Have you ever taken a vote among friends about what God is really like, instead of just asking Him yourself? Do you find yourself piecing together your faith from other people's opinions, secretly wondering if any of them actually have it right? Tired of hearing ten different answers to "is God good" and still not knowing what you actually believe?

In this episode, I get honest about a season when I was struggling with my faith and started polling people for their opinions on God, basically taking a consensus instead of going to the source.

Thankfully I learned discernment along the way, but here's the shift: the best place to learn who God is, is from God Himself. I walk through a simple practice, opening your Bible, going to the index, and looking up His characteristics, as the real way to answer "is God good," because you'll know Him from Him, not from everyone else's take. Knowing His character for yourself is where the spiritual healing starts.

This episode is for the weary mom who's been collecting other people's opinions about God instead of trusting her own relationship with Him. We all have different relationships with God, because we're all different people, and that's exactly as it should be. We should talk about God every chance we get, we just have to be careful whose opinions we actually let shape what we believe, because a lot of people get God wrong.

Practice mentioned in this episode: Open your Bible, go to the index, and look up God's characteristics, a simple way to know His character straight from Him.

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ABOUT THE SHOW "God, Really?" is for the weary mom who asks, "Is God good?" and wishes for more self control and patience. Through biblical emotional regulation, spiritual healing, and true connection with God by learning how to pray, you will learn to walk in God's Will for your life and how to have a real relationship with Him.

Have you ever told someone "you are stressing me out" and realized they were asking for something you simply didn't have the capacity to give? Do you feel weary, stretched past your limit, and starting to notice it in your body and your health? What if you didn't have to grip your way through the spiral, or pretend to God that it isn't happening?

In this episode, Ash walks through a framework for passing what you're carrying straight to God, before it takes over your day, your body, and your relationships. Scripture already tells us to cast our anxiety on Him. This is about what that actually looks like in the moment, when the pressure is building and you can feel yourself about to lose it. Biblical emotional regulation isn't about suppressing what you feel or performing calm you don't have. It's staying completely honest with God while handing Him the weight instead of gripping it tighter. You'll also hear why having patience with yourself is not the same as making excuses, and why the goal was never a perfect relationship with God, just the one you actually want with Him.

Ash teaches the full framework inside this episode.

Scripture Referenced: 1 Peter 5:7

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ABOUT THE SHOW "God, Really?" is for the weary mom who asks, "Is God good?" and wishes for more self control and patience. Through biblical emotional regulation, spiritual healing, and true connection with God by learning how to pray, you will learn to walk in God's Will for your life and how to have a real relationship with Him.

Have you ever gotten so pulled into a story, a trial, a show, or somebody else's life online that you couldn't put it down? Do you feel weary and anxious and can't quite trace where it started? What if the thing quietly draining your peace isn't your circumstances at all, but what you've been letting in?

In this episode, Ash gets honest about becoming deeply invested in the Lindsay Clancy trial and the Secret Life of Mormon Wives, and what Scripture says about protecting what reaches your heart. There's nothing wrong with caring, but Proverbs tells us to guard our hearts above all else, and that "above all else" was never a suggestion. We're called to love people and serve them, but not at the cost of the very thing our connection with God runs through.

Ash takes a deep dive through Proverbs 4 to unpack what guarding your heart actually looks like: watching what you consume, keeping your eyes fixed forward, and hiding God's word where it can do its work. This is self control applied where most of us never think to apply it, and the peace from God you've been chasing may be waiting on the other side of it.

The best way to guard your heart is to drop everything and run to Jesus.

Scriptures Referenced: Proverbs 4:23 · Proverbs 4:24 · Proverbs 4:25 · Psalm 119:11 · 2 Corinthians 10:5

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ABOUT THE SHOW "God, Really?" is for the weary mom who asks, "Is God good?" and wishes for more self control and patience. Through biblical emotional regulation, spiritual healing, and true connection with God by learning how to pray, you will learn to walk in God's Will in mom life and how to have a real relationship with Him.

