Grace In Real Life podcast

Can we agree that all of us are broken, wounded, and hurt in some way? Let's spend some time together talking about raising kids as you heal from hurts.  In today's conversation, Monet shares gracious truths and practical wisdom when you: Are an angry parent, Crave margin, but aren't sure where to find it, And when you want to heal AND need to parent at the same time. Key Quotes "How do I raise a...

Friend, whether you are single parenting or not, Latasha fills this conversation with the hard-fought wisdom that only Jesus can provide when He's seen you through the trenches. In today's conversation, Latasha shares gracious truths and practical wisdom when you: Feel like God is mad or disappointed with you because of the choices you've made, Don't pray because you feel ashamed, Struggle with an...

When raising a special needs child, what practical ways will help you get through the day? How can you strengthen your marriage? What do you do when you cannot reconcile your good God allowing your child to suffer?  We're in our Grace in Parenting series, and we're talking all about raising special needs children with special needs advocate speaker, and writer Juli Henderson. In our conversation,...

How can we help our daughters when they struggle with perfectionism? Body image? Negative self-talk? How can we help our daughters set boundaries and identify toxic friendships? We're in our Grace in Parenting series, and we're talking all about raising daughters with Licensed Professional Counselor, author, speaker, and podcaster Michelle Nietert. (We talk so much in fact, that this one conversat...

What are the top three struggles our daughters face today? How can we raise our daughters to root their identity in Christ? What lies is the world teaching our girls, and how can we combat those lies?  We're in our Grace in Parenting series, and we're talking all about raising daughters with Licensed Professional Counselor, author, speaker, and podcaster Michelle Nietert. (We talk so much in fact,...

How can we raise our boys to be spiritual leaders? How can we love them well? What are the joys and challenges of being a boy-mom?   We are back with another round of the Grace in Parenting series.  To get the series started, author and boy-mom Jasmine Holmes joins the show. In our conversation, Jasmine shares: How to instill emotional vocabulary and cultivate emotional intelligence in our sons Wa...

How can we embrace and accept the body God gave us? I don't know about you, but I have often wished for a body built very differently from mine. God gave me a body I keep wishing away. So how do we accept and embrace the body God specifically picked for us? How do we find belonging in our own skin? Key Quotes "There was this nagging feeling that being different meant that I wasn't quite enough." -...

If you are graduating, are the parent of a graduate, or if you're moving into a new, unchartered season, this episode is for you. May the grace and truth Jesus has taught me be of help to your tender heart. Key Quotes In the midst of celebrations and attention and ceremonies, you can feel grief alongside the joy.  Can I tell you the best way to find your people? Figure out who you are.  You will b...

Maybe you are like today's guest and like me. I have mistreated my body over the years. I've deprived it of sleep and calories and nourishing foods. I've emotionally eaten my way through hard times, like – just one example here, there are many – when the girls were little and Ryan was out of town for w-e-e-k-s. I have over-exercised by doing too much when my body was sick and too sore in an attemp...

Aging with grace: What does it look like to be kind and compassionate to our physical bodies when they are not what they used to be? In our culture that values youth and abhors wrinkles, what do we do? In this episode, we'll walk through What we see in the mirror and feel in our bones  What our emotions are telling us as we age How to age with grace And how to age with grace in front of our kids K...

Let's talk about being a grace-giver when your body is in a state of stress . There's a reason you crave sugar when you're stressed. There's a way to tell when your stress has gone too far just as there's a way to get off the hamster wheel of stress. If you find yourself living in a body overloaded with stress, you'll want to listen to the wisdom integrative wellness speaker, author, and educator...

If you have questions about how to live out the gospel or if sharing it freaks you out on the inside, this is your episode.   We're walking through what it means to "live the gospel," what that looks like for you in your inner life and what that looks like as you interact with others. What does "living the gospel" actually look like? Let's think of the gospel-life overflowing into two buckets: We...

Your body is pretty incredible, but what about when your body feels like it doesn't like you or is actively working against you? How do you give your body grace when it feels like it's betraying you? How can you be a grace-giver to your flesh, blood, marrow, tendons, and cells when you feel as if you're surviving, not thriving? I'm so thankful writer + cancer survivor Niki Hardy offered her Jesus-...

