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Spring Cleaning for Your Parenting
As warm weather arrives, many of us find a sudden motivation to poke into the dusty corners of our house and freshen up the space. If the sunshine finds you brushing off cobwebs, decluttering, and browsing the throw pillow aisle at Target, here’s something else to...
Managing Your Expectations for Holiday Parenting
The excitement of the holidays is hard to contain! Your young children are anxiously waiting to leap out of their beds to open presents on Christmas morning. Your adult children may be traveling home from college or coming to visit from their homes. You may be looking...
When Your Heart Breaks for Your Child
Dear fellow parent, Today I want to share a letter with you for those days when the weight of your heart feels heavy for your children. For the days when you can't help but feel like their life is turning out in heartbreaking ways. For the days when the heaviness of...
3 Perfect Fall Recipes You Should Try
One of my favorite summer activities is gardening! It's become one of my favorite empty nest hobbies to watch the plants and flowers bloom and grow. They make the perfect backdrop while enjoying summer evenings on our porch. Now that the seasons are changing, it’s...
6 Tips for Launching Your Adult Children
As our kids launch into adulthood and start taking control over their own life decisions, it can be tempting to “open the wisdom floodgates” and try to cram for their entrance into the world. We start thinking of all the things we haven’t taught them yet. Are they...
10 Summer Activities to Do With Your Teen
Is there any better season than summer? It’s one of my favorite times of year because I enjoy gardening and the opportunity to take regular walks outside. Now that I'm an empty-nester, I also love summer because I get to spend extra time with my grandchildren while...
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How to Forgive Yourself | Episode 184
We want to talk with you about a question Mark and I get asked often. People really struggle with finding an answer or finding resolve to this question: How do I forgive myself? Many times, they would say, I can’t, or I don’t even understand what I should do with...
Overcoming Fear, Anxiety, and Trauma with Karen Bettison | Episode 182
Adversity is a part of life. We can sometimes think that having a relationship with Jesus makes us exempt from hardships that can cause fear, anxiety, and even trauma. While that isn’t the case, it is true that our relationship with Jesus can change how we handle and...
When Adult Children Shut You Out with Sarah | Episode 180
The topic we're exploring today has been requested many times over the last year. I asked my friend, Sarah, if she would be willing to share her experience and wisdom with us as she has an adult child who is estranged and put up some big boundaries. Sarah is also a...
BONUS: Intent vs. Impact | Episode 170
Welcome to another bonus episode of the podcast! Mark and I like to share these bonus episodes every once in a while, and their purpose is to give you some quick encouragement and support that you can apply to your life. In this episode, we want to share something...
Finding Your Place with Katy McCown | Episode 168
Are you feeling disconnected? Struggling to know the next steps to find your tribe of people? I was what you might consider a “late bloomer” when it comes to female relationships. I never seemed to click with the whole girlfriend thing and it wasn’t until I became a...
Overcoming Father Wounds with Kia Stephens | Episode 167
I am a girl who had a daddy who loved her like Jesus loves us. My dad passed away almost four years ago, and although he wasn’t perfect, he exuded Christ in his daily life and it showed in the way he expressed his love for me. Not everyone has a good relationship or...
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