Moms and Anger: Understanding Your Triggers (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Amber Lia and Wendy Speake discuss common external and internal triggers that can make mothers angry. They share their journeys overcoming their own triggers, like when their children disobey and complain, and when they have to deal with exhaustion. Our guests offer encouragement to moms and explain how they can prepare to handle their triggers in a healthier way. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | You can be exhausted and still do the good parenting. You know, be exhausted if you |
| 0:09.5 | must, but you can still be a great mom and the Lord will help you in any season that you're in even in this weary season |
| 0:17.5 | That's Amber Leah and Amber and her friend and co-author Wendy speak are with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim |
| 0:23.8 | Daly. We'll be sharing about how to overcome parenting triggers so you react |
| 0:28.8 | gently to your children. I'm just laughing because everybody goes, yeah, turn that up, |
| 0:32.0 | honey. |
| 0:33.0 | Let's listen to this one all the way through. |
| 0:35.7 | Learning to deal with parenting triggers is so important. |
| 0:38.8 | These typically are things that we learn as children. |
| 0:41.6 | You know, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, sorry, but it's true. |
| 0:46.0 | And things that happen to you, we typically even unconsciously will do when we become parents. |
| 0:51.7 | Not always, but generally that's true. So how do we learn to kind of |
| 0:56.6 | of dismantle the trigger and not come at it with that kind of attitude? James 119 says this, |
| 1:02.1 | let every person be quick to hear, so this is painful for parents, |
| 1:06.7 | quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger. That's just a general good spiritual principle and it's hard to do but with God it can be done and that's what I love about our guests because they're weaving the scriptural truth about parenting and how we should treat our children to get a more predictable outcome for their love for God. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, our guests are, as I said, Amber Leah and Wendy speak. |
| 1:30.0 | They've been here a number of times. |
| 1:32.0 | We love having them back. The book that they've written that talks about this topic is called triggers, exchanging parents angry reactions for gentle biblical responses. It is a terrific resource and you can learn more |
| 1:45.0 | about it in the show notes. Hey Amber let me ask you this yesterday we did talk |
| 1:49.2 | about external triggers and we're going to talk about some internal ones today, maybe a little more. |
| 1:55.1 | Remind the listeners what the external triggers are and then what the internal |
| 1:59.6 | triggers can be. So there are a combination of things that can set us off and sometimes they are |
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