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HEALTHY HOMES PODCAST
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Tools for the Heart - Strength for the Home This podcast grew out of a desire to see every home become a place of connection, freedom, and ongoing transformation. Each conversation is filled with practical tools for cultivating healthy hearts, healthy relationships, and healthy homes. No matter your season—single, married, parenting, a student, a single parent, or an empty nester—you were made for a vibrant life that is led by the Spirit and deeply connected to Jesus. Join Pastors Josh + Katie Krehbiel for an honest and authentic look at an integrated Kingdom lifestyle that starts at home.

  1. 6d ago

    Season 2 Q+A: Finding an EMDR Therapist, Sharing Locations and Serving Gone Wrong

    What happens when your most "inspiring" family moment turns into a full-blown family meeting twenty minutes later? To close out Season 2, Josh and Katie are answering the questions you've sent in from topics across the season — and they're kicking it off with a story that did not go the way they pictured it. After hearing Eric and Becky Watt talk about family on mission, they decided to surprise their kids with a spontaneous, 10:30 p.m. neighborhood trash cleanup. It was going to be the perfect teaching moment…until it wasn’t.  They get honest about where it fell apart, the accusation that stung more than they expected, and why the repair mattered more than the moment itself. From there, they work through the questions from the rest of the season: how to actually find a qualified EMDR therapist (and the certification to look for), what "shared time" schooling is and why they're trying it this year, why buses are a hard no in their house, how to help kids who don't want to be in big church anymore, why some of their richest friendships have been with single friends, and where the line is when you're navigating boundaries and confiding in others about marriage struggles. In this episode: What to do when your family-on-mission moment falls apart instead of coming together How to know if you actually need EMDR, and what to look for in a therapist if you do A hybrid schooling option you may not know exists, and how to know if it's right for your kids How to protect your kids in unsupervised spaces like the bus, when driving them isn't an option How to help a kid who's lost their love for church find their way back in, without shame Why friendships across seasons of life might be exactly what your marriage and family need Where to draw the line on sharing your marriage struggles, and who's actually safe to confide in Questions we should be asking as those that are mentoring others, investing in others, and disciplining them: How can you become more like Jesus in this moment?  Who do you think God is revealing Himself as for you? How do you think you could love them the way Jesus would love them in this season? What do you think forgiveness looks like? How are you going to forgive them?  What are some lies that you’ve been believing that you feel like God is replacing with things Truth?  What is the truth from the Word that God is revealing to you?  How do you think you could’ve responded in a different way?  What are three other ways you could’ve responded in that conversation?

  2. Sep 1

    Grouchy Christians, Refusing To Live Through Your Kids, and A Mission Trip Down the Street | S02 EP12

    What if the thing that qualifies you to serve isn't having it all figured out first? In part two of this conversation, Josh continues talking with Eric and Becky Watt about what it actually looks like to build a life — and a family — around service instead of self-improvement. They talk about learning to yield instead of strong-arming in their own marriage, and why they've never felt competition between their callings, only privilege that they get to serve together without serving identically. Eric and Becky get honest about the Turkey story — the time they thought they were helping a family and found out their "help" wasn't actually help at all — and how their very first family mission trip started with something as ordinary as raking a neighbor's leaves down the street. They also name the temptation most parents don't talk about: building your kids' lives instead of building alongside them, and the daily pull to let busyness crowd out the things that actually last. Along the way, Eric doesn't hold back on one conviction — that being a grouchy Christian is a disservice to the God we say we serve. This one is for anyone who's been waiting to feel "ready" before they start serving — and anyone quietly wondering if they're building their kids' lives instead of their own. In this episode: Learning to yield instead of strong-arming What happens when your "help" isn't actually helpful Why you don't have to be healthy or have it all together before you serve someone else Letting your kids watch you serve instead of waiting for the next generation to change the world Discerning what's yours to carry, what to rally around, and what to release Why it's a disservice to God to be a grouchy Christian The daily temptation to live your life through your kids instead of alongside them

  3. Aug 25

    "It Messed with My Politics,” Loving People Across the Line and What We Lost When We Stopped Listening | S02 EP.11

    Sometimes being right isn't actually the point, and somewhere along the way, most of us started leading with our position instead of our love. In part one of this conversation, Josh sits down with Eric and Becky Watt to talk about what happened when Becky realized someone had seen her as a person before they saw her politics, and how that one experience messed with everything she thought she believed. They get into what it looks like to love people across a dividing line instead of fighting them across it, why becoming a constant learner from another generation might be the thing that keeps you from getting stuck, and what actually gets lost when we stop listening long enough to understand each other. This one is for anyone tired of picking a side and ready to pick people instead. In this episode: Why being seen as a person, not a position, is what actually softens someone Loving someone across the line instead of fighting them across it Becoming a constant learner from another generation instead of assuming your way is the only way What gets lost when we stop listening long enough to understand instead of convince Why honoring someone might matter more than being right Not avoiding hard conversations, but listening through them instead of around them

