Host Alisha Hicks explores Good Friday as the honest, weight-bearing place where lament and surrender meet restoration, tracing Jesus’ prayers from the garden to the cross and why felt absence is not failure.

Hear how the cross completes the work of reconciliation, learn to pray an honest lament, and discover a guided Good Friday breathwork practice to move from honesty into surrender and healing.

To join our Good Friday Breath & Prayer Session in The Woodlands Texas, register at www.living holistic.org

In this episode Alisha Hicks explores gardening as a spiritual practice—reconnecting with God’s original design by growing herbs for food, medicine, and ministry. She shares biblical garden principles, five easy-to-grow starter herbs (basil, mint, rosemary, lavender, chamomile), and practical tips for containers, planting, watering, harvesting, drying, and winter care.

The episode also emphasizes gardening as a space for prayer, teaching children, and generosity, and issues a simple challenge: plant one herb this week to begin a sustainable, faith-filled garden.

Host Alisha Hicks walks through Genesis 1 and across Scripture to reveal how God designed food for our bodies — a plant-first, Mediterranean-style pattern that Jesus and his followers ate. The episode traces the biblical food calendar, the role of herbs and olive oil, and how meat and fish fit as gifts for celebration.

Practical takeaways include making plants the foundation of meals, using olive oil and herbs, eating more fish, choosing seasonal whole foods, treating meat as occasional celebration food, and sharing meals in gratitude and community.

Want more biblical education and insight into natural wellness? Join us on The Biblical Herbalism Academy at Heritagehavens.com

Host Alicia Hicks traces stewardship from Genesis through the fall to its redemption in Christ, showing how dominion became domination and how Jesus restores stewardship as service and flourishing.

This episode offers practical guidance for stewarding your body, relationships, and the earth, and challenges listeners to take one small, faithful step toward redeemed stewardship in everyday life.

Presented as a simple fix for gallstones and digestive pain, gallbladder removal is often portrayed as no big deal. This episode explains what the gallbladder actually does — from concentrating bile and aiding fat digestion to supporting detoxification, gut balance, and hormone clearance — and why its loss creates ripple effects through your body.

If you've had your gallbladder removed or are considering surgery, learn what changes to expect and practical steps to support bile flow, digestion, nutrient absorption, and gentle detox so you can thrive long-term.