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- Patreon: A Flood, a Breakup and a Clown CarSometimes when there isn't a perspective shift in sight, you have to take another route.
This week one of the Moms shared something that you probably have experience with as well: A breakup with a friend. The kind that impacts the whole family. It's the worst!
This week we also stashed/trashed some fall treats that got a 10 out of 10 from all three Moms! Em tells the tale of her four-flood-wood-floors and Rebecky announced that she is begrudgingly giving up her clown car to perfect-picker, better-meal-Neal!
Thanks for hanging out with us again this week! If you want to join the Patreon community, head on over here to receive this full episode and many many more!
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:- Stash it or trash it: Maple Oreos & Pumpkin Pie Jelly Belly
- Em’s Pottery Barn table woes
- Rebeky’s Pura for Mojo (Use code REBECCASMITH3449 for discount!)
- Kate’s pod nook
- Sequin snake pens
- Em’s flooded wooden floors
- Rebecky’s car giveaway to Better-Meal-Neal
- Kate’s breakup with her neighbor over COVID
*Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.CONNECT WITH REBECKY:website | instagram | patreonCONNECT WITH KATIE:instagram | website | patreonCONNECT WITH EMILY:website | instagram | facebook | patreonSHARE THE STRUGGLE!
If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here!LINKS MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:Patreon | Amazon
*Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.3 min - Stash it or trash it: Maple Oreos & Pumpkin Pie Jelly Belly
- #262: What's In Your Pantry?Overwhelmed with the pressure of providing healthy meals as a working mom? Maybe you’re in the pantry quite a bit these days since you’re home with kids. We want to know: Whats in your pantry?
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:Self-care is for everyone shirts Em likes- Rebecky’s Stitch Fix $25 off coupon
- In Motion Jacket with go go gadget arms
Puss Caterpillars and Tussock Moth Caterpillar- Rotating Meals for easy planning
- The complicated nature of food and burden of healthy eating
- Rebecky’s meal kit comparison: EveryPlate vs. Hello Fresh
- Katie’s fancy Gobble week with Big Boy
- Trader Joe’s cinnamon bun spread
Franks RedHot seasoning- Against All Grain granola
- Perfect Bars
- Shortage of Tapioca for the best Peach Cobbler Recipe
*Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
CONNECT WITH REBECKY:website | instagram | patreon
CONNECT WITH KATIE:instagram | website | patreon
CONNECT WITH EMILY:website | instagram | facebook | patreon
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LINKS MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:Patreon | Amazon*Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.48 min - #261: The Alcohol Experiment with Annie GraceI’m sick of thinking about alcohol! I wonder if I could have fun socializing without it. Do I even enjoy drinking anymore? If any of this struck a nerve with you, you are not alone! These are things I wrestle with and I have just recently started sharing my struggles with this particular topic on the podcast. With the help of Annie Grace and the Alcohol Experiment, I have been exploring my relationship with Alcohol and I can feel a shift in my perspective. In this episode, you’ll hear more about that and about how Annie’s personal journaling transitioned into an excellent resource and free program that could change your life.WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:
- how growing up in a remote cabin gave Annie a high tolerance for discomfort
- her experience of finding Jesus, escaping a bad relationship, and attending college
- how Annie’s drinking escalated from work happy hours to alcoholism
- dispelling the myth of addictive personalities and genetic alcoholism
- weighing the cost vs. benefit of drinking
- the trauma from the inner conflict of wanting to stop drinking while continuing to drink
- the change that occurred when Annie stopped asking “what’s wrong with me?” and started asking “what changed?”
- how putting down the weapons of shame and blame and instead investigating the “why” without judgment gave her hope
- how the journey of finding absolute radical grace for yourself will give you a bigger capacity to give grace to others
LINKS MENTIONED:This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
The Alcohol Experiment
6 Things About Moderation
The Path
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SHARE THE STRUGGLE!If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here!54 min - #260: The Gift of Resistance with Anjuli PaschallWe tend to make Christianity complicated. Our relationship with God can feel rigid or only surface-deep. This week my friend Anjuli talks to us about the gift of resistance. Paying attention to the things that you’re trying your best to ignore; the things that feel like the scary deep end of the pool. But what if that deep end part of your story was the way to true intimacy with your Creator?
