Finding Joy in Motherhood, Janet Quinlan

During this time of Lent, I often think about Jesus’ mother, Mary.  I think about the conflicting thoughts and feelings she must have had about His life. Sometimes, it’s hard to identify with the suffering of Jesus because it is just so much . But surely as women we can identify with empathy and compassion, the suffering of His mother. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home manag...

Give an emotional boost to your children and to you and commit to reading together every day. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

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Freezer Meals are the greatest invention to save time, money, and your sanity! Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Not forgiving someone doesn’t punish them , it punishes us.   Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Our gifts are super powers.  When we use them for the good the potential for change is unlimited.     Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

The spirit of detachment doesn’t mean that we don’t care about our life or the people in it, it simply means that we don’t depend on the exteriors of our life for our happiness. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

We try to do EVERYTHING everyday and often that leaves us with getting nothing done because we’ve given into the feeling of overwhelm, and procrastinated the day away. Decide the night before what the one thing is that you must do the next day to feel like a success. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagr...

This episode talks about modesty in the home, in our speech, and in our dress.  Modesty is the gatekeeper of future moral decisions. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

What is your attitude about your circumstances? What are your thoughts about the way you will show up today? You have the power to have the life you want. It is the last human freedom – to choose your attitude about your circumstances. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

We can raise beautiful children with firm yet kind words – helping them to develop virtue without feeling oppressed by our negative thoughts. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Do you struggle with not being enough? Do you think you're not kind enough, smart enough, or good enough? Somewhere along the way someone or maybe many people felt free to tell us we were not enough. And we believed them. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

Nurture your marriage like a good gardener would nurture and tend the flowers.  Don’t miss out on how great it feels to be married for 35, 50, or more years.  But it will only last that long if you each make your marriage your first priority and treat each other well.  Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Insta...

Our job, as parents, is to give our children the appropriate guardrails and tools so they CAN make the best decisions to learn to listen to us.   Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

The key to success is persistence not perfection. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

More than seeing how Jesus heals and responds to those in need, His suffering speaks to me. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

We make decisions every day about how we’re going to spend our time, yet so many of us feel overwhelmed. We’re overwhelmed because we’re not using our time wisely and there’s a nudge in our conscience that tells us so. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

ALL my adult kids know how to keep a home – and whenever we visit it’s clean so that’s a win! COMMIT to making your life easier and more enjoyable by delegating.  It’s good for your kids and good for you. You’ll find the Age-appropriate chore chart in my PDF download “How to Have an Orderly Clean Home” and findingjoyinmotherhood.com/home Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home man...

Being friends with your children isn’t a one-way street.  It isn’t just about getting them to open up to you and be their confidant– although that’s important – it is about allowing them to help you grow in virtue and often that’s through your own self-reflection on how you can develop more virtue in the relationship with your son or daughter. It would be a disorder for children to correct their p...

Do you ever talk to yourself? Not like the you’re losing your mind and you think someone else is there talking to yourself. But really engaging with yourself and what you think and say about yourself. Self-talk is actually something we’ve done, unconsciously for most of our lives. And for most of us, the “unconscious” part is where the trouble can brew. Check out my free resources on marriage, par...

Imagine working for a boss who never said, “Great job”?  Maybe you’ve worked for a boss like that.  They figure you’re supposed to do a great job so you don’t deserve nor need a compliment. Is that the kind of mom we want to be?  Should Our children or our husband or even our friends just supposed to be a certain way or act a certain way that we neglect thanking them or complimenting them? Check o...

We all have limiting beliefs about one thing or another. We put limits on ourselves – the circumstances don’t put limits on us. We decide what we think about our circumstances and make the decision to act or not act and confirm the limiting belief. Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoa...

Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching

TO GRAB THE PDF DOWNLOAD, please visit:  findingjoyinmotherhood.com/marriage  Like fine wine, great marriages take a long time to mature.  You will have some bumps and some boulders in the road.  Breathe.  Step back and remember why you wanted to marry in the first place.  Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on I...

Check out my free resources on marriage, parenting, home management, and faith life/mindset at janetquinlan.com Follow me on Instagram @janetquinlancoaching