A Lovely Place

Today we'll give you a little bit of a life update while we talk about what we've been doing and where we're thinking about going in the future! Join us in our first video podcast!

Thanks for listening to our last episode about James Clear's book, Atomic Habits.  This book has really helped us learn new tools to make new habits “Atomic.”  One tool is to make the new habit super small and desirable using the 4th law, making new habits satisfying.  If its fun and satisfying we are more likely to keep going and practice this new habit again and again each day.   Mentioned Resources: Atomic Habits By James Clear Bible Recap with Tara Lee Cobble  “His mercies are new every morning from…” Lamentations 3:22-23 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello friends! We are glad you have joined us again today to continue chatting about the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.  Today's episode we chat about making a new habit easy as James maps out in the 3rd section of his book, making desired habits easy and bad habits extra hard.  What habit can you make easier?  One key we discuss today is making a new habit so simple you can do it in 2 minutes. Thanks again for joining us.  Mentioned Resources: Atomic Habits By James Clear Colossians 1:9-11 Dawn the Minimal Mom The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Today we are talking about making new habits attractive as we continue to share what we are learning from James Clear's book Atomic Habits.  If you want to create new habits, make them attractive to you so you choose to do it by combining a need to a want such as the need to do the dishes and I want to watch a show.  We can make dishes more attractive and we choose to watch a show while doing the dishes.    Mentioned Resources: Atomic Habits By James Clear Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends!  Thanks for joining us in our conversation of Atomic Habits by James Clear.  The first part of making a new Atomic Habit is to make it obvious and specific.  We are discussing some new habits we are making as small as we can so they are small and achievable to actually make some new positive changes.   Mentioned Resources: Featured book: Atomic Habits By James Clear Kendra Adachi who wrote The Lazy Genius Way and you can listen to her podcast and check out her books on her website.   Our Online “friends” who have helped us tidy up and declutter life: Dawn the Minimal Mom Clutter Bug Quiz Dana K White A Slob Comes Clean Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Today is our first conversation about James Clear's book Atomic Habits!  We are excited to share what Jesus is teaching us in this season of our lives and glad that we are ready to make habits in a new way that focus on our core beliefs about the person we would like to be. Mentioned Resources: Romans 12:1-2  Atomic Habits By James Clear Lazy Genius By Kendra Adachi   Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello friends!  Thanks for joining us again today to discuss our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons.  Community is the word!  We sure have enjoyed reading and discussing this book, so good to see how God is teaching us about community in his word, and in our lives and with the books we read. It's like a beautiful tapestry.  We are thankful for you, listening and being a part of The Lovely Place community.   Mentioned Resources: Atomic Habits By James Clear Rebekah Lyons website with lots of information on her newest book Building a Resilient Life. Don't Mom Alone Podcast Find Your People, By Jennie Allen Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello friends!  Thanks for joining us again today to discuss our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons.  The focus today is all about Making Meaning in our lives!   Mentioned Resources: Rebekah Lyons website with lots of information on her newest book Building a Resilient Life. Rhythms of Renewal by Rebekah Lyons  The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi Effortless by Greg McKeown Don't Mom Alone Podcast Dawn the Minimal Mom  Ecclesiastes 3:11-13 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello friends!  Thanks for joining us again today to discuss our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons.  The focus today is all about training with resistance and choosing to grow step by step.  We get to run our own race. We don't need to compare what we are doing to any other person, we are running in our own lane.  It's not always easy but we can learn and grow each step.  Today we encourage each other to start to simply move forward towards healing and freedom.  We hope you too can start to build a resilient life with small steps forward.   