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.

It's no secret. I've been a little MIA here the last few months, so I figured I'm going to

ease back into weekly podcast episodes with a little life update,

a little peek behind the curtain, tell you how I've been, what I've been up to, why I've been a little MIA,

what I've been learning, just all the things.

Snippets from my prayer journal, like you're getting a true peek behind the curtain today.

Because anytime I take a little break from

podcasting, I feel like the best way to come back is just with a little, a little girl chat, a little,

here's how I've been.

And I actually often will call these episodes couch chat.

So this is another couch chat entry where we're just

side by side. You're on my couch. We're having a cup of coffee. And I'm just spilling everything to you.

Cozy up, whatever you're doing, whether you've got a headphone, you got earbuds in and you're doing laundry, you're folding

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