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Do you ever feel like you are an imposter? 🤔

Yes you! The one who has a lot of experience, advice and even expertise in a given field or hobby. It's so easy to operate in a way that says that what you have to offer others is not worth anything. We easily measure it against the ideals of others or other versions of life in our heads- all comparisons are dangerous and harmful! They easily rob us the joy of being a light and bridge for the flourishing of ourselves and others. 

This episode, we bring up two key ways we operate in the imposter syndrome: pace and "repeating the expertise". There is an ease to hate our pace and despise the repetition it takes for people in our sphere of life to be moved by information. Do you really believe you are not placed where you are with what you have for a reason? Combat the lie! Click listen! Let's chat & wrestle. 

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Happy Mental Health Awareness!

In light of this month and time in life, hope is needed in our homes- specifically with our kids. What do they need? What do we need as parents? What are we nurturing as they grow? How do we give now with their future & the future of the world in mind? Can we both do more than just survive the process lol? These are all valid questions! Let's chat about some key foundational pillars for parenting in and out of the COVID-19 phase of life. 

This episode references some great sources and tips. Want to dig in more after the show? Check out the notes, links and info below! Nosh, swill & bliss, beauties (and gents :-). 

(Nosh, swill & bliss ~ Old English words for eat, drink and be merry)

What are some ways we can nurture our kids during quarantining?

One of the ways we can nurture our kids is to get in the "change game" with them.  This may look like engaging the fun and facts of COVID-19 (historical world changer), with our child.  Share facts only enough to inform, but find creative ways with your children to create drama/ skits in being world leaders and /or state and community leaders to act out their thoughts and feelings.  Of course, you can utilize this as teaching time, emotional time, and learning time.

There are several life lessons to learn that some things we can control and some things we cannot control.  Allow your children to express their emotions, while you demonstrate expressing your emotions  appropriately. Overall, nurturing our kids is in the quality time spent, memories made, and growing their faith in Jesus Christ. 

Here are a couple of links for kids for the current event facts and for what it means to have faith in Jesus during this time:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/10-tips-for-talking-about-covid-19-with-your-kids

https://biglifejournal.com/pages/freebies

https://www.revelationmedia.com/watchpilgrims/?_source_code=RM11285

https://youtu.be/P2ba7qa97C4

(Resources and recommendations from Rose Lewis of Dallas, TX, LCP)

What are some great resources to gather my framework for parenting and the overall growth of you as parent & person? (cited in this episode)

Grace Based Parenting (Book/Kindle or Audio) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0849905486/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_wPeXEbFPYVC4Y

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Book/Kindle or Audio) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591454522/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_YReXEbZ4MVKG3

In this episode, I get to talk to a special niche of humanity that are both woman and wife- the wives! This is the first of the multi-episode topic where we talk about how womanhood is vital to being a wife. As common-sense as that maybe, this is the real issue where women feel lost in becoming or growing as a wife & woman.  The issue of a "mis-ordered identity" is one of the greatest affect on marriages and the growth of wives as women. Questions that  can pervade our minds include:

Am I a good wife or am I going to be a good wife?

Am I going to have to choose between my womanhood and being a wife?

What is my purpose & am I fulfilling it?  

This episode is apart of establishing a stance regarding womanhood, being a wife and the design of it all. Let's chat through this vein of thinking and challenge each other to do the same.  If we can anchor our thinking and beliefs, we can look for hope between life's most ambiguous and every shifting moments of marriage & womanhood. 

Don't worry- even if you aren't a wife or have no desire to be, this episode challenges the thinking-paradigm about marriage and the beauty of womanhood. 

Within this episode, I focus a great deal on the need for us to believe and fight for the anchor of identities as daughters first. Here are some verses that remind me to fight to believe this truth for myself. May they provide encourage you and other to do the same. 

DAUGHTER VERSES

Isaiah 43: 1-3

"But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.

2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you."

Jeremiah 31:3

"3 the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you."

Ephesians 2:8-12

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands--

12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Romans 8:38-39

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,

39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The beginning of something can seems to daunt every other version of yourself or the future. 

It's easy to think that the beginning is the worst place to be. But what if there are gifts in the beginning? How can we begin to identify the ways we dial into fear and devastatingly negative possibilities when the devastatingly positive possibilities are actually possible too?

Check out this episode as Diamone walks through the topic of "The Fear of Being a Beginner".