Welcome to Refill Your Cup - a place for encouragement, optimism, and practical ways to recharge your spirit.

Refill Your Cup - Topic: Encouragers

One of the ways you can refill your cup is to seek out and surround yourself with encouragers. It’s easy to vastly underestimate the power of who you spend the most time with, and what you are focused on and filling your mind with. It doesn’t have to be a big dramatic change. Just seek out one person who is an encourager and intentionally make the effort to spend more time with them. And let that fill your cup as you pour encouragement back out to others.

“Remember, even little steps taken with hope, joy, and optimism can make a big difference. Keep refilling your cup, so you can pour out to others. Shine your light to drive out the darkness!”

Shelly Rexroat

If you are curious how Refill Your Cup began…

The journey began in 2017, during a season when I was feeling very discouraged. After praying for direction, I felt the nudge to share encouragement with others. It felt like such a strange thing to do when I wasn’t feeling encouraged myself. But I started sending little notes, via text or email, of encouragement to family members - simple reminders to life our hearts. Over time, I discovered that when you share hope, joy, optimism, and light to others, it flows back and refills you too.

Fast forward to 2024, and after joining a weekly devotional that was only 15 minutes long, I saw how powerful something so brief could be. No matter how busy life gets, we can always carve out a moment to renew our outlook. And I’ve learned that you can’t pour into others when your own cup is empty. Taking time to restore your mind and soul isn’t selfish - it’s essential.

What started as a weekly encouragement session at work, evolved into a podcast, which has now expanded to an email newsletter as well.