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Truly Innate021. Our Ideas For Encouraging Independent PlayIn this weeks episode we give our best tips for encouraging kids to play independently. We both struggled to find a way to help our oldest kids be comfortable with this and hope to give you some knowledge and encouragement that might help YOU! We hope you enjoy! 2025-05-2646 minTruly Innate020. Silly Me, I Almost Forgot This Is the Whole Point!Do you ever catch yourself rushing your kids through the day? We've been there, so todays episode is all about remembering to slow down and connect with them. It can be hard to be patient and go at the pace of young kids, but these connections are far more important than rushing to complete our never ending to do list! Isn't that the whole point?2025-05-1932 minTruly Innate019. Lessons We've Learned From Our Mothers and GrandmothersHappy mothers day to some of our very favorite mothers! We love you and feel so grateful to get to experience motherhood together, with YOU! In this episode we talked about some of the lessons we've learned from our mothers and grandmothers that have shaped our motherhood journey!2025-05-1043 minTruly Innate018. Sharing Our Experiences With Miscarriage And Mental HealthThis episode covers a bit more heavy topics than we usually do but sometimes it's important to talk about the hard. We hope that sharing our experiences might help someone feel less lonely experiencing something similar. You are not alone!2025-05-0542 minTruly Innate017. Conversation With Med School Wife Sav Swenson: Filling Our Bucket And Being Intentional In Our RelationshipsWe had such a blast having med school wife Sav Swenson on with us this for this weeks episode! We chatted about all the things from pregnancy and unmedicated childbirth, making sure we take the time to fill our own bucket and how that can look different for each person each day, living away from family and being intentional in our relationships. 2025-04-2850 minTruly Innate016. Spring Cleaning, Anyone?anyone else feeling that spring cleaning bug creeping in? We sure are! In this episode we chat about why we feel that having a house of order can help us and our families to feel the spirit more in our homes! We talk about some systems that are working in our home and some things we are going to start implementing in our home to help things run more smoothly!2025-04-2140 minTruly Innate015. Life Update And Conference RecapIt's been a minute since we chatted about what's been going on in our lives, so here's an update! We also wanted to give an recap of how our plans went for General Conference weekend and share some of our thoughts from our favorite talks!2025-04-1445 minTruly Innate014. Talking About Our Experiences Adding A Baby To The Family And Sharing Our AdviceIn this episode we chatted about what our experiences were like transitioning from 0-1 kid and then 1-2. Adding a baby to the family can be a hard adjustment but we wanted to share our tips now that we have each done it a couple of times and Emily is preparing for the transition from 2-3. We believe you are stronger than you think, and know that God is there to help you!2025-04-0742 minTruly Innate013. Christ Centered Easter TraditionsIf you've been looking for some Christ centered Easter ideas, we've got you covered! Our inspiration for this episode comes from Elder Gary E. Stevenson's talk called "The Greatest Easter Story Ever Told". He encourages all of us to approach Easter with the same intentionality, excitement and anticipation that we do for Christmas. 2025-03-3135 minTruly Innate012. Surprise Announcement And Our Best Tips For PregnancySurprise! We are excited to announce the first ever Truly Innate baby! We can't wait to meet this baby in the fall as Emily and her husband welcome baby #3. She shares all the pregnancy details in this episode and then we give you our very best tips for surviving pregnancy.2025-03-2442 minTruly Innate011. Looking Forward To General Conference With LittlesIn this episode we share lots of fun general conference traditions for you to start with your little family! We also talk about how to set realistic expectations going into the weekend so you can come out of the weekend feeling rejuvenated instead of defeated. We hope this episode can make your general conference weekend magical for you and your littles!2025-03-1732 minTruly Innate010. Building Meaningful Friendships as Young Mom'sYoung motherhood can feel isolating and lonely sometimes. Making friends doesn't seem to come as naturally as it did when we were kids. In this episode, we