Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader,

and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance.

This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply spiritual truth.

It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, or praying about what's next.

Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane or busy, I am praying for you,

and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go. We have been talking about rest on the podcast four months,

but now it's time to get down to the real nitty gritty. This is what so many of you are asking, and we are going to spend an entire episode

talking about it.

If you are a mom or if you are one day hoping to be a mom, here's the deal.

You've been hearing a narrative practically your whole life that tells you to expect

and accept exhaustion in this particular calling. So what in the

world do we do? How do we rest as moms? What is realistic? What is practical? What does this

look like in different seasons of motherhood? We're going to talk about it all today.

I've got my friend Anna Vickerson joining us for this episode, specifically because she's in a

season of motherhood that looks different from mine, and we are going to put it all on the table.

How in the world do moms rest?

Let's go.

Welcome Anna Victorson to the Jess Connolly podcast. You may or may not notice, dear friends and listeners, that we are bringing some of the Go and Tell Gals team. We're not some. I mean, I hope we bring

you all on for some different episodes. We're just kind of mixing it up this spring. And spicy.

And Anna Vichterson is the longest standing and most founding member of the Go and Tell Gals team.

And again, if you're new to the podcast, Go and Tell Gals is a small

business that Anna and I run together, but it also kind of encompasses all that we get to do in the

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