Growing Home Together Podcast
Religion & Spirituality
About
Join us in prayer for a strong marriage and wisdom in parenting. We share uplifting advice and practical tools to help you grow closer to God and each other in every season of life.
Episodes
- Parenting From a Place of Peace Rather Than Worry—with Laurie Davies
Worry and stress can show up in every season of parenting—from the moment we first bring our newborn baby home from the hospital to the day they start preparing to head out into the world on their own. Over the years, we’ve felt the weight…
- Practical Ways to Parent Your Child with ADHD—with Kirk Martin
A few weeks ago, we were sitting around the dinner table, enjoying a simple family meal together. But it felt like our son with ADHD spent less time in his chair and more time moving around the house. During the course of the meal, he got…
- How to Love Your Teen on Their Mental Health Journey—with Kristen Hatton
As we’ve parented our five children through the years, we’ve held them when the tears wouldn’t stop flowing. We’ve listened as they questioned their worth, identity, and if the hard season they were walking through would ever end. We have…
- Balancing Life: How to Live Your Priorities without Burning Out—with Kelsie Zarko
In a “more is better” culture, how can women live lives that are balanced, not burned out? It’s easy to mistake a busy life for a meaningful one. Often, we don’t realize how exhausted we truly are until we reach a breaking point. I’ve had…
- Finding Hope When Facing Addiction in Your Marriage—with Julie Sanford
Every week, we hear from wives who are quietly carrying the weight of a husband’s alcohol addiction. “I am hoping and praying that he gets healed and that his addiction doesn’t kill him.” “I have anxiety. I have fear. I feel stuck.” “Too m…
- How to Stay Close When Your Spouse Has Anxiety—with Michelle Bengtson
Dr. Michelle Bengtson discusses how couples can stay close when one spouse experiences anxiety, drawing on her professional and personal experiences. The episode offers practical wisdom on supporting each other and maintaining connection a…
- Holding onto Faith While Fighting for Your Baby's Life—with Mauricio and Christin Rosa
Mauricio and Christin Rosa share their personal experience with a difficult pregnancy, discussing infertility, potential loss, and abortion. They recount their journey of holding onto faith and trusting God amidst a crisis, and discuss gua…
- How to Restore Your Marriage When Hope Feels Lost—with Lindsey Maestas
Lindsey Maestas, author and relationship expert, joins the Growing Home Together Podcast to share insights on restoring a marriage when hope feels lost. The episode covers how small actions can significantly impact a relationship and offer…
- Protecting Your Child from Danger in the Digital World—with Chris McKenna
Chris McKenna joins the Growing Home Together Podcast to discuss protecting children online. He shares insights on navigating the digital landscape, the importance of introducing technology at the right time, and how AI might affect child…
- Parenting Your Strong-Willed Child with Wisdom and Grace—with Beth Read
Beth Read shares insights on parenting strong-willed children, including their characteristics, advice for parents who feel they are failing, and the Seven C's for improving parent-child relationships. The episode addresses the challenges…
- How to Grow Confident Kids Who Tackle New Things—with Valerie Ellis
Valerie Ellis returns to the podcast to discuss how to help children build confidence when facing new activities, foods, or challenges. The episode covers reasons for reluctance, mindset shifts, modeling bravery and failure, and managing a…
- God’s Loving Path to Closeness in Your Marriage—with Bill and Kristi Gaultiere
Bill and Kristi Gaultiere share insights on fostering connection and empathy in marriage, based on biblical practices and their extensive counseling experience. The episode covers the four A’s of empathy, Bible-based practices for feeling…
- Finding Your Ministry in the Season of Motherhood—with Jessica Hurlbut
Joanna interviews Jessica Hurlbut, a pastor and author, to discuss finding and pursuing one's ministry during the season of motherhood. Jessica shares her experiences navigating parenting and autism, and offers encouragement on how God can…
- Understanding Your Personalities to Transform Your Marriage—with Linda Goldfarb
Guest Linda Goldfarb, author and personality trainer, explains how understanding different personality types and their motivations can help couples navigate differences and encourage each other for a stronger marriage.
- How To Raise Your Son with Courage and Strength—with Rebekah Lovell
Rebekah Lovell, author and speaker, joins Growing Home Together to discuss parenting sons, the unique ways boys are wired, and fostering leadership and independence. The episode touches on how family culture can help boys thrive and sugges…
- How to Help Your Spouse Grow in Their Faith
This episode of the Growing Home Together Podcast focuses on how a husband and wife can nurture each other's walk with Christ. It addresses challenges when one spouse grows in faith while the other drifts, offering encouragement and practi…
- How to Get Rid of Bitterness in Your Marriage—with Gary Chapman
This episode features Gary Chapman discussing how to address and overcome bitterness in marriage. It covers topics like navigating frustrations, rediscovering love and closeness, and applying godly love with your spouse.
