Ask Yourself These 2 Questions (MUST WATCH)

[@sarahlettow2307]

LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Thank you for your vulnerability and your truth that you are speaking over us women! I'm so thankful to being doing this motherhood journey alongside of you.

[@glowbodypt]

Thanks for letting me be very real and I can't tell you how much I appreciate YOU being here Sarah!

[@adrielw9344]

Ashley - Thank you so very much for sharing this! As a Momma of six boys in different ages and stages, I have STRUGGLED with time management and feeling like I “DESERVED” “Me time,” feeling like I was always last. However, just this week, as I exhaustedly was carrying food to the table, I felt like the Holy Spirit was speaking to me and telling me that I wasn’t last in My Heavenly Father’s Kingdom, but as a servant to others (my husband and children in that moment), I was first. I felt an immediate change in my heart as I was serving my family. This is from Matthew 20:26-28. God’s Word really does change us and our hearts if we will let it. Mommas - the most important and necessary “self care” is to spend time in the Bible and let God’s Word change you and shape you. We ARE doing kingdom work by serving our families and caring for their needs. We are raising the next generation…let’s raise them to be servants and love the Lord with all of the hearts! I’m making spending time in God’s Word a priority - it doesn’t always look perfect, nor is it always quiet when I am studying, but my kids seeing me crack open the Bible and journal my prayers is an example for them. Not saying “hurry up,” is something I would like to quit too 😂

[@glowbodypt]

Spot on for all of it -- those who are first will be last and those who are last will be first in the kingdom of God. You are doing all of the unglamorous, thankless, (usually) unnoticed or appreciated tasks that the world thinks is worthless homemaking and you're making it God's work because you're deliberately raising your arrows in the way they should go so when they are old they will not depart from it. Proud of you. So glad you shared this.

[@adrielw9344]

@ Thank YOU for the refreshing and God honoring content you constantly bring to us!

[@capricebachor7632]

What an encouragement! Mama of 6 boys!? You're a special lady. I have three boys and a little girl. Can I ask you mom to mom if really wild and wrestling behavior is something you allow or your boys do? My kids are awesome and all boy. Sometimes they just love to tussell, and its usually in good fun. But my woman-heart is always freaking out lol. Can you offer any insight? Its gotten more this way as they've gotten older. Mine are 10, 8 and 6. Whew! I think its normal, althought in the right time and place...but I'm always second guessing. I'd love your insight.

[@adrielw9344]

@ Oh my gosh! Thank you! They are a blessing for sure! There is never a dull moment in my house, and truthfully, I don’t have it all figured out 😂 So…..In my humble opinion, kids (especially boys) need an outlet. They need to run, jump and conquer! They were created by God to do these things naturally. However, we need to guide them into using that energy and spirit for good and in a constructive manner. My house is like a zoo sometimes. I say things I never thought I’d have to say to another human being (like “we don’t eat the table” or “ we don’t hammer people!” As my toddler was sneaking up behind his cousin, hiding his little tykes hammer behind his back). My boys wrestle one another, play football and tackle one another…. And I believe that is good for them when it comes to bonding, learning emotional regulation and even physical restraint. Also, it is stress relieving for them. With that being said, I do have clear rules on how far it is allowed to go, SUPERVISION (a must!) when and where it is appropriate to play this way, and if someone says they’re done playing, they need to be respectful of that brother/cousin/friend….does that always happen… No! But, that gives way to consequences and a learning experience when they don’t stay within the lines that have been drawn to allow them to play that way. When one of them doesn’t follow the rules, that’s a good time to remind them that rules are not meant to ruin their fun, but to protect them and allow them to have fun without being injured… very similar to the way God’s rules are not meant to ruin our fun, but to keep us safe and healthy. I hope this help 😊 I’m always happy to talk to other Mammas! We are all in this together! God bless you as you raise your precious family!

[@capricebachor7632]

@@adrielw9344 Thank you so much for this response. I am going to screen shot it for encouragement and a healthy reminder. I really appreciate you taking the time to share :) Have fun and God bless you and your men!

[@joysilas4724]

You are a women with great discernment! I just cut sugar until I can get my flesh in the right place to not feel the need to over eat and binge it. Even small amounts trigger me, when I plan it, I fall off track, and in social settings I’ll over eat it. It’s a mess and sugar was becoming my god. So I just cut it. It’s been over a month and I don’t even think about it as much. Next is my phone usage. It’s not social media for me it’s KZbin and “researching “ information that’s my issue.

[@glowbodypt]

Really glad you shared these 2 things because it's very relatable to a lot of us Joy!

