Restoration Home with Jennifer Pepito

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
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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
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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
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
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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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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
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Being, Becoming and Doing with Steven Lawson

Steven Lawson, creator of the Monk Manual and Life Atlas, joins us for the final episode on Prayer. Steven created the Monk Manual as a daily journal to foster being and doing. As Christians on the quest of restoration, the process of being still is part of our prayer life. It also undergirds our parenting, our relationships, and the impact we have on the world. Episode 25 is an incredible look at what we as women and mothers can accomplish when we let go of what we can't control and choose to steward the act of being before God, with our children, and in the sometimes hectic grind of day to day life. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
Enjoy the The Good Gospel, a 26 week study of the life of Jesus or check out our free Peaceful Life Planner to start creating a family vision. 
 In this episode–
How the prayerful act of being can change our lives
How being and becoming can positively impact our daily "doing"
Gratititude as a choice  
Practical ways to identify unrest in our hearts and bring God into our daily lives
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
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Monk Manual
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Passover Special

When God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, one of the first things He did was set up traditions that they were to observe as a community. These were meant to help them remember what God had done, and give them rest and times of celebration. As we approach Passover, join us for a special episode with Avital Schreiber Levy of HiFam. The following conversation is a challenging and insightful look at building generational tradition and community. 
Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!
Enjoy beautiful Christian Seder (Passover) Resources and The Good Gospel, a 26 week study of the life of Jesus. 
 In this episode–
The impact of community on our traditions 
Joy and practices in sustaining generational long traditions
Capturing the heart of our children in setting standards and boundaries 
Building family and individual identity into our traditions 
Taking on the weight of remembering God and His works in the traditions we create
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Grace and Grit: Raising Children in a Prayer Community

Welcome to episode 23 of Restoration Home. This is the third episode on the Discipline of Prayer. Jennifer and Emelie dive into prayer, but also growing a spiritual life within a community and raising Godly children with grace and discipline. They talk about some of their great failures and successes in the Pepito Home. Finally, prayer lived out requires community, and we're excited to have you join us in this episode of the Restoration Home.
 In this episode–
Where is grace, discipline and identity in raising children
The importance of corporate prayer and community
The grace of God also includes chastisment and how we can embrace this in community
The Good Gospel by the Peaceful Press
Episodes 5-12 talk about Community and Hospitality more in depth! 
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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
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Incorporating Prayer: A Guide

Welcome to episode 22 of Restoration Home. Jennifer and Kris talk about prayer and how to develop a restorative prayer life in the midst of the chaos of day to day life. Life also changes as children grow up, and our illusion of control shifts from fixing a bandaged knee to watching our teenagers drive away for the first time, and truly realising that God alone is in control. Prayer is meditation that allows us to continually stay in the presence of God amidst the lies and fears that would like to swirl in our mind. 
 In this episode–
Learning to use prayer and meditation to let go of fear and trust God for our lives and loved ones
Tips for young moms to carve out time to pray and enjoy God
The importance of learning to listen to God for creative God given solutions to everyday stress
The Good Gospel by the Peaceful Press
Saint Patricks Prayer
You can learn more about Jennifer here-
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You can learn more about Kris here-
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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 
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The Discipline of Prayer

Welcome to episode 21 of Restoration Home. Jennifer and Emelie talk about the pursuit of prayer in our Christian walk. We are mandated to "pray without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) but prayer is more than the formulas we pray before eating. Prayer is an ongoing continuous conversation with a loving God who wants to be in communication with us. In this conversation, we talk about how to expand and grow our prayer life and awareness of God in our daily lives.
 
 In this episode–
How do we know we are hearing the voice of God
The importance of prayer for restoration
How to pray and learning from the Psalms
God as a God Who Answers: Jeremiah 29:12, Psalm 91:15, Job 33:26, Zechariah 13:9, Mathew 7:7
The Good Gospel by the Peaceful Press
Evidence Not Scene by Darlene Deibler Rose
Saint Patricks Prayer
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.