Welcome to episode 166. Greg Gunn is the creator of Family ID, a website dedicated to helping families make goals, create a plan, lay the foundation for a godly offspring, and be a family with a multi-generational vision. 

This is one of the most beautiful and inspirational episodes for families. We are so excited for you to listen to this, be inspired, and enjoy your family as you head into Christmas and the New Years.

You can now buy printed copies of our beloved Holiday Book Flood!

Looking for ways to celebrate and enjoy the beauty of the holidays? Check out our Christmas Guides Vol. 1 and 2, and the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide. 

Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!! 

• You must treat your sibling better than you would your best friend
• What do the mothers do when the dads are not on board 
• Your words are a creative force, and you can speak spiritual strength and leadership over the men in your life, and bless your husband to feel 
• Your husband wants to please you
• You cannot correct or discipline your husband into excellence, but you can speak it into existence
• Creating a family vision 
• Check out Family ID for great resources and tools for your family

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We have a beautiful Christmas bonus episode for you to enjoy while you wrap gifts, while driving around, or as you soak in the season with a cup of coffee and a snowy view. 

Jennifer and Amber O'Neal Johnston, creator of Soul School, author, friend, and inspiration, is back on the podcast to talk about her latest book, a series of essays, Homegrown.

In episode 166, the conversation envelops Charlotte Mason and finding beautiful living books that for today, lessons learned in suffering and joy, releasing our children's education through each season of life, and learning from the great women around us.   

The Peaceful Preschool Volume 2 is here!! Purchase your beautiful copy of the brand-new Peaceful Preschool for a year of delightful, hands-on learning. 

Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason-styled education? Check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom! 

• Learning from different mothers 
• Finding living books for all ethnicities and cultures 
• The lessons from Amber's new book 

• Do check out Amber's book A Place to Belong

• And her newest book, Homegrown

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For Episode 165, we're bringing back a beautiful and timely conversation with Sarah Clarkson. There is so much to glean from this conversation. Enjoy!

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As we continue to move into the holiday season, Sarah Clarkson joins Jennifer Pepito in episode 110 of the Restoration Home Podcast. We're excited to bring another episode rich with the magic and mores of a peaceful Christmas. 

Sarah offers a unique perspective on celebrating Christmas, holiday traditions from the Clarkson home, and bringing different cultures and customs into her family's celebration.

Beyond the holidays, she also brings her love and passion for technological boundaries, creating purposeful space in her day, and finding ways to differentiate days for the sake of becoming more aware of ourselves, our families, and our lives. 

This is a great conversation, and we hope it blesses and inspires you. 

This podcast is made possible by the Peaceful Press!

With Winter and Winter Holidays around the corner, check out the Peaceful Press resources and blogs for good literature, engaging ways to celebrate, and the Four-week Autumn Guide.

Purchase any Christmas Guide Volume 1 or Volume 2 and receive a copy of the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide. 

You can now buy printed copies of our beloved Holiday Book Flood!

 In this episode–

• The importance of Advent 
• Slowing down Christmas 
• Creating a why for technological fasts 
• Clarkson family traditions
• Your children are never to old to celebrate with you
• Reclaiming Quiet by Sarah Clarkson
• Find out more about Sarah at her website and "From the Vicarage"

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Abbie Halberstadt, author of M is for Mama and her newest book You Bet Your Stretch Marks, is a returning Restoration Home guest. She is full of passion and commitment to raising Godly children who go against the grain of modern expectations. 

If you're wanting more for your family and have a heart for holiness and virtue, but are battling the headwinds of scars from your childhood, lacking motivation or role models, or simply not sure what is reasonable to expect of your children, or you want to be encouraged that you're not alone in desiring a godly and healthy family, this episode is for you. 

You can now buy printed copies of our beloved Holiday Book Flood!

Looking for ways to celebrate and enjoy the beauty of the holidays? Check out our Christmas Guides Vol. 1 and 2, and the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide. 

Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!! 

• The dangers of extremes
• You don't need to be perfect ot be a good mama
• Keeping first things first 
• Holding on to virtue
• For simple ways to connect and reframe how you spend your holidays check out The Peaceful Press: Holiday Book Flood. 

