Single Mom Smiling | Mindset Strategies for Single Moms

29 - Finding Gratitude for the BIG Things as a Single Mom

Whether your life is easy or challenging, you are called to be grateful. You may be thankful for little things like a smile from a stranger or a parking lot close to the store or a walk in the rain, but in today's episode, you will also find BIG things to be grateful for.
Can you guess what you can be most grateful for? Stick around to the end and see if we have the same idea! 
If you'd like help letting gratitude fill your heart, sign up for my new self-led downloadable program, My Grateful Heart, or shoot me an email. I'd love to hear from you!
God Bless...
Kerri
 
In This Episode:
My Heart of Hope:  A 5 Day Journey of Grace & Gratitude - mini course self-guided with early-release price available for a limited time.
Warrior Words Podcast with Heather Gaffney: Divorce & Being a Single Mom - What is Free-Will with Kerri Bishop
The Serenity Prayer - Prayer & Info
 
Next Steps:
1. Join The Smiling Cadre a brand new private facebook group dedicated to rising to our challenges through gratitude, laughter, and a fantastically awesome community!
 
2. 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
 
3. Coach with Kerri - Check out your best coaching plan here.
 
4. Email me at Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com
 
5. Join Catholic Single Moms' Private Facebook Group.
 

28 - Gratitude & Lessons Veterans Taught Me About Single Parenting

Life can be rough and unfair. Few know that better than America's Veterans. That's part of what makes the wisdom they share so valuable. 
In today's episode, you will learn some of what Green Berets, Navy SEALS, and others taught me about mindset and motivation.
No matter how hard life's curveballs are, lessons from America's heroes will help you, not just survive, but thrive, grow, and learn to laugh richly along the way.
If you'd like help developing a positive mindset and moving past motivation or you have a favorite story you'd like to share, reach out at Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com
God Bless...
Kerri
 
In This Episode:
My Heart of Hope:  A 5 Day Journey of Grace & Gratitude - mini course self-guided with early-release price available for a limited time.
 
Next Steps:
1. Join The Smiling Cadre a brand new private facebook group dedicated to rising to our challenges through gratitude, laughter, and a fantastically awesome community!
 
2. 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
 
3. Coach with Kerri - Check out your best coaching plan here.
 
4. Email me at Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com
 
5. Join Catholic Single Moms' Private Facebook Group.
 

27 - 3 Tips that Heal After the 2024 Election & After a Break Up

The election is over and whether your candidate won or lost, Americans must find a way to move forward together. The path to healing after the election is very similar to the path to healing after divorce, abandonment, or any kind of significant break up or loss.
That path forward lies in healing through strength that comes through three main practices. Learn about these practices in today's episode and move forward in healing.
God Bless...
Kerri
Next Steps:
1. Join The Smiling Cadre a brand new private facebook group dedicated to rising to our challenges through gratitude, laughter, and a freaking awesome community!
 
2. 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
 
3. Coach with Kerri - Check out your best coaching plan here.
 
4. Email me at Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com
 
5. Join Catholic Single Moms' Private Facebook Group.
 

26 - Halloween - Demonic Influences, Recurring Trauma, & Filling Yourself with Light

Do you ever feel like a pumpkin? You started off round and chubby and cute, then someone plunged a knife into your heart and left you to clean out the yuck? 
What's worse is when you think you've cleaned out the yuck only to find you've fallen into past patterns and are in the same place again?
Mama, what you fill yourself with counts! In this episode, you will learn ten things we do to invite the demonic into our lives and ten ways we can invite God and Light in.
The best news is, unlike a pumpkin, you get to choose which you let in! I'd love to hear how you're choosing the good! Email me or leave me a 5 start review with what you're doing!
God Bless...
Kerri
 
Next Steps:
1. Join The Smiling Cadre a brand new private facebook group dedicated to rising to our challenges through gratitude, laughter, and a freaking awesome community!
 
2. 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
 
3. Coach with Kerri - Check out your best coaching plan here.
 
4. Email me at Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com
 
5. Join Catholic Single Moms' Private Facebook Group.
 

25 - The Gaslighting of Single Moms in 5 Areas of Election Concern

Your enemies are manipulative! You need to be informed!
A woman's compassion can be easily taken advantage of. In today's episode, we'll dive deep into 5 topics single moms and many other women are being manipulated on during the presidential elections.
Learn truth about...
which candidate let a domestic violent offender out of jail early allowing him to kill his ex girlfriend.
which candidate's spouse smacked a woman so hard in public at the Cannes Film Festival that she spun around.
which candidate cheated on his wife, got his child's caretaker pregnant, and pushed the vulnerable young woman to have an abortion.
There's much more too!
You can't be a strong single mom when an abusive government is constantly telling you what you can do and what to believe about yourself and your future.
Begin unraveling the tough answers American women face on the ballot this election season.
And email me with your ideas and questions!
God Bless...
Kerri
 
Next Steps:
1. Join The Smiling Cadre a brand new private facebook group dedicated to rising to our challenges through gratitude, laughter, and a freaking awesome community!
 
