Purple Couch
Conversations about faith and life. Real-life is not Pinterest perfect. Real-life is not a perfectly cropped Instagram post. Real-life gets messy, takes unexpected turns where stuff happens.

Deanna Nowadnick
Speaker | Writer | Author
www.FruitOfMySpirit.com
about
Deanna Nowadnick
Before my father died, he reminded me that Mom had asked me to write a book. At the time the boys were in college, and the notion of writing was unfathomable. Writers write books. By the time my boys were adults, I’d run out of excuses. I was also at that age when I could pause and reflect.
Fruit of My Spirit: Reframing Life in God’s Grace was my first publishing endeavor. My second was Signs in Life: Finding Direction in Our Travels with God. Both are collections of stories that tell of God’s love and faithfulness. Both tell of His remarkable grace and mercy.
When not writing, I serve as the Client Service Coordinator for The Planner’s Edge, an investment advisory firm in Washington state. I’m active in my church, serving on the Leadership Team and gathering with a wonderful group of ladies to study and giggle over lattes and chocolate. On my desk is a rock with the words “Choose Joy!” etched in it. It’s my inspiration for each day. As an author, it is my hope that my own words might share that joy we find together as children of God.
With Him, it can be so.

A Story of Love and Compassion with Candy Wright
Today Deanna sits down with Candy Wright to answer the question when life gets big, how you keep God bigger? Candy is a life coach and weight loss coach. As her website says: she's a lot like us--very successful in many ways yet struggling to find love and compassion...
A Story of Love and Compassion with Candy Wright
Today Deanna sits down with Candy Wright to answer the question when life gets big, how you keep God bigger? Candy is a life coach and weight loss coach. As her website says: she's a lot like us--very successful in many ways yet struggling to find love and compassion...
The Purple Couch with guest Kathy Collard Miller
Today Deanna sits down with Kathy Collard Miller to answer the question when life gets big, how you keep God bigger? Kathy is the author of over 50 books on Christian living, Bible commentary, and women's studies. She is the award-winning and best-selling author of...
Purple Couch with Vickie Adair
Vickie Adair sits down with Karen on the Purple Couch to discuss the walk back from the "pit of despair". Vickie's story starts at the darkest point in her life when everything seemed to be crashing around her. She tells the story of leaning on the word of God and...
The Purple Couch with guest Lynsie Hagen
Deanna Nowadnich sits down with Lynsie Hagen to discuss how even in the busiest of times God finds ways to show his love. Lynsie is a mom, wife, daughter, and realtor who shares her love with her community through Take the Next Step. TTNS is an organization that helps...
Conversations on the Purple Couch
Conversations on the Purple Couch with Rachel Young, a two-time Emmy-award winning journalist who followed God's light out of the bright lights of network television. She inspires and encourages us! Join Deanna Nowadnick and Rachel Young on the purple couch, a...
The Purple Couch with Heather Rousey
Heather Rousey has a wonderful story (as we all do!) with interesting twists and turns (as we all do!). God has been with her and her husband in ways that truly inspire. God has been with her as a public servant in ways that motivate. We had 15 minutes on film that...
The Purple Couch with Karen and Danielle
Real Women~Real Stuff~Real Life Real-life is not Pinterest perfect. Real-life is not a perfectly cropped Instagram post. Real-life gets messy, takes unexpected turns where stuff happens. Let's get together and have real conversations about the real stuff on the Purple...
Owning Our Story
A year ago I was in New York City for a week of adventures with my husband. After dragging Kurt from the Museum of Modern Art to the Statue of Liberty, after making him stand outside Studio 1A for my moment with Hoda and the people of the Today Show, after telling him...
The Hill We All Climb
At the inauguration of our president, Joe Biden, and vice president, Kamala Harris, Amanda Gorman, a beautiful, young 22-year-old black woman, recited a remarkable poem, The Hill We Climb. Amanda is the youngest inaugural poet ever. She was the first person ever named...
Having Those Harder Conversations
My husband watched my “Morning WOLK with God” episode while I sat next to him. When it finished, I remarked that I’d come a long way from my days as a miserably inept lobbyist. Remembering my disastrous time as an Olympia influencer, I regaled him with my story of woe...
God’s Value Proposition
Earlier this year Jeff Bezos shared what some have called a brutal truth in his last letter to shareholders. According to Inc. Magazine, they are five short words that many never learn. The words? Create more than you consume. Bezos goes on to say that our goal should...
Beautifully Pieced Together
I’m a passionate advocate for words of loving kindness. “Walk the WOLK,” I like to say. Walk the words of loving kindness. But it’s not always easy to walk the WOLK, to walk the words of loving kindness, and often my prayer has been “Change my heart, O God.” Words of...
