Are you hiding behind your to-do list? Do you not know how to sit still and be, anymore? It is important to realize that you can consciously set time aside time in the presence of God and be with your children.

show notes:

In this episode, Heidi shares her four tips on the acronym B.U.S.Y. on how you can relax and enjoy spending quality time with your kids. She explains why you have to consciously bust your busyness to become the Christian mom God intended you to be.

Listen in to learn why practicing more often and busting those busy moments will eventually lead you to better and healthier mom habits.

“Use the time to connect with your kids on a deeper level than just doing something for them.” ~ Heidi Bramm

Top Takeaways:

• How to consciously interrupt your rut by setting aside 15 minutes of uninterrupted time with God and your children. 
• Why you don’t always have to do grand activities with your kids to be happy. 
• Practice saying yes more often to bust up the busy and connect with your kids. 

What you will learn:

• Being Under Satan’s Yolk (B.U.S.Y.) – the idolatry of always doing and going to find your worth.  
• Bust out of your rut (B.U.S.Y.) – get out of the rut of hiding behind your to-do list and spend time with your kids. 
• Use the time you have to connect with your children on a deeper level than just doing something for them.
• Simple activities – find simple activities that your children will love doing within a few minutes. 
• Yes – practice saying yes more often to regular breaks to bust up the busy. 

Detailed Transcript:

Hey, beloved, welcome back to the show. Today we are talking about hiding behind your to-do list and how you can relax so you can spend more quality time with your kids and enjoy them more and spend less time being busy. I know we can all get stuck in that Martha mode where we are doing, doing, doing it because it feels more comfortable instead of just being with our kids. So I want to share my top four tips with you on that. But first, some updates. So my website, heidibramm.com is getting a makeover. I’m actually transitioning to a different platform. And so if you visit heidibramm.com, you may or may not see some changes, you may or may not be able to find things but it’s just temporary. Trust me, if you hit a snag or cannot find anything, simply email me at support@coveredbeloved.com if you need anything. And as a reminder, I want to share with you some ways that you can work with me as my website’s being redone, these may be easy to find, they may not be easy to find. So I want to give everyone a review for those that are new here. Or it may be you’re just hearing this for the first time. So I am all about promoting holistic health, body, spirit, and soul. We are triathlon beings. And so we have a spirit that is in a body that has a soul and the mind and emotions are connected and they have a cause and effect relationship with the body. And so whatever happens in the physical is happening in the spiritual is happening in the emotional. And we want to address the whole person, this holistic idea right to prosper in your health just as your soul prospers. So we know that these things are connected, and there’s a cause-effect relationship between bodies spiritual and emotional. And so in recent years, this concept has been confirmed, obviously, by many, many medical studies, linking emotions to our physical bodies, whether it be negative emotions with unforgiveness and illness or positive emotions with elation and joy and appreciation and gratitude. And so we are holistic creatures. This is not anything new. This is supported by scripture and biblical revelation. And we can’t separate our spiritual health from our emotional, mental, and physical health. And so this is why I am so passionate about these different modalities of connecting with the body, spirit, and soul. And so I want to go over three ways that you can work with me. One is essential oils. One is prophetic heart healing, and the other is with a holistic strategy session. So I’m going to break each of these down for you, and you can decide what you want your next step to be. So if you don’t yet have access to pure potent, medicinal quality essential oils, and I want to make sure you know about how you can work with me, and the best way, the easiest way is to take my free 45-minute essential oils Made Easy virtual workshop, this 45-minute online workshop was designed for people who are just starting to explore the potential of essential oils for health and wellness solutions and don’t know where to start. Again, this is a free workshop. And it’s totally No pressure. My goal is simply to educate and empower you with the basics to help you understand the power of pure essential oils because it really does just look like water in those bottles. We love our oils, they become our go-to for almost the last decade as a first line of defense in our home. And I want to make sure that everybody knows they exist as a safer, cheaper, and more effective option. So in this wellness workshop, we cover what essential oils are and how to use them, what to look for in a quality essential oil and why it matters. And then we cover a few of the most popular and versatile oils every home should have along with testimonials, of course, so that you can make an informed decision on whether or not essential oils are a good fit for you and your family. If you decide to work with me, you will get 25% off all of your oils for at least a year. And so this should be updated on my website. If you just go to heidibramm.com and click on essential oils, you should be able to go right to my free workshop, enter your information and get immediate access. All right, The second option is for prophetic heart healing, being transformed by the renewing of our minds and healing from the inside out is a process and it must be done in a safe place that is free from shame and condemnation, that is encouraging and uplifting and comforting, that is respectful and humble. So you are strengthened to keep moving forward, pressing in and pressing on. And so inner healing is a tool that we use to partner with the Holy Spirit to renew our minds and step into breakthrough and freedom. So we can heal wounds, any wounds that are affecting our soul, any broken heartedness. And we just bring that to the healer, we bring that to Jesus to heal those old wounds that are maybe festering or hindering us from living the fullness of what Jesus paid for on the cross, a complete freedom, and wholeness. And so it’s really just about creating a space for the Lord to meet with the parts of us that desperately need that healing that only he can bring so we can live from our whole hearts. This is my favorite type of session to do. And so typically during a session we have someone who’s facilitating that’s me, we have someone who’s receiving and then we also have someone who’s interceding and just covering the session in prayer. Providing the extra covering and then also sharing anything prophetically at the end that they may have gotten for the person that is receiving typically we allow an hour for these sessions. And so you can book these with me if you just message support@coveredbeloved.com or if you go to my website, heidibramm.com there should be a tab for prophetic heart healing. And so I have single sessions and I also have bundled packages, these are discounted, offers their bundle pricing for those that are listening to the podcast. And so one is a shorter breakthrough bundle if you’re feeling just a little stuck and need a few weekly sessions, or I also have a deep dive bundle if you need more, and solos offer you an incredible discount. These sessions give you tools to usher healing into your life so you can experience breakthrough, freedom, and healing like never before. So you can learn to hear God’s voice for yourself. So you can break free from addictions, past pain, trauma, and limiting beliefs. And so you can step into the fullness of what God has for you. Alright, the final way that you can work with me is by booking a 45-minute personal holistic strategy session. So in this session, we cover your top three health concerns and what you’re struggling with most within the four pillars of health, where you feel most out of balance. And that’s the area that we focus in on. We notice that when we choose just one area to focus on, and then the other things kind of fall into place. And so you’re gonna walk away with a strategy for your health and a personalized action plan, along with recommended products to help you live empowered in your daily life. So you can book that one on one session with me. message me at support@coveredbeloved.com and I will personally respond to email or you can book on my website at heidibramm.com. All right, let’s dig in. 