[@autumnwebber5716]

This video was perfect timing. My husband is deployed and I just had my 3rd child. I am struggling with the SAME things you are. I feel convicted and encouraged all at once! Thank you. ❤️

[@erinwilliams5851]

I've literally been praying about trying to get better at all of these! Especially the screen time. It's an addiction for the whole family and making the change of spending our time in a more valuable way has been so hard! I remember hearing in a study group a long time ago about everything we "put off" we need to "put on" something to replace the habit and you remided me of that and so much more! Thank you!

[@miriamstaal]

Yes absolutely I’ve felt convicted about scrolling deals while breastfeeding, and overeating as an emotional coping mechanism. No excuses here. And something in excited about doing more of is fasting and prayer, as well as deeper dive into my faith and church history. (If you’ve never looked into the Orthodox Church, you absolutely need to!! It’s beautiful and so rich!!)

[@KealeyPatterson]

This was exactly what I needed as I am working to be a more Godly mom and wife. I needed the verse you said. Something that I am stopping: reading things that are not growing me or my family. Instead reading books that will lead me towards being a better mom. Something that I am starting: a short nightly bible devotional with my girls and husband. I am also starting Firm 30 next week. I did the program last year and loved everything about it. Thank you for always posting videos like this especially when I feel like I need them the most.

[@Cloggindancer]

Everything you voiced are all issues i struggle with as well. Currently, I'm breastfeeding, and it's sooo easy to get on the snack train, watch time sucking social media while im breastfeeding, or bark at my kids (usually because im behind because I procrastinated by watching social media). Thank you- this gave me encouragement - i dont feel so alone in my weaknesses, and I feel inspired to keep trying to be the best mom, wife, daughter, sister, friend and Christian i can be ❤

[@glowbodypt]

THANK YOU for sharing this - God knows our hearts and I think the enemy would LOVE if we hid in our sin patterns/complacency/disobedience and it's something to be said that you're willing to say this in the light!

[@MrsAPeterson]

Another good thing to look into even if you’re reading the Bible on your phone - the EMFs are extremely harmful for a baby and if you’re scrolling by their little bodies they are exposed to high amounts of radiation. We have EMF blockers on phones, headphones, WiFi router, etc! ❤

[@baileymf00]

I was just praying for help in honoring and supporting my husband more. Thank you, Ashley!

[@glowbodypt]

no way, Bailey! God is so good to use even a drop of what I shared to be applicable for you right now.

[@daniellebotha4597]

Really appreciated this Ashley. I really struggle to let God’s word, rather than my emotions, be what guides me when I’m feeling overwhelmed or tired. Grateful for the encouragement!

[@KaitlinEsper]

This video is SO GOOD 👏🏻 Encouraged by what a Godly woman looks like-not one that does what she “deserves”, but rather serves out of the overflow of service that God pours over us!

[@glowbodypt]

THANK YOU Kaitlin for taking the time out of your busy life to let me know this resonated with you. You nailed it!

[@capricebachor7632]

So encouraging! I love the idea of asking better questions. I can get focused on my day and my thoughts and forget to mine out the depths of the heart of the man God has given me. Thanks! Starting that today :) Stopping? I took safari off my phone last year and keep it off as much as possible. That means I've mostly stopped watching youtube on my phone. I need the effort of taking out my lap top, and this has freed up my ears and heart and mind to just be in silence more or to be readily available to my family. Life changing!

[@benjanessawelch5073]

Ashley, thank you! The logistical feat of creating this video and your communication clarity is so seen as I'm preparing a testimony video to be shared at my local church. Focuses for me this year are: (1) Visualizing. Much like an athlete prepares mentally before an event. What does my personal (marriage, motherhood), professional (curator of life), physical (movement), and spiritual (discipleship) life look like this year? Really see the details. Write them. "Where there is no vision, the people perish" Prov. 29:18a (2) Identity. Two years after my husband's year-long 2022 deployment, I am able to see it for the gift it was. 2022 was the fiery crucible, the refiner's fire God used to expose toxic thought patterns. I *knew* my God-given identity and was in the Word, but I wasn't replacing my thoughts with God's thoughts - I was layering them. I still tried to separate my actions/feelings from my God-given identity and allowed them to speak louder, going to bed without personal accountability to feelings of shame, regret, and guilt for how I showed up in moments that day. How do you think we show up for our people when those are the things we tell ourselves are most true? Not great. Here I am, ready to do the work and rewire neural pathways - brain science is fascinating - God is SO COOL!

[@aprilsmith9418]

I can not voice just HOW NEEDED and applicable your words were in this video!! Thank you so much for your vulnerability. I am right in step with this line of thinking for myself and my actions...as well as raising our 4 kiddos. I am also expecting baby#5(in March!) and am working on how to best care for my mind, body and spirit in preparation to welcome our new baby. I love your videos and have done them all since before my 3rd child... and I love these new testimonial type of videos as well! Keep them coming!!

