The Best of Strong Women: Challenging the Myths about Motherhood with Elizabeth Schlueter
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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We’re taking a small break this summer to gear up for season six of the Strong Women podcast. During this break, we’ll be re-airing episodes we think you’ll enjoy!
What is motherhood all about? Elizabeth Schlueter helps us perceive the beautiful truth about motherhood amid cultural extremes. She joins us this week to challenge common myths about motherhood and cast a Christian vision for the beauty of self-giving love and sacrifice. Whether you're married or single, raising children or not, you’ll be encouraged to form a virtuous life centered around sacrificial love and committed relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Strong Women podcast. You have joined us for our summer series, and I'm so glad that you're here. |
| 0:07.6 | In our current cultural moment, and actually for a while now, people are confused at how to view and talk about motherhood, both inside and outside of the church. |
| 0:18.8 | On one hand, we've got kind of the subtle message that motherhood is a |
| 0:23.8 | limiter. Like, oh, gosh, you're giving up all these things to be a mother. Now you're wasting your |
| 0:29.7 | education and you're fill in the blank. You guys know what I'm talking about. It's a limiter, right? |
| 0:34.9 | And then on the other hand, we've got where it's kind of idolized or idealized in the |
| 0:40.7 | Pinterest sort of, the mother is the angel in the home. |
| 0:44.0 | And there's all kinds of myths that go around those two different lies about motherhood. |
| 0:52.8 | Well, my guest today is Elizabeth Schluter, and she comes on. We're talking |
| 0:57.0 | about these myths of motherhood that we hear in our culture, or that are just kind of assumed |
| 1:02.7 | in our culture. How should we view motherhood? So I'm glad that you've joined us for this. |
| 1:09.1 | Now, Elizabeth is a mom of nine kids. She and her husband live in Hillsdale, Michigan. Her husband's a professor at Hillsdale College. And she loves to read. She loves to learn. She's really involved in an organization called Cannavox, which is promoting marriage. And so I think you're really going to enjoy what she has to say. |
| 1:28.3 | But I want to just tell you guys what I'm learning in motherhood right now. |
| 1:32.0 | So my oldest is going into her junior year of college. |
| 1:36.5 | My second is going into her freshman year of college. |
| 1:40.5 | My third is going into her junior year of high school. |
| 1:43.3 | And then eight years difference and i've got |
| 1:46.6 | a third grade boy so i've got three girls and a boy and what god is showing me in this season |
| 1:52.9 | of motherhood is just first of all how seriously time flies and how there's not permanence. |
| 2:01.6 | And sometimes that's really sad because you just want to hold on to the years. |
| 2:06.6 | But one thing that my pastor told me one time when right before Abigail was going to college, he said, |
| 2:12.6 | think about it like this, Sarah. |
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