Dear Daughters

Want to know how to raise healthy teenagers?

Well, we're gonna dive into the answer to that question and more. Since Mother's Day is just around the corner, I'm going to be talking with several moms I admire and unpack what it looks like to be a spiritually healthy mom raising spiritually healthy kids.

Today I'm talking with friend, neighbor and fellow author, Kristin Schell, who happens to be the mother of several teenagers. You might remember her as the founder of The Turquoise Table movement which is a ministry designed to help you reach out and love your neighbor.

But she's also the mother of 4 kiddos. Her son, their oldest, is finishing his freshman year in college. And the other three, her daughters, are in that middle school to high school phase.

Here's my friend Kristin!

SHOW NOTES

• Kristin's feature in Southern Living
• DD Episode 6 with Kristin
• Also DD 77 Episode with Kristin and all things Thanksgiving
• That episode with my daughter, Emily Boone ~> DD Episode 18 'On Mother-Daughter Relationships'
• Also, on Episode 87 'On Building Healthy Mother-Daughter Relationships'
• With my youngest daughter, Sara Regan, DD Episode 88 ~> 'Questions to Deepen the Mother-Daughter Relationship'
• Come to the Hearth and Soul Book Signing Celebration with Kristin and me!!!
• My new book, Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation

Dear Daughters is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you're craving.

Dear Daughters is meant to be a bridge between two groups of women–dear daughters and spiritual mamas. Dear daughters are young women in search of spiritual guidance and spiritual mamas are women just a little further down the road with age-old wisdom to share. Each group has valuable insight for the other and the hope is that the reader will invite someone to come alongside them, pore over the included letters together, and pass along wisdom and advice that will make both lives more beautiful, wherever they are in their God story.

This book, ideal for a gift, is a casebound hardcover with ribbon.

In celebration of my new book, Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation, releasing today … it is my DELIGHT to introduce you to my mother, Peggy Gerrie. (Though she goes by Mimi.)

She is one of the MOST important people in my life. She is the reason I have energy and love to give to dear daughters in my life. I am so excited for you to know her better. :)

I'm also thrilled for you to meet my dad, Bob Gerrie. Though he's better known in our family as Papa. Together they are quite the team.

It's my honor to introduce them to you!

SHOW NOTES

• My new book, Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation
• Will's sermon on contentment at ACF.
• Our family favorite verse is Psalm 118:24 says, "This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."

Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation is a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you're craving.

Good news is: The preorder bonus is still available! Order your book now and you'll get 16 questions to dive deep AND you'll get 4 of our favorite family recipes. Because my favorite place to ask questions is at the table. SO gather your people at the table with some good food and dive deep in conversation.

BUY THE BOOK AND GET 16 CURATED CONVERSATION CARDS + 4 RECIPES FREE!

So this week, I'm bringing you another podcast interview with a live audience. It's my second in a series of interviews where I invite an author friend for coffee and conversation, and I invite you into my home too. This week, Emily P. Freeman is joining me for this special format I'm calling Dear Daughters Coffee and Conversation.

Emily P. Freeman has been on my show before, which was all joy. Listen to DD Episode 19.

If you're interested in joining me for these live interviews (and we've had people drive in from all over to join me and my guests) then get yourself on my newsletter list because that's where you'll hear firsthand who is coming to town!

In today's special episode, we'll be celebrating and discussing her brand new book, The Next Right Thing. It's a book designed to help you uncover the next right steps in your life. If you've ever agonized over something big like what you're supposed to do with your life, or even something small like if you take a certain class. Or even a medium assignment like what preschool your kids should attend, well then you'll love hearing Emily today on the podcast. Because not only does she explain how to find the next right steps, she also literally walks someone through it.

SHOW NOTES

• Friends University
• The Next Thing Podcast
• The Next Right Thing Book
• Parker Palmer's Thoughts on Creating a Clearness Committee
• Emily's beautiful Instagram
• My new book, Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation

If one of your next right steps is to find or be a mentor, I've got really good news. My new book, Dear Daughters, is out NEXT week!

And actually, it's a template for those multi-generational conversations and relationships you're craving. Good news is: I have a pre-order bonus that you'll love. Order your book now and you'll get 16 questions to dive deep AND you'll get 4 of our favorite family recipes. Because my favorite place to ask questions is at the table. SO gather your people at the table with some good food and dive deep in conversation.

BUY THE BOOK AND GET 16 CURATED CONVERSATION CARDS + 4 RECIPES FREE! Also, in celebration of Dear Daughters release, I'm hosting The Grace Gathering! I'll be leading with my daughters, Emily and Sara. As well, Honey Holden and Hayley Morgan will be on stage. This is a multi-generational event. Young women, older women all coming together to focus on our GOOD GOD. MORE INFO AND TICKETS HERE!

