The Warrior Mama Podcast

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week Bethany invites you to sit down with her and her three daughters, Kendall, Abby Grace, and Anna Claire. For the next few weeks, Bethany sits down with her girls to have conversations on how moms and daughters can interact and how the gospel plays into their relationship. 

They visit how different temperaments, struggles, world experiences, and scenarios play a vital role. Bethany hopes this is a time where you as a mom can understand a bit more clarity on how you can partner and walk with God as he engages and guides your children on their journey. 

Bethany and her daughters discuss five concepts that will guide their conversations throughout the next few weeks. The girls share how they struggled, combatted, and persevered.

• Identity: Understanding where you find identity and where you are tempted to find an identity. 
• Comparison: What does it look like? How does it motivate and blind you?
• Perfectionism: How does it play into your mindset. 
• Surrender: How important it truly is. 
• An Active Army: The idea of being actively engaged in a faith walk with the lord. 

The girls share ways that their parents helped them throughout their journey with Christ and how honesty, presence, consistency, and a strong support system can put them on their path with Jesus. 

Head to Bethany's website to share comments, questions or to drop a quick note. You can also subscribe to her newsletters for encouragement, free resources, new content, and more. She is always available to chat, listen, or guide you in the direction that you need. 

You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share some of your favorite moments or maybe some of your most difficult moments of motherhood.

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week Bethany continues her talk about the lies that we face in motherhood, especially the lie that says “you have to control it all”. 

As a mama you are faced with so many questions, what ifs, and the feeling that if you do not control it all then you will fail. Are you struggling with the need to control and overprotect which spirals into layers of anxiety?  Join Bethany as she talks about the anchors in God’s word that will help you believe and trust in him as he walks by your side in even the toughest days of motherhood. 

God wants mamas to pray about all the things they question in motherhood, he is there to equip you with the wisdom you need. Most importantly, God chose you for your child. 

As featured in today’s episode, here are the journal pages to help you identify the lies that you’re hearing and change the way you are thinking. https://view.flodesk.com/pages/60d0e421cfb7978901ae2e93. 

Head to https://bethanykimsey.com to send her anything you would like for her to share and answer.  You can also subscribe to Bethany’s newsletter for encouragement, free resources, new content and more.

You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share what your favorite stage with your child is and some great moments you had with them then!

Welcome to the kitchen table with Bethany Kimsey!

Have you ever walked away from an interaction with one of your children and thought, “I have NO IDEA what to do?” Motherhood can leave us floundering in our thoughts. 

Sometimes we don’t know what to do with the situation that has presented itself.  It leaves us feeling befuddled. 

Bethany Kimsey encourages us that we can find refuge and an invitation in Jeremiah 33:3 “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

We can call to Him even in the day to day, in the potty training, in the sleepless baby, in the mood swings of our teenagers, and God will answer.  

Mama, He understands these great and hidden things.  

He has given us a great task, and at times it can feel so daunting but I share how to step into the throne room and trust God’s invitation.  

For more information, head to my website https://bethanykimsey.com.

Welcome back to the kitchen table. Do you often feel that the true meaning of Christmas gets lost? Are you searching for ideas on traditions and ways you can keep Jesus at the forefront of this holiday season? Well, if so, you're in the right place. This week on WGBT, Bethany sits down with Stephanie Thurling, the co-founder of Raising Prayerful Kids. 

Steph and Bethany sit down in a great conversation about how we can keep the true meaning alive as we approach the holiday season. They provide concrete ideas for activities and traditions that you can do with your own family. Often Jesus takes the backseat as gifts, decorations, and festivities are at the forefront of the holiday season. 

They remind us that more is less during the Christmas season and that the best way to keep Jesus in our Christmas celebrations is to have him present in our daily lives. By reminding our children that Jesus is the real reason for the holiday season it can help your family to enjoy the holiday on a more meaningful level. 

Whether you set aside time to pray every day, participate in advent, or have your own family tradition. It's important to remember that Jesus is the reason we celebrate. 

Connect with Steph:

Steph Thurling is a co-founder of Raising Prayerful Kids, a ministry that equips and encourages parents to be praying with their kids in a meaningful way. She is passionate about faith formation at home, almond milk lattes, deep friendships, and beagles. She lives in Minnesota (even though she hates the cold) with her husband and three kids.

