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Ways Moms Heal Their Heart After Pregnancy Loss with Pam Vredevelt Jan 23, 2017

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You may be surprised to know that approximately 1 million expectant mothers suffer a pregnancy loss every year just in the United States alone. 1 out of 4 pregnancies end prematurely in miscarriage, stillbirth or tubal pregnancy.

Why do some people bounce back after a tragic loss when others don’t? What is it that empowers the to keep moving forward through grief with a sense of hope?

Pam Vredevelt, Love and Loss Expert, Professional Therapist, and best selling author, wrestled with these questions after losing her first baby half way to term, and years later, her sixteen year old son following a car accident.

This is something that touches close to home for me. We lost two babies in between our daughter and son. I never realized how common miscarriages are until we went through that.

It is a devastating loss. Both for a mother and a father.

So my hope for today’s show is to give hope and comfort to those of you that have experienced a loss like this and also to give wisdom and understanding to those who haven’t in case someone you love goes through this.

Pam and I discuss:

* Our personal stories of loss.

* The importance of sharing our pain with others that we trust.

* Why mothers feel shame when they lose a baby during pregnancy.

* The role that facing our loss plays in healing our heart.

* What we can do to work through our grief.

* The moment when I told my children they have siblings in Heaven.

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
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Organize Now! Challenge – Kitchen Drawers Jan 20, 2017

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So if you have been following along in the Organize Now Challenge (http://the29minutemom.com/organize-now-challenge-kitchen-surfaces/) your kitchen surfaces and cupboards should be looking good! It’s time to get those kitchen drawers looking just as clean and neat! What do you store in your kitchen drawers? Are they cluttered? When was the last time you went through them?

In this podcast Jennifer Ford Berry, Life’s Organization Expert (http://www.jenniferfordberry.com/) gets down to the nitty gritty about kitchen drawers and what should and shouldn’t be store in them.

Once you have finished this week’s challenge please post your pics in the Facebook group (Organize Now Challenge (https://www.facebook.com/groups/340635269463587)) or here under the podcast. Don’t be nervous! We are all in this together. The group is really kind and full of encouragement!

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
To order Jennifer's newest book, Make Room, click here.
Love the show? If so please let us know by hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, or joining our email list. Thank you so much for listening!
Elevated Escapes: turn your home into a destination with Jennifer and Amy Wheaton!

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No Such Thing as Perfect Moms with Jill Savage Jan 19, 2017

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Jill Savage is an author and speaker who is passionate about encouraging families. She is the author of seven books including Professionalizing Motherhood, No More Perfect Kids (http://amzn.to/2iJEgG3), My Hearts At Home, Real Moms…Real Jesus (http://amzn.to/2jzPOQl), Living With Less So Your Family Has More (http://amzn.to/2jLRUdl), and her most recent bestselling releaseNo More Perfect Moms.

Featured on Focus on the Family, Crosswalk.com, Family Life Today and Today’s Christian Woman magazine, Jill is the founder of Hearts at Home (http://www.hearts-at-home.org/), an organization that encourages moms. Jill and her husband, Mark, have five children, three who are married, two granddaughters and one grandson. They make their home in Normal, Illinois.

Here are some of the ideas discussed in this podcast:

* “Never compare your insides to another woman’s outsides.”

* Why do we as moms always compare ourselves to other moms and how can we stop?

* Why are moms control freaks?

* How to be more authentic

* How social media affects are expectations.

* Sharing our reality helps others find their own authenticity.

* What “stories” are you telling yourself.

* What about the Mom Guilt? Can we ever learn to get rid of it for good?

* Pinterest Fail (http://pinterestfail.com/)

* How sharing our failures helps our children grow.

No More Perfect Moms will help you…

* Change your unrealistic expectations to realistic expectations in order to better manage everyday challenges.

* Give grace and love to your husband and children even in difficult family life circumstances.

* Increase your confidence when you resist the urge to compare your insides to other women’s outsides.

* Discover the beauty of grace when you stop judging yourself and stop judging others.

* Find freedom from disappointment when you embrace your real family, your real challenges, and your real, but imperfect, life.

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
To order Jennifer's newest book, Make Room, click here.
Love the show? If so please let us know by hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, or joining our email list. Thank you so much for listening!
Elevated Escapes: turn your home into a destination with Jennifer and Amy Wheaton!