Finally … grateful, grateful for Davis sharing her music for the DD Podcast. :)

So this week's podcast is pretty exciting for two different reasons …

First, this is my very first podcast with a live audience. I decided to invite podcast guests to my home for coffee and conversation so that you could sit with us, listen in and then ask all the questions. I'm really excited about this format called Dear Daughters Coffee and Conversation.

If you're interested in joining me for these live interviews (and we've had people drive in from all over to join us) then get on the mailing list because that's where you'll hear firsthand who is coming to town!

The second piece of exciting news is to kick off my DD Coffee & Conversation series … Audrey Roloff is on the show! Audrey and her husband, Jeremy, were on the TV show Little People, Big World. Matter of fact, their wedding was televised. Did you see it? It was beautiful. And she and her husband Jeremy have a beautiful love story.

They have a brand new book out this week called: A Love Letter Life. Inside the book which they co-authored, they encourage couples to intentionally pursue a love story that never ends.

I know you'll love getting to know Audrey just like we do in this interview.

SHOW NOTES

• Audrey's website
• Always More
• Audrey's Instagram Feed
• Audrey and Jeremy's site: beating50percent
• Young Life
• All that talk on mentoring: Did you hear DD Episode 86 called An Inside Look at a Mentor Relationship with Hayley Morgan?
• Here's the info on the DD Coffee and Conversation with Pam Tebow
• My new book, Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation

JOIN ME AT THE GRACE GATHERING!

MORE INFO AND TICKETS HERE!

Oh hey, there's a pre-order bonus when you buy Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation!

BUY THE BOOK AND GET 16 CURATED CONVERSATION CARDS + 4 RECIPES FREE!

Finally … grateful, grateful for Davis sharing her music for the DD Podcast. :)

I believe that questions are the best way to know people better, to hear where people are with God and to help people find their way in life.

Questions like …

What's your God story?

What's your guy story?

And if you could reach back in your past and sit next to your younger self, what would you say to her?

These kinds of questions are also an incredible opportunity to deepen a mother-daughter relationship. :)

These are the questions I asked my special guest on the show today. Because I wanted to give you a template for how to dive deep in conversation over the important things. And I asked these questions to an important person in my life. My youngest daughter, Sara Regan.

Sara is 25 years old. She's a musician, a worship leader and an all-around incredible human. Sara is married to David, who is a Young Life director in Katy, TX. Sara and David are all about discipleship. Matter of fact, Sara says

Discipleship is legacy.

I hope that if you're helping people grow in Christ, whether that's a toddler you're taking care of or some high school girls you're meeting with or a young mama … what you're doing is LEGACY. And it's important and it matters.

If you haven't heard: Sara is going to be at the Grace Gathering in Austin on April 12th!

She'll be weaving the event together with original music. It's going to be phenomenal. Honey Holden, Hayley Morgan and my oldest daughter, Emily Boone, will be leading too. Yep we'll all be together on stage and I'd love for you to be there too!

MORE INFO AND TICKETS HERE!

You'll be encouraged and inspired and you'll laugh and you'll cry and you'll feel God's presence there. So buy your ticket and come on!!

SUBSCRIBE IN ITUNES SHOW NOTES

• Sardie Pants is Sara's family nickname… FYI
• Sara's first interview, DD Episode 3
• Sofar Music | Austin
• Mindy Smith's Come to Jesus
• Might want to listen to this episode too! On Mother Daughter Relationships with Emily DD Episode 18
• My new book, Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation

Oh hey, there's a pre-order bonus when you buy Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation!

BUY THE BOOK AND GET 16 CURATED CONVERSATION CARDS + 4 RECIPES FREE!

Finally … grateful, grateful for Davis sharing her music for the DD Podcast. :)

You know, I get a lot of questions about how to build or maintain good relationships in family. And I especially get questions about how to have good relationships between my kids and me. So today, I invited my 29-year-old daughter, Emily Boone, on the show to talk all things about the mother daughter relationship.

We talk about a lot of things including what healthy boundaries look like between us. We also talk about what she wished she could have told me when she was younger. And oh my gracious. If you're in the middle of mothering, you've just got to hear that. It will encourage you and challenge you. And it might just make you cry.

If you haven't heard: Emily is going to be at The Grace Gathering in Austin on April 12th! She'll be sharing about some really big transitions in her life as a newlywed in a new city, figuring out all kinds of things, and the inevitable loneliness and confusion that we all feel in those kinds of big transitions.

If you're listening and you're in any kind of transition like: the big jump from high school to college or college to post grad or maybe even the really big jump from mom and dad's house to doing married life as a young wife, Emily will have some incredible things for you to hear about at the Grace Gathering. As will Honey Holden, Hayley Morgan and my youngest daughter, Sara Regan. Yep we'll all be together on stage and I'd love for you to be there too!

