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I help overwhelmed moms follow through in real life—so they can become the person they keep saying they want to be.

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08/18/2026

When you’re in the middle of it, you don’t care what it’s going to teach you someday.

You just want it to stop.

You want the anxiety to quiet down. You want the marriage to get easier. You want motherhood to stop feeling so heavy. You want the prayer you’ve prayed a hundred times to finally be answered. You want to understand why God would allow something that hurts this badly.

And people can tell you, “God will use this,” but when you’re the one living it, sometimes that feels really hard to believe.

Because you can’t see the fruit when you’re still being crushed.

But then years later, you find yourself sitting across from someone who is walking through the very thing that almost took you out. And you know how to sit with her differently.

You don’t rush her. You don’t throw a cliché at her. You’re not scared of the messy things she says out loud because you’ve thought them too.

Your heart breaks for her because you remember.

And maybe that’s some of the fruit.

Not that what happened was good. Not that God needed your pain in order to use you. But that He can redeem even the places you thought were completely wasted.

Some of the deepest compassion in you may be growing in the exact place you’re begging God to get you out of right now.

You might not see what He’s doing with it yet.

You’re still in the crushing. ❤️

There’s a version of motherhood where you’re not in a crisis. Nothing is technically wrong. You’re just… drowning a litt...
08/18/2026

There’s a version of motherhood where you’re not in a crisis. Nothing is technically wrong. You’re just… drowning a little.

The days feel really long. Getting everyone out of the house feels like a whole production, so you don’t. Someone invites you somewhere and you want to go, but by the time you think about naps and snacks and getting dressed and loading everyone into the car, staying home wins. Again.

And I think this is where we need each other. Not just when someone has a baby. Not just when there’s a meal train or something terrible happens. On the really ordinary Tuesdays when a mom has been inside too long, is overwhelmed by her own house, has said “no” to the last three invitations and probably needs another woman to make saying yes really, really easy.

Get in, friend. Your kids can wear their pajamas. Get in, friend. I’m taking mine to the playground anyway. Come sit on the bench with me. Get in, friend. Come have coffee at my house. It’s a disaster and I genuinely do not care. Get in, friend. I made breakfast. There’s enough. Get in, friend. Give me the kids for an hour. Go do whatever you need to do.

Because sometimes “let me know if you need anything” is still asking an overwhelmed woman to do one more thing: figure out what she needs and ask for it. Sometimes we can just go get her.

I think we’ve made “the village” sound like something we need to find, when maybe this is how it actually gets built. One woman has a little more capacity that day, so she reaches for the one who doesn’t. She makes two extra eggs. Opens her messy house. Loads another kid in the car. Keeps inviting the friend who hasn’t been herself lately.

And eventually, life flips. The woman you kept saying “get in, friend” to is pulling into your driveway because now you’re the one who can’t get yourself out of the house.

Maybe the village is really this ordinary. Sometimes carrying. Sometimes being carried. Just refusing to let each other do motherhood alone.

I lived in LA for 10 years. We do “protecting our peace” really well 😂 We do cancellations really well too. “I don’t hav...
08/16/2026

I lived in LA for 10 years. We do “protecting our peace” really well 😂 We do cancellations really well too. “I don’t have the capacity.” “I need to protect my energy.” “Can we rain check?”

And listen, sometimes those things are completely valid. But I think somewhere along the way, I got a little too good at making sure my life was comfortable.

Then I became a mom and started wanting the thing everyone says they want: a village. Real friends. Other moms around my table. Kids growing up together. People who actually know what’s going on in our lives. The kind of relationships where you don’t have to clean your house before they come over and you know exactly who you’d call if something went sideways.

I’m learning that you cannot build that kind of community while constantly choosing what’s most convenient for you.

Friendship is inconvenient sometimes. It’s keeping the plans when 4pm rolls around and staying home suddenly sounds amazing. It’s loading the kids into the car and driving across town. It’s hosting Bible study knowing there will be crackers crushed into places crackers have no business being 😂 It’s inviting people over before your house is ready, making the first move, and showing up for someone when it genuinely would be easier not to.

I still believe in boundaries. I still say no. I still protect time with my family. But I’m becoming much more careful about confusing peace with comfort.

Because some of the best things in my life right now are also wildly inconvenient. There are kids running through my house. My kitchen gets destroyed. Plans interrupt my routine. People need things from me, and I need things from them.

Maybe that’s kind of the point.

We keep saying we need a village, but villages require something from the people in them. Not every inconvenience needs to be eliminated from our lives. Some of them are the price of having people in it.

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