Anjuli Paschall is the founder of The Moms We Love Club and writes regularly for (in)courage, a widely followed online community of Christian women. She grew up encircled by an orange grove in San Diego. After graduating from Point Loma Nazarene University, she earned a master's degree in spiritual formation and soul care from Talbot Seminary. She currently lives in Southern California with her husband, Sam, and five children. Sam is a pastor at Mission Hills Church in San Marcos. They enjoy renovating their fixer-upper and spending weekends at the ocean.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:- Anjuli’s Instagram transition and the struggle to actually be authentic vs. faking authenticity
- how vulnerability and growing her trust in God has reduced her mom guilt
- creating a genogram to help identify and break generational sins
- the importance of dealing with our own personal pain so that our kids don’t feel the need to try to fix it for us
- the gift of resistance - the deep end of your story is the way to true intimacy
- what it looks like to abide with God in your everyday life
- over complicating Christianity when all we need is the faith of a child
- the continued resistance Anjuli feels about being honest
- wrestling with the truth of God’s love for us
- building spiritual rhythms into your daily habits
- different phases of parenting happening simultaneously
LINKS MENTIONED:Embracing Holland podcast
Stay Awake to Love course
Poldark
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SHARE THE STRUGGLE!If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here!51 min - #259: iPhone A Capella Heart with the Moms Struggling WellThis week is all about re-introductions plus another BIG announcement that Better Life Bags fans and long-time listeners of the show will LOVE! As we transition the show we thought it would be nice to have a refresher and find out: Who even are these Moms Struggling Well? We struggle hard in this episode and laughed so much that Rebecky’s sweet baby girl will probably never forgive us for the disturbance.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:- getting to know all about Emily, Rebecca, and Kate - where we live, our families, enneagram numbers, first CDs, first jobs, and irrational fears
- misconceptions people have about us
- what’s giving us life
- what’s killing us softly
CONNECT WITH REBECKY:website | instagram
CONNECT WITH KATIE:instagram | website
CONNECT WITH EMILY:website | instagram | facebook | patreon
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SHARE THE STRUGGLE!If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here!1 hr 4 min - #258: Hope in the Seed Beneath the Soil with Ashlee EilandDid you know there are practices that can actually help you slow your thoughts? Doesn’t seem like something you would need to practice but I sure do crave a calm mind. My guest today is a big fan of slowing it on down and bringing rest and togetherness back into the human experience. We talked some about our perspectives as working moms and some about ways to create mutually beneficial and empowering relationships with the POC in your life. You’re going to love Ashlee Eiland for her wisdom, grace, and her adorable laugh!
Ashlee is a leader, pastor, writer, and Bible teacher who exists to join God in His redemptive work here on Earth. Her work has one purpose: to help humanity build bridges back to the Truth of who God is and between one another in redemptive, healing relationship. Her passion for Scripture, family, writing, elevating women in the Church, and the holy journey of adoption are core to who she is. Ashlee serves as Formation & Preaching Pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids. She and her husband, Delwin, have three kids, Brooklyn, Myles, and Journey.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:- Ashlee’s 3 kids who Ninja Warrior everywhere and create paint masterpieces on her carpet
- being intentional with your time, but holding it loosely
- seeing interruptions as opportunities to practice internal peace vs. external contentment
- slowing down with Ignatian spirituality and breath prayer
- the example Ashlee’s mom set as a working mom
- encouragement for working moms about changing your mind
- taking a break vs. doing something life-giving when you feel frayed
- Ashlee’s work with juveniles being tried as adults
- persisting when your efforts to show kindness don’t go the way you want them to
- being faithful in the small things that over time create progress
- creating mutually beneficial and empowering relationships with the POC in your life
LINKS MENTIONED:Domestic Monastery
Practicing the Presence of God
Invitations from God
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook
Instagram - @liturgiesforparents
Human(Kind)
Hamilton
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CONNECT WITH ASHLEE:website | instagram
CONNECT WITH EMILY:website | instagram | facebook | patreon
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Will You Be My Friend? - check out the sequel to Guess How Much I Love You, available now wherever books are sold
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SUPPORT THE SHOW:Patreon
SHARE THE STRUGGLE!If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here!58 min - #257: Fight For Love with Rosie MakinneyHow do you start the conversation with your spouse when you suspect that pornography is a problem in your marriage? Yep, we’re going there today! We're shedding some light on this dark subject and talking practical tips that you can implement when there is a hole in the boat. My guest Rosie gives us hope that it is attainable to have a porn-free marriage if addressed properly and shares all of the right steps to take.
Rosie Makinney is a writer, speaker, and podcaster, who ten years ago entered the fight against her husband’s compulsive porn use. Through her faithful and uncompromising stance and his repentance, counseling, and group work, their marriage is now porn-free. From the very beginning of her journey, Rosie has been bold and relentless about reaching other wives struggling with porn-invaded marriages. There is now a thriving recovery community on the central coast of California, supervised by her husband, Mark, a certified sexual addiction therapist. Rosie is the founder of Fight For Love Ministries, which empowers women with both the facts and the faith to fight against porn addiction and its effects on them, their spouses, and their families.53 min - #256: Hormones with the Moms Struggling WellEver feel like one day you’re flying high and the next you’re requesting a leave of absence from your motherly duties? Us too. Hormones, amiright? Today listeners share their hormone problems and we give it our best go. Oh yea, and there are THREE Moms Struggling Well now! We’ll get you all caught up in this episode about the new things happening around here at MSW. Thanks for coming along on our maiden voyage!