Advent Guide 

Steph's Website

Her Upcoming Book

Tune in every Wednesday for a new episode of When God Breaks Through: A Warrior Mama Podcast 

Connect with Bethany: 

You can head to Bethany's website to share comments, questions or to drop a quick note. You can also subscribe to her newsletters for encouragement, free resources, new content, and more. 

You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share some of your favorite moments or maybe some of your most difficult moments of motherhood. 

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week, Bethany is continuing her conversation with her husband Troy. They define wisdom and provide you with a foundation on what teaching wisdom might look like at our children's different ages and stages. 

Bethany and Troy discuss how wisdom plays a role in navigating life to understand better who we are and who God is. However, using a wisdom approach in parenting demands more time as you accompany your child throughout their journey of learning wisdom. It requires deeper conversations, explanations, and more than just a simple no response. 

They go through the various stages in your child's life to give you a clearer picture of what a wisdom-based approach might look like in your parenting. This allows children to process their decisions and to walk in light of God and his wisdom. 

Bethany and Troy have provided key questions in helping you work this out across the different ages and stages more practically. These questions give you concrete examples of how to implement this in your parenting, but these questions allow you to understand your child's thought processes better. 

• Do you think this decision is/was wise?
• What would make this decision unwise? 
• What would God say about this decision?
• What in you made you desire to make this decision?
• Who is God?
• Who are you?
• What is God's standard?
• Why would God say this is wise?
• Why would God say not to do this?
• As a parent, why would I be concerned about this decision?
• What concerns would God have?
• What concerns do you have?

You can head to Bethany's website to share comments, questions or to drop a quick note. You can also subscribe to her newsletters for encouragement, free resources, new content, and more. 

You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share some of your favorite moments or maybe some of your most difficult moments of motherhood.

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week, Bethany is joined by her husband Troy to talk about wisdom and the role it can play in gospel-centered parenting. 

As parents, we often feel at odds with our children, and too often, we find ourselves arguing with our children, causing strain on our relationships. Bethany and Troy provide experience, advice, and scripture that will help you parent confidently and in a way that points to God. 

Instead of parenting in the realm of right vs. wrong, Bethany and Troy instead guide us in helping our children understand the role of wisdom in making decisions. They visit ways to help our children grow in their journey with God rather than focusing on their ability to produce positive behaviors. 

Bethany and Troy give concrete ways to communicate with your child on whether decisions are wise or unwise. Using wisdom challenges your child to think through the process and reflect on the positives and negatives of their choices. In turn, this encourages conversations of decision-making and wisdom between your child and God. 

You can head to Bethany's website to share comments, questions or to drop a quick note. You can also subscribe to her newsletters for encouragement, free resources, new content, and more. 

You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share some of your favorite moments or maybe some of your most difficult moments of motherhood.

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week Bethany is taking time to have a conversation about rest before we head into the hustle of the holiday season. For many of us, rest feels elusive and unattainable. Maybe you are teetering on the edge with holiday planning, your children's schedules, or the demand to get everything done. 

Bethany shares her own story of when God helped Bethany refocus when she was misplacing her idea of rest. He helped her develop a clearer vision of what it means to place rest in Jesus's hands. 

Today, Bethany uses a story in scripture to help you get a clearer vision and understanding of how Jesus views rest. Bethany tells us a story from Mark. And she reminds us that in Mark 6:31, Jesus offers an invitation of rest to the disciples. 

She provides us with examples throughout scripture where Jesus emphasizes the importance of rest. Bethany hopes you will learn from scripture to pause, reflect, and reset. His words will help you fix what you view as rest. He truly understands our needs, and he will not abandon us during our time of rest. But instead, he calls to us. 

Important scriptures for rest

Mark 6:31 And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while."

1 Peter 1:13-141 Peter 2:25Matthew 11:28-30 Hebrews 4:9 Isaiah 26:3 Psalm 4:8 Psalm 23

You can head to Bethany's website to share comments, questions or to drop a quick note. You can also subscribe to her newsletters for encouragement, free resources, new content, and more. 

You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share some of your favorite moments or maybe some of your most difficult moments of motherhood. 

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week Bethany is diving into the topic of parenting free of tension. Many mamas have reached out to Bethany, asking how she has relationships with her teen daughters free of tension. Bethany reminds us that a tension-free relationship with children is a false narrative.

In all parent-child relationships, there are misunderstandings, miscommunication, and failure on both ends. These relationships are ever-evolving. 

