MADE WHOLE (formerly Morning Mama) | Christian women, faith and anxiety, Christian mental health, anger, rage, angry mom, overwhelmed, feel stuck, Christian healing, loneliness, postpartum depression

Two women walk into the Academy stuck in completely different seasons. Here's what changed for both of them.

Episode Description:
You've heard the framework. You've heard the theology. Now hear what it actually looks like when two real women live it out. Jessa and Lizzy sat down to share their honest, unfiltered stories, the mess, the doubt, and the moment things actually started to shift.

In this episode:

• Hear how two women in completely different seasons of life both found their way to the same framework
• Understand the real difference between the Academy and therapy, and why you might need both
• Learn what a pain cycle and peace cycle actually look like applied to marriage and parenting
• Walk away with an honest picture of what the work requires, and what it gives back

Resources mentioned:

• The four steps and the pain cycle, part of the framework developed by Dr. Terry Hargrave
• Made Whole Academy

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.

You know the voice. The one that tells you you're not enough. Today you get four steps to finally talk back to it.

Episode Description:
You've named it. You've traced it back to the garden. Now it's time to actually do something about it. In this episode, you'll get the first practical tool to interrupt that voice of inadequacy in real time, plus two more shifts that will change how you see yourself and everyone who's ever hurt you.

In this episode:

• Learn the four steps you can start using today to interrupt any pain cycle, not just inadequacy
• Understand why what people say and do to you usually has nothing to do with you
• Walk away with a clearer picture of who you already are, before you do anything to prove it
• See how naming what you feel out loud starts to loosen its grip on you

Resources mentioned:

• The four steps and the pain cycle, part of the framework developed by Dr. Terry Hargrave

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.

You pick up your phone. You get angry at your kid. You pour a glass of wine. What if none of those things are actually about the thing itself?

Episode Description:
You might not even call it inadequacy. Maybe you'd just say you're tired, or reactive, or bad at relaxing without your phone in your hand. In this episode, you'll learn to trace your everyday behaviors, the scrolling, the anger, the control, the withdrawing, back to what's actually underneath them.

In this episode:

• Understand how anxiety, anger, numbing, control, and withdrawal all connect back to your core wounds
• Learn how your brain treats a small conflict the same as a real threat
• Walk away with a simple question to ask yourself in the moment you're tempted to cope
• Finally see the pattern behind the behavior you keep trying to white-knuckle your way out of

Resources mentioned:

• The pain cycle, part of the framework developed by Dr. Terry Hargrave

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.

You know exactly what you don't want to do anymore. So why do you keep doing it?

Episode Description:
You've tried to change. You've prayed about it, journaled about it, maybe even white-knuckled your way through it. But the same reaction keeps showing up anyway. In this episode, you'll go back to the very beginning, Genesis, to understand where these patterns actually started and why willpower alone was never going to fix them.

In this episode:

• Understand the difference between an identity wound and a safety wound
• Learn how a single lie in the garden created the very first pain cycle
• See why your actions were never the real problem, your beliefs were
• Walk away with a clearer picture of why you keep ending up in the same place

Resources mentioned:

• Genesis 3
• 1 Samuel 16:7
• The pain cycle, part of the framework developed by Dr. Terry Hargrave

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.

You know that voice that tells you you're not enough, no one likes you, you don't belong? You're not the only one who hears it.

You catch yourself replaying conversations in the car, wondering what people really think of you, feeling like everyone else has it together except you. This episode names that voice for what it is and starts unpacking where it actually comes from.

In this episode:

• Understand why the voice of inadequacy shows up in parenting, friendships, work, and everywhere in between
• Learn why even people who look completely confident from the outside carry this same voice
• Walk away with a clearer picture of why this feeling isn't proof that something is wrong with you
• Finally see the difference between an identity wound and a safety wound, and why that distinction matters

Resources mentioned:

• Restoration Theory, a framework developed by Dr. Terry Hargrave

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.

You keep saying yes to things you don't even want to do, and your schedule is running your life instead of the other way around.

Fall means school again, sports again, a calendar that fills up before you even decide what belongs on it. This episode walks you through how to actually set the season on purpose instead of just white-knuckling through it.

