A Lovely Place

Hello Friends!  Part 10 of our Famous at Home discussion.  This episode is focusing on decision #3 - Talk about Emotions and decision #4 - Listen To Your Spouse's Heart. We are continuing our journey as mom friends, doing our best to offer our best self to our husbands and kiddos.  We are talking about our feelings and how to communicate them in a healthy way.  A lot of the time we are learnin...

Hello Friends! We are continuing our decision of Famous at Home , and today we’re talking about ways we can take action to create a lovely home. The first decision we are talking about today is Change Your Mindset - how to show up as the best version of you. We discuss what is the biggest pain point in our life right now and how we can make changes to change our mindset around that pain point.   T...

Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 8 of Famous at Home , Who are you Becoming?  Why parenting is the wrong term.  Today we talk about becoming… a different perspective on how we can approach our kids and our spouse. Do we get stuck in the rut of parenting by changing the behaviors of others instead of putting our energy towards becoming who God created us to be? A successful parent learns t...

Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 7 of Famous at Home , “What are you fighting for? Why your spouse is not your Enemy.” We talk about how our spouse is our teammate, not a competitor.  We’re building our marriage together (thinking of it like a wall).  We need to build it as a team instead of building bricks that go between us, separating us from each other. Mentioned Resources: Famous at...

Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 6 of Famous at Home , Are You Willing? Fame chases those who act. We are continuing to chat about changes we are making with our own attitudes to build a stronger marriage relationship.  We discuss the different ways we can dance to create more connection.  Choosing to be vulnerable to our spouse to go deeper in connection and lead us to a place...

Today we are discussing Chapter 5 of Famous at Home , Your Significance: How is your identity guiding your family? Thanks for tuning into the podcast today and learning more about being famous at home with us.  We are talking about the things we can do to put our family center stage, from putting our phones down to making job changes.  Whatever it takes to be more focused on what you val...

Today we are chatting about Ch 4 of Famous at Home Your Biggest Adversary: What shadows keep you from showing up?   This chapter is a good opportunity to check in with how your family is connecting and supporting each other.  Are you fighting each other or fighting for each other in prayer?  We have to be diligent to watch out for what might be stealing joy and peace from our famili...

Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 3 of Famous at Home: What do your followers really see? How do we actually spend our time, money and mental energy?   Does this reflect what we desire for our family?  What skills do we need to gain in order to share our best self?  We hope our conversation today encourages you to be Famous at Home. Mentioned Resources: Dawn the Minimal Mom...

Hello Friends! Chapter 2 Almost Famous: What are you chasing? Today we chat about what we desire the most in our families, how are we shaping our family values and culture?  Sometimes we need a minute to sit and check in with our own hearts so we don’t feel like we are flying around all the time in circles. Mentioned Resources: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Song Read along with...

Hello Friends!  We are reading Famous at Home by Dr. Josh and Christi Straub.  In this book they map out 7 decisions to put  your family center stage in a world competing for your time, attention and identity. Let’s learn to show up for our family in love and care of the other family members… this will make us famous at home with the people that actually matter the most!!! Mentioned...

Hello friends we made it to the end of the book End Emotional Eating! Our tool belt is full from 10 chapters of helpful information.  The last chapters “Tasting Values” and “Ending Well and Beginning Again” are what we are discussing in this episode.  We sure do value you and are so glad you have joined us on this learning journey.  Let’s start again and again to end emotional eatin...

Hello Friends! Today we’re chatting about the 8th chapter of End Emotional Eating: Cultivating Self-Compassion.  Thank you for coming along with us on this journey to help us gain more tools to help us not eat for emotional reasons. Self-compassion, not self-condemnation, cultivates change.  Let's be kind to ourselves as we would our friend. Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured boo...

Hello Friends! Today we’re chatting about the 7th chapter of End Emotional Eating: Coping with difficult emotions without a second helping. It’s a good one but has reminded us that this is a journey full of lots of small steps. In this episode we talk about self-soothing vs. avoidance. And we dive into the way we perceive pain, difficult emotions, and difficult things in our lives. We’d love for y...

