Don't Mom Alone Podcast

By Heather MacFadyen

Religion & Spirituality Kids & Family Christianity

What's Don't Mom Alone Podcast about?

Heather MacFadyen, mother of four boys, connects you the listener with people and resources to help you feel less alone. Consider it an invitation to "withness".

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Signpost Parenting :: Ann V...

01.30.2023

Who saw all that you’ve done today? Anyone? A mom’s work usually goes unacknowledged. We want to measure our work by how the house looks or how the children behave, or by how put together we look when we go ...

Don't Mom Alone Podcast episodes:

01.30.2023 Signpost Parenting :: Ann Voskamp [Ep 394] Who saw all that you’ve done today? Anyone? A mom’s work usually goes unacknowledged. We want to measure our work by how the house looks or how the children behave, or by how put together we look when we go ...
01.23.2023 Freedom is Not a Look :: Alisa Keeton [Ep 393] What’s the first word that comes to mind if I say, “Describe your body”? It wasn’t “good”, was it? Fellow human, it should be! Because that’s what God himself says about your body! He says it is good. Just the ...
01.16.2023 Clarifying Your Family Culture :: Heather [Ep 392] You know what you’re seeing of someone else’s life as you scroll isn’t the whole story and yet we all find ourselves longing for that perfect vacation, that look of pure delight on their child’s face, or the silent moments ...
01.09.2023 Steady Identity in Shifting Roles :: Kari Kampakis - Part 2 [Ep 391] “As parents our job is to be kinder and stronger, and wiser.” Those words are simple and sensible, but that directive can be deceptively hard. How do we mother - how do we live even - as our roles change ...
01.02.2023 Connecting With Your Daughter Through Humility and Compassion :: Kari Kampakis - Part 1 [Ep 390] “I’m not a regular mom, I’m a cool mom” are the words of Mean Girl Regina George’s mom. We know she’s not a great example of a mom, but it can be difficult to sort out which moments are for ...
11.28.2022 Every Mom a Theologian :: Phylicia Masonheimer [Ep 389] We are all theologians. We may not be formally educated experts, but we all have beliefs about who God is and how and why he interacts with us (or doesn’t). All of our assumptions, presuppositions, opinions, and ideas make up ...
11.21.2022 Brave Enough to be Broken :: Toni Collier [Ep 388] The origins of our word vulnerable are found in a Latin word that means “to wound”. We all know that to be fully known is to open ourselves up to the possibility of being wounded. When we let down our ...
11.14.2022 Good Boundaries and Goodbyes :: Lysa TerKeurst [Ep 387] “Good fences make good neighbors” is a line from Robert Frost’s Mending Wall, but the poem goes on to say, “Before I built a wall I'd ask to know / What I was walling in or walling out” So often ...
11.07.2022 Bottles of Hope :: Lindsey Wheeler [Ep 386] Grief has been called the unwanted visitor - it shows up when you don’t want it and it often stays longer than we would want. In the midst of seasons of suffering or grieving it’s so easy to feel isolated ...
10.31.2022 Advent Untangled :: Mindy Rives [Ep 385] “Deck the Halls with Chaos and Unmet Expectations” - not the traditional words to the song but maybe more accurate? Advent is celebrating Jesus coming into our everyday life, meeting us humans in the spaces where we are. My guest ...
10.24.2022 Chosen by Jesus :: Cast of The Chosen [Ep 384] The Chosen has taken the world by storm. It’s the largest fan supported entertainment project of all time with over 408 million views on its app alone. It’s a show about the Bible, about Jesus written from the unique perspective ...
10.17.2022 Collaboration Over Competition :: Liz Bohannon & Jessica Honegger [Ep 383] Do you view other moms as collaborators or competitors? Whether it’s our achievements or our difficulties we often compare ourselves to other moms rather than come alongside them (or even celebrate them - gasp!). My guests this week say it ...
10.10.2022 Freeing Your Adolescents to Step Into Adulthood - Ages and Stages - Teens :: Dr. Ken Wilgus [Ep 382] It’s been pointed out that if you want to make anything scary or negative, put “teenage” in front of it. For example, teenage driving, teenage parties, teenage sex, teenage thinking. One of our main jobs as parents is to help ...
10.03.2022 Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit :: Max Lucado [Ep 381] What does it mean to have the Holy Spirit? To encounter or experience the Holy Spirit? How does he speak to us? Does he speak to us? Western cultures tend to operate under the assumption that if we can’t explain ...
09.26.2022 Ages & Stages Series--The Tween Years :: Charissa Lopez [Ep 380] How do you feel when you are in between stages of life? Excited? Nervous? Afraid? Tweens - those kids in between childhood and adolescence - are capable, growing into their own thoughts and ideas and preferences, but not quite as ...
