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 am completely and unapologetically buying into all of the New Year hype this year,

and I'm going to bring you along with me,

and if you're a skeptic, hopefully by the end of this episode, I'm turning you.

Because here's the thing. I have been a skeptic in years past. I've done it wrong in

years past. I've been super gung-ho in years past. I have had years that kind of, I've been all over the board.

Like, there's been years where I'm really excited, really gung-ho about the new year.

And then I, but I do it wrong when it comes to goal setting and planning.

I either, you know, take what everyone else is doing and just think that that will,

like a copy-paste version of that will work for me too, or I come up with a word for the year just

because somebody else did, somebody I look up to did or somebody told me to, so I did. And then

halfway through the year, I forget what that word was. I forget any of the goals I set and I'm

back in the same cycle that I've

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