What makes someone resilient? Would you say that you are a resilient person? In today’s episode, we’re exploring reasons why we might want to expand the way we’re thinking about resilience. In our common understanding of resilience, we mig…
- (REPLAY) Stories of Resilience: Esther Ahn Kim
In Season 8, I’m trying to highlight stories of resilience and today’s story certainly does that! This is a replay biography episode from Season 2 of the podcast. Esther Ahn Kim’s story is full of bravery, perseverance, faith, and resilien…
- Bite Sized Bricks: A Conversation with Nathan & Dawn Detweiler
Do you ever wonder how our desires and our Spiritual gifts work together? In today’s episode, we’re talking about just that! It was a joy to have my brother and sister-in-law, Nathan and Dawn Detweiler on the podcast to talk about ministry…
- Scripture Meditation: Resilience on the Race Course
Join me for 20 minutes today as we meditate together on Hebrews 12. We’ll start our time together with a slow down exercise, then read and reflect together, noticing what this passage can teach us about resilience. I hope that this time al…
- Dim Sum and Faith: A Conversation with Jenn Suen Chen
Are you curious about diving deeper into your story? In this episode, we’re talking about storywork and how our personal narratives shape our spiritual journeys. I am so thankful for this conversation with guest, author, and spiritual dire…
- Season 8: Resilience
After a long summer break, I’m so happy to be back with you for Season 8 of the podcast! This season, our theme is resilience, and today’s episode is an introduction into resilience and what you can expect this season. We’ll start our time…
- Treasured Clay: A Conversation with April H. Cranford
One of my favorite passages in the New Testament is 2 Corinthians 4, so you can imagine my delight when I found out that today’s guest, Rev. April H. Cranford, recently led her church through a worship series about this passage. They calle…
- Soul-Care Reflections: To Be In Process
What does it mean to be in process? As we prepare to wrap up Season 7 of the podcast, I’m offering some reflections on what it means to be a human in process. We’ll also circle back around to some themes that we’ve talked about this season…
- Soul-Care Reflections: A Scripture Meditation on Resurrection & Suffering
It’s been a couple of months since we did a Scripture meditation together, and it seems fitting to focus on themes of suffering and resurrection this week as we approach Easter. We’ll begin our time together with a breath prayer and then t…
- Understanding Kids with Big Behaviors: A Conversation with Fran Ballengee, LCMHC
If you know a child with big, baffling behaviors, then today’s episode is for you! If you don’t, stick around, because this conversation will open your eyes to the reasons behind behaviors you may have dismissed as being a result of “willf…
- In Process: Asking Questions
When’s the last time you were curious? To be human means you are a question asker, and in today’s episode we’re going to reflect together on both the beauty and the frustration of this process. I hope you come away from this episode with a…
- Cultivating Joy: A Conversation with Josh Howlett, LCMHC
In this podcast episode, I’m joined by my colleague Josh Howlett, to talk about an often mentioned, but little understood emotion, joy. Josh embodies joy, and I’m so thankful he could join us to share his perspective on this subject. We ta…
- In Process: Ruptures Within
Ruptures can occur in all of our relationships, but have you ever considered that you can have ruptures within your relationship with yourself as well? Today, we’re continuing our series on being a human in process by examining this idea.…
- In Process: Considering Worry & Anxiety
Today, we’re continuing our theme of being a human in process, by considering normal human emotions and reactions that tend to come up as we are navigating life as a human on planet earth. Particularly, we’re looking at emotions and reacti…
- In Process: Considering Fear & Stress
Today we’re looking at the other half of the fight or flight response by considering fear and stress. What are they? What purpose do they serve? In what ways are they often misunderstood? We’ll talk about all of this and also look at some…
- In Process: Considering Anger
Today we’re considering an often misunderstood but necessary emotion, anger. Being a human in process means that we will experience a variety of emotions, both comfortable and uncomfortable. In the next couple of episodes, we’ll be coverin…
- Looking Up: A Conversation with Courtney Ellis
If you love birds or nature, then you are really going to enjoy today’s conversation with guest, Courtney Ellis, about her new book, Looking Up: A Birder’s Guide to Hope Through Grief . This is such a great episode about ministry, grief, m…
- Psalms of New Orientation
Today, we conclude our series on the Psalms by examining Psalms of new orientation. We’ll be looking for signs of life, of rescue, of reversal of fortune, and of thanksgiving as we meditate upon Psalms 34 together. What is clear in all of…
- Psalms of Disorientation
We’re continuing our series on the Psalms and what they teach us about being a human in process. Today, we’re talking about psalms of disorientation. These are songs of darkness, of grief, of anger, of lament, and of complaint. These psalm…
- Psalms of Orientation
Today we continue our series on the Psalms and learning what they teach us about being a human in process. We’ll be meditating on a psalm of orientation today, Psalm 19. Psalms of orientation evoke gratitude for the blessings of creation a…
- Orientation, Disorientation, and New Orientation
We might call this mini-series, “where faith meets mental health.” More specifically, we would call it, “where worship and prayer meet mental health.” For the next few weeks, we are going to be diving into the Psalms and examining them thr…
