Solo Parent

All single parents are grieving at some level. We know we need to step into the grief and not bypass it, but we aren’t always equipped for the process, and we end up coping with grief in an unhelpful manner. How do we practice grief healthily and intentionally? 

Today, we cover three main points: 

1) Defining grief and our understanding of it 

2) Personal stories of grief 

3) Four tasks of mourning 

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We’re in a brand new year, but for single parents, it might feel like Groundhog Day, where daily life continually feels crazy and out of control. Are there daily intentions we can implement so that we—along with our kids—find a new and better daily rhythm?

Today, we cover three main points: 

1) When you’re a busy single parent, daily life can feel like Groundhog Day—with no end in sight. 


2) A daily schedule/routine, structure, and order can provide a place for your values and intentions to be fully realized.

3) There are practical steps to bring daily intention into your life.

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We get so caught up in the everyday tasks of day-to-day living that we don’t feel like we have the bandwidth to live intentionally into a future we want. 

Today, we cover three main points: 

1) Starting with the end in mind—what to begin, what to end 


2) The importance of making mistakes in front of our children

3) Keeping our eyes on the end goal 

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Every January, we make resolutions that we’ll break. We resolve to exercise more, eat better, lose weight, and save money. However, researchers suggest that only nine percent of Americans complete their resolutions. So often, our goals or resolutions are surface-oriented and do not get at the root of the issue. We need focus and direction—we need intention. Instead of setting New Year’s resolutions, what are ways we can set intentions? 

Today, we cover three main points: 

1) Focus on the heart, not the behavior.

2) Change how you measure outcomes.

3) One word to focus on for the year.

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To grow in life, we need to let go of toxic people, situations, patterns, and habits. But it’s challenging to let go of the old so the new can be ushered in. How can we welcome necessary endings into our lives?

Today, we cover three main points: 

1) Defining, naming, and normalizing necessary endings

2) Why it’s so hard to let go, why endings can feel uncomfortable 

3) The upside of failing: what happens when we let go and move forward

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As we prepare to celebrate Christmas, many Christians around the world join in the celebration of Advent. Advent is the anticipation of the arrival of Christ and a time of preparation to celebrate His birth. Today, our focus will be on the joy we find in Advent and the hope we find in Jesus. A couple of years ago, just before Christmas, we had a beautiful conversation with Pastor Curtis Zackery and the origin of the classic Christmas song “O Holy Night.” You will never look at it the same way again.

Today we cover why Robert chose this episode as his favorite and discuss the reasons why it was meaningful to him. 

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Most solo parents worry about how they are going to make ends meet during the challenges of living as a one-income family. Any kind of significant life transition or crisis can lead to unsettling circumstances, especially financially. Because single parents often find themselves dealing with unexpected financial changes related to budget and practical needs, we wanted to reintroduce this conversation we had with Ron Rauch on steps to financial stability. It can also provide motivation for a financial reset as we come out of the holiday spending frenzy and approach 2024.  

Today we discuss why Marissa chose this episode as her favorite:

1)This episode gives some tremendous practical tips on how to even baseline a budget / “spending plan”

2)how to think in terms of now and later for finances, and 

3)how to deal with debt and potentially get some of it reduced. 

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Trying to navigate the exhausting demands of raising our kids as solo parents can leave us at a loss of who we are, completely depleted of our identity. Maybe we don’t recognize who we were—or who we’re supposed to become. Even that concept can seem elusive and out of reach—we’re so often just struggling to get by. We wanted to reintroduce our conversation with Dr. Dan Allender on how to reclaim our identity and discover confidence in who we are and how we fit into our new reality. 

Dan is the founder and lead instructor at the Allender Center. For over thirty years, Dan’s theory, The Allender Theory, has brought healing and transformation to hundreds of thousands of lives by bringing the story of the Gospel and the story of trauma and abuse that mark so many. He founded The Allender Center which is the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, and is the best-selling author of nine books. 

Today we discuss why Elizabeth chose this episode as her favorite.

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Welcome to the Solo Parent podcast, My name is Robert Beeson - and I'm here with Elizabeth and Amber (HELLO) we are so glad you have joined us. All this month we are doing something a little different. We’re playing clips from some of our (and your) favorite episodes over the last several years. Each week, a different member of our podcast team has chosen an episode to look back on and talk about why it was their favorite. 

Today we discuss why Amber chose this episode as her favorite. 

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Tis the season to feel a lot of pressure. The list of supposed to’s is never-ending. There are expectations from family, work, our kids, our friends, and even ourselves. It’s not just a to-do list, but how we’re supposed to be, what everything is supposed to look like and be what it’s supposed to be like. All of this is so overwhelming and if you let it, it will pull you down. How do we survive this and can we actually enjoy the season? 

Today we’re going to cover three main points: 

1) naming the supposed to’s

2) why do we feel the pressure of the supposed to’s 

3) how we can free ourselves from the suppose to’s 

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