For the Mom Tired of Striving:: Ruth Chou Simons [Ep 340]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m excited to welcome back Ruth Chou Simons. In her newest book, When Strivings Cease, Ruth invites us to rethink our preoccupation with approval and the striving that comes because we feel like we’re forever missing the mark. It offers a deeper, abiding understanding of what God’s generous, unmerited favor really accomplishes in and through us when we receive the gift of grace.

As a mom of six boys, an author and an entrepreneur, Ruth shares from her experience of feeling like she needed to strive to move forward as a creator and how learning to trust God through the experience of mothering in the little years made all the difference.

“Sometimes I feel like a late bloomer, but there's no such thing in God's timing and God's economy of ideas and opportunities. And those 10 years of changing diapers and just keeping my children alive felt like things were happening so slowly. But God taught me more in the slow waiting, hidden moments of a season that didn't look the way I wanted it to. And those things are fruitful. They've created the fruit that you see now.”

We talk about how to reset when you feel striving taking over, how to stop ourselves from demanding perfection/striving from our kids and how to preach truth to ourselves when we need to be reminded that we can trust God instead of living in fear.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all welcome back to the Dill Mom Alone podcast.
0:10.4	I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you
0:16.8	and encourage you connecting you with people and resources so you really believe and know
0:25.2	that you don't mom alone.
0:27.4	And in this episode number 340 I like that nice round number.
0:34.1	I'm welcoming back Ruth, Joe Simons.
0:39.0	And so if you're listening this morning and you're feeling like you're some of your failures
0:44.0	that is why Jesus came.
0:46.0	He literally came because we cannot save ourselves.
0:49.5	And so if you're feeling like you're lacking you don't need to stay there because he replaces
0:55.4	the lack with the fullness of he will transform your life through Jesus.
1:01.1	But you have to kind of give up the constant tight grip over your performance, your approval
1:07.3	seeking, you're trying to get it all right and say I surrender.
1:11.2	My kids are not my project to perfect.
1:14.5	I'm the one that God is trying to sanctify and change and my kids get to be a part of
1:20.1	that fruit in my life.
1:23.0	It's another in person interview with Ruth and I am so thankful because I feel like it's
1:29.7	jumping off from last week's conversation with Jamie Ivy how we talked about truth you
1:34.6	need when you feel like a bad mom.
1:36.6	This one is really digging into how do we get to that place of feeling like a bad mom.
1:41.8	What are we adding to the already built in challenges of balancing motherhood and careers
1:48.0	and all the things?
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