Answering Your Questions: Parenting, People-Pleasing, and Peace
The Jennie Allen Podcast
Jennie Allen
4.9 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Jennie answers real questions sent in by listeners - questions about anxiety, people-pleasing, parenting, ministry, and how to know what voice you’re listening to when your thoughts won’t slow down.
You’ll hear encouragement for single moms, worship leaders battling fear, and anyone feeling unqualified or unsure in their calling. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, discouraged, or stuck in your head, this conversation will meet you right where you are.
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| 0:00.0 | The more weakness, the better, because then he gets more glory. |
| 0:03.3 | We boast in our weakness so that we wouldn't take credit ourselves for this work. |
| 0:07.4 | This is a supernatural work done by a supernatural God in our human and through our human flesh. |
| 0:12.7 | Super free. |
| 0:19.3 | Hey friends, this is Chloe. |
| 0:22.9 | I want to give you a quick heads up on what you're about to hear. |
| 0:28.2 | For this episode, Jenny is responding to questions that came directly from you guys. Real questions from real people in this community. These are some of my personal favorite conversations |
| 0:34.1 | because they reflect and are true of what's actually happening in your |
| 0:38.6 | lives. |
| 0:39.3 | Jenny's going to jump straight into answering. |
| 0:41.1 | So I just want to stop and say how thankful that we are for your honesty and your curiosity |
| 0:46.9 | and the way that you show up here. |
| 0:48.6 | And it's a gift to get to walk alongside you in this season. |
| 0:51.8 | If you have a question, you'd love Jenny to answer in a future episode. Keep sending them in. You can email, text, send us a DM, voicemails we want to |
| 1:00.7 | hear from you. Let's keep growing together and let's dive in. Hi, Jenny. My name is Emma and I calling am calling from North Carolina. I just moved here, actually, so that's weird to say. But I just had a question, what is the balance? I know you talked about it a little bit in your book. But what is the balance between taking your thoughts captive, making them obedient to Christ, taking those thoughts captive, |
| 1:30.4 | but also still bringing your emotions to God. I just don't know, I guess, necessarily the balance |
| 1:37.3 | of, okay, like this thought keeps coming up. Is it like, is this something that I need to pay |
| 1:43.1 | attention to and really just give these emotions to the Lord?, is this something that I need to pay attention to and really just give these |
| 1:45.5 | emotions to the Lord? Or is just something that's not true? And I just need to replace it with |
| 1:53.5 | something that is true. Okay. Hi, Emma from North Carolina. And this is such a good question. I'm so glad you asked it. Let me tell you |
| 2:03.7 | what I do. And I don't think this is a science and I don't think there's a formula for this. |
| 2:08.1 | I think this is a practice of spiritual life that we take everything to God. And, you know, |
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