In this honest and inspiring episode, Ashlee sits down with Erin Cuccio—author of Unraveled: Finding the Lovely When Life Comes Undone and the newly released devotional Live Lovely, speaker, and host of the Make Room for Lovely podcast—to talk about what it really means to find beauty in the midst of unlovely moments.
Erin doesn’t sugarcoat life’s hardest moments. She’s walked through loss, wrestled with perfectionism, and let go of people-pleasing one surrendered step at a time. But in the unraveling, she discovered something deeper: you don’t have to choose between joy and grief, faith and questions, or beauty and brokenness. You can hold both.
You’ll hear:
How to Live Lovely in the middle of real-life messes
What it looks like to hold both grief and joy with open hands
How to unravel beliefs about perfection and people-pleasing that keep us stuck
Consider this conversation your invitation to stop waiting for life to look “lovely” before you start living it. And, to trust that God’s fingerprints are still all over your story, even when the picture isn’t clear yet.
Follow Erin @erincuccio for ongoing encouragement to live lovely with peace and purpose. You can order her books and find her podcast at erincuccio.com.
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As always, we hope these conversations give you inspiration and encouragement for your next Big Ideas!
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