The Warrior Mama Podcast

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week Bethany sits down with her good friend and mentor Sandra Stanley to begin the conversation about understanding the lie of balance and accepting that as mothers we don’t have to do all the things.  Sandra shares how she has learned to live with purposeful presence in her seasons with her children and how she has learned to say no confidently. She shares...

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week Bethany is starting a new series called Lies of Motherhood. She begins the conversation that will dive into fighting the battle of our minds and the lies we face in our culture. Throughout the upcoming weeks Bethany will dive into the truth that shatters those lies and help you create a foundation where you can be confident, assured, and you can speak t...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is sharing some things God has taught her about how to parent highly emotional children and how to walk by their side as they begin to understand who God is and how he made them.  Highly emotional children are often quick to get angry and quick to get sad, their emotions take big swings. Bethany shares the word picture that has helped her speak...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is sharing some things God has been teaching her lately about how to deal with fear in our kids.    Our first instinct as a parent is to want to make that fear go away. We want to talk it out and rationalize it with our child. But, what if we approach this with a more Kingdom focused perspective. What if instead of rationalizing it away, we help...

Do you ever feel totally alone as you walk through all the different ages and stages with your kids? Today, Bethany is sharing some questions she has gotten from other mamas to remind us all that other moms face the same things you do. And the good news is, none of us are alone in it!  Jesus is walking along with you. You are on a journey with your kids and he is walking right alongside you.  You...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Troy is joining Bethany again to talk about the young adult years, and how to have those gospel conversations at this stage.  This is the stage full of life decisions; they may be going to college, getting married, and making decisions on what they want life to look like. Bethany shares what a sweet time this can be as the transition from being just a p...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week, Bethany is continuing our talk of how to have gospel conversations with each of the different ages and stages. This week we are focusing on the young adult age. This can be such a fun time for our kids, maybe not always for us moms though! This can be a time filled with worry as we watch our children take on the world and see them begin to make life im...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is sitting down with Troy again to talk about their experiences in the teen years. Specifically, how do we share the gospel with kids in this age in a way that will be beneficial to them.  Whether we like it or not, they will be getting ready to soon leave the home. We can only pray that we have trained and equipped them to handle the world they...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is joined by her husband Troy as they share their journey together through all the different ages and stages with their own kids.  Troy walks with us today through his perspective on the toddler, preschool, middle school, and tween years.  Bethany and Troy share some of their challenges from each stage and how they have overcome those. They are...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is continuing the discussion on how to have gospel conversations with our kids! This week is all about teenagers! Some may find the teenage years fun and exciting as your child is becoming one of your very good friends, others may find it scary and daunting!  In our teenagers we see they are striving more for independence and starting to make so...

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week we are still talking about all the ages and stages. Today we are talking about the tween years. That’s the new term, right?! This is the age of middle school years, where they are becoming independent, they are figuring out their true identity, and starting to learn the why behind what they know. Bethany shares that during this stage we want to focus on...

Welcome back to the kitchen table. This week Bethany is continuing the talk about how to have those gospel centered conversations with kids in every age and stage of life. This week we are focusing on the elementary age. Maybe you have a child in that stage, maybe you will have one soon, or perhaps your child has already been through that phase but you just want to reflect on that time. Either way...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is diving into how to have those gospel conversations with the toddler age. If you are currently in those terrible 2’s momma, then this one's for you!  The toddler phase is full of curiousness and exploration. This is a phase where the world is just entrancing and exciting for them.  But as our kids walk through this exploration phase, this is a...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is sharing with us how to have gospel conversations with our kids.  As moms we want to speak to our children in a way that is life giving and gives them the hope of Jesus. But how do we do this? That can feel like such a heavy burden that I am responsible for having those gospel conversations with my child. What if I screw it up, what if I say t...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! Pull up a seat today as Bethany is talking about finding Joy through God’s grace. Surprisingly enough, the word joy doesn’t have anything to do with a feeling at all. The word joy in greek means grace recognized. Some days it is hard to find Joy. Maybe it’s your kids not listening, they are fussing and fighting, or maybe you just have a million things on your to-...

Welcome back to the kitchen table. Grab a cup of coffee and get ready to spend some time with Bethany as she shares about why friends can be so important.  When we think about our friends, a dozen things come to our mind. Fun times, good laughs, a person to talk with, a shoulder to cry on. But have you ever stopped to think about what God says about friendship?  In Exodus 17 we see the depiction o...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! Today Bethany is sharing what it means to truly pray like a grace filled warrior.  Do you ever feel like prayer is just another thing on your checklist? You know that you are supposed to pray for your family but after you do, you are still in this place of doubt. Did He really hear me? Did I say the right things? What if I don’t have enough faith?  Mama, that is...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! Bethany has been talking about what it means to be a grace filled warrior. This week we are talking about what it means to be a grace filled warrior on the battlefield.  The first step to winning the battle against the enemy, is realizing that you are on the battlefield. As Christians we are not only on the battlefield on the bad days, but in every moment.  Ephes...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is talking all about hope. Not hope in the context that culture takes it today where it is full of uncertainty, but hope as it is defined by God.    The bible uses hope, as an expectation of what is sure. It is characterized by confidence and trust. As moms, we get to share with our kids this confidence and trust that they can find in trust. We...

Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is sharing more on what it truly means to walk with Christ as a grace filled warrior. Second Corinthians 2:14 says, “but thanks be to God in Christ who always leads us in triumphal procession. We are invited to triumphantly follow Jesus everyday in our motherhood. He is victorious and we can walk in this procession with him, and let him lead us...

Everything Welcome back to the kitchen table! This week Bethany is talking all about feeling overwhelmed as a mom, and what design God has to help us from having this feeling creep in!  Do you ever see other moms who just seem to have it all together. Maybe they have that picture perfect life on social media. They always have the best family photos, they do all the fun activities with their kids,...

This week, Bethany is talking all about potty training! If you aren’t a mom at the potty training age, or maybe you have long passed that stage, don’t worry this episode is still for you. God takes little moments like potty training and uses it to teach us a motherhood lesson that can be applicable to all stages of motherhood!   Bethany shares this week on the podcast how God used a moment in pott...

Welcome back to the kitchen table this week with Bethany Kimsey! This week we are getting a little more personal.  Do you ever just feel like a failure as a mom? Maybe like that everyone else is getting it right besides you? And that just maybe, you weren’t cut out for this whole motherhood thing. This week Bethany is sharing her own worries and insecurities when it comes to being a mom.  Being a...

Last week on “When God Breaks Through”, we talked about changing our mindset in the midst of sibling rivalries.   This week, Bethany is talking about how we approach our child in the situation. When it comes to these moments, we have to think about what our long term goals are for  them, despite the upclose mess of whatever fight or squabble is happening today!  Sometimes the best thing to do is f...

Welcome back!   Today’s episode is all about sibling rivalry. Let's be honest, we all have this in our homes from time to time. Kids fight, they argue, quarrel, and fuss! The problem is, we live in a culture that says this is okay! Yes it is going to happen,  but what if God wants us to have a different perspective on this?    What’s sometimes difficult in this moment is not to just focus on sibli...