09.19.2022 Navigating Middle Motherhood :: Kara Trochta [Ep 379] What do we do with ourselves when our kids need less of our minute to minute attention? How do we fill the space given to us when kids go to preschool or elementary school? If we aren’t intentional as we ...
09.12.2022 Ages and Stages Series-- The Elementary Years :: Dr. Meg Meeker [Ep 378] What is your favorite elementary school memory? A teacher you loved? Playing on a favorite team? Parenting elementary school kids can sometimes feel like a breath of fresh air - kids are more capable, they can get their own snacks, ...
09.05.2022 Ages and Stages Series — Infants/Toddlers :: Rachel Norman [Ep 377] It’s cliché until you have to live it - the grocery store crying infant or toddler tantrum. The hushed pleas or commands from embarrassed parents. The silent judgment of others. Crying or whining are often attempts at communication, but they ...
08.29.2022 Reading Aloud to Overcome Mom Fear :: Jennifer Pepito [Ep 376] What fear pops up in your parenting again and again? Maybe it’s, “how do I teach my kids that they can do hard things in a loving way?” or, “what if my kids make bad decisions?” or “what if I’m ...
08.22.2022 Doubt, Questions & Your Teen’s Growing Faith :: Mary Jo Sharp [Ep 375] Doubt is a normal part of a growing faith. When the big questions come, you can navigate them with confidence. Is it worth it to go to church? If God is loving, why would he allow bad stuff in the ...
08.15.2022 Building Strong Marriages :: Kimberly Beam Holmes [Ep 374] Marriage is like riding a bike with no training wheels - you have to keep pedaling to stay up. There’s no easy downhill, no coasting. It’s worth it, but it’s work. Add a kid or a few in there with ...
08.08.2022 Behind the Mic :: Heather [Ep 373] If you’re new here or even if you’ve been around a while, join us this week as I give you a glimpse into who I am, how Don’t Mom Alone came about, and where we’re headed as a show. We’ll ...
08.01.2022 Raising Discerning Viewers :: Heather [Ep 372] Media is all around us - movies, music, tv, online videos, reels, TikToks, and more. And, there are as many parenting strategies around media as there are types of media. How do we safeguard our kids around media in today’s ...
07.25.2022 Rebranded: Stepping Into a New Season :: Christy Wright [SOM Wk 6] What would it take for you to walk away from the most abundant time in your career? From a time that was not only full, but fun, rewarding, and productive? My guest this week, Christy Wright did just that - ...
07.18.2022 Move from Comparison to Compassion :: Karen Ehman [SofM Wk 5] Does your life look exactly like you want it to? All too often we come across what seems like the life that we want on someone else’s Instagram. You can dismiss those as the “highlight reels”, that is what they ...
07.11.2022 Creating Family Culture :: Amber O’Neal Johnston [SOM Wk 4] Creating Family Culture :: Amber O’Neal Johnston [SOM Wk 4] You are creating a culture for your family, right now, whether or not you’re aware of it or intentional in it. Your words and actions reveal the functional values you ...
07.04.2022 Focused Living :: Shontell Brewer [SOM Wk 3] “I don't have time for the things that God has not called me to.” My guest this week, Shontell Brewer, wisely speaks those words. She is a wife and mom of 5. She’s written a book on parenting and still ...
06.27.2022 Life Giving Faith in Every Circumstance :: Lisa Appelo [Summer of Mentorship Wk 2] Childhood should be carefree, right? We hope that our kids make it to adulthood with as few scars as possible, but that isn’t the nature of the world we live in. What happens when our kids encounter grief? What happens ...
06.20.2022 Lasting Parent-Child Relationships :: Helen Smallbone [Summer of Mentorship Wk 1] “Don’t care how, I want it now!” When we watch Veruca Salt sing those words in Willy Wonka we are immediately repulsed. And yet, lots of our time and energy is spent trying to unlock the secrets to a quick ...
06.13.2022 Villages of Hope and Help :: DeVon and Paulette Franklin [Ep 371] Tragedy struck and Paulette Franklin could have given up hope. Instead, she used it as a chance to “bring together the village of hope and help” from her extended family, namely her aunts, who lived both near and far. They ...
06.06.2022 Gender and Sexuality :: Preston Sprinkle [Ep 370] Over 20% of Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ+. That’s roughly 1 in 4 of today’s teen and young adult populations. There is a lot of confusion around gender and sexuality in our Christian culture today - how do we love ...
05.30.2022 Dwelling Differently :: Natalie Abbott [Ep 369] “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11 is a very familiar verse, but do you take it as a life-giving exhortation or do you shove it into the mental closet ...
05.23.2022 Raising Emotionally Strong Boys :: David Thomas [Ep 368] Our sons are constantly receiving messages about how to handle their emotions - from us as moms and dads, or from other men in their lives and from our culture as well. All too often that message has been “Be ...
