Single Mom Smiling | Arming Warriors in the Battle for Marriage & Family

The Holy Family offers a model of ideal family life lived under less than ideal circumstances. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph offer the best earthly reflection of the Trinity and the the divine nature of the family.

If you are living in a less than ideal (to put it mildly) family situation, take heart! You can still live out the divine calling in your family. Today's episode shows you how.

Don't forget to download the Beloved Mama's Guide that goes along with this episode and join Armor Up, Ephesians 6 Training for Women - details below!

God Bless...

Kerri

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No matter whether you have your kids or not this Christmas, this beautiful day can be difficult for single moms. Find hope and ways to combat holiday sadness in today's episode. 

And don't forget to join Single Mom Strong for support, encouragement, and accompaniment from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day. 

God Bless...

Kerri

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If you're feeling alone this Christmas, you become a target for demons and also for your own negative thoughts. This can spiral toward despair. Having a battle plan, with Mary as our role model, can help combat darkness and issue in the peace of Christmas.

I've been there and hope you find this helpful.

I would also love to see you join us in Silent Night Strong as we move from Christmas Eve through New Years Day together with Christ.

God Bless...

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Do you find yourself thinking of traditions of Christmas past? Do you have ideas of the way you thought this season should look or hopes for how your family would do things to celebrate this beautiful and sacred season?

Do you find yourself grieving over what was lost?

In today's episode we look at why traditions are so important both to us and to our kids and what we can do when those old traditions can't be carried on any longer.

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God Bless...

Kerri

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Do you struggle to find joy in this holiday season? If so, you are not alone.

This Sunday we celebrate the joy of Advent while at the same time looking at the trials of John the Baptist. This man who Jesus calls, the greatest man born to women, has lost his followers. He sits in a prison cell alone, guessing what earthly fate awaits him.

Yet He questions Jesus in Hope! 

John refuses to lose his Joy. 

In today's episode we look at how God sustains us differently from how we hope or expect Him to and how you can find joy in the eternal to last you through the present. 

Don't forget to get the Beloved Mama's Guide that goes along with today's episode by signing up for my weekly newsletter here.

God Bless...

Kerri

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How many times have you looked up to God and cried out, "Why me?" or "What have I done to deserve this?" or "Why am I so unlovable?" or "How could he do this?" 

SO many times we ask the wrong question.

And it causes our thoughts to cycle instead of moving us ahead.

In today's episode, learn to ask positive, powerful questions to help you see the viper hidden in your relationship and why God may have allowed your ex to leave. 

Don't forget to download the Beloved Mama's Guide that goes along with this episode and check out Silent Night Strong, to bring light to what can be the darkest week of the year - that lonely stretch between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day. 

God Bless...

Kerri

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Have you ever felt like the odd man - or woman - out?

Like everyone is talking about you behind your back?

Have you had flashbacks to 3rd grade and being the one who wore pajamas to school when it wasn't pajama day and people didn't do things like that? :)

Hopefully not, but...

If you have, that's okay! In fact, sometimes it's good to be weird!

John the Baptist wasn't worried about what people said about him, and in this week's episode, I walk you through some reasons and ways being weird - in the right way - is a good thing!

Don't forget to download the Beloved Mama's Guide that goes along with this episode and check out Silent Night Strong, to bring light to what can be the darkest week of the year - that lonely stretch between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day. 

God Bless...

Kerri

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Have you fallen for lies that someone else whispered (or maybe shouted) into your hopes? Have you let those lies define you?

Maybe you've started seeing yourself as...

Maybe it's something you laugh at yourself for like...

Maybe it's something that seems good, but can be a trap like...

So often we absorb labels given us by people rather than God. In today's episode, join me in rejecting your old labels and begin anew this Advent.

God Bless...

Kerri

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We're told, this is supposed to be "the most wonderful time of the year," but for many, the holidays can be a time of loneliness and darkness. 

In today's episode life coach Kerri Bishop talks about how difficult the holidays can be, the dangers of comparison, and putting a plan together to make it through the tough times. 

Kerri also helps you see that the darkness may have actually been the period  before your breakup. That is when you were blind to what your ex was thinking. 

Now, Jesus asks you to do the hard work of waking up to His love and light. This is a love and light that never dims and is there for the taking when you answer His invitation.

God Bless...

Kerri

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Does it feel hard to be grateful this year? Does it seem like everyone else lives so much better than you and, while you're happy for them, you also wish some of that wealth would trickle down to you - and I don't necessarily mean financially either! 

If you've ever felt that way, today's episode gives reasons and ways to grow in gratitude.

I also tell the mistake I used to make when writing out my own gratitude lists!

I understand Mama.

Thanksgiving can be emotionally heavy, especially when finances are tight, the table feels different, kids are torn between homes, or comparison steals your peace.

Join me as I explore how Catholic single mothers can discover real gratitude in the middle of hardship, loneliness, and the pressures of the holiday season.

God Bless...

Kerri

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