Send Sherry a Text Message Two countries. Two sets of rules. Two separate languages. Two divided homes. Two totally different ways of doing things and your kids….. they have to live between the two. Between the two of you! Each their own monarch and for their own country. And if these two countries are always at war, there is no peace for YOUR little international travelers. Additional Resources: It's a Single Mom Thing Podcast episode - June 5, 2022, Giving Your Kids a Hand Up in the Hand ...
Oct 31, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Send Sherry a Text Message What’s a priority in your life? Your packages or your bundles of joy? If you are not present in your own day, how present are you in the day in the life of your kids, AND are you aware of what’s a priority in theirs? Learn how to be present, when your feelings are not. In addition to, 4 Ways to Show Up - Showing Your Kids They Are a Priority. Show Resource: Focus on the Families - 50 Questions to Ask Your Kids at the Dinner Table PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT SINGLE MOM - If ...
Oct 24, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Send Sherry a Text Message He may be your Ex, but do you pray for Him? I know this sounds counterintuitive even scandalous , and well, it is! Who gives someone the privilege of prayer when all they gave you was pain? The Path to Peace is Paved With Prayer Breathe and believe, there is an impact when you pray for your Ex. He may be your Ex, but he should not be EXcluded from your prayers. Show Resources: Bible References: Matthew 17:20 Luke 1:37 PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT SINGLE MOM - If you have bee...
Oct 17, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Send Sherry a Text Message The question to ask yourself is not whether or not you will weather the storm. The question you should be asking yourself is HOW will I weather the storm? Show Resources: Bible References: Philippians 4:6-7 Psalm 23:4 Matthew 8:24-27 PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT SINGLE MOM - If you have been blessed by this podcast, sign-up today with a monthly gift of $ 3-month click here. SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on your favorite podcast platform. https://shepherdsvillage.com/podcast NEED...
Oct 10, 2022•13 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Send Sherry a Text Message Do you want to give yourself or even your kids a really great gift? Learn how to be really good for giver! Show Resources: Bible References: Romans 3:23 Luke 23:34 John 20:23 PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT SINGLE MOM - If you have been blessed by this podcast, sign-up today with a monthly gift of $ 3-month click here. SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on your favorite podcast platform. https://shepherdsvillage.com/podcast NEED PRAYER: Call 855-822-PRAY or click here . Information and ...
Sep 26, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Send Sherry a Text Message When we don’t understand The why, The what’s next, The where do I go from here? Where do you go? Who do you go to? What do you turn to? We all have experiences in our life when we just don’t understand. Addiction, cancer, depression, homelessness, unfaithfulness. I don’t understand. I loved him, but he left me, I don’t understand. When the hurt is so horrible, where do you take a stand when you don’t understand? PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT SINGLE MOM - If you have been bles...
Sep 19, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Send Sherry a Text Message What use would the beautiful wings of a butterfly be if it were weighed down by the memory of its pitiful past as a caterpillar? Unlike butterflies, how much of our time is spent looking backward, instead of what we have to look forward to? Show Resources: Bible References: John 8:36 Romans 12:2 PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT SINGLE MOM - If you have been blessed by this podcast, sign-up today with a monthly gift of $ 3-month click here. SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on your favor...
Aug 29, 2022•4 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Send Sherry a Text Message Loneliness is burdened with associations of emptiness and the absence of social connection. The feeling of loneliness is unique to everyone. Moms can feel it, but often experience it in different ways. Common symptoms of loneliness that affect mental health are withdrawal and depression. Moms who feel lonely describe the impacts of loneliness as disrupting their focus on work, withdrawing from other family members and friends, or neglecting their responsibilities outsi...
Aug 22, 2022•10 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Send Sherry a Text Message As a single mom, have you ever felt like you don't quite fit in? Doesn't the single mom life seem that way in EVERY single situation!!!! Whether it's a parent meeting, work event, holiday party, your kiddo's extracurricular activity, family gathering, or EVEN in church. You don't quite fit in!!! As a believer, and even pre-believer, learn how God singled you out for His purpose. He has a great purpose for this single season even if it feels lik...
Aug 15, 2022•9 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Send Sherry a Text Message Even though you have spent most of your summer trying to keep what remains of your sanity, you may be dreading the thought that the back-to-school season is just around the corner. As a single mom, it's hard to shift schedules, meets the upcoming school year's demands, and get everything done. Especially, if you yourself are going back to school too!!! Uncover and discover the Top 5 back-to-school that really stress a solo momma; along with, pointers to help ...
