#46: Three Small Goals with Valerie Keinsley
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
She is a wife and mom from central Indiana who lives in a 100 year old house she hopes to renovate soon. She runs a stationary shop and intentionally creates space for quiet in her life. In fact, she wants to be Amish "while still enjoying the modern comforts of electricity and deodorant." Ha! I think that sounds fair. What we chat about: how prenatal and postpartum depression are very real things learning to say "no" her routine of a morning prayer to-do list what she is doing to leave a legacy for her grandchildren
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| 0:00.0 | It doesn't matter how neatly you pack them away. |
| 0:03.0 | Christmas lights will always be tangled. |
| 0:06.0 | And a Christmas light tangle is more than a tangle. |
| 0:09.0 | It's a tangle that somehow gets more entangled |
| 0:11.0 | the more you attempt to untangle it. So to the loft I go with just my Christmasy coffee for company and if I'm not back by New Year |
| 0:20.0 | Merry Christmas. Our roasted Hazel Hot Chocolate is now at Costa. That's Christmas. Haysle Hot Chocolate is now at Costa. |
| 0:24.0 | That's Christmas, made a little better. |
| 0:27.0 | At Costa Coffee. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi and |
| 0:35.0 | 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. |
| 0:41.0 | Y'all I am not proud of it but I spent far too long waiting for my daily |
| 0:45.1 | irritations to resolve before the good times can begin. And I'm thinking the struggles are just |
| 0:50.4 | going to keep coming so I might as well get a new plan. God promises if we |
| 0:54.5 | persevere through our daily struggles our character will be built and will end up |
| 0:58.6 | 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. |
| 1:05.0 | So if that's your story too, join me each week as I interview someone who is passed from just struggling to struggling well. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome back, friends. You have episode 46 here and I am talking to Valerie Kinsey. |
| 1:19.0 | She is a wife and a mom to a baby boy. |
| 1:21.0 | She's not a wife to a baby boy. That doesn't make any sense. She is a wife and |
| 1:27.0 | also a mother to a baby boy. She is a graphic designer who has dreams of renovating their |
| 1:31.8 | hundred-year-old house in the future. |
| 1:33.7 | That makes me nervous just because my house is nowhere near 100 years old and |
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