Find Your Calm

Raising Resilient Kids

Do you ever worry if your kids will be ok? Or hustle to protect them from difficulty or pain? For many of us, we didn’t receive the tools to navigate hard things in healthy ways and we want something more for our kids So today we’re going to talk about raising children to be resilient so that when they face hard things - hurts, trauma or every day chaos - they’ll be able to adapt and even flourish.

Supporting Someone Through Recovery

As we continue the conversation about healing or recovery journeys, we’re going to look closer at what it looks like to support a loved who is on this journey. Doing our own work is hard. But supporting people we love who are doing their recovery work is hard too, and it can be difficult to find your calm and even know what a faithful step forward might be. In this episode we share a few truth bombs as well as a few practical and grounding faithful steps forward. 

Finding Calm in Recovery

Throughout life we all experience hurts, develop unhealthy habits, and get stuck on hang ups that fragment parts of us that God longs to heal. The road to recovery from these things is messy and even painful, and it often begins at the rock bottom moment we become desperate for change. Listen in to a conversation with Matt and Todd from The Recovery Guys Podcast as they have an authentic conversation about what recovery is like and how to find your calm in the throes of the recovery journey. 

Weathering a Marriage Crisis

If you are married, the reality is that you’ve either weathered a crisis or you will at some point. Sometimes in life, your marriage is the calm in the story. But other times, it is the storm. In this episode I share honestly and vulnerably what it was like to weather our own marriage crisis and the story of how we took broken trust and rebuilt it so that it didn’t lead to a broken marriage. 

Finding Calm Through the Holidays

If you're feeling the anxiety or stress building as you’re counting down to Christmas, listen in for a few last minute tips to manage the chaos and find your calm through the holidays.

Parenting Kids Who Are Struggling

All kids are unique, but sometimes as a parent, we recognize that our child is more than unique. That while all kids have challenges, some require more insight or information to parent them well. Listen in as I share the story of how I got to the place where I realized my child needed more than I could give, the steps that led to a diagnosis, and how I’m finding my calm in the midst of this new season of parenting kids with unique challenges. 

Parenting Each Child Uniquely

Adulthood is a lot of work, and parenthood piles on top, then you multiply that by however many children you have, all needing you in different ways, and you have a recipe for overwhelm. Is it possible to parent each of your kids uniquely while not losing your mind? This, I can emphatically answer yes to. As a mom of 4, I’m here to share some tips on finding your calm in the midst of this particular brand of chaos…

Navigating Anxiety in your Home

Anxiety exists in every home and within every family. Some days it’s the boss of the house, and other days we can sweep it under the rug, but it’s always there, so we need to learn to learn to manage it in healthy ways. Listen in to find your calm, so you can take your next faithful steps towards managing anxiety in your home so anxiety doesn’t manage you. 

Connecting With Your Fun Side This Summer

Do you long to clear away the clutter on your calendar and your to do list so that you can relax and not just have more fun this summer but BE more fun this summer? Adulthood doesn’t let out for the summer, but maybe it can let loose a little. Summer is its own kind of chaos, but together we can take a faithful step forward and find our calm together. Listen in for a few simple tips for connecting with your fun side this summer. 

Staying Connected to Faith When You Feel Disconnected From the Church

Have you ever been so overwhelmed by hurt or disappointment in The Church that you struggled to stay tethered to your faith? If so, listen in for simple practices to find your calm, so you can take faithful steps forward as you connect with your faith even as you feel disconnected from the Church.