Is There A Motherhood Ideal?

The Family Teams Podcast

Jeff Bethke

Kids & Family, Religion, Fatherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We're excited to continue our motherhood series! Today Jeremy is joined by Michelle Akrami, Justine Cirullo, and Jess Gonyea. They react to a recent interview with Erica Komisar, where she laid out very counter-cultural but traditionally and logically obvious truths about motherhood, shame, attachment, and the cost of feminism.

This episode will encourage you to seek the ideal when it comes to motherhood, but to turn to the Gospel to heal the guilt or shame that can sometimes result from knowing you'll miss the ideal - a feeling that we should all be familiar with as Christians.

On this episode, we talk about:

1:25 How motherhood impacts all the different aspects of life

3:55 Erica Komisar on the optimal way to raise a child

6:39 Why can't we talk about "the ideal" anymore?

14:03 Erica Komisar on guilt and shame

18:34 Why is comfort suddenly the aim of our life?

25:26 Erica Komisar on a mother's instinct for empathy

29:42 Disordered attachment and a resistance to dying to self

38:22 Allowing motherhood to change you

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Lila Rose Podcast with Erica Komisar

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0:00.0	it is really important to say that becoming a mother or father is really a call to lay down your
0:05.6	life. And I think that once career was seen as an ideal and that men could go off and form a
0:13.4	superior identity to their family identity out in the workplace, it became an impossible
0:19.1	temptation at some level that we were giving to women
0:22.3	to say, no, we're going to have it all and you're going to be the one to bear all the sacrifices.
0:29.8	Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational
0:35.7	team on mission by providing you with biblically
0:38.8	rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms. Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke,
0:44.2	and we can't wait to chat about all things family.
0:46.7	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Family Team's podcast. We're continuing to try to bring balance to the content by talking to
0:57.5	mothers about some motherhood issues. So I have an awesome cohort of dads that are processing with me
1:03.6	on the podcast on a regular basis, different elements of what it means to build a family team
1:08.9	that impact fatherhood. But we want to be constantly balancing that with conversations with mothers around motherhood.
1:15.8	So we're going to bring you guys another conversation today.
1:18.2	I'm joined by Michelle Akrami, Justine Serrillo, and Jess Gagne.
1:21.9	Thank you all for joining me today.
1:24.6	Let's see you guys.
1:25.6	So what we're going to do is we're going to try to work through three clips from a video that I found really interesting.
1:33.9	And April, I've been talking about this.
1:35.5	April's not able to join us today on the podcast.
1:37.3	But this is definitely a topic that we wanted to cover.
1:40.5	So Lila Rose on her podcast had Erica Komisar on. Erica Comasar is a parenting coach.
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