Welcome to Joyfilled. I'm your host, Jenna, and this is the Couches Chat coffee cup and hand

podcast for Christian moms who want to thrive in the hard and holy work of motherhood.

Here, we push back against the lie that being just a mom is small and instead celebrate the

high calling of shaping hearts and homes for Jesus. We chat about faith, motherhood, and the

everyday joys and struggles of raising

kids. I'm in it with you and so are countless other moms and most importantly, Jesus himself.

So together we'll laugh, learn, and lean into grace as we navigate all the sleepless nights,

sticky floors, and soul-stretching moments that motherhood has to offer, all while looking

for the joy along the way,

because there is so much joy to be found. So let's experience it together.

When I started joy filled, I was in a really lonely season of my life. I had a two-year-old

and an almost one-year-old, and my only real

friend was my husband, if I'm honest, and he's amazing and always in forever my best friend.

But you know what I mean? I was desperate for mom friends. I'd see these mom groups on Instagram,

going to dinner regularly, meeting up for coffee on the weekend, stopping in unannounced each other's

houses. And I just, I felt so alone. I mean, I'm sure you know what that feels like, too,

to scroll and get on your phone and feel like everybody else has this thing that I want so bad.

And I think often, especially when there's something that we're so desperate for

or we're longing for so much, our eyes, it becomes magnified. Like, we see it everywhere, right?

And I was even seeing it in my real life. Like, I had friends from church that had their own friend

group that I wasn't a part of,

showing up for each other, being each other's chosen aunties for their kids. And honestly,

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