All Episodes

The Hidden Blockers of Sexual Desire in Marriage + How to Move Past Them Together

Healing from Trauma in Adulthood, Re-Parenting Yourself + Acknowledging How We’ve Hurt Our Children

When Life Doesn’t Look Like You Thought It Would, Stewarding Suffering + Allowing Hope to Heal (w/ Katherine Wolf)

“I’m Not Doing Enough” + The “Should List”: Overcoming Shame and Guilt in Parenting

Loving People in Unseen Ways, Trusting God in the Detours + Saying “Yes” to Jesus (America’s Got Talent Winner Dustin Tavella)

Was Parenting Always This Hard… Or Are We Just Failing?

Sex in Marriage: Communication, Connection + Healing Past Wounds Around Intimacy

Anger Q+R: Transformation Through Prayer Over Time, Choosing Compassion with Your Spouse + Healing Within Your Family of Origin

Anger, Underlying Pain, Justice Without Mercy, and Steps Toward Healing

Key Moments of 2025: Highlights from Our Most-Loved Episodes (Staying Calm, Emotional Intelligence, Shielding Our Kids, Tools of Discipline + Daily Habits)

Spiritual Formation & Motherhood: Interview w/ John Mark Comer at the Intentional Motherhood Retreat

Conversation w/ Ronald Rolheiser: Restlessness, Leaving a Legacy, Dealing With Anger + the Power of Fidelity

Bridging Generations with Humility + Removing the Pressure and Performance of Prayer (w/ Addison + Juli Bevere)

Intentional x Dadville (w/ Dave Barnes + Jon McLaughlin from Dadville)

Reflection and Projection: Remembering What God Has Done + Trusting Him With What’s Next

What It’s Like to Be a Teenager Right Now: Pressure, Comparison, and Technology Boundaries (With Our Kids, Duke and Scarlet)

Digital Thorns: Minimizing Proximity to Our Phones + Choosing Hope Over Resignation (w/ Joey Odom of Reclaimwell)

Facing Dysregulation + Family Dysfunction as Bringers of PEACE (Christmas Special)

Should We Have Another Child, Parenting Kids With Different Personalities, and Being a Follower Instead of a Leader (Q+R)

Generations, Leaving and Cleaving + 6 Ways to Honor Your Parents

Aura Farming vs. Spiritual Formation, Hiddenness Over Hype, Slowness Instead of Spectacular + Childlike Dependence

8 Rules for Families in a Digital World

Generational Differences with Self-Care, Child Loss, Social Media Addiction, Submitting to Limitations (Live Q+R From Intentional Motherhood Retreat 2025)

Same-Sex Attraction, Freedom in Vulnerability + an Unfinished Symphony (Conversation w/ Jeff and Jourdan of Open Spaces)

Language of Encouragement, Speaking Life + Soul Friendships (Teaching from the 2024 Motherhood Retreat)

Helping Phone-Free Teenagers Stay Connected, Regrets in Parenting Toddlers, and Managing Sibling Rivalry (Q+R)

Raising Kids in a Clickbait Culture, Shaping Critical Thinkers, Encouraging Empathy, and Living in the Gray

Fear of Repeating Unhealthy Family Patterns, Saying No to Good Things, and Initiating Conversations Around Generational Patterns (Q+R)

Trauma and Crisis, Being Present for Those Suffering, and Carrying Each Other’s Burdens

Breaking Generational Patterns, Knowing Your Story, Healing Family Wounds, Finding Freedom, and Passing On Faithfulness

Special Intentional Fatherhood Feature: Your Fatherhood Needs You to Know Your Story, Facing Generational Sin, and Trusting God to Bless What’s Been Broken

The Myth of “18 Summers,” Speaking Life, Routines + Comparison (Back-to-School Special)

Tools of Discipline: Gentle Correction, A Loving Rebuke, Patient Instruction and Encouragement

