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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

When You Carry the Burden of Perfection :: Aubrie Norman [Ep 284]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

I’m so excited to introduce you to my friend Aubrie Norman. We have walked together in community for a few years and it’s been a gift to see her family’s journey toward healing. 

Aubrie and her husband Thomas came to their marriage from broken families and felt the weight of unresolved issues from their past. As their family grew, so did the stress and lack of communication about each of their emotional needs.

Aubrie carried every perceived failure in marriage and parenting thinking it was her responsibility to make life better.

“There's obviously something I'm doing wrong. I'm a new wife and mom, so I felt the weight of responsibility. That really goes back to a huge lie, I have believed for a long time in my walk with the Lord. That it's up to me to do something and that God's waiting on me.”

She takes us into her family’s story of recovery and how she’s learned to trust God to take care of her relationships.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.

0:11.0

I am your host Heather McFadden and this is the place where I'm going to walk alongside

0:15.4

you and connect you with people and resources so that you know that you don't mom alone.

0:22.1

And this episode number 284, I have the privilege of introducing you to one of my real-life

0:27.0

friends, Aubrey Norman.

0:29.8

What was that image in the mind, your mind that you needed to become?

0:33.1

The Proverbs 31 woman.

0:36.8

And what did it require you to become that?

0:38.9

Like what would you have to do?

0:40.4

Perfection.

0:41.4

I truly believe that it was all about perfection.

0:43.6

So like dinner on the table, house perfect.

0:46.8

Yes, the power of prayer, you know, allowed him to pray more.

0:52.2

I needed to pray more.

0:53.3

I needed to pray big, powerful prayers over him, me, the world, our kids.

1:01.1

You know, I needed the whole helper.

1:03.4

I needed to submit to him.

1:04.6

I needed to help him in his life.

1:06.8

But I also needed to do it with a gentle, quiet spirit.

1:09.3

And I needed to not grumble but to have the joy of the world.

1:13.2

I mean, just all of these...

1:14.8

You were taking all of that.

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