The Contented Table I Family Nutrition for Christian Moms

Do you find your dinner table is more like a bus station with people coming and going, getting up and getting down? Rather than a restful place?

Or maybe you find that you're the only one sitting there.

In either case, you're wondering when this chaos began or when the loneliness at the table started.

Family meals can provide the connection you crave and the rest it is meant to.

Listen in to hear how to establish a place that nourishes both body and soul and where your family wants to be.

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A gentle reminder,

God wants you to know: I see you, I hear you, I love you.

Jane

Are you seeking, searching…striving to find a diet that will finally work for you? It’s the time of year when we are tempted to renew our determination to diet our way to happiness.

May I give you permission to try something different?

An alternative that is restful and positive rather than exhausting and all-consuming?

Listen in for tangible, start-today steps to a more nourishing 2024 for body and soul.

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New Year, New Diet? Please no.

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What is your experience with New Year’s Diets?

How can we encourage another?

Want to share your diet edit for the New Year? Come join the conversation. I’ll be sharing mine.

A gentle reminder,

God wants you to know: I see you, I hear you, I love you.

Jane

Some quotes from the podcast episode:

“If you think you should, you probably shouldn’t.”

K. C. Ireton

“I did the best I could with what I knew at the time.”

THE BALANCED MOMCAST WITH SANDY COOPER Episode 205: Embracing Your UN-Perfect Life, w/Shelly Snead (Pt.2)

“A year from now, you will wish you had started today.”

Karen Lamb

Links mentioned

Step 1: Your Best Diet is Right Here.

Step 2: Two Easy Tweaks to Create Balanced Eating (and Tone Down Cravings)

Contented Table Community Chat

It is tough to avoid food situations during the Christmas season. It’s not that we want to escape the function or tradition. We want to erase the pressure and anxiety arising at the thought of our commitments that inevitably revolve around food. It can be yet another example of us stuffing our preferences, so we don’t offend the host or our family’s expectations.

Is there a way to make it to the other side of this season with our nutrition intentions intact?

Yes.

Pull up a chair for 8 tips that will add a moment of rest amid the hustle.

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Learn of 12 reasons why we can dread dinner or why eating can be better described as turmoil rather than joy. We don’t end there though. The door is open at the Contented Table Community chat to continue the conversation and cheer one another along.

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Your Best Diet is Right Here

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