Your Life Rocks: Life Balance For Christian Working Moms

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app. Get tips and inspiration for your faith, marriage, parenting, home, health, career, finances, and friends/fun. Download the Your Life Rocks app for the full content. https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple

What if instead of going back to normal, you used this opportunity to hit the reset button on different areas of your life and create a new normal? Well, that is what we are talking about today.  I'm going to walk you through some self-coaching questions to help you create your new normal.  It's time to lean on God and let him be the constant when everything else around us is changing. Once you have done the self-coaching questions, let me help you take action on what you find!  Take the free 90-Day goal setting workshop: https://yourliferocks.com/Next90Days Download the Your Life Rocks app for more tips and inspiration for working Christian moms. https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple  

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app. Get tips and inspiration for your faith, marriage, parenting, home, health, career, finances, and friends/fun. Download the Your Life Rocks app for the full content. https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app. Get tips and inspiration for your faith, marriage, parenting, home, health, career, finances, and friends/fun. Download the Your Life Rocks app for the full content. https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple

Ok, being in quarantine with our loved ones can be a blessing.  But given the stress we are under with COVID-19 and limitations on activities, it can create tension in any relationship.  Especially as a working mom that is trying to work from home, manage distance learning, and more.  In the second part of this series with Dr. Mariam Coaster, we are looking at stress and relationships and what you can do to ensure that your relationships stay strong. Last week, we experienced part one: Dealing with the Stress In Us.  I highly encourage you to listen to it if you have not already.   Dr. Mariam Coaster is amazing. She is a wife to a wonderful husband, and mother to two beautiful children, a two-year-old boy, and a 3-month-old girl. Professionally, she has a doctorate in neuroscience and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She primarily works with couples and women at her private practice in Franklin, TN. She is passionate about helping people grow towards healing and restoration in their closest relati

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app. Get tips and inspiration for your faith, marriage, parenting, home, health, career, finances, and friends/fun. Download the Your Life Rocks app for the full content. https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app. Get tips and inspiration for your faith, marriage, parenting, home, health, career, finances, and friends/fun. Download the Your Life Rocks app for the full content. https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple

Are you feeling stressed?  A, ya.  I bet you are.  In light of everything going on in our world, I thought it would be best to revisit my conversation with a fellow working mom, Dr. Mariam Coaster. In this episode, we are talking all about our internal relationship with stress and how our relationship with God plays into it. Join us, as Mariam shares practical tips on how we can self-assess our stress and give you strategies to show up as your best self when we find ourselves at our worst. This is part one of a two-part series. Join us next week as we move the conversation to discuss stress and our relationships. Do you have the Your Life Rocks app for working Christian moms?  It is full of tips and inspiration to help you be your best.  This includes our special Covid-19 Lifestyle Guide with tips for everything from your faith, marriage, parenting, home, finances. health, career, and friends and fun.  Download the free app today! https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple  

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app. Get tips and inspiration for your faith, marriage, parenting, home, health, career, finances, and friends/fun. Download the Your Life Rocks app for the full content. https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple  

These special bonus episodes are designed to help you thrive during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  This content is taken right from our April Lifestyle Guide found inside the Your Life Rocks app. Get tips and inspiration for your faith, marriage, parenting, home, health, career, finances, and friends/fun. Download the Your Life Rocks app for the full content. https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple  

Does this whole pandemic situation have you looking for a new opportunity?  Finding work that is rewarding and contributes to having balance in your life is amazing...what if it was possible?  Today I am joined by Kathryn Sollmann, speaker, author, and career coach.  She shares why she believes women should be in the workforce and how to find flexible work that helps you be the best you can be in all that God has called you to. Want more tips from Kathryn?  Click here. Get more tips and inspiration to make the most of our current situation with Covid 19 in every area of life inside the April Lifestyle Guide that is live inside the Your Life Rocks app. Click the link below to access the app in the app store! https://yourliferocks.com/apple https://yourliferocks.com/Google  

As we are kicking off the beginning of our career series, I think we need to acknowledge the fact that a lot of us are facing a new reality when it comes to our careers.  And with that, we might have either seen a side of our company, boss, or just what we do for a living that makes us consider a career change or realized how blessed we are and want to stay and bloom where we are planted.  Either way, the lessons and recommended actions shared by our guest are great for helping us listen to God and trust in his guidance with everything. Today we are joined by Dayna Bickham, author, speaker, and founder of The Constant Creative.  

I want to invite you to a free workshop to help you set goals for the second quarter in all areas of life.  Sign up and enter to win a free 90-day Life Balance Membership Go to YourLifeRocks.com/Next90Days Before we can plan the next 90 days, we need to look back at the previous 90 days and what we accomplished (or didn't) in every area of life.  This will be a self-coaching episode, so get your notebook and get ready!