Alright, beloved, let’s dig in. And let’s really talk about this issue of hiding behind our to-do list. I don’t know about you. But I’ve had times in my life where I felt uncomfortable just sitting down and playing with my kids like I didn’t know how to play. I was constantly in this go, go, go mode of- I need to be doing something. And I kind of felt like Martha right? She was always doing doing doing instead of just sitting at Jesus’ feet and being she kept doing and that’s where she got her worth. That’s where she kept her time. And that’s where she’s she kept busy. And so I remember maybe it was 10 years ago, I kind of stepped into this awareness where I realized that I was doing this, in order to avoid the discomfort of sitting down and playing with my kids are getting creative as like, I didn’t really know how to play with them. I didn’t know how to just be and sit for 15 minutes. I don’t know if anybody can relate to that. But it always seemed like my husband was the one to sit down and play with them. And I was fine. I was fine observing and just kind of doing my thing. And I felt like that’s kind of where our strengths were. But then I realized that I was doing it as a way to get out of spending time with them. I’m spending quality time with them. And I have a mindset of if I’m not being productive, I’m not doing good enough. And so I want to give you an acronym, it’s busy, b-u-s-y and if you’ve heard this acronym, it also stands for Being Under Satan’s Yoke, this idolatry of busyness right this go, go, go and constantly doing in order to maybe find our worth or you know, we’re we’re we feel better when we’re doing something because we’re able to contribute instead of just being which is where our worth actually is right just being the person that God created us to be. But I also have another tip for you or tips I should say with this acronym busy b-u-s-y. So number one, B is Bust out of your rut. This is my number one tip is just to create that awareness that first of all, you are in a rut with your children, and you’re hiding behind your to-do list to avoid spending quality time with them. Maybe because you don’t know how or maybe because you really are busy you need to take some things off your playbook number one, be as bust out of your rut, do something to interrupt this pattern for yourself. Consciously set aside 15 minutes of uninterrupted time where you’ve put your phone away You’ve put your to-do list away, you’ve given everything over to the Lord mentally, you’ve handed over these burdens to him that you’re carrying, and you just sit and be with your children do something they want to do. Alright, number two is, U- so U is Use the time to connect. So I kind of just mentioned this, you know, use the time to connect for even just 15 minutes. If you can’t handle 15 minutes, start with five minutes, this doesn’t have to be a long thing, but just use the time to connect with them on a deeper level than just doing something for them. Okay? S stands for Simple activities. Okay, so don’t make this a big huge thing. I don’t know if you’re like me, but I’m like, Go big or go home. Like I have to plan something, right? But it’s always those impromptu things, whether we’re sitting down and reading a book, or looking at a family photo album, or going for a walk or just even asking your kids what they want to do with that time of, “Hey, mommy’s got 15 minutes, and I want to do what you guys want to do. What do you want to do with mom?” They will love it so much. All right, that was simple as simple activities. And then the last one is Y and Y stands for Yes. Practice saying yes, more often, to regular breaks to bust up the busy. So when your kids come to you and they’re like, “Oh, Mom, can we do this?” You know, like “I can’t. I’m busy right now.” I want you, I want you to challenge yourself to- next time they say that, to be able to say yes. Because obviously our default right is no I’m busy. No, I’m busy. No, I’m doing this. Well, I can’t right now. Try saying yes. Practicing Yes, more often to the, again, these regular breaks to bust up the busy. So this is something that has really helped me in my day. And it helps me connect deeper with my kids. This was a short one you guys but I feel like it’s super important because as summer gets busy as we kind of shift into this back-to-school time where life is going to pick up again. It’s important to bust through the busy and not just not only avoid slipping into our regular routine of our normal response of I’m busy. No, I can’t. But just not being under Satan’s yoke, but just busting out of your rut using the time to connect with simple activities, and saying yes more often to those simple breaks throughout your day. I hope this was helpful. I pray that you prosper in your health just as your soul prospers.

Until next time. 

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