- Episode 112: How to Grandparent with Wisdom and Love—with Larry McCall
Larry McCall, author of Grandparenting With Grace, joins Growing Home Together Podcast to discuss the significant biblical call for grandparents. He shares insights on cultivating close relationships with grandchildren and respecting bound…
- Episode 111: How to Win the Battle Against Mom Guilt and Shame—with Jodi Jackson Tucker
Jodi Jackson Tucker joins the Growing Home Together Podcast to share insights on navigating mom guilt and shame, addressing false beliefs that affect parental confidence, and exploring the role of prayer in parenting.
- Episode 110: How to Break Free of Painful Patterns in Your Marriage —with Ron and Nan Deal
Do you have a dog who panics on a trip to the vet or groomer? It can be quite an ordeal! It’s something we experienced recently with our Bernedoodle, Jovy, on grooming day. While the perceived threat wasn’t real, her reaction to it could h…
- Episode 109: How Depression Made an Impact on Our Marriage and Faith
On this podcast, we usually sit down with guests to talk about marriage and family life. But in this episode, we wanted to get personal and share a piece of our own story—specifically, how depression has impacted our marriage. We have been…
- Episode 108: How to Win the Battle with Overwhelm in Your Family Life—with Ginny Davidson
For parents, March can often feel like the last calm before the storm. Once April arrives, family calendars are inevitably flooded with school exams, spring sports, band concerts and dance recitals, and a whirlwind of other end-of-school-y…
- Episode 107: How To Reach Your Child’s Heart Through Bedtime Routines—with Valerie Ellis
As parents, we do all that we can to love and care for our kids. Our days are often filled with driving them to and from school, packing lunchboxes, helping with homework, doing laundry, and keeping up with everything they need to flourish…
- How Parents of Addicted Children Can Find Hope and Peace—with Dawn Ward
As parents, we do everything we can to keep our kids safe, happy, and thriving. We make sure they eat their vegetables, buckle their seatbelts, and do their homework. We are committed to taking them to Sunday School each week, teaching the…
- Episode 105: A Beautifully Busy December (From Our Producers)
Welcome to a special episode of the Growing Home Together Podcast—coming to you from the producers! Hi, my name is Mitch. I support Rob and Joanna in their various creative endeavors by lending a hand with the production of their podcast,…
- Episode 104: Simple Steps to Create a Rhythm of Rest—with Kathi Lipp
If you’re like us, your weekly routine is filled with events, chores, doctor’s appointments, and more. Depending on the size of your family and how many obligations each person has to juggle, it can be quite challenging to coordinate all t…
- Episode 103: How to Talk About Sexuality with Your Kids—with Jim Burns
When Joanna was in fifth grade, her teacher passed out a pamphlet to everyone in the class. On that pamphlet were all kinds of topics about puberty and sex, and it had a phone number that you could call to listen to pre-recorded informatio…
- Episode 102: How to Rescue Your Family from the Trap of Entitlement—with Kristen Welch
As our children grow up, they may start to handle some things themselves. This could be chores, getting up on time, or saving up their allowance or earned money whenever they want a new toy. This is a natural part of getting older, but as…
- Episode 101: How to Care for a Child with a Painful Past—with Jayne Schooler
A number of years ago during one of our Michigan winters, our kids had a snow day off of school. What should have been a fun memory for our daughter became really scary since she suffered a sledding accident that put her in the hospital. S…
- Episode 100: How to Support Your Adult Kids as a Grandparent—with The Teigen Family!
