Hello and welcome to the MS-Mama podcast I'm your host Abby Halberstadt

happy wife mama to 10 Bible believing Christian and before we get started on today's show,

I want to remind you about a wonderful learning resource

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be sure to check it out at shopped dot arrows and apple sauce dot com okay so we've been talking

about some really heavy topics the last three weeks this concept of honest

motherhood and is it truly honest and does it show the whole picture

from a biblical perspective or even from a pragmatic practical boots on the

ground perspective of what motherhood is actually like on a day in and day out basis.

And we kind of came to the conclusion, I really decided, and tried to convince you of joining me

that maybe it's not telling the whole truth. And so I know that that's a lot to dive into and I know it's a lot to unpack

scripturally. And some of you have messaged me and said that it was a really impactful

podcast for you because you realized as you were listening to it that you were subscribing to some of these

mindsets without even realizing it, that you were thinking of yourself as being bullied by your

kids, that you were thinking of the negative parts as being the true parts and the positive

enjoyable parts as being the showy kind of fake things that people like to put on the gram or on

Facebook and some of you were saying, oh man, I realize there's

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