- These Stones Remain: A Conversation with Claudia Campbell
How can we find hope when darkness and suffering linger? This week’s guest, Claudia Campbell, shares about her experience of wrestling through just that question. She recently wrote a book of reflections called These Stones Remain , in whi…
- Soul-Care Reflections: A Bird From the Lord
Join me today for a short and sweet reflection episode about how the Lord’s grace met me in an unexpected way last spring. We’ll start by doing a regulation exercise together called the magic moustache. Then, I’ll share a story about a bir…
- Mountains, Valleys, and Ditches: The Story of Helen Roseveare
It’s time for a biography episode! Today, we’re talking about Helen Roseveare, a doctor, writer, missionary, speaker, and ditch-digger. Her faith and her story will both inspire and challenge you. I was first introduced to Helen’s story a…
- Sarah & Ginny Read: Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
If you feel like you’re in survival mode and white knuckling your way through life, then this episode and this book are for you. It was a joy to have Sarah Pascual on the podcast today to talk with me about a book that we both recently rea…
- In Process: The 5 Grief Stages
Today, we’re continuing our series of being in process by exploring the five grief stages. Loss is a normal part of the human journey, and it’s helpful and empowering to understand the ways in which we may experience it. Although when we t…
- In Process: Grief and Lament
This week we’re talking about a subject that is an integral part of the human condition, grief. It’s a pretty important topic to start with, when it comes to being a human in process, because to be human, means to face loss: loss of dreams…
- Soul-Care Reflections: In Process
In this short reflection episode, we’re diving into the theme of Season 7: being a human who is in process. You’ll hear how I arrived at this theme and some of the things that you can expect throughout the coming months on the podcast. We’…
- The Way of Belonging: A Conversation with Sarah Westfall
Welcome to Season 7 of the PRN Podcast! I’m so excited to kick of this new season with a fantastic guest, Sarah Westfall. Sarah recently wrote a book called, The Way of Belonging: Reimagining Who We Are and How We Relate . I loved getting…
- Live Slowly: A Conversation with Jodi Grubbs
Do you need a gentle invitation to exhale? If so, then this conversation is really going to minister to you. This is the last episode of Season 6, and I am so happy that we could end the season with this conversation about slow-living. My…
- Tell Your Story: How To Begin Your Story Work
As we wrap up Season 6 about telling our stories, I want to leave you with some practical places to begin your own story work. In this reflection episode, I’m laying out four integral parts of story work: reflection, writing, telling, and…
- Stories of the Kingdom: The Good Shepherd
Join me for this 12 minute Scripture meditation episode as we reflect on the imagery of Christ as our Good Shepherd. We’ll be spending time in both Psalm 23 as well as in John 10 if you’d like to read along. May you be encouraged on your j…
- Appalachian Trail: A Mom’s Perspective with Julie Long
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hike the Appalachian Trail? It sounds epic, right? Well, today’s guest, Julie Long, is here to talk about her family’s Appalachian Trail adventure. Her husband and son are currently hiking it…
- Tell Your Story: In Season and Out of Season
In today’s reflection episode, I’m exploring an existential spiritual question: Are we supposed to bear fruit in every season? This question relates to both soul care and our stories, because the truth is, we all experience different and u…
- Tell Your Story: God’s Will and My Story
Have you ever thought about how God’s will intersects with your story? In this reflection episode, we’ll consider specifically what we’re telling ourselves about God’s will and how that affects our thinking, our view of ourselves, and our…
- Tell Your Story: 3 Paradigms for Relationship
Today, we’ll be examining the characters who show up in our stories through the lens of relationship. Specifically, we’ll be talking about 3 paradigms for relationship: independence, codependence, and interdependence. Each of these relatio…
- Building Bridges of Emotional Regulation: A Conversation with Deni Huttula, LCMHC
What are emotions and what purpose do they serve? In this episode, we’ll answer that question, as well as talk about how we can recognize, name, and learn to regulate them. It was a joy to talk in this episode with my friend and fellow cou…
- Stories of the Kingdom: Treasure
In today’s episode, we’re going to be meditating on one of Jesus’ parables, and gleaning what He is teaching about His kingdom through the story. If you’d like to read along, we’ll be reading from Luke 12. As always, we’ll read the passage…
- Solo Parenting Children From Hard Places: A Conversation with Leah Stirewalt
In the second part of my conversation with Leah, she shares about the unexpected difficulties she has faced as a parent. Leah is a single parent of four adopted children, and she honestly talks about the realities of that journey. She also…
- Layers of Grief: A Conversation with Leah Stirewalt
Pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee, and settle in for quite a conversation today, friends. It was a joy to talk with my friend, Leah Stirewalt, as she shared her story on this episode. It is no easy story, and to say the least, it has l…
- Tell Your Story: Explicit and Implicit Memory
Did you know that there is more than one kind of memory? In telling our stories, we are accessing both explicit and implicit memories to form a coherent narrative. In this episode, we’ll begin with a calming exercise, then talk about the r…