This is an exciting podcast for us since it’s our 100th episode! Wow! We are so grateful for every one of our guests who have joined us to encourage us in our faith and in loving our family well. We are also truly grateful for all of you w…
- Episode 99: How to Build a Strong Relationship with Your Adult Child—with Jim Burns
In this stage of life with our middle schooler, it is pretty clear what our job description is as his parents. He needs us to provide clean clothes, food in the fridge, some help with his homework, drive him everywhere, and pay for his sch…
- Episode 98: How to Disciple Your Kids with Confidence and Joy—with Christie Thomas
If we could use one word to describe Christian parents right now it would probably be “overwhelmed.” Parents feel overwhelmed by their busy schedules, concern of how culture will influence their kids, insecurity in their own ability to tea…
- Episode 97: Building a Strong and Loving Christian Marriage—with Chad and Emily Van Dixhoorn
We got married when we were pretty young after we met at Bible college. Needless to say, we had a lot of lofty ideas about what our Christian marriage would look like. We thought we would never argue, never lose our temper, keep the romanc…
- Episode 96: How To Help Your Teen Girl Escape The Comparison Trap—with Shannon Popkin and Lee Nienhuis
When I (Joanna) was in middle school, I can remember having a love of learning, I enjoyed being outdoors and moving through childhood content with who I was. It wasn’t until I moved to a new school and got my hands on my first Seventeen Ma…
- Episode 95: Holding on to Hope in a Hard Parenting Season—with Erica Wiggenhorn
“A mom is only as happy as her unhappiest child.” Have you seen this quote floating around social media? It’s caught our eyes more than a few times. I think for a lot of us as parents, this phrase can feel accurate because when our child i…
- Episode 94: Simple Habits for Un-Complicating Life—with Brenda Yoder
Does your calendar have nearly every square filled to the brim? For most families, May is a particularly busy time of year with graduation parties, school concerts, sports, final exams, and all the things that go along with wrapping up the…
- Episode 93: Coming Together as a Blended Family—with Sabrina McDonald
When we got married over 30 years ago, we learned right away that growing a strong relationship would be a never-ending process. In our years together, we keep blending our personalities, habits, and the good and bad in our backgrounds so…
- Episode 92: How to Help Your Kids Cope with Anxiety—with Kelly Boprie
This week on the podcast, we're revisiting an excellent conversation originally shared in 2021. Anxiety remains a challenge for many children and families (including ours). While you’ll hear references to COVID-19 in this episode (as this…
- Episode 91: Connection is the Key to Healing Your Child's Heart—with Jenni Lord
Adopting our youngest son through the foster care system ten years ago was truly one of life’s greatest gifts. But one thing we didn’t fully understand as we looked forward to a bright future with our beloved little boy was just how much t…
- Episode 90: How to Overcome Differences in Your Marriage—with Kari Trent Stageberg
There’s a common misconception that it's always the big things—like dishonesty or infidelity—that cause marriages to fall apart. But the truth is, many marriages experience death by a thousand cuts as small areas of misalignment add up ove…
- Episode 89: How to Restore a Joyful Spirit in Your Home—with Tama Fortner
We all have wish lists in life—wishes for bigger houses, more quality time with our spouses, or even just a simple wish for better weather. While there’s nothing wrong with dreaming, we find our spirits dragging when we grow too preoccupie…
- Episode 88: How to Equip Your Son to Overcome Lies with God's Truth—with Erin and Jason Davis
Raising our two sons has been one of the most rewarding journeys of our lives. If you have boys of your own, you know that parenting sons comes with its own unique set of blessings and challenges. One skill we strive to help our sons build…
- Episode 87: How to Navigate Screen Time with Your Kids—with Arlene Pellicane
Our son entered middle school this year and he is growing in all sorts of new and fun ways! He outgrew his shoe size, his appetite is bigger, he’s grown a wider circle of friends, and he’s definitely sleeping longer and longer hours. Along…
- Episode 86: What It Really Means to Lead Your Family Spiritually—with Dana Che Williams
The goal of our ministry has always been to help you care for the soul of your family and help you nourish relationships that keep God at the center of your home. We know that many couples desire the closeness and encouragement of sharing…
- Episode 85: Following Your Dreams as a Couple—with Kathi & Roger Lipp
Before you got married and into the first year of marriage, you probably spent hours dreaming about what your life would look like together. But today those dreams may feel far out of reach. Your marriage may have settled into a predictabl…
- Practical Ways to Navigate Loss as a Couple - with Chuck & Ashley Elliott
I take you to be my wedded wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part. Whether it’s been one year, ten ye…
- The Power of Our Words - with Sarah Molitor
Words are powerful! They have the potential to tear down our relationships or build them up. Ever since I (Joanna) was a young girl, I loved words. I would spend hours writing stories and poems. When I went to college, it just made sense t…
- The Power of Stories to Reach Your Child's Heart - with Valerie Ellis
From the time we had the first of our five children, some of our most special moments were snuggling up to read books together. And some of those stories became like familiar old friends as we read them over and over until the kids could p…
- Battling Pornography in Your Marriage - with Dannah Gresh
We got married young and it felt like we were launching out of a starting gate with other couples we knew who got married around the same time. As the years have gone by, one of the hardest things to hear is when one of the couples we care…
- How to Discover Your Unique Praying Personality - with Janet McHenry
Many of us have the perception that prayer is a one-size-fits-all aspect of our faith with God. We may think that we are getting it wrong or failing that aspect of our Christian life. We believe that prayer is a deeply personal practice. I…