Fight or Flight
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Finding Joy in the Chaos: Biblical Wisdom for Back-to-School Season
As the back-to-school season approaches, the excitement of new beginnings often mingles with the stress of added responsibilities. For working moms, this period can be especially challenging as you juggle career demands, household duties, and the preparation for your children’s return to school. But take heart, dear mamas, for you are not alone in this…
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Healing Our Nation Through Love and Service: Reflecting God’s Love in Divisive Times
Our nation is crumbling. We have no love or joy left in it. We only have hatred and divisive beliefs that pit parents against children, friend against friend, neighbor against neighbor. Martin Luther King, Jr. shared, “Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political,…
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Pursuing Peace Under Pressure: 7 Guiding Principles for Working Moms
In today’s fast-paced world, balancing the demands of work, home, and faith is unrealistic, especially for working moms. The pressures of deadlines, family responsibilities, and the desire to live out one’s faith authentically can create a whirlwind of stress and often leads to burnout if we aren’t careful. However, amidst this chaos, it is possible…
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God’s Peace: Defined
As a wife and mom of three kids seven and under working full-time outside the home, peace seems unattainable at best or, at worst, a mythical fabrication spread to give women like me a false sense of hope. However, as a Christian woman who was raised in the Church and has witnessed God’s provision, protection,…
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Three Tips to Stay Sane This Summer
🌞 Ready or not, summer is here! If you’re like me, you might be in shock that May is almost over and the hustle hasn’t slowed down one bit. Between work, kids, end-of-year events, and planning family activities, it’s a whirlwind! 🌪️ But don’t worry, you’re not alone. Let’s survive this summer together! 💪
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Three Ways to Fight Spiritual Warfare
Fight spiritual warfare by standing firm against the devil, being strong in your faith, and leaning on others believers.
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How to Write and Practice Positive Affirmations
“I know that greatness begins in the mind. I know that what I believe about myself, I will become. So, I believe great things about myself and my future.” One of the things I’ve learned so far in life is the power of positive affirmations. When it comes to self-care and self-love, positive affirmations can…
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Top 10 Ways to Practice Self-Care
Part of being committed to better health and wellness this year includes better self-care and more self-love. To be honest, this is not something I’m great at but it’s something I’m constantly working on improving. If you’re anything like me, you tirelessly (or better yet, tiredly) care for everyone and everything around you before you…
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Engulfed by My Troubles
Do you ever feel like you just can’t catch a break? Wave after wave after wave crashes down on you causing you to stay engulfed in your troubles. This is how I feel when my money ends before the month. This is how I feel when I think my health is getting better only to…
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Planning for Winning Days
Mary Kay Ash is quoted as saying, “Plan your work and work your plan.” When I started my Mary Kay business almost seven years ago, I went through new consultant training on lots of different things but time management was one of the biggies. It was also one of the things that has stuck with…