Ep. 42: The Truth About “Honest” Motherhood (Part 3)
M Is for Mama Podcast
Abbie Halberstadt
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In a culture that assures us that the only way to be an “authentic” mom is to focus almost exclusively on the challenges and negative aspects of motherhood, it’s easy to fall into the trap of being afraid to speak out about the flip side of the coin: the truth that the joys and benefits of motherhood abound if only we have eyes to see them and the courage to proclaim them.
Be encouraged, friends, that there is so much good in being thankful (just as we’re exhorted by Scripture), even in the midst of trials, and that rejoicing in good mothering days, far from being inauthentic, can be a beacon of light for other moms doing their best to keep their heads above water in the stormy seas of mothering struggles shared in the name of “telling it straight.”
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Philippians 4:4
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MS-Roma Podcast. I'm your host Abby Halberstadt, happy wife, |
| 0:10.3 | Mama to 10 Bible Believing Christian, and on today's show I want to wrap up the series that we've been doing called |
| 0:17.0 | The Truth About Honest Motherhood. |
| 0:20.1 | And this episode is going to be a little shorter just for practicality's sake because yet again. |
| 0:24.4 | I am recording on a Tuesday in the afternoon while my little boys sleep. |
| 0:28.2 | This is kind of my emo, how I get things done, before I post on Wednesday. |
| 0:32.7 | So it's very rapid turnaround around here usually. |
| 0:35.3 | And then I have to go pick up my kids for piano |
| 0:37.9 | and from homeschool co-op and all the things. |
| 0:40.6 | So I'm right back into momming very soon. Just finished, well you're never finished momming, are you? But just finished putting little boys down for naps and jumped over here to our house while my oldest son who does all of the editing for this |
| 0:55.2 | podcast is there working on his software development schooling that he does and so it's just a lot of juggling but that's how we get things done. |
| 1:06.2 | We help each other and we all pitch in and so I only have a limited amount of time to talk |
| 1:10.9 | to you about this topic today so I'm just going to dive right in. |
| 1:13.2 | And I've touched on this in the last two episodes where I kind of brought up this theme or this |
| 1:19.1 | trend of people saying you've been duped you've been lied to I'm going to tell you the actual |
| 1:24.9 | truth because no one else will and the irony of it is those posts so often go viral that |
| 1:31.0 | then there becomes this chain effect of someone seeing that it goes |
| 1:35.8 | viral now I am attributing obviously a motive to them that I can't know for |
| 1:42.1 | sure but it seems to be that certain accounts are able to see that this kind of attitude or this kind of post resonates with moms in the sense that it gives them a place to vent, a place to let people know about |
| 1:56.2 | their sorrows and their struggles, and they think, wow, that is a huge amount of engagement. |
| 2:00.8 | I'll do my own version of quote unquote on his motherhood but the narrative is always I'm the only |
| 2:05.7 | one that's telling you the truth and again the irony in that is that these are the |
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