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Don't Mom Alone Podcast - Rebranded: Stepping Into a New Season :: Christy Wright [SOM Wk 6]
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Rebranded: Stepping Into a New Season :: Christy Wright [SOM Wk 6]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

07/25/22

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48m

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What would it take for you to walk away from the most abundant time in your career? From a time that was not only full, but fun, rewarding, and productive?

My guest this week, Christy Wright did just that - walked away from a season of immense abundance in her career, not because of difficult situations but simply because God called her out of it. She says this call was so clear she came to a point where she feared disobedience more than the uncertainty of leaving her career. She followed God into a new season of freedom and work. It's like God called Christy in for a meeting to talk about rebranding - not to change who He had created her to be, but to change her everyday look and her assignments.

We've spent our summer talking through our unique "mom brands" and in our final week of Summer of Mentorship we're hitting on something that will happen to each of us as moms at one point or many - the need to rebrand. To leave behind what worked and was right for that specific time to embrace what God is saying is right for now. Ecclesiastes reminds us there is rhythm and seasons to life and we will walk through transitions in our work and home life. Christy encourages us to courageously cling to God's voice in those times and not let the fear of uncertainty keep us from the rebranding God is walking us through..

Discussion Questions:

  • What stood out to you from the episode?
  • What current roles help shape your days?
  • Are you ok with you when you take away what you do? Or, how easily can you separate out who you are from what you do?
  • Have you gone through a “rebranding” as a mom? Either because of change in circumstance or because your routines weren’t serving you, or for another reason. What was difficult about that time? What was beneficial in that transition?
  • Spend the last 10 minutes of your group time in silence praying and listening and ask God, “Is there anything I need to be freed from?”
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undefined - Move from Comparison to Compassion :: Karen Ehman [SofM Wk 5]
Move from Comparison to Compassion :: Karen Ehman [SofM Wk 5]

July 18, 2022

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43m

Does your life look exactly like you want it to? All too often we come across what seems like the life that we want on someone else’s Instagram. You can dismiss those as the “highlight reels”, that is what they are, but sometimes the girl next door has what you want. What do you do then? How do you prep your kids for when they don’t get invited or when they feel like someone else has it better than them?

My guest this week, Karen Ehman, says, “Go find your old self.”

She’s not leading us on an existential journey into the past, but to those around us that need the love of Christ. She encourages us in a powerful way that when we are discouraged by someone who has it “better” than us to find someone who has it “worse” than us, not so we can feel good about something, but because there is a person who needs the love of Christ.

We’re taking time this summer (as usual) to be mentored by some experienced moms and benefit from their wisdom. I’m asking them about their “mom brands” and the unique families and assignments God has given them to help us embrace the specific and unique spot God has given each of us.

Discussion Questions:

  • What stood out to you in this episode? Why?
  • Who is your “old self”? What was a particularly difficult time God brought you through that you could use as a connection point to love someone else?
  • When have you felt loved or seen by someone else in the midst of a difficult situation?
  • Thinking about Karen’s mom and how hard she has to work as a single mom, where in your life are you having to work hard? Which of your God-given assignments is either physically, or mentally, or spiritually challenging? Spend some time praying for these situations with your group.
  • When you think about loving others by inviting them into your life what limitations come to mind?
  • Who is a necessary person you can love tangibly this month? Brainstorm ideas with your group about simple ways to show Christ’s love.
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undefined - Raising Discerning Viewers :: Heather [Ep 372]
Raising Discerning Viewers :: Heather [Ep 372]

August 1, 2022

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31m

Media is all around us - movies, music, tv, online videos, reels, TikToks, and more. And, there are as many parenting strategies around media as there are types of media. How do we safeguard our kids around media in today’s culture?

Spoiler Alert: We aren’t going to talk about what to watch per se, but rather how to watch.

In this episode I’ll talk about what it could look like for us to raise not just haphazard watchers but discerning media consumers. Of course, we should exercise wisdom with what our kids watch and listen to, but also, as moms we’re in the business of teaching men to fish.

Let’s teach our kids to become discerning viewers. I’ll give you some handlebars to foster discussions about movies or TV with your kids and to get them thinking about what they’re watching too. “We want our children to know the one good story so well that when they see Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, Frodo, Anne of Green Gables, Ariel, and Sleeping Beauty they can recognize the strands of truth and deception in them.” (Karalee Reinke, in Ep 27).

“O Discerning Spirit,

Who alone judges all things rightly,

Now be present in my mind and active

In my imagination as I prepare to engage

With the claims and questions of diverse cultures

Incarnated in the stories that people tell.”

A Liturgy Before Consuming Media, Every Moment Holy by Douglas McKelvey

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