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Apr 2023
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Working Through Overwhelm & Getting Back...

Jenna Griffith
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If you are struggling with overwhelm in motherhood and wondering if there’s a way to move past it, or if you doubt that God is really at work in the midst of your overwhelm, then you will love getting to hear from our guest Michelle today. Michelle is a single mom and founder of PlusONE Parents, a ministry for single parents and she is no stranger to overwhelm and how isolating and crippling it can often feel. Michelle and I share a lot of our own experiences with overwhelm in motherhood and how it shows up in different ways, sometimes without even really being aware of it. We also discuss the world’s definition of “more” and the biblical definition of “more” and how that changes how we approach motherhood, how the enemy uses our overwhelm against us, and how God works through our overwhelm to invite us into more with him.

 

If you haven’t experienced overwhelm as a mom yet, there will probably be a time when you do and when that time comes, you’ll want to have the truth that Michelle shares in this episode tucked in your heart.

 

More about Michelle:

Michelle Donnelly is the President and CEO of PlusONE Parents, a ministry devoted to

helping single parents overcome overwhelm to rebuild God-empowered lives and raise

up a new generation. A mother of three, Michelle is also the host of The Christian Single

Moms Podcast and author of Safe Haven: A Devotional for the Abused & Abandoned,

and Made for More: Life Beyond the Wreckage of Hurt, Loss, & Heartbreak. Learn more

about PlusONE Parents at www.plusoneparents.org

 

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