Home Schooling and Dyslexia with Carrie De Fransisco

Episode 79 

This episode covers some very hard topics. With my guests, Clinton and Charity Munoz, we talked about restoring marriages to wholeness after pornography addiction and sexual betrayal and brokenness. But in spite of the difficulty of the topic, what we found is that we can both laugh and cry together because God is with us in it all. The three of us have personally experienced God turn our painful story into purpose and that is worthy of joy and hope. 

It's a story worth telling! 

What Clinton and Charity share is that people in broken and hurting marriages need: honesty and vulnerability and then stories of hope and healing. And they do an incredible job with that. From well-meaning but harmful advice that didnt do a thing for healing Clintons addiction, to Charity finally reaching her limit and giving him a hard boundary that he would have to get help healing or leave, they walk us through it all. And Clinton shares that Charitys boundary was the greatest gift hed ever been given. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is call someone out on their sin. Just like the prophet Nathan with King David. 

Ultimately, they decided to pursue healing separately and together and eventually they created their organization, Restored to More, to bring couples like them together. 

Restored to More is unique, so powerful and filled with hope! I love the work theyre doing.  

Lastly, if you are thinking, this episode isnt for me because this isnt my story, please listen to this podcast. Clinton shares the most beautiful example of a friend who educated herself on this topic in order to be more informed and available to her friend walking through this valley. May we all follow her example because there will be a day when we need to be that kind of friend!  

Please listen and share this episode and dont forget to leave a review of the podcast if you have not already. God bless you friends! 

Where to find Clinton and Charity: 

Find their website here 

Find their podcast here 

Find them on Instagram here 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Find Pure Desire groups and ministry here 

Find CSATs and other helpful resources for the healing journey here 

Find the book, Intimate Deception: healing the wounds of sexual betrayal here 

Find my book, Its Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Episode 78 

Friends, its no surprise that I start this episode by going down a rabbit trail. This time it was about hazel nuts. But the real reason I have todays guest, Tara Sun, on the program is to talk about her new book,  Overbooked and Overwhelmed: How to Keep Up With God When You are Just Trying To Keep Up With Life. 

Tara and I talk about the story behind the book and I especially loved talking about some of the parts that resonated with me most. One of those was how we both struggle to say no because we both love saying yes. There is a chapter in her book that addresses this by inviting us to be on mission for God and recognizing that sometimes that means saying no to things that arent part of that mission.  

Another important thing we talked about is that this book isnt going to give you the perfect organizational system or the best baskets and bins to buy so that you will feel more peaceful and less overwhelmed. What it will do is point you to the true source of peace and that is Jesus. 

There is so much more we discuss in this episode. I know youre going to get so much out of it. I did! Listen and share with your friends! And dont forget to leave a review of the podcast if you havent done that already. Help me spread the word! Thanks friends. 

Where to find Tara: 

Find Taras book here 

Find Taras website here 

Find Tara on Instagram here 

Find Taras podcast here 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

Find the book Domestic Monastery here 

 The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Episode 77 

Today is an exciting day for my podcast. Its my first return guest, my friend, Amber ONeil Johnston! And I loved talking to Amber about her new book, Homegrown: Guidance and Inspiration for Navigating Your Homeschooling Journey.  

Homegrown is such a unique book. Amber gathered and edited essays from 30 different home schoolers. In this book youll hear from veteran home schoolers, home school dads, those home schooling outside the US, home schoolers of different ethnicities, those home schooling one child or many, and second-generation home schoolers (like me!)  I have never read another homeschool book like this and I absolutely being a part of this book and now getting to share it with you. 

*And heres your reminder to take a minute today to leave a rating and review for this podcast! It is so helpful for more people to be able to find the show. Thanks for continuing to support and share the podcast. It means the world! 

Where to find Amber:  

Listen to Ambers first interview on my show here 

Find Homegrown book here 

Find Ambers website here 

Find Amber on Instagram here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Episode 76 

Todays guest is Allie Marie Smith, life coach, founder and creator of Wonderfully Made and author of the new book, Social Media Reset: A 30 Day Guided Journey to Unplug, Reconnect with God and Reclaim Your Joy.  

In this episode, Allie and I talk about how so many young girls dont have a true understanding of who they are in the eyes of God. That can cause them to turn to other things to feel worthyalcohol, drugs, promiscuity and even social media. The problem is, of course, that those things dont satisfy.  

Since 2010 the suicide rates for young people ages 10-24 has gone up 62% and over 145% among girls. Some teen girls are spending more than 40 hours a week on social media. These numbers should make us sit up and take notice! Allie calls this a  technologically induced mental health crisis. Allis response to this crisis has been to share her own story of a mental health crisis and then to offer help to girls just like her to have something better. She wants to help them understand the truth of their worth to God in a world that is trying to tell them otherwise.  

In this episode, we discuss having radical boundaries with social media, how social media can be used for good, but it can be used for bad or can cause harm, and how social media can keep us from being present in the moment. We encourage you to delay social media for your kids as long as possible and explain why you should. This is an invitation to step away from the digital world and live the life we were intended to livedeeply connected to God and others. We are inviting you and the people you love to an unplugged and flourishing life. Please accept this invitation to lean into something better and start by tuning into this honest, helpful and hopeful episode! 

Resources mentioned in this episode 

Find the Gabb phone here  (Use the code GRETA for a discount) 

Find other safe phones here, here here and here 

Find The Anxious Generation book here 

Where to find Allie: 

Find Allies blog here 

Find Allies website here 

Find the Wonderfully Made website here 

Find Social Media Reset book here 

Find  Wonderfully Made book here 

Find her upcoming conference for girls here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org

Episode 75 

Buckle up friends, this episode is wild! And it is honest and fun and so good! 

As the title suggests, we are talking about sex. More specifically, how to teach our kids about sex that is honoring to ourselves, others and God. 

Todays guest, Rodney Wright, is perfect for this job. He is honest, brave, kind and filled with joy! And as the author of the book, How to Talk with Your Kids About Sex, he has a lot to share. Rodney is passionate about helping people, families, and kids be healthy in their sexuality, because it is a God given gift.  He reminds us that we dont need to have negative thoughts about sexuality because God created it!  

So many of us are afraid to talk to our kids about sex because we have our own stories of sexual brokenness or sexual dysfunction of some kind. We want to do better for our kids but we dont know how. Rodney reminds us to look at our own story, not with shame but with compassion. And then we continue to learn and grow, because when we know better, we can do better! 

Ultimately, we need to give our kids a different view of sex than the world is giving them. We need them to know it is about dignity, honor and respect. That is not the worlds messaging about sex. Lets give our kids a better framework. 

I have so much more I want to say about this episode, but instead I am just going to have you listen to it! And please be sure to rate and review this podcast and share this episode! Oh, and then go do some puzzles for that healthy dopamine hit! (Youll get that when you listen to the episode) 

Where to find Rodney: 

Find the organization Rodney works for, Pure Desire, here 

Find Rodneys book here 

Find the Pure Desire Podcast here 

Find Gretas book, Its Time to Talk to Your Kids About Porn here 

The Greta Eskridge Podcast is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. For more information visit www.ChristianParenting.org