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Spoiler Alert: You Already Know How This Ends

Finding peace when your adult child’s choices don’t match your faith What if the fear you feel about your child’s choices isn’t because you don’t trust God… but because you’ve forgotten the ending? For many faithful mothers, this is the quiet struggle no one talks about. You raised your children in the gospel.You prayed with them.You drove to early morning seminary.You taught, encouraged, showed up, and did your very best. And then adulthood came… and

The Risk God Asked You to Take

“Multiply and replenish the earth” in Genesis 1:28 was spoken at the very beginning. Before mistakes. Or before fear. And before proof. God didn’t wait to see how things turned out before calling it good. It was good from the first day of the creation. That matters. Multiply and Replenish the Earth Was Never About Playing Small. Somewhere along the way, many LDS moms learned to interpret “multiply” as something narrow. Reproduction and having children but

How Your Feelings Shape Your Reality

How do our feelings shape our reality? If you have ever reacted strongly to a situation and later wondered, Why did I respond like that?, you are not alone. Understanding how feelings create reality helps explain why small moments sometimes lead to big emotional reactions. It also shows us how our inner world (thoughts and feelings) quietly shapes our behavior, relationships, and lived experience. The Reality Creation Formula explains how our stories which are our thoughts

What the Wright Brothers Teach About Choosing Your Dreams

12 Seconds That Changed the World: What the Wright Brothers Teach LDS Women About Choosing Their Own Dreams A dream is a strongly desired goal or purpose. Not something you inherit.Or something you perform.It’s something you choose. Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright had a dream.They wanted humans to fly. At the time, most people said it could not be done.Others tried and failed.Some paid with their lives. Still, the Wright brothers kept going. They had

Mother in Heaven: An LDS Woman’s Perspective on a Sacred Truth

The Mother in Heaven LDS doctrine is one of the most sacred of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While it is not often discussed in everyday church settings, this doctrine quietly shapes how Latter-day Saint women understand their divine identity, eternal worth, and relationship to God. For many women, learning what has been revealed about Mother in Heaven brings comfort, clarity, and a deeper sense of belonging. What the Mother in Heaven

What If to Surrender isn’t Giving Up

What if to surrender isn’t giving up. It might sound like defeat or weakness. Like waving a white flag and admitting I couldn’t handle my life. My life coach and mentor, Jody Moore taught: “Surrender isn’t giving up.It’s letting go of our own idea of what should be, so we can make space for what is, and what could be.” If you’re anything like the women I work with, you’re not someone who gives up

Abundance Is Not Created It’s Remembered

If you’re an LDS mom with adult children who aren’t living the way you raised them, you already know what scarcity feels like. Let me show you how abundance is not created, it’s remembered. It’s the tight feeling in your chest when you pray and don’t hear what you hoped to hear. The late-night spiral where you replay every decision you made as a mom. It’s the quiet fear that maybe you already used up

Your Worth as a Mother Is Still Intact

Let me say this straight out of the gate. Nothing your child believes.Nothing they’ve walked away from.Nothing you did or didn’t do as a mom. Has ever changed your worth. Not then. Not now. Not ever. I know that sounds simple. But if you’re honest, this is the place where it still aches. Because when you raised your children in the Church, you didn’t just raise them with values. You raised them with meaning. With

Rewrite Your Story: From Fear to Faith

What if your life story wasn’t written in stone but more like a living, breathing journal that you get to keep editing as you grow? One filled with scribbles, heart doodles, and a few stains that somehow make it more beautiful. That’s the magic of rewriting your story—from fear to faith, from self-doubt to self-trust, and from feeling stuck to living free. You’ve already learned through The Reality Creation Formula that your thoughts create your

The Peace You’re Missing Might Be Hiding in the Feelings You’re Avoiding

If you read my last post about The Reality Creation Formula for Christian Moms, you know we talked about how our thoughts create our emotions, and our emotions drive our results. It’s a powerful truth — one that helps us find peace even when life (and our children’s choices) don’t go exactly as we hoped. But today, let’s zoom in on one specific part of that formula — the part that often feels … a