Mentioned Resources: Rebekah Lyons website with lots of information on her newest book Building a Resilient Life. 1 Cor 9:24-27 Being Known Podcast on YouTube End Emotional Eating by Jennifer Taitz PsyD Jamie Winship and Identity X Exchange  Dawn the Minimal Mom  Atomic Habits by James Clear Alisa Keeton  Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Welcome friends!  Today we are jumping back into our conversation about our featured book Building a Resilient Life by Rebekah Lyons.  Let's get crazy and call anxiety a friend!  What?  Don't we need to run away from anxiety, not towards it?  Today we discuss this huge perspective shift that anxiety could actually be helpful to us. What if we took the time to listen to anxiety and what it is trying to tell us about what we are feeling and experiencing?  So then with this information from our new friend we could change our pattern and move into freedom not the crazy circle.     Mentioned Resources: Rebekah Lyons website with lots of information on her newest book Building a Resilient Life. Being Known Podcast on YouTube With Kurt Thompson End Emotional Eating by Jennifer Taitz PsyD Jamie Winship and Identity X Exchange  Bible Re-Cap  Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Welcome back to another episode friends!  We are continuing our conversation about our featured book "Building a Resilient Life" by Rebekah Lyons.  We sure do appreciate Rebekah's transparent and authentic way she writes. It feels like we are sitting down with a cup of coffee and chatting about the deep things of life as we read this book.  So glad we can share our lives and the challenges life brings our way while inviting and including Jesus into every part of life even the messy parts.  Thanks for joining us today as we discover ways Jesus is WITH US on our journeys right now in the messy middle of the lesson in the hard part where some days we just want to quit, we can choose to build a more resilient life.    Mentioned Resources: Rebekah Lyons website with lots of information on her newest book Building a Resilient Life. John 8:31-32 (Word- Logos definition in the Blue Letter Bible) James 1:2-4 Romans 12:1-2 Being Known Podcast on YouTube End Emotional Eating by Jennifer Taitz PsyD Jamie Winship and Identity X Exchange  Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello!  So glad you are here to join us in our continued conversation and discussion of Rebekah Lyons' book “Building a Resilient Life.”  This episode is full of different Bible verses that keep coming to our minds as we both share about what we are learning in this season.  We are happy that God uses so many situations and experiences to speak, whether it's what book we are reading, a conversation with a friend, songs we hear.   This episode is an honest conversation with each other about what God has been teaching us about community and confession so we can hear His truth.  Through friendship and tears we again hear God speaking into our lives in real time.  Thanks for joining us in our journey.  We hope you are encouraged by what God is speaking to you personally today. Glad we can be a part of your journey.   Mentioned Resources: Rebekah Lyons website with lots of information on her newest book Building a Resilient Life. John 14:6, 1 Peter 5:6, Luke 22:15, Matthew 18:20, Acts 4:13, Luke 24:15, 1 John 1:30, Revelation 3:20 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends!  Today Corrie and Stephan are sharing about what God is doing in their lives.  They share what they have been learning from God and what He is speaking over them and into their true identity.  The featured book they are reading right now is by Jamie Winship, Living Fearless exchanging the lies of the world for the liberating truth of God.  Stephan and Corrie get vulnerable and share from their hearts, hoping that you too will know the truth about what name God calls you by and how that affects your everyday walk with Him.  Mentioned Resources: Jamie Winship's book - Living Fearless Antioch Youth Summer Camp Episodes 1, 2, 3, and 4. Bible - Jeremiah 29:11-13 and John 10:14 Don't Mom Alone Podcast Episode #433  Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Today is the start of our new featured book.  “Building a Resilient Life - how adversity awakens strength, hope and meaning”  Written by Rebekah Lyons In today's episode we chat about different seasons of adversity in our life that made us stronger even though the situations were challenging.  We also share about others in our lives that are examples of resilient friends that inspire us to keep going.   We all face different seasons of adversity; some can include self-doubt, physical injuries/illness, rejection, poverty, loss of a loved one and struggling to succeed in a chosen career.   We hope today's episode helps you walk through the challenges you might be facing right now.  Our heart was very encouraged by Psalm 30 and verse 2 stood out especially to Corrie  “Lord my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me.”

