Are you a busy mom who feels like she is battling each day to balance "all the things" while simultaneously drowning in worry?

Today's conversation is for you!

Welcome my friend, writer, speaker and creator of the Dawn App, Angie Gibbons to the show today!

Angie’s ministry is dedicated to helping Christian moms trade stress and worry for peace, shift their mindset from performance to relationship and connect with God in a deeper way.

Just what we all need, right?

This conversation is filled with encouragement and practical steps to help you stop the crazy, silence the performance mindset, breathe deeply and connect with God today.

Be encouraged as Angie and I discuss:

How balance is a verb, not a noun

Laying down that performance lens when we spend time with God

4 Ways to Reset When You Are Worried

Making Space for What Fills Your Soul

How to truly simplify

Connect with Angie Gibbons at gatheratdawn.com and on Instagram

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FAVORITE TAKEAWAYS:

We’ve normalized and made busyness a big joke that we feel like this is the way it’s supposed to be and there’s no other way to be and we’re missing out on the full embodiment of who God made us to be. 

 

All of the busyness and all the running around makes it so that none of our relationships are as fulfilling as they are supposed to be.

 

We are trying to get to a place where we are balancing rather than balanced - it’s a verb, not a noun.

 

If we see balance as a place of arrival then we are always failing 

 

Those of us who have grown up in the church, we have this voice in our head that says: you are supposed to be selfless to a fault, you are basically supposed to kill yourself on this altar and bleed yourself dry.

 

When we feel like we’ve got to achieve a certain balance, it becomes all about us.

 

Shift your mindset rather than try to stop your mindset

 

4 Steps to Reset When You Are Worried:

 

1. Stop and name the “big worry”
2. Invite God into the process of solving the worry
3. Hand worry over to God
4. Ask God to help you release the burden and lift it to Him

*Take deep breaths between each step*

 

The Lord was here first

 

Simplify your schedule by blocking

 

We are such a performance based society and because of that when we think about even spending time with God we put our performance lens on it