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.

There's a lie that says you're losing yourself in motherhood. You lose everything about yourself,

but today we're debunking that lie because you're not losing yourself

in motherhood. You're being formed. But I want to talk really practically about this because if we're

talking about becoming, if we're talking about becoming the most vibrant, abundant versions of

ourselves, then we have to talk about the opposite, which is, it's very real to feel like we've

lost ourselves.

And I first, if you felt that way, I want you to know, like you're so, so not alone.

I have even caught myself saying that or feeling that.

And that's why today I just really want to talk about, even in these

early years, even in these messy years of motherhood, you are becoming. And honestly, regardless

of the effort we put into it, we're all becoming something. It's up to you to decide who that is

and what that is. And I hope that all of us here, if you're

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