Restoration Home with Jennifer Pepito

Ruth Chou Simons the creator of Gracelaced and author of books such as GraceLaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through Seasons of the Heart and Pilgrim joins Jennifer Pepito for Episode 198. 
Ruth is a repeat guest and we are so excited to have her on to talk about her new book This Moment Matters. Her book is about habits and how they build the foundation to live in what God has called you to. 
Finally, the dreams that God has placed on your heart are not lost in the now because your "someday is made up of 1000s of right nows." –Ruth Chou Simons 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
Starting to plan for next year's schooling and looking for tips on how to homeschool?? Check out the Peaceful Press's free How to Start Homeschooling Booklet. 
 In this episode–
The habits that mattered in the Simons family
How building one simple habit can lead you to doing harder things
Seeing your children as individuals not just a unit
Building habits of consistency.
Check out her books When Strivings Cease and Beholding and Becoming: The Art of Everyday Worship
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What if hospitality isn't about having a perfectly clean home, elaborate meals, or an always-ready guest room?
What if hospitality is simply creating a home where people feel welcomed, loved, and cared for?
In episode 197 of the Restoration Home Podcast, Jennifer Pepito talks with Mystie Winckler about creating a hospitable home while homeschooling, managing the daily rhythms of family life, and cultivating an environment where relationships can flourish.
Mystie shares wisdom from her new book on hospitality, encouraging women to see their homes as places of welcome and ministry. Together, Jennifer and Mystie discuss how simple rhythms, household systems, and intentional habits can create more peace and margin for loving our families and serving others.
After nearly 30 years of homeschooling, Jennifer has seen that the most meaningful parts of education often happen around the table, in the kitchen, while caring for others, and through the everyday work of home life.
This conversation connects beautifully with the themes from Jennifer's book, Habits for a Sacred Home, where she explores how small, faithful practices can transform our homes into places of peace, connection, and spiritual formation and from Mystie's new book, Home is for Hospitality.
In this episode, you'll hear:
✨ Why hospitality is more about welcome than perfection✨ How to create a home culture where people feel they belong✨ Simple rhythms that help homeschool families manage the demands of daily life✨ Why household work is an important part of our children's education✨ How to make space for community even during busy homeschool seasons✨ The connection between homemaking, discipleship, and hospitality✨ Practical ways to cultivate a home that reflects God's love
Our homes are not just places where we complete lessons or manage responsibilities. They are places where we form people, build relationships, practice generosity, and create memories that last for generations.
Whether you are welcoming neighbors around your table, teaching your children to serve, or simply trying to create a peaceful atmosphere for your family, this conversation will encourage you to embrace the sacred work of home.
Resources Mentioned:
📖 Habits for a Sacred Home by Jennifer PepitoDiscover simple rhythms and practices that help families cultivate a home filled with peace, connection, and purpose.
📖 Home is for Hospitality by Mystie WincklerA beautiful encouragement to embrace hospitality as a way of life and create homes that welcome others with grace and love.
🌿 Restoration Home CommunityJoin a community of women seeking to cultivate peaceful homes, intentional rhythms, and a deeper connection with God.
Connect with Jennifer:
The Peaceful PressRestoration Home Community
Connect with Mystie:
Visit Mystie Winckler online for resources on homeschooling, homemaking, and creating a well-ordered home. https://www.simplyconvivial.com/
Reflection Question:What is one small habit you could cultivate this week to make your home feel more welcoming and peaceful?

Motherhood has a way of revealing our deepest fears.
Whether you’re afraid of failing your children, making irreversible mistakes, or wondering if you’re doing enough, fear can quietly steal the joy God intended for your family. Add the weight of mom guilt, and our nervous system begins to suffer.
In episode 196 of the Restoration Home Podcast, I’m joined by author and speaker Sarah Walton to talk about overcoming fear, embracing God’s grace, and learning how to forgive yourself for mistakes and regulate your nervous system in the midst of motherhood crisis.
