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Continuing in our "Four" Keeps of Mothering series, we talk with the women from the Mom Wants More podcast, Alana Dawson and Amber Salhus about how we can invest in our creative pursuits while "moming". We discuss barriers to being creative, misnomers about what it means to be creative, small steps to take to flex your creative muscle, why being creative is important to our well-being, and so much more.

Alana and Amber do this topic so much justice on a weekly basis on their podcast, Mom Wants More. To learn more, visit The Mom Wants More Podcast

Resources:

The Next Right Thing Podcast

The War of Art

Big Magic

The Artist's Way

Let Your Life Speak

Continuing in our "Four" Keeps of Mothering series, we talk with Christie Cuthbert about the importance of finding humor on this crazy parenting journey.

What do you get when you take a majorly Type A journalist and throw in a crazy fertility journey, four boys including a set of triplets, moves around the country and loads of laughter and wine? That would be Christie Cuthbert, in a nutshell. An award winning journalist, Christie is in the process of finishing her first book, "Mom! I Farted in Church: A Type A Mama's Journey Learning to Laugh." She also writes for Today Parents, Scary Mommy, Alamo City Moms Blog and San Antonio Woman's Magazine. To follow Christie on social media she is @momifartedinchurch on FB and @christiecuthbert on IG.

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This week we start a new series entitled The "Four" Keeps of Mothering. Our four "keeps" are Keep Relating, Keep Laughing, Keep Creating and Keep Caring. To help us kick off this series with Keep Relating, we talk with Jen Babakhan. Jen is the author of Detoured: The Messy, Grace-Filled Journey from Working Professional to Stay-at-Home Mom.

One of the hardest parts of becoming a parent, whether you stay-at-home or work, is learning how to navigate community and finding your "people". We all know we need to keep relating with others even in the midst of the chaos of parenting, but it's not easy. Hopefully, after listening to our discussion with Jen, you will feel more empowered to seek out community whatever that looks like to you. We aren't meant to do this life alone.

Resources:

www.jenbabakhan.com

Last summer we recorded a series on Stewardship and it really resonated with a lot of our listeners. So, we decided to revisit the subject and see how we were doing with our Stewardship in the areas of shopping, eating and media. If you'd like to listen to last year's series, here are the episode links:

Stewardship Introduction

Stewardship in Eating: Interview with Will Harris (1)

Stewardship in Eating: Interview with Will Harris (2)

Stewardship in Shopping: Interview with Stephanie Giddens

Stewardship with Information: Interview with Dr. Angela Schaffner

We also referenced this Louie CK video- Louis CK Hates Cell Phones

This week we discuss kitchen hacks, 23 and me, Rebecca Peet's midlife crisis and summer weddings. It's a smorgasbord of topics indeed.

Links:

23 and Me

Woven's Patreon Page

This week we put our pastor, Kris McDaniel, in the hot seat on Woven. We discuss tattoos, piercings, judging others on outward appearance, freedom, and so much more. As you can tell by listening, we had a great time!

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Our Church- Trinity Anglican Mission

@mattgreenhalgh- Only You Tattoo

@jennybunnydavis- Timeless Tattoo

Occasionally on Woven, we like to explore topics that are often misunderstood or taboo within the Christian world. Our goal is to help dispel myths, push passed fears and have a thoughtful conversation about these topics. This week we're talking about the practice of yoga. Christine Cown, a certified Holy Yoga instructor, joins us to discuss the history of the practice, why Christians don't need to be scared of yoga and how we can practice Christ-centered yoga. We also explore the topic of experiential worship and how to move from worship that is only in our mind to worship that involves all of us- mind, body, emotions, spirit, etc.

Resources Mentioned in Episode:

Funny Christian Yoga Video

@christinecownyoga on FB and IG

Holy Yoga

Experiential Worship

Yoga with Adriene

This week, to round out our Spiritual Practices series, we discuss the Lectio Divina. Joining us to discuss the history of this historical practice of Bible reading is Summer Gross. Summer is an Anglican priest, a spiritual director, a writer and a podcaster. Her passion is, through spiritual direction, to lead people from anxiety to resting in God. Summer can be found at www.athirstforgod.com and her podcast is called The Presence Project.

As we've done the last few weeks, we will release 2 episodes this week, this one that will serve as an introduction to the practice and a second one where Summer leads us through a Lectio. Our prayer is that you will use the second episode as a resource to listen to over and over again.

Resources:

Scripture reference- Colossians 2:2-4

Sacred Rhythms

Meeting God in Scripture

This week we discuss the practice of the Lectio Divina. Summer Gross walks us through an actual Lectio in this episode. Our prayer is that you will use this episode as a resource to listen to over and over again.

This week, for our Spiritual Practices series, we discuss the Prayer of Examen. Joining us to discuss the history of this historic practice is Karyn McDaniel. Karyn is an old friend of the podcast and you can hear her thoughts on the Spirit back in our first series, episode 8. As we did last week, we will release 2 episodes this week- this one that will serve as an introduction to the practice and a second one where Karyn leads us through an actual Prayer of Examen. Our prayer is that you will use the second episode as a resource to listen to over and over again.

Resources:

Sleeping with Bread

A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer

Reimagining the Examen

Reimagining the Examen App