by Janel Breitenstein | May 23, 2025 | emotional health
It might sound weird to some–but the Bible’s emotional health and wisdom continues to amaze me. I mean, it shouldn’t, considering God literally wrote the book on emotional health. But here we are. So today, I’ll stay more silent and let the...
by Janel Breitenstein | May 9, 2025 | emotion, emotional health, fear, Marriage, Parenting, stress
It would have been tough to identify me as domineering in any form at all early in my marriage–considering I was so adept at being a doormat. (A quality my husband vigilantly called out and opposed, for the record.) But looking back, I do think I was emotionally...
by Janel Breitenstein | Apr 11, 2025 | Discussion Questions, emotional health, prayer, time alone with God, waiting
For a year during our family’s time in Uganda, we committed to proceed through each door of adoption until God made it clear we should stop. We wanted to live a God-sized life: One only explainable by him, that left us considering but not trusting not in what...
by Janel Breitenstein | Mar 24, 2025 | children, Family, free download, Ideas, kids, motherhood, Parenting
For some of you, it’s spring break. Got kids crawling up the walls? Need ideas for a little creative, active play? Let’s get to it. (I’d love your own ideas for bored kids added to the comments section below!) Play restaurant–maybe with a...
by Janel Breitenstein | Mar 21, 2025 | Family
I’m biting the bullet with another personal update (here’s the last one…from last June. Ayayay). Perhaps it’s ironic to have a blogger who doesn’t enjoy talking about herself even in conversation. But here we all are. Ready for the...
