As part of the 28-Day Challenge we ask participants to choose one food to give up. Some choose sugar. But it’s not always easy to give it up. As one mom said: “…the sweet tooth got the best of me. I don’t drink soda and hav…
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#222 How Sugar Contributes to Disease & How to Give it Up FOR GOOD
At work, home, family life, and marriage, it’s easy to blame the circumstances of life or to say ‘That’s just the way things are’ … But the reality is that we’re often participating in, perpetuating, or creating our own chao…
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#221 Specific Strategies & Tools to Make Your Marriage Good, Better, Great & EXTRAORDINARY
Every year on our birthdays and anniversaries we love to reminisce and ask ourselves, " Where were we celebrating last year? I wonder where we'll be next year?" Last year we celebrated in Portugal while we were scouting out …
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#214 Where We've Been and How We've Made it Extra Special -- Celebrating 22 Years of Marriage
After episode #211 about What to Eat we received a lot of follow-up questions (thank you!) and were asked to do a follow up episode to clarify some things, such as: What if I'm lactose intolerant? What do you recommend to re…
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#213 What to Eat Part 2 -- Snacks, Recipes, Rules, & When to Break Them
Thanks for all of the questions! They help us to have relevant conversations in these podcast episodes. If you have a question about anything in life or family, send them to support@extraordinaryfamilylife.com This week’s qu…
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#212 True Balance Looks Like Yin & Yang and Walking 'The Labyrinth'
In many of our episodes, we often reference food and its connection to behavior and emotion. So it’s not surprising that we received this request: “I would LOVE to hear an episode on food! YES it is confusing and hard to nav…
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#211 What to Eat & How -- What's ACTUALLY Healthy? Our Food Journey
We received another question from a mom who was interested in joining my Family Charts & Systems course and community . In an email I sent out, it said: As a mother of seven children, my life seriously changed forever once I…
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#209 How to Get Your Kids (& Spouse) on Board with Charts & Systems (+ Why You NEED Them Even if You Think You Don't)
We’re coming to you today from the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. We have loved traveling through the Baltic States. Today we’re going to continue answering some questions (since we were accidentally cut short in the last episo…
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#205 The Price of Mastery -- Is It Worth the Cost?
Welcome to a New Year! We’re keeping the Denning family dream alive with family adventures . In December, we traveled through NYC, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, & Estonia. We’ve had some questions about the logistics of …
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#204 Family Travel is an Investment in the Development of Yourself & Your Children + Logistics, Tips & FAQs
We like to get our podcast topics from issues that really ‘fire us up’ (it makes for better discussions). This week, I was fired up by some comments left on an Instagram Reel I created about allowing ‘boys to be boys’ with a…
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#201 Toxic Masculinity & the Epidemic of Gaming Addictions & Unmotivated, Underachieving Boys & Young Men
I remember the first time I realized that humanity’s desire for luxury was actually a driving force for improving the world. Previous to that I often felt that wanting luxury and comfort was wrong or bad… perhaps from genera…
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#199 The Rewards (& Risks) of Pursuing a Life of Comfort & Luxury
We’ve all had the experience of being around someone who’s grumpy — even our spouse or children — and then soon we’re feeling grumpy as well. A mother of multiple children recently asked us, “When the people around me (aka m…
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#197 How to Not Let Your Children’s Moods Affect You (Grumpy & Otherwise)
We are busy people. And so are you. We have a LOT going on, as I’m sure you do too. Human nature often makes us feel that we’re “too busy” to do things like morning routines or rituals. We’re “too busy” to do morning discuss…
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#196 How & WHY to do Morning Family Devotionals (Discussions)
Fear is a universal emotion. We’ve all experienced it at some point. It is very real and very relevant. As a teenage girl, Edith Eger was a prisoner in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. She said that after she was released once …
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#195 Fear is a Traitor & is Holding Back Your Family & Your Life
Every great story, movie, or book contains elements of what’s been called the ‘Hero’s Journey’ — a series of events and experiences that makes the story meaningful and transformational . It’s the process by which the hero-to…
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#194 The Hero's Journey -- Leave the Ordinary World Behind and Live a Great Story
