The Spiritual Battlefield of Your Attention Span, Home, & Motherhood | Tilly Dillehay | Episode 378

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tilly Dillehay joins the conversation to talk about something that touches every one of us—spiritual warfare—and how it plays out in the most ordinary parts of our lives. From our attention spans to our homes to the hidden battles of motherhood, Tilly helps pull back the curtain on how the enemy works to distract, divide, and destroy the good things God has given us.

Tilly is the author of My Dear Hemlock, a reimagining of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters written from a female perspective. Through that lens, she explores how temptation, distraction, and deception uniquely target women—especially in their marriages, motherhood, and daily habits. Together, we talk about the spiritual war being fought over our focus, our peace, and our homes, and how confession, presence, and awareness become our greatest weapons.

This conversation reminds us that not every hard moment is random—there's a battle for your attention, your joy, and your family. But even more important, we have a Savior who's already won the war.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to this week's episode of the Speak Easy podcast. We're talking about spiritual warfare.
0:05.2	Light, fluffy for your Wednesday morning, but an incredibly important topic. And I love the way we're
0:11.8	going to get to go about this. I've had multiple episodes about this subject. But today's guest,
0:16.6	Tilly Delahaye, is the author of My Dear Hemlocklock and it is a reimagining of the screw tape letters
0:23.5	by C.S. Lewis, which I love. It's a great read. My husband and I actually just listened to it on
0:29.2	audio, but this is written from a female perspective. So it's a female demon and a female patient.
0:36.4	And it goes so much more in depth into the female
0:40.7	specific experience, right? Because screw tape letters doesn't talk about motherhood. It doesn't
0:45.6	talk about marriage from the woman's perspective, or really marriage at all, because the patient
0:49.8	stays single. And she has pulled it into current times. And so we spent a lot of time in this
0:55.4	conversation talking about our attention spans and how that is the primary battlefield that the
1:00.3	enemy functions on and often wins ground, also our homes, and how when these things stack up against
1:07.7	us, when we do have habitual sin or strongholds, that we are often held back
1:14.6	from confession and how powerful she puts it as like, it opens the cage of your heart
1:21.2	when you confess. And it was so great to have this conversation with someone that has
1:26.9	written a whole book about
1:29.2	how the enemy thinks about this.
1:32.6	We have to acknowledge that we have an enemy, that he is working to destroy all of the good
1:37.6	things that God has given us.
1:39.4	And then, okay, how do we fight back?
1:41.9	How do we fight him?
1:42.7	And the first thing is just an awareness.
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