You'll be encouraged and inspired and you'll laugh and you'll cry and you'll feel God's presence there. So buy your ticket and come on!!

MORE INFO AND TICKETS HERE!

But for now, here's my Emily.

SHOW NOTES

• Emily Boone Photography
• Visit Navasota, Texas and be charmed.
• On Mother Daughter Relationships with Emily DD Episode 18
• Join us at ACF on Mother's Day and hear Emily and me teach together!
• Look at how brave Howie is …
• Emily's insta
• Bowie's insta
• My story from fear to freedom, Unafraid: Trusting God in an Unsafe World
• My new book, Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation

Oh hey, there's a pre-order bonus when you buy Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation!

BUY THE BOOK AND GET 16 CURATED CONVERSATION CARDS + 4 RECIPES FREE!

Finally … grateful, grateful for Davis sharing her music for the DD Podcast. :)

Do you wish you had a mentor? Or would you like to be one? Or maybe you're just curious what a mentor relationship looks like?Whether crave deeper discipleship, a mentor relationship or a spiritual friendship, this is the show for you. Today I'm talking with Hayley Morgan. She's someone I've mentored over the years. And this episode, we go through the who, what, when, and how of a mentor relationship that works. And we even talk about mentor relationships that didn't work. I know you'll get a TON of insight listening to our conversation today.

Hayley is an author and business owner. She's wife to Mike, mama to four boys and a dear daughter to me. If you don't already know her, I know you'll love hearing her heart.

Also if you haven't heard: Hayley is going to be at the Grace Gathering in Austin on April 12th! Yahooo!! I want you to meet her and hear her incredibly tender letter to her younger self when she felt lost and torn apart when her parents split up. It made me cry and then it made me thank God for how he came through for her BIG TIME. That's all I'll give you for now. You gotta come to the event and hear the rest.

JOIN HAYLEY AND ME AT THE GRACE GATHERING! MORE INFO AND TICKETS HERE!

At the Grace Gathering, you'll also hear me and Honey and and my very own daughters, Emily Boone and Sara Regan. I'd love for you to come. I know you'll be encouraged and inspired and you'll laugh and you'll cry and you'll feel God's presence there. So buy your ticket and common!!

But for now, here's Hayley.

SHOW NOTES

• What's SAD?
• Hayley was my very first guest on the DD podcast. Here's DD Episode 1
• Hayley's second show: DD Episode 53
• Hayley's gorgeous Insta feed :)
• Clare Loughrige's book, Spiritual Rhythms for Enneagram and DD Episode 84
• Suzanne Stabile's book, The Road Back to You and DD Episode 45
• Nellie Taft
• Myquillyn aka The Nester: DD Episode 74
• Preach to Yourself: When Your Inner Critic Comes Calling, Talk Back
• Nellie Taft's Tom's Pop-Up

Oh hey, there's a pre-order bonus when you buy Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation!

BUY THE BOOK AND GET 16 CURATED CONVERSATION CARDS + 4 RECIPES FREE!

Finally … grateful, grateful for Davis sharing her music for the DD Podcast. :)

I adore Stephanie Holden (aka Honey Holden). She's a southern girl, a mama to 3 grown up girls, a grandma, spiritual mama, and a pastor's wife. I love talking with Honey because she's the real deal. She loves Jesus and she loves the church and she loves her family.

Today on the show, we talked about a lot of things including how to build a family that is connected and close and fun. And I figure Honey is the perfect go-to on a fun, Jesus-loving family. :)

I also wanted to interview her because in celebration of the launch of of my new book, Dear Daughters: Love Letters to the Next Generation, I am hosting The Grace Gathering featuring my dearest daughters and favorite spiritual mamas who will encourage us to explore the ways God speaks through various seasons of life!

And since Honey is one of my favorite spiritual mamas, she'll be joining me on stage at the Grace Gathering on April 12 in Austin.

SHOW NOTES

• Stephanie's interview on contentment: DD Episode 72
• Join the Dear Daughters Book Launch Team

Need more grace in your life? Want to write a letter to your younger self?

Get the free GRACE GUIDE here

AND

JOIN HONEY AND ME AT THE GRACE GATHERING!

MORE INFO AND TICKETS HERE!

Finally … grateful, grateful for Davis sharing her music for the DD Podcast. :)

If you know your Enneagram number and sometimes wonder, "What's next?" then you're going to love meeting Clare Loughrige.

Not only is Clare is the co-founding Lead Pastor of Crossroads Church and Ministries in Marshall, Michigan which she started with her husband, Scott, more than 25 years ago but she also provides preaching, teaching, and spiritual direction for the leadership team. In addition, she is a formally trained spiritual director for leaders with The Transforming Center in Wheaton, Illinois.

