Hi, I'm Leslie Ludi, host of the Set-A-Part Girl podcast, biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today we're going to be looking at how to have victory over meltdowns.

Do you know what I mean when I say meltdown?

A lot of times if we work with kids or if you're a mom you've seen children

have meltdowns where those emotions just come to the surface and they just give

into whatever frustration or anger or disappointment or sadness and they just kind of meltdown

and I used to notice when I was a mom of

several young kids at home

that I was really prone to what I called mommy

meltdowns where maybe I wouldn't throw a tantrum on the floor like one of my

kids might be doing but my emotions would come to the surface and I would allow those emotions to take over

and control my actions, my words.

And if you've ever had any kind of a meltdown in your own life, it usually comes in the

form of giving into stress and

self-pity and just wallowing in your circumstances and complaining about them

and yelling at your children, yelling at your husband if you're stressed out,

or maybe being moody, storming around the house,

slamming doors, or ignoring people,

you know, having a very short fuse,

ignoring people, avoiding people, giving people a silent treatment if

you're mad at them and sometimes we look at those actions as just a normal part of being

female and I've even heard people say that you know because of hormones and emotions and all of these

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