  4. Aug 18

    Kissing in the Kitchen, Giving Kids Sightlines, and Sneaking into Disney

    Most parents try to hide conflict from their kids. But kids don't need a perfect marriage modeled, they need a resilient one. In this conversation, Josh and Katie get into what it actually looks like to let your kids see your relationship — the affection, the disagreements, the apologies, and the repair. They talk about why kids need to watch conflict get resolved (not just avoided), how to regulate your own emotions in a way that teaches your kids something instead of scaring them, and why speaking well of your spouse behind their back might be one of the most powerful things you can do for your children. Your home doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to feel warm. In this episode: Why kids should see you disagree, and what they should see immediately after What direct conflict looks like when it isn't yelling, and why that distinction matters How to tell your kids you're dysregulated without making it their problem Why building gratitude for a spouse is a parenting strategy Letting kids see your faith, your finances, and the real cost of life

  5. Aug 11

    Church Kid Hacks, "I Don't Want to Go!" and What's Caught Not Taught

    We don’t always feel like going to church, but some of the most formative moments happen on the Sundays you almost didn't show up. In this conversation, Josh and Katie talk about what it actually looks like to build a family culture around worship and prayer as a rhythm, not a rule. They get practical about Sunday sports, when the kids say they don’t want to go, how to narrate worship to a two-year-old, and what to do when you're face-down in the Prayer Room and your kid climbs on your back. They also go after something most parents quietly avoid: the question of what it costs long-term to let the world set the schedule. This one is for the parents who want their kids to love God's presence, not just know about it. In this episode: Why consistency in the room matters more than how you feel when you walk in "Tithe your time" and what it looks like to orient your family schedule around church first The Sunday sports conversation, and the preemptive work that makes it less of a fight What to do when your kid says they don't want to go How to narrate worship to small kids by describing what you see Why inviting kids to serve changes how they experience church

  6. Aug 4

    20 Years Single, Navigating Unmet Longings and Sexual Desire with Nicole Dols

    Putting on a happy face long enough doesn't make the pain smaller. In this conversation, Katie sits with a guest who has walked the road of singleness with honesty and openness. Nicole unpacks the ache of watching a younger sister get married first, the "vulnerability hangover" of finally letting people see the struggle, and the long work of learning to be present to an emotion without being consumed by it. They talk about navigating sexual desire without shame, what it means to mother in ways that don't require biology, and the Prayer Room encounter that changed Nicole’s perspective on relationships. This one is for anyone sitting with an unmet longing they don't know what to do with. In this episode: Why stuffing pain and wearing a happy face doesn't protect you  The vulnerability hangover: what happens right after you let the walls down How to avoid building your whole life around an area of lack Practical tools for navigating singleness, one night a week, by yourself, on purpose Removing shame from the conversation around sexual desire "God, you don't owe me a husband" — the prayer that changed everything

  7. Jul 28

    Healing from Betrayal, Slashing Tires, and a Roadmap to Mentorship with Jo Saxton

    "Lord, how do we feel about slashing tires?" That's where Jo started: honest about how crushing it is to be misrepresented, to lose people over something you never got to defend, and to watch everyone move on while you're still living in it. In part two of this conversation, Josh and Katie continue with Jo Saxton through what it actually takes to heal from betrayal, why reconciliation can't happen without someone naming the gravity of what happened first, and what gets left unattended in leaders who eventually fall. Then the conversation shifts to mentorship, and Jo gets specific about what most people looking for a mentor are actually looking for (it's not a mentor), what mentees get wrong about their role, and what mentors owe the people they pour into. In this episode: What Jo felt when she was misrepresented, and why silence ended up being the answer Why you can’t heal what you can’t name What leaders who fall have in common The real reason most mentorship searches fail What mentees can offer, and why “Here's what I have. Would you mentor me?" changes everything The check every mentor needs to run on themselves

  8. Jul 20

    Life Audits, Nuclear Families, and Threats of Womanhood with Jo Saxton

    The "oughts" and "shoulds" can break us if we’re not careful. Not all at once, but slowly under the weight of a life built around what we’re supposed to be doing instead of who we actually are. In this conversation, Josh and Katie sit with special guest Jo Saxton to talk about what it actually looks like to know yourself, why so many women hold back, and what's quietly eroding our culture that's become too individualized to lean on anyone. They unpack how to take a real-life audit, find your chaos points, and what to do when you realize you need a different voice in the room. In this episode: What it means to lock into identity and lose sight of purpose Why rest isn't the enemy of good work, and how to give yourself permission to take it The threat facing women right now, and why not knowing yourself is at the center of it What the West gets wrong about community and what it cost us when the nuclear family became the only unit that mattered How to do a life audit The real cost of "oughts" and "shoulds"

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Tools for the Heart - Strength for the Home This podcast grew out of a desire to see every home become a place of connection, freedom, and ongoing transformation. Each conversation is filled with practical tools for cultivating healthy hearts, healthy relationships, and healthy homes. No matter your season—single, married, parenting, a student, a single parent, or an empty nester—you were made for a vibrant life that is led by the Spirit and deeply connected to Jesus. Join Pastors Josh + Katie Krehbiel for an honest and authentic look at an integrated Kingdom lifestyle that starts at home.

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    HEALTHY HOMES PODCAST
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
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