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80: Dear Younger Me (From Me at 51 Years Old)
I turned 51 the other day, and it was hard. For some reason 50 seemed easier than 51. Today I talk about what I would tell myself I was 25 again. Can you think of what YOU would say if you could go back and talk to...
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79. How to Cheer On Your High School Senior or College Freshman From the Sidelines
It's so hard to be on the sidelines when your high schooler is doing all the "lasts" you do as a senior. It's possibly even harder to wait for that first phone call (or even just a text) from your college freshman who...
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78: How Do You Listen to the Holy Spirit?
How do you know if He is speaking to you? Sonja and Julia discuss the mysteries of how the Holy Spirit works in our lives. While Julia is hesitant to say she knows how to listen to the Holy Spirit, Sonja discusses the...
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77: Measures of Grace: When God Gives Your Child a Diagnosis You Can't Change | ft. Jennifer Ouderkirk
“I can’t describe how different he had become in that time when he realized he was different.” Jennifer Ouderkirk joins us today to tell her story of how God transformed her life when she had her son, Brandon, who was...
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76: My Son-in-Laws Hijacked My Podcast!
My 3 son-in-laws join me on today's episode! It was a blast to talk about what mother-in-law stereotypes I fill, how first impressions can be deceiving, and what it's like being a part of a close knit family. Are you...
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75: Seven Tips for the Empty Nester Dreading the End of Summer
The fall season is just around the corner and that used to mean "back to school," but now it just means... what? For the empty nester, fall means something different than it meant all those years of school supplies,...
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74: How You Can Make a Difference in a Teen's Life and High School Memoirs
Sonja travels back in time to when she was in high school and reminisces of the 80s and what it was like going to a small Christian school as a teenager. Between an awful car accident that changed her freshman year of...
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73: How to Make Really Hard Decisions Using Your Heart, Head, and Gut
Do you feel absolutely stuck over a decision you're making right now? Everyone has hard decisions to make and oftentimes it feels like you can't win either way, but what if we had a blueprint for making those kinds of...
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72: Grandma's Survival Toolkit: Birth, Babysitting, and Boundaries | Interview with Ashli Prieskorn
What's expected of you when your daughter or son is having a baby? When should you help them out and when should you give them their space? All these questions (and more!) run around in your head when you become a...
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71. Long Engagements, Yay or Nay? The Highs and Lows of Big Decisions | Interview with Jenna Dalton
For mothers and daughters (and sons), the engagement and wedding process is a tricky one riddled with highs and lows. JennaLyn Dalton, Sonja's youngest daughter, joins us today to tell her story of how she came to the...
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70: How to Know if You're Manipulating Your Adult Kids Into Getting What You Want
Moms, we must be aware of how we treat our adult children! Are we passive aggressive, do we guilt them into doing things we want them to do, do we manipulate and manuever situations to get the outcome we desire? An...
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69: When Your Adult Kids Are Having Marital Problems
Everything in your bones says that you are on YOUR kid's side when they are having problems with their spouse. Your heart wants to instantly think that it's your daughter- or son-in-law's fault and that your child is...
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