Hello Friends!  We are wrapping up our featured book, Find Your People, By Jennie Allen, with this question she asks the readers “What if God wants to shake up our perceptions and expectations of what community and family should look like?   We share our stories of when we were feeling at the end of our strength quickly approaching burnout and the desire to quit and leave was intense and felt like an easier choice.  But we both chose to have our perception of what it means to be in community help us to listen to Jesus' heart to live in community and to stay.  Ephesians chapter 4 encourages that we will be built up in love when we stay connected to our people.  Join us today to fight to stay in a relationship to choose to stay and grow and change.  Mentioned Resources: Find Your People, By Jennie Allen Ephesians 4:15-16 The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi Episodes 1-5 to hear chat about The Lazy Genius Way End Emotional Eating by Jennifer Taitz PsyD Episodes 021 - 035  Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends!  We are in Chapter 8, Deep -Illustration: shovel Goal: Shared purpose, Barrier: Shallow/small talk. Our lives can become fractured and compartmentalized when we only see people in single spheres of our lives. This can lead us to loneliness and isolation. The depth of relationship develops when people see all the parts of our lives: the good and the bad. Friends with shared purpose experience greater depth and meaning together.  Find things in your life that need to be done and invite someone to do them with you! Mentioned Resources: Find Your People, By Jennie Allen 1 John 4:18-21 Famous at Home Kendra Adachi - Lazy Genius Way Acts 2:42 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends!  We are now talking about Chapter 7 of Find Your People, By Jennie Allen, Protected, with the illustration of an anvil.  Goal: Accountability and the Barrier: Pride  Who is keeping you accountable? We all need friends to keep us accountable but many of us are lacking the deep friendships that function in this way. We all crave this type of relationship but live in a culture striving for independence and minding your own business. Join us as we dive in to talk about Find Your People. Mentioned Resources: Find Your People, By Jennie Allen Love and Respect Proverbs 15:22 Proverbs 27:17 Proverbs 27:6 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends!  We are in Chapter 6, Safe today with the illustration of  OPEN DOORS Goal: transparency Barrier: Pain/shame This was a challenging chapter to read and to record,  putting ourselves out there to practice being vulnerable about past friendship hurts and the fear of trying again and again.  We take down some walls brick by brick to reveal our struggles and pain of being a friend and being truly known and loved. This chapter helps better equip us to find the balance of matching another person's level of transparency in a friendship.  This can feel tricky sometimes, but with Jesus' help we can learn and grow and develop deep and meaningful realtionships.   Mentioned Resources: Find Your People, By Jennie Allen Famous at Home Curt Thompson  Proverbs 27:17 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends!  Do you feel awkward at making friends?  You are in good company.  Today's episode we shared how our friendship felt quite awkward at the beginning, but we kept pursuing each other and built a beautiful friendship. There is hope on the other side of awkward beginnings.    Jennie Allen encourages us in chapter 5 of her book Find Your People,  Close FIRE Goal: proximity Barrier: Business  1) Notice who is already right in front of you.   Who are the people you see at church, in your neighborhood, at work, school… who is around us in our everyday life.  2) Put yourself out there and let's be intentional about who we would like to get to know more.  Who could we initiate a coffee date, a walk, or a text message?  We will never have friends unless you are willing to consistently initiate.  This is not a small challenge, and as we discuss  today it feels exhausting to feel like the only one who is initiating connection.  3)Start Great conversations, we can learn to ask more intentional questions that move beyond the daily to do's and schedules.  We can get a little deeper with questions about how we feel about this or that?  Thanks for joining us today! Mentioned Resources: Find Your People, By Jennie Allen Kendra Adachi Turquoise Table  Author Kristin Schell was a guest on the Don't Mom Alone Podcast  episode 37 Hebrews 10:25  Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Welcome back to our conversation of our featured book “ “Find Your People.”  Chapter 4, Find your People, is our topic of discussion. The necessary ingredients to build healthy friendships are A) availability- say yes friend, B) Humility- being able to say the hard things, and C) transparency- not hiding being open and honest.  Our village of friends is full of people who need us and who we need in our life.  Relationships will not be perfect, we will let others down and others will let us down. God can hold our expectations!       Mentioned Resources: Kendra Adachi 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 Find Your People, By Jennie Allen Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! What if we believed we were a valued friend and we have something to bring to each friendship we have?  What if we had a vision for something more?  We talk about just that in this episode.  