Have you ever had to fall apart completely before you could finally accept the help that was right in front of you? Do you feel weary and out of control, like you need more self control just to hold it together, wondering if you had to hit rock bottom just to notice God was trying to rescue you the whole time? If you're anxious, unhappy, and struggling to regulate your emotions right now, asking "God, really? Did I have to suffer this much?"... this episode is for you.

In this episode, I open up about something I don't love talking about — because look where I am now. But I know I need to say it, because I needed to hear it. For a long time, it was easy for me to blame God for my hardships. I needed to hit rock bottom before I could actually appreciate the rescue He had in store for me. But here's what I've learned: God doesn't delight in our suffering. He's concerned for us, and He rescues us. But we have to pray.

Scriptures referenced:

• Galatians 5:22 — the fruit of the Spirit, including peace and patience
• 1 Peter 5:7 — "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you"

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Next Steps:

1. 1. Join a supportive community of moms who are done blaming God and ready to love mom life again in the free Facebook group God in Mom Life — https://www.facebook.com/groups/godreally
   2. Sign up for our weekly newsletter at https://ashdion.com/newsletter

"God, Really?" is for the weary mom who asks, "Is God good?" and wishes for more self control and patience. Through biblical emotional regulation, spiritual healing, and true connection with God, you will learn to walk in God's Will for your life and how to have a real relationship with Him.

"God, Really?", a top 5% global podcast, is for the weary mom who asks, "Is God good?" and wishes for more self control and patience. Through biblical emotional regulation, spiritual healing, and true connection with God by learning how to pray, you will learn to walk in God's Will for your life and how to have a real relationship with Him.

When something goes wrong, do you find yourself blaming God for it?

Are you constantly looking up to the sky saying, "God, Really?" when life gets hard?

Do you want to enjoy mom life, but feel yourself losing patience and self control every second?

You're in the right place.

Hi, I'm Ash Dion. Mom of two, wife, and completely obsessed with Jesus. I walked away from God after watching my son suffer and lost every ounce of faith I had. Nearly 3 years later, at 2am in my son’s hospital bed, I had an encounter with God that changed my life forever.

Finally seeing God for who He truly is, I stopped blaming God for everything that went wrong in my life and started running to Him for everything. All it took was finally letting God show me who He is, instead of letting fear of God keep me hidden. Now, I help other moms see the true image of God too so they can stop drowning in stress and start enjoying momlife.

If you are ready to go from stressed to having patience, more self control, understand biblical tools for emotional regulation, experience spiritual healing, and live in peace with God, then this podcast is for you.

Grab that cozy blanket, take a deep breath, and let’s find peace in momlife.

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Have you ever felt God nudging you to invite someone to church... but fear stopped you? Are you worried they'll say no, think you're being weird, or that it will make your relationship uncomfortable? Or maybe you're the weary mom who wants to come back to church, but every excuse keeps getting in the way?

In this episode, Ash shares the story of the invitation that changed the entire direction of her life. After years of walking away from God and struggling with what she believed about Him, a simple conversation with another mom at swim lessons opened the door back to church.

If you have ever felt afraid to invite someone to church, or if you've been asking "is God good" while searching for how to grow closer to God, this episode is for you. Letting go of control and choosing to trust in God is where the spiritual healing starts.

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Scripture Referenced:

• Matthew 28:19-20
• Mark 16:15
• 1 Peter 2:5
• Romans 10:14
• Matthew 5:14-16

Contact → hello@ashdion.com Podcast → https://ashdion.com/listen Connect → Join our free Facebook group God in Mom Life (https://www.facebook.com/groups/godreally) Instagram → @itsashdion Resources → https://ashdion.com/resources

Next Steps: Step 1: Join a supportive community of moms who are done blaming God and ready to love mom life again in the free Facebook group God in Mom Life — https://www.facebook.com/groups/godreally Step 2: Sign up for our weekly newsletter at https://ashdion.com/newsletter

"God, Really?" is for the weary mom who asks, "Is God good?" and wishes for more self control and patience. Through biblical emotional regulation, spiritual healing, and true connection with God by learning how to pray, you will learn to walk in God's Will for your life and how to have a real relationship with Him.

