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.

Feeling overwhelmed is not a sign that you're a bad mom, doing motherhood wrong, or falling

apart. It's a signal. It's a messenger. It's an invitation to slow down,

get honest, and return to Jesus. Psalm 61-2 says, when my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the

rock that is higher than I. I want to talk about overwhelmed today because when I think of living an abundant life, living

a vibrant life, being the most vibrant version of myself, if I'm honest, that version of

myself, like that ideal, you know, whatever, she has figured out how not to get overwhelmed.

And maybe that's not realistic, honestly, if I'm thinking

about it, because it's like, overwhelmed does happen. And what I don't want us to do this season

on the podcast is listen to these episodes and feel like we have to be perfect. I feel like if I'm

becoming, you know, the most vibrant version of myself, if I'm becoming the most abundant version of myself, if I'm becoming the truest version of myself, then that means that I can't be overwhelmed.

That means that I, you know, I can't struggle with these different things.

Like I want to talk about how we can look at these struggles, like overwhelm, like comparison, like body image, like, you know, feeling inadequate, all these

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