Life In Bloom Co.

Today we chat with one of our dearest friends, Steph Mangan, all things Enneagram: what it is, why we connect with it, and how to use it as a tool in our lives! Join us as we unpack our Enneagram numbers and chat about our lightbulb moments of self-awareness and how that knowledge has helped grow us + shape our relationships with spouses, children, and friends! Understanding how we're wired not only helps us be gentle with ourselves, but guides us to love + champion others. Enneagram Resources: https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test https://www.enneagrammom.com https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvNyDA1s5tc3r00yQs2It3IeR6muq8Z-G --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

As women, we often brave conversations about struggles with mental health. We find a sense of unity in knowing we aren't alone. We champion the idea of vulnerabiity! But what about when our men--our husbands--are struggling, too? Why does it seem so taboo for vulnerability and men to be in the same sentence?! So today, join Faith + Leah, and a special guest host, Muta Mwenya (husband|father|pastor|leader), as we have an honest conversation about vulnerability, mental health, and how we--as wives--can come alongside our husbands for healing and wholeness, and walking in the full capacity God has for them. If you want to follow along with Muta: his life and his ministry, you can find him here: IG: @iammutamwenya IG Relevant Church: @relevantniles Facebook: @iammutamwenya Relevant Church Niles: https://www.thisisrelevant.cc/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Have you ever found yourself feeling like, "it wasn't supposed to be this way"? Your life isn't what you were expecting, or a situation didn't go as planned? Join Faith + Leah as they discuss how to learn to accept God's plan for your life, and embrace the season you are in. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

When you find yourself standing in the middle of what was, and what will be--that season in the valley... how do you deal?! Today we are going to talk about living from "the middle". How we can trust that God is shaping us--even in the valley. That we don't have to just wait around for the end, but we can start living, truly living, from the middle. We are going to unpack how the gospel changes our hearts: from mountains to valleys. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Join Faith + Leah as they look forward to the coming year. They discuss resolutions and goals, and how sometimes, they can actually put you one step back. Is your journal from 2021 sitting empty? Is your gym membership sitting unused? We sometimes feel the need to set such high goals for ourselves and then are surprised when we fall short. This episode encourages listeners to look at the new year with a new perspective and discusses how we can support our friends as they work to achieve their goals. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Have you ever felt that you are just missing the mark? That you are chasing something that is just barely out of reach? And that if you hustle more, try harder, take every opportunity that comes your way, that then—maybe just maybe you'll get to the place you want to be. Do you find yourself measuring your worth in the sum total of your achievements and accomplishments, or your failures and shortcomings? Join Faith and Leah as we talk about why we have so easily become preoccupied with striving for perfection in motherhood, when all we really need is grace, how we can take the pressure off ourselves and trust God, and how we can rest in God's approval over everything else. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Join Faith + Leah as they tackle the raw subject of body image. We as women often struggle with accepting our bodies for what they are, and often have a distorted view of "beauty". In this episode we talk about how we can shape our mindset to reflect our beauty in the eyes of our creator, how we can support and mold our children, and how we can support other women. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

We know the holidays are right around the corner, and with it, there is an added pressure of curating a peaceful, magical, memory-making time with your family. Join Faith and Leah as they talk about how we can be rooted when expectations fall short, where the pressure + expectations we often feel comes from, and how we can have a good (not perfect) holiday season--no matter what! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Join Faith + Leah as they sit down with Michelle Venneman and discuss how adoption has become a part of her family's story. Michelle shares with us how she felt called to adopt, the process of international adoption and how they've welcomed their new daughter into their lives. It is a heartwarming and special episode. Leah also shares how adoption is a part of her story as well.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Join Faith + Leah as they discuss how we often put on a "superhero cape" to juggle all our responsibilities. We discuss our struggles and how we can encourage others to take their capes off and put on the armor of God instead. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Join Faith and Leah as they break down what it means to be a mom in a culture of so much influence, how we can navigate motherhood media in a way that doesn't leave us feeling weighed down, not good enough, or envious, and how we can be the moms God calls us to be in our home with our people. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Join Faith and Leah as they chat about those "in-the-thick-of-it" seasons of life that we sometimes want to press fast-forward on: whether it is because they are hard, lonely, or downright bad. We talk about how these seasons shape us, change us, and how we can find purpose in them. Sometimes our most transformative stories are uncovered in these seasons, and no season is ever wasted with God. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Join Faith and Leah as they discuss how easy it is to compare ourselves to other mamas and how sometimes asking for help can make you feel like a failure. We unpack why we struggle with asking for help, and how it truly does take a village. God has created us to grow and utilize our communities so that we can do life together! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Join Faith and Leah as they discuss why so many mamas are feeling lonely. We unpack why this season of life can feel so isolating, and how we can BE good friends, and FIND good friends in the midst of it. We were never meant to mother alone! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

*Trigger Warning** This episode discusses pregnancy and infant loss. Join Faith and Leah as they discuss Pregnancy and Infant Loss and how you can come alongside a mama who is experiencing this type of loss. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support

Welcome to our very first episode of Life in Bloom Co. We are so glad you've found us. Listen to learn more about who Faith and Leah are, how they started, where they are now, and their vision for Life in Bloom Co. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/life-in-bloom/support