Less Stress Family Podcast

40 Four Essentials for Working from Home Part 1

39 Comfort Foods

38 Produce Something!!

37 Laughter is GOOD Medicine

36 Garden Growing

35 Positives from Plagues?? What Walt Disney, Isaac Newton, and others can teach us.

34 Five Stages of Stress

33 Paying Kid$

32 - Managing the Chaos Called Home

My apologies - I dropped yesterday's audio file into today's episode, but it has now been corrected.This is one of our last pre-corona virus recordings. There are so many moving parts in maintaining a home, and very few people actually see how it is done as children any more. Then "POOF" they are an adult with responsibilities including managing laundry, dishes, general upkeep, meals, and so much more! The ONLY way to manage all the chaos is to create a system. In today's episode, Justin and Sha...

31 5 Ways to Ruin Sunday Mornings - When we Return from Isolation

We're providing you a recipe for disaster on Sunday mornings. Follow these steps to insure that your heart is not ready for worship, and your family is all stressed out and upset by the time you walk in the church doors. For a terrible worship experience on Sunday morning, make sure you: Don't pay attention to your own heart and spirit all week long. Don't get anything ready the night before. Don't have a breakfast plan. Don't get enough sleep - or have your kids get enough sleep. Show up with a...

30 His Brain Her Brain Book Review

29 Ready to Kill Your Kids or Spouse? - Draw them Close

Recorded just prior to the Corona Virus shutdowns, this episode looks at what to do when are ready to kill someone in your family. We all feel it. But what to do about it? The answer is to draw them close to you and nurture them and yourself.

Having Anxious Feelings? Bonus

This is a Bonus episode from a Facebook Live broadcast.

28 Jesus Made Mistakes - Dealing with Perfectionism

27 Saying Your Last Goodbye - Every Night

26 Are You a Doer, Thinker, or Feeler?

Social Distancing Daily Planner and Devotional Guide

This was a Facebook Live recording. Get the PDF guide: www.lsfpodcast.com

25 Let Your Light Shine!!

Bonus - Leading Your Kids During Social Distancing

We do another Facebook Live conversation about leading your kids during this time of social distancing.

Bonus - Quarantine Sanity Survival Guide

Bonus content about some things to do while in quarantine. Also, went Facebook live with this one.

24 Funny Story and Immune System Boosting

23 Give Hugs!!

22 Book Review - Tidying Up

We are huge book lovers, and today's podcast is our very first book review. Actually, it's more of us sharing a few nuggets from the book for you to apply to your life now. The book is The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo. This book will help people decrease their stress in 2 main ways: First, living in a cluttered environment causes stress. Second, not being in touch with what you like and dislike causes stress. We read this book about 7 years ago. We've actually done the pile u...

21 Admitting When You are Wrong

Today's podcast is being mature enough to admit when you are wrong - especially to your kids. We call it forgiveness or "turning your ship around". The problem and stress comes when we don't ask for forgiveness because we have to justify ourselves continually. It also causes stress when your children have not learned to ask for forgiveness because they have never seen you demonstrate it. The solution is that asking for forgiveness needs to become part of your family and work team culture.Everyon...

20 Holistic Health

Today's topic is how to start thinking about the health of your body, mind, spirit. Americans seem to separate out too many parts of themselves. We become stressed when we compartmentalize success. We do great things in our career, but act terrible at home, etc. The solution is to look at the wheel of life and rank yourself from 1 to 10. Don't beat yourself but make a plan to grow yourself. "Rising tide raises all ships." = When you improve 1 area of your life, all the areas are likely to improv...

19 How to Homeschool at Night

Today's topic is how to homeschool at night. Shawna tells the story about her hashtag mishap. The problem and stress is that parents might want to homeschool, but they have to work during the day. If you try to work from home and teach homeschool during the day, then you will end up in major stress. The solution is to block schedule your teaching time at night after dinner. We review a possible schedule for how it has worked for us. We cover some practical examples of group learning and online o...

18 Jerk Dad

Jerk Dad is when dad is operating at his low self. Justin tells the story about bedtime routines gone wrong. The problem is that men don't process the whole self very well. We aren't usually very self aware so communication, emotions, feelings, etc. won't be articulated or dealt with properly at times. Thus, dad is super stressed. The solution is that dad needs to self-care and take account of his mind, body and emotions.

17 MOMster

Today's topic is Momster Mom. When you parent out of your low self. Shawna shares the story about how headache + taxes + a broken homeschool system led her to becoming Momster. The Problem is when mom does not take an adult timeout and then melts down. She is not fun to be with. The Solution is to know yourself and to self care (mind, body, spirit). Shawna talks about music, exercise, journals, prayer, worship, sleeping well. Momster does not mean that you are failure. Instead, it is a time to g...

16 High and Low Self

Today's story is about when Shawna's mom refused to wake her up in the morning because of the way Shawna acted. Fast forward to today and Shawna is very energized and excited to speak to groups at 7AM. What changed? Shawna realized that she has a high self that she can step and walk into. Problem and Stress - People have 2 versions of their true authentic self - a high self and a low self. These are not good/bad types of you. But more like motivated and proactive self vs depressed and reactive s...

15 Our Arranged Marriage

We tell our story about our arranged marriage. We talk about the benefits of allowing people you trust to speak into your life. Justin wanted to be single and never dreamed of having kids. Shawna was looking for a husband, and figured that emailing a guy on the other side of the world was harmless. We also talk about the difficulty of marrying a complete stranger. Our first year of marriage was rough!!