It's A Single Mom Thing

Send Sherry a Text Message Whatever brought you to the season and reason you are a single parent, my guess is that something in your relationship was, let's say, out of the norm,  so either one or both of you chose not to "conform" by sticking it out together as a couple and parents under the same roof. SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on your favorite podcast platform. https://shepherdsvi...

Send Sherry a Text Message Don't you just HATE IT when you can't get your sneakers off your feet because you did such a good job tying your shoelaces in a double knot? And you did that SO YOUR SHOES WOULD STAY SECURELY ON YOUR FEET!!! How many times, like your shoelaces, have you got yourself worked up in knots from a lie or lies that leave you, unlike your sneakers, feeling insecure? SU...

Send Sherry a Text Message Does parenting on your own leave you feeling exhausted? Burned out? Irritable ... even angry? You could be experiencing the everyday symptoms of single-parent stress. And while it's unavoidable, your need for rest is something you should never ignore—because taking care of yourself is an important part of taking care of your kids. After all, you're the most imp...

Send Sherry a Text Message Change is inevitable when a crisis invades your life. Learning how to respond to what happens to you helps you become resilient. BIBLE REFERENCES: Jeremiah 29:11 SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on your favorite podcast platform. https://shepherdsvillage.com/podcast PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT SINGLE MOM - If you have been blessed by this podcast, sign-up today with a  monthly gift...

Send Sherry a Text Message As Christians, you know we were extended grace when we didn't deserve it. But, how good are you extending  "even if" the other person, the co-parent, doesn't deserve it? BIBLE REFERENCES: Luke 23:43 SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on your favorite podcast platform. https://shepherdsvillage.com/podcast PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT SINGLE MOM - If you have been ble...

Send Sherry a Text Message So what do Bio Attachments, Bio Fog, Bio Time, and Step Vision have to do with blending a family? Join us for an in-depth and intimate conversation with Jay and Tammy Daughtry - speakers, authors, and professional co-parenting strategists with Co-Parenting International. WHAT'S NEXT SOLO PARENT CONFERENCE SELECT SERIES PODCAST. REFERENCES: Stepparenting the Grieving...

Send Sherry a Text Message WHAT'S NEXT SOLO PARENT CONFERENCE SELECT SERIES PODCAST. Join us for an in-depth and intimate conversation with Jay and Tammy Daughtry - speakers, authors, and professional co-parenting strategists with Co-Parenting International. Topics discussed in part two of this three-part series: The Business of a Co-Parenting Family Meeting How to Avoid an Unhappy Hand-off C...

Send Sherry a Text Message WHAT'S NEXT SOLO PARENT CONFERENCE SELECT SERIES PODCAST. Join us for an in-depth and intimate conversation with Jay and Tammy Daughtry - speakers, authors, and professional co-parenting strategists with Co-Parenting International. Topics discussed in part one of this three-part series: Their Solo Journey Solo Journey - Different Dynamics Blending Families Dating Ag...

Send Sherry a Text Message As a single parent, how often do you feel like you are running on empty? Every day when you get up,  it’s go, go, go and you just go until your light goes out. From school to daycare to work to after-school activities, homework, dinner, dishes, laundry, bathtime, storytime, bedtime, and maybe some you time. And that’s IF you didn’t fall asleep while putting your babies t...

Send Sherry a Text Message Have you ever thought about solo parenting as a service? If you are a Christian solo parent listening to this podcast, trust me, you are in service the question is to whom are you in service? Is it too self or self-less?  I bet you never thought about single parenting that way, maybe because quite honestly you don’t have time to think as you are always just doing or resp...

Send Sherry a Text Message As a single parent, you are pulling double duty, wearing many hats, keeping many balls up in the air, spinning many plates, and wearing both the pants and the skirt of the family. Forget about personal pronouns, YOU ARE  pronounced both the male and the female of your household because you hold it all together. Unlike the first time your baby was placed in your arms and...

Send Sherry a Text Message Are you just coming out of a divorce, a bad breakup, or just losing your spouse?  Does your heart hurt, ache and break for what is now gone? Do you obsess and stress thinking about how can I get that person back? If I just had done this.  I had only said this.  If only I gave in to that, maybe I wouldn’t be alone and alone with all the thoughts of the other person.  If y...

