The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler

In this conversation, Katie Westenberg discusses practical tips for staying faithful to God in moments of disappointment and overwhelm. We must prepare in advance by investing time daily in reading the Bible, even when it may not always feel productive or inspiring in the moment. Our devotional time is an investment in a "debit account" we can draw from later. She also emphasizes the importance of...

Overcome overwhelm with my free workshop: AnswerOverwhelm.com Katie Westenberg, a Christian author and speaker, shares her perspective on how to deal with overwhelming situations. Our capacity for dealing with stress can change throughout our lives and is dependent on our circumstances. We need to be aware enough to diagnose whether the problem is spiritual or physical and seek God's guidance in b...

Women were created by God, in his image, with biological distinctions that separate and distinguish them from men. God not only created humans, male and female, but He also created work for them. In the perfect garden, mankind had a job. Because God made both women and work, we must look to Scripture to determine what makes up women's work. Unfortunately, many women, especially Christian women, st...

Free 7-Day Stop the Scroll Challenge: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/stop-the-scroll/ The rise of social media has been a double-edged sword for many of us. On the one hand, it's never been easier to keep in touch with friends and family from all around the world, but on the other hand, social media can also have some significant negative effects on our mental and emotional health, as well as ou...

When we aim for completion rather than faithfulness we can get sucked down into resenting the work in front of us. The room you just cleaned needs cleaned again, and the laundry will never be forever done. Changing our goal to being faithful in our work rather than being done with our work is such a helpful shift. Laney Homan is a wife of 25 years and mother to eight children ages 6 to 23, and wor...

Free how-to-make-a-cleaning-plan guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/clean When I was a young mom and homemaker, I read blogs and books on keeping house better. I didn’t love housework, but I did want to do a good job. I wanted to be a good housewife, a good homemaker. I would try to do the cleaning routines promoted by bloggers. I copied lists and plans from magazines. I asked friends who had clea...

Free EHAP (Whole House Tidy Time!) Guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/ehap As moms we can easily feel scattered, like all the different responsibilities we have are pulling us in different directions, and like there’s never enough time to get it all done. Homeschool moms especially can struggle with this because they have the all the schooling duties in addition keeping the home running.  When we...

You don't have to stay stuck in overwhelm. Free workshop: AnswerOverwhelm.com Sarah is a mom of six and grandmother of four. She lives in beautiful New England and is in her 27th year of homeschooling. She is passionate about books, decorating, hospitality, strong coffee and BBC drama. She blogs at Joyfilleddays.com where she talks about all aspects of Christian living. Women are the backbone of s...

Change your internal narrative: https://simplyconvivial.com/story I bet I’m not the only one who has stood in the middle of the house, staring. Everywhere I looked, there was a task screaming for my attention. Every room needed to be decluttered, cleaned, and organized. It felt like there wasn’t a single thing that was the way it was supposed to be. The to-do is so long, it’s impossible to know wh...

Join the declutter challenge for February! https://www.simplyconvivial.com/membership The best thing to declutter is other people's stuff, right?!  Women are the backbone of society, so we must be free from cultural lies & personal guilt and have the freedom of good habits and self-control so we can build God-honoring families and communities. 📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Withou...

Conquer home chaos, to-do list overwhelm, and personal discouragement so you can joyfully serve God in all your callings. 📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Time https://amzn.to/3CcRzuy ➡️ Take the free daily card challenge and practice with me!  https://www.simplyconvivial.info/todo-list/ 🏆 Enroll in Simply Convivial Continuing Education and get practical life management...

Start homeschooling: https://joyful-noise-learning.ck.page/e1e764f683 Ashley didn't realize how distractible she was until the details of life started piling on with motherhood. She shares her journey to walk in faithfulness despite herself in today's episode. Ashley is a former English teacher, and current homeschool Mom of three elementary age kids. She shares about her favorite Biblically-based...

