Welcome! The podcast name is a play on words from Speaking LIFE so if you aren’t married, don’t worry! The “wife” in the name doesn’t mean I’ll be talking about marriage every single week! It is my greatest hope to offer encouragement right in the middle of the chaos, draw our eyes back to The Sa…
What is unhelpful while grieving and how can I help someone that I love when they are facing this process?
What are some common misconceptions about grief and what are we even allowed to grieve?
Your position affects your perception, your perception determines your reality and your reality dictates your behavior.
A thank you to those that have sent messages in the last few months!
Pondering on purpose instead of pouting. Your words have power and not always the good kind.
Is it more productive to hold it all inside? Should we just explode? How do we throw a fit?
We struggle and manufacture confidence in ours when we can have a source of real confidence. We just get it by doing things exactly opposite to what society may tell us.
We have the greatest opportunity to set our children up for success with the words we pour into them now!
The number one thing stealing our time from our families is right in our hands. Many times it is controlling us instead of us controlling it!
Self examination and honest evaluation are crucial to growth and success!
When you’re trying to protect a wound, every other area is affected.
The rise in depression and suicide makes me wonder, what is different and what can we do?
What we do without thinking will always be the determining factor in where we go.
His take on the love languages, how he’s learned to love me differently and more answers to your questions with my favorite guy!
Mid summer bring the I-don’t-want-to’s down on us hard. Learning to purposely see the good in the chaos is a lesson I’m not sure I’ll ever fully Ace.
As parents it’s easiest to place blame or have a ”give up” attitude instead of realizing we can help our children deal with natural wiggles and impatience. We can set them up for success!
We see what we look for and sometimes our vision is our worst enemy.
How many things to we plan and prepare for while neglecting to do that very thing for the truly important parts of life?
In our desire to avoid one ditch we have driven across the road into another.
In a take-yourself-too-serious world we have a gift we can give our children!
Is it possible to accidentally fall into an attitude of service to others?
Can we accept the best our children give in this season while also believing forward for them in the next?
You didn’t cause this issue but you’re stuck with it. Now what?
Why didn’t God heal me faster? Why can I still experience pain?
Training our children when we feel like we’re still in training ourselves.
Big changes start with small moments of determination to change ourselves first. We must tear down the walls that divide us.
What do we do with this universal emotion and are we failing in our walk with God because we experience fear?
As much as I’d love it if God magically took my emotions away He doesn’t normally work like a fairy god mother.
So we’ve talked about how to be a friend but how do I accept friendship into my life when I’ve been betrayed in the past?
Don’t wait for the next season to arrive before you grab onto your mission with both hands!
You’re already talking to yourself. Let’s do it right!
Loneliness and feeling friendless is not as rare as one might think.
What do we do with all this grace we’ve got locked away in our receiving vault?
When you’re sure you’re the only one experiencing days of overwhelmedness and discouragement.
As we grieve and try to find a new normal we remember all the ways our hearts were molded by our precious Grandmother.
What to do when it seems like every year is the same struggle and there’s really not much hope in the possibilities of a new year ahead?
Does screen time for ourselves and our children even matter? Why is it easier to hand them a device than engage?
We need to step away from the comparison trap and take a good long look at who we are.
A brief episode on raising boys and instilling the characters of a kind and faithful husband.
Let’s talk about some practical ways we can roll up our sleeves and fight for our marriages.
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