Together we discuss:
Why fear so often shapes our parenting decisions
How the gospel frees us from perfectionism
Learning to replace anxiety with trust in God
What to do when you can’t stop replaying your parenting mistakes
The importance of receiving God’s forgiveness—and extending it to yourself
Practical ways to cultivate peace and regulation in your home instead of fear
If you’ve ever lain awake wondering whether you’ve damaged your children or wished you could have a “do-over” as a mom, this episode is for you. God’s grace is bigger than your failures, and He is faithfully at work in both your heart and your children’s lives.
Jesus Will Meet You There by Sarah Walton
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press-find free homeschool samples here
If today’s conversation encouraged you, I’d love to invite you to join the Restoration Home Community—a place where Christian women gather to cultivate peaceful homes, strong family relationships, and joyful faith through biblical encouragement, practical habits, and authentic community.
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Welcome to episode 196 of the Restoration Home Community!! 
In this episode, we're bringing you Jennifer's Inspired Homeschool Workshop, so if you missed it originally or want to listen to it on the go give it a listen. 
Jennifer talks about how history was homeschooled to give you the confidence to continue homeschooling; she offers stories of our heroes who were homeschooled, like Laura Ingalls Wilder through much of her life, and lists ways we can take homeschooling to the next level by making it about raising a whole child. 
If you are looking for a community to start building your inspired homeschool with, the Restoration Home is open for the next 36 hours. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
Check out the Homeschool Planner for a great way to stay organized and focused as the new year starts. 
Looking for more nature and science for this year? The Peaceful Press Nature Book Flood is a beautiful addition to your school year.  
In this episode:
We want you to get excited for homeschooling!
History was homeschooled
Looking for a homeschool curriculum that brings life and joy? Check out the Peaceful Press Start Here Guide. 
Preorder the Inspired Homeschool for amazing bonuses and get inspired for the school year to come.
Check out the Restoration Home Community to build your habits, homeschool, and grow lasting relationships.
The best habits are built around daily rhythms; check out the Peaceful Press FREE Daily Rhythm Pack
The Peaceful Press Chore Cards: the essential tool for developing good habits of order, cleanliness, work, and self-care
Get 10% off your purchase with code "Restoration10"
If you're looking for inspiration for a habit make-over check out: Habits for a Sacred Home by Jennifer Pepito 
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Welcome to episode 194 with Jennifer Pepito, Cindy West and Alicia Hutchinson. Cindy West is the founder of Our Journey Westward a homeschool science and nature study and a long time homeschool mama. Alicia Hutchinson is the creator of Learning Well and a homeschool mama of many years. 
This is such a fantastic episode whether you are starting to homeschool or in the thick of it. 
Jennifer, Alicia, and Cindy talk about self-care, a Charlotte Mason education, getting outside, what their ideal homeschool day looked like, and so much more. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers. 
Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.
In this episode: 
Finding micro-moments of self-care
The key elements of a great homeschool day 
Foundational principles for your children
Stewarding your marriage in every season 
What we loved about homeschooling
You can learn more about Alicia at her Learning Well
You can learn more about Cindy at Our Journey Westward
If you're looking for inspiration for your homeschooling, check out Jennifer's new book The Inspired Homeschool. Pre-order now for exclusive bonuses
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Welcome to episode 193 with Jennifer Pepito and Abbey Wedgeworth.
Abbey is a teacher, speaker, and author and this episode centred around her newest book Help! I'm Ruining My Kids. 
We all so badly want to find the formula that will guarantee us Godly, happy, whole children, even if that formula is not having a formula or a rigid religious adherence to scripture absent God. 
This is a conversation about turning to God, the difference between commiseration and counsel, how mom's at different stages can bless each-other, and so much more. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers. 
Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.
In this episode: 
Find places where you can't pretend to be perfect 
Your children don't need you to be perfect, they need you to be stable 
Learning to take correction from the people who love us
Your childhood woundedness is connected to your ability to show up
Learning to see the refuge we have in God
You can learn more about Abbey at her website and do check out her newest book! 
If you're looking for inspiration for your homeschooling, check out Jennifer's new book The Inspired Homeschool. Pre-order now for exclusive bonuses
You can learn more about Jennifer here:
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You can learn more about Abbey here: 
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Welcome to episode 192 with Jennifer and Emelie. 