Start homeschooling: https://joyful-noise-learning.ck.page/e1e764f683 Ashley didn't realize how distractible she was until the details of life started piling on with motherhood. She shares her journey to walk in faithfulness despite herself in today's episode. Ashley is a former English teacher, and current homeschool Mom of three elementary age kids. She shares about her favorite Biblically-based...

Free Cleaning Routine Guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/cleanhouse We all feel distracted and scattered at times. But that doesn't stop the work from piling up. We need to have some solid strategies for digging in and making progress. Today's Simply Convivial episode has 5 tips to stay on task at home - 5 ways you can turn on productive mode and get things done even when you're easily distrac...

Learn how to handle perfectionism with my free workshop: NoMorePerfectionism.com The best antidote to perfectionism is to pray. Being in prayer is fruitful and most necessary to our spiritual walk and fighting sin in our lives. We should be thanking God for everything we have been given, and asking him to make us aware of our sinful desires.  So ask God for grace, ask to be reminded of his perfect...

Free Cleaning Routine Guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/cleanhouse Sometimes our housekeeping routines are hard to manage because we don't even know what kind of a project it is. How many times have you sat at the table with your calendar and a notebook, listing out what needs to be done, looking at the lay of your week, and determining what should happen when? You create a plan to get all th...

Learn how to handle perfectionism with my free workshop: NoMorePerfectionism.com Sometimes our desire to do well at our vocations turns into a desire for perfectionism which leaves us discouraged and defeated. Bethany gives us the truth straight: perfectionism is idolatry we must repent of and replace with worship of our Creator. You're not going to do yourself any favors if you cling to idols. Pe...

Have a goal to keep a cleaner house? Set up a cleaning routine that fits your life, not someone else's. Get the free guide here: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/cleanhouse It is not unusual to make progress for 2-3 weeks in January on those big goals and then peter out. By the end of February, it might have been weeks since you thought about those goals. No worries – after all, there’s still most...

Get module 1 of Organize Your Attitude for free: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/story Karen continues her story of battling and overcoming depression as a homeschooling farm-wife mom. Women are the backbone of society, so we must be free from cultural lies & personal guilt and have the freedom of good habits and self-control so we can build God-honoring families and communities. 📖 Get my la...

🏆 Get practical life management mentorship so you don't have to be overwhelmed anymore:  https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm Decluttering the stuff is really the least important kind of decluttering we can do. With more time at home around our families that will become evident. We might think that our problem is that everyone has too much stuff and if we just solved the stuff problem,...

Get module 1 of Organize Your Attitude for free: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/story Karen tells her story about falling into depression, how it affected her, and how she finally began recovering. Women are the backbone of society, so we must be free from cultural lies & personal guilt and have the freedom of good habits and self-control so we can build God-honoring families and communities...

Women are homemakers, but the husband is the head of the home. How do we dance this dance together, creating a family and life together than glorifies God? It begins by being on the same page, which means it begins with conversation.  Gemma was nervous to ask her husband what he thought of her homemaking and the state of their house, but when she got over her fear and asked a simple question, she...

Get a year of homemaking coaching: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm Gracie is a west coast California girl transplanted to the wheat fields of the Midwest. She loves her God-given callings of daughter of the King of kings, wife to her husband, Stephen, and mother and teacher to their eight children. Some of her greatest joys are time spent home educating her children, a good family r...

Teaching our children how to manage their time and their expectations is an important part of our role as parents, and the feeling of boredom can be a good opportunity. But it can get tiresome. It can also be frustrating, because when they had school work they complained that they had no time, but then when they have time, they complain that they’re bored. 📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Plann...

Feeling stressed and frazzled? Always one step behind? Dropping balls? Clarissa realized it was perfectionism tripping her up and making her feel overwhelmed. Because she couldn't get everything organized exactly the way she'd want it in one day, she'd never start. Her perfectionism was making her home life chaotic and stressed. Hear her story of how she overcame her perfectionism with three simpl...