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Harvest & Handbound believes that your calling as a Christian mom is first to your family, and then to your story. And we help you know how to balance both.
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Why Do We Fight the Hand that Feeds Us? (opens the original)
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My toddler (2 yo) is kicking and screaming as I try to force-feed him an applesauce pouch. His normally chill demeanor is nowhere to be found. Unfortunately, he seems to have inherited my hangry tendency. So, I’m trying to calm him down while simultaneously dodging his little legs and I want to scream, “just eat it! I know you’re hungry! Why don’t you trust me?”During our hanger war, my youngest (5 mo) also wakes up hangry. Now the screaming echoes throughout our house, and I look to my daughter
You Don’t Have to Choose: Why Writing and Motherhood Aren’t Competing Missions (opens the original)
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You’ve finally found the time to sit down and work on the story that’s been spiraling through your mind all day when you hear a familiar voice call out, “Mom!” Perhaps with an internal sigh, you reply, “Yes?” . . . and there goes your writing time.Or perhaps you feel the opposite way? You’ve sat down to write, but instead of a story brewing in your mind, it’s the never-ending task list and the weight grows. I should really be doing ___ instead.The guilt–to write or not to write–
Most Days I feel like a Phony (opens the original)
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Most days I feel like a phoney.Seriously. Just call me Holden Caulfield and throw me in The Catcher in the Rye.Like, how am I a mediocre mom at best and a sublime author supposed to teach other Christian moms who write fiction how to do this whole thing?On the bad days, I feel like I’m just barely keeping myself afloat.On good days, I feel like I can tread water.Rarely do I feel like I’m actually swimming.Because most days, I just feel
I’ve Analyzed the Writer Moms on Substack and Came up with 8 Types (opens the original)
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I’m a sucker for personality quizzes. Even the silly ones that don’t matter at all, like, “which color are you?” Back in the day, I would spend hours on Buzzfeed taking quizzes that ranged from “what color are you?” to “What’s your aesthetic?” to “Are you a broccoli or a cauliflower?”.It got a little out of hand.I subscribed to my MBTI (Myers-Briggs) and the Enneagram and loved to figure out just where I fit in the world.But as I’ve grown in sanctification, I’ve learned to steer clear of them. M
Planting Something New (That’s Actually Old) (opens the original)
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It’s 9:47 p.m. The kitchen is finally quiet. You’ve got seven minutes before you’re too tired to think straight, and you’re staring at a blinking cursor, wondering if tonight is the night you actually write something . . . or the night you just close the laptop and go to bed.If that’s you, I want you to tell you something I’ve been sitting with for a while: your creative life was never meant to rush. It was meant to root.Where This StartedA while back, I built a space called Seasons & Stories—a
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