Surrendering In Motherhood

This week, we continue the conversation from last week and expand on just how important it is to be intentional with how we are treating our children. We share just how precious our children are to God and how we honor Him by how we raise His children. Bible verses mentioned in this episode: Matthew 18 Isaiah 40:11 Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions, or topi...

This week, we talk about the many layers of just how deeply it matters how we treat our children. How we speak to them, how we discipline them, the environment, what we do, what we don’t do, etc…. IT MATTERS. We know that no one is perfect, and we will all mess up from time to time. We're human. How we repair ALSO matters so deeply. Book mentioned in this episode: Safe House by Joshua Straub, PhD...

This week, we have a conversation about how "things" and a culture of overconsumption needs to be countered with a kingdom perspective. Our hearts are what matters at the end of the day. We always want to strive to be good stewards of everything that we have.  Content Creator mentioned in this episode: Ian Simkins  Bible verses mentioned in episode:  Matthew 6:21 Luke 12:15 Email us...

This week, we continue the discussion that God continues to put on our hearts about rest and just being. We hope this conversation meets you wherever you are and encourages you to refocus if that's what you need. What would happen if you stopped doing and started just being?  Bible verses mentioned in episode: Luke 10:38-42 Authors mentioned in episode: Jefferson Bethke Jennie Allen Content C...

This week, we discuss one of the hardest parts of motherhood.... knowing when we have to let go and allow our kids to grow. Karlie shares some of her writing about the "training wheels" of life and raising children. We know every mother has felt these emotions. We would love to hear your experiences with this! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions, or topic sug...

This week, we talk about the middle ground of what it means to die to yourself AND honor yourself within motherhood. It HAS to be both. We HAVE to find our convictions within the middle ground and support each other in this. We hope you hear our hearts in this conversation. Our hope is to meet you right where you are and encourage you.  Book mentioned in episode: "To Hell With The Hustle...

This week, we discuss the importance of self reflection, redirection, and how our daily habits ultimately make us who we are. We become what we do, so it's important to evaluate and continue to take inventory of what's going on. Sometimes we have to recalibrate, and that's OK!  We would love to know your thoughts! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for comments, questions, and top...

This week, we talk about schooling and so many thoughts around what goes along with children learning, growing, and developing. We talk about what is "normal" in society and how that impacts detachment. It is our responsibility as mothers to think big picture for our children. We would love to hear your thoughts about this! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions...

This week, we share our new segment called "words from the week" that leads us into a conversation about being committed to growth in marriage and parenting. It's our job to pursue the hearts of our husbands and children. We'll never be perfect at this, but it's important that we try our best. Our children are watching and will eventually become who we are -- whether it's purposeful or not. ...

This week, we have a conversation about letting go of things, being a good steward, living in our convictions even when it's scary, and getting back to the basics. How would you live if you weren't afraid? We'd love to hear your thoughts about this episode! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions, or topic suggestions for future episodes. 

This week, we discuss our response to the idea being pushed that there is "no such thing as a maternal instinct." If you've been listening for awhile, you can probably guess our thoughts. What kind of world will this turn into if women start believing the lie they weren't created purposefully to raise the children that they have? We would love to hear your thoughts about this discussion. Emai...

This week, we talk about practical ways to bring God into our everyday lives. More than anything, we pray our kids know that they are loved by God and loved by us. The way we cultivate our family culture matters so much when it comes to this.  Email us surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions, or topic suggestions for future episodes.

This week, we discuss love languages, personality tests, and anything else that we can find ourselves attaching our identity to. Why do we love the way that we love? Why do we feel like we need to put ourselves into certain boxes in order to relate? We'd love to hear your thoughts about it! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any questions, comments, and suggestions for future episo...

This week, we expand on the episode from last week. After listening to the episode, we had some things that we wanted to expand on. We'd love to hear your thoughts about this!  Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes. 

This week, in a failed attempt to be lighthearted, we end up doing the exact opposite. We start a vulnerable conversation about why we both struggle with surface level conversations and relationships.  Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episodes. We'd love to hear from y'all!

This week, we talk about how detachment impacts our relationship with God and how our relationship with our children impacts their relationship with God. This is a deep conversation, but we feel like it's something that we need to continue to talk about! We'd love to hear what you think. Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions, or topic suggestions!

This week, we take a deep dive into “mommy wine culture” and discuss what we feel like is the root cause. What do moms REALLY need? Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions, and topic suggestions for future episodes. Here’s the link for the previous episode where we talked about processing emotions in a healthy way: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/EfivLGMhIsb

This week, we recorded our first IN PERSON podcast! We made some notes from last episode that we decided we wanted to clarify. We talk more about what we mean about "middle ground" and expand on the whole topic of having hard conversations and mothering with conviction.  Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com from any comments, questions, or to suggest any topics that you would l...

This week, we start a discussion about finding convictions within the middle ground, rejecting moral relativism, having hard conversations, and unsubscribing from extreme views that can become idols and give us a false sense of attachment and identity. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any questions, comments, or suggestions for any future topics t...

This week, we talk all about what it means to mother with conviction. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions, or topics you would like to hear us talk about.

This week, we dive deep into being intentional about thoughts and also break down how we’re trying to push through a scarcity mindset. Our kids are watching, so we just want to be intentional about what they’re witnessing. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments, questions, or topics you would like us to talk about in the future.

This week, we talk about thoughts, feelings, and emotions…. It’s not what you might think, though! We take a deeper look into what it actually means to process these things in a healthy way. We talk about doing this within ourselves and also how we model this for our children. As always, we’d love to hear from you! Send any comments or questions to our email surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com

This week, we share our deep thoughts around birthdays and our children getting older. Join us for an emotional conversation. We would love to know how you feel about your children’s birthdays! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com for any comments or questions.

This week, we discuss how important true community is. We were never supposed to do life alone. We need to be surrounded by safe people who we can do life with — loving, serving, encouraging, and helping each other. What is your experience with this? What has been hard about navigating this? Have you found your community? We’d love to hear from you! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com

This week, we have an open discussion about the layers of social media and how it impacts motherhood, childhood, and life in general. We know that our perspective is a little different than the "norm" (shocker, right?! LOL) but we hope you enjoy listening. We'd love to hear your thoughts! Email us at surrenderinginmotherhood@gmail.com and let's connect!