We're talking about viewing our bodies through the lens of grace. In this episode,  I'll share my body's story What trips us up from treating our bodies with grace And what is true Six mindsets we hold about our bodies: Our bodies are machines designed to produce without getting sick,  having feelings about anything, or needing rest. We conflate our bodies with sin. Our bodies are to be fixed. Our...

Grief comes to us for different reasons. Burying someone we love. Sending our firstborn to kindergarten. Signing the divorce papers. Packing our child's room for college. Returning to work after years of staying at home. Try-hard girls, we all experience loss and grief, yet so many of us push it away. Grief is found at the intersection of accepting our reality and letting go of expectations.  Oh,...

We try-hard girls are notorious for sacrificing our emotions on the altar of performance and productivity. We don't have to look very far to see examples of powering through and soldiering on in order to get the job done. Try-hard girls have an inexplicable need to be perceived as strong. Showing any feeling seems to signal weakness in our armor, leaving us feeling vulnerable.  Vulnerability is to...

So many of us struggle with our inability to quantify or measure God. While we appreciate His infinite nature and His lavish love and do not want to worship a God we can fully understand, we are far more accustomed to swimming in the sea of: Transactional relationships If this then that statements Of linear and logical progression; for example, When I work hard, I get the promotion. In so many way...

Have you ever felt like you are both too much and not enough at the same time? That maybe you got the raw end of the personality deal? Do you feel afraid to be who you most fully are? Sweet friend, if you can only see the downsides of your personality, take heart. If you wish that you could be more like somebody else, there's hope. Here to offer us hope is today's guest Sarah E. Westfall.  This ep...

We want to grow our faith and trust in the Lord, but we aren't sure exactly how to go about doing it. This isn't an episode filled with platitudes and shoulds; it's an episode about Christ meeting us in the hardest, most excruciating moments and in our daily, walking-around life. This is an episode full of practicals. This episode feels less like a conversation and more like a worship service. Aut...

If you've ever felt like "lowering your standards" was a four-letter word, you simply could not fail, or if you've felt resentful when your parenting/work/marriage isn't progressing as you planned, listen in to writer Kristina Ward point you back to Christ. Writer Kristina Ward tackles the frustration we feel when we aren't meeting our own standards. Because of the truth, love, grace, and wisdom K...

Why do we battle against receiving our enough-ness in Christ? What's going on when we turn "shining our light" into a call to be Super-Jesus? What's one simple way to receive our belovedness? Listen in to this episode with counselor and author Rachael Gilbert as we tackle how not feeling enough leads us to shame ourselves, decide we must perfect witnesses for Jesus, and believe the false narrative...

How do we fear from the Lord? How do we know that it's Him we hear and not just our own wishful thinking? What's going on when we hear silence? Author Jennifer Barnett shares the answers to these questions and more in the fifth and final episode of our Spiritual Health series. Through this series, we've walked through five spiritual disciplines:  Studying the Bible with writer Amber Palmer (Episod...

How do we encounter our suffering without rushing ourselves through to God's goodness? What is self-sufficiency really ? How can we show our "honest sadness" to others?  Author K.J. Ramsey answers these questions and more in our fourth episode of Spiritual Health.  Through this series, we'll walk through five spiritual disciplines:  Studying the Bible with writer Amber Palmer (Episode #97) Praying...

How do you keep Sabbath when you're a mom and constantly needed? What does Sabbath look like when you love working and taking a break sounds like The Worst? What do you do when kids' activities interfere with Sabbath rest? Author Mark Buchanan addresses these questions and so much more in the third episode of our Spiritual Health series.  Through this series, we'll walk through five spiritual disc...

How do you keep Sabbath when you're a mom and constantly needed? What does Sabbath look like when you love working and taking a break sounds like The Worst? What do you do when kids' activities interfere with Sabbath rest? Author Mark Buchanan addresses these questions and so much more in the third episode of our Spiritual Health series.  Through this series, we'll walk through five spiritual disc...