Differing Parenting Styles, Distinguishing Your Pain From Your Child’s + Supporting Your Spouse Through Growth (Q+R)

Parenting the Anxious Generation: Identifying + Walking Through Anxiety With Our Kids

Sowing a Hidden Seed: Cultivating a Culture of Prayer in Your Home

When It Hurts Too Much, Finding God in the Middle of Pain, and What Do I Do With All This Pain? (Conversation w/ Andrew Damazio)

Facing Mortality, Choosing Margin, Showing Weakness + Modeling Prayer (Interveiw w/ Tyler Staton)

Extending Forgiveness, Re-Prioritizing Your Marriage, Sharing Family Priorities, and Disclosing Your Broken Past (Marriage Q+R)

Spiritual Intimacy, Spiritual Leadership + Highlighting Negative Patterns in Your Spouse (Marriage Q+R)

You’re Not Broken, You’re Patterned: Why We Do Things We Don’t Want to Do in Parenting

The Broken Parts of Ourselves, How Weakness is Forming Something Deeper and The Fellowship of the Withered Hand

Hopelessness, Bitterness, Simmering Resentment, Passive-Aggressiveness, and Everyday Forgiveness in Close Relationships

Parenting with Scars + Becoming the Parent We Needed (A Conversation w/ A.J. Swoboda)

The Boring Years, Spiritual Formation in the Shadows, Beneath the Routine, and Praying the Ordinary

Unlearning Together, The Cost of Humility in Culture and Teachability in the Everyday Mess of Family Life (Interview w/ A.J. Swoboda)

Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down: A Balanced Approach of Correction + Connection in Discipline

Character, Dying to Self in Marriage + Modeling Biblical Manhood (Interview with Kirk Cameron)

Procedural Memory: How God Redeems Reflexes, Rewrites Patterns and Renews the Mind

Spiritual Formation in Motherhood: Announcing the Intentional Motherhood Retreat 2025 in Portland, Oregon!

Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligence In Ourselves and In Our Kids

Being Emotionally Present with Toddlers Amidst Responsibilities, Dealing with Overstimulation as a Parent + Shielding Kids from Emotional Pain (Q+R)

5 Necessities to Being a Calm, Regulated Parent in the Midst of Chaos + the Power of Meekness and Humility

The Life-Long Journey of Healing from Generational Trauma, Eternal Perspective and the Power of “But God” (Interview with Sally Lemos, MS, LPC)

Feeling Stuck as a Parent, Changing our Minds as Parents, and the Permission we Need to Give Ourselves

Walking With Kids Through Grief, Good News in Sad Stories + Singleness in Church (Interview with Annie F. Downs)

Marriage In Sickness and In Health, Parenting Neurodiverse Children Alongside Neurotypical Children + Handling Parenting Differences (Q+R)

Fighting for Connection, Being Present with our Kids + Leading with Vulnerability (Interview with Ruth Chou Simons)

ADHD, Neurodivergence, and How We Damage in the Unknown (Special Q+R)

Thriving Through Exhaustion, Overstimulation, In-Laws, and Overwhelm (Marriage Q+R)

Generational Trauma, Wounded Parts and How Trauma is Passed Down (Interview with Sally Lemos, MS, LPC)

Canceling family, 8 Essentials for Difficult Relationships, Enemies and Triggers (Christmas Episode)

In-Laws, Vulnerability, Shame, Friendships, Touching Wounds, Being Self-Critical and Parents Deconstructing (Q+R)

Why Unmet Expectations, Grief, Complaining and Entitlement are Destroying Your Life

Conflict, Voice Memos, Harshness, Emotional Wounds and Rupture + Repair

Spousal Addictions, Judging Your Children, Spiritual Mentors, Generational Patterns & Modeling Forgiveness (Q+R)

Strong Inner Critics, Moral Formation, Ambition, Coaching and The Intentional Year (Interview with Glenn Packiam)