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:- the big show changes coming in November
- our upcoming MSW trip to Ohio
- Rebecky crying over potato wedges
- syncing cycles with the teen in your house
- different hormone seasons
- PMDD vs. depression
- Tear-jerker movies for when you need a good cry
- Rebecky’s strong feelings for Train’s “Drops of Jupiter”
- feeling guilty when you’re hormonal and need a break
- letting yourself feel anger without assigning blame to things going on around you
- giving yourself grace and reaching out when you’re lonely and hormonal
- tips from fellow struggs about what’s been helping manage their hormones
- what’s giving us life and what’s killing us softly
LINKS MENTIONED:#253: Bloom Where You’re Planted with Tina Prenzi
#254: Hormones Reframed with Dr. Heather Rhodes
This is Your Period in 2 Minutes
Calm magnesium
Lemon Balm
Women Are Sharing The Most Obscene Things They’ve Done While ‘Under The Influence Of Hormones’
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel
HelloFresh
Every Plate
Gobble
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
CONNECT WITH REBECKY:website | instagram
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CONNECT WITH EMILY:website | instagram | facebook | patreon
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SHARE THE STRUGGLE!If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here!57 min - #255: Walking Through Loss with Emily HoneaWhat do you say when someone you love experiences loss? How is even possible to find the blessings when the pain of losing a loved one is your own? If you haven’t experienced grief yourself, you’re likely to have a friend who has and you’ll feel that urge to come alongside them. Today I brought on a listener who helped my sister Katie when she was blindsided with grief and I wanted her to come to share her insight.
Emily Honea rides a pony. Not really, but Honea rhymes with pony, so now you might be able to remember how to say her last name. Emily is a regular mom who lives just outside of Dallas, Texas and spends most of her days wrangling her two young boys. She has been married for eleven years and is thankful every day for God’s provision for her through her husband Jeremy. Emily works part-time from home as an online adjunct professor of Communication Studies, and recently started a podcast. It is called Uniquely You Podcast which looks at how God created us each uniquely using the Bible as well as the enneagram.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:- how motherhood revealed Emily’s selfishness
- dealing with postpartum anxiety after the traumatic birth of her son
- navigating a house with high energy people when you like peace and quiet
- encouragement for moms with kids in the potty training phase
- the loss of Emily’s father to a brain tumor and what that experience has taught her about grief
- the six stages of grief
- the difference between moving on and moving forward
- how to help friends who are grieving
LINKS MENTIONED:Grumpy Mom Takes a Holiday
Grief Share
That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief
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SHARE THE STRUGGLE!If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here!54 min - #254: Hormones Reframed with Dr. Heather RhodesHormones feel too complicated to understand and I don’t have the confidence to know where to begin when I’m feeling off. Heck, I can still be completely surprised by my cycle and I’m 40 years old! Whether you’re caught off guard like me or have a nagging feeling something isn’t quite right, you’re going to get something out of this chat.
Dr. Heather Rhodes is a holistic pharmacist with a passion for women's health. She makes understanding your hormones simple and teaches you practical steps for maintaining hormone balance. Her natural approach to healing creates lasting results and symptom relief with ease for busy women. You’re going to love this cross-fit instructor, adoption advocate, ice cream addicted mother of two!
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:- hormone issues that are often swept under the rug
- why Heather has chosen a middle ground between Western and holistic medicine
- the difference between PMDD, PMS, and PCOS and some clues to look for
- how stress affects our hormones
- how cycle journaling can help find hormonal patterns
- strategizing your workouts to keep stress levels down
- signs of orthorexia and the guilt Heather felt during recovery
- how she recovered by reframing, seeking counseling, and changing what she took in on social media
- what she uses as a guide for her health now vs. her past indulging in diet culture
- two things she can’t stop talking about
LINKS MENTIONED:Heather’s free guides
Finding Your Weight Loss Equation free webinar
Hormones Simplified. Facebook group
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SHARE THE STRUGGLE!If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend. The struggle is real. We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here!52 min
About Struggle Well School
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The podcast that helps you love your actual life so you don’t need to run away from home. Join your friend Emily each week to practice thought work guaranteed to yield perspective shifts which will move you from struggling to struggling WELL.