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Crossroads with Jenny Bushkell
Jenny Bushkell talks with Jodana Kanabi about moving from burnout, trauma and a rushed lifestyle to a slower, Christ‑centred way of living. The conversation focuses on clearing inner clutter, abiding in God, and building a simple life that starts with the heart and ends with the home.
25:01•27 Aug 2026
From Burnout to a Soft‑Centred Life with Jodana Kanabi
Episode Overview
- Slow down and choose a calmer pace of life instead of constant hurry and overcommitment.
- Start with clearing mental and emotional clutter before focusing on organising the home.
- Use Scripture and God’s presence as the primary source of comfort and direction.
- Recognise your worth as someone created in God’s image, rather than accepting damaging labels.
- Practise abiding and being still so God can peel back the deeper layers of the heart.
“We are enough because he's enough. We are not a disappointment because he's not a disappointment.”
What drives someone to seek a life that’s slower, simpler and rooted in faith? This episode follows speaker, author and mentor Jodana Kanabi as she chats with host Jenny Bushkell about moving from burnout and busyness to what she calls living from "the soft centre" of the heart. You’ll hear Jodana describe how years as a professional organiser showed her that colour‑coded pantries aren’t enough when "mental and emotional clutter" are stacked sky‑high.
She talks about life feeling like an old pressure cooker, building steam with endless commitments, technology and expectations, until people hit shutdown and burnout. Out of that came her Lampstand Life Method, a process that starts with the heart and mind, moves through habits and commitments, and only then gets to the home. Jodana shares a candid, sometimes intense backstory: trauma, abuse, anxiety, single motherhood, and a very "worldly" lifestyle before meeting Jesus at 27.
Her account of God audibly saying, "Just give me a chance. I’ll change your life," and then quite literally lifting her hand during an altar call is as raw as it is hopeful. She jokes that she’s "a literal walking mess to a miracle", and now walks alongside women to help them see the same possibility in their own lives. Scripture threads through everything here.
Jodana talks about 2 Corinthians 1:4 and Psalm 46:10, describing "be still" and "abide" as more than quiet time—they’re a posture of the heart. She explains how God reframed her deepest insecurity: "We are enough because he’s enough. We are not a disappointment because he’s not a disappointment." If your schedule is full but your soul feels empty, this conversation about uncluttering life from the inside out might be the nudge you’ve been waiting for.
Where might God be inviting you to slow down, be still, and let him work on your soft centre first?
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