Hello Friends! We will be taking our own advice to be a “Lazy Genius” and keep the pace of the podcast releasing every other week. We get real in this update and share our hearts and our struggles as we both feel like we are in the MIDDLE of a hard season.  The season might feel hard and confusing and challenging but we are learning that God is so faithful to meet us in the middle of our seas...

Hello Friends! We’re back to the Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi!   We’re discussing the areas of prep and the table. What matters the most to you about these areas of your kitchen and life? Let’s dig in and become Lazy Geniuses! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Lazy Genius Way The Lazy Genius Kitchen Acts 2:46-47...

Hello Friends! Today we are talking about the sixth chapter of End Emotional Eating. Join us as we approach the subject of our thoughts and some negative thinking patterns: comparisons, perfectionism, and rumination. Let’s learn how to treat ourselves with kindness as we battle negative thought patterns and continue to learn how to eat and live with mindfulness and acceptance! Mentioned Resources:...

Hello Friends!  Happy back to school season, we recorded this episode in the summer but this episode Tess and Corrie chat about meal planning, tips for shopping, and prep.  Each season has its own rhythm so we hope this episode helps you decide what matters about meal planning right now to you.  Kendra has so many great ideas in her book we could keep talking for a long time. Mentio...

Hello Friends! Happy Summer we are talking about surfing today.  This chapter is not about a fun trip to the beach, it's about our urges to fall into temptation and eat whatever we want without thinking.  So we are learning to take a pause for a minute to check in with our feelings and decide if this is the wave to ride or let pass by us.  We talk about our personal “ups and downs”...

Hello Friends! Part  B – Have What You Need.  This is all about knowing your own  kitchen and making it work for you in this season.  No matter how big or small the space actually is there is a way to decide what matters to you.  Let’s take time this summer to clear out what is in the way of making your space even more functional to you. Proverbs 4:23 - Above all else, gua...

Today’s episode is all about learning more about our emotional intelligence.  This is a skill we can continue to grow in as we become more aware of our feelings and what is going on around us each day.  Romans 12:1-2 reminds us of God’s mercy for us as we continue to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.  Thanks for joining us on this journey to gain more emotional intelligen...

Hello Friends! Today we are talking about the first section in Kendra Adachi’s book The Lazy Genius Kitchen.  We are deciding what is important about our own kitchens, hopefully this episode will help you decide what's important to you too.  Together we can find ways to personalize our kitchen spaces for the season we are in right now.  In this episode we talk about custom hot pads...

Hello Friends! Today we are talking about Mindfulness.  The illustration of driving keeps coming up in our conversation today.  Let’s learn to “drive” through life a little more mindfully than we have before.  Let’s take a pause and give space to think and be mindful especially about what we are fueling our bodies with each day.  If you want to read along with us and get the bo...

Genius Kitchen. Have what you need, use what you have, and enjoy it like never before!!!  This is a fun and helpful book to help get your kitchen to a place that works for you and your family.  Today Tess and I talk about the steps Kendra suggests to 1-Prioritize, 2- Essentialize, 3-organize, 4-personalize and 5-systemize. Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Ea...

We’re continuing our journey through End Emotional Eating by Jennifer L. Taitz PsyD . Join us for a vulnerable conversation about acceptance and the struggle to be real honest in real life. We’d love to hear your feedback on our Facebook page ! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us ! Psalm 102:1-2 Whole 30 DMA Episode: Sunday Planning Rhy...

Hello Friends! Today we get more vulnerable and face our fears about sharing our struggle with emotional eating.  You are invited to be a part of the conversation too, join us in reading End Emotional Eating , by Jennifer L. Taitz PsyD .   This book has been waiting on our bookshelves for over 2 years. Hmm… it's time to actually read, discuss, and practice the tools shared to make a diff...