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Struggle Well School

#260: The Gift of Resistance with Anjuli Paschall

Struggle Well School

Emily Thomas

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

5.01.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We tend to make Christianity complicated. Our relationship with God can feel rigid or only surface-deep. This week my friend Anjuli talks to us about the gift of resistance. Paying attention to the things that you’re trying your best to ignore; the things that feel like the scary deep end of the pool. But what if that deep end part of your story was the way to true intimacy with your Creator?

Anjuli Paschall is the founder of The Moms We Love Club and writes regularly for (in)courage, a widely followed online community of Christian women. She grew up encircled by an orange grove in San Diego. After graduating from Point Loma Nazarene University, she earned a master's degree in spiritual formation and soul care from Talbot Seminary. She currently lives in Southern California with her husband, Sam, and five children. Sam is a pastor at Mission Hills Church in San Marcos. They enjoy renovating their fixer-upper and spending weekends at the ocean.

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:
  • Anjuli’s Instagram transition and the struggle to actually be authentic vs. faking authenticity
  • how vulnerability and growing her trust in God has reduced her mom guilt
  • creating a genogram to help identify and break generational sins
  • the importance of dealing with our own personal pain so that our kids don’t feel the need to try to fix it for us
  • the gift of resistance - the deep end of your story is the way to true intimacy
  • what it looks like to abide with God in your everyday life
  • over complicating Christianity when all we need is the faith of a child
  • the continued resistance Anjuli feels about being honest
  • wrestling with the truth of God’s love for us
  • building spiritual rhythms into your daily habits
  • different phases of parenting happening simultaneously

LINKS MENTIONED:
Embracing Holland podcast
Stay Awake to Love course
Poldark
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Bum, um, bum,

0:02.0

bum. All right ladies welcome back. You are listening to the Mom Struggling Well

0:20.1

Podcast and I am your host Emily Thomas. This is a podcast that helps you

0:24.0

loves your actual life so that you don't need to run away from home. We

0:27.4

believe that perfection is nonsense and peace is a perspective shift away.

0:30.9

A recent perspective shift I've had and I don't know, I can't explain it, but I think I'm going to put

0:40.0

grad school on pause.

0:42.0

I mean I guess I kind of can explain it. I am operating at such a high

0:47.8

capacity that I just can't. That's where I'm at, I just can't dot dot dot and I'm always tired and I just feel like my body I feel like I'm 93 and I'm really not 93

1:01.2

So I'm gonna press pause on the accomplishing school and focus on how can I restore some

1:09.6

health to this not 93 year old bod. You know what I mean? So anyway, for those of you who are type

1:16.0

one and love accomplishing and having things just so, you are going what, I'm so proud of you.

1:24.0

That's really amazing.

1:25.8

For the rest of you, you were like,

1:27.1

I'm sorry, why were you trying to do grad school right now?

1:29.3

That was crazy.

1:31.6

But anyway, it's a really big healthy choice for me. That's a new thing I'm trying, being

1:36.9

healthy in my mind and my body. But here's a problem. I have three weeks left in school and if anybody wants to do my homework

1:45.9

Let me know because I don't want to I have senioritis and I'm not even a senior

1:52.0

All right so last week you heard the very first mom's struggling well with Katie and

1:57.3

Rebecca and me and that's going to be kind of what most of the show is going to be going forward.

2:03.8

I do have a couple of interviews scheduled of just people that I really want to share with you.

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