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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Help for When Motherhood Feels Overwhelming (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kristen Rusch, Ashley Durand, and Dr. Jenny Coffey share their insight on finding hope through the struggles of motherhood. They touched on subjects such as depression, meltdowns, comparison, and being rooted in their identity in Christ.

 

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0:00.0

Is your marriage struggling? Communication breaking down, trust fading, conflict that never seems to resolve?

0:07.6

Well, there's still hope. Hope restored marriage intensives by focus on the family helps couples step away from daily life and focus fully on rebuilding their relationship.

0:17.9

And right now, through the Marriage initiative, Hope Restored is investing

0:21.5

$1,000 toward every marriage intensive.

0:25.1

Visit hoperestored.com slash marriage-dash-investment.

0:30.4

It's not that I don't like being a mom. It's just that I wish someone would appreciate what I

0:35.5

do around here. Let's just say one word.

0:38.2

Divers.

0:39.0

Honey, a woman's work is never done.

0:42.8

Well, if you're a busy mom, especially with younger children, you can probably relate to those comments.

0:48.0

Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we'll explore some of those day-to-day challenges of motherhood

0:53.2

and will have lots of encouragement and insights from moms who are going through the same thing.

0:58.0

Right from the outset, let me say, we know moms do work at home and some moms work outside the home and at home.

1:05.5

And more dads are doing more things around the house too.

1:08.2

That's just the way the modern family operates.

1:10.9

So if we say something, you're going, oh, that's stereotypical, that's not our intention.

1:15.7

It's just our experience. And I want to open with that kind of story because I got home from

1:20.4

work when our boys were probably like six and four. And Gene literally met me at the door

1:26.6

and kind of pushed the boys right into me.

1:28.7

I mean, I had one foot in the door.

1:31.6

And she said, I am kind of tired of some of the shenanigans that have gone on today.

1:37.1

You need to take over.

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