Simplicity: Family Life Doesn't Have to be so Complicated

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Does life feel too complex, perhaps even chaotic, at times? As we continue our series, Words that Matter for Your Family, this week we talk about the word "simplicity," and why it's important to take inventory over what is exhausting you.

In this episode we talk about:
•Identifying the areas of your life that feel more complicated than they need to be.
•The correlation between added layers of complexity and added layers of anxiety
•Even paying attention to how the things in your physical space are making you feel emotionally heavy
•Ways your schedule might be overloaded
•Practical ways to simplify your lifestyle as a family in a way that brings life

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Show Notes:

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Transcript

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0:00.0	And it also makes me realize I was born in the wrong generation. Like I wish I was born back. I mean, I say that. I don't know what it would have been like. But I just, I kind of want to live on little house in the prairie days. Like I could, I could make a really good, you know, homesteader in those eight day and ages. Yeah. Well, and I think, but I think that's what we're seeing even in our generation is this desire to go back to the old ways because we are so tired. We're so burnt out. We're so overstimulated. We want less.
0:30.1	You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub.
0:35.8	Because when it's all said and done,
0:41.6	we all want to know that we were famous at home.
0:47.1	Welcome back to the Famous and Home podcast.
0:50.3	We are in a series called Words That Matter for your family.
0:52.6	Today we're talking about simplicity.
0:55.4	Before we jump in, here is a word from our sponsors.
1:05.0	So welcome back. We are talking about simplicity today. And we've, if you've been listening in,
1:13.4	we've started with safety. We then started with attunement. We went, move to attunement. Last week we talked about discipline,
1:20.3	leading in grace, following in truth, kind of see a system or a direction that we're heading in.
1:25.9	But today we're talking about simplicity, which kind of be like, wait a minute, how does simplicity,
1:29.0	why does simplicity matter for my family?
1:32.7	Well, and I think it's a word that maybe not a lot of us have thought of.
1:38.9	And in choosing the words that we did for this series, we kind of intentionally did that because I think there's a lot of words that we throw around a lot that feels so commonplace,
1:43.9	like love, love affection I mean
1:45.8	respect like sure yeah all important for a family but why does simplicity matter for a family
1:52.2	and it's actually super critical because it's getting down I believe to the essentials of life
1:59.3	where we've added so many layers that add this complexity
2:03.4	and complexity can add beauty in certain ways but it can also overwhelm a system and a family
2:10.0	is a system and so added layers of complexity add added layers of anxiety of stress of pressure and and in layers of anxiety, of stress, of pressure, and layers of busyness that we really want
2:24.4	to peel off and peel back to what is simple, what is essential, and what is really getting to
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