Thriving Mamas

For mamas who want to thrive, not just survive.

Videos

A collection of short videos to encourage and help you on your parenting journey.

Jen’s son felt like he was going to die in his big feelings! One important ingredient saved the day. Training our brain we can survive painful emotions requires someone stay with us so we discover we will not die, but live and thrive in our upsets and disappointments. Relational skills save the day.
Jen shares 2 warning signs that appreciation levels are running dangerously low. Every family, small group and leadership team can learn to recognize these dashboard warning lights. Appreciation is the oil in your relational engine!

Do your kids sometimes struggle with their feelings? It can be easy to fall into the trap of trying to push away or avoid feelings with the unfortunate result of being stuck in feelings even longer! Jen shares how we can help our children successfully navigate their feelings and quickly get to the other side of them.
This playlist includes a series of 8 short videos.

Keeping summer joy levels high means helping your children find peace in hard places. There is no better source of peace than Jesus’ presence. Feeling Jesus is close brings comfort and security. This closeness adds to our daily joy levels. Like any new skill or habit, learning to interact with Jesus takes practice both for parents leading as well as children receiving.

SKILLS FOR SUMMER JOY | PLAYLIST

This playlist includes a series of 9 short videos.

Discover how relational skills can make a huge difference in your parenting journey! Developing your own skills will improve your ability to relate to your own children, equip you to parent them relationally, and the skills you learn will overflow to your children.

Find more resources to learn and develop the skills at https://thrivetoday.org/.

PARENTING WITH RELATIONAL SKILLS | PLAYLIST