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Struggle Well School

#210: Going Grumble-Free with Tricia Goyer

Struggle Well School

Emily Thomas

Education, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Self-improvement, Mental Health

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Tricia Goyer is a busy mom of ten, doting grandma, and wife to John. A USA Today bestselling author, Tricia has published seventy books and is a two-time Carol Award winner, as well as a Christy and ECPA Award Finalist. She is also on the blogging team at TheBetterMom.com and other homeschooling and Christian sites. Tricia is the founder of Hope Pregnancy Ministries and currently leads a teen MOPS Group in Little Rock, Arkansas.

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:
  • why Tricia became passionate about getting her family to try being grumble-free

  • controlling your anger when your kids get angry

  • making Bible learning a priority

  • letting kids learn responsibility by earning privileges

  • choosing when to let your kids wear makeup

  • helping kids with trauma become vulnerable by drawing close

  • how God used Tricia’s grandma’s injury to teach the family about the power of praise

  • a story about flat Build-a-Bears and how practicing going grumble-free has changed her kids

LINKS MENTIONED

Calming Angry Kids The Grumble-Free YearVanstek erasable gel pens

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Transcript

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Welcome back to

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Albe's the answer.

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Which supermarket is both which cheapest supermarket

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2022 and good housekeeping reader's favorite

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supermarket 2023.

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spoiler alert, it ain't asder

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yes ALD is the answer shop at ALD and see if you could save your family fortunes Bum, bum, bum.

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And And Bum

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. . . . . . . Welcome back friends. You are listening to the mom struggling well

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podcast. My name is Emily Thomas and I am here to help you not run away from home.

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If you want to run away a little bit for like a night at a hotel like by yourself

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nothing scandalous. I think that that's fine. But let's like not long-term

0:57.5

runway, okay? So I want to tell you about a strategy to struggle while that I stumbled upon this past week of Halloween.

1:05.4

So I never dress up because I'm a stick in the mud.

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I mean I just never, there's nothing I, like my heart is yearning to dress up as but then my friend Amber the one who made all this struggle

1:16.5

well shirts for us she asked all of us girls in the neighborhood hey does anybody want to be a crayon with me? I have a bunch of different

1:24.3

color shirts. And she was hoping for like maybe one other person. Well, I don't remember how many if we had like

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nine or ten of us were like, yes, make shirt and so anyway we all were different color crayons and because of

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leggings it was just gonna be leggings and a shirt I wasn't gonna do that to my

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neighborhood so I made a two-two to cover up my middle-aged middle section.

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