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Nicole Brignolle, a beloved friend, mentor mom in the Restoration Home Community, and creator of the Lovely Bits Substack, joins Jennifer to talk about lessons learned from Christmas in Tuscany.

The conversation with Nicole strikes right at the heart of so many values we espouse at the Restoration Home: quietness, rest, the gift of quiet, and shifting our values to gratefulness and connection. The lessons are learnt from the simplicity of Christmas with less, the Italian value of connection and family, and leaning into what the changing season means for our bodies, our time, and our priorities. 

You can now buy printed copies of our beloved Holiday Book Flood!

Looking for ways to celebrate and enjoy the beauty of the holidays? Check out our Christmas Guides Vol. 1 and 2, and the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide. 

Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!! 

• What changes as the nights get longer and the days colder and shorter
• Lessons from the vineyards 
• Christmas in Italy 
• The joy of less 
• Getting back to the heart of why we celebrate Christmas 
• For simple ways to connect and reframe how you spend your holidays check out The Peaceful Press: Holiday Book Flood. 

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Welcome to episode 162 with Evegniia Arasim. Evgenia joins Jennifer Pepito to talk about nourishing your body and your spirit during the Holidays. The Holidays can be so much about celebration that it can we almost feel pressure to "celebrate", sometimes to the detriment of our peace, our health, nourishing our bodies, and feeding our souls. `

This episode is all about ways you can nourish yourself body, soul, and spirit by enjoying good food in the Holidays in a way that maximises health and feeling good, removing distractions in lieu of rest, carving out quiet time with God, and choosing long term nourishment over immediate pleasure. 

Health is not about a number. Health is about feeling alive and well, having energy and waking rested. It is not about deprivation or avoidance. Instead, it is about making all of your systems better: better sleep, timing walks after meals, removing distractions, choosing rest. 

We hope that you enjoy this episode and that it inspires you to take authority over your health and well-being during the Holidays.

Looking for ways to celebrate and enjoy the beauty of the holidays? Check out our Christmas Guides Vol. 1 and 2, and the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide. 

Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!! 

• Preparing for the Holidays physically
• The importance of sleep, the bodies greatest healing tool 
• Mineral deficiency can feel like anxiety
• Locking up your phone in the evenings
• Lessons from growing up in Russia
• Check out our favourite phone lock box
• Check out Evgeniia's earlier episode on the Restoration Home Podcast

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Welcome to Episode 161 with Abby Kuykendall.

Hospitality is not a calling of a few, but of every Christian. Abby, joins the podcast today to talk with Jennifer about how to do hospitality for the naturally inhospitable and the gregarious. 

Hospitality is about being vulnerable, offering the comfort and the presence of Christ through open doors, warm food, and a place to rest. It doesn't have to be perfect. But it should be a spiritual discipline that we all are working on. 

Looking for ways to celebrate and enjoy the beauty of the holidays? Check out our Christmas Guides Vol. 1 and 2, and the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide. 

Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!! 

• Hospitality should be a little imperfect
• Simple tips and hacks for making your home always welcoming 
• Why we are hospitable 
• Standards for hospitality 
• Having your non-negotiables in place for your space and time in order to facilitate hosting 
• The beauty of the drop-in guest
• Check out Abby's new book Let the Biscuits Burn

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Welcome to episode 160 with Jennifer and Emelie Pepito. 

The holiday season is an amazing opportunity to shift your educational goals and create a Christmas school that allows your family to enjoy a slower pace of learning and the opportunity to apply learned knowledge to skills like engineering a snowman, baking cookies, sewing needlepoint decorations, or developing your family's bespoke Christmas soap or bath salts. There are so many ways to learn, and Christmas with all the attendant arts and crafts is a fantastic time to pivot from textbook learning and explore hands-on learning. 

Looking for ways to celebrate and enjoy the beauty of the holidays? Check out our Christmas Guides Vol. 1 and 2, and the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide. 

Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!! 