Have you ever worked so hard to protect your peace, only to have one comment, one hard day, or one person's opinion steal it away? Do you feel weary, overwhelmed, and exhausted from trying to control everything around you just to feel okay? What if peace with God isn't a nice bonus for good seasons, but the one thing you can't afford to let anyone take?

In this episode, Ash gets honest about the difference between the peace she used to fight for and the peace she found through God. For years, she believed protecting her peace meant controlling her environment, avoiding conflict, and holding everything together herself. But that kind of peace never lasted, because it depended entirely on her. Real emotional regulation with God works the other way around: you stop managing your own calm and start receiving His. If you are a weary mom searching for peace in the middle of chaos, peace with God was never something you had to manufacture. It's something He wants to give you, and it's non-negotiable. Protect it.

Free Resource: Take the free quiz to find your first step with God, a personalized guide made for right where you're standing: https://ashdion.com/quiz Blog Post: Read the full episode blog post: https://ashdion.com/episode-82

Scripture Referenced: Romans 5:1 · Galatians 5:22-23 · Matthew 7:17 · John 14:27 · Isaiah 26:3 · Philippians 4:7

Contact → hello@ashdion.com Podcast → https://ashdion.com/listen Connect → Join our free Facebook group God in Mom Life: https://www.facebook.com/groups/godreally Instagram → @itsashdion Resources → https://ashdion.com/resources

NEXT STEPS Step 1: Join a supportive community of moms who are done blaming God and ready to love mom life again in the free Facebook group God in Mom Life: https://www.facebook.com/groups/godreally Step 2: Sign up for our weekly newsletter at https://ashdion.com/newsletter

ABOUT THE SHOW "God, Really?" is for the weary mom who asks, "Is God good?" and wishes for more self control and patience. Through biblical emotional regulation, spiritual healing, and true connection with God by learning how to pray, you will learn to walk in God's Will for your life and how to have a real relationship with Him.

Have you been praying every day but feel like no one is listening? Do you feel so weary and overwhelmed that you're wondering how to hear from God when all you experience is silence? Are you desperate for peace and longing to grow closer to God, but don't know how to pray when He feels far away?

In this episode, Ash shares the season that nearly broke her faith while caring for her medically complex son. After countless prayers and what felt like endless silence, she realized that God's silence was never the same thing as His absence. You'll hear why prayer can feel one-sided in the hardest seasons, what Scripture teaches about the patience of waiting on God, and how to stop chasing answers so you can start recognizing His presence instead. Ash also shares the simple prayer framework she uses every time she prays now, the one that helped her grow closer to God and trust Him when life stopped making sense. Learning how to pray this way became the beginning of her own spiritual healing.

Take the free Faith Quiz to discover your next step with God: https://ashdion.com/quiz Free resources: https://ashdion.com/resources

Scriptures mentioned: 1 Peter 5:7 · Psalm 46:10 · James 1:5 · Exodus 16-17

Contact → hello@ashdion.com Podcast → https://ashdion.com/listen Connect → Join our free Facebook group God in Mom Life: https://www.facebook.com/groups/godreally Instagram → @itsashdion Resources → https://ashdion.com/resources

NEXT STEPS Step 1: Join a supportive community of moms who are done blaming God and ready to love mom life again in the free Facebook group God in Mom Life: https://www.facebook.com/groups/godreally Step 2: Sign up for the weekly newsletter: https://ashdion.com/newsletter

ABOUT THE SHOW "God, Really?" is for the weary mom who asks, "Is God good?" and wishes for more self control and patience. Through biblical emotional regulation, spiritual healing, and true connection with God by learning how to pray, you will learn to walk in God's Will for your life and how to have a real relationship with Him.