Hey, friend! I’m so glad you’re here. My name is Christina. I’m a Christ-follower, a wife, & a writer who wants to help you get strong. Not just physically, though that’s part of it. I LOVE lifting heavy things, sharing workouts, & posting about the healthy recipes I create. But the strength I’m after, and the kind I want to help you find, is a strength that can’t be seen on the outside. It’s that quiet kind of strength that lives deep in your spirit and changes you from the inside out. It’s the kind that provides resilience, hope, and peace no matter what your life looks like. It’s the kind that only a real relationship with Jesus can give.
Though I now believe that a relationship with Jesus is the key to strength in mind, body & spirit, I wasn’t always sold out for Him. In fact, for most of my life, I would identify as agnostic bordering heavily on atheism. I thought there could be something out there, but I doubted it. I definitely didn’t believe in Jesus and I thought people who did were out of their minds. I thought that the Bible, though I had never read it, was oppressive and filled with silly stories.
But in 2017 my life was in a season of complete unraveling. Out of sheer desperation, I began to get into that silly book. In it, I found something I had never expected to be there: Truth. I encountered Jesus in those pages and my life was completely changed forever.
On this blog, I seek to empower women to live wild, sold-out, lives for Jesus in their minds, bodies, and spirit. I do this by sharing deep dives into scripture to strengthen our spirits, workouts & recipes to strengthen our bodies, and Biblical truth to strengthen our minds. I also do it by candidly sharing my own experience with how Jesus has worked in my life, whether that’s with marriage, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, or family issues.
This blog is a ministry of my heart. It’s my intention to make this site a place filled with hope, free resources, and inspiration to help women find true strength & freedom in Jesus Christ. I want to inspire you to let go of all of the things that hold to back. I want to help you get wild about your faith to follow Him in everything you do!
I write from just outside of Chicago. I can usually be found one of three places: writing, cooking, or lifting. But if I’m not doing any of those, then I am probably trying to actively avoid adulting by theme-parking with my husband of 5 years or trying to fish something out of the mouth of my French Bulldog, Franklin.
This blog (like me) isn’t perfect but it’s growing day by day. But while it does, let me know if there is any way I can help YOU personally. Do you need prayer? Someone to talk to? Hit me up. You can contact me here. You can also find me here:
Instagram: @xtina.rivera
Facebook: @xtina.rivera
And you can find my podcast, The Uplifted Podcast, on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever else you get your Podcasts!
With Love,
🌻 Christina