The hard truth about loneliness with Stacey Morgan - Story 5
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
4.9 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Happy July 4th!
This week’s story features my friend, Stacey Morgan, who is an astronaut’s wife! Her life is truly fascinating. Her family is currently living in the Marshall Islands which is 5 hours south of Hawaii.
Stacey honestly shares the truth about loneliness. She has had to start over multiple times as a military spouse. I love her hard truth about loneliness: we have to make the first move. She also shares how her kids are thriving as they were uprooted from the cultural norm in Texas, and now live on an island with 1,200 people total. They are learning valuable life lessons about what’s most important.
My favorite part is at the very end when she talks about her top learning as a mom of over 20 years. Her encouragement to “let go” was really timely for me. I am having trouble letting go of my oldest who is a rising senior. I need that reminder over and over again.
In this episode, we chat about:
- How to navigate marriage when you are both strong leaders
- How to start over when you move into a new city (or island! :)
- Why community matters in motherhood
- How to make friends as an adult woman
- What to do when you’re deeply lonely
Chapters
00:00
Introduction and Background
02:47
Moving to the Marshall Islands
05:58
Supporting a Spouse's Career
11:04
Living in a Small Community
15:01
Transition and Loneliness
23:57
Supporting Military Spouses and Moms
26:30
The Importance of Community for Military Families
31:16
MomCo: Supporting Military Moms
39:19
Lessons in Trust and Letting Go
44:28
The Power of Grace and Understanding in Parenting
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Resources from today’s show:
Stacey’s Book: The Astronaut’s Wife
How to start an online MomCo group
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Parenting. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to Pardon the Mess. I'm your host, Courtney Defeo. On this podcast, we chat about |
| 0:11.9 | parenting and faith and all the messy and wonderful things in between. I'm like you. I'm a mom with |
| 0:16.3 | great days and hard days. I can go from laughing and loving it to crying and thinking I'm the worst |
| 0:21.5 | parent in the world. Do you ever feel like that? Well, I love this podcast because I get to simply |
| 0:26.4 | interview experts and guests and other parents that help spur me on in this journey. I really |
| 0:32.0 | want to raise kids that know love and follow Jesus and that journey can be hard. So you're not |
| 0:36.4 | alone. Did you know that part in |
| 0:38.1 | the mess is a part of the Christian Parenting Network? Christian Parenting is a nonprofit that was |
| 0:42.5 | created to give you the practical and spiritual help that you need on as many platforms and as many |
| 0:47.3 | ways as possible. So we want your help to get the word out. Can you do three things for us? One, |
| 0:52.5 | subscribe or follow on this show, two, |
| 0:54.9 | leave a review. And the last thing is, would you share an episode with your friends or on social |
| 0:58.8 | media? That will help us get the word out and equip more parents in this journey of parenting |
| 1:04.1 | with faith in mind. I want to tell you about this summer. We have a new series called Summer of |
| 1:08.8 | Stories, and it's simply that. It is 10 stories |
| 1:11.2 | in 10 weeks. Every week, there's going to be a mom that comes on and bravely shares their story, |
| 1:15.5 | and some of these are really hard topics. And so I think you'll feel seen because a lot of times |
| 1:19.9 | on podcasts, we share just the good side. We said share inspiring and encouraging things, |
| 1:24.5 | and you can leave feeling defeated like is anyone else out there struggling? |
| 1:28.4 | So you'll hear from a mom that lost her son, a mom who experienced a miracle, a mom managing |
| 1:33.2 | a child with an eating disorder, and much, much more. So although they're heavy topics, I don't |
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