Anna Weaver, mom to 5, doer of many things, sits down with us this week and talks all things parenting. She starts out telling her testimony-the unedited version- and moves into themes such as first baby experiences, PPDA, struggles, mental health, and routines that help.

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This week, Regina Matlock sits down with Jessica and talks on how keeping the main thing the main thing is what she contributes her 35 years of marriage with four grown children in Truth to...she touches on raising teenagers, empty nesting, and more.

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Co-parenting.

Divorce is never the fairy-tale, but a happy-ever-after can still exist. In this episode, Wendy Fraley delves into it. If the focus is to minimize the scar of divorce on the child, HOW do you go about it? Is there a fail-proof way?

Robyn Duty- mom to 4 now adult boys, sits down and talks all the parenting things and even some not-so-parenting things with Jessica. Buckle up because this almost two-hour episode is full of just who Robyn is: positivity, joy, and most of all-realness. She speaks about raising four boys, specific things she would have changed, things she wouldn't have, and even real-life trials she currently is facing.

Mentioned:

Books

Total Woman, Total Joy, Mom You're Incredible

Message preached by Cornelius Williams-Take Up Thy Bed

https://www.youtube.com/live/1p9nA_KBvxs?si=QoAFL3Un55kTFSaN

Podcast episode about secure attachment: https://youtu.be/GrSuMeck9hI?si=OLu5P0IHLAnObs0t

Raising Teens? In this part 2 with Michelle Hall, she shares her experience and actionable tips that she found worked to successfully raise three teen girls. Not only to love Truth but to also become decent moral contributors to society-every mother's prayer. Real actionable advice is given, and from a mother who worked full-time doing it!

"For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and there a little." Isaiah 28:10

Michelle Hall- wife, mother, friend to alll us mamas about to listen to this seasoned parenting advice ATE AND LEFT NO CRUMBS yall. Buckle up buttercup because she is dropping what seems like insider knowledge that is not only her own experience of raising three children who are still walking in Truth, but is BIBLE BACKED on every level. She covers it all from raising teens to sp@nking (GASP) It's an episode that you'll want to listen to again and again as we go through this journey of motherhood.

Stay tuned for part 2 next week where she delves into even more actionable parenting tips.

This week, Regina Matlock sits down with Jessica and talks on how keeping the main thing the main thing is what she contributes her 35 years of marriage with four grown children in Truth to...she touches on raising teenagers, empty nesting, and more.

If you have gleaned valuable parenting nuggets from this podcast, please do us a HUGE favor and leave a 5-star review! Also, anyone who shares my podcast to their social media and dms me that they did, I'm putting in a giveaway for a cash money prize! Thank you again so much for your support.

warning label: Today's episode does include the topic of sexual abuse-there are no details of any kind, but if you have younger listeners around, please be mindful of this.

Ashley Kematick is a mom of two, and 26 years old. When Jessica approached her about coming on the podcast, Jessica assumed she would speak on the struggle of being a child who grew up with both family in and out of church, her experience in coming to Truth, and how it shaped her into becoming the mom she wanted to be and currently is to two sweet babies. Little did Jessica know that Ashley, after hearing Mara's episode (#1), had felt compelled to share her trauma of being sexually abused as a 9-year-old girl, in hopes of helping someone feel seen or related to in this matter. It's been 17 years of no one but her husband knowing this occurred. Here is her truth, and the beauty from ashes testimony that God has intricately woven in her life.

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Brianna Flynn comes and chats all the things with Jessica, from her love for art and all things thrifted, to cray Memphis happenings, and finally both of their "primal questions." This episode is thankfully a lucy-goosy just fun one with two friends sitting down chatting about fun things and why they are the way they are...Jess would like everyone to know, that no, she is indeed not trying to make everyone cry every single episode here lol.

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