2. How to Balance Being a Great Mom with the Call to Serve: Overcoming the Pressure to Sacrifice Family for Success, or be Forced to Choose Between

Sister, I see the burdens you’re carrying.

 

In this episode we discuss the challenges of trying to keep our family + faith first while serving in uniform. We dive deeply into mom guilt and the high expectations we feel in both work and at home, and our torn, conflicted hearts as working moms who desire to be the best we can be for our families, and also be the best we can be in military service or the impact we feel called to make...the fears of failing our families, falling short in our work, of letting others down, of not doing enough in either areas of our life, or living up to what God is calling us to do.

 

We take an honest look at how motherhood is not yet normalized in the military, and the pressures and realities of the job that cause many military women to leave the service because we feel forced to choose between our family, career, or health. We often don’t feel comfortable with the “cost” of success, and often feel like we’re losing ourselves & what matters most, or our children & marriages are bearing the cost of our service. We don’t want to sacrifice our presence with our family for the sake of our career, but also don’t know any other way, or feel we have a choice.

 

Join me on this journey sister, and take heart that you are not alone in the burdens you’re carrying. Together, with God’s grace, we can overcome these struggles.

 

RESOURCES:

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