Aug 09, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Send Sherry a Text Message It's apparent that being a parent is hard work! Whether you are flying solo or have the support of a spouse, parenting is the most blessed and stressful job you will ever have. Every day presents new obstacles and opportunities that you didn't prepare for, and the answers you won't find in a book. But if you look, they may just be inside you! How many times of you said or heard someone say, "Oh, I am not going to do what my mom did! I am going to ra...
Aug 01, 2022•13 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Send Sherry a Text Message Whether you are a solo momma by choice, circumstance, divorce, or the death of a partner, you certainly have a double dose of decisions to make daily. Some may even come out of nowhere like an unwelcomed houseguest, especially in today's inflationary climate and housing crisis. As solo mommas, we are all being tested to the limits of our resiliency, strength, and sanity - trying to make sense of what definitely doesn't make sense. So do you have a BIG decisio...
Jul 25, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Send Sherry a Text Message Woman of worth, who are you? Some of you may be thinking to yourself, as I did, well what is a woman of worth exactly? I don't know her and given my past, I am far from anything worthy!!!! What value could I possibly have? Have you seen my life? Today, discover your WOW moment taking captive the thoughts in the truth that speaks louder than the lies that want you to lie down! When a woman knows her worth, she doesn't settle, she doesn't bow down, she doe...
Jul 18, 2022•10 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Send Sherry a Text Message Let me tell you. There are few things more disheartening to a child than having one awesome story to tell and no one to listen to. If you've been married, you know what I am talking about as I am sure you had stories to share with your hubby and he was checked out like an overdue library book. As a mom, you're physically there, but mentally you are zoned out! I mean I don't know why, it's not like you are trying to hold the whole household together ...
Jul 11, 2022•10 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Send Sherry a Text Message As families get together on this day to celebrate our freedom as an independent country many single moms may find themselves in bondage to the freedom they have seemed to have lost. As Christian single moms, we know we find our freedom in Christ on this day and every day - as He desires to bless us physically, financially, and spiritually. That's something to celebrate! Today's devotional thought will focus on 3 Biblical truths as a reminder that His truth ha...
Jul 04, 2022•5 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Send Sherry a Text Message Have you seen the cost of a bag of shredded cheddar cheese lately? I don't know about you mommas, but Taco Tuesday used to be my cheapest meal of the week, now it is no different than anything else I put on the table. With soaring gas, grocery, and housing costs coupled with supply chain shortages many single moms in crisis are now being presented with yet another crisis - homelessness. Working, motivated mommas whose rent is being raised beyond the reasonable now...
Jun 27, 2022•10 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Send Sherry a Text Message So we are three weeks into summer and how many of you mommas are already looking forward to the beginning of the next school year? Am I right? I mean you love your kids and you love the extra time you have with them, like those late-night movies and "sandsational" days at the beach, but when it's just you and you doing all the heavy lifting; summer can wear a single mother out like an old pair of running shoes - as you run from here to there. Today, we a...
Jun 20, 2022•9 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Send Sherry a Text Message School is out for the summer!!! No having to scurry the kids in a hurry, no extra-curricular activities, no parent-teacher conferences, science fairs, and homework. It's going to be a "sandsational" summer. You are going to kick it by the pool, soak up some sunshine, and bask with your babies at the beach. Oh yeah, but you are a solo momma. You don't have the time or the dime for vacation, staycation, or even a few days off. Your clock says 24/7 and...
Jun 13, 2022•15 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Send Sherry a Text Message As solo mommas, we've all been there, you know the dreaded moment you have to hand off your kiddos to their dad. For some, this happens every other weekend and seems to strap you in on a roller coaster ride you wish you could get off! Doesn't it seem that the angst of that moment begins at the beginning of the week as the anticipation climbs as the end of the week draws near? It can be a real gut buster, weekend wrecker, and white knuckle moment. One that fri...
Jun 06, 2022•13 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Send Sherry a Text Message It takes courage to participate in life! As solo mommas, we aren't just heads of our households for income tax purposes, we are spiritual heads of households for all purposeful incoming attacks on our household. Of all the things we do as solo momma, whatever it is that we do, that is probably the easing most important thing a single momma has to do in a day. PRAY! Just as our babies look to us as the ones with all the answers, we must look to the one who is the a...