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Organize Now! Challenge – Kitchen Cupboards Jan 13, 2017

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Back again with another week of the Organize Now Challenge!!!

Would you be embarrassed if I looked into your kitchen cupboards? If so, this is the week for you because we can fix that. I want you to be proud of your cupboards. I want them to look so good you will hope that your girlfriends come over and open them all up just you can feel the pride! I’m telling you no matter how bad those babies are today they can make you scream with glee by the end of the week!

So if you have the book (http://amzn.to/2iM0Xef) open up to Week 23. This week we will cover the kitchen cupboards. In the podcast below I talk about the following topics:

Be honest yourself

Use a holding tank

Items that should be stored near the dishwasher

Items that should be stored near the stove

Use up what you have

Plastic containers

Think outside the box

Once you have finished some of your cupboards please post your pics in the Facebook group (Organize Now Challenge (https://www.facebook.com/groups/340635269463587)) or here under the podcast. Don’t be nervous! We are all in this together. The group is really kind and full of encouragement!

Do not forget the maintenance! In order to keep this area organized refer to page 117 in the book, Organize Now!

Good job today. You have completed the second week in the Organize Now Challenge

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
To order Jennifer's newest book, Make Room, click here.
Love the show? If so please let us know by hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, or joining our email list. Thank you so much for listening!
Elevated Escapes: turn your home into a destination with Jennifer and Amy Wheaton!

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Super Fulfillment with Dr. Jaime Jan 11, 2017

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Dr. Jaime Kulaga is a licensed mental health counselor, certified professional coach and inspirational speaker, she has dedicated her life to helping women find balance and live their utmost fulfilled life. She specializes in individual life coaching, corporate business coaching and couples counseling. She is frequently featured in several of the Nation’s leading media outlets for her expertise – including Forbes (http://forbes.com/), Maria Shriver’s blog, Glamour, Self, and Prevention magazines.

Dr. Jaime is also the author of: The SuperWoman’s Guide to Super Fulfillment: Step-by-Step Strategies to Create Work-Life Balance. (http://amzn.to/2iEU0Mc)

As someone who said “yes” to the point of nervous breakdowns and secret cry sessions in the bathroom, she knows the joy found in freedom and seeks to help women around the world achieve their unique balance, make bold decisions, steer the course of their own lives and find deep-seated, super fulfillment!

Notes:

* Juggling a career, relationship, family, housework, grocery shopping, planning, and paying the bills is not easy. And doing all of this while trying to find balance, care for our families and for ourselves takes a conscience effort….Dr. Jaime’s book: The SuperWoman’s Guide to Super Fulfillment was intended to help us do that.

* She actually says that it will help us get our life back on track by covering 6 main areas

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
To order Jennifer's newest book, Make Room, click here.
Love the show? If so please let us know by hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, or joining our email list. Thank you so much for listening!
Elevated Escapes: turn your home into a destination with Jennifer and Amy Wheaton!

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Choosing Joy with Pastor Pam Washburn Jan 09, 2017

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Who doesn’t want more Joy in their life this year?

Life is hard and it is inevitable that we will face hard times. But, even in the midst of life’s crummy circumstances we can learn where to look for Joy, how to get more Joy and why God wants us to experience Joy in abundance.

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
To order Jennifer's newest book, Make Room, click here.
Love the show? If so please let us know by hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, or joining our email list. Thank you so much for listening!
Elevated Escapes: turn your home into a destination with Jennifer and Amy Wheaton!

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Organize Now! Challenge – Intro & Kitchen Surfaces Jan 07, 2017

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Welcome to the Organize Now Challenge!!! Woo hoo…super excited!!!

I don’t want you to just look at this challenge as another thing on your To Do List.

I want you to get excited! I promise if you stick with me this WILL be life changing!

How do I know this? Because I have been helping people get organized for years and the reason why I LOVE what I do isn’t because I have OCD it is because when someone I work with finally, truly understands the blessings that come with getting organized and more importantly the blessing they can be to others…I get PUMPED UP!

I want YOU to reach your full potential here on this earth and can not do this if you are not organized.

Remember I said FULL potential…sure you can be successful, reach goals, make money and buy lots of stuff if you are not organized but you can do SO much more on this earth if you clear the clutter.

