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Welcome back to the kitchen table. Worry is something we all grapple with at some point in our lives, especially in motherhood. Worry is often an overwhelming feeling that keeps us up at night, questioning the future and fearing the unknown. Join Bethany in this heartfelt conversation with dear friend Keri as they delve into the nature of worry, the power of faith, and the reminder that, above all, God is in control. Listen as Keri and Bethany unpack the wisdom and knowledge found in Keri’s book Win Over Worry.

In today's world, we've found ourselves wrapped up in our worries, and every day brings new challenges and uncertainties. Recognizing that sitting in this state doesn't move us toward a solution is vital. Instead, it keeps us stuck. We often try to regain a sense of control in our lives when faced with worry. We attempt to manage situations and outcomes, failing to acknowledge that God is ultimately in control. 

Keri emphasizes the importance of writing the truths of God on our hearts and understanding the depth of His unconditional love for us. Keri and Bethany's conversation is encouraging and a reminder that we all struggle with worry. But by embracing the truths of God, we can navigate life's challenges with confidence, knowing that he is in control, loves us unconditionally, and has everything in his hands.

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Welcome back to the kitchen table. Joining Bethany today is Allison Brost, a remarkable mother and writer who brings hope and encouragement to those facing hardships. Allison shares her beautiful story of loss, reminding listeners that God will come through during those incredibly hard seasons. 

Bethany and Allison explore the impact of Allison's Book This Side of Perfect: Holding Onto Hope When Life Gets Hard on its audience, the shared emotions it evokes, and the importance of fostering conversations around navigating hardships and loss. Allison's book serves as a reminder that even during loss, you can find rest and refuge in Christ by bringing it back to him. 

In the midst of our struggles, we can always turn to God, knowing that His love and grace are constant sources of strength and comfort. Bethany and Allison encourage listeners to understand that while all struggles, losses, and hardships may look different, they're similar, and there is always hope in whatever you face. Tune in for an incredible conversation that will give listeners hope and grace while offering an invitation to turn to Christ through hardship.

Order Allison’s Book: This Side of Perfect: Holding Onto Hope When Life Gets Hard

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Join Bethany in resetting your mind when motherhood feels hard in her 6-Week faith based journey to realign your motherhood focusing on God’s love and anchoring in His word. Grab your spot here. 

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Bethany welcomes you to the kitchen table this week for a crucial conversation on combating the thoughts that turn our minds into a battlefield with the enemy. In motherhood, we make mistakes and messes, but the enemy aims to bring us into a place of regret and sadness. Bethany inspires confidence and discernment on how to handle the thoughts that come against us.

Bethany holds tight to the importance of guarding our minds and thoughts against harmful and destructive influences and to seek the truth of God's word as a source of wisdom, guidance, and spiritual protection. Christ chose you, he knows you'll make mistakes, but he doesn't plan to condemn you for them. He will invest in you.

Sit with Bethany as she uses scripture, truth, and guidance to help you uncover the power to discern the enemy so that you can declare yourself in Christ and allow his voice to be louder. The enemy wants you to believe that you're doing it all wrong, but mamas, you're not the words, the voices, or the thoughts the enemy feeds you. When you have a stronghold on the Lord's promises and his voice, you can learn to navigate motherhood from a place of peace. You'll begin to understand that you're not meant to do it perfectly. 

Related Scripture:

Ephesians 6
2 Corinthians 10 3:5
Ephesians 1
Revelation 12:10
2 Corinthians 7:10

Join Bethany in resetting your mind when motherhood feels hard in her 6-Week faith based journey to realign your motherhood focusing on God’s love and anchoring in His word. Grab your spot here. 

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Get ready to transform your parenting journey as I share powerful insights and practical tips on becoming a more confident parent. Discover the five things that happen when we lack confidence in our parenting and how it can impact our children's growth and resilience. Plus, don't miss the fantastic Mother's Day bundle giveaway filled with gift cards, pampering goodies, and books - simply leave a review on this podcast to enter!

Motherhood can be overwhelming, but our confidence is rooted in faith, and this episode explores the importance of trusting ourselves and standing our ground in challenging parenting moments. Learn how to let go of fear-based insecurity, why being a loving leader is healthier than being our child’s friend, and embrace the confidence that comes from God.

I also open up about a personal experience where parental confidence ensured my daughter's safety and how it ultimately benefited her, though it took every shred of confidence I possessed.

This episode is packed with encouragement to help you become the confident parent your child needs, so press play and start building a stronger relationship with your kids today!

Xo,

Donna

Listen in to learn more about cultivating personal growth and parenting confidence:

• Why insecure parenting causes children to lack resilience and lose their sense of adventure

• How to replace fear-based parenting with faith-filled parenting

• Learn to gain confidence from God to be the best parent you can be! 

Resources:

If you need a helpful resource for someone exploring faith or Christianity, you’ll want a copy of my book, Seek: A Woman’s Guide to Meeting God. Honestly, it’s a must for seekers, new believers, and those who want to be more confident in their faith. 

Bible Verse: 2 Corinthians 3: 5

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For a copy of “15 Things, Jesus Would Say to You if You Met Him for Coffee,” go to www.donnajones.org/blog 

Pick up a copy of Donna’s book : Seek: A Woman’s Guide to Meeting God 

https://www.amazon.com/Seek-Womans-Guide-Meeting-God/dp/0800725328/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3QOGM9DLB01MK&keywords=seek+a+womans+guide&qid=1644959052&s=books&sprefix=Seek+a+woman%2Cstripbooks%2C190&sr=1-2

Welcome back to the kitchen table, Bethany invites listeners to continue the conversation on leading a life of investment. Last week Bethany introduced this concept, and in today's episode, Bethany dives deeper into how it practically plays into our lives and in motherhood.