May 23, 2022•15 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Send Sherry a Text Message Do you ever have those days where you feel like your mind just packed up everything in your house and just moved you....yeah, just moved you out of town finding yourself in another "state of mind"? You, know what I am talking about? When out of nowhere you ended up in the middle of nowhere and now you don't know how to find your way back to now here? Like all of the sudden you went from one moment being totally fine and then in a "hot-flash" yo...
May 16, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Send Sherry a Text Message On Mother's Day, you may soon realize, kids don't realize it's Mother's Day unless someone tells them. Sure they may make you a card in school, but come Sunday, they forget to get it out of their backpack. If I'm honest, I hadn't thought about it either when I woke up that first Single Mother's Day morning, until I woke up. As I wiped the sleep from my eyes, I soon had to wipe away the tears as I thought about how no one was going to ...
May 06, 2022•14 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Send Sherry a Text Message As a solo momma, you know what it's like to create a new normal while grieving the loss of the old at the same time, especially post COVID-19. We were stretched to the limit like Elasta Girl from The Incredibles. We had no support of a second parent and had to find our "bounce-back" as we were forced out of the workplace due to lack of childcare - finding ourselves in a financial pinch, working from home, and now with school in our home. Nevertheless, we...
May 02, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Send Sherry a Text Message When you look in the mirror WHAT do you see? Do you take the time to take in all the traits that make up you or do you quickly cover yourself with make-up to conceal yourself from yourself and everyone else? When you look in the mirror WHO do you see? What is it that you reflect on when you take in your reflection? Do you see every curve, line, texture, and tone as an imperfection or the perfecting pattern of a person called YOU? As solo mommas and women, it is importa...
Apr 25, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Send Sherry a Text Message What disappoints us the most in life is the picture in our heads of how life is supposed to be. Now picture that, momma! Do you feel that way when you look at your wedding picture or even a current picture of your family and notice someone is missing in that picture? Do you find, like I do, that your "I do" you said as you stood at the altar would be forever? It's not quite how you pictured it, is it? Today we are going to do a cannonball into that pool ...
Apr 18, 2022•9 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Send Sherry a Text Message Does unwelcomed advice from family remind you of why you might want to "unwelcome" some peeps from holiday parties or events? Doesn't it just seem that everyone has an opinion on your career, parenting, dating, and lifestyle choices? Blah. Blah. Blah. As I like to say, "It's all relative when it comes to your relatives." So with Easter right around the corner, girrrrl, how are you going to handle ALL THAT? Especially as a solo momma, relat...
Apr 11, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Send Sherry a Text Message Every time you see your EX do you have a holy hot flash moment? I know, sometimes it is hard to look at him and not feel all of the history you two have shared. He may not have done something to hurt you recently or intentionally, but you still remember the feelings of hurt that can get your blood boiling!!! But what about your kiddos? Most likely, your children don't feel the same way you do when they see their father as he is their hero. Just like you are to the...
Apr 04, 2022•14 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Send Sherry a Text Message Don't you just hate those times when guests show up unannounced to your house? Doesn't it always seem like they come at the worst time? Well, stress and anxiety are very much the same way - showing up out of nowhere like two aggravating, uninvited guests who come to steal your peace and rob you of your joy, and if you make it too comfortable for them, they won't want to leave! It's time to get your house in order mommas learning 4 healthy habits you...
Mar 28, 2022•12 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Send Sherry a Text Message Today, we are going to have some fun practicing speaking our mind and speaking a word that often comes to mind, but for some crazy reason, we do mind saying it out loud. It's funny how strange how just two letters that sit next to each other in the alphabet can really sit heavy on our hearts if we fail to express it. So why is saying NO, so hard, and why do we see it as a bad thing as opposed to maybe a YES to a N ext O pportunity. Learn more as we boil saying &qu...
Mar 20, 2022•9 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Send Sherry a Text Message Do you feel like your life is out of control or, on the contrary, you are controlling everything so you don't lose control? As solo mommas, we are used to controlling everyone and everything as we are doing the job of two. But, did you know that the very same control is also controlling you? It sure is and if left unchecked, it not only checks you out from being a present parent, it also takes your breath away and the power that comes in the present moment. So tog...
Mar 14, 2022•10 min•Season 2Ep. 11