Daily Habits, Formation, Why Did God Create My Kids, and Authority

Care Before Criticism, The Little Foxes, Encouragement, Unhappy Cycles, Helping Heal + 4 Ways to Move Forward (Marriage Episode)

Mountains, Entitlement, Relinquishment, Waiting, Letting Dreams Die + Acceptance

Analog Christians, Slowing, Ignatian Practices, + The Digital Examen (Interview with Jay Kim)

Fostering Connection, The Anxious Generation + The Digital Fast (Interview with Darren Whitehead)

Criticism, Child Loss, Envy, Resentment + A Culture of Encouragement (Live Q+R from MHR 24)

Anxiety, Collapse, Bed Time liturgy, Rhythms are NOT Rules, Habits, and Rule of Life (Interview with Justin Whitmel Earley)

Technology, Guilt, Aligning with your Spouse and Core Memories (Interview with Joey Odom)

Big emotions, Naming Feelings, 6000 Thoughts a Day, Moralism, and Parenting Neuro Divergent Kids (Q+R)

Why Church? Navigating Mixture and Selfishness in Spiritual Communities (Interview with Josh White)

Over-Stimulated, Over Worked, The Gift of Limitations, The Greater Good we DO NOT Know, and 5 Questions to Discover your True Motivations

Blended Families, Divorce, Remarriage + Slowing Down (Interview with Jerry & Pat Sittser)

The Process of Jesus Changing You, Having Fun with God and The Tension of Parenting Teens (Q+R)

How to Talk to Your Kids about Porn, Being your kids Google, Sextortion, Mental Health and Pornography (Interview with Greta Eskridge)

No Accidental Saints, De-Formation, a Joy Deficit with Exhaustion, and Spiritual Realism (Interview with John Mark Comer)

Grief, Anger, Loss, Single Parenting, and Relaxed (Interview with Megan Fate Marshman)

The Jauregui Story: Long-suffering, Catastrophic Loss, + The Way of Jesus

Six Ways Comparison Kills, Not Good Enough, and The Mental Committee

The Art of Grandparenting & Relationships with Your Parents as an Adult

What if it's a Lie? "I'm a bad parent" and other half-truths we believe

Abuse, Disintegration, Tech, and The Life We Need (Interview With Andy Crouch)

Complaining, Negative Development, and Shame or Fear?

The Highly Sensitive Person, Delighting in Your Child When it’s Not Easy and Living in a Season of Obscurity (Q+R)

Alcohol & Food Addiction in a Culture of Normalization (Q+R)

The Process of Formation to Jesus in our Families

Individualism, Tithing, and Living Beyond Our Families

Forgiveness in Marriage, When sorry isn’t Enough, and Five ways to Apologize that bring Healing

Parental Gaslighting, The Greatest Enemy to our Children, and Parenting in Team (Interview with A.J Swoboda)

Church Hurt, Parental Repentance, and Emotions lived out in our Bodies (Q+R)

Parenting Through Emotions, Navigating the "I Feel, Therefore I Am Culture" and The Power of Emotions as God-Given Tools

Honoring Your Capacity, Insecurities, Complaining in Parenting and Four Key Questions to Embrace Your Calling and Capacity

Breaking Generational Patterns, Safety in Parenthood, Transforming Parenting Trauma + Raising Secure Children (Interview with Michael Handler)

Marriage, lessons learned over the long haul, and beyond “I do”

The Intentional Motherhood Retreat 2024

From Fury to Peace: How to Navigate Conflict with Curiosity & Compassion

Influencers, Accidental Mentorship, and How We Shape Our Families

Marriage, is therapy biblical, discipline, and what if you have already messed up badly as a parent? (Q+R live from San Diego)

Anger, triggers and being at your wit’s end (Replay)

The Gift of NO! How kindness + firmness bring flourishing

Parenting in the Digital Age

Creating a Culture of Connection, Expectations, and the Phonetic Pace at Christmas

Parenting opposite personalities, repentance from anger, and having kids outside of marriage (Q+R)

Overcapacity, navigating death, and fathering from a deficit (Q+R)

Striving, Distractions, and Living from a Still Place (Interview with Katharine Hill)

Anger, rage, and what it is trying to tell you (with guest Sally Lemos, MS, LPC)

What to do with fear, anxiety, and shame in our parenting?

