Solo Parent

This week we are discussing Navigating Single Parent Dating: FAQs

Dating is hard, period. There's no manual, no "right way" of doing things. But when you're a single parent, it gets even trickier; you have kids now and dating has changed significantly in this digital age. How can single parents navigate dating and all its complexities?

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This week we are discussing Is it Love or Loneliness?

Sometimes loneliness cuts so deep that we'll accept less than what we want or deserve; we're willing to take love from anyone we can get—both in romantic and non-romantic relationships. Sometimes it's really love, but other times it's simply a solution for our loneliness. How can we tell the difference in our relationships?

Today, we cover three main points:

1. How loneliness and love are intertwined

2. Why we don't want to be lonely

3. Questions to ask ourselves

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This week we are discussing Healthy vs Unhealthy Love with Laurie Lokey.

As solo parents, we may not have experienced healthy relationships in our past, resulting in a distorted view of what relationships should actually look like. How can we define healthy relationships and what are some guidelines so that we're able to identify toxic or unsafe connections in our lives?

Laurie co-founded Resilient Love with her husband, Bill, after decades of clinical work individually and leading couples intensives together. She is passionate about partnering with people on their journey to find hope and resiliency. She completed her master's degree at Trevecca University as a Licensed Professional Counselor and she has created an individual intensive therapy model for the healing of trauma which she continues to develop in her practice. Laurie's love for helping people heal from the impact of trauma led her to work with a specialist and traumatologist, Dr. Lee Norton. From their work, she developed her own modality called "Trauma Stage Processing," which she and her husband, Bill, have taught to clinicians across the country.

Laurie has worked as an intensive specialist for the past 15 years and has a thriving private practice based in Spring Hill, TN. Resilient Love is the culmination of decades of clinical therapy experience of her and Bill combined with their journey and wisdom of navigating life in light of the love of Jesus.

https://www.resilientloveprogram.com/

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This week we are discussing Unnecessary Things: Wasteful Spending

As single parents, we often need to be thoughtful about how we spend our money because our resources tend to be very slim; there's always an opportunity cost involved. And when everything is stretched so thin, it's hard to know what is wasteful spending vs. wise spending—there's a huge learning curve on top of everything else we do. How can we retrain ourselves and our spending habits?

Today, we cover three main points:

1) What is wasteful spending?

2) The emotions around spending money.

3) How to spend mindfully.

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This week we are discussing Unnecessary Things: No Regrets

Regret as a single parent runs deep. It can be in the day to day interactions with our kids, the thing we didn't say to our former spouse and wish we had, the choices we've made with our lives that got us where we are. But can all of these regrets actually serve us moving forward? How can we use regret to our advantage and actually have a better life because of them?

Today, we cover three main points:

1) Misconceptions of regret

2) The four core regrets

3) Using regret to grow and shape the future

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This week we are discussing Unnecessary Things: Worry

There is such a gap between where you are and where you think you are supposed to be. And, as a single parent, it seems like there is so much to be worried about. You're in it alone; there is no sounding board and no one to help when you're spinning out and getting worked up. How can single parents use worry to our benefit?

Today we're going to cover three main points: 1) Single parents and worry 2) Finding the root of the issue 3) How worry helps

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This week we are discussing Unnecessary Things: Goals

Goal setting as a single parent can feel overwhelming, shame filled, and down right unnecessary. We already have so many pressures in life, why add more at the beginning of the year? Shouldn't we start off the year filled with hope and joy about what's to come? So how can we reframe goal setting to fit more of the single parent lifestyle and feel better about ourselves in the long run?

Today, we cover three main points: 1) Top barriers to goal setting for single parents 2) Reframing how we think about goals 3) Real life examples of how to live this out

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TOPIC This week we are discussing our REWIND episode " Is It Love or Codependency?

PAIN POINT If we're honest, we need to admit we often don't know what healthy love looks like. Codependency can often feel like love. So, how can we tell the difference between love and codependency? We are looking forward to visiting this episode with you.

3 MAIN POINTS Today, we discuss why Elizabeth chose this episode as her favorite for 2024.

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When we talk about growing in grace, Kathie Lee Gifford is a shining example. She is an American icon, a talented actress, musical artist, and television personality. And she's been through so many things. Yet, she continues to live a life epitomized by grace and love. When asked where her tenacity and drive come from, Kathie says she is a lifetime student of God's word and reads it every day. And, when she reads it, "nobody in the Bible retired. They kept doing what God put them on this earth to do". Kathie Lee loves to work and she thinks it's a valuable gift God gives us for our purpose, our self-worth, and our growth. Being responsible to meet a deadline or keep people employed, and then mix that with the Holy Spirit, gives her purpose every morning and keeps her going. Kathie Lee says she learned from Paul Newman long ago that, "If I've got a pulse, I've got a purpose." She has never entertained the idea of retirement. She has walked with the Lord since she was twelve years old, and while she doesn't know how many days He has for her, she looks forward to finding out.

This curiosity and sense of adventure is part of her continued growth. She has found genuine joy and is the happiest she has been in years. But she shares that, "Happiness is different than joy". She has always been a joyful person because of her walk with the Lord but happiness comes from the word "happenstance". Happiness is related to our circumstance whereas joy is not. She could find joy even in many sad and stress-filled moments, and did, but she is thankful to have now found herself in a rich, warm, and fun season, full of happiness too.

And Kathie Lee has known hard circumstances full of controversy, accusation, betrayal, loss, and hurt. Many single parents have experienced those too and end up feeling rejected and a deep sense of loneliness.

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