What if we focused on building a village of friends instead of one best friend forever, to fill all of our relationship needs?  We need community and we can all benefit from a group of friends that can enrich our life and we can also encourage others.   Our featured book is,  Find Your People by Jennie Allen. Mentioned Resources: Proverbs 3:5-6 Find Your People, By Jennie Allen Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Do you long for deeper friendships?  Come with us on our journey learning more about friendship with today's conversation about our featured book, Find Your People by Jennie Allen.  Today's episode we are talking about Ch 2 The connection we crave. ( You will even hear the sweetest lil voice of Tess' daughter throughout the episode! )  We function best in friendships when we are grounded first in our faith in a perfect God.  He helps us to have the confidence to be vulnerable and make new friends, and to deepen existing friendships.  We have a unique opportunity to share life together and to encourage each other in normal everyday situations.  Sometimes that looks like lending a car to a friend because theirs is in the shop.  Or being brave and asking neighbors to join a book club, but either way are connecting us to our people.  Friendships won't be perfect, but they are worth building.   Mentioned Resources: Find Your People, By Jennie Allen C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity  Matthew 22:37  Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! We have a new featured book Find Your People by Jennie Allen.  We need people to help us make a lovely place for friendships with a space for love, learning and laughter.  Join us for this journey to Find Our People.   God's plan for people is community.  Let's try to continue to connect despite the hurdles in life.  We can seek and find authentic friendships to do life together in the up's and down's, of our struggles, and joy.  The big idea is we need a variety of relationships: inner circle 2-3 people, a village 15 people, and acquaintances 50 people.   Mentioned Resources: Find Your People, By Jennie Allen The Lazy Genius Way Famous at Home Candace Cameron Bure Podcast Acts 2:42-47 Bible ReCap podcast Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! This is our last episode on our featured book, Famous at Home! We close out our time together by talking about decision 7: Set Values. We also touch on family mission. If we go through life with no thought of our values, we can say yes to everything and live with no real purpose. Join us today as we ponder what it means to discover our family values and be intentional to live them out in our day to day. We're so glad that you have joined us for this inspiring, challenging, and encouraging book and we hope that you know God has given you all you need to be famous at home in your family! Mentioned Resources: One Extraordinary Marriage The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst Try Softer by Aundi Kolber Emotionally Healthy Spirituality The Container Concept Explained (Video) Dawn the Minimal Mom Proverbs 4:23, 25-26 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! We are reading Famous at Home, and today we are talking about decisions 5 and 6: Enter Your Child's World and Establish Family Rhythms. Josh and Christi do such a great job in these chapters of encouraging us to be intentional about play, rest, and loving our families well. Presence in our children's lives isn't about big gestures but little moments of seeking them out and letting them direct our activities. In those moments we get glimpses of who God created them to be. We also reflect on the importance of rest and rhythm as ways that we mimic the actions and character of God. We hope you are encouraged by this discussion today! Mentioned Resources: Meg Meeker Podcast The Lazy Genius Way Rhythms of Renewal Don't Mom Alone One Extraordinary Marriage Deut. 6:5-9 Proverbs 22:6 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.   Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends!  Part 10 of our Famous at Home discussion.  This episode is focusing on decision #3 - Talk about Emotions and decision #4 - Listen To Your Spouse's Heart. We are continuing our journey as mom friends, doing our best to offer our best self to our husbands and kiddos.  We are talking about our feelings and how to communicate them in a healthy way.  A lot of the time we are learning right alongside our kids and we are definitely learning through our marriages.  Thanks for joining the conversation today.   Mentioned Resources: Famous at Home Podcast Famous at Home workbook 7 decisions to put your family center stage. ( scroll down on the link and enter email for this free workbook) What am I feeling by Dr. Josh and Christi Straub  Psalm 142 End Emotional Eating By Jennifer Taitz Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events.  Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! We are continuing our decision of Famous at Home, and today we're talking about ways we can take action to create a lovely home. The first decision we are talking about today is Change Your Mindset - how to show up as the best version of you. We discuss what is the biggest pain point in our life right now and how we can make changes to change our mindset around that pain point.   The second decision is How We Can Change Our Atmosphere - how to cultivate a life-giving environment. The example of an airplane changing its trajectory by making small adjustments over time. We too can make small changes to impact our family for good.  Change can start with our words; they are powerful and impact each family member. It only takes a small shift each day to change the atmosphere in our homes! Mentioned Resources: Famous at Home Podcast The Lazy Genius Way - Small Steps Atomic Habits by James Clear Finish by Jon Acuff James 1:19-20 The Best Yes by Lysa TerKeurst Famous at Home workbook 7 decisions to put your family center stage (scroll down on the link and enter email for this free workbook) And The Shofar Blew by Francine Rivers Proverbs 18:21 Psalm 103:8 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley

Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 8 of Famous at Home, Who are you Becoming?  Why parenting is the wrong term.  Today we talk about becoming… a different perspective on how we can approach our kids and our spouse. Do we get stuck in the rut of parenting by changing the behaviors of others instead of putting our energy towards becoming who God created us to be? A successful parent learns to manage their own stress before trying to manage anyone else's. Being a parent is hard, but God has given us the tools we need to grow and be the people we want our kids to grow up to be!  Mentioned Resources: Famous at Home Podcast Brene Brown Atomic Habits by James Clear Don't Mom Alone book The Lazy Genius Way - Small Steps Shepherding a Child's Heart End Emotional Eating Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Soulspace App Connected Families  Psalm 51:10-12 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 7 of Famous at Home, “What are you fighting for? Why your spouse is not your Enemy.” We talk about how our spouse is our teammate, not a competitor.  We're building our marriage together (thinking of it like a wall).  We need to build it as a team instead of building bricks that go between us, separating us from each other. Mentioned Resources: Famous at Home by Josh and Christi Straub Don't Mom Alone Gil and Brenda Stuart John Gottman Wise Mind and Coping Ahead from End Emotional Eating Ecclesiastes 4:9-11 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 6 of Famous at Home, Are You Willing? Fame chases those who act. We are continuing to chat about changes we are making with our own attitudes to build a stronger marriage relationship. We discuss the different ways we can dance to create more connection. Choosing to be vulnerable to our spouse to go deeper in connection and lead us to a place where we are fighting for each other, not fighting each other. Thanks for joining us today. Mentioned Resources: Famous at Home workbook 7 decisions to put your family center stage. ( scroll down on the link and enter email for this free workbook) Gil and Brenda Stewart Gottman Institute Book Tess read Emotional Healthy Relationships Bible Recap Podcast and Reading plan 1 John 4:18 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Today we are discussing Chapter 5 of Famous at Home, Your Significance: How is your identity guiding your family? Thanks for tuning into the podcast today and learning more about being famous at home with us. We are talking about the things we can do to put our family center stage, from putting our phones down to making job changes. Whatever it takes to be more focused on what you value most. When we show up for our family it makes a big difference. Mentioned Resources: Don't Mom Alone Podcast episode about play with Charissa Fry John 15:12-17 Famous at Home workbook 7 decisions to put your family center stage. ( scroll down on the link and enter email for this free workbook) Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Today we are chatting about Ch 4 of Famous at Home Your Biggest Adversary: What shadows keep you from showing up? This chapter is a good opportunity to check in with how your family is connecting and supporting each other. Are you fighting each other or fighting for each other in prayer? We have to be diligent to watch out for what might be stealing joy and peace from our families. Mentioned Resources: Dr. Josh and Christi Straub's podcast Famous at home Rhythm of Renewal inventory and other free resources from Rebekah Lyons 1 Peter 5:8-9 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Today we are discussing Ch 3 of Famous at Home: What do your followers really see? How do we actually spend our time, money and mental energy? Does this reflect what we desire for our family? What skills do we need to gain in order to share our best self? We hope our conversation today encourages you to be Famous at Home. Mentioned Resources: Dawn the Minimal Mom The Chosen TV Show Rhythms of Renewal by Rebekah Lyons Don't Mom Alone - Mom Burnout End Emotional Eating James 1:22-25 Psalm 55:22 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Chapter 2 Almost Famous: What are you chasing? Today we chat about what we desire the most in our families, how are we shaping our family values and culture? Sometimes we need a minute to sit and check in with our own hearts so we don't feel like we are flying around all the time in circles. Mentioned Resources: It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Song Read along with us Famous at Home Connected Families Course The Greatest Showman Movie Encanto Movie Dawn the Minimal Mom: Fantasy Self A Place To Land Song Matthew 6:33 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! We are reading Famous at Home by Dr. Josh and Christi Straub. In this