A vision for your home, the daily mundane and the miraculous (Interview with Matt Markins)

Transparency, Fear of Failure and How the Church Can Respond to Trauma (Interview with Elizabeth Smith)

Motherhood Q+R (With Diane Comer, Elizabeth Mosser, Sally Lemos, and Greta Eskridge)

Resentment of duty and a joylessness boarding on anger + the pleasure principle

The problem with men in our world, the five shifts and beautiful terrible things (Interview with Jon Tyson)

Cancel culture, judgment, and why mercy matters

Essentials for Parenthood: Consecration

Bullies, mean girls,  and creating an environment of safety, not judgment

Testing boundaries, catastrophic fear, and homeschooling

Chronic illness, helping your kids through trauma, and special needs

Miscarriage, loss, and the aftermath (Interview with Ryan and Annie Miller)

Depression, anxiety, praying over our children, and the transition from kids to teens (Q+R)

Intentional Grand-parenting and what adult children are needing from their parents

Fatherlessness (Interview with Josh White)

Emotional neglect, being reparented and how to get what we need most

Measuring up, our mental committee, I should’s, the impossible mother, and shepherding our homes

Regrets, Big Emotions, and Knowing Yourself so You Can Control Yourself

Parenting Children with Disabilities, God's Grace for Today and the Gift of the Un-know (Interview with Laura Wifler)

How to Discern God’s Will and The False Self

The Bible Project, teaching the skill of discernment and chasing desires (Interview with Tim Mackie)

Suffering, Prayer, and How to teach your kids to Talk to God (Interview with Strahan Coleman)

Being oblivious, closed family culture, idols, absorbing without resentment, and why extended family is often the hardest

Why we over-respond, self-regulation, neuroception, and good enough parenting (Interview with Sally Lemos MS, LPC)

The Intentional Motherhood Retreat

Essentials: Bottom-up vs. Top-down

Non-anxious curiosity, and the three words that change everything (Interview with Mark Batterson)

Wounding, Suffering, Trauma and how God Heals (Interview with Matthias J. Barker)

Optimal Deprivation

Essentials: Kindness and Firmness

How to teach your children to understand who they are, attunement, emotional dysregulation, and five things your kids need (Part 2)

How to teach your children to understand who they are, attunement, emotional dysregulation, and five things your kids need (Part 1)

Unusual children, exceptional children, and SEEING who your child is

Cherishing your wife, date nights, being emotionally unavailable, unspoken expectations, and tithing. Marriage Q+R

The Practice of these Nothings

Be angry, but don’t sin, but how? 6 ways to control your anger

A Year of Examinie: New Years Episode (Part 2)

A Year of Examinie: New Years Episode (Part 1)

Over touched, overstimulated, quieting our lives, the importance of non-sexual touch, how to not parents out of shame, and parenting through deep grief (Q+R)

Christmas Episode! Santa Clause, Healing Prayer, Trust, and Favorite Christmas Traditions

So Why Go to Church?

Dysfunctional families, shame, the side effects of divorce, grief, and being married to someone with trauma. (Interview with Dr. Barry Gridley)

When to give your child a phone, video games, mom burnout, and how to be an intentional grandparent. (Q+R) Part 2

When to give your child a phone, video games, mom burnout, and how to be an intentional grandparent. (Q+R) Part 1

Bonus Episode: Building Your Child's Emotional Wellbeing in a Post-Pandemic World  (Interview with Katharine Hill)

Left to Their Own Devices?: Confident Parenting in a World of Screens  (Interview with Katharine Hill)

