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Mom Guilt: Escaping the Strong Hold
Do you feel like you're failing as a mom? Are you plagued by a sense of inadequacy and feel like you're constantly missing the mark? These feelings describe mom guilt—a surprisingly common experience for modern moms.
Counselor Lauren Whitman helps moms identify mom guilt and understand the common roots of it that contribute to a sense of deficiency that many mothers live with. She helps readers think biblically about how God helps us escape from mom guilt by accepting our limitations, rejecting worldly standards, and embracing the freedom of faithful living before God.
God sees more than failure in you—and he wants you to see it too so you can be encouraged.
Counselor Lauren Whitman helps moms identify mom guilt and understand the common roots of it that contribute to a sense of deficiency that many mothers live with. She helps readers think biblically about how God helps us escape from mom guilt by accepting our limitations, rejecting worldly standards, and embracing the freedom of faithful living before God.
God sees more than failure in you—and he wants you to see it too so you can be encouraged.
20 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 25, 2022
About the author
Lauren Whitman
14 books6 followersLauren Whitman, MA, is a staff counselor at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF), where she has served for a decade. She also serves as the developmental editor of the Journal of Biblical Counseling and is the author of A Painful Past: Healing and Moving Forward and A Biblical Counseling Process. Whitman, her husband, and their two children make their home in the Philadelphia area.
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November 18, 2023
Such a very short read but so much scriptural truth tied to this topic which I feel is missing in most mom books. Loved it.
August 14, 2022
What is your standard?
What is your standard? Is what came to mind as I read Lauren’s concise and clear words in approaching this topic or “Mom Guilt”. Are looking at your own standard, others, or God’s? It’s not even that some of the things we desire are wrong, it’s more a question of your heart and motives, what is driving that desire and the decisions you are making for your children as their Mom. I loved this book and am definitely going to recommend it to friends/family and hopefully pass it along to get a better understanding of where my blind spots are when it comes to my own “Mom Guilt”.
Loved this quote:
“It is more fruitful to focus on how you can be faithful with the tools in your toolbox.”
What is your standard? Is what came to mind as I read Lauren’s concise and clear words in approaching this topic or “Mom Guilt”. Are looking at your own standard, others, or God’s? It’s not even that some of the things we desire are wrong, it’s more a question of your heart and motives, what is driving that desire and the decisions you are making for your children as their Mom. I loved this book and am definitely going to recommend it to friends/family and hopefully pass it along to get a better understanding of where my blind spots are when it comes to my own “Mom Guilt”.
Loved this quote:
“It is more fruitful to focus on how you can be faithful with the tools in your toolbox.”
April 30, 2024
This is a great short book that I think would be helpful for all moms to read! It defines what mom guilt is and what it isn’t. It looks at the 4 main causes of mom guilt and how to combat them with biblical truth! It also includes some tips for husbands and friends in how to encourage their mom friends who may be experiencing mom guilt.
March 19, 2025
“He alone is limitless, and He means for our limitations to lead us to a place of rightful dependence on Him.” Pg. 9
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