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Mom life. We're surrounded with the message that it's the tired life. The no-time for myself life. The hard life.

And while it is hard and full of lots of servitude, the idea that motherhood means a joyless life is something I'm passionate about putting a stop to.

I'm on a mission to help you stop counting down the minutes till bedtime, at least most days.

I want you to stop cleaning up after your kid's childhood and start being present for it, start enjoying it.

I believe in John 1010 that we are called to abundant life, and I know mothers are not excluded from that promise.

Join me in conversations about simplicity, minimalism, and lots of other good stuff that leads to a life of less for the sake of enjoying more in your motherhood.

I'm Ali Cassaza, and this is the Purpose Show.

Hello, beautiful. Welcome back to the Purpose Show.

I want this episode to feel different than the other episodes that we've done together so far.

I would really love it if you would listen to this episode and just imagine that we are sitting together in my living room on a cozy sofa,

our legs are tucked under us, we're curled up on a nice cozy sofa with blankets thrown over our laps and warm cups of coffee or tea, whatever you prefer.

And we're just talking, and you are safe here. You are allowed to cry, you are allowed to feel really angry.

You're allowed to feel like this episode isn't very helpful for you, and you wish that it had other better things in it that were more particular to your situation.

You're allowed to feel all the things, and I just want to be a space for you where we can talk.

And all I can do is offer help out of the circumstances that I've lived through, and the circumstances that I've talked with other people that they've lived through.

And I wish I could get super specific with every single one of you and your families and your specific circumstances, but we're going to get as close as we possibly can.

And I really thought through this episode, and I prayed about it, and I let it kind of mull around in my head for weeks.

And when I finally sat down this morning, the morning that I'm recording, and I worked from bed today because I'm a little under the weather, if I sound a little stuffy, that's why.

And I made myself a cup of tea, grabbed my laptop, I worked from my bed, and I just was really thinking about you guys.

And I was thinking about how we're in the thick of the holiday season, and it's kind of almost over.

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