Send Sherry a Text Message Have you ever asked yourself, what am I waiting for? So to be clear here, I am not saying sit on the side of the road and wait for the next bus to go by. I am talking about actively waiting WHILE you are dating, even if you are just dating God or yourself in this solo season. There is still work to be done while you are waiting. So to go back to the question I asked of y...

Send Sherry a Text Message We all have lots to say right? Whether it's via text, email, in-person communications, or even on the phone.  Whaaaaat talking on the phone, who does that any more? Lol, right. In fact, research shows that the average person speaks 7,000 words a day with many speaking more than that. Meaning we women, speak on average 13,000 more words to be precise.  Ladies, the ne...

Send Sherry a Text Message As women, I tend to think we like to overthink just about everything. We think so much sometimes, I think we even think for others.  You know, what people should do or exactly how they should do it. So what do you think is behind all this overthinking? What I have discovered, when I catch my train of derailed thoughts, is that there is usually a high-value outcome that I...

Send Sherry a Text Message As a solo parent do you ever think to yourself, “How did I end up here?”  All of the sudden, the trajectory of your life, changed. You feel directionless, out of sorts, like you are broken down on the side of the road. You may not even know where you are. The landscape is so different. It’s dry, barren, quiet, and quite eerie at times. You feel lost, left out, and uncert...

Send Sherry a Text Message What’s next? Not to be confused with what’s your new year's resolution, but what’s next for you in this season as a solo?  That’s a question that deserves some dedicated time to think about.  Being a single mom or dad, flying solo as a parent may be for many seasons. For some, it may be a few. But what you do during this season, if you tend to your garden mind you,...

Send Sherry a Text Message So I have a question to ask you If you, could be a kid again this Christmas, what would you do? Would you unwrap the day differently?  Would you sing more fa la la’s?  Would you eat more cookies? Where is your PJ’s all day (oh wait, some of ya’ll still do that) Would you leave some hairs out of place? Worry less and play more? Would you choose joy over jolly? Listen, thi...

Send Sherry a Text Message Home alone this holiday season? Afraid of being left behind? Waking up to an empty house?  Feeling forgotten, or fear the silent night will come to steal your joy, unlike the robbers who came to steal toys in the movie Home Alone? Has this maybe created a holiday hang-up? The holidays can certainly send a solo parent on a trip they didn’t plan on taking this holiday seas...

Send Sherry a Text Message Kids want to unwrap waaaay more than just traditional baby dolls, toy cars, or trains this Christmas. Am I right? So what about you?  That’s right you!!! What do you want to unwrap this Christmas?   Do you think it’s silly or selfish to think of yourself cuz, what, you are supposed to be playing elf?  Do you think as a solo parent by way of a divorce, that you got what y...

Send Sherry a Text Message Ready or not, here come the holidays!!!! Or as I like to say, the holiDAZE.  Four weeks of school functions, holiday parties, Christmas musicals, tree lightings, baking, decorating, shopping, wrapping, menu prep, AND your kiddos “must haves”. Four weeks of complete chaos, 28 days you don’t get back, and one major holidaze. The holidays can create a set of unique anxietie...

Send Sherry a Text Message If you are raising teenagers, even three-year-olds, you got some TUDE going on up in your house!!! Am I right? Tude is rude and not allowed in my house, BUT is it ok for me to do it up in HIS house?  How many times do you go to church with some TUDE when...        He hasn't answered your prayer yet?              He hasn't answered your prayer yet?             W...

Send Sherry a Text Message As a solo parent, do you often times feel like you are always wading and waiting on something that may or may not be within your realm of control? Have you been waiting a long time or at least it seems that way?  Don't give up! Don't walk away!  Learn how you can wade in the wait. Show Resources: Bible References: John 5:2-9 KJV PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT SINGLE MO...

Send Sherry a Text Message Two countries. Two sets of rules. Two separate languages. Two divided homes. Two totally different ways of doing things and your kids….. they have to live between the two. Between the two of you! Each their own monarch and for their own country. And if these two countries are always at war, there is no peace for YOUR little international travelers. Additional Resources:...

Send Sherry a Text Message What’s a priority in your life? Your packages or your bundles of joy? If you are not present in your own day, how present are you in the day in the life of your kids, AND are you aware of what’s a priority in theirs? Learn how to be present, when your feelings are not. In addition to, 4 Ways to Show Up - Showing Your Kids They Are a Priority. Show Resource: Focus on the...