In this episode:

• What is Christmas School and why it matters
• The importance of incorporating experience into your child's schooling
• Taking a break is not the same as quitting
• The importance of taking time to put what you're learning into practice
• The Peaceful Press Christmas Gift Guide 
• The Peaceful Press Christmas Planning Sheets 
• Great Christmas Stories
• The Peaceful Press Christmas Gift Guides
• Check out All Creation Waits and the Peaceful Press accompanying Advent Guide, Unearthing Wonder
• All Creations Waits–Young Children's Version
• The Peaceful Press Holiday Book Flood 

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Welcome to Episode 158 of the Restoration Home Podcast. 

The heart of the home for a child is the tenderness and connection between parents. A good marriage is also one of the hardest endeavours an adult can undertake, and one of the most rewarding. But what do we do when our relationship is dogged by betrayal, unhealed trauma, and ugly pain?

This conversation with Joanna and Mathew Raabsmith is so full of hope, helpful advice, and encouragement for taking the steps to restore connection and intimacy in your marriage. 

This great conversation is made possible by the Peaceful Press!

With Winter and Winter Holidays around the corner, check out the Peaceful Press resources and blogs for good literature, engaging ways to celebrate, and the Four-week Autumn Guide. 

Autumn Guide,  Christmas Guide Volume 1 and Volume 2

• Being a friend of your spouse
• Developing community who can hold your pain, when your spouse isn't ready yet 
• Bringing God into your relationship, your pain, and your recovery
• Having conversations that hurt with your spouse 
• When to walk away and the importance of forgiveness
• Building True Intimacy by Dan Drake and Joanna and Mathew Raabsmith
• Connection with the Raabsmith's
• Download all of the Peaceful Press Samples and a guide on how to get started homeschooling

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Growing up, Christmas was magical. My parents made first things first, and gave us consistently quiet, deeply magical, family-centred, Christ-focused Christmases. As I grew up, I realised how truly rare this was, as so many friends expressed distaste for the holidays because their parents were stressed, or they were introverts dragged from event to event. 

So often, we get caught up in the hustle of the Season, missing both its true symbolism and losing opportunities to carve out truly life-giving memories for our families. Jennifer's step by step guide to making Christmas, hosting, giving, and gifts simple, priorities focused and delightful is the perfect way to step into the Season. Enjoy! 

Looking for ways to celebrate and enjoy the beauty of the holidays? Check out our Christmas Guides Vol. 1 and 2, and the Unearthing Wonder Advent Guide. 

Find the beautiful Peaceful Press Cookbook on Amazon!! 

In this episode:

• A step by step guide to walk you throuigh cutting out clutter and noise and creating a perfect Christmas
• Making a plan for the Holidays that gives you margin for what really matters 
• Setting clear priorities for your family
• The Peaceful Press Christmas Gift Guide 
• The Peaceful Press Christmas Planning Sheets 
• Great Christmas Stories
• The Peaceful Press Christmas Gift Guides
• Check out All Creation Waits and the Peaceful Press accompanying Advent Guide, Unearthing Wonder
• All Creations Waits–Young Children's Version
• The Peaceful Press Holiday Book Flood 

You can learn more about Jennifer here-

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Episode sponsored by The Peaceful Press. Create connection through our literature based resources. 

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Welcome to Episode 157 with Kate Strickler. Kate is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, I Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen. This delightful book takes you through all the little lies that can cause you to compare your lives to others or derail your plans when you sink into the trap of envy and comparison. The book and the episode are about setting real priorities for your life, your space, and your time. Because at the end of the day, what matters more: those subway tiles in your kitchen or children who grow up and want to hang out with you, a husband who feels at peace in your presence, and a community who value you deeply for who you are not what you post on socials. 

The Peaceful Preschool Volume 2 is here!! Purchase your beautiful copy of the brand-new Peaceful Preschool for a year of delightful, hands-on learning. 

Looking for Elementary Bundles to engage in Charlotte Mason-styled education? Check out the Playful Pioneers, Precious People, and the Kind Kingdom! 

• Your home is meant to be for your family's enjoyment not Instagram
• Making your life loveable isn't about having the best of everything, but making the best choices for the people you love most
• Thankfulness is a veneer that covers every thing with a gleam of hope and joy
• Practical ways to take control of your space
• Restoration Home Community and get 10% off your membership with code "restoration10"
• I Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen by Kate Strickler 
• Download all of the Peaceful Press Samples and a guide on how to get started homeschooling

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