Fighting For Joy6 Touko 2025

Episode 96: Re-release: The "Both/And" of Mother's Day - Five Practical Ways to Approach the Day

I thought it would be helpful to re-release this episode with Mother's Day weekend approaching. For many women, this is a complicated holiday that can hold a wide range of emotions. Celebration AND tears. Joy AND sadness. It's now been almost 12 years without Jackson and 5 years without my mom - continued grief. AND, since this episode originally aired a couple of years ago, our family has grown - new joy! When Mother's Day comes this year, I'll have a new daughter-in-law, AND, with Grace's recent engagement, a new future son-in-law. Everything that I speak over my kids at the end of the episode rings true for Mercedes and Cameron now as well.

Listen in as I share 5 practical ways to approach the "both/and" of Mother's Day. These are tools that I personally implement and I know they will help you fight for joy too!

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Episode 112: Simple Ways to Fight for Joy

For a while now I’ve wanted to record a quick episode talking about some of the simplest ways to fight for joy. Over the past 8 seasons of this podcast, I’ve shared hundreds of tools that can help in ...

12 Kesä 29min

Episode 111: The Joy Report: April/May

I share some pretty heavy stories on the Fighting for Joy Podcast, so once a month I thought it would be fun to add a lighter episode where I give a quick “report” about a few of the things that are b...

11 Touko 28min

Episode 110: The Joy Report: March

31 Maalis 17min

Episode 109: Fighting for Joy Through the Sudden Loss of Both Parents

My guest today is Emily Lanphier. When she was just 28, and pregnant with her third child, she woke up in the middle of the night to a police officer knocking at her door. He was there to tell her tha...

21 Maalis 46min

Episode 108: The Joy Report: February

I share some pretty heavy stories on the Fighting for Joy Podcast, so once a month I thought it would be fun to add a lighter episode where I give a quick "report" about a few of the things that are b...

2 Maalis 20min

Episode 107: Grief Q&A: Answering Listener Questions

Today my husband Eric joins me for a brand new listener Q&A episode. I received so many thoughtful questions and I'm grateful for all of the submissions. For our conversation today I pulled a few of...

25 Helmi 57min