Sibling Rivalry

The sustaining power of rituals

Redeeming time, dreams, overachieving recovering perfectionist, and waiting with fire in your bones (Interview with Ruth Chou Simons)

Neurodiverse children, chronic illness, and conflict in marriage. (Q+R)

Subversive Sabbath as a gift to your marriage, family, and formation (Interview with Dr. A.J. Swoboda)

Bonus Episode: Unschooling, regrets, and educating our children in these unique times

Anger, triggers, and being at your wit's end

Trauma, Catastrophic Loss, and A Grace Disguised (Interview with Jerry Sittser) Part 2

Trauma, Catastrophic Loss, and A Grace Disguised (Interview with Jerry Sittser) Part 1

Are the various gender roles in marriage just cultural constructs? What is the purpose of the different roles in a marriage, and what does the Bible say about it? Part 4 (Wives)

Are the various gender roles in marriage just cultural constructs? What is the purpose of the different roles in a marriage, and what does the Bible say about it? Part 3 (Wives)

Are the various gender roles in marriage just cultural constructs? What is the purpose of the different roles in a marriage, and what does the Bible say about it? Part 2 (Husbands)

Are the various gender roles in marriage just cultural constructs? What is the purpose of the different roles in a marriage, and what does the Bible say about it? Part 1

Five ways to make big life decisions, living led, and being the skin of God to others

Perfectionism and Idealism in your marriage, what does Jesus mean by being perfect and hoping for miracles when we are called to manage

Passivity, Big T trauma, healing, the rhythms our children need + servant leaders (Interview with author C.S. Fritz)

Struggling with self-worth as a parent, how to be a better man, letting God parent you, overexposing our kids and Kevin McCallister. (Live Q+R)

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity: The four questions your children are asking you

Post-traumatic growth, your superpower, and what God does with our trauma

The Origin Story: The Intentional Film Series

Your children will become who you tell them you see them becoming: The Blessing part 2

Your children will become who you tell them you see them becoming: The Blessing part 1

Intentional marriage, the upward spiral “relational right sizing” and designed to last: (Interview with Dino and Ashley Petrone)

How to enjoy your teenagers, delayed gratification of the early years, and 100 days of adventure: Interview with Greta Eskridge

Marriage, In-Laws, Shared Responsibilities, Over Reactivity, Fatigue, Brain Science and Emotional Regulation. (Live Q+R)

Husbands: 5 ways to support your wife in the early years

The Constant Little Deaths of Dreams

How to Thrive While Being Overwhelmed?

Parenting Despite your Trauma and Wounds

Mom Guilt: What do I do with my feelings of inadequacy as a mom?

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate, is that the only question?

Christmas Episode! How to keep your family close at Christmas, how to create memory hooks, a culture to be launched from and return to, and keeping traditions centered around Jesus.

Spiritual formation in motherhood, impatience, how to find time for Jesus,  and the need to be redeemed, but how?

Digital addiction, screen time, boredom and the abundance of the ordinary

The holiday’s, family conflict, grandparents Involvement, and becoming peacemakers not just peacekeepers

An Occasional Series: Words Matter (words heal) Part 2

LGBTQ, how to talk about the hard stuff, and Q&A (part 2)

LGBTQ, how to talk about the hard stuff, and Q&A (part 1)

Try Softer (Interview with Aundi Kolber)

An Occasional Series: Words Matter (words hurt) Part 1

Agreed upon expectations, stop should-ing yourself and the power of winsome speech. Q+A part 2

Intentional marriage, winning over your husband, little practices that change the world and wives as helpers? Q+A part 1

An Effective Vision for Fatherhood

I’m a mess and I know it, when white knuckling doesn’t work, and God‘s presence with you

Satisfied (interview with Alyssa Bethke)

Flourishing

Mother’s Day Special

Anxiety, Mental Health, and Parenting (Our Story)

Parenting in the Age of Pornography Part 2 (Interview with Greta Eskridge)

Parenting in the Age of Pornography (Interview with Greta Eskridge)

The Teenage Years (Part 2)

Teenagers, 3 secrets, and what if you don’t like your kids?

