Hey all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

And in this episode, number 406, I'm welcoming back to the show, my friend Courtney DeFoe.

I just felt like that, like a horse is bumping up against a boundary or a gate.

It's like, it's not right now.

And that's okay.

And he's taught me in that shrinking that it's okay and it's okay to just like you would

feel joy and grief and the same thing.

You can hold both of that.

You can hold disappointment and you can hold energy and passion around up things and

just have to keep sitting with them like we do at lunch.

This is week five in our right where you belong series.

The series we're doing to talk about my new book right where you belong.

And I wanted to have Courtney on the show because I included her story in one of the chapters

of the book and you'll hear that excerpt.

I'll read it in this episode.

So far in our series, we've talked through when you feel like you're missing out and to recognize

that if we're in the middle of God's will or not missing out, go check out that interview

with Venetha Rizner.

And then we talked through identifying your God given space.

If we need to know God's will and what he's inviting us into, we need to look at the boundary

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