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5 ways moms can find downtime

By Stacey Shannon on Monday, May 27, 2019

Why you need to rest and ideas on how to make it happen! Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.” Exodus 20:8 Talk to any mom of little kids about finding time to rest — let alone take a whole day of rest — and she is most likely going to laugh in your …

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10 Lessons learned from having chronic illnesses

By Stacey Shannon on Monday, May 13, 2019

I was 3 when my bladder issues first started. Though they waxed and waned through different parts of my childhood, they came back with a vengeance when I was 23 and have stuck around ever since. A few years ago, they added their friend fibromyalgia into the mix. I am a different patient today than …

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40 Life lessons learned by age 40

By Stacey Shannon on Thursday, May 2, 2019

In a couple of days, I will leave my 30s behind and turn 40. I’ve been pondering this decade shift for the last couple of months. I’ve concluded that I don’t mind the new number. And I’ve also concluded that I’ve learned a lot in my four decades of life from the serious to the …

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It’s OK to let go and ask for help!

By Stacey Shannon on Monday, April 22, 2019

Asking for help is hard. It goes against our human pride and desire to be independent and strong. We don’t want to ever admit that we can’t do it all or are weak. We like to take the weight of the world on our shoulders and plaster on a smile as we stumble around under …

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What physical therapy taught me about the determination of moms

By Stacey Shannon on Friday, April 12, 2019

About a month ago, I shared with you about my experiences with anxiety and depression on spring break. One of the things I mentioned in that post was seeing a new doctor for my fibromyalgia who prescribed physical therapy for me, including aquatic therapy. While I’ve done physical therapy many times throughout my adult life …

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Families with Grace’s Little Blessings Challenge

By Stacey Shannon on Monday, April 8, 2019

One of my son’s recent favorite songs is Rend Collective’s “Counting Every Blessing.” It’s a good song that talks about counting every blessing from God even when we cannot see. Last fall, we were on our way home from my uncle’s funeral and my son requested this song in the car. We had an hour …

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Find Families with Grace content elsewhere

By Stacey Shannon on Monday, April 1, 2019

Sometimes other bloggers include my content on their blogs either through links or guest posts. I’m alway super excited when that happens! Be sure to check out these posts and blogs from fellow bloggers who are doing great work as well. Guests posts from Families with Grace Anxiety Stories: Stacey S. Stacey’s Mom Life: Real …

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Anxiety, depression and spring break

By Stacey Shannon on Friday, March 15, 2019

A recent spring break trip sent me home with a souvenir of lessons about my anxiety and depression A few months ago, I made my first video for my Facebook page about my struggle with anxiety and depression. I recorded it multiple times because making a video gave me anxiety (it still does!). The irony …

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Affirmations from kindergarten that we all need to hear

By Stacey Shannon on Monday, February 4, 2019

Three simple sentences can be life changing Last week I was in my son’s kindergarten classroom at the end of the day to bring in cookies to celebrate his birthday with his classmates. He’s my second kiddo in this kindergarten class, so I’ve been in and out of it quite a few times. But last …

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Now is the time to live out your passion!

By Stacey Shannon on Friday, February 1, 2019

When I share my story about my life and career path, I almost always share the first time I remember falling in love with writing. I was in third grade in Mrs. Beach’s class. I wrote a story for fun about how a cow got loose in my suburban neighborhood. And thus set in motion …