Jessica Lindberg

05/03/2026

Life lately…and it’s often happening in contrast. Loved spending Saturday with the women of - I was so impressed with their gorgeous event, their mission to support women’s heart health but more than that, the room was full of young women eager to make their mark on the world. My message to them…your physical heart sustains your body (yes care for it! It’s a miracle!) but your inner heart shapes your life- so cultivate it, shape it, strengthen it. The world needs women. Thank you for the invitation and your heartfelt intro. 🫶🏻

Then right back into my actual life of taking care of Bodey. He’s been getting IVIG infusion to help with seizure control. I share b/c maybe a mom who reads this will find it helps her child. IVIG is - yes for your immune system support- but research shows it is anti inflammatory for the brain and is being used more in hard to control epilepsy. Always scouring science for ways to help. We have so far to go and yet so thankful for the options we do have.

Life happens in what often feels like contrast, but really it all fits together- one part informing the other. TBH- right before I get up to share any part of my life, I want to secretly sneak out of the room (I’m probably not supposed to admit that 😉). Vulnerability is hard. Courage to share is…well a little uncomfortable - but I’m thankful and proud to steward this story God has called me to. Sharing it he Heart Strong message and story is my calling and I’m always thankful for the opportunity to share it.

Life is for living…in the easy days when we feel energized and on the days we feel frustrated and disappointed- we learn and grow through them all. ❤️💪

01/01/2026

2025 was a year. A year I lived behind the scenes in faithfulness to what life presented. It took immense faith, perseverance, perspective shift, allowing, accepting and fierce love. Carrying grief, fear, hope and joy all together. It’s a year that solidified things I’d been sensing for a long time. Often clarity comes through pain.

My boys had amazing years on the court, the field, the course and the track. Just full of awe and gratitude God has given them such gifts. We took our first ever family of five trip to FL. Bodey saw the ocean! We started college visits. My family showed up for me big time. Bodey spent a lot of time in the hospital and we are living with grief and love as his illness progresses. Heart Strong remains the beat of my heart, and my calling. Erik said goodbye to Lindberg Law, something we were not expecting, and hello to a new opportunity. I had the chance to speak at a couple of events. Something I feel called to and will come in God’s timing. I had to pause work that’s so important to me, and that was hard. But I also gained needed clarity on what stays and what needs to go. Friends showed up for us in beautiful, practical ways. God carried us and blessed us in incredible ways. We got a new puppy!

2025 was a year of shedding and readjusting. Of saying hello and goodbye. Of being reminded that God’s love and faithfulness is not only found in circumstances we like, but in every one we face. My word for 2025 was courage. And little did I know I’d need it in abundance.

2026 is Peace + Intention. Trusting it to be so.

Happy New Year 🫶🏻 Stay the course + stay courageous.

09/11/2025

Our kids can teach us a lot. This kid reminds me that putting in the work day after day, no matter the weather or how you feel pays off. He reminds me that success is a commitment to the process, loving the process actually, and staying committed not to the outcome, but to the pursuit of excellence.

My heart swells with pride, most of all because of who you are. Not what you do…though it’s so much fun to watch.

He met is time goal for the season. Is All State and took 3rd place. What a great day.

Thank you Coach Moore for all you pour into these boys. It’s everything to them.

27/10/2025

Two of my boys had incredible sports weekends. One got third overall at XC regionals and the other had 160 yards and two touchdowns. My heart swells watching them play sports they love.

And while I’m beyond proud of their successes, if I’m honest, I also feel a tinge of grief that my other two boys will never do anything like that physically.

It’s a strange place to sit and it’s also a wonderful place to sit. Playing your heart out, leaving it all on the course, using the gift of a healthy body to experience and bring joy. These are incredible to witness. And they are sweeter because of the grief and because of the wishing it was different.

So much of our culture, especially in youth sports, has completely lost why we are even here. It’s about something so much more than the game in front of us. It’s about using our talents, giving our all and living in deep thanksgiving for the blessing of running and playing and struggling and training. It’s about the pursuit, not the end goal. It’s about who we’re becoming.

Both my boys are blessed with talent, but they also know the context of where it all sits. The joys and the pains, the wins and the disappointments, the struggle and the triumph are all part of the story. And embracing all of it makes life so rich.

10/10/2025

Today Bodey ended up in the ICU. He just needed extra support. Since I’ve been in this space more than anyone should, I’ve been thinking a lot about control. How tightly I (we) hold to things, people, “how it should be”. It’s totally fair to want certainty. It’s a human need. It makes us feel grounded. But when you sit here in this space, you can make yourself crazy trying to control every little thing.