In this episode:

• Learn how to declutter both your physical space and your schedule before fall gets busy
• Understand the difference between a full schedule that lines up with your values and one that's just fragmented
• Walk away with a simple way to review your weekly rhythms so rest doesn't get pushed out
• Finally see which area of your life is most ready for a fresh plan this season

Resources mentioned:

• Declutter Like a Mother by Allie Casazza
• Take Back Your Family and To Hell with the Hustle by Jefferson Bethke
• Systemize Your Life podcast, hosted by Chelsea Joy
• Theo of Golden (fiction recommendation)
• Harvest Spice essential oil by doTERRA

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.

You feel a small thing happen and suddenly your brain says this is how it's always going to be.

You're not imagining it. The little things really do pile up until you're convinced nothing will change, that you're stuck here for good. This episode breaks down what's actually happening when hopelessness sneaks in and gives you four things to do the moment you notice it.

In this episode:

• Understand why hopelessness builds up from small, repeated moments, not just big crises
• Learn how to spot the specific thoughts that signal you've slipped into hopelessness
• Walk away with four practical steps to move yourself from hopelessness back to hope
• Finally see why praying "fix this" feels different than praying with authority

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.

You know you're supposed to honor your parents. You just don't know what that actually looks like when the relationship is complicated.

You've heard "cut them off" and "protect your peace" so often it starts to feel like the only option. This episode is a conversation with author Isabel Tom that gives you a different way to think about your kids, your parents, and the generation that came before you, boundaries and all.

In this episode:

• Understand why closeness with grandparents shapes a child's faith, resilience, and empathy
• Learn how to honor difficult or distant family members without losing your boundaries
• Walk away with simple, practical ways to help your kids connect with grandparents, even from far away
• Finally see why slowing down for the older generation might be exactly what your own soul needs

Resources mentioned:

• Isabel Tom, author of The Value of Wrinkles: A Young Perspective on How Loving the Old Will Change Your Life
• Isabel's Grandkid Investigator Kit, at valueofwrinkles.com/gkifam, with a free mission at valueofwrinkles.com/freemission
• Take Back Your Family by Jefferson Bethke
• Isabel on Instagram: @isabelctom

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.

You keep scrolling past someone else's summer and quietly deciding yours doesn't measure up.

Mid-summer is when the comparison creeps in. You look at what everyone else is doing, where everyone else is going, and you start keeping score against a life that was never yours to live. This episode gives you a real way to get your feet back on the ground and actually enjoy the season you're in.

In this episode:

• Understand why comparing yourself to anyone, even one person, will always leave you feeling not good enough
• Learn how to spot the pressure of your own past seasons, not just other people's lives
• Walk away with four practical steps to get present and build a summer that actually fits your life
• Finally see why your limitations this season might be a gift instead of a problem

Resources mentioned:

• The previous episode on crafting a vision for your life

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.

You keep making the same decisions and wondering why you never end up where you want to be. This episode gives you one simple question that changes that.

You've built the vision. You know where you want to go. But every single day is made up of a hundred tiny choices, and most of them don't feel like a big deal in the moment. This episode hands you one filter you can run every one of those choices through, so you stop drifting away from the life you actually want and start moving toward it on purpose.

In this episode:

• Learn the one question to ask before any decision, big or small
• Understand why most of your daily choices aren't about right or wrong, but about the posture of your heart
• Walk away with real examples (scrolling, wine, conflict, saying yes) so you can apply this today
• Finally see why a derailed plan doesn't mean you failed

Resources mentioned:

• The previous episode on crafting your vision for what God has for you
• Restoration Theory, a framework developed by Dr. Terry Hargrave, referenced as the pain cycle and the four steps

Love,

Brittany

---

Ready to go deeper? Here's where to start:

The Unstuck Workshop — $37 and self-paced. If you want to finally understand why you keep feeling stuck and walk away with a tool to actually change it, this is your first step. 

Made Whole Academy — The full 10-week journey. Real tools, real community, and lasting change. Applications are open. 

Free Quiz: What's Actually Keeping You Stuck? — Not sure where to start? Take the quiz and find out. 

Find everything else at madewholepath.com and come say hi on Instagram at @madewholepath.

If this episode helped you, share it with a friend who needs it. That's how women like us find each other.