Over her 28 years of homeschooling, one of the main reasons Jennifer has seen families quit is the fear that their child will not get the education they need. While homeschooling is not for everyone, we're here today to unpack the lie that your child is guaranteed to get a better education in a more formal system.
Children want to learn. They are naturally curious, capable of information retention, and interested in the world around them. So often the formal education that we think is "safe" offers little in the way of real life skills, kills curiosity, and creates performers, not learners.
Instead, we talk about raising whole children, whose lives are shaped by their values, not their education level because education can always be acquired while values must be instilled from a young age. Practically, everything your child needs to know academically can be acuired in a 100 hours of education. Besides, when you step back from fear and look at the general education level of the American population do you really think that your child is going to receive a better education in a system that is producing a population where 1 in every 5 adults is illiterate. 
This great conversation is made possible by the Peaceful Press!
Our full length Peaceful Press Elementary Bundles  give your children the opportunity to learn practical skills, read beautiful literature, and engage in a living history and applicable science. If you're not loving your current homeschool, don't wait till next year to make a change. Switch now and enjoy every moment of learning with the Peaceful Press.
 In this episode–
The brutal failures of the American education system
All the smartest people I know taught themselves after highschool
The most important and hardest thing for your child to acquire is a deep sense of self and a firm moral compass 
The history of home education.
To be inspired in your homeschool journey, check out Jennifer's new book "The Inspired Homeschool"
If you preorder,  you can get your preorder bonuses at Theinspiredhomeschool.com
Check out the Peaceful Press Amazon Storefront for all our favourite things and best recommendations.
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
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You can learn more about Emelie here-
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*Warning*: This episode is all about sex and contains some references to traumatic experiences. Listener discretion advised. 
Welcome to episode 191 with Jennifer Pepito and Laura Dugger. 
Laura is the host of the Savvy Sauce Podcast and a Christian Sex therapist. This episode is not a therapy session, instead, it looks more broadly at what the Bible says about sex, the physical benefits, the gift of intimacy, and why it's supposed to be a blessing to both husband and wife. 
While this episode deals with a topic a little off the wall for the Restoration Home, it's still a incredibly important one, and we hope you are inspired and encouraged. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers. 
Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.
In this episode: 
The Biblical perspectives on sex
Trauma should be dealt with so you can experience the fullness of what God has for you in intimacy. 
Prioritizing physical connection with your spouse even when you are touched out
Sex should be enjoyable not a duty
You can learn more about Jennifer here:
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You can learn more about Laura here: 
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Welcome to episode 190 with Jennifer Pepito. 
This is a sneak peak into Jennifer's workshop on planning the perfect homeschool year, which you can get as part of your pre-order bonus when you purchase The Inspired Homeschool.
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
Check out the Homeschool Planner for a great way to stay organized and focused as the new year starts. 
Pre-order Jennifer newest book: The Inspired Homeschool.
Looking for more nature and science for this year? The Peaceful Press Nature Book Flood is a beautiful addition to your school year.  
In this episode:
Why computers aren't working 
How to plan a perfect homeschool year 
The statistics around homeschool success
The best habits are built around daily rhythms; check out the Peaceful Press FREE Daily Rhythm Pack
The Homeschool Planner: Everything you need to plan at your fingertips
Get 10% off your purchase with code "Restoration10"
Pre-order Jennifer's new book "The Inspired Homeschool"
You can learn more about Jennifer here–
Jennifer's Instagram

Welcome to episode 189 with Jennifer Pepito and Tabitha Paige. 
Tabitha is the author and illustrator of some of our most beloved children’s books and a speech therapist who has so much to teach us about learning. and guess what play is, as always, core to successful learning. Children are wired to learn and it’s only when we turn it into a chore or abridge their ability to learn or try to rush them that we run into what feels like delays in most children. So take a deep breath, don’t worry about your child’s pace, and enjoy the journey.  
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers. 
Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.
In this episode: 
The importance of play in learning to read.
Letting your child learn at their own pace 
Child development and fear
You’re child is doing fine 
Shutting out the background noise if it isn’t helpful.
Check out Tabitha Paige’s Amazon store for so many beautiful water-colour children’s books. 
You can learn more about Jennifer here:
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You can learn more about Tabitha here: 
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