And (wait for it) she has written two books about the Enneagram, her most recent being Spiritual Rhythms for the Enneagram: A Handbook for Harmony and Transformation. This book is filled with exercises to engage, challenge, encourage, and sustain you to grow in greater awareness and lead you to spiritual and relational transformation via your Enneagram identity.

Whether you know much about your Enneagram number or not, you'll love Clare's rich content about relational and spiritual transformation in this interview.

I'm so glad for you to meet her!

SHOW NOTES

• Clare's new book, Spiritual Rhythms for the Enneagram: A Handbook for Harmony and Transformation
• Enneagram Motions of the Soul Training in Michigan with the Loughriges
• Ruth Hayley Barton's podcast: Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership
• Scott and Clare's podcast: Enneagram and Christianity
• Join the Dear Daughters Launch Team

CLARE'S LETTER TO HER YOUNGER SELF

Dear 30-year-old Clare,

You are enough. Rest. Replenish. Retreat. Let solitude and silence quiet your inner performance-oriented driven self. Practice creating for an audience of One. Allow your young children to re-orient you to your essential-self. Let God love you without proving you are worthy of love. Let your acts of justice emerge from silence and listening. Allow the slow wheels of justice to grind slowly. The arc of the moral universe is long, and it is a long way to heaven. Take slow, presence minded, purposeful steps. You desire to do God's will and that pleases God. Allow the slow work of God to work in you as well as the world you want to serve. You are loved for yourself. Be open. Be present. Be love <3

Want to write a letter to your younger self?

Get the free GRACE GUIDE here

AND

JOIN US AT THE GRACE GATHERING!

MORE INFO AND TICKETS HERE!

Finally … grateful, grateful for Davis sharing her music for the DD Podcast. :)

In a world of constant chaos and conflict, homes are often the only places of peace where souls find rest.

Everybody longs for that place of comfort called home. And in today's noisy world, home there's an instinctive yearning to make that space a place of refuge and beauty. Author Christie Purifoy, calls this art of creating such a space, "placemaking."

In her new book, Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty and Peace she explains what it means to build a space of beauty and peace, whether that's in a tiny apartment you feel you've outgrown or a massive dream house. Whether an untamed garden or a messy work space.

Christie Purifoy earned a PhD in English Literature at the University of Chicago before trading the classroom for an old farmhouse, a garden, and a writing desk. She lives with her husband and four children at Maplehurst, a Victorian farmhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Christie is inspiring and I'm glad for you to meet her.

SHOW NOTES

• Christie's new book,Placemaker: Cultivating Places of Comfort, Beauty and Peace
• Texas A&M traditions
• My story about how God spoke through a hike in the mountains is in Unafraid: Trusting God in an Unsafe World.
• Christie's Instagram
• Psalm 90:1 Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!
• Join the Dear Daughters Launch Team

CHRISTIE'S LETTER TO HER YOUNGER SELF

Dear Twelve-year-old Christie reading her copy of The Secret Garden for the third time,

I know that book is filling your heart with a sweet but painful ache. I know you want a garden of your own. I remember how those descriptions of an English springtime blooming with daffodils sent you straight outside into your father's Texas garden. But I also remember what you found there: mosquitoes, fire ants, scorching heat, and a humidity so thick it took your breath away. You gave up.

You did not ask your Dad "for a bit of earth" as Mary had in the story. You would never grow beautiful things. Didn't have what it takes, apparently. Best to stay indoors and read another book and another book and another book until the Texas summer finally gave way to the first cold front of November.

Dear girl, so hungry for beauty. Keep reading those books. Keep dreaming of daffodils with yellow trumpets though you have never seen them with your own eyes. That desire for a bit of earth has been planted in you by your Maker. It is good no matter that it hurts so much right now. Don't stuff it down too far. Don't see it as a sign of your own failure. Nurture it with stories. Feed it with the roses your mother cuts from your father's garden and places in a jam jar on the kitchen table. Enjoy the Texas wildflowers in March, those fields of red and blue. They are every bit as beautiful as Mary's secret garden, though they need no care from you.

One day you will understand why you read that book so many times, and you will give thanks for the ground beneath your grownup feet. You will understand that this is no ordinary ground. It is ground prepared for you–prepared for your spade and your watering can, your dreams and your desires–years before you knew it would be given to you. And when the daffodils you planted bloom by the hundreds you will sing a song of praise to the God who calls forth music from yellow-petaled trumpets.

Want to write a letter to your younger self?

Get the free GRACE GUIDE here

… grateful, grateful for Davis sharing their music for the DD Podcast. :)