Thriving Households: Creating a Joyful Family Team | Jessica Griffioen (EP425)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms
Diane Boden
4.8 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Feeling overwhelmed by the chaos of family life? In this episode, family therapist Jessica Griffioen shares insights from her book Thriving Households to help parents shift from survival mode to joyful connection. Learn practical strategies to build strong family bonds, create calm in your home, and parent as a united team—so your whole family can thrive together.
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About Jessica|
Jessica Griffioen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a Master of Arts from Spring Arbor University. A lifelong nurturer, she has dedicated much of her life to building a joyful family and now shares her strategies with other families. Jessica lives in Michigan with her husband and six children, and she works with clients at the Portage Family Healing Center. In her free time, she enjoys board games, camping, and traveling with her family.
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| 0:00.0 | It's amazing to me, but it makes sense to me that we are so quick to put our kids first. |
| 0:06.0 | And, well, that's great and necessary in some situations. It's really important for us to take |
| 0:11.3 | care of ourselves. Right. So when I think about, it's funny. Okay. I'm not a sports person. So I don't |
| 0:18.2 | know if you are, Diane, but I tend to use this analogy because in my |
| 0:22.5 | head it makes sense a family team and a sports team. And so if I think of the coaches as the parents, |
| 0:31.1 | if those coaches aren't in a good space, they're not going to be able to lead the team. |
| 0:37.9 | Right. |
| 0:41.9 | So the first step would be take care of yourself. |
| 0:45.1 | And I say it simply, but sometimes that's hard to do. |
| 0:48.6 | This is Diane Bowden, and you're listening to the minimalist moms podcast. |
| 0:51.6 | Are you feeling overwhelmed by the chaos of family life? In today's episode, family therapist Jessica Griffey-Owen |
| 0:55.5 | shares insights from her book, Thriving Households, to help parents shift from survival mode |
| 1:00.5 | to joy connection, learn practical strategies to build strong family bonds, create calm in your |
| 1:06.2 | home, and parent as a united team so your whole family can thrive together. Several good reminders in this one, especially as we were wrapping up this year. |
| 1:14.2 | But before we get there, I quickly want to share a minimalist resource with all of you. |
| 1:17.8 | This was an Instagram post that recently appeared in my algorithm, so I'll go ahead and play it for you. |
| 1:23.0 | You get used to how great your life is. |
| 1:26.5 | No one had a hot shower until 50 years ago. |
| 1:29.3 | George Mack, my friend, pointed this out to me. |
| 1:31.3 | When you're standing in a hot shower, just for a moment, just go, |
| 1:33.3 | well, no one that you admire from 100 years ago had this simple pleasure in life. |
| 1:38.3 | And when you look at the world that we live in, there's been a hundred billion people ever, right? |
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