033 Kristen Hallinan On Breaking A Bad Family Cycle, healing from the past and lessons 15 yrs of marriage Part 1

My guest for episode 33 of The Courage, Coaching, and Counseling Podcast is Kristen Hallinan.

I connected with Kristen over social media and asked her to share her story about Breaking A Bad Family Cycle.

She wrote an article about it here: https://www.relevantmagazine.com/life5/breaking-a-bad-family-cycle-is-tough-but-not-impossible/

More about Kristen from her website: https://www.kristenhallinan.com/

"I am married to my best friend, Shawn, and mom to four rambunctious kids (3 boys and 1 girl), ages 13, 11, 8, and 3. I have always counted myself lucky to have a husband I align with on all the big, important issues, but when it comes to temperature, flavor, and music preferences, let’s just say one of us prefers a vanilla latte with honey lavender sugar sprinkled on top and the other wants Gatorade.

After shepherding kids at home for many years, I worked as the Director of Development for MOPS International (a dream God had placed on my heart years before it would come true) and I loved every moment of it. I have the privilege of staying home again with my preschooler Jack and leaning into the beauty that is the chaos of a very full home. With a heart for hospitality and seeing women flourish, I write and speak to groups of women, encouraging them to love with abandon in their mothering, marriages, friendships and communities.

You will often hear me speaking about Autism, changing the legacy of generational toxicity, the nitty gritty about making a marriage work, and other vulnerable, tough stuff. I don’t want to waste a word and I believe each of us was placed in our family, community, influence circle, and era because God has some big, audacious things for us to conquer. I don’t want to miss out on any of it and I don’t want you to, either. When not chasing children or writing, you can find me still dating my husband, at the coffee shop with a friend, painting, baking (gluten free!), trying to figure out strength training for this not-so-young any more body, or cozying into the couch reading historical fiction and drinking a cup of hot tea. "

Connect with her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristenhallinan/

You can read her responses to questions I didn't get to in this interview here:

http://www.sovannpen.com/interview-with-kristen-hallinan-on-breaking-a-bad-family-cycle-and-supporting-your-childs-mental-health/

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