Life as a Dare

Making Every Moment Count

I was on the Practical Christian Podcast with Travis Albritton!

Can I just say I love finding new podcasts out of the blue?

And it’s even more fun when you get to be a part of them!

A few weeks ago I was on Travis Albritton’s podcast, The Practical Christian podcast, and it was an absolute blast. I’ve been listening to his podcast since he reached out to me and I absolutely love it. I love how he tackles topics that actually matter in day-to-day Christian living. Although I also love the more theoretical theological topics, too, it’s breath of fresh air to listen to someone talk about something that matters to me NOW!

So give it a listen, and check out Travis’s podcast!

Here’s the interview:

Some things you’ll hear us discuss on this episode:

  • Why I started a blog when I was 10 years old
  • My experience as an outspoken woman in a church culture that values women of a quieter and gentler spirit
  • How parents can stay connected to their teens in an Instagram world

If iTunes is more your thing, you can listen to it here:

I’m on YouTube!

So I did something big this last week. I started a YouTube channel!

I wasn’t going to make a whole post about it, but I wanted to let you know a bit about what’s been going on in my life, since there’s a real reason I decided to start the channel now.

Rebecca Lindenbach of Life as a Dare is on YouTube! Check it out here!

Warning: I’m going to get a bit personal here.

I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching recently. See, I was a college blogger all year last year, and college has been my life since I was 16 years old. I’m looking to do 7 more years of school to get my Ph.D. I really really love learning.

But something about the university environment didn’t work with me very well, if I’m honest. I suffered with anxiety pretty heavily throughout my final two years, but had been experiencing depression and anxiety on and off since I was 16 and started school.

I have learned, through a lot of introspection and trial and error, was that lots of my issues were due to the uncertainty of it all. I was working so that I could get a 90 average to get into a program that very few people actually get accepted into, even people who have my grades. There was a lot of uncertainty, and I felt like I was in a hamster wheel–get good grades so that I can do… what? There’s no certainty. I didn’t feel like I was going anywhere, and I wasn’t actually doing anything.

I have felt for the last few years like I’m a hamster in a wheel.

I went into psychology so that I could actually make a difference. So that I could help kids have happier families, help them thrive and go from “high-risk” groups to “low-risk.” But my undergrad degree, honestly, really frustrated me. I didn’t feel myself getting there. I was studying all these courses that I would never use because I just needed the credits. On top of it all, I lost focus as to why I was actually in school doing what I was doing.

So where am I at now?

I haven’t given up on grad school! I’m actually still dedicated to pursuing higher education. But what I have learned is that life is so much bigger than school. If I continue to do my Ph.D., it’s going to be because it is what I truly want to do. Not something that I feel like I should do because I can.

Until then, I’m going to be applying for grad school, but I’m also going to be working on making a difference now instead of waiting until I can make a difference. Because if we never start taking action, it’s so easy to get stuck in a rut.

This summer has been one of the happiest of my life. Even happier than the summer I got married. And a lot of that is that (a) I don’t have to deal with wedding planning (can I get an “amen?”) but also (b) I have a renewed sense of purpose. I am so excited about growing this blog and to be able to provide you with better quality content than I’ve ever given before. I’m so excited to help you reach your goals through this blog, and to see how we both grow on this journey together :)

This is a big deal for me, guys!

I’ve been blogging for a long time (since I was 10 years old) but I’m starting to actually do this as my job, now, which means that I’m able to produce more content that isn’t sponsored content. My dream is to be able to blog as a full-time job, creating tons of e-books and e-courses for you to help you succeed in life, whether that’s through succeeding in your relationships, thriving spiritually, or growing personally.

The only way I can do that is by going outside of the blogging world, for my purposes. To be honest, I want to reach a larger audience than I can through blogging, and I want to be able to actually connect to people on a more personal level. I find that videos help with that. So even though the majority of my content will still be here, on the blog, you’ll also be seeing me a lot more on YouTube.

So, here’s my first video! Make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss any :)

Thank you for your encouragement and support over the last year and a half. It has been wonderful, and I’m so excited to be able to give you even more of my time and create more content on multiple platforms.

Reflections on Changing Seasons | June Goals

May was a month of dealing with change. But for the first time, it wasn’t a completely aversive experience for me. 

I’m a control freak. Everyone who knows me knows that. I actually had a professor start laughing once when she was reading out the personality characteristics for A-type personality and said “So, Rebecca.” (It was a small class, we were all friends, it was funny.)

But May has been a big season of change. In fact, this whole year or two have been. Only a brief 17 months ago I wasn’t even engaged–now I’ve been married for almost a year.

May was a pretty big shift for me, though, even more so than a lot of the marriage stuff was. I pretty much knew what to expect with that, to be honest. This month I graduated school (minus one course–finishing that up this summer but it’s online so I consider myself graduated from school in the sense that I’ll never sit in another undergrad level classroom again), Connor quit his job so now I’m the sole breadwinner so he can do full-time school this summer, and I started my first real career. It is insane. Plus, we moved, so now I have this new place to take care of. [Read more…]

I’m an author?! | Insta-update 6

Welcome to the fifth instalment of my insta-updates! In case you missed the last one, this is a time where I update what I’ve been up to by sharing what I’ve been doing on Instagram! I find it fun, and I’ve always hated the boring posts that are just long essays of “what I’ve been up to” from bloggers. So I’m throwing in some pictures to make it more interesting!

Many of you have noticed that I haven’t been quite so active in the blogging realm recently, so I thought I’d give you all an update as to what I’ve been up to!

I have been insanely busy. I know, we all feel that way, but in April I was working on my honours thesis and school, I went on a grad trip with my ex-roommates and my sister, and then I started my first legitimate career this summer writing a book.  [Read more…]

Insta-Update 5: I’m Graduating! Kind of!

Welcome to the fifth instalment of my monthly insta-updates! In case you missed the last one, this is a time where I update what I’ve been up to by sharing what I’ve been doing on Instagram! I find it fun, and I’ve always hated the boring posts that are just long essays of “what I’ve been up to” from bloggers. So I’m throwing in some pictures to make it more interesting!

I haven’t done a personal update post in a while, I’ve realized. But I’m going to start doing them again to still seem like more of a human on here and less of a college-tip-robot who just continuously pumps out posts but doesn’t actually have a personal life.

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