I encourage you to stick with the challenge and do not give up. An organized home does not happen over night. It takes one small step at a time. Most of us don’t have all day to organize so from this point forward your goal is to focus on one area per week. Schedule time to do this. You may want to chart your progress…this particular challenge is going to be 12 weeks long. Just imagine what we can get done together in 12 weeks if you commit!

So without further a do we are going to start with the kitchen!

Ok I am going to give you 2 HUGE reasons why you should get your kitchen super organized this week and next:

This is an area of your home that the most people see.

You spend more time in the kitchen then any other room so it is imperative that it is easy to find what you need when you need it AND it is not cluttered!

So if you have the book (http://amzn.to/2iM0Xef) open up to Week 22. This week we will cover the most visual areas in the kitchen:

Countertops

Refrigerator (the outside)

Paper

Walls

Now that your kitchen surfaces look clean and simple snap a pic and post in the Facebook group (Organize Now Challenge (https://www.facebook.com/groups/340635269463587)) or here under the podcast.

Do not forget the maintenance! In order to keep this area organized refer to page 113 in the book.

Good job today. You have completed the first week in the Organize Now Challenge. This was an easy one but next week we jump into the kitchen cupboards!

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
To order Jennifer's newest book, Make Room, click here.
Love the show? If so please let us know by hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, or joining our email list. Thank you so much for listening!
Elevated Escapes: turn your home into a destination with Jennifer and Amy Wheaton!

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Things That Matter {the important stuff in a home} Jan 05, 2017

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In this podcast Life’s Organization Expert, Jennifer Ford Berry discusses the stuff in our homes that truly matters, even after we have left this earth. She also shares her very personal story of helping people she loves move out of their home. This podcast may literally be life changing for many of you. It contains hard lessons that Jennifer has learned throughout the years of organizing homes. She discusses the following:

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
To order Jennifer's newest book, Make Room, click here.
Love the show? If so please let us know by hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, or joining our email list. Thank you so much for listening!
Elevated Escapes: turn your home into a destination with Jennifer and Amy Wheaton!

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Mom of 4 Boys Keeps Things Simple Dec 13, 2016

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Can you imagine having four young boys and a husband under one roof and still keeping the house organized? Well Angela Mancini sure can…she lives it! In this podcast Jennifer Ford Berry (http://www.jenniferfordberry.com/), sits down with Angela and asks her to share the ways she is keeping things simple and organized in her busy home. Jennifer and Angela have worked together on creating systems that work. Angela shares everything she has learned throughout this process, as well as, her insights on how a simpler home has benefited her and her family.

Some of the topics that are covered in the conversation:

* What Angela has to say about gifts that are given to her kids.

* What school work does she keep and what does she toss?

* Teaching kids to part with things.

* How to simplify a child’s bedroom.

* Finding joy in giving your kids’ outgrown items away.

* The benefits of maintaining a simple home.

* The one thing Angela gave away that she misses!

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
To order Jennifer's newest book, Make Room, click here.
Love the show? If so please let us know by hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, or joining our email list. Thank you so much for listening!
Elevated Escapes: turn your home into a destination with Jennifer and Amy Wheaton!

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Tame the Toy Clutter Dec 09, 2016

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Do you have a handle on toy organization in your home or do you feel like the toys are taking over your home? When your kids are small and it can feel like toys are swarming your house! All those dolls, cars, puzzles, games and don’t even think about the number of stuffed animals you have in every nook and cranny. It is enough to make any mom feel like she is going to loose her mind.

But wait! It doesn’t have to feel like this!

Really? You say…

How is that even possible?

Well, Jennifer Ford Berry, Life’s Organization Expert will tell you how. Real tips from a real mom and a real professional organizer. In this podcast she shares the secrets to taming the toys and why you shouldn’t let toys get to you so much.

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If you are ready to clear the clutter and organize your life, check out Jennifer's website for tons of resources including her monthly membership: The Created Order Neighborhood. (use code MAKEROOM for 50% off)!
To order Jennifer's newest book, Make Room, click here.
Love the show? If so please let us know by hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review, or joining our email list. Thank you so much for listening!
Elevated Escapes: turn your home into a destination with Jennifer and Amy Wheaton!

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