Carry Confetti
A podcast to help you better understand the Bible, your brain, and the benefits of hope.
I’m Darcie Frost, an Oklahoma girl now living in New Zealand and leading a church with my husband (and our two toddlers in tow). Through weekly episodes released every Monday, I’ll be exploring Christian theology and studies in psychology to better understand the powerful effects of faith, gratitude, and hope. No matter what season of life you are in, we could all benefit from a bit more joy infused into those ordinary, everyday moments.
This podcast explores a range of topics from understanding the character of God, finding hope in the midst of grief, finding freedom in forgiveness, how God has wired our brains, how to study the Bible, how to have more fun in life, and everything in between.
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Episodes
76 episodes
The 4 Levels of Reading: Why Not Every Bible Reading Plan is Helpful | Ep. 72
Have you ever started a Bible reading plan that just felt so disconnected, so you were left feeling lost and confused? Have you ever set a goal to read the Bible in a year, but then you fell behind and got discouraged... so you started to speed...
Coffee Dates with God: How to Talk to the Author of the Bible | Ep. 71
My relationship with God changed in a beautiful way when I started to spend intentional time with him like I would a friend. It all started with a coffee date – just me and my Bible sitting in a public cafe. Unashamed. Fully ...
The Meeting of Minds: My Husband's Journey From Cynical Atheist to Sold Out Believer (Part 2) | Ep. 70
Reading the Bible can first feel like a lot of information... but if you truly start to engage with the author and understand God's perspective and see His heart through every page, it will lead to transformation. My husband once be...
The Meeting of Minds: My Husband's Journey From Cynical Atheist to Sold Out Believer (Part 1) | Ep. 69
My husband wasn't raised with a knowledge of the Bible. So, he didn't have a true understanding of Christianity. In fact, he hardly knew any Christians at all. Yet, at his core, he believed that any Christian was completely delusional.
Make it Multisensory: How Do I Engage with the Bible Best? | Ep. 68
You might have heard of learning styles before, but is it all a myth? Has a preferred learning style become a 'crutch' or an excuse to *not* learn in ways that aren't automatic to you? Experts now believe a multisensory approach is ...
Overcoming Choice Paralysis: Which Bible Translation Should I Read? | Ep. 67
We've all faced choice paralysis or "the paradox of choice" when choosing a Bible and when opening up the Bible to start reading it. Many people have no idea where to start on a book that isn't written like any other book. As we talked about in...
Tastes Like Honey: What is the Bible? | Ep. 66
The Bible to me is not simply medicine for the soul or an instruction book for humanity... it's sweeter than honey dripping from a honeycomb. The Bible is the best-selling book in all of history with an estimated 5-7 billio...
You Need a Dose of Delight, Not a Hit of Dopamine | Ep. 65
Life can be hard and the days can be stressful... and on the hard days, we often look for a quick hit of dopamine that never leaves us feeling truly satisfied, replenished, or rested.What we really need is a dose of delight....
STRESS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Ep. 64
Stress can ruin a day, overwhelm a mind, and stir up turmoil in your body. But you don't have to let it be the boss of your brain. You weren't created to live in a constant state of stress and worry. In fact, God ordained rest for humanity, bec...
Do This ONE Thing Now for Long Term Change | Ep. 63
This simple 20-minute activity has been proven through research to be highly influential in a person's long term success and overall happiness and satisfaction after they've faced loss, trauma, or any form of hardship. Of all that my counsellor...
Misbeliefs Lead to Misaligned Minds & Missed Opportunities for Delight | Ep. 62
How is it that some people who have faced the most horrific events in life can still find it possible to live with joy, delight, and hope for a brighter future? How do Holocaust survivors go from simply surviving to thriving well into their 90s...
Leaky Emotions, Feelings that Flood, and the Power of Your Prayer Language | Ep. 61
Are you the type to say "I'm fine" even when you're very much not fine? Or are you the type to keep the conversation of your emotional vent going by saying "just let me say one more thing and then I'm done"?Today, we're talking ...
Release the Damaging Hooks of Rumination | Ep. 60
Rumination can trick us into thinking we're actively trying to solve a problem by thinking about it so much, when really we're stuck in a negative loop that is harming our brains.It happens to the best of us, and this episode will reveal...
Change the Narrative to Silence the Chatterbox | Ep. 59
In this episode, we explore the powerful influence of the internal narrator we all have... and it's a narrator that can't always be trusted. Although we don't intend to, our brain can come into alignment with a lie and if it gets repeated enoug...
Your Predisposition is Not Your Destiny | Ep. 58
Do your genes control you or do you have the power to impact your DNA in a positive way? Let’s explore the science of epigenetics and the scriptures that command us to take our thoughts captive.Why should we and how do we?We’re ki...
Some of the Best Advice I've Ever Heard | Ep. 57
There is so much joy in being an amateur. It's a word that often has a negative connotation attached, but there is far more to this word than we realise. It doesn't just mean "unskilled" as many have come to believe.Once you reframe this...
Grandma Hobbies are Basically Cheap Therapy (feat. Maree Beaven) | Ep. 56
What do "grandma hobbies" and therapy techniques like EMDR have in common? In this episode, we'll talk about the research and the intentional rest that old school hobbies are bringing young people that are overly saturated by a digital world.&n...
Build Mental Resilience with an Analogue Life | Ep. 55
Why the sudden trend towards an "analogue" life where people are filling bags with easy art kits, decks of cards, polaroid cameras, and more? Well, our brains our facing digital fatigue and something tactile in our hands is helping ...
Artisans & the Lost Skills as AI Takes Over | Ep. 54
Did you know that the first person in the Bible explicitly mentioned to be filled with the Holy Spirit was an artist? Have you ever considered how many artisans were used by God throughout history? And what does that mean going forward with the...
The Experiment: Picking up an Abandoned Hobby 17 Years Later | Ep. 53
Let's talk about putting the findings of my "fun audit" to the test... with an experiment that required making space for my personal fun magnets to collide.It was time to touch a soccer ball again.And boy oh boy, did I learn some ...
The Solution: Reset Your Life with a Fun Audit | Ep. 52
Welcome to Part 2 of a mini-series on how to bring more fun into your life -- not the fake kind of fun, but rather the soul-filling kind that makes you feel fully alive.I'm a firm believer that we're not meant to just "get by" in life. W...
The Problem: You've Been Sold the Lie of Fake Fun | Ep. 51
Welcome to a 3-part series where I unpack some of my own internal musings, alongside evidence-backed research to identify a problem that we're all currently facing... We've forgotten how to have true fun, because we've bought into the ...
Dance Like David (Your Brain Will Love It) | Ep. 50
Faith, Neuroscience & the Mental Health Benefits of Joyful WorshipDid you know the Bible connects joy and movement long before neuroscience did?In this episode of Carry Confetti, we revisit the moment when Davi...