book they map out 7 decisions to put your family center stage in a world competing for your time, attention and identity. Let's learn to show up for our family in love and care of the other family members… this will make us famous at home with the people that actually matter the most!!! Mentioned Resources: Read along with us Famous at Home Follow along with us with this free workbook Watch Dawn The Minimal Mom talking about toxic clutter John 13:33-34 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello friends we made it to the end of the book End Emotional Eating! Our tool belt is full from 10 chapters of helpful information. The last chapters “Tasting Values” and “Ending Well and Beginning Again” are what we are discussing in this episode. We sure do value you and are so glad you have joined us on this learning journey. Let's start again and again to end emotional eating! Happy Thanksgiving!!! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Lazy Genius Way Rhythms of Renewal by Rebekah Lyons Romans 7:24-8:1 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Today we're chatting about the 8th chapter of End Emotional Eating: Cultivating Self-Compassion. Thank you for coming along with us on this journey to help us gain more tools to help us not eat for emotional reasons. Self-compassion, not self-condemnation, cultivates change. Let's be kind to ourselves as we would our friend. Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Lazy Genius Way Col 3:12-14 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Today we're chatting about the 7th chapter of End Emotional Eating: Coping with difficult emotions without a second helping. It's a good one but has reminded us that this is a journey full of lots of small steps. In this episode we talk about self-soothing vs. avoidance. And we dive into the way we perceive pain, difficult emotions, and difficult things in our lives. We'd love for you to join us! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Lazy Genius Way Rhythms of Renewal by Rebekah Lyons Hebrews 4:14-16 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! We will be taking our own advice to be a “Lazy Genius” and keep the pace of the podcast releasing every other week. We get real in this update and share our hearts and our struggles as we both feel like we are in the MIDDLE of a hard season. The season might feel hard and confusing and challenging but we are learning that God is so faithful to meet us in the middle of our season and He will help us get to the other side. We pray you know you are not alone. Thanks for joining us on this podcast journey. Mentioned Resources: Psalm 103 Hebrews 11:1 2 Cor 1:3-7 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! We're back to the Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi! We're discussing the areas of prep and the table. What matters the most to you about these areas of your kitchen and life? Let's dig in and become Lazy Geniuses! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Lazy Genius Way The Lazy Genius Kitchen Acts 2:46-47 Don't Mom Alone episode about honoring others Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Today we are talking about the sixth chapter of End Emotional Eating. Join us as we approach the subject of our thoughts and some negative thinking patterns: comparisons, perfectionism, and rumination. Let's learn how to treat ourselves with kindness as we battle negative thought patterns and continue to learn how to eat and live with mindfulness and acceptance! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Lazy Genius Way The Lazy Genius Kitchen Pastor Elizabeth's Sermon about guarding your heart 1 Peter 5:5-7 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Happy back to school season, we recorded this episode in the summer but this episode Tess and Corrie chat about meal planning, tips for shopping, and prep. Each season has its own rhythm so we hope this episode helps you decide what matters about meal planning right now to you. Kendra has so many great ideas in her book we could keep talking for a long time. Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Lazy Genius Way The Lazy Genius Kitchen Dawn the Minimal Mom Dana K. White Instacart Famous at Home Book 1 Corinthians 10:31 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Happy Summer we are talking about surfing today. This chapter is not about a fun trip to the beach, it's about our urges to fall into temptation and eat whatever we want without thinking. So we are learning to take a pause for a minute to check in with our feelings and decide if this is the wave to ride or let pass by us. We talk about our personal “ups and downs” of this chapter and putting these new tools into practice. Together with friends we can create a space to keep learning and keep choosing to eat in a mindful way not an emotional one thanks for joining us in this journey. Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Lazy Genius Way The Lazy Genius Kitchen Rhythms of Renewal Growth Mindset Galatians 5:22-23 - The fruit of the Spirit James 1:22-25 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Part B – Have What You Need. This is all about knowing your own kitchen and making it work for you in this season. No matter how big or small the space actually is there is a way to decide what matters to you. Let's take time this summer to clear out what is in the way of making your space even more functional to you. Proverbs 4:23 - Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." (NIV) Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! Don't Mom Alone Podcast The Lazy Genius Way The Lazy Genius Kitchen Dana K. White - A Slob Comes Clean Proverbs 4:23 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Today's episode is all about learning more about our emotional intelligence. This is a skill we can continue to grow in as we become more aware of our feelings and what is going on around us each day. Romans 12:1-2 reminds us of God's mercy for us as we continue to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Thanks for joining us on this journey to gain more emotional intelligence. Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! Don't Mom Alone Podcast Rhythms of Renewal Book The EQ Edge Book Luca Movie Emotionally Healthy Spirituality The Lazy Genius Way The Lazy Genius Kitchen Romans 12:1-2 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Today we are talking about the first section in Kendra Adachi's book The Lazy Genius Kitchen. We are deciding what is important about our own kitchens, hopefully this episode will help you decide what's important to you too. Together we can find ways to personalize our kitchen spaces for the season we are in right now. In this episode we talk about custom hot pads to the idea of a dinner basket to have all the necessary items ready to set the table. What is important to you to make your kitchen function for you and your family? Mentioned Resources: Summer reading books: The Lazy Genius Kitchen & Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” Don't Mom Alone Podcast The Lazy Genius Way Minimal Mom - Vacation house Cas– Clutterbug Quiz Greg McKeown's book Essentialize Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Hello Friends! Today we are talking about Mindfulness. The illustration of driving keeps coming up in our conversation today. Let's learn to “drive” through life a little more mindfully than we have before. Let's take a pause and give space to think and be mindful especially about what we are fueling our bodies with each day. If you want to read along with us and get the book, End Emotional Eating, by Jennifer L. Taitz PsyD. Happy 4th of July Friends! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book, ”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! Don't Mom Alone Podcast The Lazy Genius Way The Lazy Genius Kitchen Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

Genius Kitchen. Have what you need, use what you have, and enjoy it like never before!!! This is a fun and helpful book to help get your kitchen to a place that works for you and your family. Today Tess and I talk about the steps Kendra suggests to 1-Prioritize, 2- Essentialize, 3-organize, 4-personalize and 5-systemize. Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi The Lazy Genius on YouTube DMA Podcast Featuring Kendra Adachi Hello Fresh Meal Kits The Lazy Genius Way Rhythms of Renewal by Rebekah Lyons Brene Brown Ted Talk on shame Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley.

We're continuing our journey through End Emotional Eating by Jennifer L. Taitz PsyD. Join us for a vulnerable conversation about acceptance and the struggle to be real honest in real life. We'd love to hear your feedback on our Facebook page! Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! Psalm 102:1-2 Whole 30 DMA Episode: Sunday Planning Rhythms of Renewal The Lazy Genius Way Yoda Clip DMA Episode: Mom Burnout Being Known: The Mind Take Every Thought Captive Verse Prodigal Son Passage Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Hello Friends! Today we get more vulnerable and face our fears about sharing our struggle with emotional eating. You are invited to be a part of the conversation too, join us in reading End Emotional Eating, by Jennifer L. Taitz PsyD. This book has been waiting on our bookshelves for over 2 years. Hmm… it's time to actually read, discuss, and practice the tools shared to make a difference in our relationship to food. Together we can learn a little more about how to be mindful when we eat and be more compassionate with ourselves and our emotions we are feeling so we can sit with them to actually feel them not just stuff them. Mentioned Resources: Purchase our featured book,”End Emotional Eating” here to read along with us! The Marshmallow Test The Lazy Genius Way Isaiah 12:2-5 Psalm 139:1-5 Credits: Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Bonus episode with Corrie and Stephan Ainley. Today we are chatting about our marriage, the baby we lost to misscarriage in 2014, and about how magnets helped us define our marriage bringing more unity. We are not experts at marriage, but we have learned a few things from other marriage experts and want to share lots of resources with you. Our prayer is that the things that have helped us build a stronger marriage will help you as well. Mentioned Resources “You Found Me” Stephan Ainley Gil and Brenda Stewart are our friends and mentors. Their heart is an encouragement to couples in a stepfamily. They also have done events to speak into the life of relationships in marriage. “Empty Arms” by Pam Vredevelt Ephesians 5:22-23 Love and Respect By Dr. Emmerson Eggerichs Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage Mark Gungor It's not about the Nail End Emotional Eating By Jennifer Taitz Credits Follow us on our Facebook page for more updates and community events. Edited and music by Stephan Ainley. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.