Do you wish parenting was more peaceful?  What if it can be? To end out our series about helping you be the mom you want to be, let’s revisit our conversation with Jessica Kastner. She is going to give you all the best tips along the way. Jessica is an award-winning journalist, community leader, and a full-time working mom. She’s really entertaining and has so much wisdom, so I know you are going to get so much out of what she has to share. Life balance starts first with the Word of God! Today’s Scripture is from both Jeremiah 3:15 and Matthew 9:37. “And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.” Jer 3:15 “Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;” Matt 9:37 My hope in this interview is that you will learn and have a greater understanding of who you are and what Christ has called us to do in our lives as working parents. Jessica’s wealth of knowledge and deep understanding of the struggles of parenting more than

What to do when your kids just want to hang out in their rooms or on their electronic devices instead of you?  Well, that is what we are talking about today...bonding with your older kids.  In this episode, I am going to walk you through some steps to help you find ways to not only spend time and make memories but to actually enrich your relationships with your kids as they go through pre-teen and teen years.  In addition, there is a mindset shift away from being upset your babies are getting older to newfound freedom for yourself and for them.  I am by no means a parenting expert but I am sharing tips that I have applied through the advice of parenting experts and letting you know what actually worked for me. Subscribe on Youtube to get more working mom tips Join us in Life Balance Membership as we begin a new 90-day period

Have you ever been angry as a mom?  Um, I'm sure you have.  Anger is part of overwhelm and it's a natural emotion.  In this episode, we are talking about how we can work through negative emotions as a mom.  I am joined by fellow working Christian mom, Natalie Hixon.  She is also a life coach, speaker, and author specializing in helping moms that deal with anger, and overwhelm to live their best lives and be the best mom they can be. Listen in and get some strategies to get a handle on your emotions and lead your kids in a healthy way. Links mentioned in the show Get the free Weekly Success Planning Course Get the Your Life Rocks app on Apple Get the Your Life Rocks app on Google Join Life Balance Membership Natalie would love to offer you access to her Trigger Tracker as a first step to overcome destructive anger so you can be the fun, present and joyful wife and mom you want to be. The Trigger Tracker will help you identify your triggers, create awareness around you, and support you in changing your mindset

What type of mom are you?  As moms, we all experience fear, anger, and shame or guilt but did you know that some enneagram types experience one of these three more than the other two?  It influences the type of mom we naturally are.  And when you know the type of mom you naturally are, you can lean into your strengths and be the best mom (and actually enjoy the journey!). For this episode, I am joined by Erin Slutsky from Mom Sense Coaching. She is a nurse, an accredited Enneagram practitioner, and MOPS International mentor and coach with 20 years of experience. She understands child development and family dynamics.  Through MomSense Coaching, she highlights your strengths and shares specific ways you can use your natural tendencies to become a more comfortable and confident mom. Take the quiz to find out your mom type! Join Life Balance Membership Get the free Your Life Rocks app to catch Erin as a contributor in the February Lifestyle Guide. https://yourliferocks.com/Google https://yourliferocks.com/apple

Ok working moms, I think we can agree that parenting can be exhausting.  And when you consider that it's the most important job that we have but have so many other things on our plates, it can be a challenge to try to give it our best all of the time.  But what if it didn't have to be that way? In this episode, I am talking with parenting expert Rachel Bailey and she shares 3 tips on how to make parenting less exhausting while giving your kids exactly what they need. Rachel Bailey is a Parenting Specialist who has been serving families for over a decade. Besides being a mother of two, she also has a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology, a certification in Positive Discipline, and has provided services as an ADHD Coach, in-home mentor, and therapist. Currently, Rachel teaches parents practical, longterm tools for raising responsible, resilient, confident children... while reducing the stress and guilt in parents' lives. Her tips: Tip 1: Shift your mindset about kids' behavior to save energy AND foster more

Today, we are talking about how to set up the right structures to help you be successful to reach your goals, implement systems for balance, and really keeping you moving toward where you want to go as a working mom. We are specifically going to be talking about this as it pertains to one of my favorite systems, weekly prep. Weekly prep is one of the key systems that we talk about in helping you achieve balance.  I so totally believe in this system, that I teach you how to do it totally for free in our Weekly Success Planning course that you can find inside the Your Life Rocks app or by going to Weekly success Planning.com Sign up for Life Balance Membership to get the February bonus of the Meal Planning Made Simple Course Get your Life Balance Planner with menu planning worksheet for a junior-sized notebook.

Yes, we all know that we should observe the Sabbath and keep it holy.  And yes, we all are living incredibly busy lives and if you are like me, it is hard to stop and take the time to rest.   In this episode, we are diving into this topic.  While we usually are talking about how to get more done as a working mom....but this is an important topic for us to dive into. I am joined by organizational change management expert and author of Oasis in Time, Marilyn Paul.  She walks us through not only the importance of taking the time to stop and connect but also the steps to making this a reality for you in your life. Learn more about the resources available to working Christian moms just like you at YourLifeRocks.com.