MP 055: Overwhlemed
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;
I just wish He didn't trust me so much!"
The common answer when people ask us, "How are you doing?" is often "I am so busy!" Sometimes being busy is good, when you feel as if you are cruising on the crest of a wave. But the problem is that eventually, you trip and the wave crashes over you and tumbles you into chaos. So many things about being a parent are overwhelming because much of what we are dealing with is new to us! When we are overwhelmed, we parents need to stop and reevaluate. Listen in to this podcast (our first in a few weeks! We get overwhelmed too!) where we give some sympathy and empathy, but also some good ideas of how to deal with the common parental experience of being overwhelmed.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Alicia. And if our voices sound a little, you know, distant from you because we've been missing from action here for a while. |
| 0:16.4 | Remember us? Friends out there. So we do apologize for not having recorded a podcast in a while. |
| 0:23.8 | For those of you who are just listening to this in some kind of binge listening, this means |
| 0:27.5 | absolutely nothing. |
| 0:28.5 | And that's the, you know, glory of modern technology. |
| 0:31.3 | But for those of you who have been following along with us, we essentially... |
| 0:33.6 | So we've been like, what happened? |
| 0:34.9 | Do they have another baby? |
| 0:36.1 | Did they fall off the earth? |
| 0:37.3 | We didn't. |
| 0:38.0 | We're here. |
| 0:38.6 | That's right. |
| 0:38.9 | It was just a very full summer. |
| 0:41.3 | A life with 10 kids. |
| 0:43.8 | So, again, if you haven't heard us before, we've got 10 kids and married 22 some odd years. |
| 0:49.2 | And this summer was very full. |
| 0:52.6 | And the school year began again for us and i think that next summer |
| 0:57.3 | like in may we'll probably like our last may podcast will say something like okay well over the |
| 1:02.8 | summer only expect three podcasts from us but then our problem is that we kind of we did three |
| 1:07.5 | podcasts over the summer but this is not the summer anymore this is already September September the end of September and we're like every weekend like |
| 1:15.7 | oh gotta do it got to do it yeah and and I think there was a tremendous amount of Catholic |
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