[@sarahkrahn4737]

Loved loved loved this! Everything you mentioned are things I’ve been convicted of and want to work on as well! It was so encouraging to hear ❤

[@alanaretzerbrinker5209]

Liked the video as I procrastinate doing my ten minute plan videos lol. Just in the spirit of being accurate in the scripture, Noah and his family were actually in the ark for 6 months. It rained for 40 days and nights as you said, but then they had to wait months and months for the water level to go down and for dry land to appear. You might recall he had to send out a number of birds to see if they returned with a twig or something. I just mention it bc when I actually read the Noah and the flood story myself, I was horrified at the drowning of the whole world that wasn't on the ark. Definitely a hard story to wrestle with. But yeah 6 months on a boat would be rough and I still like your point of don't be like Noah, who was definitely sinful after getting off.

[@callieangeles4623]

This is great. Appreciate your vulnerability❤ Mine:Stop doing-get to bed earlier/less scrolling at night. -limit kids screen time so I can have a “break” or do chores…tough for me with husband gone majority of the time. Start having more one on one time with each child. Reading Gods Word DAILY. And start a bible study with kids…age appropriate. The last question I relate too! My 7 year old seems to ask all the deep questions at bed time!!

[@glowbodypt]

Callie, I so appreciate that you shared yours!! I'm all for everything you said.

[@03forevrdancin]

11 min mark LOVE! I need this reminder that as a Christian woman I can do hard and holy things and I'm not controlled by emotions.

[@Megolomart489]

I love this verse, this is the first I am hearing it. Thank you Ashley!

[@glowbodypt]

So glad to hear this Meg! It's Galatians 2:20 --> This is how I first started learning scripture last year in case you need an easy method that works (tune in around minute 4 if you're super tight on time): kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnjZoJujgdh8pJo

[@Megolomart489]

@@glowbodypt Thank you for the link to your previous 2024 video...listening to the trick now - I will try it!! Thank you Ash

[@HeavenComeDown1]

This was so incredibly relatable. Thank you so much for sharing! I currently struggle with the same things and you have such practical advice. God bless you sister🥰

[@glowbodypt]

thanks a million times over for letting me know I'm not alone in these struggles! The devil would love for us to hunker down and act like we are all perfect and it's so refreshing to be in the light w/ sisters in Christ.

[@lukeandamywidener6648]

Thank you for this video! That truly is a great verse to memorize. I, too, get caught in this idea of, “I deserve it”, to justify bad habits (like over snacking). I love that you mention not just stopping, but rather setting a limit and replacing the overage with something helpful. I have been trying to be more thoughtful about my questions, also, when my husband is home. Oftentimes, our conversations revolve solely around our 3 month old baby, but I am trying to be more deliberate about what questions I ask my husband. I want to make sure he does not feel he has fallen by the wayside, even though our current priorities are meeting our baby’s needs. My main goal, always, is to get into God’s Word more. The more my husband and I get into The Word, the closer we are and stronger our relationship is. And, like you said, Ashley, we can better equip ourselves when our little guy is older and starts asking those hard hitting questions.

[@Melody_Allen]

I was so encouraged and refreshed by this video and your reflections and desires to make godly change in your habits and routines. This is something I have been wrestling with a lot lately and desiring a change. This was inspiring for me. Thank you!!

[@hanmo564]

So thankful for this video! I’m glad to know I’m not alone in the struggles you shared. And in the goals. Knowing God more through the study of scripture in the bible.

[@emb.9689]

I needed this today. Thank you so much and God bless you and your beautiful family 🥰

[@MamaJeanMontessoriMusic]

Thanks for sharing the things you will stop and start. Love how you are proactively critically thinking of how to improve. Loved the goal of making effort to ask good questions to hubbie.

[@AbbyHauch]

Love your honesty! I have recently cut a lot of “doomscrolling” and added more Bible-reading. At 19 weeks pregnant, I also need to stop the snack train in the evenings 😅

[@rosemary5743]

We have been making our own fizzy electrolyte water. Bought a 10lb c02 canister from Airgas store in town. We add crucial 4 magnesium (highly absorbable magnesium bicarbonate) to a 2 liter bottle plus our favorite electrolyte and it makes an amazing healthy fizzy drink. 10lbs of c02 cost us $30 and lasted 6 months of making at least 1 2liter bottle daily! Loved your message thanks ❤

[@chloegodfrey9408]

O my gosh congratulations 🍾🎉 on the new baby coming ❤so happy for you guys your such a beautiful mom

[@glowbodypt]

You are SO KIND Chloe. Thank you.

