Truth for When You Feel Like a Bad Mom :: Jamie Ivey [Ep 339]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes you have to preach truth to yourself when the days are long and you feel inadequate. And oftentimes we need a friend or two to point out the truth. Jamie Ivey is on the podcast today to be that friend for us. She brings us into her personal struggles as a mom and reminds us that we aren’t alone in the struggle.

“It brings me so much comfort that God is not surprised by our diagnoses. He is not surprised by our families. He's not surprised by our struggles. He's not surprised by our insecurities, but he is a God who's willing and ready to be with us in the midst of those.”

If you need a reminder that God made you to have your kids. He made your kids to be who they are with all their abilities and challenges. And he didn’t just create us and stand away distanced as we struggle in life. This episode is for you.

We talk about Jamie’s new children’s book God Made You to Be You, but dive much deeper into what that message can mean to us as moms and how we can encourage our kids as they relate to others who are different than them.

Connect with Jamie:

Website: jamieivey.com
Facebook: facebook.com/TheJamieIvey
Instagram: @jamieivey

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all.
0:08.4	Welcome back to the Don't Lomelown Podcast.
0:10.6	I am your host, Heather McFadian, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside
0:16.2	you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:23.5	In this episode, number 339, I am having a vulnerable, real mom chat with my friend,
0:32.3	Jamie Ivey.
0:33.3	I was talking to a counselor about, man, I just feel like sometimes just a bad mom.
0:39.0	Like it's just, it's this lie that Satan throws at me all the time.
0:42.5	But I was telling him about it and he said, you remember when you were 30 and I was like,
0:46.5	it's on 43 and I said, yeah, he said, how old were your kids and I told him how they're
0:49.8	where, where right now?
0:51.3	And he said to me, he said, if you could tell her something, what would you tell her?
0:55.9	And I started crying.
0:58.0	And I remember saying, I would tell her that she's a really good mom and she's really tired
1:02.5	because it's a hard work.
1:03.5	There's a lot of kids here with a lot of issues, but you're really doing a good job.
1:09.6	And it was like this really cool practice for me to think back on that.
1:12.8	Did I do everything I was supposed to do?
1:14.4	And you know what, the answer is probably a little yes, a little no, but it is what it
1:17.4	is.
1:18.4	But remembering, like, that was hard work.
1:23.3	And I was doing the best that I knew how.
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