We are called to be investors and cultivators, and Bethany gives word pictures and scriptures to help listeners not only understand but apply this to their daily lives. We are called to be cultivators in not only our marriages and our homes but in our communities. 

Bethany gives practical tools and tips to help you understand that we can walk beside Jesus as he is the grower, and we are the planters and the waterers. 

Related Scriptures:
1 Corinthians 3
Isaiah 61:3
Matthew 13
Mark 4
Luke 8

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Welcome back to the kitchen table at Christmas. Join Bethany for the next six episodes as she explores the various names of Jesus to help you settle the Christmas season's tensions, overwhelms, and chaos.

Have your children accidentally broken something, and their sibling comes forth promising it was an accident, and they're doing everything in their power to intercede in the situation? 

Well, Jesus does something similar for us. He is our intercessor before God by speaking on our half and defending our case. Bethany gives us hope that through his gracious gift of life, he advocates for us, has saved us, and, most importantly, provides us with righteousness and spiritual blessings so that we can rest. 

Anchoring Scriptures:
Romans 8 
Hebrews 7:25

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Welcome back to the kitchen table. We are in the midst of the holiday season, and it’s easy to become swept up in the societal expectations of the season, whether it’s the perfect Christmas tree, the most decorated house, or the abundance of holiday experiences. We often search for happiness and joy in the Christmas season but for the wrong reasons. 

In today’s episode, Bethany gives listeners the ultimate reminder when they feel inadequate and overwhelmed by the expectations of the perfect Christmas. Bethany encourages listeners to set their eyes on the true reason for Christmas. As a society, we hope for happiness in an event, but Jesus invites us to find contentment in him. 

Bethany takes listeners through personal experiences and Gospel truth to set firm in the understanding that he is the light and that we can worship him in fullness. We can trickle this into your children when we stand grounded in these beliefs. His expectations of us are rest and contentment, not the perfect holiday experience. 

Anchoring Scriptures:
Romans 8:16-17
2 Corinthians 5:17
Romans 6: 6-7, 11
2 Corinthians 3:18
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
Romans 8:38-39

Join Bethany in the Motherhood Collective, the place where motherhood makes sense. Bethany would love for you to join her. Learn more about the Motherhood Collective here. 

Bethany welcomes you to share some of your favorite moments or ask her any questions you’d love for her to chat about on her upcoming episodes. 

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When a child is born, so is a mother. The journey of motherhood that begins at birth is unpredictable. 15% of women are formally diagnosed with Postpartum Depression. It's hard enough to experience PPD, and even harder dealing with the stigma attached to it. Katie & Mandy sit down with their friend Katie Echer who explains first hand, how living with Postpartum Depression impacted her ability to step into motherhood. Katie shares what pulled her out of the dark season, and where God showed up along the way. Join us and learn how to identify Postpartum Depression in yourself and others. 

Today's episode we continue to learn the different personality frameworks.  We have talked a lot about Enneagram, so I thought we could bring another expert on our show who helps us use another personality tool to navigate and understand some of our basic designs. 

Today, Wendy Gossett- Family and Child Temperament Coach, joins me to share her immense knowledge and understanding of Carl Jung's- 8 psychological brain functions. 

Do you look at your children and wonder what makes them tick? Or maybe you parent one child in a specific way but it doesn't work for another child.  I know for me discovering each of my children's personality type was so helpful in the process of understanding their hearts.  

To take Wendy's free personality test online, click here. 

https://wendygossett.com/

Wendy Gossett's "Your Child's Inner Drive" book

Welcome to the Light Duties podcast. This is where the audio version of the articles from the Light Duties website. It's a long thought on Christian motherhood, one article at a time.

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 for everyone to take a step back and spend some time in reflection. This allows the child to examine their hearts and the true emotions behind their actions. This also allows us moms to prepare our hearts for how God would have us respond in the moment. 

When we enter into these moments, we want to approach it with grace and humility. Our goal is not to bust the kid in that moment, but to help them examine their heart. Through careful conversation, we can guide them through the true emotions and feelings, how what they did would be viewed by God, and how they can use this situation to recognize their sinful nature. And even better, God’s love and grace for them despite that sinful nature. 

 Head over to  https://bethanykimsey.com to share with Bethany the tips and tricks you’ve learned in sibling rivalries! Don’t forget to follow Bethany on Instagram @bethanykimsey 

Today we have special guest Jennifer from The Encouraging Mom Blog. Motherhood has been filled with pain for her but God met her there and gave her peace and joy and hope amidst the tragedies she have faced. 

Watch your kids and think about how they are just fully living life.  They don’t care if they have gunk on their faces or if the house isn’t perfect, they just find joy.  They dance like no one is watching, and sometimes dress that way too.  If the clothes feel good, they want to wear them.  Or if it’s what they like.  

Do you remember doing the same thing when you were little?  What things did you do that brought you joy?  Today, we are revisiting those childhood joys and giving ourselves permission to reconnect with it.  Now, you might not walk around with a milk mustache and your lunch all over your face without a care in the world, but hopefully, you will find even just one thing to reintroduce to your life to spark Joy.