[@MrsAPeterson]

This is great! I have been on such a health journey after #3 and working with a holistic coach who has done an HTMA analysis. This is such a good video to keep me motivated! God bless!

[@SandraC-n5u]

Thank you so much for this convicting yet encouraging video. I believe God used this to get my attention on things that I need to be changing so my attitude and actions throughout the day, especially towards my kids, are lining up with with what God desires of me.

[@glowbodypt]

Sandra I'm sure you're busy, so thank you for taking the time to share this with me!

[@allthingsincommon1872]

What a great verse to memorize!

[@glowbodypt]

yes ma'am, so glad this spoke to you! It's Galatians 2:20 --> This is how I first started learning scripture last year in case you need an easy method that works: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnjZoJujgdh8pJo

[@crownofsplendor2023]

I honestly believe those videos got the most views because they were real and raw and you were totally in your mom zone… not perfect, but with all the distractions from the kids and all the imperfections that we can all relate to and remember, He remembers your sins no more❤ I’m reminded today with our BIG TX snow that as His children, we are white as snow ❄️🩸✝️🫶

[@jcwebb0616]

I feel like we are SOOO in the same season. Husband just deployed and I'm in my first trimester with our 4th baby! Cheerios have been my evening thing which is like a NEVER for me (don't even BUY cereal. What is happening? Ha) .. and my EXACT thought lately about these "natural flavors" with the Waterloo and Bubbly I have been craving too!!! I've been dealing with HEAVY nausea this go round so early on. 🥴 Our pastor preached on prayer and fasting this morning and I actually wrote on a card "fasting social media and home renovation scrolling" and replacing that time with my Bible, Christian education books, and podcasts. My lights-off is 10:30pm! Ha. Man kiddos THRIVE on clearly defined expectations!! (We all do don't we?) and natural consequences are a must! We are called to teach His Word diligently to our children when we sit, lie down, and as we go.. this doesn't mean we get a pass when we "don't feel like it". I can't tell you how much Scripture I've memorized from listening to Scripture kids DVDs 🤣🤣 Thank you for your vulnerability and openness to share these things with us :) I had SPD very badly with my previous pregnancies so expect it will come this time too so I've enjoyed your videos and plan to do the prenatal and postnatal workouts!! :)

[@glowbodypt]

YES WOMAN! It sounds like we are in the same season.

[@sitcomchristian6886]

The only thing about the Noah analogy is that he first had to plant a vineyard, THEN got wasted lol I imagine the actual obtaining of the wine took quite awhile, and it seems that he was actually pretty industrious after the arc. I literally just read it yesterday, not trying to be a know it all! Completely agree about doomscrolling lol I do that at my son's naptime (he nurses to sleep). I've decided to begin doing my readings for the Bible in a year at that time instead.

[@glowbodypt]

That's a fair correction! Thank you! And no analogy is ever perfect, but my overarching intent was to highlight that even righteous people who have an earnest heart for the Lord slip into sin sometimes just the same as unsaved people do. Thanks so much for sharing where you're at right now and what you need to stop and what you're starting in that time block instead when your son naps.

[@isabelwall1714]

❤ I loved this style!

[@glowbodypt]

Thanks for letting me know, Isabel! You might enjoy this one from 2024 too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnjZoJujgdh8pJosi=Q0UZQkqS6iCrjlwh

[@misslaaaura]

This blessed me

[@opinionbytriz]

I'm pregnant with baby #4 due May (can't wait mostly because pregnancy is exhausting 😅) These are 2 very great questions.

[@glowbodypt]

Congratulations on also being due in May! We are really going through this pregnancy together. So glad to have you here.

[@starlessstephtx]

You are so inspiring ❤

[@glowbodypt]

thanks for taking the time to let me know this video was worthwhile for you.

[@laurarerko3438]

Dear Ashley, congrats on your pregnancy.wishing you a wonderful pregnancy and smooth birth❤. Would you consider doing a video on how to introduce little children to a movement rich sporty lifestyle? All the best, Laura

[@glowbodypt]

Yes! All about that. What would you title this kind of video (so women searching can find it?)

[@sitcomchristian6886]

@@glowbodypt You didn't ask me, but maybe something like "How I Raise Active Kids as an Athletic Mom"? It's a first draft lol

[@jessicafiesinger5368]

Can you share what you use to track your daily Bible reading? Thank you!

[@glowbodypt]

Jessica, absolutely! Working on a video for this to cover all the details because I literally just finished reading the entire Bible for the first time ever and need to share the deets.

[@britneywendel3305]

❤❤❤this!

[@emilyintheword]

Oh you were talking to other people? I thought for sure this was just for me 😅

[@glowbodypt]

best comment ever. : D Thanks for being here Em.

[@jamiechaney5136]

❤