FROM AUTHOR JANEL BREITENSTEIN

EMOTIONALLY STRONG(ISH) PARENTING

Parenting can feel like survival—permission slips, driving permits, lost cleats, and meltdowns in aisle seven. But what if the chaos is where God’s forming something deeper in you: emotional wholeness that could transform your family for generations?

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Bring Wholeness to Your Home

In Emotionally Strong(ish) Parenting: 7 Shifts for a Resilient and Jesus-Centered Home, author and speaker Janel Breitenstein helps parents trade reactivity and shame for emotional resilience rooted in the gospel. Blending humor, neuroscience, and biblical wisdom, she reveals how God’s emotionally healthy love can transform everyday Christian parenting moments—from conflict to connection, from anger to peace, from fear to trust.

Through seven practical mindset shifts, Janel equips parents to grow in emotional intelligence, mental health, and spiritual maturity so they can bring that wholeness into their homes. As parents change from the inside out, kids begin to experience the powerful results of that transformation: deeper security, empathy, and faith that lasts.

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Janel Breitenstein

Janel is a mom, missionary, international speaker, and contributor to or author of over 16 published works. Her Scripture-focused work blended with emotionally healthy relationships creates and aunthentic, intimiate connection with her readers. She is a wife and the mom of four kids and lives in Colorado. You can find her having uncomfortable, important conversations.

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