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.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how our perspectives change everything and can really

make or break so much of our lives. And I've been thinking about,

you know, how the story that we tell ourselves, whatever that may be, whether it's good or bad,

it's often true. And so I wanted to talk today just about perspective and how to have, you know, a positive perspective

in motherhood when so much of it is so hard. And this, I kind of got stuck on this idea because

of something that happened in my real life. So I was rushing to get out of the

house and I was sweating, trying to get all four kids out of house. I can't even remember

where we were going or what we were doing. But I just know I was sweating. I was getting

frustrated. I was overwhelmed. I was yelling at the kids

and I just was like, you know, really just being grumpy and trying to like rush them out of the

house for something. And I literally stopped and I took a minute and I was like, it actually doesn't have to be like this.

Like I don't, I don't have to behave like this.

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