Be Still Parent Coaching

08/15/2023

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02/28/2023

It’s amazing how infants and children thrive when nourished and connected to what is living. Whenever we replace living with non- living, there is a trade off. A mother’s arms builds neural connections within a bond of safety that cannot be replaced by a swing or container. When we feed our children living food, real food, from the ground food, they are nourished in a way that will never compare to boxed and man-made attempts. God-made will always trump man-made. Scripture emphasizes life—Jesus came to bring us life. Everything connected to God is alive. Why would we want anything less for our babies? I love how science is slowly catching up to scripture.

08/10/2022

Wearing costumes when we want to wear costumes. Because why not?
Choose good over right today!

Learn more on this topic in my latest podcast. Link in bio!

08/09/2022

This week, I explored the idea of good versus right in parenting. What does it look like to choose what is life-giving over arbitrary rules?

Listen to my most recent podcast to find out! Link in bio!

08/02/2022

Spider-Man sock hands. It may not be “right” but it is “good”. I look forward to digging into this topic in the next few days!

07/31/2022

Learn how our best parenting happens when we are able to relinquish the details and move forward in growth, knowing change is necessary to co-create with God.

New podcast episode in bio.

03/11/2022

I never knew a crisis across the world would carry such a personal impact on us. But we are learning as we go, and there is a lot to be grateful for. Read my new blog post here:

My husband and I chose to host a seven-year-old Ukrainian girl this past Christmas for four short weeks. Anna traveled over 30 long hours from her orphanage to get here with her two older siblings …

02/06/2022

New blog post-- worth the read! :)

I remember shortly after we had our daughter, our two-year-old son was all out of sorts as children tend to be after such a significant change. Gentry started getting out of his bed and getting int…

10/13/2021

Always!! Childlike faith is a beautiful thing, and it requires us to adjust our perspective. What does childlike faith look like for you?

10/05/2021

Gentry made our leaf family. I love the way his mind works. 🍂

How has the fall season inspired your little ones?

08/10/2021

This picture speaks. On the verge of a new transition which can be beautiful.

And a poem that is so telling. Sometimes it’s not about “cracking a code”, but about embracing the season knowing it is fleeting.



The nights would become a burden that would breathe down my neck during the days.
And sometimes I would cry, to myself, to my husband.
She was the reason for my tears and I was the answer to hers.
It’s not that I don’t remember it, but the sharp inhale of it all has faded.

Last night, she called out for me and I went to her, like I always have.
The hallways aren’t tunnels like they used to be.
She whispered to me that I was her best friend in that little lisp of hers and kissed my nose.
She pulled my face in so we were breathing one in the same.
I could feel her lashes on my cheek.
She traced the wrinkles around my eyes, the ones I’m newly conscious about.
The ones she couldn’t care less about.
And wrapped her arms around me, knowing it would be harder for me to sneak away.
And I let her.
Because I don’t want to forget the way she looks at me as if I scattered the stars in the sky.
I close my eyes instead of waiting for her arm to soften.
No longer feeling like an island.
No longer up and down all night.
Just there as she drifts off, until it will be no longer.
We never ‘cracked the code’ of sleep.
But as I lie here now,
I think it was meant to be this way,
For both of us.

……………………….

from ‘My After All’ book 📚 www.jessicaurlichs.com/shop

08/08/2021

There are as many emotions throughout the day as colors on the spectrum.

Don’t paint the whole day black by focusing on the bad. Don’t paint the whole day yellow by only seeing good. But see the spectrum and absorb its beauty knowing emotions are important, but truth is life.

Sometimes by being absorbed by the emotional roller coasters and ups and downs of early childhood, we forget that children are a REWARD from the Lord.

When we begin and end our day with gratefulness, we are able to be free from the ups and downs (and have fuller access to our brain by the way. Another instance of brain research lining up with scripture.)

Children are a gift from the Lord;
they are a reward from him. Psalm 127:3

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18