Cherished friendships can bring satisfaction and encouragement to a life riddled with challenges and trials, but is there ever a friend who’s available to us at any and every moment? Christ is the only one, and he already knows your deepest needs and desires. Intentionality and devotion will allow us to cultivate a deep friendship with Jesus that will sustain us through every season of our lives.

In our second friendship episode, Gretchen and Jennifer ponder friendship with Jesus, and they also speak honestly about past experiences with loneliness during childhood, postpartum, and in ministry.

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in for practical wisdom, book suggestions, and fresh perspectives on how to cultivate deep and authentic friendships.

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/friendship

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Friendship is a topic that elicits a broad spectrum of emotions and experiences. Whether your memories are full of kindred bonds or many years of loneliness, there is a place for you to connect with our latest series on friendship.

How do we define it? How would our ideal friendship work, and then what does everyday life look like? How does friendship with our children shift as they are growing up? Is friendship with our children even appropriate?

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in as Gretchen and Jennifer share meaningful insight and personal experiences with you as we step into this special series!

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/friendship

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He’s a Christ follower, husband, father, friend, shepherd, disciple, leader, musician… Meet Brooks Joyce. Finishing up our worship series, Brooks sat down with Gretchen and Jennifer to discuss the ideals and everyday life when it comes to living a life of surrender.

After two decades on staff at Port City Community Church in Wilmington, NC, Brooks possesses a tremendous outpouring of wisdom, conviction, and passion for leading people into an encounter with Jesus in his role as Worship Director. While leading a team of over 30 musicians has provided ample opportunities for discipleship and service, Brooks maintains that his wife and children are his primary ministry focus.

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in as Brooks shares numerous scriptures, inspires us towards authenticity, and offers behind-the-scenes insight into the Akedah Worship School that launched this year for his team.

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/worship

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What happens to our physical bodies when we sing and meditate? Is there a place for personal preference when it comes to the style of worship music at your home church? Should bodily posture be considered during worship and prayer? How does the lens of God’s mercy shape our worship?

This is a sampling of the questions we cover during the second episode in our worship series. We hope you find a moment to listen in to this inspiring discussion, where Gretchen and Jennifer share more of the ideals and everyday life as a worshiping believer.

Don’t forget to send us your favorite worship songs so that we can add them to our Spotify playlist, which will be available to all of our listeners on the show notes page!

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/worship

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Everyday life as a believer is filled with countless opportunities to express praise and honor to our Heavenly Father, but if you’re like us, you’re prone to wandering affections too. How can we remain aligned with Jesus in our minds and hearts as we move through the mundane and routine parts of our lives? Is it possible to transform ordinary into sacred? To worship in spirit and in truth as scripture prescribes, we must invest ourselves in knowing the fullness of God with our hearts and minds.

Believers can easily and unknowingly reduce worship to the singing of songs on Sunday mornings, but this conversation invites us to recalibrate and intentionally offer the wholeness of our lives as a living sacrifice. This is the ideal worship.

We hope you’ll find a moment to listen in with Gretchen and Jennifer as we begin this new series on worship as we share personal experiences, encouraging verses, and - of course - everyday life.

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/worship

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Wrapping up our Health and Wellness series, Gretchen and Jennifer discuss the topics of nutrition and exercise with Trevor Wilson. Based in Dallas, TX, Trevor is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with a B.S. in Exercise Physiology.

Whether you've been lifting heavy things for years or you're still dreading the work required for aging well, this conversation will inspire you to either craft or refine your vision for longevity as you are reminded of why it matters. You'll enjoy hearing from Trevor as he offers refreshing insight into the difference between approaching health with a mindset of harmony instead of balance, how to practically implement goals, and the heart behind his passion for wellness.

Connecting to our previous episodes in this series, we again tease apart the mental underpinnings required for us to develop and master consistency with exercise and nutrition. We laughed, we learned, and we got honest about our ideals and everyday life! We hope you'll find a moment to listen and be freshly inspired towards growth in your journey of health and wellness... It matters because YOU matter!

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/health-wellness

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As a continuation of our health and wellness conversation, we pick up in this episode, discussing exercise and how to maximize the efficiency of movement in a way that is compatible with your season of life. Whether you're pushing a stroller around the neighborhood or lifting weights at the gym with your teens, there's a way to build exercise into the life that you're living right now.

Have you ever considered fine-tuning your ideals around exercise so that you're mindful of both short- and long-term goals? Is it possible to make progress and maintain consistency in the midst of the demands of everyday life? What impact do our thoughts and mental struggles have on our ability to engage in and be consistent with movement? Listen in to hear Gretchen and Jennifer share honestly about these topics and more, and be sure to send us a message with your feedback as well. We love hearing from you!

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/health-wellness

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Are you overwhelmed by the idea of setting new nutrition goals? Does the idea of maintaining long-term consistency seem unattainable when it comes to food? Do we count calories? Go low carb? Step on the scale every day? We all know that healthy nutrition habits are important, so why do we also struggle to set goals and make wise food choices on a daily basis? Is making it past the learning curve worth it?

If you're just getting started, the first step to making nutrition adjustments is to develop an awareness of what you're consuming. We discuss how to practically get started with food tracking and how to make incremental and sustainable adjustments as you move forward. In addition to offering practical tips, scientific data, and helpful resources, this conversation also gives an honest take on some common barriers to prioritizing nutrition, including the mental energy it requires.

This episode is equally equipping and inspiring, especially if you've known that you need to make changes but haven't known how to start. Be sure to find a moment to check out our other episodes in this four-part series on Health and Wellness!

Show Notes: www.medicinemotherhood.com/blog/health-wellness

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