In this opening episode of our homeschooling series, I share our family’s homeschool story including how we began, why we chose to leave traditional schooling, and how our understanding of education has slowly transformed over the past eight years.

What started as “school at home” eventually became something much deeper. God gently led us toward a vision of education rooted in relationship, character, and faith.

In this episode, we talk about releasing the need to be “on track,” redefining success, and embracing the mother’s role as a living example of loving what is good, true, and beautiful.

If you’ve ever felt tired, unsure, or quietly longing for a better way, this episode is an invitation to breathe, reflect, and remember that God gives the growth.

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The Well Educated Heart

This episode marks the beginning of our Refining Our Focus Book Club, a year-long conversation centered on The Life-Giving Home. Once a month, we’ll gather here to talk through the chapter’s monthly focus, share what resonated with us, and reflect on how these ideas can take shape in real homes and real motherhood without pressure, guilt, or the need to do it all.

We’re so excited to start this journey with you and to share a book that has been deeply inspiring and helpful to both of us. The Life-Giving Home invites us to slow down and live with greater intention, offering gentle reflections rather than rigid systems. It’s a month-by-month guide designed to meet you where you are including your family, your rhythms, and your current season.

In this January discussion, we reflect on:

• The feelings that lingered with us after reading the chapter

• Sentences or ideas that made us pause and reread

• Why certain themes feel especially timely right now

• Which practices feel truly life-giving rather than life-draining in this season

We’ll also share thoughtful discussion questions you can reflect on personally or talk through with others, and we’ll end with a simple listener challenge.

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The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

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Modern motherhood can feel isolating, even when we’re surrounded by people we love. In this episode, we lean into a powerful truth: mothers were never meant to carry this calling alone.

Continuing the conversation from our last episode, we explore how God often fills our emptiest places through His presence and through other women. From history to scripture to lived experience, we’re reminded that motherhood was designed to be shared, supported, and seen within sisterhood.

We talk honestly about how motherhood can feel incredibly full and incredibly lonely at the same time, and how the pressure to “do it all” has confused strength with self-sufficiency. Together, we unpack why needing help doesn’t mean you’re failing, it just means you’re human.

In this episode, we share:

• Why modern motherhood can feel so isolating

• How God often works through other mothers to meet our deepest needs

• Three simple, practical ways to find support when you feel lonely in your mothering

• Tangible ideas for building connection through small, sacred acts

We’ll also invite you into reflection with thoughtful discussion questions and end with a gentle call to action, one small step you can take this week toward connection.

Because you don’t need to do everything. You don’t need to do it perfectly. And you were never meant to do it alone.

It truly takes a sisterhood to raise a mother.

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Inviting God into Everyday Motherhood

Motherhood is filled with moments of beauty, weakness, noise, and quiet faithfulness and none of it is meant to be carried alone. In this episode, we reflect on the power of inviting God into the everyday rhythms of motherhood: the chaos, the unseen efforts, and the places where we feel inadequate or overwhelmed.

We talk honestly about what it looks like to bring our whole selves, including our doubts, our fatigue, and our hope before a loving Heavenly Father who has given us this divine calling. As we turn to Him for daily strength, wisdom, and peace, we begin to see how He meets us right where we are and walks with us through it all.

This episode is an invitation to pause, breathe, and remember that God is present in every ordinary moment of your motherhood.

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Isaiah 49:15-16

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Motherhood can feel repetitive, unseen, and exhausting. However, it is never insignificant. In this opening episode, we begin with a truth that anchors everything we believe: motherhood is sacred.

Not just a role. Not just a season. But a divine calling—even in the monotony, even in the sacrifice, even on the days you feel like you’re barely holding it together.

In this episode, we explore how God sees mothers, why your daily work matters more than you realize, and how reframing your identity can bring peace and purpose back into your days. Through personal stories and timeless truths, we invite you to see yourself as as your Father in Heaven does: worthy, chosen, and doing holy work.

If you’ve ever wondered whether what you’re doing really matters, then this episode is for you.

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"When Queens Ride By" PDF

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Jeffrey R. Holland, “Behold Thy Mother,” October 2015 General Conference

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If you’re a mother who longs for a slower, more intentional way of living, this podcast is for you.

Refining Our Focus in Motherhood is a podcast for moms who want to live with greater intention, deepen their faith, and create homes that nurture both the heart and the body.

Hosted by sisters, we share real conversations, practical encouragement, and faith-filled wisdom for this season of motherhood.

New episodes every week. Follow the show and leave a review to support the podcast and help other moms find encouragement.

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