Restoration Home with Jennifer Pepito

Loving Beyond Control

Join Jennifer and Mary DeMuth author of Love, Pray Listen, as they talk about how our internal order has more to do with our children's order than our ability to manage well or enforce outward order. This grows with a willingness to pursue our identity in Christ and let him be our all in all, so that when the day comes, and our children leave the nest and begin making their own decisions, we aren't caught in the trap of believing we can control or "order" their lives. Instead, we can Love, Pray and Listen.
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here!!!
Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge 
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 In this episode–
When we can calm ourselves and be orderly in our emotions, self-regulation, we create order in our homes and the lives of our children
Take a sabbath, a life giving day
Where is your real joy coming from
Practicing benevolent detachment: your role shifts as your children become adults
Have to be able to grieve so you can find your joy and identity in the only one who is Good
Extremes can wreck our children’s internal order because extremes are the manifestations of our internal disorder.
Releasing control in the process of creating order 
Your identity is more than "mother", finding Christ at the centre through motherhood and beyond. 
Mary DeMuth has created a free resource with 52 prayers for your adult children. 
You can find all of Mary's books here.
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Healing Order: The Role of Connection and Humility in Building Orderly Homes

Have you seen something or experienced the corruption of a godly principle, virtue, or idea that created a lot of pain in your life? Maybe it affected a friend of family member. Is it a pain that is still sitting with you and making it hard to find balance and order in certain areas of your life? 
In this episode, Emelie and Jennifer introduce the discipline of order to talk about the ways we hold on and react to past perversions of holy virtues. They discuss the role of humility and repentance in bringing restoration to generations so as families and communities we can embrace order from a place of wholeness not control.
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Peaceful Press Cookbook is available on Amazon!! 
Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason styled education for Autumn 2023, check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!
 
In this episode:
What is order
Decorrupting holy value through forgiveness, humility, and repentance 
The role of mothers in creating order 
Learning to build a foundation on connection not rules 
Order also comes when we examine our hearts and motivations 
Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge 
Morthering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito 
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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
Jennifer's Instagram
You can learn more about Emelie here-
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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
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Living with Patient Endurance

Join Jennifer and Katie Westenberg, author of the book, But Then She Remembered, for Ep. 33. The conversation begins with doom scrolling, what it is and why we are doing it. Doom scrolling, worry, fear for our loved ones, it's so easy to paint these things with a brush of validity. We validate why we allow fear, distraction, and worry to govern so much of our attention. If that sounds familiar to you, this is a beautiful conversation about how to fill your home with praise instead of fear. Part of restoration, part of balance, is putting God back on the throne of our lives, our concerns, and our emotions. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here!!!
Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge 
 In this episode–
Singing to focus our mind on Christ
Why we fear and what it says about who we believe God is
Practical ways to re-engage our faithfulness to remember God's faithfulness 
The role of "patient endurance" 
Check out Katie's book on Amazon and everywhere books are sold!  
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Creating Summer Rhythms

Episode 32 is a solo episode with Jennifer Pepito, founder of The Peaceful Press and author of "Mothering by the Book". This episode is Part III of the Discipline of Balance. How can we use summer to help us have a Restored Home? Summer is a great time to rest, repair and grow. Do you want to be a little more organised, learn a new skill, finally clean out a junk drawer, get some rest, dig a garden? Listen for some great tips and resources to bring some rebalance in your summer months. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here! Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason style education for Autumn 2023, check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!
In this episode:
What do you need this summer to balance your year? 
Identifying habits to rebuild and repair for a peaceful home
Continue to create rhythm and balance through a consistent morning time schedule
We don't need to overload our children with "school" for them to be successful
 Tips, wisdom, and experience on how to decompress, slow down, grow, prune, and rest in the summer months. 
Episode 32 Resources 
The Chore and Routine Cards 
A Peaceful Path to a Living Education 
The Connection Challenge 
The Homeschool Planner
The Family Vision Worksheet
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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
Jennifer's Instagram
Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

Balance and Special Needs Mothering with Carrie M. Holt

Welcome to Episode 31! Jennifer and Carrie of Take Heart Special Moms talk about the challenges of homeschooling and carrying for special needs children. Whether you have a special needs child or not, this is a beautiful conversation about leaning into God, acknowledging that life is outside of our control, and finding balance, not burdensome rules in what it looks like to homeschool, mother, and be a woman. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 is here!!!
Looking for ways to attune and repair with your children? Check out our Ten Day Connection Challenge 
 In this episode–
Carrie's story 
It's okay to get help!!
Creating open doors of communication with our children 
Get Carrie's new book, The Other Side of Special at Amazon or check out Take Hear Special Mom to find all the places you can buy it. 
For further resources check out Resilient by John Elderidge 
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The Pursuit of Balance

