Deconstructing Mamas
If you are trying to figure out how to navigate the tricky tightrope of parenting while you have questions, doubts and wonderings about your spiritual journey, this podcast is for you. It doesn't matter if your kids are smalls, middles, or bigs. We will explore what and how we are deconstructing from churchianity, harmful belief systems, and diving deep into the ways we can work this out in parenthood. We will also work through ideas for reconstructing a space for our families to thrive under new systems of love and freedom. We can't wait to bring you some hope that you are not alone and that it's really okay, even good, to explore all the possibilities that may have felt closed off in the past. This podcast will offer you grace and space to be exactly where you are and who you are. We are glad you are here.
Deconstructing Mamas
Who Doesn't Love Cheese? And Freedom? - Stevie Swift
"You don't HAVE to get married."
In this episode on the Deconstructing Mamas podcast, Stevie Swift, author of that quote, shares her story of reorienting herself from a narrow and rigid place of falling in line with social constructs to the wide-open space of freedom to be herself and what it means to gift that to her son.
Stevie's "out-of-the-box" lifestyle and down-right wisdom about what it means to have permission to live freely will feel like a breath of fresh air and you may want to "be her when you grow up." We sure do. This episode has so many nuggets that you will want to hit rewind and write down on every sticky note you can find and put them on your fridge, your mirror, your car dashboard, everywhere.
You will also find out why she is so obsessed with cheese and writing 365 poems (one for every day of the year) during 2022. We've both written a few now and you are welcome to join the fun!! We hope you do! You'll find out how when you listen! Here is just a little taste:
I’m having the dreamiest party
Just me and the creamiest Havarti
You might think we’re a sad two
But I think no one asked you
So you can eat your opinion, Smarty
I’ll just keep eating this cheese
SHOW NOTES:
Stevie Swift, a single mom who intentionally chooses to be, refugee resettlement attorney and war veteran turned cheese poem writer and coloring page creator, oozes freedom from her every pore and invites us to enter into that space with her.
If you head to her website, you will find a taste of everything, from devotionals to podcasts to essays to books to FREE coloring pages, every single one of them designed specifically with freedom to be completely yourself.
Website: www.stevieswift.com, www.steviedoodles.com
Facebook: Stevie Swift, Author, Poems About Cheese
Instagram: @stevieswiftauthor
OTHER MENTIONS:
Perichoresis is a Greek term used to describe the triune relationship between each person of the Godhead. It can be defined as co-indwelling, co-inhering, and mutual interpenetration. Alister McGrath writes that it "allows the individuality of the persons to be maintained, while insisting that each person shares in the life of the other two. An image often used to express this idea is that of a 'community of being,' in which each person, while maintaining its distinctive identity, penetrates the others and is penetrated by them.