Are you in the season of pregnancy? What a beautiful, yet awful time. Let’s talk honestly and not diminish how tough this journey can be. Come, let’s be honest together.
Each time I’ve backed my birth bag whether it’s for the hospital or a birth center, there’s been a mix of anxiety and anticipation. My birth center bag has been formed over the last seven years and I like to think that I have a pretty good balance between what is necessary and wanted. If […]
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Are you preparing for another baby? As a mom of almost five, I thought I’d share how I’m preparing for having a fifth baby and how it differs from any other pregnancy. When I first saw that positive pregnancy test, I felt a mix of emotions—joy, excitement, and a little bit of fear. Baby number
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This blog post is meant to accompany our YouTube video about our daily Homeschool Routine. You will find that below is a modified version of the script from the YouTube video. Welcome to Healing Home where we discuss all things homemaking, homesteading, and homeschooling, all through the scope of faith and gospel living. Recently I
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Is it normal to feel lonely as a mom? Do you feel lonely, isolated, rejected, and less than others? Mom, I’m writing this to you, not because I have some secret formula that I have figured out to combat lonely weariness, but to share that, I too, understand the feeling of being a lonely mom.
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Bringing a new life into the world is a profound journey, and expecting mothers understandably desire a positive birth experience. I am on my fourth pregnancy and throughout each of my pregnancies I have used Christian birth affirmations based on the Fruits of the Spirit from Galatians 5. When I made them back in 2017,
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Pregnancy can be difficult by itself, but add complications and it can be enough to push anyone over the edge. My pregnancy journey was fraught with emotional highs and lows as I combated depression and Preeclampsia. It is during those times that it is time to cry out to God with a prayer for pregnancy complications.
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Sometimes when I sit still long enough, I wonder about the depth and despair that Mary felt as she watched her son die a cruel and painful death. I wonder what the Bible says about loss. Where are the comforting Bible verses for loss? Because to me, sometimes the Bible seems filled with sadness.
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A visual birth plan template can be confusing, yet it can also mean the difference between a positive or negative birth experience.
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Trusting God for a baby when He doesn’t seem to be answering can be one of the hardest things to go through. Everything from guilt to fear can set in and to make matters worse it can be hard to know how to work through all the emotions. My testimony to God and his faithfulness begins with infertility and ends very unexpectedly.
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