The Goodness Habit: Reclaim Peace and Joy in Motherhood

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Today we’re talking about the body and doing an actual exercise to release your anxiety. I did it, and I felt so much more at peace, so I hope you’ll feel the same after trying it out! Monica Norcross, a Christian fitness and nutrition expert with over a decade of experience in the health industry, founded The Still Workout as a way to incorporate scripture...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Michelle Donnelly, host of The Christian Single Moms podcast and founder of PlusOneParents.org, shares her testimony of what happened after the pandemic amplified her stress and brokenness to paralyzing levels. With all of her usual coping strategies stripped away, she confronted God and began to truly understand the deep drivers of her overwhelm (which went...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text If you’re like me and so many others, we want to know what our purpose in life is and what God is calling us to (perhaps beyond motherhood). That’s why books like The Purpose-Driven Life have sold millions and millions of copies. Trying to find an answer can feel both intimidating and paralyzing. That’s why I’m excited to have Katie Lewis on the show today....

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Life coach, wife of 26 years and mom to 3 girls, Natalie Hixson joins the show to share the S.I.T. and Pray method that will help stop the defeating cycle of overwhelm that often leads to anger followed by guilt. As a young mom, Natalie found herself displaying scary levels of anger which frequently led to her drowning in guilt and shame. She didn't even rec...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Surrender – it’s so hard, isn’t it?! How do we do it and what happens when we do? A story of finding freedom and purpose through surrender, mom of 4 and author of Made For More Lauren Elizabeth Miller walked away from her corporate ladder dreams and found a very different calling which fundamentally altered the course of her life, her goals and her perfectio...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text How we think and what we say about ourselves has the power to mute the beautiful truths from God. You ever say things like “I’m not good enough. I don’t matter”? With overflowing joy and infectious energy, author Susan Burritt will bring you back to the core of who God is, who you are in Him, and how to stay seeped in His truth rather than the enemy’s lies....

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Are you holding on to something from your past that is weighing you down with guilt? Pastor Jenni Clayville opens up about her two year affair and what her journey looked like towards forgiveness and grace from people, God and herself. Whether it’s an affair or something else, if you’ve been carrying the heaviness of a decision you made in your past, she’ll...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Struggling with what she believed about God’s character after the tragic loss of her son, Brianne Edwards (author of A Thousand Pounds and founder of Lach’s Legacy) takes us on a wild journey of hard questions and revelations that shook the foundation of her faith and led her to know God as the ultimate giver of peace. During this powerful conversation, she...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Are you ever unsure of what to say to God? Or have you felt hesitant to pray boldly, knowing that what you’re asking for may not be in God’s will or that you’ll be disappointed? Jaime Hampton from the Praying Christian Women podcast joins me to share how she uses the ASAP method and preliminary praying to bring her heart to the right posture and guide her bo...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Parenting and marriage coach Taylor Irby talks about the key questions we need to ask ourselves when we’re feeling anxious. These questions will help you understand the deep drivers of your anxiety and lead you to trust God. Even if you know where your anxiety is coming from, you might be surprised to find there’s something deeper going on. Identifying that...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Mom of 5, pastor’s wife and author Katie Faris opens up about how she found peace after 3 of her children were diagnosed with a serious medical condition. From her hard journey, she clung to several truths and biblical reflections about God, and she is now sharing them in her new book, He Will Be Enough: How God Takes You By the Hand Through Your Hardest Day...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Ever feel completely unprepared and unequipped to handle what life throws at you? Susan Davidson of Ruth 2:16 Girl felt exactly that way when she got the devastating news that her husband had Multiple Sclerosis. While she grew up in the church, it was only when she faced this daunting mountain that she realized that when we get a life assignment that we’re n...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Expectations… we all have them of ourselves, right? Whether they are minor or major, when reality falls short of our expectations we can get overwhelmed and feel like a failure. Writer of My Jars of Clay and mom to 2 kiddos, Amber Palmer shares her testimony about what she expected motherhood to be like and the wildly different reality that rocked her and he...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text A powerful story about discovering who Jesus actually is, Tabitha Yates of The Redeemed Mama opens up about her struggles with mental health, being hurt by her church, multiple suicide attempts, and deep depression. After being locked in a psychiatric hospital, she turned to the Jesus that she thought she despised and found His tremendous love and kindness....

Is the show helping you? Send me a text How do we find community? Twyla Franz from The Uncommon Normal is here to talk about what we can do to build authentic relationships with our neighbors and embrace neighborhood missional living. She’ll share what that means and the great impact it can have on our life, our faith and those around us. She also guides us on how we can bring our faith into the c...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text It’s my fault. My faith isn’t strong enough. Ever say that to yourself? Mom of 2, former pediatric nurse and blogger of This Bread Will Rise, Lauren Larson shares her journey with self-blame and the realizations she’s had about her faith walk as she navigates her baby’s medical diagnosis of FPIES, a gastrointestinal condition. If you’re taking on the weight...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Is your faith founded on the promises of God or the perception of what those promises mean? Mom of 3 and author of Tears and Tossings - Hope in the Waves of Life, Sarah Walton dives into this question as she recounts her story of hardship which continue today. From her own health battles to medical conditions with her children, struggles with marriage and fi...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Are you taking on the role of God in your kids’ lives? Writer and mom to 3, Jessica Mathisen joins me to talk about the “savior mentality” that we can be prone to take on in motherhood and what we can do to step back so that God can do the great work that he has in store for us and our kids. She also shares what a calling from God felt and looked like as she...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Detours - sometimes they’re fun, a lot of times they’re not. Just like a literal road detour, an unexpected circumstance or situation in our life can take us down a path that we didn't choose. So when we find ourselves there, how do we journey it well? Author and mom of two, Sandy Brannan shares the detours she’s experienced in motherhood, especially when it...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text God is with us during our dark seasons, but does He prepare us for them too? Mom of 3 and founder of Praying Through ministries, Jessika Sanders shares how her obedience to God’s calling prepared her for one of the greatest battles in her life when her newborn son had to immediately be admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) after birth. She also...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text When we talk about hope, what does that actually mean? I usually have a mom friend with me who shares the powerful ways in which God showed up during a really difficult season in her life, but this week I really wanted to take a moment to reflect on the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the kind of hope that we talk about a lot on the show. I dive into the fu...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text A journey about finding God again, Melissa Neeb, mother of 2 and blogger of Faith in the Mess with Melissa Neeb and Never Empty Nest, shares her story of how God delivered peace, protection and hope through an unexpected pregnancy and her husband’s alcohol and drug addiction. You’ll hear how her moment of surrender to God led to a monumental transformation i...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Any of these sound familiar? I’m not good enough, she’s better than me, what I do doesn’t matter, I’m a failure… A daughter of an associate pastor of two mega churches in Dallas, Julie Plagens of Mom Remade recounts her inner struggles with self-worth and value that started as a child and carried through into her marriage and motherhood. As she began to comb...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text A tough and honest testimony about a struggle with faith, Sarah Lango of Grace Filled Growth joins me to talk about her journey after her young daughter was diagnosed with a lifelong, debilitating form of epilepsy. She gets real about her wrestle with God, how she ultimately chose to trust Him and found hope in what felt like a truly hopeless situation. You’...

Is the show helping you? Send me a text Founder of A Heart Full of Hope, graphic designer and mom of two, Jennifer Toscano joins me to talk about her journey battling depression and how she found a God who left the ninety nine to go rescue her. Depression is something a lot of us have faced or could be facing now whether it’s from postpartum or beyond. So if that’s you or you know someone struggli...