#23: Robbery, Refugees, and the Best Library Ever with Jenny Mullins

Struggle Well School

Emily Thomas

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

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

My friend Jenny is a source of wisdom and encouragement to me personally. She has experience loving overseas which has given her a great deal of compassion for refugees and she has worked tirelessly with her daughter who has autism. Her gentle patient spirit is amazing to me and I know the only way to explain it is to look where she's looking: Jesus.

We chat about unusual ways to engage with robbers, creating visual schedules for anxious kids, and gratefulness as an antidote to comparison. You're gonna get so much out of listening to Jenny's perspective. Can't wait to hear what your plan to struggle well will be!

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0:00.0	Hi and
0:05.0	I am a mom struggling well podcast. My name is Emily Thomas and I am a mom on a mission to get a new perspective.
0:11.0	Y'all I am not proud of it but I spent far too long waiting for my daily
0:15.0	irritations to resolve before the good times can begin. And I'm thinking the struggles are just going to keep
0:20.7	coming so I might as well get a new plan. God promises if we
0:24.5	persevere through our daily struggles our character will be built and will end up
0:28.5	with a hope that doesn't disappoint and I don't know about you but my hardest days happen when I've lost sight of that hope.
0:35.0	So if that's your story too, join me each week as I interview someone who is passed from just struggling
0:40.1	to struggling well. well. Hey guys, welcome back to the Mom Struggling Well
0:46.0	podcast. We are on episode 23 and we're talking to my friend Jenny Mullins.
0:50.0	We have been friends for about 14 years I think we have this thing where we tend to make major life transitions at the same time
0:56.7	We got married at the same time we left the country at the same time and then we came back at the same time even though none of it was planned and we didn't even go to the same countries.
1:06.8	Anyway, she's a great friend to me and a source of wisdom and clarity every time that we can grab a hot second to chat together.
1:13.2	In this conversation we cover autism, comparison, and her work with refugees.
1:19.2	Oh, and also why her public library is better than your public library. I wanted to tell a quick story
1:25.4	about one of the reasons I love doing this podcast. A friend texted me and said,
1:30.3	oh my gosh, I loved listening to this episode you just recently did.
1:34.0	And the thing that she said was so encouraging to me and being a mom.
1:38.0	And so I texted the episode guest and said, hey, my friend was so encouraged by what she said, and she wrote me back and said,
1:45.4	oh my gosh, I needed that today.
1:46.9	It's been such a really bad day.
1:48.4	So I just wanted to say, like, we all need encouragement and we all need to be reminded about even the things that we have
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