This has been a process, one I will probably continue reconciling for all my days…and that’s that we are not in control. I cannot, as much as I want to, heal Bodey. I can’t control the number of his days, or the trajectory of his life. It’s like life keeps asking me to loosen the grip. The only way I can is to have a deep, deep belief that ultimately, he belongs to God, who created him just perfectly the way he is. And I am here to love him, pour my life into him, protect and love him. Just as we are all called to do for our kids. But there, at some point has to be loosening of the grip. White knuckling it through life is hard, it’s exhausting and it feels tight and not free.

And in surrender, it seems there would be freedom. I believe there is…and so I am learning about how to release the grip and trust a bigger story. That I believe so wholeheartedly in, even though it’s also painful.

And the fallacy is that life is only good when it’s easy. Or that it’s bad when it’s hard. There is always something beautiful to find. Today three people stopped me in the hospital and said - are you Ethan’s mom?? All these years later, they remember. It was kind of wild. My nod that, yes, he’s with me. But also that Ethan’s spirit, once released, has never really left. And somehow because of it all my life has massively expanded.

There’s a quote- I don’t recall who the author is. But it says “Let go, or be dragged”. Seems to be true. So I’m trying to learn about letting go and surrendering my life, and Bodey’s more fully into the presence of God. Very little, by very little. Because somehow, some way, I trust that’s where I’ll also find freedom.

09/10/2025

I’ve barely shown up here all year because, well, it’s been a challenging one. And it’s not just been this year, it’s been three. I was talking to my bestie about how the last thing I want to do is show up and share all the hard details of Bodey. If I wanted, I could be a full on medical drama, but I do not. It’s not even the most interesting thing about me or my life. I’ve shifted so much my thoughts and interests in any label around being a medical mom. I just do not identify with that….I’m Jessica, who happens to be on this specific journey. But I’m so much more.

B said to me- don’t share those details, share what you are learning. I want the world to know Bodey through me. This is a very isolating journey. It is unrelenting and it affects every area of my life. AND- it’s a beautiful gift. I believe that being Bodey’s mom doesn’t make me broken or someone to pity, I believe it’s making me more of a leader, more of a visionary, more of the woman I already am. It’s a training ground for what…I’m not entirely sure. But I know God wastes nothing. And so I won’t show up to share a bunch of medical details, but rather what I’m learning. I’m learning so much. So much clarity has come. And in the midst there is also disappointment and grief. But there is joy and hope, too.

But tonight we are back in the hospital for another unexpected stay. It’s another respiratory bug. But this afternoon he turned a corner. Thankfully, tonight he’s resting well.

I think we have to let our life experiences seep deep into our souls. We have to face them. We have to let them change us. We have to emerge as different people with different ideas and more grounded beliefs.

As much as I’ve avoided it and pushed it off to the side, I know one of my callings is to share this life of mine with you and to help you face and grow through your own challenges. So that’s what I’ll do. 🤍

31/08/2025

We all hold ourselves back. I think on some level we don’t leap b/c we fear the unknown. And subconsciously it’s easier to stay where we are. It’s comfortable. We actually fear the success or disappointment or discomfort or joy. But life is for living. So go bravely…and leap. ✨

10/08/2025

I love my podcast - I love connecting with amazing people who are teaching us all how to weather this human experience. I love thinking about the deeper questions and learning from others who create inspiring impact from their experiences. I am far less interested in what broke you. I want to know what you’ve built and who you’ve become.

This year (so far) I’ve not created the way I want to. Life is consistently challenging when you are caring for a child with many disabilities and medical needs. It’s beautiful, hard work.

But I did have THREE amazing conversations that I hoped would have been part of a larger season. But here they are. THREE incredible women - who have so much to teach and share. I’m honored they agreed to share time with me.

.mcq thank you for the generosity of your time.

Comment PODCAST and I’ll send you the link to all three episodes.

Well…I’m just going to keep going. More to come. ❤️

12/06/2025

I could write a book about all the experiences I’ve had in 13 years that cannot be explained and remind me Ethan is close to me. I would trade them all for his physical presence. I would choose him here with me over all the good his legacy has brought to the world.

And I know, deep in my heart, that I will see him again. For years I wondered if I really believed that. We say we believe a lot of things…and then when we face them, in the death of a child or some other tragedy it takes a bit of time to decide if we actually believe them.

Ethan was special and different and I think on some level he knew he didn’t have much time. I believe when he died he passed me a baton and said - mom GO. He woke something up on me God planted within me that I did not previously know.

Pain doesn’t connect us to those we love, love does. I believe Ethan is cheering me on and wants me to be all God created me to be. In so many ways the pain in my life has birthed my gifts and my purpose.

Today is a reminder to me to keep living that out. Not to hide it, but recommit to the calling on my life. No matter the circumstances, the challenges, the distractions, the disappointments….just like Ethan did.

Go love your people. Go live intro your purpose. Do it out loud and with courage. Go live Heart Strong. 🤍

13/02/2025

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