Transparency, Fear of Failure and How the Church Can Respond to Trauma (Interview with Elizabeth Smith)

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Today, We have Elizabeth Smith on the podcast. Elizabeth Smith is a professor at Moody Bible and an author. In this conversation, Brook and Elizabeth cover transparency with your kids, humility, and allowing shame to propel us to repair our relationships. Elizabeth shares the question she is researching in her doctorate: Is the Church a spiritually supportive community for children or families recovering from trauma? You will hear a few of her perspectives on crucial characteristics like empathy, fear of failure, and being faithful. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Today on the show, we have Elizabeth Smith. Now, if you do not know who she is, I'm excited to
0:05.6	introduce you. We were recently in Nashville together and we sat down and we had a lovely
0:10.0	conversation, which is rich and dynamic. She has been passionately training hundreds of leaders
0:15.7	in the art of educating children. She has skillfully combined her experience as a mother,
0:20.0	her training in psychology and theology, along with years of working with families,
0:24.0	to give what I would call today just a very rich and fun conversation. She's also the field
0:30.4	chair of education and counseling at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and she's also the program
0:36.3	head and associate professor of children and family ministry. She is such a lovely human,
0:42.2	you will love her immediately and we had such a fun conversation. On another quick note,
0:47.1	we also want to let you know that as an organization intentional, we have for the first time ever
0:52.1	launched a merch store. So if you are curious about some of the stuff that we are putting out in
0:57.7	the world in our store, all you have to do is go to intentionalparents.org slash store. You can
1:03.1	check out some of the sweatshirts, some of the hats, some of the tote bags that we have there.
1:07.0	And if you are curious as well, you can just also click the link in the show notes. But I want you
1:12.6	to take notes. There's many things to take notes on today. Elizabeth has also written a book called
1:19.1	God Never Changes, but family always does. That will also be in the show notes. But enjoy our
1:23.3	conversation today and my conversation specifically with Elizabeth Smith.
1:39.6	Welcome to the intentional parents podcast. Intentional exists to help parents in their God
1:44.5	given task to raise passionate Jesus followers. We exist to bring hope, help, and healing to families.
1:51.6	Each week we will talk about anything from parenting, marriage, lifestyle, and what it looks like
1:56.4	to follow Jesus in our time. Intentional is made up of Phil and Ian Comer and Brooke and Elizabeth
2:01.8	Moser. Ian Brooke and the funny thing is we are all family. Elizabeth is Phil and Ian's daughter,
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