2. 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
 
3. Coach with Kerri - Check out your best coaching plan here.
 
4. Email me at Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com
 
5. Join Catholic Single Moms' Private Facebook Group.
 

24 - The #1 Catholic Meditation Practice for Peace in the Life of a Busy Mom, the Rosary

Mama, do you desperately want peace in your life? Do you wish there was a way to meditate that brought you closer to Jesus instead of down new age rabbit holes of Eastern spirituality? Do you desire a way to bring a calm reset to your day when things aren't going right or when you just need to breath for a minute?
Join me in today's episode where I discuss the Rosary, the #1 Catholic meditation practice given to us by the Mother of God. Years ago, I didn't understand the Rosary and was sure I didn't have time for it when life was so crazy. Now I understand how vital it is to bring peace to my heart and head and home and to my family and the whole world too.
God Bless...
Kerri
 
Mentioned in this Episode: 
My writings on the Rosary are here.
Dynamic Catholic's Rosary page has an audio Rosary and good Rosary info here.
The Rosary Center's page has links to the Scriptural basis of the Rosary here.
Next Steps:
1. Join The Smiling Cadre a brand new private facebook group dedicated to rising to our challenges through gratitude, laughter, and a freaking awesome community!
 
2. 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
 
3. Coach with Kerri - Check out your best coaching plan here.
 
4. Email me at Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com
 
5. Join Catholic Single Moms' Private Facebook Group.
 

23 - 5 Lessons Single Moms Can Learn from Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus is often either sainted or demonized. Like most of us, he had good and bad traits. 
This episode takes an honest look at Christopher Columbus, explorer, man, and Catholic, and 5 lessons single moms - and others! - can learn from him today.
If you like this episode, please share it and go to the show to leave a 5 star written review. I'd greatly appreciate that! :)
God Bless...
Kerri
 
Mentioned in this Episode: 
1. Join The Smiling Cadre a brand new private facebook group dedicated to rising to our challenges through gratitude, laughter, and a freaking awesome community!
 
"Focusing on Good over Evil - Lessons from the Battle of Lepanto & the Feast of Our Lady of VICTORY!"
 
Next Steps:
1. 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
2. Coach with Kerri - Check out your best coaching plan here. 
3. Messages from the Messengers - Angel Prayer pdf - FREE! 
4. Got a question or something you want to hear on Single Mom Smiling? Email me at Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com 
5.  Join Catholic Single Moms' Private Facebook Group.
 

22 - Focusing on Good Over Evil - Lessons from the Battle of Lepanto & Our Lady of Victory for Modern Families

I remember sitting in court and crying out to God at the injustices being done, not just by my ex, but by the judge too. Then I looked up and saw the words above the judge's head and knew the battle stretched far beyond the courtroom.
In today's episode, I look back at the Battle of Lepanto and the victory of Christians who had long been victims of oppression, enslavement, torture, murder and beheadings, among other cruelties dealt them by Muslim evil doers. 
If you want to find peace that surpasses all understanding and win victories despite odds stacked against you as did courageous Christian men of centuries ago, shift your focus from evil to good through prayer and surrender to the Lord. 
It sounds crazy I know! But sometimes crazy works! :)
God Bless...
Kerri
 
Rosary Coast to Coast - Meet Fr. Richard Heilman & US Grace Force's Doug Barry in Washington DC or meetup locally this Sunday, October 7th, to commemorate the Feast of Our Lady of VICTORY, the Feast of the Holy Rosary - Details Here
 
A Must-Hear Account of Muslim Terror's Next Steps for America - Shawn Ryan interviews CMDR Ahmad Massoud
 
Next Steps:
1. 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
2. Check out your best coaching plan here. 
3.Messages from the Messengers - Angel Prayer pdf - FREE! 
4. Got a question or something you want to hear on Single Mom Smiling? Email me at Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com 
5.  Join the Catholic Single Mom's Private Facebook Group.
 

021 - The Role of Angels in Your Spiritual Battles - Feast of the Archangels

The burden of a single parent can feel too much to bear alone, but God is the maker of all things seen and unseen. He does not leave you alone. He sends His messengers, Christ's Angels, to watch over you and your children.
 
Today's episode dives into what Angels are and do just in time for our celebration of the Feast of the Archangels. Grab your free Messages from the Messengers, Angel Prayers, too! 
 
God Bless...
Kerri
 
Next Steps:
1.  Messages from the Messengers - Angel Prayer pdf - FREE!
2. 5 Ways Single Moms Can Combat Loneliness After Divorce or a Break Up - Listen Here
3. 10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
4.  Check out your best coaching plan here. 
5.  Do you have a question or something you want to hear on Single Mom Smiling? Send an email to Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com and I may read your question on a future episode! 
6.  Join the Catholic Single Mom's Private Facebook Group.
 

020 - 5 Ways Single Moms Can Combat Loneliness After Divorce or a Break Up

Being a single parent can be a lonely experience, but that doesn't mean it has to be that way forever. You can make moves to eliminate loneliness, improve your state of mind, and grow from where you are now if you choose to! 
 
Join me today as I look into the unique loneliness single moms experience and what women of faith can do with that burdensome emotion.
 
God Bless...
Kerri
 
Next Steps:
1.  10 Questions Every Woman Should Ask - Click for your FREE eBook
 
2.  Check out your best coaching plan here. 
 
3.  Do you have a question or something you want to hear on Single Mom Smiling? Send an email to Kerri@SingleMomSmiling.com and I may read your question on a future episode! 
 
4.  Join the Catholic Single Mom's Private Facebook Group.