In this week's episode, you will hear Bethany share four important reminders she keeps at the forefront of her mind regarding her relationships with her daughters. 

• Prayer: the importance of praying for your children.
• Give pursuit: Pursue our children the way God pursues us.
• Active presence: Being aware and practicing being present with your children.
• Understanding God's peace: When you understand his peace in your life, you can pour this onto your children. 

You will also hear insight from Bethany's daughter on the topic of loneliness and isolation and the impact they have on our children. Bethany talks about the enemy's role as well as the Holy Spirit's role. 

Bethany invites you to reach out to her if you are struggling with any of these four things. You can head to Bethany's website to share comments, questions or to drop a quick note. You can also subscribe to her newsletters for encouragement, free resources, new content, and more. She has created a free prayer guide to help you focus on praying for your child, no matter their age. 

You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share some of your favorite moments or maybe some of your most difficult moments of motherhood.

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week Bethany invites you into her continued conversation with her three daughters. Bethany and the Kimsey girls look inward to discuss the sin tendencies that they battle with and how this has impacted their walk with Christ. 

She invites you to sit down with your own children to listen in hopes to encourage a genuine conversation about their own sin tendencies. If you are struggling to have conversations about the Gospel with your children. Bethany invites you to visit episodes 21, 22, and 23 to develop a good context about understanding and communicating about your child’s sin tendencies. 

This week Bethany challenges you to dive deeper into your heart issues and recognize where you continuously trip up. Understanding these tendencies can help you to better meet your own children with grace. 

Even in times of sin and messy moments, Jesus still welcomes us. In your moments of weakness, he steps in to show us his strength. Bethany’s daughters share their stories, sin tendencies, and how it has changed their relationship with Jesus. 

Head to Bethany's website to share comments, questions or to drop a quick note. You can also subscribe to her newsletters for encouragement, free resources, new content, and more. She has created a free prayer guide to help you focus on praying for your child, no matter their age. 

You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share some of your favorite moments or maybe some of your most difficult moments of motherhood. 

Come join Bethany at the table! Resetting Your Mind when Motherhood Seems Hard can be found here.

Throughout this 6-week small group course, you will experience guided time in the Bible designed to help you assess and begin to build a foundation for your motherhood on the gospel. Daily minute long videos will accompany each study time so that clarity and confidence will build. Real life stories from my motherhood will illuminate most concepts, giving you clear word pictures that cement these truths into your thoughts for real life application.

Weekly Q and A and coaching as well as your two 1:1 calls will help you gain perspective and direction not just for the 6 week study but for the coming months and years of your motherhood!

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week Bethany invites you to sit down with her and her three daughters as they continue to share their own experiences on their walk with Christ. 

Bethany reminds us of the calling the Lord has given us all in our role as mothers. We are to be their catalyst, pointing them to the Lord and helping them see how they can turn to the holy spirit. 

Bethany shares how she didn't provide shame or judgment in each moment of sin or weakness, but instead, she reminded her children that this is an opportunity to take it to Christ. We, as mamas, have been invited to a sacred conversation with God. He holds out his hand and asks us to not only walk with him and our children but to be an active voice in prayer. 

Bethany's daughters share how being met graciously in times of sin was a glimpse into God's grace and a reminder of a need for a savior.  

The girls continue to discuss how identity, comparison, perfectionism, surrender, and an active army have all played a role in their walk with Christ. They share moments of strength, weakness, and perseverance while providing sounding advice. 

Head to Bethany's website to share comments, questions or to drop a quick note. You can also subscribe to her newsletters for encouragement, free resources, new content, and more. She has created a free prayer guide to help you focus on praying for your child, no matter their age. 

You can also find Bethany on Facebook and Instagram @bethanykimsey to share some of your favorite moments or maybe some of your most difficult moments of motherhood. 

Come join me at the table! Resetting Your Mind when Motherhood Seems Hard can be found here.

Throughout this 6-week small group course, you will experience guided time in the Bible designed to help you assess and begin to build a foundation for your motherhood on the gospel. Daily minute long videos will accompany each study time so that clarity and confidence will build. Real life stories from my motherhood will illuminate most concepts, giving you clear word pictures that cement these truths into your thoughts for real life application.

Weekly Q and A and coaching as well as your two 1:1 calls will help you gain perspective and direction not just for the 6 week study but for the coming months and years of your motherhood!