Welcome to Java with Julie. My name is Tamara and I come from Serbia but I currently live in Cleveland, Tennessee.

I listen to Java with Julie every Monday when I'm commuting from home to work or school, walking from one building to the other on my college campus.

I followed this podcast because Julie and her guests are tackling topics that are really helpful

to me in my own personal journey, but their conversations also serve as a valuable resource

in my doctoral studies and training as a future marriage and family therapist.

So grab your Java.

It's time for Java with Julie.

Hey friend, welcome to Java with Julie.

I am Julie Slattery and I want to say thanks to Tamara for that great open for our show.

And I love for you to open our show sometime.

All you have to do is click on the link that says, how do you take your job of it?

It will be in your show notes and just record a super easy message about how and why you

join me here each week on this podcast. We are a listener-supported podcast and a production

of authentic intimacy, which is a ministry dedicated to reclaiming God's design for sexuality. Well, my guests today

are my friends, Dave and Ann Wilson. They are the co-hosts of the Family Life Today radio broadcast,

and they are just so real and so much fun. Every time I get a chance to talk to them, I walk away

feeling encouraged and just joyful. They're that kind of people.

The conversation that I had with them about marriage last year was one of your favorite episodes

of 2021. On this episode, we're going to talk specifically about the messiness of parenting,

and it's going to get real. Dave and Ann are going to share about how you can

bring other people into your parenting journey so that you don't feel so alone. They'll talk about

how to ditch the expectations that you're supposed to get it all right. And they'll talk about how

...