Feeling Inadequate (Podcast 201)

Published: March 26, 2021, 12:22 p.m.

b"Do you ever have that feeling like everything you do could have been done better?\\n\\n\\nIt\\u2019s every woman\\u2019s battle, especially every mom\\u2019s:\\n\\n\\n\\u201cI\\u2019m not enough. I\\u2019ll never be enough.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\u201cI could have done that so much better\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\u201cIt would have been better if I would have ________.\\u201d\\n\\n\\n\\u201cThat was lame.\\u201d\\n\\n\\nThese words suck the life out of us and yet the enemy continues to effectively use them. \\xa0\\n\\n\\nNothing makes me more angry, frustrated, and hurt than doing my best and still feeling like it\\u2019s not enough.\\n\\n\\nCue in having 8 kids and there was potential for some serious feelings of inadequacy:\\n\\n\\nCould I pull off raising/homeschooling 8 kids and not miss something? \\xa0\\n\\n\\nWould some of my kids go off the rails because I failed to be enough?\\n\\n\\nWould they hate the way they were raised or homeschooled? \\n\\n\\nWould they see me as a failure?\\n\\n\\nOur thoughts of inadequacy come from many places including regrets of the past, concerns for the present, and worries about the future.\\nListen in for a simple, beautiful truth.\\n(Check out my devotional, Unhurried Grace for a Mom's Heart at my website, durendawilson.com)"