Ask Us Anything! Fall 2017 Edition | Ep. 77
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We've had many questions from listeners about all things motherhood, ranging from the super practical to the thought-provoking theological. We tackled many of those last spring, but it's time to answer a new list of frequently asked questions! In this special one-hour episode, Laura and Emily laugh and talk about lessons learned, their friendship, what they're currently reading, personal testimonies, and so much more. We hope that as you listen in, you'll pick up a few ideas about how the gospel impacts every aspect of motherhood!
Questions & Resources Mentioned (In the order of the show):
About Laura & Emily and Risen Motherhood:
- What are you currently reading?
- The Imperfect Disciple - Jared C. Wilson
- Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance
- The Wingfeather Saga - Andrew Peterson
- Good & Angry - David Powlison
- Ordinary - Michael Horton
- Divided by Faith: Evangilical Religion and the Problem of Race in America - Michael O. Emerson & Christian Smith
- Grace: A Bible Study on Ephesians for Women - Keri Folmar
- Alive in Him - Gloria Furman
- What's your ratio of Bible reading to spiritual book reading and how do you find time for both?
- Will you share your testimony?
- As sister-in-law's, how did your friendship develop? Did your friendship come naturally and how much did you work for it in the beginning?
- How do you currently try to balance ministry/work life (Risen Motherhood) with everything else (home life, church ministry, etc.)?
- Do you live close to each other? How do you record it together? Do you do a bunch at once or all separately? How do you choose your topics?
- Do you/how do you get paid for RM?
Our Motherhood Journeys:
- What things (good or bad) did/do you get hung up on pertaining to raising little ones? Things that you obsess over or try with all your might to control eg. sleep, food, hygiene. And more importantly, how do you give those things over to God?
- What's the best spiritual & most practical advice you've received during your time as a mom?
- How do you do more than just survive with multiple kiddos?
- How to cope with little sleep: Pregnancy Insomnia, newborn stage, temporary illnesses, etc.
Our Marriage Journeys:
- How your marriages have weathered with recent health issues of your kids? What do fights and reconciliation look like?
- How do you avoid husband getting "leftovers" because you are so tired by the time he comes home?
- How do you balance housework with your husband?
Thoughts on Ministry & Parenting
- Do you keep your kids with you on Sunday or send them to nursery? How do you balance receiving from the Lord and caring for children?
- How much should I sacrifice my child's needs in service to the church compared to my own growth?
Kids
- How do you balance housework and playing with your kids?
- Do you have resources for training up toddlers or providing general discipline.
Future Shows!
- Private school, public school, homeschool? - Coming Soon
- How to find balance and intentionality for full-time working moms? - Coming Soon
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel |
| 0:09.8 | like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel |
| 0:14.9 | to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So mama, whether |
| 0:20.9 | you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true, |
| 0:25.9 | encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:38.5 | Welcome back to another episode of Risen Motherhood, Emily and Laura here. Very excited to welcome |
| 0:45.2 | you guys to our second Ask Us Anything show. Yeah, it's very, very exciting to kind of have |
| 0:52.4 | another stab at this from last spring. So really quick, before we jump into a lot of questions, |
| 1:01.0 | we wanted to share a couple of really exciting announcements. Some of you guys, if you follow us on |
| 1:06.8 | social media, may have noticed a while back that we posted a job opening with Risen Motherhood |
| 1:12.3 | for a community manager position. And we were just completely overwhelmed by just a ton of amazing |
| 1:18.5 | applications. We wanted to be friends with all of you. And we're totally humbled at how many |
| 1:24.5 | gifted women there are out there. But God did provide somebody for that position. So we are excited |
| 1:30.7 | to welcome Caitlin Simmons to the team. And so she has just some awesome skills that you guys will |
| 1:37.5 | be seeing. If you haven't already noticed that we've upped our game, it is all Caitlin, you guys. |
| 1:43.0 | She's helping us with things like, well, a, just being organized and all the behind the scene stuff |
| 1:47.2 | so that Emily and I are a little bit more freed up to do shows and things like that. And then she's |
| 1:51.8 | also working on some branding stuff. And just being more consistent all around, I just, I don't know, |
| 1:57.9 | I feel like what was life without Caitlin? I don't even know. She's so great. I can't, she can never leave us. |
| 2:03.8 | So, um, and then we also had another really fun addition, Autumn Kern. She came onto the team |
| 2:10.3 | around the same time as Caitlin. And she is helping us doing some editing for the blog. As you guys |
| 2:15.2 | probably heard, we are adding some guest contributions to our blog. So she is going to help us |
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