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Gospel Matrescence
Welcome to the Gospel Matrescence Podcast. Matressence - the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional transformation women go through when becoming a mother. This developmental stage of life is as powerful and irreversible as adolescence and yet few women have ever heard of it. Our communities have little to no rite of passage to celebrate or prepare for it. Here at Gospel Matrescence, we apply a Biblical worldview to the beautiful and sometimes painful metamorphosis of motherhood. Come, let's navigate motherhood together…
Gospel Matrescence
Episode #50 - Read more, Scroll Less - Book recommendations for your Summer!
Are you ready for all the extra time summer brings? Do you have a plan to scroll less and read more for yourself and your kids?
Did you know reading might be the missing tool in the development of your family culture and the formation of your character? Reading does these five things for us and our children:
- Forms a moral imagination
- Teaches empathy & awakens affection
- Provides an antidote to ignorance & entitlement
- Builds academic abilities
- Protects mental health
Get inspired to build the habit of reading into your family culture with the strategies Andie offers. Here are the books she mentions in this episode:
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michelle Richardson
- This Tender Land by William Kent Kruger
- So Far from the Bamboo Grove & My Brother, My Sister, and I by Yoko Kawashima Watkins