Restoration Home with Jennifer Pepito

Motherhood has a way of revealing our deepest fears.

Whether you’re afraid of failing your children, making irreversible mistakes, or wondering if you’re doing enough, fear can quietly steal the joy God intended for your family. Add the weight of mom guilt, and our nervous system begins to suffer.

In episode 196 of the Restoration Home Podcast, I’m joined by author and speaker Sarah Walton to talk about overcoming fear, embracing God’s grace, and learning how to forgive yourself for mistakes and regulate your nervous system in the midst of motherhood crisis.

Together we discuss:

Why fear so often shapes our parenting decisions

How the gospel frees us from perfectionism

Learning to replace anxiety with trust in God

What to do when you can’t stop replaying your parenting mistakes

The importance of receiving God’s forgiveness—and extending it to yourself

Practical ways to cultivate peace and regulation in your home instead of fear

If you’ve ever lain awake wondering whether you’ve damaged your children or wished you could have a “do-over” as a mom, this episode is for you. God’s grace is bigger than your failures, and He is faithfully at work in both your heart and your children’s lives.

Jesus Will Meet You There by Sarah Walton

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Welcome to episode 196 of the Restoration Home Community!! 

In this episode, we're bringing you Jennifer's Inspired Homeschool Workshop, so if you missed it originally or want to listen to it on the go give it a listen. 

Jennifer talks about how history was homeschooled to give you the confidence to continue homeschooling; she offers stories of our heroes who were homeschooled, like Laura Ingalls Wilder through much of her life, and lists ways we can take homeschooling to the next level by making it about raising a whole child. 

If you are looking for a community to start building your inspired homeschool with, the Restoration Home is open for the next 36 hours. 

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In this episode:

We want you to get excited for homeschooling!

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Welcome to episode 194 with Jennifer Pepito, Cindy West and Alicia Hutchinson. Cindy West is the founder of Our Journey Westward a homeschool science and nature study and a long time homeschool mama. Alicia Hutchinson is the creator of Learning Well and a homeschool mama of many years. 

This is such a fantastic episode whether you are starting to homeschool or in the thick of it. 

Jennifer, Alicia, and Cindy talk about self-care, a Charlotte Mason education, getting outside, what their ideal homeschool day looked like, and so much more. 

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers. 

Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.

In this episode: 

Finding micro-moments of self-care

The key elements of a great homeschool day 

Foundational principles for your children

Stewarding your marriage in every season 

What we loved about homeschooling

You can learn more about Alicia at her Learning Well

You can learn more about Cindy at Our Journey Westward

If you're looking for inspiration for your homeschooling, check out Jennifer's new book The Inspired Homeschool. Pre-order now for exclusive bonuses

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Welcome to episode 193 with Jennifer Pepito and Abbey Wedgeworth.

Abbey is a teacher, speaker, and author and this episode centred around her newest book Help! I'm Ruining My Kids. 

We all so badly want to find the formula that will guarantee us Godly, happy, whole children, even if that formula is not having a formula or a rigid religious adherence to scripture absent God. 

This is a conversation about turning to God, the difference between commiseration and counsel, how mom's at different stages can bless each-other, and so much more. 

Episode sponsored by the Peaceful Press!

To support the podcast and Jennifer pre-order her newest book Inspired Homeschool. This incredible book gives you stories of famous home-educated artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, authors, and statesmen and outlines the lessons we can learn from them as we raise the next generation of great thinkers. 

Looking for ways to make learning come alive and give your children the education of a lifetime? Check out the Peaceful Press curriculum.

In this episode: 

Find places where you can't pretend to be perfect 

Your children don't need you to be perfect, they need you to be stable 

Learning to take correction from the people who love us

Your childhood woundedness is connected to your ability to show up

Learning to see the refuge we have in God

You can learn more about Abbey at her website and do check out her newest book! 

If you're looking for inspiration for your homeschooling, check out Jennifer's new book The Inspired Homeschool. Pre-order now for exclusive bonuses

You can learn more about Jennifer here:

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You can learn more about Abbey here: 

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Welcome to episode 192 with Jennifer and Emelie. 

Over her 28 years of homeschooling, one of the main reasons Jennifer has seen families quit is the fear that their child will not get the education they need. While homeschooling is not for everyone, we're here today to unpack the lie that your child is guaranteed to get a better education in a more formal system.

Children want to learn. They are naturally curious, capable of information retention, and interested in the world around them. So often the formal education that we think is "safe" offers little in the way of real life skills, kills curiosity, and creates performers, not learners.

Instead, we talk about raising whole children, whose lives are shaped by their values, not their education level because education can always be acquired while values must be instilled from a young age. Practically, everything your child needs to know academically can be acuired in a 100 hours of education. Besides, when you step back from fear and look at the general education level of the American population do you really think that your child is going to receive a better education in a system that is producing a population where 1 in every 5 adults is illiterate. 

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 In this episode–

The brutal failures of the American education system

All the smartest people I know taught themselves after highschool

The most important and hardest thing for your child to acquire is a deep sense of self and a firm moral compass 

The history of home education.

To be inspired in your homeschool journey, check out Jennifer's new book "The Inspired Homeschool"

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You can learn more about Jennifer here-

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You can learn more about Emelie here-

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