With gratitude and excitement, we bring you the finale of our Home for the Holidays series with one of the most inspiring and influential voices of our time. Sally Clarkson’s legacy includes decade upon decade of messages sent out to women across the world, equipping and inspiring them to live into their calling as orchestrators and conductors of the sacred space of home.

In this honest and heartfelt conversation, Gretchen and Jennifer find a moment with Sally to explore how the calling of shaping a home begins with the transformation of our own hearts. When we seek healing and are able to repurpose our past woundings, we grow into women who lead with compassion, patience, grace, and empathy. This episode closes out our holiday series with a message of courage, restoration, and the divinely-appointed responsibility of creating a nurturing home culture. 

With the upcoming holiday season and a new year knocking at the door, may your vision for home be refined and sharpened by this message of encouragement to protect your ideals while living with grace through the ups and downs of everyday life.

Show notes:    www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/homefortheholidays

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Join Gretchen and Jennifer as they dive into the delicious chaos of holiday traditions! From Gretchen’s scratch-made egg noodles and three kinds of pies to Jennifer’s Grandmommy’s cranberry salad and cozy crock pot mac ‘n’ cheese, this episode is brimming with food, laughter, and stories from home.

They explore the ideals we imagine for holiday cooking versus the reality of everyday life, the ways family traditions help create a sense of home throughout the year, and the joy (and occasional mess) of sharing favorite dishes with loved ones. Plus, they share their favorite books for the Advent and Christmas seasons, recommending titles for all ages that are sure to delight and deepen with every page. Expect plenty of food talk, heartfelt memories, and the kind of laughter that makes you feel like you’re sitting around the kitchen table with old friends.

Show Notes:    www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/homefortheholidays

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In our third Home for the Holidays episode, Gretchen and Jennifer sit down with their friend Melissa Capps, owner of Simple Spaces, to talk about what it really looks like to stay organized through the holiday season and beyond.

Melissa shares practical, doable tips for managing the chaos of decorating, hosting, and keeping your home feeling peaceful and functional. Together, we dive into the ideals we all picture this time of year… cozy, perfectly styled, stress-free… and the reality of everyday life with families, messes, and full schedules.

We also dive into family traditions — the ones lovingly passed down through generations — and the complicated feelings that can come with inheriting sentimental items that don’t fit your current space or lifestyle. How do you make choices that honor your family’s history while still creating peace and simplicity in your own home? This episode is full of laughter, honesty, and permission to make the season truly your own.

If you’ve ever wanted to find that sweet spot between calm and chaos, this conversation will leave you inspired to simplify, let go of perfection, and make space for what truly matters this season.

Show Notes:    www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/homefortheholidays

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When it comes to holiday preparations, are you a methodical list maker like Gretchen, or are you more scattered and spontaneous like Jennifer? Do you put up the Christmas tree before or after Thanksgiving? Is your Christmas card picked out by October or are you taking family selfies in the second week of December?

No matter where you land in the spectrum of planning and preparing, we believe that there’s grace and opportunity to delight in this special time of year! 

Every family has their own set of rhythms when it comes to transitioning into the holidays, but many of us still feel like there’s room for improvement to create more space for peace and rest during such a busy time. 

In our second Home for the Holidays episode, Gretchen and Jennifer chat about practical ways to bring beauty and comfort into the atmosphere of your home, while also discussing how both internal and external limitations can impact our ability to make the practical things happen.

We hope that you are encouraged by this honest conversation where we navigate the space between our ideals and everyday life when it comes to embracing all that this sacred season has to offer.

Show Notes:    www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/homefortheholidays

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While the pumpkins are still on your porch, it seems like a good time to think ahead about how to intentionally prepare our homes and hearts for the holiday season. 

Introducing a new series called Home for the Holidays, Gretchen and Jennifer reflect on their childhood experiences of the season and how those memories have impacted their orchestration of traditions with their own families. 

We also discuss the importance of asking questions and having conversations with our children and spouse to see what traditions, menu items, experiences (and even decorations) matter to them. Are we needlessly spending energy on certain things because we have wrongly assumed that everyone expected or valued them? There’s only one way to find out! 

Cultivating an atmosphere of sacredness in our homes is a way to push back darkness and reclaim light and life for ourselves and all who enter, whether for spouse, child, or guest.  And at the same time, we are invited into a divinely intimate communion with the Father, where the washing of each dish, the folding of another towel, the hundredth tidying of the living room… we offer ourselves in worship. And He sees.

Show Notes:    www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/homefortheholidays

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Faithfulness in relationships can take many forms. In the final episode of our friendship series, we welcome Jennifer Wood, Gretchen‘s longtime friend of almost 50 years to share conversation about longevity, grace, forgiveness, and genuine affection.

We were made to experience authentic and meaningful connection and unconditional acceptance, and yet it remains rare. We hope you’ll find a moment to be inspired by this deeply personal and honest conversation about the ideals and everyday life surrounding friendship. Our conversation with Jennifer was filled with laughter and tears and endless encouragement; we can’t wait to share this one with you. 

Show Notes:  www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/friendship

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Cherished friendships can bring satisfaction and encouragement to a life riddled with challenges and trials, but is there ever a friend who’s available to us at any and every moment? Christ is the only one, and he already knows your deepest needs and desires. Intentionality and devotion will allow us to cultivate a deep friendship with Jesus that will sustain us through every season of our lives.

In our second friendship episode, Gretchen and Jennifer ponder friendship with Jesus, and they also speak honestly about past experiences with loneliness during childhood, postpartum, and in ministry. 

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in for practical wisdom, book suggestions, and fresh perspectives on how to cultivate deep and authentic friendships. 

Show Notes:  www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/friendship

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Friendship is a topic that elicits a broad spectrum of emotions and experiences. Whether your memories are full of kindred bonds or many years of loneliness, there is a place for you to connect with our latest series on friendship.

How do we define it? How would our ideal friendship work, and then what does everyday life look like? How does friendship with our children shift as they are growing up? Is friendship with our children even appropriate? 

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in as Gretchen and Jennifer share meaningful insight and personal experiences with you as we step into this special series!

Show Notes:  www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/friendship

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He’s a Christ follower, husband, father, friend, shepherd, disciple, leader, musician… Meet Brooks Joyce. Finishing up our worship series, Brooks sat down with Gretchen and Jennifer to discuss the ideals and everyday life when it comes to living a life of surrender.

After two decades on staff at Port City Community Church in Wilmington, NC, Brooks possesses a tremendous outpouring of wisdom, conviction, and passion for leading people into an encounter with Jesus in his role as Worship Director. While leading a team of over 30 musicians has provided ample opportunities for discipleship and service, Brooks maintains that his wife and children are his primary ministry focus.

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in as Brooks shares numerous scriptures, inspires us towards authenticity, and offers behind-the-scenes insight into the Akedah Worship School that launched this year for his team. 

Show Notes:  www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/worship

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What happens to our physical bodies when we sing and meditate? Is there a place for personal preference when it comes to the style of worship music at your home church?  Should bodily posture be considered during worship and prayer?  How does the lens of God’s mercy shape our worship? 

This is a sampling of the questions we cover during the second episode in our worship series. We hope you find a moment to listen in to this inspiring discussion, where Gretchen and Jennifer share more of the ideals and everyday life as a worshiping believer.  

Don’t forget to send us your favorite worship songs so that we can add them to our Spotify playlist, which will be available to all of our listeners on the show notes page! 

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/worship

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