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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

The Power of Pausing:: Kirsten Watson [Ep 364]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Do you remember commercial breaks? They were built-in pauses, breaks from the drama or sitcom. With DVR’s or streaming services we can easily skip or minimize the pauses. But what if “pause” is what your everyday really needs? Not a week-long, pick your favorite vacation spot pause, but a quick moment to stop and say, “God, where are you leading? What are you saying?” or “Help me today because I don’t have what it takes to make it through the day.”  

Kirsten Watson is a busy woman - a wife, a mom to seven, an author and podcast host - but all those responsibilities only lead her to pause more. Whether it’s in the moments just after her alarm goes off, or in the middle of after-school stories, she challenges us to slow down and first ask God for the help we need, and then to see where he is at work. She encourages us to practice discernment for what is most helpful in our kids’ sanctification - either stepping in or stepping back. She invites us to tap into the power of the Holy Spirit available to us if we will only ask.

 Kirsten’s book, Sis, Take a Breath: Encouragement for the Woman Who’s Trying to Live and Love Well (but Secretly Just Wants to Take a Nap), releases May 3, 2022.  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.7

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

0:16.1

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

0:23.0

And in this episode number 364 I'm welcoming back on the show, Kirsten Watson.

0:29.7

Every single time we have Brett, like we have an opportunity to breathe in what God is actually

0:35.4

showing us, what he is telling us and how he is trying to reveal himself to us.

0:42.2

And oftentimes we're so busy, we're so overwhelmed.

0:46.2

Our eyes are either just completely closed that we miss out.

0:50.6

We miss out on the power and the peace that is given to us all the time.

0:56.1

Heather McFadian came on the show in February of 2021 and we have linked to that episode

1:00.0

in the show notes.

1:01.6

She's the mom of seven, the wife of former NFL player Benjamin Watson.

1:06.8

Today we're talking about pausing, the power of pausing.

1:11.9

She wrote a book it's coming out May 3rd called Sis Take a Breath.

1:17.0

And in this episode it is encouragement we all need especially this time of year.

1:24.5

Well it's doing me in all the activities, good things, the good things that we are able

1:31.4

to do and we're all so thankful that we're able to do them but it's a lot.

1:35.2

And it's always been a lot.

1:36.4

May has been a lot but it felt like April.

1:40.3

It's a needed encouragement for us even as we head into summer which I think will be

1:45.5

a little bit of busier summer than we've had the last two years.

1:49.8

She wants us to lean in and ask God for the help we need to ask him to give us eyes to

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