Welcome to episode 30! Jennifer and Emelie discuss the role of balance in our spiritual, personal, and homeschool walk. Balance is not something we often think about when we're looking at spiritual disciplines. Think about it as understanding the season you're in. Are you in a season where you're really pursuing righteousness? Well, is it tempered by an acknowledgement of God's grace? Are you working on grace but forgetting about righteousness? Balance is usually what happens when we stay in step with Christ, because he is looking to bring us into relationship with himself and not another form of religion. When we are on His journey, his leadership creates balance in our lives. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 coming Summer of 2023! Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason styled education for Autumn 2023, check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!
In this episode:
What is balance?
Why being out of balance can often lead to judgement as we use rules and comparisons to make us feel justified rather than the accomplished work of the Cross. 
Staying in your lane when it comes to going places in your life
Cultivating our ability to hear the voice of God in our lives so we can walk with confidence in what He has called us to
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
Jennifer's Instagram
You can learn more about Emelie here-
Emelie's Instagram
Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.

Stewarding a Child’s Innocence in a Wild World

Join Jennifer and Rebecca of the Momlitics Podcast and The Primrose Patriot as they discuss stewarding a child's innocence and their age appropriate exposure to ideas, concepts, and concerns. Episode 28 is a great dialogue about the challenges we face to live with hope and raise children in a secure but not sterile environment. Young children can sense both our fear and distress, so it's not just about avoiding direct exposure, but also how are we stewarding our peace and joy as we take in news and information. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 coming Summer of 2023! Looking for ways to have fun and keep learning through the summer? Check out The Summer Bundle and Spring Guide. 
 In this episode–
How to answer a child's questions
The importance of eating dinner together 
Understanding even very young children are impacted by the gravitas of a situtation they cannot understand
Stewarding our peace as we imbibe information 
Protecting age appropriate innocence 
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Stewarding the Woman: Health, Hormones, and Wholeness

In this episode, Jennifer and Emelie talk about what it looks like to steward our physical and mental well-being. As women, our hormonal cycles and our ability to be emotionally calm are inter connected. Our hormones are balanced through feeling cared for during estrogen production (follicular phase) and feeling mutual companionship during our progesterone (luteal phase). When past experiences make us feel like no one is there for us in hard times, it becomes even more difficult to engage our external world in a way that helps balance our hormones. Responsibility isn't a chore its a priviledge but in order to show up whole and at peace, we need to understand how beautifully complex our bodies are! When we know this, we can figure out how to steward our physical bodies, heal from past pain, and show up as resilient women. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 coming Summer of 2023! Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason styled education, check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom!
In this episode:
Understanding the very real role of your cycle
Learning how to rely on people and feel nurtured during estrogen production and seek out community for progesterone production
Taking time for yourself is not selfish, it is a necessary part of being a wife, mother, care-giver
How fear and past trauma can derail our physical health 
Check out Mothering by the Book by Jennifer Pepito
Episode with Steve Lawson
Additional Resources: These are not affiliates nor partners of Restoration Home or the Peaceful Press. We do not agree with or endorse every view expressed, but we have found these are some of the best resources for understanding our bodies as women. 
Fast Like a Woman with Mindy Pelz-understanding our hormonal cycles 
Doing Life Around Your Hormones with Mindy Pelz
The Body Keeps the Score  by Basel van der Kolk 
Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod 
Fast Like a Woman by Mindy Pelz 
Fit Mama Method
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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
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Stewarding a Charlotte Mason Education

Episode 27 is a wonderful interview with Leah Boden, author of Modern Miss Mason. Jennifer and Leah talk about the process of stewarding a vision of education that encompasses the whole child. They discuss the role of Charlotte Mason in an education that is story and narrative based. Charlotte Mason education isn't about reading as many books or cramming as much information into our children as possible. Instead, we are stewarding an education that fills them with a deep sense of identity, good and evil, and the ability continue learning their whole lives. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
The Playful Pioneers Volume 2 coming Summer of 2023! Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason styled education, check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom! 
 In this episode–
What Charlotte Mason isn't
The role of story and narrative in education
The aims of a good education
Stewarding life long learners
You are well equipped to educate your children and it's not complicated 
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
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Emotional Stewardship in the Home

Episode 26, Jennifer and Emelie begin the four weeks of stewardship, with a conversation about stewarding the emotions in our home. As always, it starts with us when it comes to restoration, and this is a great conversation about the ways we contribute to stewarding peace or chaos. 
 In this episode–
Identifying where your emotions coming from and thinking before you react
Taking care of your needs to have space to address the stress of day to day life
Considering how overwhelming your activities are and having grace for yourself and your family, while also sticking to essentials
Practical ways to take care of yourself in 5 minutes or less
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
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You can learn more about Emelie here-
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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
Some Amazon Affiliate Links.