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🗓️ 15 October 2024
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Being a mother is absolutely exhausting. If you're feeling that way now, we want to encourage you to keep going. Danny and John share how their wives have worked so hard with raising kids. Also, Heidi St. John and Jim Daly speak to moms about how to keep your focus on God, even when you feel weak.
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0:00.0 | Well, there's an audible sigh from my wife in the other room. I enter the living room and there she is kind of collapsed on the recliner. |
0:10.0 | She is overwhelmed and it's the kids, it's the responsibility, it's life. |
0:16.0 | Today we're going to be offering some hope if that's you as a mom. |
0:20.0 | I'm John Fuller along with the head of our parenting team Dr. Danny Huerta and I think every mom just takes on so much and they have such heavy burdens. |
0:30.0 | I'm sure that Heather has had points where she like Dina she just wants to |
0:34.6 | You know lay down and check out because she's overwhelmed. I've heard Heather say I just long for one full day where I can just watch movies, just do nothing. |
0:45.0 | And she has said that many times along the way. |
0:48.0 | I think it is important for moms to have a day of reset, |
0:52.0 | and it's hard to find those. |
0:54.0 | She, I still remember when she, she had a time where, I mean she just said, |
0:59.0 | I am overwhelmed, I can't, I can't do this anymore and she was tearful she said man from |
1:05.6 | dishes to laundries it was just a tiring cycle of the same thing over and over again |
1:11.3 | and then there's some a lot of homework she |
1:15.4 | was having to help Lexi with and and then just that just really that the day-to-day |
1:20.4 | demands and she was exhausted just tired she was experiencing some physical |
1:25.1 | challenges as well just on as far as fatigue and her adrenals were shot so I, there are many moms that I have spoken with throughout my time |
1:39.2 | speaking for focus on the family when I'm on the road that have said, man I'm just tired. |
1:44.4 | I can't, I don't have any more energy and I still have these kids to raise. |
1:48.2 | How do I reset? |
1:49.4 | So yeah, what a wonderful topic this is? |
1:52.6 | Let's lean into this one, John. |
1:53.7 | Yeah, lean in because Heidi St. John has been there too, |
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