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Today on Thriving Beyond Belief, we have Crystal Paine!

Crystal Paine had it all together—a happy marriage, three healthy children, national bestselling books, a wildly successful business, and a mortgage-free home—until suddenly, she didn’t. Her world turned upside down the day she learned her child was not only being expelled for bullying others, but was also depressed and suicidal. Sitting in an emergency room with her husband and child, her world crumbling around her, Crystal hit her all-time parenting low—but she also heard the voice of God say “I love you.”

“God allowed me to hit rock bottom so that He could help me relearn how to parent,”

writes Paine.

“I realized that most of my parenting had been about me. I was parenting for my own approval and reputation, instead of for my relationship with my kids and for their well-being. I cared more about what others thought than I did about my kids’ hearts. I worried more about producing kids who made good decisions than about kids who knew they were wholeheartedly loved.”

Throughout the book, Paine shares her own parenting stories—the good, the bad, and the ugly—what she’s learned, and how she’s shifted into a love-centered model of raising her children. And because you can’t give what you don’t have, she first had to let God reparent her, relearning to parent from the inside out.

Crystal Paine is the Money Saving Mom and host of the Crystal Paine Show podcast where she helps you embrace life right where you are and take practical steps to get where you want to go.  

She is also a New York Times bestselling author. Her newest book, Love-Centered Parenting released on March 16, 2021, and in this episode, we have a conversation about what love-centered parenting is and how she learned to embrace it as a mom.

Meet our Guest Crystal:

Crystal Paine is the founder of MoneySavingMom.com, host of the Crystal Paine Show podcast, and a New York Times bestselling author. Her new book Love Centered Parenting is available for pre-order now and releases on March 16. Crystal's desire is to help women across the globe live with more joy, purpose, and intention in their everyday lives. She lives with her husband and her kids in the Nashville area where she's actively involved in her local church. She loves following her passions from raising awareness for foster care and adventures with her family, to finding the very best grocery deals and trying to read way too many books at one time.

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Topics we cover:

• Her journey into blogging and the start of MoneySavingMom.com
• The challenges she faced as a new mom and her use of books for mentorship
• The impact of Sally Clarkson's books on her parenting approach
• The value of reading and how books can impact and change people
• Crystal's book "Love Centered Parenting" and the re-examination of her parenting approach
• Her personal struggles and the challenges her family faced
• The loneliness and guilt experienced as a parent in such situations
• The lack of support and empathy for parents of children labeled as bullies
• Encouragement and advice for moms in similar situations, emphasizing that they are not alone and that faith can provide guidance and support in difficult times
• Love-centered parenting vs. traditional parenting
• The weight of guilt and the need for freedom in parenting
• The role of core values in parenting
• The impact of love-centered parenting on relationships
• Letting go of trying too hard as a new parent
• Favorite gadgets

Resources mentioned:

People Crystal mentioned:  Sally Clarkson, Emily P. Freeman, Jeanie Cunnion, Meg Meeker, and Jennifer Dukes Lee.

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Crystal's Podcast https://crystalpaine.com/

Crystal's New York Times bestselling  Love-Centered Parenting

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Crystal's favorite gadgets are...her breadmaker and Fitbit.

Link to transcript: https://www.thismomknows.com/blog/episode-5

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Crystal Paine, a.k.a. "The Money Saving Mom" is on the podcast today!

Crystal is an amazing New York Times Bestselling Author, a wife, a mom to four biological children and a foster mom.  

She shares her parenting journey with us.  Don't miss it!

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