Season 3 wraps up with an episode full of practical advice on how to shore up ourselves when life just keeps on coming. Sometimes, big things knock us down, and sometimes, endless tiny chaos destroys us. It is important to think about ways we can help ourselves in these situations so that we can keep tending our people.

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• Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith by Russ Ramsey
• Life in the In-Between: Facing Anxiety and Affliction as a Christian by Samuel Renihan
• The Urban Wildlife Gardener: How to attract birds, bees, butterflies, and more by Emma Hardy
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessei van der Kolk
• How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price

We've discussed things that can cause Boredom, Bitterness, and Burnout in our hearts, but what about things outside of our control? The big things and the "death by a thousand papercuts" things?

In this episode, Abby and Sarah will talk about different providences that the homemaker faces that can erode her fortitude.

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-BBC Merlin

-Princess Bride reference

-Grieving by James White

In the last episode, we had to do the hard work of discussing all of the ways we fail to guard our hearts and damage our homes. In this episode, we get to discuss Gardening our Hearts so that we bring health and healing to ourselves and our homes.

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• 2.1 The Four Virtues
• Homemaker Chic Podcast
• Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II by Darlene Deibler Rose
• Tasha Tudor Books

A bit of a salty episode where we argue about the time change. A bit of a conversational episode where we just chat. Oh, and a bit of homemaking where we talk about using the seasonal changes in our homes. It's a bit of a bit of a bit all over the place.

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• August Osage County by Tracy Letts
• Watership Down (Graphic Novel) by Richard Adams

Join Sarah and Abby as they work through attitudes and issues in our inner gardens and hearths that cause boredom, bitterness, and burnout.

This is a convicting episode, so hang tough. The next episode will offer some encouragement and practical help.

Show Notes:

• Zone Cleaning Bonus Episode
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
• Egg song provided by one of Abby's chickens
• Windchimes provided by Sarah

Caveats and definitions are the name of the game with this episode. We're going to start by setting some expectations, and then define Bitterness, Boredom, and Burnout. We'll finish by addressing the Maids, Matrons, and Crones. Hang Tough, this isn't going to be an easy season, but we hope it will be profitable.

Show Notes:

• The Night of the Hunter movie
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Here are two articles that provide hope and help to round out this difficult topic of the Bitter, Bored, and Burnt-out HearthKeeper. The blog has many more articles that touch on these temptations, offering correction and t

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Take a Break

Welcome to Season 3! This season we're going to discuss the temptation of boredom, burn-out, and bitterness faced by homemakers. But first, let's talk about Imbolc, the cross-quarter day that reminds us Spring is coming!

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Finishing up Season 2, we're doing a holiday review to help ourselves reflect on how the holidays went so we can be better prepared for the coming Christmas and New Year's. This is practicing Deosil and Widdershins.

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This is the last episode of season 2! We made it! Thank you for listening, commenting, and telling us how much you enjoy this podcast. This episode is foundational to our homemaking. If we don't create houses of healing we're skipping some of our most important work.

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