Category: Self Care

9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom – Week Five

We begin week five of our journey reading Sue Detweiler’s book, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with God’s Best.    Read  Chapter Five – Replacing My Frustration with God’s Patience Trait 1:  Patience This one is…

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9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom – Week Four

We begin week four of our journey reading Sue Detweiler’s book, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with God’s Best.   That dreaded word….anxiety.  Why does it seem it is more prevalent today than at any other time?…

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Replacing my Sadness with God’s Joy

Life can be sad – plain and simple.  I think I forget that simple truth.  And you know, that’s okay – life is tricky, it’s stressful, happy, and trying all at the same time. If you’ve been following my blog…

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9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom – Week Three

We begin week three of our journey reading Sue Detweiler’s book, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with God’s Best.   Sadness, depression, loneliness – all words that can easily describe us at different times.  I know for…

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No More Excuses Summer Workout

It is almost summer – YIKES!   Yep, that bathing suit weather is upon us and I think I will just run and hide  :-) But you know, our fitness and ability to be in good physical shape is way…

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Replacing My Anger with God’s Love

We’ve all experienced it, the loss of patience, control and spewing of angry words, harsh tones and then regret.  I have had more than my share for sure and will often carry the load of guilt around like a treasured…

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Becoming a Life-Giving Mom

This chapter is the one that deeply spoke to me and convicted me to dig into this book deeper, which then brought it to be our next book study.   Sue’s story about the house fire was scary, I cannot…

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