Embracing Your Season: Raising Littles and Understanding Teens with Paige Clingenpeel Paige Clingenpeel

Blending families after divorce or loss isn’t easy.  So many in the world today are trying to blend and mesh their families together. This can be such a difficult process, leading to stress and discord among the family. On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season with Paige Clingenpeel, she has Paul and Jeanette Savage who are authors of the book, Blended: Navigating the Challenges and Joys of a Stepfamily. They share how the vision of the book came about and their own stories and experiences of blending their families together.
Takeaways:
Don’t force relationships to happen - Take your time and have those hard conversations, be patient with our kids as they navigate a relationship with the other adult. This helps build the foundations for success in blended families.Build experiences - Go camping, vacation together, have games nights or a picnic. These experiences help bond relationships, help them learn more about each other, and create some pretty fun stories.Go through therapy - Work through issues and hurt from your past relationships before starting a new one. Relationships can never fulfill you in the way that God can. Counseling can be beneficial not only for yourself but also for your family. It changes the way you parent and partner with your spouse in navigating the blended family. Paige Clingenpeel
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Guest Info for Paul and Jeanette Savage:
Website
Facebook: Blended Book
Instagram: @blended_book
TikTok: @blended_book
Email: psavage@blendedbook.org
Book: Blended: Navigating the Challenges and Joys of a Stepfamily

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#embracingyourseason #paigeclingenpeel #podcast #podcastcommunity #counseling #therapy #children #stepchildren #mentalhealth #blendedfamilies #authors #blended #marriage #families #paulandjeanettesavage

Dr. Nijay Gupta joins Paige Clingenpeel on this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season.   Dr. Gupta is a successful author and academic writer and serves as a Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. Paige and Dr. Gupta discuss growing up in the church and his book, Tell Her Story, which addresses how women led and ministered in the early church. This podcast is packed with amazing knowledge that is easy to understand. 
Takeaways:
Dig deeper into the Bible - There are opportunities where you can grasp the word of God and its truth, while recognizing that certain directives or prohibitions were specific to their historical context. They may not universally apply to what God desires for us in our roles, leadership, and relationships.Ask questions - Why do we believe what we believe? It leads us to a place where we learn things. It directs our steps in a way that makes us open to hearing different perspectives. It leads to more truth and understanding in the way God has intended.Have conversations - Keep the dialogue open even when you disagree. Learn to listen with a desire to understand and respect each other's opinions.
Paige Clingenpeel
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Guest Info:
Book: Tell Her Story
Substack: Nijay Gupta
Podcast: Slow Theology

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#embracingyourseason #paigeclingenpeel #podcast #podcastcommunity #counseling #therapy #mentalhealth #drnijaygupta #author #tellherstory #academicwriter #womeninleadership #thebible

Did you know that your diet could be related to mental health issues like anxiety and depression? On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel discusses several takeaways about diet and how that correlates with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. We need to be mindful of what we are putting in our bodies and how it is affecting our everyday health.
Takeaways:
Stimulants - Caffeine, soda, energy drinks, coffee and some teas are examples of stimulants that can affect our bodies in negative ways.Make a food diary - What are we eating and drinking that can have a negative impact and correlate with anxiety symptoms? Sugar - How much processed sugar are we consuming? Sugar hits the same part of our brain as the pleasure center.Food allergies - They can cause headaches, inflammation and impact your body in negative ways. The majority of the “feel good” chemicals come from your gut so if you are feeling awful, it might be that you need to heal your gut.Water - It’s a natural purifier. Some anxiety symptoms come from lack of hydration.Vitamins and minerals - What fruits, vegetables and proteins are you eating? The food diary can help with this in order to keep track of what vitamins and supplements your body might not be getting so you can add them into your routine.Sleep - Lack of sleep can increase mental health issues like depression, anxiety, irritability, and conflict resolution skills. Sleep helps heal our bodies and restore it.Paige Clingenpeel
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On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel is joined by Hillary Ferrer. Hillary Ferrer is the founder and President of Mama Bear Apologetics. She feels a burden for providing accessible apologetics resources for busy moms. She is the chief author and editor of the bestselling books Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies, Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality: Empowering Your Kids to Understand and Live Out God’s Design, and the soon to be released Honest Prayers for Mama Bears. Hillary loves helping moms to discern truths and lies in both science and culture.
Takeaways:
Acronym:
R - Recognize the message. This could be lyrics to music, a movie or tv show.
O - Offer objective discernment - Talk about what is being said.
A - Argue for a healthier approach - Teach them how to talk about why they believe what they believe.
R - Reinforce through discussion, discipleship and prayer.


Paige Clingenpeel
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Guest Info - Hillary Ferrer:
Mama Bear Apologetics
Podcast
Book: Mama Bear Apologetics
Facebook: @mamabearapologetics
Instagram: @mamabearapologetics
 
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#embracingyourseason #paigeclingenpeel #podcast #podcastcommunity #counseling #therapy #mamabearapologetics #hillaryferrer #apologetics #partnership #purpose #conversationswithyourkids #ROAR

Have you ever thought about moving into your purpose in life? On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel is joined by Johnathan Baldwin. Johnathan “JB” co-founded Story House and is a Certified Life Coach, Pastor of over 15 years, ordained minister, and a Prepare and Enrich facilitator. He serves pastors and individuals going through life transitions, relationship challenges, and ministry/career issues. Together, they discuss the different roles of a life coach and a counselor but also focus on working to find your purpose and potential in life.
Takeaways:
Johnathan’s:
Soak decisions in prayer. Lay the decision at God’s feet. Pray His will over your life.Check out your spiritual gifts. God gives us gifts and purpose for our lives. Spiritual giftings give God glory.What are your passions? Use your giftings and passions to transition into a new role or ministryPaige’s:
Be authenticBe practicalBe God honoringWhen these three things are present or when I deviate from them, I am able to reign it back in and refocus so I can do good work.
Links:
Paige Clingenpeel
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Facebook: Paige Clingenpeel
Instagram: @paigeclingenpeel
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Guest Info:
Story House
Instagram: @storyhousecounseling
Facebook: storyhousecounseling
Instagram: @jbaldy5


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#embracingyourseason #paigeclingenpeel #podcast #podcastcommunity #counseling #therapy #trauma #storyhousecounseling #movingforward #partnership #purpose #calling #redefiningsuccess

On this week’s episode of Embracing Your Season, host Paige Clingenpeel is joined by Michael and Tania Koehler with Marriage Mania Ministries to talk about discipleship in the home. They are very passionate about helping families and raising the next generation to be sincere Jesus followers. You can start discipleship today by simply having dinner together and starting to build community within your own family.
Paige’s Takeaways:
We can’t live out what we don’t know. We first have to educate and be a follower of Jesus ourselves. Pursue Jesus in our own personal relationship with him so it reflects in our lives and so our children can see Jesus in and through us.Value of being in community with your own family. Start with having dinners together. Integrate how Jesus was a part of your own day in conversations with our family. Have intentional connection throughout the day.Reading the Bible together. Start with the gospels if you don’t know where to start. Start with reading a verse a day.Paige Clingenpeel
Questions About the Podcast? Email: paigeclingenpeel@gmail.com
Facebook: Paige Clingenpeel
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Guest Info:
Marriage Mania Ministry
Instagram: @marriagemaniaministry
YouTube: Marriage Mania Ministry
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