#245: Adventuring Together with Greta Eskridge

Struggle Well School

Emily Thomas

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

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🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Greta Eskridge is a homeschooling mom of 4. She loves to fill her family’s days with reading, making art, and being outside as much as possible. Her favorite places to be are on a hiking trail or at the tide pools--preferably with a La Croix or iced coffee in hand. Greta loves laughing, having adventures, and talking about the things that really matter. She and her husband, Aaron, have been married for 22 years and make their home in sunny southern California.

Greta is also an author and speaker. Her first book releases July of 2020 with Thomas Nelson. Greta travels the country speaking and sharing her message of joyful, connected parenting. She’s passionate about equipping parents with tools to protect their kids from the damaging effects of pornography and to help them cultivate a healthy sexual culture in their home. Greta strives to bring a voice of hope, encouragement, and inspiration wherever she goes.

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:

Greta’s experience of being homeschooled and why she chose to homeschool her children
hormone imbalance and mom anger
Greta’s trial and error with medical options before discovering bioidentical hormone therapy
protecting kids from pornography by giving them a healthy sexual outlook
creating a healthy sexual culture in your home early by using medical names for body parts
defining pornography for your kids so they’ll know to look away and report it
the addictive and destructive nature of porn
simplifying adventuring with your family
how adventuring with her family has helped her and her spouse grow together
allowing your teen to bring a friend on family adventures
finding empathy for your kids who are constantly dealing with hard things
what Greta can’t stop talking about

LINKS MENTIONED:

3 Reasons Why Parents Don’t Want to Talk to Their Kids About Porn and 3 Reasons They Should
Adventuring Together: How to Create Connections and Make Lasting Memories with Your Kids

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I have a story about a muffin top real quick.
0:02.0	Yes.
0:03.0	There's this guy that I work with who is like a German Shepherd puppy
0:08.0	in that he is humongous and can't control his limbs.
0:13.0	He's like a very childlike giant, okay?
0:17.0	And very funny and loud but not a lot going on upstairs,
0:22.0	like very dumb. He's so great to be around just comic relief
0:27.8	Constantly and he said one time we were talking about muffin tops and he's like you know all guys like
0:34.2	muffin tops and me and this girl we were like do you know what a muffin top is
0:39.0	that he's like no he had no idea what it was, but he was like,
0:43.4	man that turns a man on.
0:45.5	It's fat, above your jeans, man.
0:49.0	He's like, oh yeah, no, not that. Oh, brother.
0:55.0	Well, I'm glad he was like getting in there to be encouraging.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	If you got it, we like it.
1:01.0	Oh, hold it.
1:02.0	No, that's gross. Hey ladies welcome back. I'm Emily Thomas and this is the mom struggling
1:25.1	well podcast the podcast that helps you love your actual life so that you don't need
1:28.8	to run away from home please put those suitcases back in the attic, okay?
1:32.8	Just stay for one more day.
1:34.4	Here we remind ourselves on the regular that perfection is nonsense
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