have a conversation about the awkwardness we often feel when reaching out to new people, give tips on how to alleviate that feeling, as well as some thoughts on why we choose to push past any initial hesitations when trying to expand our social circle.2025-03-1035 minTruly InnateBonus Episode: Our Thoughts On The New GarmentsIf you've had questions or concerns about the newly updated garment styles that will be available soon, we hope you'll give this a listen!2025-03-0518 minTruly Innate009. Submission Episode: Ideas For Keeping Your Marriage IntentionalDuring this busy stage of young motherhood it can be really easy to end up putting your marriage on the back burner instead of giving it the attention it needs to thrive! In this episode we share ideas for ways we can be more intentional and involve Jesus Christ more in our marriages! We hope this episode inspires you to give your marriage the time and effort that it deserves!2025-03-0332 minTruly Innate008. Our Toddler ToolboxIn this episode we talk about all the parenting tools we have learned, used and that actually work for us and our toddlers! Hopefully if you are in the thick of toddlerhood one of these tools can help you too! We're all in this together right? :)2025-02-2434 minTruly Innate007. How We Feel About Our Role As Women And Mothers In The ChurchWe feel so passionately about the beautiful role of women and mothers in the gospel of Jesus Christ. By the worlds standards, sometimes we might feel like "just a mom" or that our role as women is somehow less than the role of men. We completely disagree and in this episode we share some truly empowering quotes from Sister Sheri Dew's talk called "Are We Not All Mothers".2025-02-1721 minTruly Innate006. Leaning Into Winter And Finding Joy In These Colder MonthsInstead of just enduring this winter we are trying to lean into it and find joy in these colder months that tend to feel really long, especially being stuck inside with busy toddlers! In this episode we share our ideas as well as your submissions on how we are leaning into this winter and finding joy! We also share some of the ways we are keeping ourselves and our toddlers busy during these winter months!2025-02-1043 minTruly Innate005. 10 Things We Wish We Knew Before Becoming MomsTogether we came up with a few important things we've learned since becoming moms. If you're an expecting first time mother, we hope these thoughts are helpful as you enter motherhood! (If you know a pregnant mama, send this her way!)
For those who already have experienced first time motherhood, we hope you can reflect with us and relate with the things we chat about in this fun episode! 2025-02-0334 minTruly Innate004. Submission Episode: Taking Toddlers to ChurchThe tasks of getting to church on time with littles, keeping them reverent and entertained during sacrament meeting, AND somehow finding a peaceful moment to hear any of the messages being shared can feel nearly impossible in some phases of young motherhood. We asked you for your best tips to help calm the chaos that sometimes becomes our Sundays with young kids. We also asked 'why it is worth all the effort?' Tune in for the answers YOU gave as well as some insights from Emily and Katie. 2025-01-2732 minTruly Innate003. All About Birth with Hailey ChuggWe were so excited to have our cute friend Hailey on this episode with us! We chat about the birth of her 2 babies and how those experiences lead her to become a doula. She shares great tips and insights for other moms and future moms. If you're anything like us and love chatting about birth, you will love this one!2025-01-2038 minTruly Innate002. Making Daily Motherhood HolyIn this weeks episode we chat about some simple yet intentional ways we can try to make the often mundane days of motherhood more holy.2025-01-1318 minTruly Innate001. Looking Forward to the New YearIn this weeks episode we chat about goal settings as moms. We go over our word for the year and some goals we have each set for 2025 in hopes that other moms might be able to relate to the things we are currently prioritizing as young moms who are trying our best to follow Jesus Christ.2025-01-0633 minTruly Innate000. Intro to Truly InnateWelcome to truly innate!We are two young moms looking to build a community of like minded women who are committed to raising our littles in a Christ centered home. We hope these conversations can help strengthen our faith and confidence as we chat about all things motherhood through the lens of faith and friendship.We believe that the capacity to be a mother is God given, and truly innate!2025-01-0214 min