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.

Joy is not reserved for mountaintop moments, easier seasons, or picture perfect days.

It is available right here in the ordinary, repetitive, often unseen work of motherhood,

because God is with us there too.

And wherever he is, that's where we find joy.

And in this episode of our blooming and becoming series, I thought it fitting that we really can't talk about

blooming and becoming and stepping into what God has for us and becoming the most vibrant

version of ourselves without talking about joy and finding joy.

I mean, obviously, if you've been here for any amount of time, you know that joy

is kind of the heartbeat of the Joyfield podcast. Obviously, it's in the name. It's pretty self-evident.

But even more than that, like I've shared so many times that this podcast was born from a place of just really, really being desperate for joy in

my own life.

And I don't come on here and talk about joy and talk about all these things as someone

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