05.16.2022 Winning Together as Co-laborers :: Heather [Ep 367] Mommy Wars. They may have started out as “working mom” v. “stay at home mom” but it has morphed (or devolved) into something much bigger. While, in the eyes of our culture, “you do you” might have freed us to ...
05.09.2022 God’s Hand Over Everything :: Tori Hope Petersen [Ep 366] God ordains the time and space we inhabit - sometimes that’s one home for decades, sometimes it’s 12 homes in 6 years and instant homelessness at age 18. It was the latter for Tori Petersen and for so many other ...
05.02.2022 The Lazy Genius Kitchen :: Kendra Adachi [Ep 365] The kitchen. It can be a place of glorious delight or it can be a place of burnt despair. Whether it’s mostly delight or mostly disaster for you, it’s often a place of frustration. Everyone is hungry and needs something ...
04.25.2022 The Power of Pausing:: Kirsten Watson [Ep 364] Do you remember commercial breaks? They were built-in pauses, breaks from the drama or sitcom. With DVR’s or streaming services we can easily skip or minimize the pauses. But what if “pause” is what your everyday really needs? Not a ...
04.18.2022 Gentle Christ-Centered Parenting :: David and Amanda Erickson [Ep 363] “Peaceful” and “parenting” aren’t words we usually put together. Think about the parenting moments that stick out to you from the last week – was there anything peaceful about them? What if there could be? What would it change for ...
04.11.2022 Walking Through Seasons of Unbelonging :: Shauna Niequist [Ep 362] We all walk through seasons of transition, whether we leave something behind by choice or it was chosen for us. Life after a disruptive event or during life transitions can feel like “starting over” just as much as a move ...
04.04.2022 Mom, You Are Important but Not Essential, and That’s Good News :: Brittany Turner [Ep 361] As moms we do carry a big burden – we have a God-give responsibility to love and care for our children, but how often do you feel crushed under that burden? It’s hard to do all the tasks to take ...
03.28.2022 Creating Digital Safe Spaces :: Chris McKenna [Ep 360] Does keeping your kids safe on the internet ever feel like a game of Whack-a-mole - frenzied and unending, always trying to fend off the threats that pop up? Or maybe you’ve been afraid your kids would be or feel ...
03.21.2022 How to Help a Friend Process Life [Ep 359] How do you respond when a difficult situation comes your way? One that feels out of the blue, or that doesn’t have a clear solution, or all the solutions you’ve tried haven’t worked? In this birthday episode (Happy Birthday Heather!) ...
03.14.2022 Mentoring with Lisa Bevere [Ep 358] Have you ever wished for a fairy godmother? Someone to wave a wand and make your troubles disappear? The next best thing just might be a real godmother - a woman to see you in your distress and to offer ...
03.07.2022 Recovering from Mom Burnout :: Nicole Zasowski [Ep 357] Every mom will experience burnout. It’s as simple as our energy output exceeds our energy input, but it can be debilitating and discouraging. You may wish for a vacation, or spa day or even just 15 minutes of silence, but ...
02.28.2022 Equipping Your Kids for Difficulty :: Kim Sorgius [Ep 356] What happens when you’ve had a Proverbs life - following the rules and making the right choices - but then you wake up to find yourself living in Ecclesiastes where life is painful and doesn’t quite make sense? It’s easy ...
02.21.2022 Church Hurts, Healed by the Church :: Angel Ricchuiti [Ep 355] Think of 9 women you know. Statistics says that 1 of those women was sexually abused as a child. This week, Angel Ricchuiti bravely tells us her story of sexual abuse within the church. She gives us hope that God ...
02.14.2022 Be Vulnerable, Find Your People :: Jennie Allen [Ep 354] Friendship isn’t something we are taught in school. We sort of fumble our way through the trial and error of how to make and keep friends. Add in our culture of independence, where it can be hard to admit we ...
02.07.2022 Extending an Invitation :: Trillia Newbell [Ep 353] Let’s have some “real talk” and think about our faith in action when it comes to our neighbors, even when they are different. This conversation will help you think about being more open and welcoming and train your children to ...
01.31.2022 Consistency in Bible Study :: Katie Orr [Ep 352] In a world of increasing chaos, we crave certainty. We “know” the answer lies in some good disciplines like daily time with God. How can you step into a habit of studying God’s Word with consistency and success, even when ...
01.24.2022 Understand Your Developing Teen :: Dr. Nell Bush [Ep 351] The preteen/teen years are a time of immense change and growth that often come with difficulty between mother and child. As the mom of a teen you may find yourself confused or frustrated with your child’s new behavior and attitudes. ...

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