Those Non-Negotiables
My year included some non-negotiables. I try to be careful about have to’s, because I’m a recovering Type A perfectionist—who will be in recovery the rest of my life! For me, a have-to can quickly become “I don’t want to” and “I can’t,” and then I’m planning the pity...
Divine Regifting
You’ll often hear me talk about “walking the WOLK,” walking God’s words of loving kindness. When we walk the WOLK, we get to share God’s love, joy, peace, and hope. When we walk the WOLK, we’re part of a divine regifting strategy. Yes, divine regifting. Throughout...
Be Bold. Be Brave. Be You.
On Amazon is a book with the title, Be Bold. Be Brave. Be You. It has 100 blank pages. Yep, blank pages. The description says “Perfect for all ages—kids or adults!” As you would imagine, the point of the book is to record ways you’re bold and brave, ways in which...
Finding Joy
We all have days that go well; others that don’t. Some of my days have even included lost keys and pinched fingers. Fortunately, we have a God of loving kindness who is there every day, reaching in so we can reach out. Here at Fave Lifestyles I hope to share...
Musical Connections
So often our days are defined by errands, lots if errands. Some errands are just that—a short trip to the post office, groceries, but some errands are more—for you and for those you’re with. One of my favorite errands each week is picking up my three-year old grandson...
Straightening Our Crown
In the third chapter of the New Testament book of Titus, Paul reminds us that God’s loving kindness was/is our saving grace. When we “walk the WOLK,” when we walk God’s words of loving kindness (WOLK), we get to shine God’s light, share His grace, His forgiveness, His...
Finding Joy
We all have days that go well; others that don’t. Some of my days have even included lost keys and pinched fingers. Fortunately, we have a God of loving kindness who is there every day, reaching in so we can reach out. Here at Fave Lifestyles I hope to share...
When an Errand’s More Than an Errand
Several weeks ago I had a special errand. My friend Michol was taking the train back from a short trip to Eastern Washington. I asked to pick her up at the train station, not wanting her to arrive and then catch a bus back to Monroe. I know we’re all wearing masks...
Morning WOLK with God
In November I had the joy of hosting our first “Morning WOLK with God” here at Fave Lifestyles. Yes, Morning WOLK with God. No, I did not misspell WOLK. I’m a passionate advocate for words of loving kindness. “Walk the WOLK,” I like to say. Walk the words of loving...
God’s Loving Kindness and Those Pinched Fingers-Lost Keys Moments in Life
I love thinking about what God’s able to do in, through, and around me, because I’m a work in progress—at times a mess making no progress. When I was younger, my days were marked by parenting fails. Now that I’m a little older, it’s grandparenting fails. Several weeks...
Words Not Spoken
As seen in Gather MagazineReprinted from Signs in Life Hearing our vows, I have to believe every person in attendance at our wedding was sighing a silent, but collective “Finally!” After nine years of dating, breaking up, and getting back together, Kurt and I had...
Tears of Joy
“And above all these put on love, which binds everything in perfect harmony.” Colossians 3:14 My daughter-in-law Manoela had asked about family videos. “I just want to see Kevin when he was a little boy, to hear his voice.” I looked inside the family room’s closet....
Say It With Flowers
Hi, I’m Deanna Nowadnick, a writer and speaker who’s become a passionate advocate for words of loving kindness. “Walk the WOLK,” I like to say. Walk the words of loving kindness. I love filming short inspirational videos. One was called, “Say it with flowers.” Took me...
Being Who We Need to Be
“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” Philippians4:4 At my post-op appointment, my surgeon’s assistant asked about my new knee. I went through alist of complaints, most based on a theme of achiness and stiffness. Mark made a few notes and then...
Finding Joy in the Moment
Learning To Treasure the Moment Too often I’m not treasuring the moment. It’s easy to look past “now” to what’s next. The writingassignments that need to be completed, the calls that need to be returned, the plans that need to bemade. At other times, I can find myself...
Stories Matter
At Fave Lifestyles we celebrate stories because stories matter—not just those being recorded, those beingposted, but all of our stories. Rhetoric divides us. We become red states and blue states, conservatives and liberals, pro-this and anti-that.Stories unite us....
I Forgot the Words
We were made to be in a relationship—with God and each other, and when those connections getsevered, we falter. I’m an inspirational writer and a motivational speaker, a woman of faith, a woman of great faith whoforgot the words to The Lord’s Prayer. Yep, that prayer....
Keeping God Bigger
When Life Gets Big, How Does God Stay Bigger? The Importance Of Our Stories I love sharing stories—my own stories and the stories of others. Why? Because we all have a story totell! At Fave Lifestyles, I’m able to share both stories and short videos – Deanna...
A Grand Thanks
See what kind of love the Father has given to us,that we should be called children of God; and so we are.1 John 3:1 I recently found A GRAND THANKS, a list of 1000 things from 2012 for which I was grateful. It’s a listinspired by Ann Voskamp’s book, One Thousand...
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