How Can I Be a Good Mom in an Emotionally Abusive Marriage? [252]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever flown on a plane, you know that in case of emergency, the flight attendants always tell you to put on your own oxygen mask first before you help your kids put on theirs. Healing is the same way. We can’t help our kids heal until we heal ourselves. If we stay stuck, our kids are going to suffer right along with us.
You get the opportunity to be your kids’ biggest hero, support, and safe space. But you have to be YOUR biggest hero, support, and safe space first. Let’s learn how—together.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com and you're listening to the |
| 0:09.3 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. |
| 0:21.1 | Welcome to episode 252 of the Flying Free Podcast. I have a story for you today and it goes like this. |
| 0:30.0 | She was going to be the best mom. |
| 0:34.0 | She had all her parenting books, |
| 0:36.0 | read and underlined, on the shelf by the brand new crib in the corner. |
| 0:41.0 | She had taken the baby-wise and growing kids God's way classes at church and picked the brains of every |
| 0:47.0 | godly mother who had a baker's dozen of well-behaved kids creating a nice neat row in the first third of the church worship center. |
| 0:56.2 | She was ready. |
| 0:58.6 | She had a vision of lying on her deathbed at the age of 103 surrounded by countless children, |
| 1:06.0 | grandchildren, and great-grandchildren sharing blessed stories of how she |
| 1:11.0 | had faithfully prayed, baked whole wheat bread from scratch, and homeschooled for 30 years, |
| 1:18.0 | all while making her husband of 75 years the happiest man on planet Earth. |
| 1:25.0 | Then they would rise up and call her blessed, and she would peacefully slip into eternity, |
| 1:31.8 | knowing that everyone she left behind was bringing God glory, by either |
| 1:36.6 | being a pastor, a pastor's wife, a missionary, or a missionary's wife. Everything she did for the next 20 years |
| 1:45.0 | was with that vision in mind. |
| 1:48.0 | She worked, she prayed, |
| 1:50.0 | she loved, she conceived, |
| 1:52.0 | she prayed, she birthed, she worked, she nursed, she volunteered, she loved, she sacrificed, she prayed. |
| 1:59.5 | She spanked, she taught, she raised, she loved, she baked, she worked, she scraped, she forgave, she prayed, she |
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