This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 246.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and

encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home. And now your host from youngwifesguide.com,

Jamie Belmay. Hey, ladies, welcome back to the podcast. Today, we are in the middle of our

series, Finding Joy in Your Home. This is the third in the series, but this is lesson number two.

And if you are just tuning into this episode, that's totally fine. You don't need to have

listened to the past couple of

episodes to kind of get up to speed on where we're at. Because today we're talking about why it is

vital that we take care of ourselves when you want to find more joy in your home, in life, in the

Lord. So wherever you're entering into this conversation, it's going to be perfect for you. But we do

have two previous episodes in this series, Finding Joy in Your Home. And it's going to be a 12-week

series overall where we have so many fun things to cover. It's going to be great. And today,

this is one of my favorite topics because I'm super passionate about this. And I'll tell a little tiny bit of my story before we jump into it all.

And then in a few minutes, we're going to hear from our two sponsors for today's episode,

wix.com and yumi.

And those are going to be great.

So kicking this off, this topic of taking care of ourselves as women, I'm super passionate about

because this is something that I had to learn a really hard way of kind of hitting rock

bottom with my health before realizing, I mean, I kind of knew.

I knew all along that I probably should be taking care of myself better.

There were some things I could do. But I just, I let myself get run so ragged with the craziness of life of

having babies and pushing myself too hard and not really building in enough rest that I just

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