Introverted mom Your guide to more calm, less guilt, and quiet joy
Book - 2019
Introverted mothers face unique challenges. Jamie C. Martin lifts the false burdens and negative stereotypes off your shoulders, letting you know you're not alone. Martin shares vulnerable stories from her own life as well as thoughts from other kindred-spirit moms. Her practical suggestions and creative inspiration, combined with quotes and insights from four well-known introverted writers, point you back toward hope, laughter, and quiet joy.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Zondervan
[2019]
- Language
- English
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- Physical Description
- 233 pages ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233)
- ISBN
- 9780310354970
- Introduction: You Might Be an Introverted Mother If
- Part 1. The True Way to Live
- Chapter 1. The distance is nothing
- On Discovering You're an Introverted Mom
- Retracing Childhood Clues
- Reaching the Breaking Point
- What I've Learned about Anger
- Chapter 2. Learning how to sail
- On Believing That You're Enough
- Free to Be Who? On What Makes an Introvert
- Sailing Your Ship: Lessons from Louisa May Alcott
- An Introverted Mother's Promise
- Chapter 3. A new day
- On the Freedom That Comes from Acceptance
- Self-Care versus Self-Improvement
- A HUGE List of True Self-Care Ideas for the Introverted Mom
- The Freedom of Discovering What's Yours
- Part 2. Governing It Well
- Chapter 4. No great loss
- On Navigating Heartache and Disappointment
- Dealing with, the Tough Stuff of Life Introvert-Style Keeping Out the Shadows: Lessons from L. M. Montgomery
- Grace for the Introverted Mom
- Chapter 5. Tenderness of heart
- On Marriage and Raising Children
- Sparkle and Glow: On Differing Personality Types in Marriage
- Loud and Proud: On Raising Extroverted Children as an Introverted Mom
- Alone, Together: On Connecting With and Raising Introverts
- Chapter 6. Pruned down and branched out
- On Stretching out of Our Comfort Zones
- Even If It's Not a Definite Yes, It Could Still Be a Definite Yes
- A (Hushed) Shout-Out to the Highly Sensitive
- Kneeling in the Dirt, Waiting for the Growth
- Part 3. A Better Guide
- Chapter 7. Always good company
- On Good Books and Good Friends
- Bonded through Books: The Introverted Mom's Shortcut to Friendship
- On Having Sense and Sensibility: Lessons from Jane Austen
- Books Have Been My Counselors
- Chapter 8. Feel a prayer
- On Connecting with God as an Introvert
- Walking the Road of Faith as an Introvert
- Introverted Moments in the Bible
- 10 Ways to Avoid Awkward Church Greeting Times
- Chapter 9. As the years pass
- On Watching Tour Family Grow Up
- Decisions, Decisions: What about School and Work?
- On How It Gets Easier, but Also Harder
- They Just Don't Do That Anymore
- Part 4. Simple Little Pleasures
- Chapter 10. In quiet places
- On Cultivating Calm Wherever You Are
- Quiet in Your World versus Quiet in Your Mind
- Living Slow: Lessons from Laura Ingalls Wilder
- A Dishwasher's Meditation
- Chapter 11. Your own happiness
- On Uncovering Joy
- Stop Trying to Be Happy and You Just Might Be Happier
- The Daily Checklist: A Tool for Prioritizing Positivity
- If You Give an Introverted Mom a Smartphone
- Chapter 12. A beautiful success
- On Defining for Ourselves What Really Matters
- A "Fruit-Filled" Life: A New Definition of Success
- Brave and Bad: On Being a Successful Mother
- Dear Mom of "That" Kid
- An Introverted Mom's Manifesto
- Epilogue: Dear Fellow Introverted Moms
- Acknowledgments
- Notes