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Nurturing Your Marriage :: Brent and Janis Sharpe [Ep 299]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
10/05/20
•44m
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Marriage can be really hard. You start out so in love and excited but over time the daily strain of work, home, and parenting makes it challenging to connect with your spouse. Add a global pandemic and the strain is just overwhelming.
My guests Brent and Janis Sharpe are both Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists who have been married for 42 years. They are passionate about helping couples have healthy and thriving marriages even in the hardest of times.
“Most marriages are dealing with malnutrition. They're feeding everything else in their life... all the demands of children, the demands of taking care of a house, the demands of their job. And by the end of the day, they're just spent and they don't have much energy to move back towards each other. So finding little ways that we can move back towards one another and care for each other is significant.”
We talk about healthy habits that we start right now to give our marriages a boost and they aren’t what you might expect. What is so encouraging about the tips they share is how simple and small these habits are and the big impact they can make.
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Connect with Brent and Janis:- Website: brentandjanissharpe.com
- Counseling Practice: lifeconnectioncounseling.com
- Brent and Janis’ book: The Making of a Marriage
- Keeping Your Marriage Healthy While Sheltering in Place [BLOG POST]
- The Care and Feeding of Your Marriage [VIDEO]
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You Are Never Alone :: Max Lucado [Ep 298]
September 28, 2020
•42m
It was such an honor for me to chat with one of my favorite authors for this episode. Max Lucado has written almost 100 books and is a pastor at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. We talk about his new book You Are Never Alone and he shares with so much kindness and care about how we can trust in the miracle of God’s presence — yep, even in 2020.
Max knows God’s word and he combines meeting you where you with the truth of who God is in a powerful way as we talk about responding to loneliness as moms.
“I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but what if God does have a miracle? And what if God in his sovereignty can use this isolation or use this unusual circumstance to draw you closer to him and show you who he is? So rather than resist this, be open to the idea and say, Okay, Lord, I still believe you're there.”
If you are feeling weary with all this year has brought your way, this episode is the pep talk you need to reframe your perspective on God’s goodness and not give in to our emotions or feelings of hopelessness.
“The message of the miracles is you're really not by yourself. You're not alone. Your heavenly father loves you and the Lord Jesus will come to you. And the Holy Spirit will empower you. Don't give in to despair now. You may feel nothing but exhaustion, but your feelings are not a barometer of the presence of God.”
Connect with Max:- Website: maxlucado.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/maxlucado
- Instagram: @maxlucado
- You Are Special (our family favorite!)**
- The Oak Inside the Acorn**
- Max’s New Book: You Are Never Alone**
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Healthy Habit Building :: Kat Lee [Ep 300]
October 12, 2020
•49m
Whether we like it or not we have habits that define our lives. We have habits that determine when we wake up, how we spend our time and where we focus our energy. Joining me today to talk about how to establish routines and healthy habits is my good friend Kat Lee.
As the founder of Hello Mornings, Kat is all about helping people have a life-giving morning routine every day in as little as three minutes, but beyond just mornings, Kat has a wealth of knowledge to share on habit formation and a lot of encouragement that we can do them.
“Whatever it is that you're wanting to change or improve--whether it's your morning routine, your parenting, your marriage--whatever it might be, if you believe that it's possible with God and you have a plan and you're committed to it, then you can only progress.”
We talk about the idea of deconstructing habits we want to break to find solutions. Decision design and how our lives make habits easier or harder and we even get into a little neuroscience.
But ultimately, Kat wants to remind me and you that God is for us and wants our time and attention.
“It's not just about the morning routine or checking anything off, but it's about tapping into the one thing that's going to help you the most each day. And I hope that if you walk away from anything from this episode, it's just that God is with you and that He is for you.”
Connect with Kat:- Website: hellomornings.org
- Facebook: facebook.com/hellomorningsofficial
- Instagram: @hellokatlee
- The 3-Minute Morning
- Hello Mornings book
- Kat’s podcast: Hello Mornings
- “Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.” Psalm 143:8
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