#240: No Better Mom for the Job with Becky Keife
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
You know, I don’t feel like I’m cut out for this Mom thing. I am angry ALL the time and it can feel completely overwhelming to be in charge sometimes. But the truth is, we have been chosen to be the mothers of our children. The perspective shift for today is to stop thinking about all of the ways you are falling short and to start focusing on how you have already been equipped for this job.
Becky Keife is the Community Manager for DaySpring’s (in)courage, a widely followed online community where authentic women connect deeply with God and others. She is also a popular speaker for MOPS groups and other women’s events, and is the author of the new book, No Better Mom for the Job: Parenting with Confidence (Even When You Don't Feel Cut Out for It.) Becky is a huge fan of Voxer, Sunday naps, and moms in the thick of it. She and her husband live near Los Angeles where they enjoy hiking sunny trails with their three spirited sons.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:-
enjoying different seasons of motherhood
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when the people you love the most bring out the worst in you
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how vulnerability has helped Becky overcome the shame of being an angry mom
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feeling completely inadequate as a mom
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shifting our perspective from our inadequacies to how God has uniquely equipped us for motherhood
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standing on the promise of James 1:5 - “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”
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what God is teaching Becky about being present in the moment with her kids
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resisting the temptation to put productivity on a pedestal
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making a list of the mundane things you’re good at - those are strengths
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calling out the strengths in the moms around you
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| 0:49.0 | well podcast I'm your host Emily Thomas this is a show that helps you love your actual life so that you do not need to run away from home. |
| 0:55.4 | Listen, motherhood is hard and right now life in general is pretty hard. |
| 1:01.2 | 20, man. |
| 1:04.0 | Let's put that back in a box. |
| 1:06.0 | Seal it up. |
| 1:07.0 | This has not been a great year. |
| 1:09.0 | Not been a great year. |
| 1:11.0 | All the things going on with the unrest, with the protests, peaceful and |
| 1:15.8 | not surrounding the death of George Floyd and I mean so many other people. I don't have anything good to say about it. I wish I had some wisdom. |
| 1:27.3 | I feel pressure to have some wisdom, but I mean I don't have any so I have sorrow and gosh unbelief just so sad that it could actually not affect me if I didn't make it. |
| 1:48.3 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:50.8 | And it's really hard, I feel busy, I know you feel busy. But we've got to listen and we've got to do something. |
| 1:57.0 | It's not doing something. It's not okay. |
| 1:59.0 | But it's hard because sometimes you think doing something, well, what could I do that would really make any kind of an impact? |
| 2:05.4 | I think that's not the right question. I think that's a question that keeps us doing nothing. |
| 2:12.2 | So anyway, I ordered some books I'll let you know about them as I |
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