How to become aware of your responsibility as a father

Personal, Practical and Powerful Prayer

Hesed! (what it is, why it’s important and how it will transform your marriage)

Stability in the Midst of Chaos

Creating self motivated learners, choosing curriculum, and why it’s ok to disappoint people sometimes (Homeschool Q & A Part 2)

Homeschooling with toddlers, getting creative with the small moments and knowing when it’s time to stop homeschooling (Homeschool Q + A Part 1)

Less Than Ideal Homeschooling, The Burden of Being Human and the Gift of Accepting What’s Happening Right Now

Conflict resolution in the family, grandparents, and how to prepare for children (Q+A Part 2)

What to do when you don’t feel love for your spouse, how to parent out of gentleness instead of anger and what to do with big emotions? (Q+A )

Portals of possibility, the importance of monotonous moments & how marriage and raising children is a catalyst for spiritual formation

The Importance of Family in our Cultural Moment  (Interview with Derrick and Jamie Foxworth)

Intentional Fatherhood (Interview with Scott Harrison of Charity Water)

How to talk to your kids about racism, the third option and what the Bible says our response should be (Interview with Dr. Mark Strong)

Learning to Accept the Life I Actually Have- An Interview with Tammy Comer

Grieving honestly, what happens when we stop suppressing emotions, and how honest can we actually be with God?

Diane’s story: Unexpected gifts in suffering, hearing God’s voice in a world void of sound and teaching our kid’s a theology of suffering.

Kids who are wired differently, sensory processing and viewing our children as fearfully and wonderfully made (Interview with Michelle Colquhoun Occupational Therapist)

Intentional Living (Interview with Dino and Ashley Petrone)

5 Ways to Flourish While Homeschooling During Covid-19

The Box

The Kingdom at Home

Emotionally Healthy Family (Interview with Pete Scazzero)

How to respond to COVID-19 as a family

The Primal Path (Interview with Jon Tyson)

Church, Silence and Solitude, & Quiet Times: part 2

Church, Silence and Solitude, & Quiet Times: part 1

Homosexuality, Gender, & Faith  (Interview with Preston Sprinkle)

Education

Q+A (answering your questions on all things life and parenting)

Bonus Episode 3: What to do when you are not enough? (Interview with Elizabeth and Diane)

Bonus Episode 2: Success, unhealthy striving, and embracing the unique season God has you in

Bonus Episode 1: Blessing and cursing, the frustration formula, and 4 things you will need to stay close as a family

Wide spread divorce,  partial attention, and the ruthless elimination of hurry (Interview with John Mark Comer)

Raising an Original, Capacity, and flexible intentionality (interview with Julie Lyles Carr)

Manic tension, leaving a legacy, and sibling rivalry

The power of sexual intimacy, being friendly, the attention economy, and better together

The weak-willed, parents lying to you, & 5 indispensable principles

Earning the right to be heard, micro moments, & sowing into your limitations

The sex talk

Tragedy, the most beautiful women in the world, and  children with special needs: The Story of Birdie James

Single Parenting, pre-frontal cortex, and the rational brain: Q&A

Sibling rivalry, father wounds, and the respect effect: Interview with Dr. Emerson Eggerichs of Love and Respect

Marriage, warrior mode, and sex: Interview with Dr. Emerson Eggerichs of Love and Respect

18 hugs a day, the fatherless generation and speaking identity over your children. The BOX: part 4

Nutrition, business vs hurry and is the problem really the problem? The BOX: part 3

Sinful anger, strategic disappointment, and to spank or not to spank? The BOX: part 2

How to discipline your child without harm, patterns that prevent freedom, and empowered to be who you really are. The BOX: part 1

In-laws, conflict, and marriage to a difficult man

Goals and Values

Childhood wounds

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